Sleep Story 241 – South Australia and Western Australia
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The Violent Fraud of the Australian Land Agency
The system of auction, when it did come to prevail in the sale of crown lands, was found to produce the grossest abuses. Men constituted themselves as land agents, with the express purpose of exacting blackmail from those who are really desirous of purchasing. As a rule, twenty cents an acre has been the normal price fixed in these colonies generally. The act required that the money produced by the sale of lands should be employed in bridging immigrants into the country. But this arrangement has again gone to the wall and the money produced is now so much revenue at the disposal of the House of Assembly.
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