The Great Boomerang

{{Short description|Book by Ion Idriess}}

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| author = Ion Idriess

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| genre = non-fiction

| publisher = Angus and Robertson

| release_date = 1941

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The Great Boomerang is a 1941 non-fiction book by Ion Idriess.

It contains his plans for developing the north of Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42323675 |title=THE "DEAD HEART" COUNTRY. |newspaper=Cairns Post |issue=12,426 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=18 December 1941 |accessdate=16 April 2016 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} Idriess proposed diverting rivers from Queensland to create an inland sea.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6EBM2a6R9igC&dq=idriess+%22great+boomerang%22&pg=PA147 Inter-Basin Water Transfer: Case Studies from Australia, United States, Canada, China and India by Fereidoun Ghassemi, Ian White, Cambridge University Press, 11 Jan. 2007 p 147]