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Current or emerging issues papers

These documents were commissioned by the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee to provide additional information on current or emerging issues. Independent contract authors prepared them and the opinions contained within them are those of the authors. These issues papers were used to inform and support the SoE 2006 report, Australia State of the Environment 2006 (SoE2006).

The purpose of these papers is to draw attention to issues that are timely in the SoE 2006 reporting cycle.

They include:

• A dying shame – Australian coastal freshwater lakes
• Audit of the outcomes of the National Trust's Endangered Places Programme
• Birds of woodlands and grasslands
• Chemicals in the environment
• Coastal water quality, Adelaide's port waterways
• Coastal water quality, Western Australia's Peel-Harvey estuarine system
• Cultural heritage and local government
• Desalination
• Environmental education in Australia
• Environmental indicators for reporting
• Freshwater protected areas in Australia
• Genetically modified organisms
• Groundwater fauna
• Incentives for natural and cultural heritage conservation
• Monitoring in the rangelands
• Progress in restoring our environment
• Property rights and the environment
• Repatriation of Indigenous cultural property
• Review of the EPBC Act
• Society's forms of capital: a framework for renewing our thinking
• SoE in an international context
• Species information partnerships: sharing knowledge on threatened species
• Spring wetlands of the Great Artesian Basin
• The coastal pollution halo
• The Collections Council of Australia
• The dilemma of conflicting environmental outcomes
• The disappearing frogs
• The environment management services industry
• The Great Green Debate: urban myths, risks and alternative opinions
• The impact of urban form on public health
• The Wentworth Group and the great water debate
• Urban form and urban efficiency
• What do Australians think about protecting the environment?