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Angophora inopina is a vulnerable tree species occurring principally in Wyong and Lake Macquarie local government areas on the Central Coast, with disjunct populations as far north as Bulahdelah on the North Coast of NSW. The largest and most intact stands occur within the Wyee-Morisset areas although even here significant fragmentation is evident. North of Toronto, there are small and scattered residual populations as far as Barnsley near West Wallsend in Lake Macquarie. A total area of occupied habitat of approximately 1500 ha is estimated. Cluster analysis of floristic information showed that Angophora inopina occurs within three broad habitat types within the Central Coast bioregion, centred mainly on the Gorokan, Doyalson and Wyong soil landscapes. Hybrid forms of the species also occur on the Cockle Creek landscape in northern Lake Macquarie. Most stands are evident within open woodland/ forest vegetation where Eucalyptus haemastoma, Corymbia gummifera, and Eucalyptus capitellata dominate with Angophora inopina. Other populations occur in wet heath, and swamp woodland environments where sedge species are characteristic. Conservation of Angophora inopina will be most effectively and efficiently achieved if ecological processes that operate across the landscape are maintained. Processes such as fragmentation, altered fire regimes or invasion of habitat by exotic species must be managed in the long-term. These are all significant threats to this species, and will best be effectively managed in the larger remnants in a landscape approach. Such threats are generally associated with urban and agricultural expansion in the area, and these are therefore the most pressing issues to be managed.

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Since 1980, population trends in Australia have indicated new patterns of urbanization involving substantial growth not only in the dominant conurbations, but also in suburban areas and in an extensive coastal zone (Paris, 1994). Comparisons can be made with the emergence of post‐suburban forms and processes in other parts of the world (Kling et. al., 1991). The principal aim of this paper is to present an analysis of some of the major local development conflicts and planning and environmental protection issues that are being faced by developers, planners and local communities as the urban restructuring of Australia takes place. The paper draws on evidence of urbanization on the upper North Coast of New South Wales and provides a detailed examination of two shires in the region — Ballina and Byron — where a study was carried out by the authors in 1994 and 1995. Previous research on the population and development trends in Australia is reviewed to provide a context within which the patterns in New South Wales and its North Coast may be placed, and a discussion is presented of the implications of new development with reference to Ballina Shire and Byron Shire. The usefulness of the postfordist model as an explanatory framework for examining these post‐suburban landscapes and contested space issues on the North Coast of NSW is also explored.

AbstractThe texts studied in this paper show that the extent of the commercial and political relationships between Ugarit and the Phoenician cities, particularly Tyre, was far superior to that of the ties with the Southern Levantine sea-ports. However, the importance of the commercial ties between Ugarit and Ashdod may be de fined using the written sources. In fact, if our interpretation of RS 19.96 is correct, the intensity of the contacts between both cities even led to the establishment of an Ashdodite merchant station in Ugarit, from which their commercial affairs were structured. Les textes étudiés dans le présent article montrent la façon dont Ugarit avait maintenu des rélations commerciales et politiques avec les royaumes phéniciens, spécialement avec Tyr. Ces rélations furent plus intenses que celles maintenues avec les ports du sud du Levant. De toute façon, ces textes constatent les liens commerciaux trés etroit qui auraient existé entre Ugarit et Ashdod. De fait, si nôtre interprétation de RS 19.96 est correcte, l'intensité des contacts entre les deux villes aboutit à l'établissement d'une station commerciale d'Ashdod à Ugarit, station qui fut chargée d'organiser ces relations commerciales.

The paper identified the impact of marine services on port efficiency in the study area the effectiveness of terminal and support base services in the Calabar port among others. Data collection involved the use of both open and closed ended questionnaires administered on port agents importers exporters and other port workers and users with a success rate of 87. The result revealed that container terminal efficiency is measured by the level of increase in inputs and throughput. It further indicated that the volume of container handled at the Calabar port is low compared to other ports and thus was revealed that expansion of the current terminal as well as depth of the quay will certainly increase the volume of container inputs and throughput to meet international standards. The findings also revealed that the performance of container terminal at the Calabar Port is on average. Chi-square statistics was used to test the hypothesis in SPSS Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The Chi-square 3 13.370 p 0.05 shows that there is statistically significant association between cargo handling operation and availability of cargo designated area in Calabar port. It is recommended that the Government of Nigeria invests in expanding port physical infrastructure such as adequate berthing facilities wharves yard capacity quayside depth railway as well as expanding the hinterland road network.

