Mr Fang Zhao1, Prof James Kirkpatrick2, Dr Peter McQuillan3 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia 2University of Tasmania, Hobart , Australia 3University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia   This study determined the relationships between environment and use of farm dams and their...

Mr Chris Sharples1, Ms Hannah Walford1, Dr Christopher Watson1, Dr Joanna Ellison1, Dr Quan Hua2, Mr Nick  Bowden3, Professor David  Bowman1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia 2Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Lucas Heights, Australia 3Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems...

Ms Violet Harrison-Day1 1University Of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia   Coastal saltmarsh wetlands are increasingly being recognised globally for their roles in providing nursery habitats and trophic transfer for fish and fisheries. Studies of fish use of saltmarshes have a...

Ms Kylie Lower1,2, Ms Anoinette  Hennessy1 1Blackwood Heritage Consulting, Blackwood, Australia , 2Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia   The forced migration of Aboriginal people is often ignored in discussions about migrants, especially the emotional stress, turmoil and intergenerational trauma that...

Dr Lisa Denny1, Dr Nick  Osbaldiston2, Dr Felicity  Picken3 1Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia 2College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University , Cairns, Australia 3School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western...

Mr Ryan Frazer1 1University Of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia   This paper offers an intervention within geographical conceptualisations of care. Following the work of Parvati Raghuram (2016), I seek to open a conversation around current engagements with care ethics, suggesting they...

Dr Kathleen Flanagan1 1University Of Tasmania   This paper explores ‘the city’ through the lens of a Foucauldian conceptualisation of discourse. By ‘the city’, I refer to the abstracted ideal city of global consumer capitalism, but inevitably, the paper is...

Prof. Chris Gibson1, Dr. Andrew Warren1 1University Of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia   Disruptions to existing systems of provision arise from ecological crises and accompanying regulatory responses. Emblematic of Anthropocenic economic geographies, such disruptions challenge existing norms and practices, reconfiguring core-periphery...

Dr Kirsten Martinus1 1University Of Western Australia, Perth, Australia   In 2012-13, the Australian beekeeping industry had an estimated gross value of $A88 million, with indirect pollination service to agriculture of $A4 to $A6 billion. This is the result of...

Prof. Phillip O’Neill1 1Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia   The emergence of Transurban as the monopoly controller of motorways, bridges and tunnels in Mebourne, Sydney and Brisbane is distinctive in many ways. Transurban is equal in efficiency to any motorway...