Great southern land

The geopolitics of Australia.

Typus Orbis Terrarum ("Theatre of the Lands of the World" showing Terra Australis Nondum Cognita as the large continent at the bottom), Abraham Ortelius, 1570, Antwerp.

In this week’s Not in Dispatches, we take a look at the world’s oldest, driest, smallest, flattest, most infertile and climatically unpredictable continent – and our home country, Austral…