The Lochiel Landslip,South Australia

The Lochiel Landslip is a large mass movement involving the downslope slide of about 0.25 x 10⁶ tonnes of quartzite. The slippage took place along bedding planes lubricated by attenuated interbeds and lenses of montmorillonite and late in a very wet winter. All the evidence points to the slip having formed very quickly during the early hours of 9 August 1974, though the main tension crack began to open some weeks earlier. Many tension cracks have since developed upslope from and laterally (northwards) along the adjacent hillside, but so far, and despite several wet winters, there has been no extension of the Landslip.     

The urban social atlas movement in Australia

Completion of the Atlas of population and housing, 1981 census series (Australia. Division of National Mapping et al.1983, 1984a‐f) marks the culmination of a decade of work in the urban social atlas field. But over that period there is evidence of increasing divergence of purpose, from initially twin objectives, theoretical and applied, to the avowedly applied focus of recent efforts. The future would appear to be seen by many practitioners in purely applied terms. Recent developments in expert systems and artificial intelligence, however, will require the reforging of links between conceptual thinking and technical advancement.     

The enigma of social sustainability in rural Australia

While much previous work has been done on the general concept of ecological sustainability, there is relatively little that examines the likely spatial aspects of a socially sustainable rural system. Having defined essential concepts, this study first identifies major current forces for rural change likely to influence any future sustainable system. It goes on to specify those features of modern rural social formations which I believe deserve retention. Finally, some essential requirements for a socially sustainable system are established.     

The legal production of narcotic materials in Australia

The development, characteristics and significance of the poppy industry in Tasmania are described. At one stage the state supplied 17 per cent of the total world legal requirements for alkaloids which provide the base for a host of drug preparations. The Tasmanian industry has the potential to supply a larger proportion of the world requirements but is effectively constrained by international treaties and foreign ownership.