The Great Unknown

Power and Passion

The World's Our Stage

The Warriors

Teenager and Proud of It

We are the Champions

Distant Horizons

Shifting Sands

Sinners and Saints

Fortune and Future

Picture Perfect

Sources

Credits

Course of courage

Transport and communication are the lifeblood of the outback. John Wright flies you into the heart of a people who wouldn't give up.

Miracle at risk

The outback has poured out its own life-giving water for more than a century. But miracles come with a price.

The stories of Muttaburra and St George illustrate the fickleness of outback fate: cycles of properity and depression, fire and flood, isolation and endless work and privations in a struggle for survival.

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