https://cottonaustralia.com.au/cotton-grower-association lists the names of the office holders of 14 of the cotton growers associations in Australia. All the names are Anglo or Irish.

david f,

Yes aren't they now ........ just like Cubbie Station for example.

Do you really think they will advertise their presence and activities in Australia in great big yellow Chinese characters on a red background? Not what one would exactly call good advertising strategy if one wants to keep his activities hidden from the public.

You need to start thinking critically rather than relying on your rote learning skills that got you through mathematics.

Paranoia does without or rationalizes a lack of evidence for its delusions.

What a ridiculous statement David F. Obviously from a city boy.

A friend of mine, near retirement is the third generation farming 1600 acres of black soil treeless plane near Jandowae. Dry land, mostly grain farming, in his young years one one good crop every 3 years gave them a reasonable living. Today the economics of farming is less good, & they require one good crop every 2 years to make a living.

Due to our variable rainfall is is not reasonable to expect a good crop every 2 years. They have experimented with a number of crops, but the only thing that has kept their farm viable is cotton. This is dry land cotton, so requires better rainfall than wheat, but is so much more profitable than any thing else they can find, just one successful crop in 4 years, of just 250 acres of cotton, along with about 800 of grain, in rotation gives them a living.

They only plant cotton when they have high soil moisture from a good season, & the prospect, [la nina], of good rains.

Not only is cotton very profitable, it has very deep roots that penetrate deep, opening up the soil, allowing much deeper penetration of rain. He tells me you can see by the stronger wheat, which part of the paddock had cotton in it last year, even with a failed cotton crop.

I suggest you gather more facts in future before making such fearless statements, that cotton should not be grown in Oz

"From death comes life."

From cataclysm comes construction - bang to supernovas to elements to fabric order, orbit, collision, eruption, aqua-comets, cooling, settling, attraction, repulsion, electromagnetism, cosmic dust and - sunrise.

From amino-acid primordial soup comes single-celled bacteria;
From cell collision and combination comes 'evolution';
From algal photosynthesis comes oxygen atmosphere - and iron ore;
From competition comes versatility and exploration - Aqua to Terra;
From marine deaths comes oil, from forest deaths comes coal;
From eruption comes igneous, from tectonic comes titans, from aqua comes rain, rivers, waterfalls, gorges, lakes, erosion and sediment;
From sediment comes prehistory;
From Coelacanth to Dinosaur to Mammalia to Hominid and bird-song;
From opportunity comes horizons;
From life comes death, from death - resurrection;
From ignorance comes dawn; from conceit comes conflict; from competition comes exploitation; from exploitation comes turmoil; from turmoil comes revision - or annihilation.

The age of excess, entitlement, ambition, individualism, competition, corruption, enlightenment and confusion, technology and abuse, glory and dysfunction, love and hate, aggrandizement and deprivation, place and displacement, prospect and turmoil, and - a new awakening or a setting sun?

Life - is in our hands.

Saltpetre,

I see you're into Big History.