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How starting a daily bus run led to a spike in enrolments at Stonehenge State School, in outback Queensland

The school bus breathing new life into an outback town. (Dan Prosser and Danielle O'Neal)

During a quick break from loading goats on her remote outback property, grazier Suz Laidler drives her kids 30 kilometres down a dirt driveway to meet the school bus.    

"Hello to the start of my precious cargo," 66-year-old Deb Porter yells from the driver's seat.

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