Dr Anton Breinl and The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine

Abstract

One of the inconvenient features about Australia, when it was first settled, was the irrefutable fact that 40% of the country lay in the tropics, and most of the rest was subtropical. How could one colonize with white colonists a continent which all conventional wisdom regarded, as far as its tropical part was concerned, as likely to prove deadly to the Colonists and to their descendants?