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The Outback, or the Desert.

The desert proper is rarely called the Outback; but certainly much of the territory bordering true desert and even the Nullabor Plain itself can be called the Outback

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The area in central Australia around Uluru and Alice Springs and basically all the desert areas in Australia

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