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.