Within Australia most Departments of Geography have been merged with programmes in Environmental Studies or Earth Sciences, and have been cast as multidisciplinary contributors to the increasingly vocational concerns of universities. One outcome is that named Geography programmes for postgraduates are not growing in institutional prominence in Australian universities. In such a situation, relatively few new innovations in the training specifically of Geography postgraduates are underway, and innovative developments are more likely to be occurring in multidisciplinary, coursework-based master's programmes or in the short courses offered by universities' central schools of graduate studies. (Contains 5 notes.)