
Australia 2007
Yearbook 2007 Australia. To combat the perennial drought in Australia and increase water levels, Prime Minister John Howard in January allocated the equivalent of SEK 58 billion over a ten-year period that would go to the country's most important rivers, Murray and Darling, among others. Control of this over-exploited river system, which is used to irrigate over 70 percent of the country's crops, would be taken over by the federal authorities. Howard would also invest SEK 41.5 billion on, among other things, new water pipes to reduce water leakage. According to abbreviationfinder: AU is the 2-letter acronym for the country of Australia. According to CountryAAH, Canberra is the capital city of Australia. The annual climate report from the country's meteorological institute showed in January that global warming is affecting Australia…