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Twenty-six Feet Under

Getting Lost Forever In CP

People who live in Coober Pedy make city kids look like pampered assholes. Life in the outback is often harsher than a straight-up hash pipe, and death is something that you tend to become pretty familiar with. Full story

The VICE Guide To The Bars Of Coober Pedy

Drinking is the national sport of Coober Pedy. It averages 45 degrees Celsius outside, the sports oval is a dust bath at best (and a mud bath at worst), and if you live here you're either unemployed or you work like a total miner ie. really, really hard. Full story

How To Make It As A Single Mum Of Five

Living Next Door to Rottweillers

I've lived here in Brockstow all my life. When I was 17 I got pregnant with Sinead and I had her at 18. I was with Sinead's dad Terry for three years and then he started taking brown (heroin) and stuff. Full story

Gary The Landlord

A Drink At Radford's Busiest Pub

The Marquis is a meeting point for The Radford Boys, which is a collection of men born and bred in the area. Full story

Mountain Momma

Destiny Steps In

I'm 21 and I was raised in Louisa, Kentucky. I love it here. It's peaceful. It's quiet. I have two kids, Destiny and Jacob. They're one and two years old. I'm raising them on my own because their dad was unfaithful. Full story

Get The Hell Out

Small Town Girls Don't Stick Around

My whole family worked in the mine. My dad, my step dad, and my mum. My grandfather still works there. He's taking care of closing the mine. I'm 23 now, but when I was about 15 I was a cleaner in the mine. It felt safe since my whole family was there. Full story

The Great Flood

The Coal Industry Drops Thick Black Piss Over the Hills of Kentucky

In October 2000, there was a flood in Inez, Kentucky. The EPA called it the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of the eastern United States. Full story

Broken Knees

And Not Much More

I used to be a concrete worker, but I've just gone through knee surgery. They operated on me using spinal cord anaesthetics, and I thought that was a bit uncomfortable. Full story

Family Plot

Homer Buries His Kin

I'm the oldest caretaker of this graveyard. It isn't that big. The first person got put in here a long time ago. Luther Thompson. He's a great-great-uncle of my family. My step-pap was his brother. That's the second grave yonder next to Luther. That was his brother. Full story

Snow Patrol

I Love it Here

I was four when my father got me my first snow scooter. I can't remember any of it, but it must have been something special because here I am, and all I can think about is driving my scooter all year round. Full story

Grub's Up

Waiting On CP

Of the 4,500 or so people living in Coober Pedy, approximately 600 are Greek which means it's probably the only bit of desert in the world where you can get a killer lamb gyros with tzatziki and a side of three different types of saganaki. Full story

Radford Boys

A Beautiful Humour

I'm a Radford boy. I was born here in Sinnon Street, Radford, at home. There were no hospital births in those days. Full story

In Memoriam

This was in The Meadows housing estate. A couple of weeks previously, Nathan Williams, aged 17, was shot in the estate's shopping centre. It was broad daylight and witnesses say it was after an argument over a pushbike. Full story

The Coober Pedy Issue

Welcome to CP

For this issue of VICE we spent a week living in the amazing contradiction of an outback town that is Coober Pedy. Full story