Best known for roles in Neighbours and Police Rescue,the actor has forged a new career in film festivals and mental health advocacy.
From a long cold milkshake,to that other type of Milky Way,to camels in a main street,to ancient Indigenous art - there's plenty to see in this remote NSW town and surrounds.
It seems there are no distances too far for Mad Max 2 devotees to travel to pay homage.
Inside a hangar at its Broken Hill base,the Royal Flying Doctor Service has painstakingly been reviving its past and the latest piece of the aeronautical jigsaw is now in plane sight.
The full sealing of a NSW outback highway is helping open up the far west to tourists and locals.
Mr Absalom was a popular artist outside the art world who often depicted the beauty of the outback around his home in Broken Hill.
Alex Forner,who did her bachelors and honours degrees from Broken Hill and is about to begin a post-graduate certificate,will soon become the only local psychologist-in-training at her clinic.
Two principals,one an Aboriginal woman,the other a Muslim,came up with a novel way to break down barriers between their cultures
It has lost out on Mad Max but the outback city is looking to foster its own industry.
The cap on kangaroo harvesting licences will increase the number killed.
Local communities in the far west of NSW remain"voiceless"over issues such as the health of the Darling River.