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QASSMAC was a multilateral advisory committee animated by the soil scientists within the Department of Natural Resources. It set out to improve the management of these naturally occurring high risk soils. The State Planning Policy was identified as one of the main regulatory tools available. An early document was QASSMAC Acid Sulfate Soils Management Strategy […] Town planning legislation in the early 1990s (the Local Government (Planning and Environment) Act 1990) provided that the State Government could promulgate “statements of planning policy” which local governments as the local planning authorities would be obliged to incorporate into their planning schemes and development decisions. The first such instrument (which by s.1A.2 had the […] The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, 1926. This gem turned up at a garage sale and seems worth preserving as a snapshot of official thinking at the time. The historical programs of ACRIS and NLWRA have been mentioned on the website of The Royal Society of Queensland. In this post we will provide links to a present-day program. Around 2018 CSIRO and its program collaborators launched an interactive map and other tools to provide real time condition and trend data (monthly reporting) – […] The accompanying story of Dr Geoff Monteith’s achievements in taxonomy (https://scienceqld.org/2023/11/16/palm-bug/) has prompted QSN to showcase a book by Steven Heard, Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider. https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/charles-darwins-barnacle/ Here’s the Table of Contents: Preface (read it here!) Introduction: A Lemur and Its Name Chapter 1. The Need for Names Chapter 2. How Scientific Naming […] Male Thaumastocorid bug from Norfolk Island. Anthony Postle, from fruiting inflorescence of Rhopalostylis baueri © Dr Geoff Monteith, a member of The Royal Society of Queensland since 1964 – nearly 60 years – with two co-authors has recently published a description of a species of bug endemic to the rainforests of Norfolk Island. The […] The Australian Terrestrial Biodiversity Assessment 2002 combined the knowledge of State and Territory agencies on biodiversity and its management. It assessed the trend and condition of wetlands, riparian areas, threatened species, threatened ecosystems, birds, mammals and key values associated with eucalypts and acacias across Australia. The report identified threatening processes and conservation issues at a […] The Royal Society of Queensland collaborated with the SEQ Community Alliance to host a public event on Saturday 21 October to examine Queensland’s planning systems and in particular whether they are fit for purpose in an era of climate change. In addition, the Society has opened the pages of a themed Special Issue of its […] The QSN website doesn’t normally monitor social media, but the risk of catastrophe in the gas fields through out of control wildfires is an issue that has not received much public attention. This article posted in QSN’s LinkedIn feed deserves wide publicity. For more information and for a regular feed of general science news, join […] The late Dr Jim Galletly earned his doctorate for a study of the baseflow in the aquifers in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane and his research contradicted the conventional wisdom. An abstract has been published by The Royal Society of Queensland. In addition to that abstract, QSN has uncovered a summary of his doctoral […]
Acid Sulfate /Sulphate Soils
Good Quality Agricultural Land and Strategic Cropping Land
Great Barrier Reef – 1926 perspective
Natural resource – Condition and trend
Discovering new and interesting species
New species of palm bug described by a “Living Charles Darwin”
Australian Terrestrial Biodiversity Assessment 2002 – A program of the NLWR Audit
Planning for Climate Change – Journal, Writing Prize, 21 October Event
Coal seam gas and bushfire risk
Hydrology of Lockyer Valley – Basalt, baseflow and Jim Galletly
