Why Australia’s abnormal population distribution costs us greatly

By Matt Canavan, Queensland Nationals Senator and Minister for Resources and Northern Australia
Updated November 17 2016 - 6:55pm, first published November 15 2016 - 8:00pm
The abnormal distribution of Australia's population costs the nation greatly, says Nationals senator for Queensland and minister for resources and northern Australia Matt Canavan.
The abnormal distribution of Australia's population costs the nation greatly, says Nationals senator for Queensland and minister for resources and northern Australia Matt Canavan.

NORTHERN Australia makes up 40 per cent of Australia but there is no city there that can be called a “middle city”, or a city of more than 500,000 people. That is a sobering fact for me as the minister for northern Australia. Why is it that 228 years since British settlement we have failed to truly settle the north?

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