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Specifically northern western Australia and northern Northern Territory and western Queensland. I know they have one of the more bizarre climates, but it should still be available for some agriculture, correct? However, there are many other places on the globe with harsher climates yet alot of people live there.
How is the land price in these areas? How many natural resources are there? What is the groundwater/aquifers like? Would it be hard to build infrastructure in these areas?
People say space is the next frontier, but I think northern Australia could be a more accessible one.
Specifically northern western Australia and northern Northern Territory and western Queensland. I know they have one of the more bizarre climates, but it should still be available for some agriculture, correct? However, there are many other places on the globe with harsher climates yet alot of people live there.
How is the land price in these areas? How many natural resources are there? What is the groundwater/aquifers like? Would it be hard to build infrastructure in these areas?
People say space is the next frontier, but I think northern Australia could be a more accessible one.
There is already a fairly large irrigation project in northern WA, but that hasn't transitioned into large population growth. Perhaps as population distribution begins to be influenced more by the emerging markets of Asia rather than historical preferences, that may change.
There is already a fairly large irrigation project in northern WA, but that hasn't transitioned into large population growth. Perhaps as population distribution begins to be influenced more by the emerging markets of Asia rather than historical preferences, that may change.
Specifically northern western Australia and northern Northern Territory and western Queensland. I know they have one of the more bizarre climates, but it should still be available for some agriculture, correct? However, there are many other places on the globe with harsher climates yet alot of people live there.
How is the land price in these areas? How many natural resources are there? What is the groundwater/aquifers like? Would it be hard to build infrastructure in these areas?
People say space is the next frontier, but I think northern Australia could be a more accessible one.
The biggest capacity for growth is still coastal North Queensland, there is no reason why the likes of Cairns and Townsville could not grow to 1 million people.
Northwest WA similarly could support much more population, in the higher rainfall areas that is in the Kimberley.
The Pilbara has a very harsh climate, but the permanent population is not high despite high paying mining jobs up there - many still live in Southwest WA and commute.
Northwest Qld and that bordering the NT in the Gulf country is still predominantly cattle properties and farming, unlikely to change in the near future.
But as a whole, Northern Australia is grossly underdeveloped.
Yep, though those flimsy wooden buildings wouldn't have lasted anyway, it was bound to happen sooner or later...
As to the OP, this question has been asked many times...
The first thing the Spanish did when we colonized the hurricane belt in the Americas was build houses and buildings out of stone and concrete silly Brits/Australians
And I'm sure it has. Darwin's the only northern city that has potential to develop into a major center, only because it's the capital of NT. If there was an economical way to build and maintain a large reservoir in the North, then it would become viable to develop Darwin further. Does Darwin have a deep water port, or has the potential to build docks to accommodate tankers? Because from what I can gleam from, Darwin is in a great location, but lacks the infrastructure to handle large cargo loads. I wonder if it's cheaper shipping to Darwin and then putting cargo on a freight train to southern Australia or just going directly to Perth, Brisbane, and Sydney
Seems like most of Australia's trade is in Brisbane and Sydney and mostly dealing with USA, Canada, South Korea, and Japan. Seems like also there's a lot less "island dodging" to do from the east coast, as opposed to Darwin
Townsville is a bigger city than Darwin and would be more strategically placed for shipping. Well Darwin is pretty isolated, so you'd have to get your goods by road or rail once you reached Darwin, it's easier for ships just to dock in the bigger cities closer to the market. As for exports, particularly of resources, Port Hedland is the major container port in the north in Western Australia shipping a lot of raw materials to other countries.
Life in the hurricane/cyclone belt isn't too bad. Spent my younger years in the deep tropics at Broome's latitude, I'm still alive
Yes, the risks of living in a tropical cyclone belt in a 1st world country are not that high, warning systems and building codes are much better than what they used to be.
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silly Brits/Australians 
