Why is Australia so dry compared to other continents?

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Im interested to know why Australia seems to have the largest continuous area of arid land (probably being the Sahara), and very little of it is green, arable land? I assume a lot of it has to do with weather patterns, but I’d love to know the specifics. Thanks!

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Between Antarctica and Australia, South America and South Africa there is just open ocean meaning the winds can circulate around Antarctica uninterrupted which changes the climate of Australia and if the ice melts in the Arctic and creates a similar gap in the oceans it could happen in the north as well and we might lose the largest area of forest in the world the Taiga. https://youtu.be/B3vcZZvvSmk

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