The aim of this work is to understand what incentives exist to encourage integration in land and water management across northern Australia. Integration is seen as important in improving planning and management of resources in the context of climate change and development pressure. The north Australian region is made up of three jurisdictions, the two...

The role of the Australian Public Service (APS) is to support the Australian Government in responding to economic, social and environmental challenges, through effective policy development and service delivery. It needs to employ the most up-to-date thinking and approaches to deal with increasingly complex issues including demographic pressures, fiscal constraint, and everincreasing expectations of the...

The land sector - including agriculture and forestry - accounts for around 23 per cent of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions, making it imperative to craft climate change mitigation policies tailored to landholder. Other key points include: The Government’s Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) provides a good foundation for financial incentives to landholders to take part...

The development of Australia's water markets represents a centrepiece of national water reform. Trade in various water products has grown substantially in recent years, with the combined value of markets estimated to be $3 billion in 2009-10. Water markets provide an example of successful national micro-economic reform, ensuring that scarce water resources are most effectively...

This consultation paper aims to engage industry and the community on identifying a sustainable path for the mining industry in Australia and how it can be achieved. Australia’s economy is now riding on the trucks, trains and ships that carry our minerals to the international market. But the resources boom we’re now experiencing will not...