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Journal Article

Author
Drake-Brockman, G.
Title
Presidential address [1941] - The North of Australia
In
Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
Imprint
vol. 13, no. 4, 1941, pp. 81-87
Description

Retiring President's address by Lieut.-Col. G. Drake-Brockman, MC MIEAust, to the twenty-First Annual General Meeting of The Institution of Engineers, Australia. (Melbourne, Victoria, 17th March, 1941.)

Abstract

There are three outstanding and urgent issues of the North of Australia that need solutions: the lack of population; the unresolved aborigine question; and the need for major engineering work before settlement of the area can be assured. However the outbreak of war has forced these issues into the background. Engineers are concern how the work of their minds and their hands are now being used for destruction rather than for the benefit of civilisation, and how the Institution's efforts to help production, distribution and co-ordination during the war might be used to support development after the war.

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