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2013 Ninti One Research Presentation Day

Innovation for Remote Australia

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Theme 1 – Productive Landscapes

Facilitator:  Kevin Williams

Speakers:  Andy BubbSally LeigoFiona Haslam McKenzieDigby RaceMary‐Anne Healy

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Ninti One and the Pastoral IndustryAndy Bubb – 21st Century Pastoralism Project Leader (2007‐2010)

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Australia’s Rangelands

• Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world; • 81% of it is either arid or semi arid land • Highly variable rainfall in timing and intensity

Australian Climate ZonesTropicalTemperateSubtropicalGrasslandEquatorialDesert

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Australia’s Rangelands• Have supported at least 40,000 years of Aboriginal occupancy• Major source of Australia’s exports through mining and Agriculture• Desert syndrome 

i) Climate variability, ii) Scarce Resources, iii) sparse population, iv) Remoteness, v) social variability vi) local knowledge vii) cultural differences

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Pastoralism in the Australian Rangelands

• 3000 Pastoral enterprises across the Australian Rangelands. Well established, enduring, resilient and economically profitable

• Research and development within Rangeland Pastoralism traditionally divided by state borders, deserts and organisational structures

• Sometimes viewed as ‘less productive areas of temperate production’ rather than ‘highly productive arid zone enterprises’ 

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21st Century Pastoralism•Recognised the linkages between remote rangeland enterprises

•Identified that businesses operate on huge scale, profitability is based on low input/low output model

• Alice Springs region Northern Territory cattle station averages: 

•3800km2 running 6000 cattle by 3‐6 staff members

•11 Paddocks averaging 335km2, 27 watering points

•Huge amount of time and money spent on checking and maintaining water

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21st Century Pastoralism

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Telemetry costs and recovery period

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$20,000

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Napperby Mt. Ive Monkira De Rose Hill Quinyambie

Remote Management Technology Cost 1st year indicative saving

• Tested commercially available technologies on working cattle enterprises

• Pastoralists employed as researchers and became key communicators of results to their peers in industry

Utilising Technology:WaterSmart Pastoral Production Project

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Utilising Technology:The Remote Livestock Management System

Challenges to production are:• Availability and cost of 

labour• High costs associated with 

managing cattle• High cost of collected data 

potentially outweighs the benefits

• Worker safety can be a challenge

• Automating these processes was a major outcome for Ninti One and Partners

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AUTOMATIC WEIGH IN

SOLARPANELS

COMPUTERCONTROLLER

COMPUTER RECEIVES

TELEMETRYINFORMATION

Remote livestock management system elements

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Utilising Technology:Towards Precision Pastoralism

• Individual animal data• Accurate

• Spatial data• Remote sensing with high spatial resolution (MODIS)

more frequently

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Increasing Adoption• Pastoralists are linked strongly to a geographical location

• Pastoralists understand technology quicker when they are  able to “see, touch and feel” it

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Increasing Adoption

• Pastoralists are time poor and continually stretched across many areas of their business

• Pastoralists are conservative with investment and are unlikely to change production practice without a solid or sound business case

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Productive Landscape

Enduring Community Value from Mining

Professor Fiona Haslam McKENZIE

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Background and Research Context• This research program is:

• Analysing how  mining activities in remote areas can leave a legacy of enduring benefits to communities and SME beyond the mines life.

• Benefits and costs – where and for whom?

• Developing strategies for Risk and Resilience

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The Granites

Jabiru

Leigh CreekRoxby Downs

Tom Price

Onslow

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Impacts• Direct employment opportunities from mining

• More opportunities and potential enduring benefits in support services

• Dramatic impacts on communities  e.g. –• long distance commuting • Poor strategic planning (lifecycle planning)• Population churn

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Impacts• Long distance commuting.  Research shows that:

• More could be done by companies, including contractors, construction and resource companies to ensure communities derive benefits from long distance commuting 

• All spheres of government have a responsibility to provide workable and responsive guidelines and frameworks 

• There are benefits from long distance commuting which could be better captured and understood

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Achievements

• Productive collaborations between major mining companies operating in the Pilbara (WA) and Tanami (NT) regions enabling tracking and mapping of  labour force mobility, workforce income dispersion and regional economic leakage

• A pilot study conducted by the Western Australian Department of Justice to more accurately track domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse and incidence of crime by employees who identify as long distance commuters in the resources and allied industries. 

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Achievements• The socio‐economic impacts of long distance commuting (LDC) on two 

source communities, tracking impacts on the:• The local economy• The commuting worker• The family in the source community• Community services• Health and education services 

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Results so far ….• Long distance commuting is a diverse and dynamic phenomenon which 

could be better managed and understood.  It is not all bad, in fact, there are many benefits.

• Many benefits from mining flow to capital cities and boardrooms –capturing the benefits at the local level demands fundamental corporate re‐assessment about corporate social responsibility 

• Mine lifecycle planning is very important, but plans cannot be static.  Communities and economies are fluid and plans must therefore be responsive.

• Government has a vital role to ensure optimal strategic planning and prescient community and infrastructure investment

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Results so far ….

• Mine lifecycle planning is very important, but plans cannot be static.  Communities and economies are fluid and plans must therefore be responsive.

• Government has a vital role to ensure optimal strategic planning and prescient community and infrastructure investment

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Productive Landscapes:

Climate change adaptation Energy futures New carbon economies

Principal Research Leader ‐ Digby Race, CSIRO

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Key project research questions1. What are the feasible options for adaptation to climate change 

in remote Australia that enhance community liveability & business viability?

