City Versus Country

Picture a painfully hot and dry summer, the ground so scorching that your feet burn through your rubber boots as you make your way across the yard. You release the cattle from their restricting pen, their endless drone threatening to send you to sleep as the lethargic bodies trudge across the yards toward their stingy feed rations. As you look up at the vast blue expanse of sky, no clouds in sight, you know in …

…world, one with which it is hard to keep up. These are the people who will go on to achieve their own personal goals, view a wider range of cultures and concepts being developed, and gain a greater insight to who we now are as a minor nation in our rapidly developing world. There is so much more available to see than simply the same old outback landscape, the harsh, unrelenting conditions of the outback – ……