outback
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Camels in the outback compete with stock for food, destroy fences, foul waterholes and damage Indigenous cultural sites, authorities say.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
It forms rust on land when exposed to oxygen, as seen in Australia's red outback landscapes, which preserve features ranging from millions to billions of years old.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
As I step out into this next phase of life, I do sometimes find myself missing the chaos of Hanoi or the wide-open spaces of the Australian outback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
"It's the freedom, the space you have to move," Breanna says, listing all the things she loves about her life, 1,600km north-east of Brisbane in Australia's sparsely-populated outback.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
He wore an Aussie outback hat, which was large, wide-brimmed, and made of chocolate-brown oiled leather.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
He’s read the great classics as well — Chaucer, for example — and is amused that people living in rural outbacks didn’t spend their college years in Middle English seminars.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2015
Several trouble spots remain, but hundreds of families are returning to their lands in seven newly declared zones of "total pacification" in the outbacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Australia and New Zealand - Introductory
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