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Regional Australians are five times more likely to die in road accidents – so what are we doing about it?
It is now a matter of film legend that the Mad Max movie franchise was inspired by long flat Australian country roads where speed limits are theoretical and carnage is regular. Director George Miller grew up in Chinchilla in Queensland, west of the Darling …