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Industrializing Australia: Needed: Power and People
Oliphant, M. L. | June 18, 1955 issue

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The area of the island-continent of Australia is almost the same as that of the United States, but a much smaller fraction of the land surface is suitable for food production. Over the greater part, of the country the average rainfall is extremely low and is distributed erratically both in time and in place. In these regions of central and northwestern Australia there are no permanent rivers, evaporation is high, and the only dependable sources of water are artesian bores which often yield brackish water of no help to vegetation. The tropical north contains areas which could be capable of development, but it is as unpleasant a place to live in as any tropical region in the world.

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AGRICULTURE & state; FOOD production; RAIN & rainfall; RIVERS; ARTESIAN wells; AUSTRALIA
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