Qualla: Mungerannie https://qualla.com/mungeranie-south-australia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Mungerannie https://qualla.com/mungeranie-south-australia Mungerannie: Introduction https://qualla.com/mungeranie-south-australia/ Drive the Birdsville Track and the desert keeps no secrets: stony plains, parallel dunes, and a horizon that barely changes for hours. Then Mungerannie appears, and with it something that should not exist out here, a wetland glinting green and blue in the middle of four deserts. The water comes not from rain but from a kilometre below ground, and around it has grown a refuge for birds, a thermal pool for weary drivers, and the only cold beer for hundreds of kilometres in any direction.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/4/8/mungeranie-south-australia-wp/r548-mungerannie-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mungerannie: An Oasis on Borrowed Water https://qualla.com/mungeranie-south-australia/ Mungerannie stands where the Sturt Stony, Tirari, Simpson and Strzelecki deserts almost touch, beside the channel locally known as Derwent Creek on the upper Warburton system. The annual rainfall here is a mere 130.6 millimetres, barely enough to dampen the dust. Yet a permanent ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/4/8/mungeranie-south-australia-wp/r548-mungerannie-an-oasis-on-borrowed-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Mungerannie: The Big Ugly Face https://qualla.com/mungeranie-south-australia/ The name Mungeranie is Aboriginal, and it translates, with disarming bluntness, as "big ugly face." It is the kind of name that sticks in the memory and says something about the unsentimental humour of this country. There is little soft about life on the Track, and the name fits ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/4/8/mungeranie-south-australia-wp/r548-mungerannie-the-big-ugly-face.mp3 0:06 3 full Mungerannie: A Depot Becomes a Lifeline https://qualla.com/mungeranie-south-australia/ Richard Forbes Sullivan opened a depot and hotel on this spot in 1886 to supply the shepherds, drovers and travellers pushing along the Birdsville Track. Others built on the foothold: in 1888 William Crombie took up a nearby block to rest horses and water cattle, and by 1889 Robe...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/4/8/mungeranie-south-australia-wp/r548-mungerannie-a-depot-becomes-a-lifeline.mp3 0:06 4 full Mungerannie: The State That Never Was https://qualla.com/mungeranie-south-australia/ Mungerannie has one improbable footnote in Australian political history. In 1920 it served as the head office of the Great Northern League, a movement that campaigned to carve a brand-new state out of the South Australian outback, to be called Brachina. The plan never came to any...

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