Bruce Davidson – The Northern Myth

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The Northern Myth – Chapter 1

November 22, 2008 – 4:49 pm

“…a poor dried up land afflicted by fever and flies and fit only for a college of monks whose religious zeal might cope with the suffocating heat and musketos which admitted no moment of repose.”

Matthew Flinders describing northern Australia

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The Northern Australia Land & Water Taskforce – growing pineapples in Antarctica?

October 4, 2008 – 4:03 pm

“During the decade 1950-60, a great deal of research work was carried out in tropical Australia. It has been claimed in many quarters that this research has solved the problem of agricultural development north of the tropic…Yet it is easy to demonstrate that intensive farming in tropical Australia would only be possible if it was [...]