We travel for hours through broad plains of spinifex and red-earth anthills and see few other vehicles and no human settlements except, at the end of long rough dirt tracks, temporary Roy Hill rail-construction camps.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

The NSW national parks and wildlife service plans to revive what it calls two natural bio-regions: the property's red soil mulga lands, and grey soil Darling riverine plains.

ECONOMIST: A land of drought