Author(s): Evan Mchugh

Travel

For a town with 70 residents, Birdsville is remarkably well known: the Birdsville Track, the rodeo, the pub, the infamous races. With its ruggedness, inaccessibility and larrikin charm, it has become a symbol of the great Australian outback. What is it about Birdsville that has made it stand so large in our legends? Evan McHugh set off to find out.