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The political boundary between Victoria and South Australia has passed through two stages during which its significance as a landscape feature has differed distinctly. In the colonial period, 1851–1901, it was legally an international boundary with the capacity to regulate the movement of persons, goods, capital, even ideas. But because the boundary separated two British colonies rather than two independent national states, such powers were not strictly performed. Nevertheless the boundary did present sufficient obstacles to the development of the border zone that border residents became the strongest supporters, in the 1890's, of the federal movement which promised a decrease in the boundary's functional power. Since 1901 the boundary has possessed a much-reduced capacity to influence the landscape which it traverses. It no longer poses a direct barrier to movement and communication between states, although studies of business and social interaction between towns in the two states indicate that the boundary acts indirectly as a deterrent. In the federal period, the main significance of the boundary has been its role as the line by which the differing administrative policies of the two state governments are areally limited and at which the different results of such policies are most clearly witnessed in the landscape. There are no indications of a radical future change in the boundary's present functions and landscape significance.
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