Hydraulic connectivity and inter-aquifer leakage An important paper published by the Bureau of Rural Sciences “Inter-aquifer leakage in the Queensland and New South Wales parts of the Great Artesian Basin“, […]

The Bureau of Rural Sciences published a series of guides entitled Science for Decision Makers in 2006-2007. Water Banking Groundwater Recharge Understanding Groundwater Plantations and Water: Plantation Impacts on Stream […]

QSN is indebted to transport planner Wally Wight for making available a number of reports on transport planning in South East Queensland. Some of these reports are quite dated but […]

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Geology in the search for gemstones, a leaflet from the Victorian Department of Mines of unknown date, probably 1980s. Related Images:

This roneoed paper by Louis Wibberley and Peter Scaife of unknown date but probably c.1996 is titled the “Challenge of sustainability for non-renewable resources“. See also Foran and Poldi’s monumental […]

Wildlife in your backyard. 199x. Related Images:

This file offers access to AI Australia’s programs. Related Images:

     After three years, the 3rd Australian Biosecurity Symposium brought over 400 of Australia’s key agricultural, government, research, and community sectors to the Gold Coast in August 2024. Click here […]

This internal departmental guideline dated 2006 explains the Abandoned Mine Lands Program (AMLP). Related Images:

The Australian Citizen Science Association time to time has published a list of publications relevant to citizen science – journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations et cetera. Number 15 – […]

This 12-page background issues paper is by a committee of the Australian Academy of Sciences. Related Images:

Queensland hosts large deposits of “oil shale”, a sedimentary rock carrying a hydrocarbon called kerogen.   An overview paper by Tony Noon in 1984 for the Department A powerpoint presentation […]

Dr Alexander Gofton of CSIRO Health and Biosecurity presented to QSN member body the Entomological Society of Queensland on “How ticks cause turmoil: The surprising ways that Australia’s ticks are […]

QSN mourns the passing of Grahame William Rogers born on 10 Jan. 1932 on 04 Sep. 2025. The website MyTributes records the following details from the Toowoomba Chronicle 13 Sep. […]

In 2024 a group of enthusiasts embarked on a journey across 1000 km of stock routes by horseback and on foot from Goondiwindi to Tocumwal under the banner “Azadi” with […]

This monumental work is being re-published by QSN because it has disappeared from the former CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems website www.cse.csiro.au, now defunct. Sustainable Ecosystems was restructured in 2011. Future Dilemmas: […]

Ben Rees, economist and pastoralist of the Roma region, has written the following neat summary of national economic policy. The contemporary political world has transformed economic policy. The free marketers […]

The industry and adventurism of the early scientists and naturalists investigating the colony’s “natural history” shines through this substantive official guidebook to early botanical knowledge. Principles of Botany for Queensland […]

In mid-March 2026, The Moreton Bay Foundation released a benchmark new report: Sedimentation Impacts on Moreton Bay – a priority knowledge synthesis. It is released with major sections also published […]

Research Director of the Royal Society of Queensland, Dr Nelson Quinn, has announced the successful applicants for grants from Round 8 of the Society’s Research Fund. Zijun Li (Queensland University […]

STELR is a hands-on, inquiry-based and in-curriculum program designed to be taught within the curriculum so that all students participate in inquiry learning that engages students in STEM. STELR is […]

For 20 years, Cosmos Magazine inspired curiosity and made science accessible to everyone. It was a trusted source of fact-based content that attracted a large audience from across the globe. […]

Allocation or Regulation: Reasserting Society’s Control Over Corporations Through Tenure. This paper, by Society members the late David Marlow and Dr Geoff Edwards, was delivered by Geoff Edwards to the […]

Dan Daly, an officer of the Department of Primary Industries, compiled this critique of drought policy after being transferred to the Department’s Drought Secretariat. Qualified originally in agriculture and latterly […]

In 2020, the Royal Society of Queensland, along with the Australian Rangeland Society, submitted in favour of this initiative to the Government of Mongolia, sponsor of the proposal. The letter […]

