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Regional Sea Level, Southern Oscillation And Beach Change, New South Wales, Australia, Edward A. Bryant
Regional Sea Level, Southern Oscillation And Beach Change, New South Wales, Australia, Edward A. Bryant
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Coastal erosion is a problem of increasing concern that affects 60% of the world's sandy coastline. This erosion has been attributed to increased storminess, tectonic subsidence, eustatic sea-level rise, decreased shoreward sediment movement from the shelf, permanent longshore leakage of sediment from beach compartments, shifts in global pressure belts resulting in changes in the directional component of wave climates, and human interference. No one explanation has worldwide applicability because all factors vary in importance regionally. Evaluation of factors is complicated by a lack of accurate, continuous, long-term erosional data. Historical map evidence spanning 100-1,000 yr has been used in a …
The Crisis In The Steel Industry, Mike Donaldson, T. Donaldson
The Crisis In The Steel Industry, Mike Donaldson, T. Donaldson
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) Australia's largest corporation, had a virtual monopoly on the steel industry in Australia. In the early 1980's it set about decimating its workforce, blaming an economic downturn, and demanding massive and unusual handouts from the Australian Government. This article exposes the myth of the 'crisis' in the steel industry, and reveals instead that the BHP, embarked upon a modernisation of its plant, held its workforce to ransom to extort concessions from the Government. It then destroyed nearly 4,000 jobs at its Port Kembla steelworks in Wollongong.