User blog comment:Callumthered/How is Australia?/@comment-4206034-20120305173922/@comment-4656717-20120307123019

While Australia may look big on a map, only the thin coastal strip is actually inhabitable by large numbers of people. Sure, Australia's population has room to grow, but also remember that Australia has generally four years of terrible, terrible drought, followed by four years of almost endless rain and floods.