On a busy weekday night, Tracy Hatch is pouring beers and chatting to bar flies at her pub in outback Queensland.

Crammed with eccentric trinkets and Akubras — said to be from local ringers — the Wellshot Hotel is the bustling hub in Ilfracombe, about 1,000 kilometres north-west of Brisbane.

Weary tourists, long-haul drivers, and locals perch themselves at the watering hole on the side of the highway.

It's a unique meeting place where people with very different lives and experiences congregate — and Ms Hatch has a front-row ticket to it all.

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