Planned and Unplanned Changes in the Marginal Lands of South Australia

Australian Geographer

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1976, Pages 271-281

  Williams, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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EID: 0017203270     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049187608702703     Document Type: Article

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2. For a comprehensive appraisal of the dairy industry see the papers collected in C. D. Throsby (ed.): Agricultural Policy. Penguin, Ringwood, Vic. 1972, pp. 243-94.
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5. Goyder's Line was never surveyed east of the River Murray (see Figure 1). In 1887 the Line was projected south of the Pinnaroo District. The Line was regarded as a firm basis for land evaluation yet the desire to promote new agricultural settlement was so strong during the early years of this century that it was officially moved north and clear of the favourable Pinnaroo District before it was settled in 1906.
6. South Australian Parliamentary Debates: House of Assembly, 2 July 1882, Col. 303.
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22. M. Williams: Stability and simplicity in rural areas: The example of the Pinnaroo District of South Australia. Geografiska Annaler, 54B, 1972, pp. 117-35.
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