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The silhouette of a woman walking across a sheep yard as the sun sets.

An outback station on red dirt

"They [dorpers] just seem to be the only thing that's making the money at the moment,"
she said.
White sheep with black faces in a pen at a saleyard.

A man wearing a red shirt smiling at the camera in a woolshed.

Man closing the gate in the sheep yards

A wire fence on a desert-like property

Man wearing a cap holding a metal fence

A man wearing an akubra, sitting on a dirt bike.

A woman wearing a large brimmed hat, long sleeved shirt, jeans and boots crouching down near the river

"People just can't stick it out forever,"
Ms McBride said.

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