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As government struggles to provide sufficient electricity, public transport and other basic services, the country’s main tourist hub is increasingly going it alone.

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Excitement surges through a school hall set in the vast SA outback as rows of children roar “S-K-A” on a chilly winter morning. The shout-out is for the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, to be built 80km from Carnarvon along a dirt road that winds through scrubby, dry farmland into isolation

The sleepy SA town of Carnarvon has more churches than ATMs, but science is breathing new life into the far-flung farming centre. The former 19th-century mission station is the closest town to a science and astronomy hub that is forming in the arid central Karoo region where the Square Kilometre Array