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.
Read more about this topic: Boyne Valley (Queensland)
Famous quotes containing the word future:
“The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)