TASK FOR A NATION
NORTHERN AUSTRALIA, published by Angus and Robertson, Australian price 19 6. ‘THIs important volume contains the papers read, and the report of dis- ' cussion of them, at the 1954 Summer | School of the Australian~ Institute of | Political Science. The. sub-title is "A Qe Task for a Nation," the task being the development of Northern Australia-a million square miles of territory occupied by only 100,000 Australians set over against the teeming millions of south-east Asia. The contributors include men with expert knowledge of the mineral resources, the pastoral industries and agricultural potentialities, the transport requirements of the area, and of the administrative, political, social _ and financial aspects of the problems of development. In a short review one can insert only a couple of points. A proposal brought | forward by Mr. J. N. Nelson, member -~--- ---- --- for Northern Territory in the Common- _ wealth Parliament, is to alter the existing State and Territory boundaries to form a new State of North Queensland, with a southern boundary about Lat. 22° South and a west boundary to include the Barkly Tablelands; to add to South Australia the part of the Territory south of about 20° South Lat., which includes
the Alice Spring region; and to add te the remainder of the Territory the portion of West Australia north of Lat. 20° South. A suggestion designed to attract capital for the development of the Territory is made by Mr. W. A. Leslie, Chairman of the Northern Rehabilitation Committee. The proposal is that all territory north of the 26th Parallel in West Australia, the whole of the Northern Territory, and an area in Queensland to be defined shall be declared a tax-free area for a period of 20 years for all wage and salary earners, and that businesses, of whatever kind, shall have 60 per cent of their income free of tax, and the remainder also taxfree provided it is-invested in the area. This volume, of 250 pages, with its dozen essays, a score of relevant illustrations, and 13 excellent maps, provides in convenient form for Australians a comprehensive survey of an urgent and
formidable task.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 14
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