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Australia is the sixth-largest country on Earth. But 87% of its population is crammed onto just 5% of the land — a narrow coastal strip — while an area larger than Western Europe sits almost entirely empty behind it.

The easy explanation is "it's all desert." But the interior generates trillions in mining wealth, sits above massive freshwater reserves, and sustained human life for 65,000 years. So why did we never build the infrastructure to let people live there?

The answer goes back to 1788 — and the decisions made since then explain why the housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and dying regional towns aren't separate problems. They're all symptoms of the same system.

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