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Makes the interesting point that the widespread adoption of the car post-WWII is not the only reason why Aussie cities are so car dependent. Another reason is that the State and Federal governments' post-WWII home building programmes bought large tracts of land where they were cheapest, i.e., on the outskirts of established population centres. Land and housing economics also caused our widespread car dependency.