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...kitchen of Warrant Officer John Benstead, 22 years an Army cook and now 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...
...kitchen of Warrant Officer John Benstead, 22 years an Army cook and now 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...
...Brien, who comes from Victoria, has been traveling through central and Western Australia with partner Simon Wagstaffe in a four-wheel-drive vehicle towing a camper trailer. Escapees from city office jobs, for six months they've carted around wares (Wagstaffe peddles a flame-ignition kit called Light My Fire) to markets, trade shows and country fairs. "We wanted to see the country and find an affordable place to buy property and settle down," O'Brien says. "Instead of drawing on our savings, we thought it would be a way of paying our own way." The hawker's life...
...horse, but Pekin remains an old-fashioned upholder of pastoral civilization. That he is doing his job is clear from the statistics: lamb survival rates are 85% inside the fence; 60% outside it. And there's no doubt which side he's on. Brought up on a farm in Victoria's Western District, Pekin took off on holiday in 1990 "and never went back." A hired hand on stations from Cameron Corner to the Pilbara, the dogger has fallen in love with the lure of long distance. "Oh, it's beautiful," he says. "When I camp out at night...
...from fighting near-or collapsing in-her property. "We know nothing gets done, so what can we do?" It's a frustration expressed in equal measure by victims and legal authorities. Some locals call the drinking epidemic "green-can Dreaming," a reference to the packaging of the popular Victoria Bitter beer and the paralytic state many indigenous drinkers attain. But this Dreaming long ago became a nightmare. Under its influence, many drinkers spend their entire welfare checks in the pub. And the damage they do-to property, to the spouses and children they beat or keep destitute, to the drinkers...