ABSTRACT

If Australia is concerned over its natural resource base, many regions of the world should consider their positions as desperate. A more immediate problem in Australia has been the need to maintain good links between the main concentrations of population and to persuade settlers to move into and remain in enough places in the interior and along the northern coastlands to provide credibility that some use is being made of these virtually empty lands. Not far away to the north lies Indonesia, where the population is growing by more than 3 million a year.