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Landline / By Emily JB Smith and Giulia Bertoglio, ABC, 13 March 2023

The sun sits low on the horizon as Maureen Donnegan searches the cool outback sand.  

She bends near a scrubby bush, lifts one end of a stick and kicks down on its middle, snapping it in two.  

A creature – creamy yellow and wriggling – spills onto the ground of Australia’s largest desert.

Ms Donnegan grins, triumphant.

Her friend Shona Jamieson plucks the squirming lump from the dirt and sets it over the coals of a small campfire, before cupping it in her hands and blowing gently.

“It’s got protein in it,” Mrs Jamieson says.

“Really healthy.”

Three photos show Maureen Donnagan snapping a stick and finding the yellow grubs
Maureen Donnegan finds maku in the Great Victoria Desert. (ABC Esperance: Emily Smith)

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