Distribution of field birth-sites of lambing ewes

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 759 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Alexander ◽  
D Stevens ◽  
LR Bradley
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Random Pattern ◽  
Site Distribution ◽  
Environmental Features ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Major Study ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Marked Preference

This paper reports on birth-site distribution of Merinos and some British breeds in 34 lambing paddocks in a major study over 5 lambing seasons at Armidale New South Wales, and in minor studies during single lambing seasons, 2 in New South Wales and 3 in the United Kingdom. The observed distribution of birth-sites is related to topographic and other environmental features of the paddocks. In level, or nearly level paddocks, Merinos tended to lamb in a random pattern, but in sloping paddocks their birth-sites were consistently aggregated in the areas of greatest elevation. British breeds (Suffolks and Cheviots in New South Wales, and Welsh Mountain, Scottish Blackface, North Country Cheviots and Greyface in the United Kingdom) showed a pronounced tendency to lamb near the margins of paddocks, and a less marked preference for an elevated site. It is suggested that lamb mortality could be significantly reduced by the use of paddocks that provide shelter at preferred elevated positions, or along and within the paddock margins.

Health service reform; the perceptions of medical specialists in Australia (New South Wales), the United Kingdom and New Zealand

1997 ◽  
Vol 167 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod J Perkins ◽  
Keith J Petrie ◽  
Patrick G Alley ◽  
Peter C Barnes ◽  
Malcolm M Fisher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Service ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Medical Specialists ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales

Parliamentary Privilege in New South Wales

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Stephen Frappell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New South ◽  
Common Law ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual

The law of parliamentary privilege in New South Wales is the sum of certain immunities, rights, and powers enjoyed by the individual Houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, together with their members and committees, as constituent parts of the Legislature. The law is complex. It is liberally interspersed with uncertainty and ambiguity. It is also distinctly different from the law of privilege in other Australian jurisdictions, including the Commonwealth, and also from overseas jurisdictions. It is singular in the degree to which it relies on the common law, without recourse to statutory expression or to the historical privileges of the Houses of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, in some respects, the Parliament of New South Wales has been remarkably successful through the courts, and through its own procedures, in asserting the powers and rights of members under the banner of parliamentary privilege, notably in relation to orders for the production of State papers.

scholarly journals “My box of memories”: An Australian Country Girl Goes to London

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Ian Willis
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The 19Th Century

In 1954 a young country woman from New South Wales, Shirley Dunk, ex- ercised her agency and travelled to London. This was a journey to the home of her fore- fathers and copied the activities of other country women who made similar journeys. Some of the earliest of these journeys were undertaken by the wives and daughters of the 19th-century rural gentry. This research project will use a qualitative approach in an examination of Shirley’s journey archive complemented with supplementary interviews and stories of other travellers. Shirley nostalgically recalled the sense of adventure that she experienced as she left Sydney for London by ship and travelled through the United Kingdom and Europe. The article will address questions posed by the journey for Shirley and her travelling companion, Beth, and how they dealt with these forces as tourists and travellers. Shirley’s letters home were reported in the country press and reminiscent of soldier’s wartime letters home that described their tales as tourists in foreign lands. The narrative will show that Shirley, as an Australian country girl, was exposed to the cosmo- politan nature of the metropole, as were other women. The paper will explore how Shirley was subject to the forces of modernity and consumerism at a time when rural women were often limited to domesticity.

Another alien terrestrial planarian in the United Kingdom: Australopacifica atrata (Steel, 1897) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Continenticola)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4604 (3) ◽  
pp. 575 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUGH D. JONES
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Chicken Liver ◽  
Copulatory Apparatus ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Dead Mouse ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
The Uk

Black terrestrial planarians, 5 mm to 3 cm long, have been found in five locations in the United Kingdom, the earliest in 2015. They are identified as Australopacifica atrata (Steel, 1897), a species originally described from New South Wales, Australia. A detailed systematic discussion of original and later descriptions, all of which are of external features only and with no morphological details, is given in support of this identification. Sectioned specimens show partly mature ovaries and ventral testes though none show any development of the copulatory apparatus. They reproduce freely by fission. They appear to be generalist scavengers, having been found feeding on a dead slow worm, a dead mouse, an earthworm and also on rotten fruit. In captivity they feed on chicken liver, squashed slugs and earthworms. It is assumed that they have been inadvertently introduced to the UK and distributed through horticultural activity. 

scholarly journals Common Sense or Unnecessary Complexity? The Recent Change to the Right to Silence in New South Wales

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Ashley Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Close Monitoring ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Right To Silence ◽  
The Right

The New South Wales government has now enacted section 89A of the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), which will significantly amend the right to silence. The new provision allows courts in certain circumstances to draw unfavourable inferences from evidence of silence in criminal proceedings. Parliament has justified the legislation as a ‘common sense’ approach, intended to prevent offenders hiding behind a wall of silence. However the benefits of the legislation are expected to be minimal at best. Although critics have already put forward weighty theoretical arguments opposing the enactment of the new provision, how it will operate in New South Wales courts remains to be seen. This article will undertake a detailed comparative analysis, examining the operation of similar legislation in the United Kingdom to determine how section 89A might be interpreted and applied in New South Wales. This analysis suggests that the need for extensive and complicated jury directions, the problems in determining whether the provision is to be invoked at all, and the complex test used in deciding whether it was reasonable for the accused to remain silent, will create significant difficulties in the application of section 89A. It is contended that the number and seriousness of these difficulties, coupled with the only limited benefit (if any) to be derived from the section, justify the close monitoring of section 89A and its review at an appropriate time.

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