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Spotchecks by Fayedizard Spotchecks for Muckaty Station using numbering revision [1] There are roughtly 55 cited sentances and we choose 8 randomly

Source says: "The land is semi-arid" and "The vegetation is low scrub" :)
Source says: "On 15 January 2004 the first freight train departed from Adelaide for the inaugural two-day journey to Darwin. " :)
This is the problem with randomly selecting sentences and defining a sentence as anything between two references... the sources support the text though...
  • 4 "Throughout the history of Australia's pastoral industry, Indigenous Australians were a major part of the workforce. In 1928 for example, 80 per cent of Indigenous people with jobs were employed on the stations, including Muckaty, with many living on and travelling across the pastoral leases.[5][6][7]"
The online sources support everything but the 1982 part. I'm happy to assume that the book covers that... :)
  • 5 "In 2009, the Australian government received a consultant's report that examined Muckaty Station as one of four possible sites for a nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory.[8]"
It's a bit of a primary source... but I don't think it would be controversial (be great to have someone look over my shoulder on this...
Source says: "flora and fauna species, especially ground fauna, are more typical of a desert

environment than the Top End." the list of species is also supported. :)

Source supports.
  • 8 "As Aboriginal Freehold land it is inalienable communal title, and cannot be bought or sold.[11]"
Source says: "This means it is privately

owned under a special freehold title. It is inalienable (cannot be bought, acquired or forfeited) and is granted as a communal title. " :)

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gray 1997, p. 14 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Munday, Jane (21 January 2005). "Completion of the Adelaide to Darwin railway line". Year Book Australia, 2005 (1301.0). Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
  3. ^ "McAdam goes out swinging over Muckaty dump". ABC News. 31 July 2008. Archived from the original on 27 June 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
  4. ^ Murdoch, Lindsay (27 February 2010). "Land owners out of mind, out of site". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Gray 1997, p. 57.
  6. ^ McLaren and Cooper 2001, pp. 162–178.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference NLC99 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Parsons Brinckerhoff 2009.
  9. ^ Parsons Brinckerhoff 2009, pp 83–84.
  10. ^ Parsons Brinckerhoff 2009, p. 77.
  11. ^ Parsons Brinckerhoff 2009b, p. 43.