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Over the course of the interwar years, the assumption that the north held vast tracts of rich land came increasingly into question. Even while anxieties about emptiness still nagged, many Australians came to doubt the capacity of the north to sustain a plentiful population. This chapter charts the declining environmental expectations of those decades.
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McGregor, R. (2016). Downgrading the North. In: Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-91509-5_7
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