Why hasn't Australia got more population?

Affable

http://www.unm.edu/~austral/images/aus_map_big.jpg

There could be at least a good few cities added between Adelaide and Perth.

And yes, I'm that bored.

Gummy Panda

Maybe there is a lot of bush there and the bush fires are a pain. I remember hearing about this while driving around the great ocean road in Victoria.

Now for a more important question, why do aussies say Satday instead of Saturday?

mike65

Proberly the dust getting everywhere, and the killer spiders eating babies.

Mike.

javaboy

Look at the desert based cities in the US. They need massive amounts of water pumped from elsewhere. It might be a similar situation with starting up new cities in Stralya.

Affable

javaboy wrote: »

Look at the desert based cities in the US. They need massive amounts of water pumped from elsewhere. It might be a similar situation with starting up new cities in Stralya.

But on the south coast?-there must be some more rivers up there too.

Collie D

Looks like most of that area is just desert...isn't most of the population based on the east coast between Sydney and Melbourne? Fancy starting a city with me?

javaboy

Affable wrote: »

But on the south coast?

What am I the answer man? I assume it's something to do with babies being eaten.

Archeron

Our lizard overlords occupy the central plains, and until now they have managed to divert human interest away from this area.

Until now......

latenia

Unfortunately, Australia, even with its current population, is completely unsustainable and unviable as a country. Check out some articles about their current problems with drought and farming. (I'm heading out now so I don't have time to check.)
Did you never wonder why, with some of the world's most populous nations so close by and within easy reach, that Australia was never colonised en-masse by Asians? They knew better than us, in much the same way that native Americans never settled in areas of the US affected by hurricanes.
Far from seeing more cities being built, I can see the country degenerating into a Mad-Max style wasteland by 2050. (seriously)

mike65

Perth is the worlds most remote city.

This is why Mad Max will happen
http://www.geocities.com/daveclarkecb/Australia/Graphs/OzRainfallTrend36Years.jpg

Mike.

mise_me_fein

Great post OP!

Black Swan

Only so much room in the kangaroo pouch.

Affable

mise_me_fein wrote: »

Great post OP!

Thankyou for your kind words.

taidghbaby

chopper............obviously!!!!!

Affable

I'd 'fuppin' love to live in Melbourne, Tassie or NZ.

If only the whole in the Ozone wasnt above there and they didn't have such high skin cancer rates....

javaboy

I just had a quick search on the interweb and apparently they did try building a new city but they'd barely built a road, a power station, a police station a school and zoned some residential area when this happened:

Australia's New City

MooseJam

thank god it hasn't, those Aussies are so annoying

Collie D

javaboy wrote: »

I just had a quick search on the interweb and apparently they did try building a new city but they'd barely built a road, a power station, a police station a school and zoned some residential area when this happened:

Australia's New City

Nice :pac:

taidghbaby

javaboy wrote: »

I just had a quick search on the interweb and apparently they did try building a new city but they'd barely built a road, a power station, a police station a school and zoned some residential area when this happened:

Australia's New City

laugh all ya want.......adamstown in a year or two!!!

Archeron

taidghbaby wrote: »

laugh all ya want.......adamstown in a year or two!!!

Tall buildings like that white one in the middle of the pic would never get planning in Dublin. Its "too full of tallness". So we'll have crappy low density houses getting squashed, and nobody will care.

Sim city rocks.

taidghbaby

Archeron wrote: »

Tall buildings like that white one in the middle of the pic would never get planning in Dublin. Its "too full of tallness". So we'll have crappy low density houses getting squashed, and nobody will care.

Sim city rocks.

the town centre in adamstown is a massive building with glass windows all over and a big galvanise like white roof on it!!!

other than that your on the ball!!;)

Sherifu

Too hot for shagging?

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Maybe there is a lot of bush there and the bush fires are a pain.

*snigger*

Affable

Sherifu wrote: »

Too hot for shagging?

We don't want to hear about you.

A-ha-ha-ha.

Overheal

inbreeding.

Sherifu

Affable wrote: »

We don't want to hear about you.

A-ha-ha-ha.

Ok...

Victor

That section is the Nullarbor Plain. "Nullarbor" means something like "nothing grows there". Its a desert.

mike65 wrote: »

Perth is the worlds most remote city.

By what calculation? What about Honoululu?

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The government pay people a lump sum for every child thats born, in an effort to increase the population. The Baby Bonus.

mike65

Maybe it was most remote with a population of a million+ (random guess)

Mike.

