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The Australian continent’s rangelands have small populations scattered over huge areas and are characterised by extreme temporal variability and threatening eco-climatic processes and changes wrought over the past century or so. Conservation of these vast rangelands needs money, the informed involvement of rangeland stakeholders; some measure of the trade-offs between production and conservation and clearer ideas about social and cultural benefit. It is difficult to assign widely agreed values to both these trade-offs and the social and cultural elements . . . . .