NSW's most remote spot borders on the ridiculous

For those parched NSW tourists who regularly roll up in the dust at the lonely Cameron Corner Store, 1330 kilometres north-west of Sydney, in search of an illicit amber nectar, James and Melanie Fildes have a simple, well-practised retort.

The store, in a classic case of being so close and yet so far, is positioned in Queensland, but is also, frustratingly, only a few hundred metres from the NSW border at Cameron Corner, named after John Cameron who surveyed the Queensland and NSW borders in 1879. By submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's terms and conditions and privacy policy.

Along with the recent full bitumen sealing of the Silver City Highway, once a rutted dirt road, between the town and Broken Hill, 332 kilometres to the south, the border closure at Cameron Corner has created something of a tourism boom for Tibooburra . This means the Fildes' only customers are those from Queensland and South Australia, whereas in a normal year scores of motorists from NSW, comprising between 80 to 90 per cent of the daily traffic, would stop at the roadhouse before heading deeper into the outback.

Until then the Fildes, along with co-managers Karen and Brett Johns face an additional challenge in terms of perusing the bona fides of any NSW motorists who may enter Queensland from the regional shires that were allowed to open this week.

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