Geoscience Australia is an agency of the Australian federal government. It carries out geoscientific research. An agency is a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function, such as a customs agency or a space agency. ... The government of Australia was established in 1901 by the Australian Constitution. ... Earth science (also known as geoscience or the geosciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. ...
On a user pays basis it produces geospatial products such as topographic maps and satellite imagery. User pays is a pricing approach based on the capitalist idea that the most economically efficient allocation of resources occurs when consumers pay the full cost of the goods that they consume. ... Example of a topographic map with contour lines Topographic maps, also called contour maps, topo maps or topo quads (for quadrangles), are maps that show topography, or land contours, by means of contour lines. ... Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. ...
It has a free place name search and its earthquake monitoring services can be freely accessed.
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External links
Geoscience Australia home page.
Place Name search - gives longitude and latitude, together with official status of place names in Australia.
Bartlett was appointed to the Senate in 1997 to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Kernot, and went on to win the seat at the 2001 Federal election.
A consistent and vocal campaigner for refugees and asylum seekers, Bartlett is the only Australian parliamentarian to have visited every refugee detention centre in Australia, as well as those on Christmas Island and Nauru (detention centres off the Australian mainland, see Australia's Pacific Solution) where he went twice to meet with detainees.
Bartlett was a strong opponent of Australia's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In a bid to stem Australia's falling oil production, the Government announced new concessions that will allow companies to claim 150 %, up from 100 %, of their exploration spending in designated areas as a deduction against their Petroleum Resource Rent Tax liability, which is levied at 40 % of taxable profit.
According to government agency GeoSciencesAustralia, the country's remaining economic reserves of crude oil and condensate are only sufficient to cover 11.3 years of consumption, based on how much was guzzled last year.
Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane said Australia had 40 offshore geological basins that had the potential to host oil and gas, but half remained unexplored because of the high cost of drilling in deep water far offshore.
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