While the majority of Australians believe climate change is a real phenomenon, some confusion and misconceptions exist when trying to decipher the information presented by the media and other communication specialists. In October 2010, CSIRO conducted an internet survey aimed at understanding the current attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and knowledge of the Australian general public about...

The report is based on an analysis of climate change impacts on the deterioration of concrete infrastructure that was funded by Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) and the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship. It aims to draw together all the major outcomes from the study for the benefit of policy-makers, engineering designers, asset...

The Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and the National Water Commission have engaged CSIRO and Geoscience Australia to undertake the Assessment. The Assessment involves a basin-scale investigation of water resources to fill knowledge gaps about the status of water resources in the basin and the potential impacts of climate change...

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in conjunction with the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH), hosted the 3rd National Indigenous Science and Research Roundtable entitled “Nutrition and Preventative Health in Indigenous Futures” on 4th-5th August 2009 in Adelaide, South Australia. This Roundtable fulfilled a commitment to the delegates from the inaugural...

This report focusses on the Indigenous access provisions of the 2004 National Water Initiative (NWI). It describes the policy mechanisms and processes that have been implemented to date for Indigenous participation in water planning and access to water. The report supplies detailed observations about these processes. A decade of water reform in Australia culminated in...