Australia ranks only 23rd in the world by irrigated land area The Bradfield scheme would go far to reducing the 25 per cent official unemployment rate in outback Queensland The scheme could drought-proof 15 per cent of Queenland Australia has lost the vision of undertaking grand engineering schemes since the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme and now ranks 23rd in the world of countries by irrigated land area, with Iran having nearly four times greater irrigated l…
