Capitalism in the Australian Outback

Feels like the middle of nowhere, but might actually be the centre of the world.

Fucking Capitalism, this week

I hoisted my massive suitcase from the racks at the end of the rail carriage and wheeled it off the train. Last used to take six months’ worth of possessions on sabbatical to Cambridge (England, not MA), this suitcase was now transporting a mere one week’s worth of clothing on an 11 hour train journey to the Australian outba…