taken on a boiling hot late November afternoon (2000) out on the gibber plain at Marengo.

These poverty shacks at Marengo (dating to the Depression years) took a long time finding. I had begun to think that poverty shacks might have been a myth but right near the end of my survey (MRGS2000) I came across these.

constructed from small sheets of iron large enough to pack into remote locations poverty shacks like these were a feature of life in the remoter parts of Qld during the depression years

The grazier could remember them as a child, and he was in his seventies.

the poor stamper had been attacked with a hacksaw to remove a part of one stem

it was a lonely desolate place. only machinery and lost dreams