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Stephanie Gardiner

'It's everything': rural Australians fear Rex's fate

Locals in Birdsville rely on a twice-weekly Rex Airlines service to receive mail and groceries. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

The roar of a Rex plane is the sound of life in Birdsville.

Locals in the small outback Queensland town rely on a twice-weekly Rex Airlines service to receive mail and groceries, to get to bigger centres for medical care or to fly their children to boarding school in the city.

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