Spirits of the Ghan

It is 2001 and as the world charges into the new Millenium, a century-old dream is about to be realised in the Red Centre of Australia: the completion of the mighty Ghan railway, a long-lived vision to create the “backbone of the continent”, a line that will finally link Adelaide with the Top End. But the construction of the final leg between Alice Springs and Darwin will not be without its complications, for much of the desert it will cross is Aboriginal land.