Australia
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. Industries requiring much electricity zinc,
aluminium and paper industries for example, are important in Tasmania.
In 1851 there was a goldrush in Victoria. In ten years the population rose from
405 000 to 1 146 000. At first this brought confusion and lawlessness but order was
gradually restored and in the end Australia gained many benefits
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