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Nearly 30 years of persistence and vision has paid off when the first 24 captive-bred critically endangered Kroombit Tinkerfrogs (Taudactylus pleione) were released at Kroombit Tops in March 2023! This is a huge milestone for this species, and one which a small group of volunteers from QSN-member group the Queensland Frog Society helped to […] Dr Peter Dart and Col Lynam, members of The Royal Society of Queensland, have compiled this primer on the coal seam gas industry. Are you aware that Queensland coal seam gas is a risk to food security? The paper includes a useful table of recent reports and media columns with hotlinks. The paper has been […] See the Entomological Society’s webpage or the QSN Events Calendar for details. In 1923, the Entomological Society of Queensland was born, with the national body (the Australian Entomological Society) to follow some 40 years later, in 1965. Since then, Queensland remains a significant State in Australia’s entomological community and the ESQ has grown to over […] Pharmacist Geraldine Hall, educated at the University of Queensland, took a position as Pharmacist at the public hospital on Norfolk Island in 1999. In 2006 she opened her own pharmacy business in the Island’s commercial centre and became a trusted member of the community in the light of her extensive medical knowledge and personal discretion. […] In 2004 the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy published maps of each local government area showing the stock routes. The wrapping around the CD of the maps explains their status and the copyright restrictions. In Queensland, planning of rural properties took root in the early 1990s, fostered in the Department of Primary Industries. Even for a small property, the issues that are considered are complex and extend beyond strategic determination of the best land-use for each paddock to detailed prescriptions for ongoing maintenance. The leaflet: Planning Your Property: How […] The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science award Australian scientists and innovators with prizes to recognise outstanding achievements in science and research-based innovation. Closing date: Thursday 9 February 2023 5:00pm AEDT There are five Science Prizes ranging between $50,000 and $250,000. The Prizes are awarded for outstanding achievements in: scientific research research-based innovation excellence in science […] This leaflet from the archives was written in about 1986 and explains the origin of the physical Centre, in Canberra. Landslip is a significant but under-acknowledged risk to residential development and infrastructure in vulnerable localities. Senior geologist Warwick Willmott wrote an account Slope Stability and Its Constraints on Closer Settlement in the Foothills of the Toowoomba Range, Gatton Shire, Number 44 in the 1984 Record Series of the Geological Survey of Queensland. “The prime cause […] The stock routes of Queensland are an invaluable economic, community and environmental resource. They have an enduring function in allowing transfer of stock from properties to market and from properties in drought to properties with pasture. They have suffered lamentably from under-investment by governments and neighbouring landholders; the encroachment of weeds; drought; and incompatible agistment […]
Tinkerfrogs Released at Kroombit !
Coal seam gas: Unsolved problems in defiance of the precautionary principle
One hundred years strong: Queensland entomology
Improving public health in remote communities: The Geraldine Hall Memorial Prize
Stock Routes of Queensland – Maps
Property management planning of rural land
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
Questacon – National Science and Technology Centre
Slope Stability, Toowoomba Foothills
Stock Routes and the Stock Route Network
