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Tourism sign post in Yalgoo, Western Australia. The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.The Outback is more remote than the bush.While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the ...
The Tourist Information Centre is located on the Mitchell Highway at The Back 'O Bourke Exhibition Centre. [28] In 1892 a young writer Henry Lawson was sent to Bourke by the Bulletin editor J. F. Archibald to get a taste of outback life and to try to curb his heavy drinking.
His vision was to create a memorial to the explorers, overlanders, pioneers and settlers of outback Australia. This dream was shared by other outstanding Australians, including the legendary R. M. Williams. [1] Longreach was chosen as the location because of its historical role as a stock route junction and because of its current transport ...
Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia. In its narrowest sense it describes a region that is limited to the town of Alice Springs and its immediate surrounds including the MacDonnell Ranges. Commonly, it refers to an area up to 600 km ...
Winton is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia. [4] [5] [6] It is 177 kilometres (110 mi) northwest of Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset.
Headquartered in Alice Springs, it's an example of how community involvement can improve outcomes for Australia's Indigenous people, The Purple House CEO Sarah Brown told Reuters in an interview.
The Channel Country is a region of outback Australia mostly in the state of Queensland but also in parts of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The name comes from the numerous intertwined rivulets that cross the region, which cover 150,000 km². [ 3 ]
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