Craig Tansley10:00, May 10 2021
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The Classic Safari Company runs five-day “Aussie Outback Pub Crawls” that take you 4000km across the outback encompassing three states and visiting eight pubs.
The outback comprises 70 per cent of Australia – that s 5.6 million square kilometres; half the size of Western and Eastern Europe combined. This back of beyond defines Australia, and Australians, and yet for most of us, it s as foreign as any country. Who among us has ever really seen it, let alone know where it quite begins and where it quite ends? Getting there from a capital can takes days of driving; and once you re there it takes days to get anywhere else. That s why it s largely the domain of adventurous, time-rich grey nomads in four-wheel drives with enough grunt to pull their caravan through the heart of Australia.
The outback comprises 70 per cent of Australia – that s 5.6 million square kilometres; half the size of Western and Eastern Europe combined. This back of beyond defines Australia, and Australians, and yet for most of us, it s as foreign as any country.
Who among us has ever really seen it, let alone know where it quite begins and where it quite ends?
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Getting there from a capital can takes days of driving; and once you re there it takes days to get anywhere else. That s why it s largely the domain of adventurous, time-rich grey nomads in four-wheel drives with enough grunt to pull their caravan through the heart of Australia.
Four injured as fire destroys Tibooburra s historic Two Storey pub in NSW outback
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The Tibooburra Two Storey was engulfed in flames after a fire started in a shed behind it.
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Four people were injured in a large fire that destroyed Tibooburra s historic Two Storey hotel in outback New South Wales on Wednesday night.
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Two men who stepped in to fight the blaze were taken to Adelaide by the Royal Flying Doctor Service
One firefighter was taken to Broken Hill Hospital to be treated for cuts and burns