The Australian Women's Weekly

Desert sounds

the road out of Broken Hill you can almost see the curvature of the earth as the desert meets the horizon. Humans are very small in this powerful landscape of red earth against a faded blue sky. It is a landscape that seems endless, unforgiving and empty. But out on the Mundi Mundi plain, under the Border Ranges, there is loud music on the dry desert wind. And a city built from nothing that will be gone with the tumbleweeds in a few days. Ten thousand people have come to camp under the stars, sit around fires and stomp to rock music as the sun lingers going down. They have driven across the outback for days and weeks to come to the Mundi Mundi Bash. It is an adventure just to get here, camping along

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