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Bathed in the soft light of a cloudy day, a seasoned station worker stands sentinel in a sea of woolly Merino sheep. Dressed in a vivid pink long-sleeved shirt and wide-brimmed hat, the figure surveys a compact livestock yard in the expansive, arid landscape of rural New South Wales. Hundreds of dense-fleeced sheep cluster together, their pale woolly bodies creating a textural wave against the rust-colored earth and weathered metal livestock gates. The sky stretches wide overhead, a canvas of muted blues and billowing white clouds that speaks to the vast, open terrain of the Australian interior. Metal yard panels define the working space, suggesting a careful, methodical approach to stock management that is quintessential to Australian agricultural practice. This scene captures the timeless rhythm of station life - where human skill, animal husbandry, and harsh landscape converge in a delicate, ongoing dialogue of survival and productivity.