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government. In this way the long-standing division of responsibilities which delays the implementation of conservation plans-may be minimised. .- - - - -- - - 8. c$%k0 in Soil Conservation .-- -- - - -.- Land stabilisation and soil conservation should become the prime objective of several divisions of CSIRO - Tropical Crops, Soils and Water and Land Utilisation. This should apply for a period of 20 years. 9. Tariff Reduction and Farm Costs The increasing disadvantage to the rural sector of tariff protection on manufactured goods should be significantly reduced. In this way farm costs could be reduced to a level where financial survival doesn't take precedence over conservation farming. 10. Producer Organisations and Soil Conservation All the major crop and animal producer organisations should recognise their potential role in encouraging and implementing soil conservation. Despite the fact that their members depend on the soil resource, these organisations have done little to take their necessary level of responsibility for encour3ging their members to develop their stewardship role and the land ethic associated with trusteeship. Recognition 'of their ineffective communication with government and the urban majority in the past, rural industry should develop promotion campaigns which gain the understanding and support of the non-rural sector. This could be done by following the example of the mining sector. 11. INCENTIVES AND DISINCENTIVES 1. States' Rishts and Land Res~onsibilities The present division of responsibilities and resultant inaction in soil conservation should be replaced by a clear permanent federal responsibility for land use policy and associated ince-&== - =?%% 4-- - -s:-=- . . i I-- ;i- - schemes. 2. 1 - --=- ncial Incentives and Asribusiness The long-sought after incentives of tax rebates, long term low interest loans and grants should be expanded and made available nation-wide to cover all facets of conservation farming. 111. PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION 1. Conservation Political Grou~inq In line with developments in other developed countries, there is an increasingly strong case for the formation of a political movement aimed primarily at national environmental planning and protection of productive potential. Repeated claims by existing political parties that land use policy can be handled by the
present parties, have failed to control land degradation and unsound land use developments. 2. .- - of Cror, Land to Development - . .-- - - . - -. Both fgderal and state governments should formulate and implement legislation to ensure that good agricultural land is not lost from crop production. Land zoning should also ensure that exploitative cropping is minimised. 3. Clearins Unsuitable Land Nation-wide initiatives are urgently required to formulate and implement regulations which prevent further clearing of land which is predictably prone to loss of productivity through erosion, salinity or land slip. 4. Relative Economic Priorities of Irriaation and Soil Conservation Federal and state governments should recognise the extent and urgency of land degradation when determining priorities for allocation of funds. The accumulating costs of controlling advanced erosion and salinity emphasize the need for widespread early action in preventing degradation. Funds shouLd be diverted from planned irrigation schemes and other non-essextial expenditure, to support land use planning, catchment projects and soil conservation on individual farms for a period of 20 years. 5. Contribution of Professional Societies and Other Groups Those societies and bodies whose members have a special knowledge of land, rural production and the environment should give special attention to contributing to corrective action in the sphere of land degradation. The focus of society activity should reflect both the recognition of the time factor in land stabilisation and the responsibility of societies with in-depth knowledge of land use to become actively involved on all fronts to problem-solving in this sphere. - -=+--- 6. -$-wining Em~loyment Schemes with Soil Conservation mects -. -a>--> ------ Ways-'aB2$-means should be found to bring together the alleviation of two of Australia's most pressing problems - unemployment and land stabilisation. Imaginative programmes based on the land army concept could produce lasting benefits in both spheres of 1 endeavour through cooperative planning between the departments concerned. 7. Tree-Plantina Within Coordinated Catchment Plans Community tree planting activities should be encouraged by appropriate funding arrangements administered through soil conservation planning authorities. In this way the increasing community commitment to tree planting can be directed toward effective coordinated control of erosion, salinity and land slip '
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SOUL CObJSERVATION PEOPLE, RELIGION
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with " Generous sod", Dennis displa
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Stewardship - What Is It? Stewartls
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the earth's resources. However, it
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Certainly the earth and thus man, w
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That each Church set up a commissio
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LET THE RED VAN SPEAK In 1854 "the
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WHAT SHOULD WE TEACH What must the
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established a dualism of man and na
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R IBLIOGRAPHY Anonymous. 1985. Stat
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PREFACE : This paper has been writt
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vital supplies. The once-heroic pio
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to land use decision-making which t
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Page 59 and 60: coming generations. The list below
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evide~~c-to indicate that this situ
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the field and the proportion of exi
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These figures exclude the contribut
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these four requirements are met, th
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the association of the group with a
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A rational analysis should be made
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REFERENCES Anonymous. (1978). Basis
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APPENDIX 2 ELEMENTS OF A SHIRE LAND
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and tresspassers, rather than as cr
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The Present Position . - - - ~r&e&t
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APPENDIX 2 * 1. clear goals which a
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Brian Roberts, DDIAE 1989 Farm plan
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farm plan or major changes in physi
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Cover Story LAND STE ARDSH udes Tow
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individual's rights. No individual
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B R Roberts Darling Downs Institute
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attention at an early date. Advisor
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TABLE 1 1 LE AGRICULTURE 1. LAND CA
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th~should be ol t1[;11 c.onc-crn to
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which could form the cornerstone of
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CLEARING: WHO SHOULD DECIDE? Brian
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. Who has the knowledge and informa
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Range Monitoring Workshop Nat. S.C.
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Because most of the pastoral zone i
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FIGURE 1 iabifity ratings for Austr
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environment as distinct from the ef
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will be referred to later. It is de
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~ield workers are agreed that the i
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sufficiently to meet the criteria a
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Roberts, B. (1986). Proc. Sec. Int.
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The second reality is that in some
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choices of cultivation practices ar
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For those roads that are parallel t
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Role of Trees in the Property Plan
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