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...dingo-proof fence on the Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful of Darnum, Victoria; and Rory Callinan met the crocodile-shooting, yarn-spinning "Wolf" Arneth of Normanton, Queensland. Our stories are brought to life by some of Australia's finest photographers: Ross Bird, Paul Blackmore, Stephen Dupont, Randy Larcombe, Trent Parke, David Dare Parker, Peter Solness and Robert Young...
...dingo-proof fence on the Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful of Darnum, Victoria; and Rory Callinan met the crocodile-shooting, yarn-spinning "Wolf" Arneth of Normanton, Queensland. Our stories are brought to life by some of Australia's finest photographers: Ross Bird, Paul Blackmore, Stephen Dupont, Randy Larcombe, Trent Parke, David Dare Parker, Peter Solness and Robert Young...
...km/h limit. "We tell people, Stop the car, get out, walk into the bush and you'll be amazed at what you find," says Rae Edwards, owner of the Kalbarri Wildflower Centre. A big part of her job is teaching people how to look. "If you see a bird or bee on a bush, it's a clue there are flowers...
...Look at that," Wallace says. "Isn't it weird lookin'?" He's brought his visitor to the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens, where his spider collection (300 of Australia's 1,500-plus species) now resides. "That's a bird-eater. A big one can eat a frog in five hours: it sucks the juices in and out." He points to a cluster of brown pods. "They're egg sacs. Each one might have 500 tiny spiders in it. They crawl out, let out a bit of silk and float away...
...above the Nullarbor, close to the South Australian border-Eucla has a work ethic that could put many city folk to shame. As well as an industrious roadhouse, police station, meteorological office and quarantine center, the 50-resident village is a hub for shark fishing and starling shooting (the bird is considered a pest in Western Australia). "We're either sleeping or working," says local mechanic Rodney Fowler, 60, proudly wearing his eucla spirit of the desert windcheater...