At the same time, the government was forced to admit that some of the pollution targets set for this year will not be met. Specifically, Australia wanted to reduce the fertiliser runoff by 50% by this year under the socalled Reef Plan, but this target has now been postponed to 2018. Only small reductions in nitrogen and sediment runoff have been achieved so far. These problems can be clearly li...

Bill Martin studied biology at Texas A&M and the University of Hannover. He did his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne under the generous supervision of Heinz Saedler, who discovered the transposons known as IS elements. After fi nishing his PhD in 1988, he did his postdoctoral work on chloroplastcytosol isoenzymes, endosymbiosis, and gene transfer at the Universit...

question of his own to address. He thus switched to investigating the origins of complex innate behaviour, using the sexual behaviour of Drosophila as a model system. In the short time since, Dickson’s progress has been astounding. His group has been focussing on the role of the fruitless gene, which is known to be differently spliced in males and females. The significance of this observation h...

W elcome to the first National Child Protection Clearinghouse Newsletter for 2004. In this edition we are pleased to feature overviews of the Queensland Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Foster Care (by Katie Kovacs), and treatment programs for sexually abusive young people in Australasia (by Karen Flanagan), as well as articles on the Parents Under Pressure Program (by Paul Harnett, Sharon...