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In 2004, a national pilot study was conducted under the direction of the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS). In Queensland the test region was the Desert Uplands Bioregion of the central inland. Five questions were posed dealing with changes since the early 1990s in forage resources, land condition and the local community's capacity to respond. The main fmdings of the report compiled by Gary Bastin are re-iterated and learnings for future resource monitoring and reporting activities are discussed. Queensland's ability to monitor via remote sensing is very good. There are documented monitoring protocols such as T.R.A.P.S., GrassCheck and QGraze, plus allied databases. shift in the nature of structured, on-ground resource monitoring was evident during the time, including the formation of new groups like the Desert Uplands Build-up and Development Strategy Committee. However continuity of some on-ground verification programmes has become quite tenuous over the past eight years.