Geoffrey Blainey’s famous reference to ‘the tyranny of distance’ — the title of his 1966 history — may resonate less today than it did with previous generations of Australians. In a world of increasingly rapid international transport and almost instantaneous communications, the sense of isolation has markedly decreased in recent decades, although Covid travel restrictions resurrected an historical consciousness of remoteness.
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