Jack Fletcher came to Western Australia in 1965 with the grand ambition of turning the Fitzroy River Valley in the Kimberley into a foodbowl that could sustain the nation through any drought. The true value of the Fitzroy river is in the huge volumes of available fresh water. When the Fitzroy is in peak flow, the equivalent of the contents of the Sydney harbour flow into the ocean every nine minutes. As Jack Fletcher loves to say "World population pressures will not let the Kimberley remain a park".
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