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...based in Townsville; Michael Fitzgerald tracked down Doug Pekin, a dogger who maintains 500 km of 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...
...based in Townsville; Michael Fitzgerald tracked down Doug Pekin, a dogger who maintains 500 km of 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...
...thunderclap-at least that's what it sounded like-woke the whole of Normanton. Still in his pajamas, the police sergeant rushed to the river bank, where a group of local men-"practical jokers," says Wolfgang Arneth, who's telling the story-were drinking rum. "What are you silly bastards up to now?" the cop said. "We're going to be famous,'' came the reply. "We've sent a man into space...
...Arneth, a 70-year-old former crocodile hunter who goes by the name of Wolf, is reminiscing about the great Normanton rocket launch of 1957. He was among the party of inebriated amateur scientists gathered by the river that night. They'd heard on the radio that the Soviets had just put the Sputnik spacecraft into orbit. "We thought, We can build a rocket,'' Arneth says. Commandeering a welder, they made a long cylinder from three 44-gallon drums, then rigged up a nose cone from an old hopper. "They got an old car seat and put that...
...night train for London pulled out of Normanton station. Yorkshire, a little man with a greying, Chaplinesque mustache quietly took his seat. The other passengers, if they noticed him at all, certainly did not recognize Atomic Spy Alan Nunn May, for whose release over 30 reporters were at that moment waiting outside nearby Wakefield Prison (see PRESS...