AbstractThe role of money in politics has been a concern internationally with strong calls for stricter regulation of such funds. In Australia, this has resulted in a shift from laissez‐faire to increased regulation. Yet, there has been little research into the impact of this shift. To address this gap, this article examines the impact of four New South Wales political finance laws enacted from 2008 to 2012, which reflect the emergent regulatory approach. Focusing on the total number and value of political donations made to New South Wales political parties, it assesses the effects of the four Acts individually, as well as their overall impact, to test the assumption of legal effectiveness. It finds strong support for two key expectations resulting from the assumption: first, the raft of legislation will reduce the total number and value of political donations to the parties and second, that the 2010 legislation, which imposed caps on political donations and election spending, and substantially increased public funding, would be the most significant of the four Acts in terms of impact due to its scope and depth.

This report by the Legislative Audit Council reviews the State Ports Authority. Some concerns included the economic impact of the port, the proposed expansion on Daniel Island, costs of a Daniel Island terminal and accountability issues.

Shocked by the abject failure of the London Missionary Society's (LMS) first overseas mission to Polynesia, missionaries retreated to New South Wales in 1799 having had their evangelical certainties about morality, culture, religion, and race thoroughly shaken. White settler communities proved almost as disturbing as the islands for the disgraced missionaries. Samuel Clode was brutally murdered soon after arriving; lay missionaries found that their simple communal religious practices would not be tolerated by the established ministers of religion; and co-habiting with convicts, military men, and Aborigines seriously challenged evangelical social mores. John Youl wrote, "no other spot on the face of the Habitable Globe, contains more witnesses of the awful depravity of human Nature" (1801). Humanitarian narratives were central to British evangelical missionary work. Although humanitarian narratives often struggled to emerge in the early Australian colonies given the predominance of aggressive settler expansionism, the isolated voices of individuals associated with evangelical reform deserve attention because they provide troubling accounts of the problems and failures of settler colonialism. This article uses Clode's accounts of his experience at Matavai Bay in Tahiti, and accounts of his death at Port Jackson, as nodal points through which to trace the moral contours of emergent settler modernities in Pacific Rim worlds. Colonial resistance to evangelical authority by both Europeans and Indigenous people confounded the expectations of the vigorous humanitarian lobby in Britain, and the information garnered by colonial agents provided considerable challenge to European expectations. Yet it also provided considerable ammunition to argue for religious models of the moral empire. In such ways evangelical experiences garnered from colonial locations became part of a globalising knowledge economy and a thriving print culture, which both supported and challenged the dominance of humanitarian narratives.

Negotiating and transforming the public sphere: African American political life in the transition from slavery to freedom / Elsa Barkley Brown -- A changing world of work: North Carolina elite women, 1865-1895 / Jane Turner Censer -- Farmers, dudes, white Negroes, and the sun-browned goddess / Stephen Kantrowitz -- Etiquette, lynching, and racial boundaries in southern history: a Mississippi example / J. William Harris -- New women / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Defiance and domination: "white Negroes" in the Piney Woods New South / Victoria E. Bynum -- Pilgrimmage to the past: public history, women, and the racial order / Jack E. Davis -- Le reveil de la Louisiane: memory and Acadian identity, 1920-1960 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Southern seeds of change, 1931-1938 / Patricia Sullivan -- "You must remember this": autobiography as social critique / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- "You don't have to ride Jim Crow": CORE and the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation / Raymond Arsenault -- Bombingham / Glenn T. Eskew -- Sex, segregation, and the sacred after Brown / Jane Dailey