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Australia's Spaces “We may conclude that in respect of nearly 2,000,000 square miles of Australia little increased settlement can be expected owing to the inevitable limitations imposed by climatic factors. On the remaining higher-rainfall areas of the east and south, considerably greater population can be carried and a great increase in agricultural production effected, not through any extension of the areas at present occupied bur through their more efficient utilisation. It is of doubtful value to forecast the eventual population which Australia will be able to maintain at her existing standard of living, 0 though it can be predicted that this will depend to an increasing
extent on her industrial development. The estimate of Griffith Taylor of an eventual maximum of 20,000,000. consequent on the fullest complementary development of both agricultural and industrial potentialities, may be accepted as being more soundly and conservatively based than any other.”—Mr Clunies Ross, in a symposium, Some Australians Take Stock.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 20 April 1939, Page 8
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