http://www.crispinhull.com.au/2010/07/14/a-flight-over-the-inland-sea/ Journalism and other writing Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:23:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.crispinhull.com.au/2010/07/14/a-flight-over-the-inland-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Colin Samundsett Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:17:04 +0000 http://www.crispinhull.com.au/?p=9638#comment-522 Thanks Crispin, a great travelogue. A wonder of a continent, indeed. If only Tony Burke could sustain enough interest in his population portfolio to investigate it adequately. If only he would do that before leaping to a conclusion preferred by his political masters (elected and non-elected). A trip from the coastal fringe out to Broken Hill, Lake Eyre and such-like localities, in the heat of summer, would do fine. That, in addition to a visit during one of their occasional, and ephemeral, states of bliss. He might then understand that there might be a need for internal visas in Australia to control the population movement. In their absence, there will be a continuing evaporation of population from the inland, precipitating it along the Eastern seaboard. Leith Boully, at the Academy of Science on 6 July, talked of that: a population shift currently impacting irrigation communities and their townships. Even if Burke does not accept the science for climate change, he might get to understand the harsh truth of your comment about 2 metres of evaporation around Lake Eyre – and the consequence of that: a cubic kilometer of salt being delivered to it from the sea every two years, via a hypothetical, and huge, channel. Thanks Crispin, a great travelogue. A wonder of a continent, indeed.
If only Tony Burke could sustain enough interest in his population portfolio to investigate it adequately. If only he would do that before leaping to a conclusion preferred by his political masters (elected and non-elected).
A trip from the coastal fringe out to Broken Hill, Lake Eyre and such-like localities, in the heat of summer, would do fine. That, in addition to a visit during one of their occasional, and ephemeral, states of bliss.
He might then understand that there might be a need for internal visas in Australia to control the population movement. In their absence, there will be a continuing evaporation of population from the inland, precipitating it along the Eastern seaboard. Leith Boully, at the Academy of Science on 6 July, talked of that: a population shift currently impacting irrigation communities and their townships.
Even if Burke does not accept the science for climate change, he might get to understand the harsh truth of your comment about 2 metres of evaporation around Lake Eyre – and the consequence of that: a cubic kilometer of salt being delivered to it from the sea every two years, via a hypothetical, and huge, channel.

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