Word: outbacker
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...dinner to serious re-creations of the desert treks of the past. They're on menus and in museums, and camel racing draws large crowds to tiny towns whose individual populations usually struggle to reach three digits. There's no better way to get close to the outback than on camelback...
...getting to my camel camp of choice run by Explore the Outback (www.austcamel.com.au/explore.htm) turned out to be a trek in itself. I hitched a ride on the twice-weekly mail truck from the South Australian opal-mining town of Coober Pedy to Warriner, a long-abandoned railway depot in the middle of nowhere. "You'll be all right with Phil," the cheerful driver assured me. "He's a bit of a bushie." It wasn't a reference to his foot-long beard. Wearing a check shirt and a tall, rabbit-felt hat, trek leader Phil Gee looked the part...
Instead of worrying about individual species, environmentalists should worry primarily about entire ecosystems. The pig-tailed bandicoot had no mourners. But the ecosystem in the entire Australian outback is the concern of millions of people. It is in our best interest to preserve large swaths of wilderness and thereby save as many species as possible. It plays to human self-interest because a diversity of species makes land and sea more productive in the long-term. Many conservation groups have been involved in drives to buy up tracts of wilderness to preserve them from rapacious corporations. Such efforts (which Wilson...
...everyone who forges a career in fashion magazines is always immaculately groomed. At the whim of a stylist, who envisaged a “boho-chic” shoot surrounded by red desert sands, we drove 15 hours from Sydney to a town in the middle of the Australian outback incidentally made famous as the location where the drag-queen epic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was filmed. Staying at the only available “hotel” (a run-down pub known affectionately to the bushie locals as “Mario?...
...Quiet American, an acute adaptation of Grahame Greene's Vietnam novel with a lovely performance by Michael Caine; and Rabbit-Proof Fence, about aboriginal girls abducted into white families. Doyle's cinematography is a work of art?you have never seen a Saigon night so seductively menacing, an Outback sky quite that shade of blue?but it is not, alas, Hong Kong...