Migrant's multi-million-dollar plan to save a dying outback town
Key takeaways
- Baljit Singh Bajwa is part owner of much of the infrastructure making up the town of Leigh Creek.
- The town of 100 residents retains facilities built for more than 2,800 people.
- But there's also something notably different about this town located in an arid patch of eastern South Australia.
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Baljit Singh Bajwa is part owner of much of the infrastructure making up the town of Leigh Creek. (ABC News: Isabella Carbone/Arj Ganesan)
Link copied Share Share article. The dust might have settled on the disused coal mine at Leigh Creek, but the winds of change are stirring as the town, once reserved for miners and their families, redefines itself.
In many ways, Leigh Creek has all the hallmarks of a typical remote outback town in South Australia — a pub where nearby station workers gather to put away pints and exchange gossip, a post office staffed by a local with knowledge of all the goings-on, and a quirky entrance sign referencing an obscure element of the town's history.