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Content: It's soils and geology are no more attractive and many parts were desert before they
 became mineral and agricultural freehold land. Now they produce an abundance of food, fibres, oil and minerals. On leasehold land however, the grazier has no incentive to maintain or improve the capital value of the land. In fact there is often a disincentive to improve the productivity of leasehold land. It arises because of misguided policies to encourage closer settlement. Under these policies, any grazier who improves his land is likely to have it resumed for sub-division to closer settlement. He may or may not be paid full value for his improvements. His lazy neighbour, however, who merely harvests the land with no improvement to
 its capital value, is safe from seizure because the poor carrying capacity would not support sub-division. Graziers learn these lessons well, often at great cost. Charles Russell, a great pastoralist, pioneer, developer and patriot from Jimbour in Queensland had this to say: