Sympatric speciation, the idea that species can arise without a period of geographical isolation, is at the centre of one of the longest running and most contentious debates in evolutionary biology. In The Origin, Darwin presented a verbal model of speciation that did not require geographical isolation. Since that time, support for sympatric models of...

The objective of this study is to identify ‘Fundamental Services’ in the context of new "Universal or Global" SOA approaches to the provision of eGovernment services. The key questions which it addresses are: at which level of granularity can ‘Fundamental Services’ be defined? Which ones have the highest potential for reuse? And what are the...

This report outlines a review of Australian State Library and New Zealand National Library partnerships, with examples that illustrate successful and unsuccessful joint ventures, based on a survey completed in January 2012 by NSLA libraries. This report also analyses key features of successful partnerships relating to literacy and learning (in existence between January 2009 and...

This paper addresses three questions relating to the very extensive use of the GTAP global trade protection database: Are there additional price-distorting policy instruments worthy of inclusion in the base year? What is the appropriate counterfactual set of price distortions in the year of concern (such as when a proposed reform is expected to be...

This think tank brought together 36 participants from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), Victorian State Government departments, local government, research and academic institutions and industry users of climate information.