03-26-2011, 10:15 PM
I think this poem might help explain Australia to you guys as the full poem details all that happens in this wide brown land.
I Love A Sunburnt Country
by Dorothea Mac Kellar [1908 written 1906]
Verse 2
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.
Basically if you want to live in Australia then you have to accept that this land will at times break your heart.
We live in a country approximately the size of Continental USA, but with only a population of @ 22 Million versus @ 280 Million in Continental USA [total USA 307 Million] and a geographically older continent with tired soils and vast arid deserts, something which our near neighbours fail to realise when they compare land mass to population density.
Some of our politicians were talking up growing the population to 30 Million plus until they got feedback from the electorate that we are sick of road congestion and worried about water supplies. There is great debate here in Victoria about the cost of the Desalination plant currently under construction at Wonthaggi, but what people have already forgotten is that our dams supplying water for Melbourne were headed below 50% after 10 years of drought and 5 years of water restrictions.
We havent opened a new dam since the Thompson Dam in the late '70s, which was supposed to 'Drought Proof Melbourne', what they didnt factor in was the rate of population growth has exceeded predictions and now with the Greenies, building a new dam will be almost impossible.
ARRRRGH
Mark
I Love A Sunburnt Country
by Dorothea Mac Kellar [1908 written 1906]
Verse 2
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.
Basically if you want to live in Australia then you have to accept that this land will at times break your heart.
We live in a country approximately the size of Continental USA, but with only a population of @ 22 Million versus @ 280 Million in Continental USA [total USA 307 Million] and a geographically older continent with tired soils and vast arid deserts, something which our near neighbours fail to realise when they compare land mass to population density.
Some of our politicians were talking up growing the population to 30 Million plus until they got feedback from the electorate that we are sick of road congestion and worried about water supplies. There is great debate here in Victoria about the cost of the Desalination plant currently under construction at Wonthaggi, but what people have already forgotten is that our dams supplying water for Melbourne were headed below 50% after 10 years of drought and 5 years of water restrictions.
We havent opened a new dam since the Thompson Dam in the late '70s, which was supposed to 'Drought Proof Melbourne', what they didnt factor in was the rate of population growth has exceeded predictions and now with the Greenies, building a new dam will be almost impossible.
ARRRRGH
Mark
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