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Tim O'Flaherty wrote in message ...
>Expand the subject,  What does live there?
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well if we are talking about the arid parts of Australia, most of the area
is ruled out as there is the great artesian basin that supplies drinking
and agricultural water for about 2 million people, the rest of Australia's
arid regions are no where near as dry as places like the share or that
south American desert in the rain shadow of the Andes, our arid areas
receive around 250mm  to 500mm of rain a year, thus making them slightly
less desert like then we would like ot imagine, one part of the desert has
the highest density of reptile life anywhere on the planet, and many of
these "useless" desert areas have not been developed for stock so they are
effectively pristine wilderness areas with high global biodiversity
importance. Australia is not really suited as a site for a long term
nuclear waste dump, much of our continental rocks are sedimentary in origin
and what is not is in areas that are economically or environmentally
significant. not to maintain the overwhelming public hostility to the idea
of building an international nuclear waste dump in Australia, electoral
suicide according to the polls and no politician wants to lose office.

the Australian public is strongly opposed to all nuclear technology, we
only have one small research reactor that was built in the 1950's and that
has caused enough problems and public hostility as have our uranium mines.


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