As a highly urbanized country but with large distances to govern, Australia represents a
distinctive laboratory for understanding the role of local government websites. In the field of
e-governance, the local government website stands out as an information instrument of
continuing strategic significance. With respect to the dissemination of both strategic and
everyday planning system information, websites have supplanted almost everywhere
traditional physical modes of exhibition (Freestone and Amati 2014). An area of particular …

To the general public, weeds are the unwanted plants that grow in their garden and
backyard. But the problems associated with the establishment of unwanted plants in
agricultural systems and natural ecosystems are far more serious and costly. It was
estimated in 2004 that weeds conservatively cost Australian agriculture between $3.5 and
$4.5 billion annually (Sinden et al. 2004). Although to date the cost of weeds affecting
natural ecosystems has not been adequately evaluated in Australia, some biologists have …