Delegate Shearers Front western australia Bunkyo-ku for 80 years before

Bunkyo-ku for 80 years before a fire in July 2007 displaced its final residents

Workbenches and forgotten tools sit under a layer of dust in the upstairs workshop of the Northcote Shoe Factory

photographed in 2015

it is one of many former businesses left standing as Yubari's population fell toward fewer than 6

Delegate Shearers Front western australia Bunkyo-ku for 80 years beforeThe weathered timber and corrugated iron facade of the Delegate shearers' quarters, its empty windows and peeling paint marking the end of seasonal work that once brought gangs of men together each year. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, one of the earliest pastoral frontiers in New South Wales, with European settlement reaching this far south from 1827. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.