Ah, "The Tyranny of Distance".  While many are the readers who are likely to have read, or at least heard of, Geoffrey Blainey's eponymous 1966 history book,  just as many may not be familiar with the book title's subjective, relative  meanings, or its nuances and varied, variable contexts.  And these can be many.  Yet the fulcrum upon which all these tyrannical propositions operate is the sum of  the difficulties and disadvantages posed by Australia's, geographical, long distances.   We could, for instance, in today's discussions about energy, posit that neither the Northern Territory, nor Western Australia, will ever able to cooperate  and economically participate in Australia's ...