by kapow | May 8, 2021 | Blog, Government Policy
On 23rd April, the Prime Minister announced that the Australian Government “will make an additional $100 million investment to continue leading the world and our region in how we manage our ocean habitats and coastal environments and contribute to the global task of...
by kapow | Apr 25, 2021 | Blog, Miscellaneous
Bruce Thom atop Mount Canobolas on a mild afternoon Going west of the sandstone curtain is a rare event for me. The central west of NSW has long been an area outside my geographic range. So a recent visit with family and friends excited those old instincts...
by kapow | Apr 20, 2021 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog
Differential wave setup over access road/breakwater/causeway to Griffiths Island May 2009 (James Phillips) A recent storm event at Port Fairy in Victoria saw large waves drive boulders from the shore and across coastal roads. While locals and tourists inspected the...
by kapow | Apr 8, 2021 | Blog, Legal, Miscellaneous
Simon Winchester is one of my favourite authors. He brings to his stories a background in geology. I was captivated by the book “The Map that Changed the World” (2001); it was about a geological map and a man named Smith. But his other works such as “The Fracture...
by kapow | Mar 14, 2021 | Blog, Climate Change
Over the past three decades or so much has been written on the response of wetland ecosystems bordering estuarine waterways to sea-level rise. In some ways this followed many geological studies supported by radiocarbon dating and lots of coring in marshes and swamps...
by kapow | Feb 20, 2021 | Blog, Legal
Soon after the NSW Coastal Policy was released in 1998 a debate occurred at a coastal conference that the Government had misrepresented the boundary of the Coastal Zone. The mapped boundary did NOT include the natural coastal system based on river catchments. In...