Lajamanu

I drove the first 79 Series out to La Germana in 2008, and they had the dual 90-litre tanks, 180 litres of diesel in the tank, but they had the big cage on the back that was like dragging a parachute because the air could go in and there was plastic all around it, so it was literally a parachute.

and I burnt about 160 litres going to Lajamanu.

So, yeah, they were not...

They were very, very thirsty, but they just were great in the bush.

And anyway, the Yashley fuel gauge didn't work on it from new.

So you just always had to keep it topped up.

Anyway, one night, he was down at Lajamanu, one up, which is by himself.

We were up at Kalkaringi, and we had to do a transfer halfway.

And there were a lot of differences that really struck home.

But when I went to Alice Springs, and particularly when I went and worked in Lajamanu, I was bowled over by the fact that it was, in some ways, it was more basic than what I had seen overseas.

And I had this realization that focusing elsewhere was maybe disingenuous to my own country.

Yeah.

I remember turning up to this place in Cameroon and they still had a nice building, a nice facility and lots of doctors.

And there were some things that they couldn't do, but there was a lot that they could.

And I remember then turning up to this clinic in Lajamanu and it was...

This shack in the middle of red dirt, which is just beautiful.