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Aussies, inland sea for Australia?

In view of the oceans getting saltier with time and your need for water, could you build a canal or conduit from the sea into your central dry area? You would be taking salt out of the oceans and at the same time, perhaps, benefit from the evaporation and rains from this sea water.
China is building a huge pipeline from SE Asia to Beijing for water. Why not similar for Australia? Use Solar Power or wave action to power the water flow into some low lying central area.
Eventually, mine the salt.
A dream I just had.

It would be cheaper to do pipe the water from dams in the tropics down to the southern cities. We already have major salt evaporation and collection facilities in northern Western Australia. There was a proposal back in the eighties to dam the Fitzroy river in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. During the wet season enough water flows through that river to fill up Sydney Harbour every three minutes. The plan was to dam the Fitzroy floodplain in three different places. They would then pipe the water first to Perth, then across the Nullabor plain to Adelaide and the major cities of east coast. However it was never put into action because of the environmental lobby and the huge construction and maintenance expense. So now of course we have every major city building desalination plants instead.

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