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Truckers Darren Schneider and Rod Bryson couldn't have chosen a more dramatic place to stop. But having turned off the 90 Mile Straight, "Australia's Longest Straight Road," in the early hours of the morning en route from Melbourne to Perth, their three-carriage Kenworth inexplicably shuts down. A misty dawn reveals an endless vista of saltbush: They're bang in the middle of an ancient seabed stretching 700 km from South Australia's Head of the Bight west to Balladonia. Nullarbor translates as "no trees" in Latin, and for the moment the truckers are without a clue. "Usually...
...Having moved to Perth from New Zealand little over a year ago, Bryson, 48, is new to the Nullarbor. "The thing that struck me," he says, "is it's the same but different. There's always something a bit different down the road." Today he's especially struck by the tyranny of distance. From Ceduna to Esperance alone, he says, "this distance would get me the whole length of New Zealand...
...decade ago or thereabouts, Perth-based photojournalist David Dare Parker explored some of the ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula, near Dampier. He's keen to see them again. The pen-insula alone holds some 10,000 known engravings, but the visitors' center is closed for renovations, there are no signposts, and the intrepid Parker, 47, searches his creaky memory in vain. Low, brown boulders and rust-colored piles of super-hard granophyre give no clue to the location of the artistic riches hidden in the scrub beyond the sealed road from Karratha...
...grounds are hard and the ball contests can be furious, says Pickett. But he finds playing in front of large home crowds exhilarating. In territory where you are either a West Coast Eagles or Fremantle Dockers fan, Pickett barracks for the Melbourne Demons. Still, his mind is also on Perth. "I'll be playing there for Kimberley Spirit Under-19s in the country championships," he says...
...Torres Strait Islander Comm-ission, that have been imposed from afar by governments," says school principal Len Boyle. "It's far better now that the money, and responsibility, is in the hands of local comm-unities." Independently run by an Aboriginal community board, the school draws on funding from Perth, Canberra and philanthropists. Indeed, filing grant applications is the heart of Boyle's toil...