For the profession in general, and the world at large, the Congress Secretariat has prepared a bulletin recording the events at the centre of the storm which has stripped our discipline of its fancied innocence. Whatever the outcome, world archaeology will never be quite the same after Southampton as it was before. Department of Prehistory Research School of Pacific Studies Australian National University GPO Box 4 Canberra ACT 2601 ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, SITE RECORDING, AND MANAGEMENT, ARCHAEOLOGY BRANCH, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, BRISBANE M.J. Rowland INTRODUCTION At recent archaeological conferences I have been asked on a number of occasions what the objectives of the Archaeology Branch are in terms of archaeological research and cultural resource management in Queensland. It was apparent there were some misconceptions about what was being done (for example the notion that Environmental Impact Statements were not undertaken in Queensland). A recent editorial in Australian Archaeology 21 has called for a wider range of contributions including summaries of research in government departments. I therefore take the opportunity in this paper of summarising some of the research and cultural resource management activities of the Archaeology Branch. No attempt is made to review the overall policies or functions of the Branch. Discussion will focus instead on site recording and site file management, Environmental Impact Surveys. Student Placements and Fellow ships. special projects and general fieldwork and research undertaken since late 1981 when 1 became Field and Research .%rchittwlogi.;~ W it h the Branch.