(by UK Daily Mail columnist Max Hastings)

Maybe you have never heard of a place called Gladstone - nor had I, before flying through there last week. It is a port town, population 30,000, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

From the air, it looks mighty ugly with long, dirty black fingers of conveyor belts stretching from shore to the shipping berths; industrial plants belching dust and smoke; wounds gaping everywhere in the yellow earth, hacked by new construction.

Yet, from this unpromising place pours forth a cornucopia of commodities of the kind which are making Australia rich: bauxite, wood chips, salt, cement, and above all coal, 46 million tons a year, scheduled to rise to 75 million.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnis...or_id=464&in_check=N

Interesting !!

Were you there on business?

Tessa

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I wasn't there, Tessa - the chap who wrote the article was!

Best regards.