Rex Ellis 1942 – 2025
After acquiring his first pack camels in 1976, Rex had a dream: to cross the Simpson Desert. He had little experience & no blueprint. But he sought the wisdom of old cameleers, pieced together a bit of knowledge and the expedition was a success.
His spirit of adventure lives on.
Day ten cont 
“We have hit a tipping point where the civil rights of an #individual need to be put aside for the #CivilRights of a #community. When a community doesn’t feel #safe, you have to act and you have to make sure there’s a #deterrent and a #consequence.
In my home state again [#Queensland], I would encourage every state to do this, we’re going back to #outback camps where we are rebuilding these young people with a life #skill. Not putting them behind barbed wire but sending them to remote places, giving them a skill and #purpose in life.” — David Littleproud
The National leadership is roaring to the press.
A reminder, my daddy was a State National MP and Minister. I’m from Queensland and our ideas need to be heard across the nation.
#LNP / #Liberal / #Littleproud / #rights / #Youth / #Justice <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/08/australia-election-2025-live-election-2025-live-coalition-labor-federal-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-share-markets-economy-mental-health-prepare-debate-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-67f4ab468f08e0f1eb0325d5#block-67f4ab468f08e0f1eb0325d5>
My Country
– Dorothea Mackellar
‘…Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold –
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.’
Large areas of #Australia's #Outback now resemble an inland sea after unprecedented #flood drowns #Queensland's interior with communities underwater, millions of #livestock at risk: #news #climate #weather #food #travel https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/record-outback-flood-western-queensland-evacuate-residents/105102092
Kite, not caught in a tree (Milvus migrans, Manbulloo vicinity, HOT morning light) #photography #landscape #NorthernTerritory #DrySeason #birds #outback #nature #trees #MarchIntoLandscapes #Heat #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin
#Outback #Australia #Desert #Panorama #Sunset by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints styles & #Products at:
The sun sets over a billabong in outback NSW. Near Wilcannia, on the mighty Barkaa-Darling river. #australia #photography #nature #outback #nsw #android #cheapandroidphone #samsung #nofilters
A billabong near Wilcannia, NSW, as sunset approaches. #australia #photography #nature #outback #nsw #android #cheapandroidphone #samsung #nofilters
This is a billabong near Wilcannia, outback NSW, at sunset. The colours were as intense as the outback itself.
Wow! I had no idea. 
Nice work google earth spotter & Matej Lipar & assocs
In Traveller today in the The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, I write about the Spirit of the Outback sleeper train to Longreach - as well as a series of new outback rail excursions from that town aboard a sleek streamlined 2000-class train.
Buy a copy today for the print version; I'll share the link here when it eventually goes online.
Dingo Roaming
Dingo was roaming, seeing, feeling − falling toward the stars.
- JP Quinton
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