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Oi Mate, Where’s Your Pork Crackling?

Armraynald Station near Burketown, Queensland – I wanted to run from here shortly after arriving. I was about 8 months into my Australia trip when I landed at Armraynald. My backpacking routine in Australia was cyclical: travel, go broke, find work, make money, repeat. It’s early August in 2014 and this story picks up in the ‘find work’ stage of the cycle. I had just...