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Queen of the Little Desert

Simone Dalton, The Weekly Times

November 19, 2008

A FORMER Les Girls drag queen has traded Kings Cross for country life in Goroke. SIMONE DALTON reports

Wanda was homeless.

A 30-year veteran of the glamorous Les Girls cabaret show in Sydney’s infamous Kings Cross, she was suddenly without a show and a roof over her head.

There was only one thing for it.

Pack up her feather boas, sequins and wigs and head south to Goroke, on the edge of the Little Desert, in the west Wimmera.

Goroke’s a long way from Kings Cross – and that’s not just the 1146km drive.

At Goroke they strip crops rather than clothes, there’s not much nightlife, and alcohol and cigarettes are about the hardest drugs most people will find.

So you’ve got to wonder what the attraction was.

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