The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the design and early implementation of Australia's National Soil Strategy and the supporting National Soil Action Plan.

The Overseer is a model that aims to estimate farm-scale nutrient flows. This document reviews the Overseer model. This is necessary to assess whether it can confidently be used as a decision support tool.

The National Soil Strategy is Australia’s first national policy on soil. It sets out how Australia will value, manage and improve our soil for the next 20 years.

This is an update of a paper, first published in October 2013, which sought to outline and encourage discussion of these issues and how they might be addressed. It is based on detailed analyses of the science, practical grass roots experience, consideration of what has been done and proposals of what else can now be...

Accurate soil moisture content data is invaluable having many practical and academic uses, including in agricultural development, natural disaster prediction, and civil and military works.