Only 14percent of Australia is arable.
Yep, that was my point.
Only 14percent of Australia is arable.
The flies are bad for this time of year.
people do live in the dessert with air con
Yeah. In the ACT's case it's because the parasites can only suck so much blood from the rest of the country before the host starts to die.plenty of room in siberia and Antarctica too. if you can just turn on the air con in the desert you can just turn on the heat in Antarctica and siberia.
there's good reasons why some places aren't densely populated.
According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australia's terrestrial and aquatic food producers are capable of producing enough food to feed approximately 80 million people per year.
And despite the lingering effects of a debilitating national drought, Australian farmers still grow enough to provide 93 per cent of our domestic food supply, including 98 per cent of all locally consumed fresh produce.
Instead of facing a serious food supply problem as alleged this week by Senator Brown, Australia in fact enjoys a healthy oversupply – to the tune of $14 billion per year. This production makes us one of the world's largest food exporters, unlike the 131 other nations around the world who are net food importers.
One of the key reasons Australia produces so much food is because we have so much arable land.
Measured by people per square kilometre of arable land, Australia has 68 times more than Japan, 25 times more than the United Kingdom, 22 times more than China and four times more than the United States.
In fact, Australia has more arable land than Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea combined.
Rather than running out of arable land as routinely suggested by Senator Joyce, Australia has the largest oversupply per person of any nation in the world. If anything, we should feel more relaxed about selling it.
there are no more bugs left except some gold and silver buys on the forum
insecticide killed them all along
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Also currently there are a reported 1.6 million persons in Australia on a work visa permit. Makes it a lot harder for locals to pick up work !