Australia
she needed. Now, however, Australia is also important manufacturing country; she
makes for herself many of the goods, machinery, chemicals and clothing that she
needs.
Many raw materials needed for industry are available in the country but it is
upon the development of power that Australia has made her rapid industrial
expansion. The chief source of power is coal mined in the Sydney Coal
Basin.Newcastle is the largest provincial town in Australia and Wollongong with Port
Kembia the second. Sydney produces metal goods, chemicals, cloth, electrical
equipment, building and household goods and foodstuff. Melbourne, Geelong,
Ballarat and Bendigo have similar industries to those of Sydney and also make motor-
cars and agricultural machinery. Electricity is generated in power stations burning
brown coal from the huge open cut workings at Yallourn.
Hydro-electricity provides an increasing amount of Australia's power and
Tasmania generates more than half of it
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