..., termites, kangaroos, some of the best adapted lasting for eons. Wonderful outback odysseys marked the early era and the diverse environment laid the foundation for emergence of the young and their survival into the Quaternary and the age of man. University of Sydney Gordon Grigg PhD students...

... the last year (2016-2017). From their inception in 1979, Whitley awards have always been Australasian in scope. However, for much of this time we have not had contributions from either New Guinea or New Zealand. This has dramatically changed over the last few years. It began with a wonderful publication...

... messaging coming out that it s actually good for quolls, which seems out of step with both of your presentations. I was wondering if there was any research that shows that baiting can be good for quolls. MIKE LETNIC: I think those sort of things are always really difficult. My studies would be a little bit...

... with no defences, and also surplus killing, DAVID WORSLEY: (AWA). Someone was talking about non-lethal control methods. Just wondering about the morals and the ethics and the mental health of the people, because when you are not in the game, it s a lot easier to solve someone else s problems. We re all aware...

... The audience at the 2018 Whitley Awards WHITLEY MEDAL The Whitely Medal is awarded for the most outstanding publication from the previous year. AUSTRALIAN ECHINODERMS: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION Eds Maria Byrne and Timothy O Hara CSIRO Publishing, June 2017, ISBN 9781486307623 This is a wonderful book...

... talking can get into your blood. I similarly declared in the and averted their eyes from the one-armed bandits, placed prologue to my recent (2017, p. xix) book on the their drinks on the bar, and bowed their heads in quiet Hawkesbury River that I sometimes wonder whether contemplation of past military...

... a cropper in terms of not only how Another way to do it, I didn t mention, is at the small it s packaged, but sourced and all the rest of it. So, I just scale. Sandra is sitting up there and she started Happy wondered - Graham, you finished on saying we need to Fish in Bondi (happyfish.org.au). We re trying...

... and outlined really well the rodents, but it equals different numbers of rodents compelling need for long term monitoring studies. depending on the period that s prevailed before it, I was wondering if all of the speakers could provide and you get different rodent species appearing after any tips or strategies...

... Robin) The following is a transcript of the plenary proceedings, lightly edited for readability. DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.023 DAN LUNNEY (RZS NSW Facilitator): Thank you unquestioned. So, I ll just agree; I think that s a very everyone. I thought that was wonderful. A few things similar...

.... Having just returned from a tour along the ancient northern Silk Route, crossing China and Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan, I m feeling particularly fortunate to have grown up when I did, in this wonderful country, to enjoy the career of my choice, the clean air, abundant wildlife and wild places. That s...

.... heading, Status and Conservation, the message by these bettong and potoroo specialists is blunt: Potoroidae is When I read Arthur s comments, I wondered what he one of the mammalian families most severely impacted meant by: This is a sophisticated treatment of animals by the European settlement...

... of expert reviewers who have provided us with their advice and commendations. This has given us more confidence in our unenviable task of choosing Award winners from a line-up of wonderful entries. The procedure for Whitley Award ceremony 2015 2016 AustralZiaoonlogist volume 38 (2) 235 Whitley Awards 2015...

... of the ROBYN ALDERS (University of Sydney): Thanks reasons why, in my talk, which Donna and I put very much for a wonderful session. I guess my question, together, we didn t come down hard on a particular and it follows through from the first two sessions that solution. We raised some questions that people...

... for readability. PAUL WILLIS: It s terrific, the whole citizen science field - what a wonderful resource it is, not only in zoology and the earth - the biological sciences, but there have been citizen science projects in astronomy, and - all over the place. Terrific stuff, but when you think about what you ve...

... and, ultimately, to a field guide published in 1978, revised in 1995 with Mike Tyler as co-author. John was a wonderful guitar player. Sadly, he died when the revised edition was finalized but not yet in print We soon started making recordings of frog mating calls as well as taking photographs, and published...

... enclosures, I notice in Scotia that you re going to have thing that came through. four stages and I m wondering whether they are going to remain discrete with the subdivision fences maintained; Another is that, from the point of view of getting people and if so, does that give you an opportunity...

... of Agriculture. Eventually she came to a point where she knew that she The book is a wonderful achievement for the authors, would fulfil her task. But it is not good enough merely to backers and publisher and I eagerly look forward to the collect the data, it needs to be accessible for the biologists next two...

... this kind of start to wonder, Who in the world is going to give me leadership, and we have as much capability as anybody a job in this area? because it s threatening to all the else to do that. Our students are brighter, they re lateral traditional established ways of doing things. Is the pet thinkers, we...

... is great. wonder if that still works. PAUL WILLIS: That was lucky. So I stopped telling them how to do it, and interestingly enough, at the end of just two years it was like Chinese ARTHUR WHITE: Well, it wasn t. It s only because whispers, you know, No, you don t count the animal we had such a long run...