State Library South Australia's video: Desert Conquest

Reproduced courtesy of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Use for any purpose requires written permission from the AMP and the State Library of South Australia. The story of how the AMP, by a scheme of mass clearing and scientific development, transformed over a quarter of a million acres of mallee scrub in South Australia into rich pasture holdings. The land development scheme covered areas of what was known as the Ninety-Mile Desert in the upper south-east of South Australia, near the town of Coonalypn. Reproduced from the collections of the State Library of South Australia. Read an article about background to the film and its significance http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=991&c=44290 State Library catalogue record https://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:443/record=b1186094~S1