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'Australia's Water Resources' seeks to explore the circumstances underpinning the profound reorientation of attitudes and relationships to water that has taken place in Australia in recent decades. The changing emphasis from development to water that has taken place in Australia in recent decades. The changing emphasis from development to management of water resources continues to evolve and is reflected in a series of public policy initiatives directed towards rational, efficient and sustainable use of the nation's water. Australia is now recognised as a pacesetter in water reform. Administrative restructuring, water pricing, water markets and trade, integrated water resources management, and the emergence of the private sector, are features of a more economically sound and environmentally compatible water industry, It is important that these changes are documented and their rationale and effectiveness explained. This timely work provides an important synthesis of these issues. This revised edition is a fully corrected reprint which has also been updated to take account of the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, and the Commonwealth Government's initiative concerning the management of the Murray-Darling Basin.

'My Dog Jack' is a story about a dog whose job it is to round up the sheep on a farm in Outback Australia, and is based on the experiences of the author growing up on a family farm in the countryside. Australia is a big country and has many millions of sheep on large properties scattered across the grasslands of the interior. Sheep dogs are necessary to help manage the sheep because of the great distances and large areas involved and the dogs are also useful with other jobs around the farm such as helping to control rabbits. Sometimes accidents can happen and attending to injured animals is a real problem in remote areas away from towns and cities. This story tells of what happened when Jack was badly hurt chasing rabbits and of how he was given urgent and special treatment on the farm to make him well and strong again.

Recreation is as important as work; perhaps more important for some. This book is the culmination of our lengthy interest in leisure and outdoor recreation, and their importance to society. While we have taken particular care to put forward a balanced treatment of outdoor recreation management concepts, issues and applications, there are several important considerations for the reader. First, the publication of leisure, recreation and tourism materials has increased markedly over the last two decades. In reviewing much of that literature, we were pragmatic: earlier works were included where they retained relevance, and extensive references to recent publications are provided. Second, the contents and arguments presented are clearly influenced by our geographical backgrounds and a commitment to integrating outdoor recreation management and resource conservation. Third, we are both particularly fascinated by the extent and nature of accessibility and conflict in outdoor recreation, and by the diversity of potential and actual management responses. Moreover, we are not convinced that societies have moved to a leisured existence, and nor are we easily swayed by economic arguments for privatisation of outdoor recreation resources. Nonetheless, we do see greater opportunities for public-private partnerships and local entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, however, many such opportunities have been thwarted by over-conservative planning ideologies and approaches; by inter-agency rivalry and dated organisational cultures; and by political squabbles.