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Chandrakar used to also work as a "stringer" for news organisations, where his job involved providing outstation journalists with information about a story or sometimes, even chaperoning them through Maoist strongholds.

His mother, Gill discovered after World War II intelligence was declassified in 1974, had been one of the human “computers” who helped crack Germany’s Enigma code at an outstation of Bletchley Park.

At least nine remote communities and outstations are running out of water.

But, for much of his life, Mawurndjul, who fought off leprosy as a child, has lived on even more remote outstations.

That farm, together with its outstation The Peake, will be acquired by the Williams family who own properties that adjoin Anna Creek.