by ACS.Admin | Aug 8, 2026 | Blog, Climate Change, Legal
A curse can be a great misfortune, a severe life burden or, and I like this one, a constant source of trouble. So how may the wonderful discipline of geomorphology cause trouble? Here I am not referring to any individual geomorphologist—heaven forbid! It is what we...
by ACS.Admin | Jul 23, 2026 | Blog, Resource
Update On The Australian Coastal Society Website Over the past few months we have been working with a new website manager to update the ACS website. This has taken longer than expected. We are still in the process of making changes and welcome comments from users. It...
by Mitchell Harley | Jun 2, 2026 | Blog
Waverley Coastline: A Community Perspective Beaches and cliffs of the Waverley Council area served as a foundation for my professional life as a coastal scientist and my complementary involvement in coastal management. Here I grew up exploring rocks on the cliffs,...
by Mitchell Harley | May 13, 2026 | Blog
Queensland Coastal Management Plan The Queensland Government has recently released a new Coastal Management Plan (CMP). It is always interesting to see what different states are doing with respect to coastal management. As a nation we somewhat pride ourselves in ways...
by Mitchell Harley | Feb 13, 2026 | Blog
Malcolm Fraser And Fraser Island (K’Gari) During 2025 several articles appeared in Pearls & Irritations and elsewhere on the role of Malcolm Fraser before, during and after the 1975 “Dismissal” of the Whitlam Government. There is an aspect of this period that...
by Mitchell Harley | Jan 16, 2026 | Blog
Dee Why area has long provided information on coastal change in the Sydney region. It all started for me as an undergraduate reading the inspirational study of rip currents by Peter Mckenzie in the Journal of Geology (1958, vol. 66, 303-133). I took a class of...