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Fiona Mitchell has to make the difficult decisions when something goes medically wrong on the remote Northern Territory station “Newcastle Waters”. As the wife of the manager Angus Mitchell, Fiona is required by station owner Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) to undertake advanced first-aid training. The nearest town of Elliott, 25 kilometres away, has a doctor on rotation just...

Photo-journalist Don Fuchs spends much of his work time shooting hospital buildings for the NSW Department of Health, which is just about as far away as you can get – both geographically and in terms of the subject matter – from the images featured here. There’s no doubting which he prefers. Don, a Bavarian who came to Australia in 1995, has been photographing Australia for...

Amid the lush green pastures of Sassafras, in northern Tasmania, poultry farmer Robert Nichols is hatching a bold plan for rural revival – a plan that would see agricultural communities assume control of energy production and distribution. Fresh from overseas travels as part of a Nuffield scholarship, Robert can see a time in the not-too-distant future when community-owned and managed...

Rowan Peart sits on an exposed rock ledge about a third of the way up a dramatic sandstone formation called The Outhouse. From his lofty lookout the sweeping view continues over a wide valley rimmed by flat-topped, dark ranges. The mountains form a stark contrast to the golden grassland, interspersed by green islands of bush, at the valley floor. Only straight fence lines, distant dams, the...

Some camels lead pretty easy lives these days, when you consider what their forebears went through. Australia’s first ‘ships of the desert’ were imported in the 1840s to plod into the great unknown, weighed down by flour bags, picks, shovels and other burdensome cargo that our early explorers needed to help them tame the wild interior. By comparison, the 40 dromedaries at...

Bare Sand Island, 50 kilometres west of Darwin, is an unlikely marine treasure. Each year about 30,000 turtles hatch from nests on the aptly named grassy stretch of sand less than two kilometres in circumference. From 1945 to 1979 Bare Sand Island, along with nearby Quail and Little Quail islands, was bombed and strafed by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for target practice, however...