About 20 years ago, a seat-warming Senator came out of hiding and declared his thought bubble that Australia’s coast was getting overpopulated and that Australians should consider populating the centre of the country. I challenged the hapless Senator to lead ‘by example’ and set up home in the Simpson Desert.
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