Dr Geoff Edwards, Webmaster of QSN, writes: The Biodiversity Heritage Library, long funded by the Smithsonian Institution, has been instrumental in digitising and making accessible a range of Australian scientific […]

We are indebted to Jan Arens, President of the Gladstone Conservation Council, for the following documents detailing the damage being done to the Great Barrier Reef, nearshore marine habitats and […]

This 176-page report (21 MB) summarises an eight-year program of pre-competitive gathering of geoscience information, by Geoscience Australia, completed in 2024. The concept of public funding of pre-competitive, pre-project assessment […]

From c.1995-2006 the Department of Natural Resources published a series of Resource Planning Guidelines that are no longer readily accessible . Some of these documents have enduring value, though legislation […]

As the likelihood of legislation to limit clearing of native vegetation gained public notoriety in the late 1990s, and pre-emptory clearing accelerated, concern by rural landholders in particular about ‘property […]

There has long been sensitivity by drillers licensed to sink wells for farming and miscellaneous purposes towards drillers engaged on drilling for mining and gas projects and who are not […]

Published between 1970 and 1975, this series of black-and-white leaflets was produced by the national Forestry and Timber Bureau. Leaflets 1 – 42 Leaflets 43 – 100 Leaflets 101 – […]

The late Ray Specht delivered the Romeo Lahey lecture in 1978 on behalf of the National Parks Association of Queensland. Titled In Wildness is the Preservation of the World, it […]

The Deception Bay Environmental Hub is organising a major presence on behalf of citizen science at the 2026 World Science Festival. Its flyer explains the activities available. See this calendar […]

Saltmarshes are vital intertidal ecosystems typically found between mangrove forests and dry land. These areas experience tidal flooding during king and spring tides. They support a diverse array of vegetation, […]

At the time of drafting this post (April 2025), there seems to be no end of distressing news about loss of scientific knowledge, disbandment of scientific institutions and abandonment of […]

This ~225 page proceedings of a symposium held by the Water Research Foundation of Australia (South Australian State Committee) and the Department of Adult Education at the University of Adelaide […]

Two “Final Reports” about this project are available. The report dated April 2016 commences thus: “The NRM Spatial Hub (the Hub) gives rangeland managers the capability to map, plan, analyse […]

This ~200 page report is by the Scientific Committee of the then Northern Rainforest Management Agency based in Cairns. Dated August 1988. The volume was  edited by Dr R.A Hynes, […]

A “Milestone Report” No. 8, 2018, entitled Assessment of the status and options for recovery of prawns & estuarine biodiversity in the Noosa River by Greg Skilleter (Uni. Qld. & […]

This series of seven scenarios in a hypothetical Department of Crown Lands is pitched at tertiary level students in land, regional planning or environmental management. Subjects covered include the nature […]

The Dasgupta Review was a landmark statement of UK origin of the importance of protecting global biodiversity. The review produced ten “Headline Messages“: Our economies, livelihoods and well-being all depend […]

The following Abstract explains this research update report by the Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment dated April 2023: “Coal seam gas extraction involves two key subsurface processes: fluid flow primarily […]

This informative booklet by A.N. Burns, Curator of Insects at the National Museum of Victoria, was published in Victoria, in 1964. Many details will be out of date – biosecurity […]

Dr Felicity Cutten is a scientist and freelance writer who has published popular science, short stories, poetry and short fiction. She has a PhD from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and […]

John Elfick, now retired to Victoria, has authorised QSN to re-publish a range of lesson materials commenced while he served with UNESCO. They include primary-level lessons and also experiments for […]

This page showcases materials that educators may be able to adapt for their classroom purposes, even though the items have (mostly) not been particularly designed to fit the Queensland science […]

This page presents materials that either have been developed with teaching as a primary purpose, or include datasets capable of being utilised for student projects  in  years 11 and 12 […]

Don Keith, member of The Royal Society of Queensland and former President of Queensland Beekeepers Association, reports that until the pioneering research of Graham Kleinschmidt in the 1980s, most apiary […]