Future
The United Kingdom's entry into the European Common Market in the 1970s saw the death of the dairy industry almost overnight. Irregular rainfall forced an end to dry land farming. The twenty-first century finds the land described by John Uniake gone. It's inundated by the Lake Awoonga constructed to meet Gladstone's growing water demands. The valley is slipping back to its pastoral beginnings. It looks to tourism as a focus for its next wave of development.
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