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Page 136
... population from sea- ports to the inland . No great towns arose at those inland points where many wool tracks converged . Even inland towns with a thousand people were rare . While shepherds and shearers and dray drivers were dispersed ...
... population from sea- ports to the inland . No great towns arose at those inland points where many wool tracks converged . Even inland towns with a thousand people were rare . While shepherds and shearers and dray drivers were dispersed ...
Page 145
... population on the goldfields in turn led to a larger working population on the adjacent farmlands and forests and in the coastal cities which served the inland . The concentration of people in the inland ulti- mately led more quickly to ...
... population on the goldfields in turn led to a larger working population on the adjacent farmlands and forests and in the coastal cities which served the inland . The concentration of people in the inland ulti- mately led more quickly to ...
Page 168
... population from growing so rapidly . Indeed it is likely that Australia in the era 1860-1920 could have supported a population which was 50 per cent or 100 per cent higher than the number which it did in fact support . Though the ...
... population from growing so rapidly . Indeed it is likely that Australia in the era 1860-1920 could have supported a population which was 50 per cent or 100 per cent higher than the number which it did in fact support . Though the ...
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