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Follow updates live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast 43 Australians still missing, with concerns growing ‘every day, every hour’ that goes by, Wong says The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, says there are still 43 Australian missing after the flooding in Nepal, saying the government ho

The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80 per cent of the country’s interior — an area roughly equivalent to seven times the size of Texas.