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Table 8 The major knowledge sources drawn upon for assessing the state and trend of topics in this chapter

Source	Scale	Method
Academic domain experts	National	For each topic, an assessment was solicited from one or more Australian academic researchers with relevant domain knowledge. Each assessment was then peer-reviewed by other academic domain experts.
Traditional Owners	National, regional and local	Online survey of Indigenous practitioners. Participants were asked to assess topics for which they had expert local, regional and national knowledge.
Local government areas (LGAs)	Local	Online survey of all Australian coastal LGAs, of which 34 responded (see Local Government Area survey).

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