by kapow | Apr 23, 2015 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog
Our response to the draft regional coastal plans in Victoria The Great Ocean Road (photo source: www.wcb.vic.gov.au) Our Victorian Chapter update: a submission has been provided to each of the three Regional Coastal Boards in response to their Draft Regional Plans....
by kapow | Apr 19, 2015 | Blog, Government Policy
COASTAL MONITORING Australian Coastal Observation Network: Monitoring and Forecasting Coastal Erosion in a Changing Climate. Photo source: WRL, 2015. Coastal monitoring was raised in a discussion last week at the phone hook-up of the ACS Executive. Questions were...
by kapow | Apr 14, 2015 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog
EASTER READING: FISH AND THE SYSTEM What did you read over Easter? I found myself absorbed in two books, one dealing with our endangered oceans, the other with why governments fail to deliver on their promises. And yes I found a connection! As a Christmas present, I...
by kapow | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog, Government Policy
NATURAL DISASTER REPORT OF THE PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION Brisbane floods, 2011 On 17 December, 2014, the Productivity Commission (PC) presented its must read, final report on Natural Disaster Funding Arrangements (Report No. 74) [Vol 1 & Vol 2] to the Australian...
by kapow | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog, Legal, Miscellaneous
BATTLES FOR THE GREAT BARRIER REEF The Great Barrier Reef (photo source: cairns-greatbarrierreef.org.au) Many have written about the fate of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) past and present. A consensus is emerging of a bleak future, a future fraught with impacts of...
by kapow | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog, Miscellaneous
My Happy Beach is Bondi Bondi from the north end looking down the beach back toward the Bondi Hotel. Photo circa 1924 My father was a Manly boy, but mother came from Bondi. Fortunately for me they made a wise choice and moved to the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. This...