Built, owned and run by the Tancred Brothers in the 1940’s, this long-abandoned meat processing plant ceased operations permanently in the late 90’s. The traditional area of the Ngemba people, the facility is located on the outer boundary of Bourke. Falling to decay on the towns desolate outskirts, this severely dilapidated slaughterhouse still contains the conveyer belts, enclosures and machinery of more productive days. Now stalled, rusting and waterlogged, the former meat

The river port township of Wilcannia sits on the edge of Outback NSW. The area is the traditional home of the Barkindji or Paakantyi people, a tribal group who reside along the Darling River. Hidden amongst the townships’ criss-crossed urban grid are the ruins of The Sisters of Mercy Convent. Built in 1894 from locally sourced sandstone, a decline in population caused the permanent closure of the religious facility in the 1920's. Now heavily dilapidated, the building sits i