Word: despatched
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...work is involved with the comforting constancy of "hatch, match and despatch," as Bishop Wilmot likes to call it. Out on the Eyre Highway, isolation has taken its toll on the young station and roadhouse workers to whom Murray also ministers. "A lot of people think they're going out there to get away, but they take their problems with them," he says, "and a lot of them don't last terribly long. There's not much to do in places like Cocklebiddy, and a lot of people turn to alcohol." As with the stranded motorists he regularly finds...