Thrill

Victor wrote: »

By what calculation? What about Honoululu?

Mike65 may be right. A google has brought up sites which say it is. It's not what I would have thought myself.

http://claremontglobetrotters.blogspot.com/2007/11/most-remote-city-in-world.html

How about this for remote.....

http://www.4to40.com/newsat4/index.asp?id=626



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Jo Fort, who has owned the Birdsville with her husband, Kym, for 27 years

Are those names not mixed up?

Crazy Aussies

RATM

Remember hearing before that something like 90% of Aussies live within 10 miles of the coast.

And if you've ever been to places in the Northern Territory like Tennant Creek and Alice Springs you'd understand why, barren desert with piss all vegetation is all that seems to be out that way. They boast about their 60,000 acre farms being some of the biggest in the world but thats only because they need to be that size for the animals to get enough grass. Poor feckin cows have to walk miles just to chew on a crappy tuft of sun burnt grass. They've even imported Middle Eastern camels to the Northern Territory cause they're so well suited to the climate and conditions which kinda says it all.

Fair play to the Aborgines for surviving in that kind of environment for the last 50,000 years, us Paddys would've died of dehydration chasing 'roos for dinner:D

Overheal

I dont know why they dont turn the continent into a giant solar energy farm to be honest. could start exporting to asia.

rossie1977

lake disappointment near the west coast

what they expected a lake but were disappointed when they didn't find one

rossie1977

to answer your question OP, there is not enough water to sustain a large city in the middle of the aussie desert. unlike huge cities in the states that have thrived in the middle of the mojave such as Phoenix and las vegas who have a constant supply of water from the melting of snow packed rocky mountains in colorado, utah, wyoming etc with peaks over 4000m high there is nothing like this in australia to sustain a growing city in the middle of nowhere

The Al Lad

There used to be people living there, but the crocodiles ate them all

Lirange

The thinly veiled homo-eroticism in Australia's faux macho mateship culture might have a little something to do with it.

Noffles

Perth... Actually WA in a whole seems to be in a time warp... it's like spending time in the bl**dy eighties... a total joke of a place that seems to wallow in it's "we're different" lifestyle. And to anyone thats from the "developed" world they're lost... bollox of a hole... avoid!!!!!!!!

Agamemnon

The country actually has a much larger population than is generally known. It's just that most of the kids are locked up in cellars.

Oh wait - Australia...

The Al Lad

Noffles wrote: »

Perth... Actually WA in a whole seems to be in a time warp... it's like spending time in the bl**dy eighties... a total joke of a place that seems to wallow in it's "we're different" lifestyle. And to anyone thats from the "developed" world they're lost... bollox of a hole... avoid!!!!!!!!

Ever hear of tourettes syndrome ???

Noffles

The Al Lad wrote: »

Ever hear of tourettes syndrome ???

I have yes..? Why do you ask?

Chakar

There are restrictions on immigration into Australia, the White Australia policy. It's mostly to prevent an substantial Asian minority in Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

thefinalstage

latenia wrote: »

Unfortunately, Australia, even with its current population, is completely unsustainable and unviable as a country. Check out some articles about their current problems with drought and farming. (I'm heading out now so I don't have time to check.)
Did you never wonder why, with some of the world's most populous nations so close by and within easy reach, that Australia was never colonised en-masse by Asians? They knew better than us, in much the same way that native Americans never settled in areas of the US affected by hurricanes.
Far from seeing more cities being built, I can see the country degenerating into a Mad-Max style wasteland by 2050. (seriously)

And I shall be there with my cane beating down the youngsters!

Xavi6

Victor wrote: »

That section is the Nullarbor Plain. "Nullarbor" means something like "nothing grows there". Its a desert.

By what calculation? What about Honoululu?

Pretty sure it's based on the distance between it and the next recognised 'city'. 99% sure Perth is the most isolated in the world. Great place though.

Mahatma coat

Perth is great alright 'Deadly Buzz' as we used ta say.


there are a few areas left that have the potential to maintain larger cities, the Ord river area springs to mind as does the whole Central coast, and here in QLD anywhere along the coast, Cairns and Townsville are growing rather quickly and other towns like Bundaberg and Rockhampton are becoming larger.

course theres still feck all in the Outback, Mt Isa is probably one of the biggest, then places like Longreach and Roma.

however a quick look at the problems in the Murray-Darling basin would give a very good insight into the problems here in Australia