Why is Australia so overwhelmingly dry when nearby places like Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Tasmania are all so wet and lush?

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Why is Australia so overwhelmingly dry when nearby places like Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Tasmania are all so wet and lush?

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Australia gets older a you move West. So the mountains are long gone. Some surface rocks in Western Australia are some of the oldest in the world.

No mountains/lakes means nothing to cause rain

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