Develop the north

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  • Published 20050906
  • ISBN: 9780733316715
  • Extent: 232 pp
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NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WAS high on the Commonwealth agenda in the 1950s and 1960s, leading to such projects as the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme. It is no coincidence that this was a period of optimism and high morale in the country. But vision for the long-term well-being of the nation has been notably lacking in recent decades.

I shall put a sequence of propositions.

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