This volume examines current development trends in agriculture, fishery and forestry in theh Pacific Islands and the broader context of fiscal, social and economic conditions in which these developments are taking place.

First International Field Workshop and Seminar on Proterozoic-Cambrian Phosphorites, held in Australia, August 1978

For the peoples of Papua New Guinea land is overwhelmingly important, not only as the sole means of life but also for what it means in their culture. It is inalienable; it came to them from all their forebears, and it will belong to all their descendants. Its emotional and spiritual significance evokes from them a religio-mystical response completely alien to the Western attitude that land is just another commodity.

Despite the wealth of publications which have resulted, particularly this century, from Cook's Endeavour voyage - perhaps still the most scientifically rewarding voyage of all time - the career and work of the chief artist on the voyage, the young, untravelled Sydney Parkinson, have not so far received the attention they deserve.

Suddenly in the eighties the choices to be made in foreign and defence policies seem harder. This book is an examination of the areas in which Australian governments, of whatever party, will have to make decisions. It does not aim to tell governments what to do, but provides a guide to the problems which may help politicians to choose and the general reader to judge their choices.

The fundamental conditions of Australian national security planning are quite unique. There are no overseas models which Australian national security planners can copy. The sheer size of Australia poses enormous defence planning problems, compounded by Australia's extremely limited resources and their concentration in essentially one corner of the continent. In endeavouring to establish a more selfreliant defence posture for Australia there will have to be greater use of civil resources.

Australia's inland waters are inhabited by an interesting and unique fauna little known even to biologists. The eleven essays in this book are authoritative studies on various aspects of this fauna and its environment. The book surveys, first, the inland waters, their main climatic and topo graphic influences and chemical characteristics, and their classification. Then follow studies on the crustaceans, molluscs, amphibians, and fishes that inhabit the waters. The concluding section deals with some of the effects wrought by European man on both the animals and their environment.

This book deals with the current crisis facing Australian tertiary education, especially universities and colleges of advanced education. Its message is simple. Tertiary education is becalmed in the sense that, after a long period of sustained and rapid expansion, it has now entered a period of no growth and decline. Student enrolments overall have levelled off, and in some fields and in some institutions have fallen alarmingly.