2. What are the feasible options for adoption of renewable energy & energy efficiency measures by households & businesses in remote Australia (inc. transport systems)?

3. What are the commercial opportunities for remote communities to benefit from the ‘carbon economy’?

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Systems approach

Climate change impacts

Climate change adaptation

Energy futures

Futures by

design

Increasing heat (more intensive ‘heatwaves’) affecting community health & workforce productivity

Increasing extreme weather events (flooding, storms)

Increasing operating costs (for cooling) & reducing productivity (agriculture)

Damaging infrastructure & limiting transportation

Changes –incremental & transformative

Changing work practices (outdoor activities informed by current weather)

Adopt energy & water efficiencies

Increasing use of affordable renewable energy – domestic & business

Invest in more robust infrastructure –domestic, business & transport

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Projected impacts for Central Australia• Increase in days per year over 35°C from 90 (current) to 132‐182 (by 

2070) – leading to increased heat stress (heat‐related deaths could increase by as much as 10 times in QLD & the NT by 2100, Hughes & McMichael 2011);

• Increase in sickness & hospital admissions (& associated lost days at work/school & additional care required) (health care services cost $5,000 per person & expected to nearly double by 2050, Hughes & McMichael 2011);

• Extreme weather events can compound the delivery of health services – increase demand yet limit provision (flooding & cyclones in QLD during 2010‐11 caused $18 million damage to health services);

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Projected impacts for Central Australia (continued ...)

• Impacts on the productivity of agricultural industries (contribution to Aust’sGDP from agriculture to decline by 20% in 2100, with most decline concentrated in Northern Aust, Garnaut 2008); 

• Significant increase in the required energy for cooling, but a small reduction in the energy required for heating; 

• Costs for maintaining roads & other infrastructure expected to rise.

41Crossing the Todd River in Alice Springs (Photos: D. Race & J. Addison)

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Exposure in Central Australia

42Source: J. Addison 2013; graph design: R. Brown

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Recent (2003) & projected days above 35°C at selected towns under ‘high’ emission scenario. 

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Source: Suppiah et al. 2007.

“... it is clear that people will need to adapt to changing (climatic) conditions ...” Productivity Commission (2012)

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Emerging results: Climate change adaptation The Northern Australian beef cattle industry:• value• sensitivity rainfall variability • challenging herd management• access to markets• electricity & fuel costs• ‘tools’ to assist producers

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(Photo: Manchini, Flickr Creative Commons)

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Transport disparity in remote Australia

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• People living in remote Australia are more dependent on private transport, yet face higher costs & more dangerous driving conditions;

• What are the alternatives for more affordable & safer transport for remote Australians?

Source: B. Spandonide 2013.

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Energy futures: efficiencies & renewables

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Alice Solar City (ASC) initiative: $37 million during 2008‐2013

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ASC: about 30% households involved

47Source: L. Havas et al. 2012.

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Lessons from ASC

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Co‐benefits in a ‘carbon’ economy

• Correlation of ‘carbon’ businesses to bio‐activity

• ‘Carbon’ benefits from changes in land management

• Australian Government support

• Economic incentives

• Co‐benefits will add‐value to the price of carbon, thereby expand the carbon economy. 

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Key messages from project so far ...• Combination of ‘climate & energy’ issues is anticipated to be a major 

driver of change in remote Central & Northern Aust – will affect agricultural industries, community & workforce health, infrastructure;

• Conventional adaptation to climate extremes is energy & water‐intensive, unlikely to be sustainable in remote Central & Northern Aust – focus on improving energy & water efficiency & alternatives to enhance ‘liveability’;

• Co‐benefits from carbon‐cultural landscape management  can be applied to Aust’s remote productive landscapes – may lead to transformational change in commercial opportunities;

• Building the adaptive capacity of people & organisations is required:• No regrets,

• Flexible,

• Hard & soft (e.g. Invest in physical & social capitals).

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Project partners• CSIRO, • Centre for Appropriate Technology, • Charles Darwin University, • Northern Territory Government,• Tangentyere Council,• Northern Territory Government Power & Water Corporation,• Australian Government Department of Regional Australia, Local

Government, Arts and Sport.

Project teamJane Addison (consultant), Tira Foran (CSIRO), Lisa Havas (CDU), Catherine Matthews (CDU), Cathy Robinson (CSIRO), Glenn Ronan (NTG), Bruno Spandonide (CAT), Danny Ware (Ninti One) & Digby Race (CSIRO)

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Further details

Digby RacePrincipal Research Leader E: [email protected]: 0419 638 406www.crc‐rep.com.au

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Productive Landscapes

Integrating climate change science into rangelands natural resource management

Project manager – Mary‐Anne Healy

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Natural resource management (NRM) in Australia• Natural resources include soil, water, landscapes, 

plants and animals

• Active management of natural resources and the effect on quality of life now and in the future

• 56 NRM regions 

• Group/board/committee of community (and government) representatives

• Developing strategic plans for their region

• Funded by Australian government, state governments and other partners to implement on‐ground actions

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Clean Energy Future

• Australian Government Clean Energy Future Plan• Regional Natural Resource Management Planning for Climate

Change Fund• providing $43.9 million over five financial years to improve regional

planning for climate change and help guide the location of carbon and biodiversity activities.

• aims to improve the capacity of regional NRM organisations to plan for climate change

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Rangelands Cluster Project

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Rangelands Cluster Project• Research partners – CSIRO and Monash University 

• NRM organisations:• Alinytjara Wilurara NRM• Desert Channels Qld• Rangelands NRM WA • SA Arid Lands NRM• South West NRM (Qld) • Territory NRM• Western CMA (NSW)

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