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Dirt cheap: welcome to the delightful Queensland town that can’t seem to give land away
Australia is in the grips of a housing crisis, but in the heart of the outback, the opal town of Quilpie is looking to expand its tiny population by giving away land and housing grantsSign up for a weekly email featuring our best readsOut the swing doors of either of this town’s two pubs, past the old railway tracks and the one-strip airport, vast plains stretch beyond all horizons. Tin-roofed houses perch on blocks of red dirt and bore-fed lawn near the banks of the broad Bulloo River. The Bulloo is dry most of the year but for clay-coloured billabongs lined by coolabah trees, until it bursts
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