The unmarked areas are reserved for public projects, but all green marked areas are for sale. Prices are listed for each parcel, and you can buy as much as you want."
The green marked areas were mostly uninhabited deserts, wastelands, hills, barren land, and swamps.
These areas couldn't be used for farming or grazing, so nobody really wanted them.
As for the price?
Depending on the area, the cost ranged from 3 to 6 Australian dollars per hectare.
Cheap, right? Not really.
In later years, an Australian ranch owner sold 11 million hectares of land for 325 million Australian dollars.
At that rate, it's 30 Australian dollars per hectare.
And that was in 2015, and the land was pasture suitable for cattle grazing.
Now it's 1948, and at 3 to 6 Australian dollars per hectare, it shows that land appreciation in Australia is incredibly slow, making it a poor investment.
