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Australia Can
Learn from Sweden
On Decentralisation
SYDNEY, Wednesday.
Emphasising the evil results in
Australia of centralised industry in
an address at the Sydney University
to-day, the Senior Lecturer in Economics
(Mr. H. D Black) said that
Australia had a great deal to learn
from Sweden about decentralisation,
With the same population as ours!
Sweden, in its two largest cities, had
only 500,000 and" 200,000 people. Sydney
had gone far beyond the maximum
population for its position.
Mr. Black said that prior to the
war almost all Australian' industry
was along a half-moon strip stretch-
ing from just north of Brisbane to
Whyalla in South Australia, but now
the process of decentralisation was
well under way.
During the last 12 months, 72 textile
factories had been established in
country towns. There was almost no
absenteeism in country factories because
conditions were so much better
than those in the city.
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