There is a bakery that opens at 6am, and serves terrific coffee (once unheard of in outback Australia).

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It applies to those swathes of outback Australia where pastoral leases were created in colonial times to allow farming on properties the size of small European countries.

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It begins with his near-fatal car crash in 1999 on a fishing trip in the outback of Australia, an event that crippled his walking for the rest of his life, and then flashes back to his upbringing in a prominent Sydney family, which educated him at Jesuit schools and sharpened his antiauthoritarian edge.

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Others capture a sense of the sacred in the middle of Australia's Outback, where Ayer's Rock -- or Uluru, as it's known to the Aborigines -- stands.

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The Queen will even go to Bourke, a dusty town which is a byword in Australia for the remote outback - "Back o' Bourke" means the back of beyond or middle of nowhere in Aussie-speak.

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We are 150 miles north of Perth, at the southern end of Australia's vast and thinly populated Outback Coast.

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He first made his living as a kangaroo shooter in outback Queensland where he learned about and fell in love with emus, Australia's largest native bird and the second largest bird in the world after the ostrich.

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He said that Australia looked "coolest", calling the colours and textures of the Outback "severely artistic".

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To get to the Bloomfield Lodge in Queensland, Australia, you must hop on a chartered plane, drive through the Outback, then cruise down a river.

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Australia is experiencing a mining boom, with thousands of workers attracted by high salaries to remote Outback mines.

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