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ant wrote:
> 
> Tim O'Flaherty wrote in message ...
> >Expand the subject,  What does live there?
> >
> 
> 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.
> 
> ant