The Referendum result showed that the country people wore standing solidly for reform, most of the country lestorates returning 3 Substantial "Yes" majority. This is but another instance of the growing political consciousness of the counfryman, whowe growing. intransigeance in' such matters isa wholesome
that Australia is atill a country for Feminder to our tap-heary cities the pioneer. From time to time an item of news tums our thoughts to the'romance' of our sill unexplored paces and. potential wealth. forced descent of Sir Charles (then Captain) Kingsford Smith inthe uninhabited spaces of the north West, a few years ago, the intensive search for him, a search which cost 'Australia. the' life of at least one of her finest young airmen, made tis study the map of that. region with a greater interest. But there is, as Mr. Donald Mackay has just Pointed out, ina Press interview, "The necessity to put central Austr tio on the map by aerial surve Me. Mackay has already render great service to the Commonwealth in this regard, for his first aerial survey in 1930 corrected many eryors in topography—and most important. of all for these adventurous souls who still penetrate the interior in search 1 Dorado—ko found water where none was thought tovexist.. For the history of Auscruian. exploration is landmarked. by the tragedy of those who succumbed death by. thirst, Which took.a heavier toll than even. the hostile aborigines. Tu his present expedition, Mr. Mackay intends: to. range over an area of two bundyed thou Sand square miles—about half that of Banchuria—with @ base camp at the north end of the Peterman Ranges, four hundred miles west of Alice Springs—a great tract of land Where the Northern Territory ad-opposed to the principles of civilised freedom," and "condemning the persecution of Jewish and other citizens, in Germany has been forwarded to the Federal Government for tran mission to the Imperial Government. 'Thera has been a noticeable revival the anti-German, feeling which has been dying out in the last few years, although the visit of thr German' cruiser Koln—the first German warship to enter Sydney harbour since the War—was reed ed cordially and with a good deal of interest by the public, Mentioning Bishop Mowll, and connection with his. recent appoint ment as Archbishop of Sydney, it is interesting to note that there is a general feeling that is his experience {fn the East will be of the greatest Value in cur community—still another piece of evidence that the Australian wants to becom the circumstances of hi relative isolation. from the centres of eivilisation—make it difficult for him to become so.
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