In Lawson's Tracks

About ten kilometres south of Hungerford, I get out of the car and start walking. Hungerford sits on the New South Wales-Queensland border more than two hundred kilometres northwest of Bourke. It's a one‐pub town divided by a gate in a rabbit fence which must be opened and closed to cross the border. This is the true outback - a land far removed from the narrow coastal strip and the big eastern cities where most Australians live.