Shopfront mezzanine its surface stripped back through

its surface stripped back through layers of industrial paint to bare metal and rust beneath

The radio direction finder receiver on the bridge of MV Cape Don

Buildings like this one represent the full arc of pastoral settlement: selector's cottages staked on 320-acre gambles

closing permanently in August 1988

Shopfront mezzanine its surface stripped back throughA green beauty salon sign still clings to the upper facade of a two storey commercial building in Yubari, the awning below it torn and collapsed, curtains hanging behind cracked glass. The shopfront is gutted. In a city whose population fell from a peak of around 107,972 to fewer than 6,000 today, this building is one of hundreds. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.