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Muscled and intent, shearers work the wool table in a weathered corrugated iron woolshed, their bodies bent with practiced precision. Harsh overhead lights cast stark shadows across the concrete floor, illuminating fleece-scattered surfaces and revealing the rhythmic choreography of professional sheep shearing. Merino wool tumbles in dense, oily clusters as each shearer swiftly maneuvers around their allocated animal, electric handpieces humming with mechanical efficiency. The industrial interior - all red steel frames, metal walls, and utilitarian infrastructure - speaks to generations of agricultural craft in rural New South Wales. Layers of physical effort are evident in the shearers' focused postures, their movements a testament to skill honed through countless hours of demanding physical labor. This is the timeless ballet of Australian wool production: raw, unromantic, and fundamentally essential to the nation's agricultural heritage.