3 April

I’ve posted a few times here about how the division between city and country is mostly fake. What we call the country is really just the extractive industries cities (where nearly all Australians live) use to extra the resources they need, to both use and sell. Nearly all country towns for example have a history as one of these extractive industries. Once that industry goes belly up, the town loses its entire reason to exist. At which point it tries desperately to be a tourist attraction. The urban planning equivalent of prostitution.