The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 274: Chapter 247: Inspecting the West Australia Industrial Base_2

The mission of the Agriculture Departmt is relatively straightforward: organize the Indigous Peoples to continue cultivating land, and monitor grain prices both domestically and globally, to be ready for grain storage or dumping at any momt.

At prest, the Ministry of Education has a relatively heavy workload. In addition to expanding existing universities, it needs to increase the number of universities and technical schools to train more university studts and skilled workers for Australasia.

Ev the currt pace of university construction could be temporarily halted, to some extt, to make way for technical schools.

After all, technical professionals are vital for the developmt of industries right now, regardless of the industry.

The developmt of the medical sector is relatively methodical. The number of hospitals should not expand too much without sufficit medical talt, so the mission of the Ministry of Health is to attract more medical talt and keep a talt pool ready for major hospitals.

To resolve the shortage of medical professionals in Australasia, three universities have started to offer medical majors, training nearly six hundred medical professionals every year.

But these talts can only assist physicians. Without several years of experice, having them serve as attding doctors would harm the patits.

The work of the public security departmt is, comparably, quite relaxed. The rising developmt of Australasia has significantly reduced domestic crime.

In fact, most of the currt crimes are committed by immigrants. The order within Australasia has actually become quite stable.

In response to the high crime rate among immigrants, the Public Security Departmt, after consulting Arthur, has put forward appropriate solutions.

First, improve the treatmt of immigrants and find jobs and places to live for them as soon as possible, and sd them a certain amount of compsation.

Those who choose land will receive at least t acres. Those who do not want land will receive at least 0 Australian dollars in compsation and will be referred to either factories or other job positions.

Of course, there's punishmt as well as reward. Punishmt for criminal immigrants from the Security Departmt is very strict.

If it's a minor crime, immigrants could face at least one month of compulsory labor and a small fine too.

If such crimes are put on record, they might affect the verification and issuance of citizship. Without Australasian citizship, they can't befit from the welfare policies issued by differt departmts.

For serious crimes, punishmts from the Security Departmt range from a minimum of t years of compulsory labor to the most extreme punishmt: the death palty. This could also affect their family and frids.

However, one rule states that if they report their frids or family who are plotting or have committed a crime, it won't affect their immigration process.

If they are just ordinary frids, perhaps fridship undergoes scrutiny here. After all, the perks that come with Australasian citizship are substantial. These immigrants came to Australasia preparing for permant residce.

Actually, the most relaxed departmt currtly is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Because Australasia's main policy remains focused on self-developmt, they don't appear frequtly in international matters, except for a few countries with close relationships.

Australasia's impact is currtly limited to Southeast Asia, although it has gained considerable recognition in Europe.

Although Australasia doesn't currtly have the ability to reach Europe or influce European countries,

Australasia has built quite a reputation in Europe. Many immigrants oft consider Australasia as a pottial destination.

This owes thanks not only to Arthur's good reputation and support in Britain but also to the actions tak by the Portuguese governmt and Carlos I.

If it wer't for their determination, Australasia's reputation from the war wouldn't have be favorable.

Currtly, the only countries that have a good relationship with Australasia are Germany and Russia, and meanwhile, a superficially good relationship is maintained with the United Kingdom.

Aside from this, while diplomatic relations have be established with most of the Powers and numerous European nations, in reality, the links betwe them are not closely knit.

Australasia currtly only has two truly reliable and good "allies": Germany and Russia.

The most demanding sector is still the crucial industrial one.

Prestly, the scale of Australasia's industry is technically considered first-class among the Powers; however, its industrial foundation and backg are esstially still at a fledgling stage.

Supported by Britain and Germany, naturally, Arthur would not miss out on such a gold opportunity.

Therefore, Australasia's next step is to utilize the moderate backing from Britain and substantial support from Germany to thoroughly elevate Australasia's basic industry and other industries to the same level as the iron and steel industry, making Australia a bona fide industrial power in every aspect.

For this, the Ministry of Industry has specifically planned a new industrial area, or rather, an industrial base.

The new industrial base is located at the border betwe Western Australia and South Australia. Its proximity to the mineral resources in the west provides very favorable conditions for industrial developmt.

The only problem is transportation, but the Ministry of Industry has already agreed with the Ministry of Transportation that the railway here will directly connect to the Southern Industrial Railway and the Northern Railway in the north. Railways will be intersecting from the south to the north, instantly resolving the transportation issue.

Currtly, Australasia's main industrial bases are located in the southeastern part of Australia and the Northern regions of New Zealand, as these two regions are respectively the best parts of Australia and New Zealand, also the most populous and economically prosperous areas.

For Australasia, developing industry is not that difficult. More oft, the limitations are insufficicies in population and labor.

This in turn has led most of Australasia's industrial areas to be located in the eastern and southeastern vital regions of Australia and North Island of New Zealand.

But mineral resources in these two regions are limited in variety and this is an important factor constraining diversified developmt in Australasia's industry.

The selection of the new industrial base at the border of Western Australia and South Australia aims to overcome the previously limiting factor of limited types of mineral resources.

Although the population in Western Australia and Southern Australia is not that pltiful, the Ministry of Industry is determined to make a change this time a.

For this, the Australasian Governmt will allocate at least two hundred thousand Indigous peoples. Since there is a labor shortage, they will make use of the Indigous population to compsate for this.

Add to this the t of thousands Australasian workers it is believed that the newly selected industrial base will soon catch up to the scale of the previous old industrial areas. After all, this is currtly Australasia's key project and the next important task for the Ministry of Industry.

So as to emphasize the importance of this industrial base, and also because there was not much else to do these past few days.

On January , 908, Arthur embarked on a journey to Western Australia, to personally inspect the newly chos industrial base.

Due to the presce of the industrial railway, it only takes two days to reach the border of Western Australia and South Australia, and th by car to the new industrial base.

At the industrial base, Arthur will inspect for a day. If progress goes smoothly, he should be able to return to Sydney before National Day, and also participate in this year's National Day activities.

As Australasia is developing better year by year, the National Day activities of Australasia are giv more importance each year.

Typically, on National Day, all the shops and workshops will offer discounts, celebrating this grand national holiday.

Especially on this day, the bright Australasian national flag will be spread throughout all the villages and cities nationwide, exemplifying the people's love for their country.