Arltunga, located in the sandy hills 110 kilometres east of Alice Springs, was Central Australia's first official town. The settlement was born from a gold rush in 1887 and hosted up to 300 people.

Australia is already littered with ghost towns: lifeless versions of once-thriving mining communities that withered and died as long ago as the Gold Rush. Locals were devastated when Rio Tinto ...

But in today’s world, we have our own ghost cities ... This mining town of 200 workers and their families in Western Australia produced asbestos, a building material in high demand in the ...

The number of vacant homes in regional areas is giving rise to ghost towns ... of short-term rental accommodation in Western Australia. Towns and localities with the highest vacancy rates ...

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