as they discovered when we whipped butt in 1983 ...:)
and of course, we have oil, gold, diamonds, uranium, tantalum ....
one, if not THE longest natural gas pipeline ...
the oldest living fossils ...
they tell me you can see the rabbit-proof fence from space ...
provincialism is soooo restrictive, dont you think? I suspect parts of ex-USSR are bigger than Western Australia ... and they have much the same resources, if only they could get them out of the ground :) - maybe hitomi knows about this?
just DragonLady Rambling On ...
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