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A rural artist is using industrial waste to transform a 200-kilometre loop of dirt road in outback Queensland. Words & photos: Don Fuchs Rounding a bend on the unsealed Jericho-Aramac Road in the Queensland outback, I come across a man on horseback. He stands, hat pulled low, gun resting against his shoulder, staring into the heat-shimmering expanse. The rider is called the Returned Soldier and is not human but sculpture. “I wanted him to have the correct uniform; the gun more like an army gun, not a rifle,” explains its creator, artist Milynda Rogers. The life-sized sculpture Returned Soldier on...