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Was talking to an American today and trying to describe some of the issues with size and remoteness we have monitoring/managing projects out bush. Like why we can't just offer bounties to people to round up feral cats in the Pilbara. Mate there's like 4 people out there...
he didn't get it until I told him we have 25mill people and the basically all live in three cities but in a country the size of the US.He went just kinda quiet for a minute and said...oh...we have like 600mill.
600 million ...lol
usa is 342 million
Well yes I did think that but I had already questioned him enough!!
You see it in the tourist threads where people are coming for two weeks and want to do the daintree, Brissy, Sydney, Melbourne and see a few sights around each city and maybe "pop" over to Perth.