This paper synthesises current knowledge, from published literature and expert opinion, about vegetation–fire interactions in central arid Australia.

This book is a tribute by the Australian government to the work of Indigenous communities managing land and sea country. Indigenous Protected Areas are one of Australia’s conservation success stories – protecting culture and country, while providing a pathway to meaningful jobs and positive health, education and social benefits.

This paper examines the role of weeds beyond the spatial, to consider their history, both social and evolutionary. The central focus is, however, the ‘culture’: the definition of place that makes the plant a problem. We are particularly interested in how changing cultural aesthetics in different eras created the opportunities for particular garden plants to...

Using two case studies of recent and rapid peri-urbanisation (namely South East Queensland and greater Melbourne, the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Australia), this paper considers if this process can lead to resilient landscapes capable of withstanding future potential environmental and socio economic shocks and surprises – it asks the question: how resilient are peri-urban...

This paper compares and contrasts the activities of Commonwealth and State government agencies in relation to the management of public land. Context for this study is provided by the growing impact of neoliberalism on governments.