Longreach gymkhana held amid strict COVID-19 restrictions in Australian outback

Longreach teenager Sophie Salisbury has been at the stables every day before and after school preparing for a long-awaited local gymkhana that marks a return to some normalcy in the outback town, amid strict COVID-19 regulations.

The two-day event, billed as the "COVID Comeback", represented life returning to some sense of normalcy in the town, and was the biggest event 'the capital of the outback' had seen since the coronavirus pandemic spread across the world.

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Article written by: Craig Fitzsimmons