Model Lilly Stent is styled by Charlotte Stokes in ‘The Western Front’ — and we’re not talking Morocco. Lensman Steven Chee captures the adventure on location at Cable Beach, Broome, WA for Grazia Australia’s ‘The Reinvention Issue’. / Hair and makeup Hendra Widjaja

In all honesty, camels and Australia never went together in our inquiring minds at AOC. Camels are not native to Australia but the country’s wild camel population is the largest in the world.

It was the working life of camels, and the camel drivers or cameleers, that opened up the Australian Outback, with young camels old enough for light-weight work at age three. Camels typically work until age 40, with their original drivers coming to the Australian outback mostly from Afghanistan, but also from Pakistan and the Turkish Empire.

Not being camel experts in the least, we can’t attest to the ‘fact’ that camels must be working to be happy. But the suggestion is that PETA should stand down before assuming that three-year-old camels are abused and need rescuing.

Australia’s famous Ghan Expedition train is said to honor the Afghan camel drivers. who arrived in Australia in the late 19th century with animals imported from India writes The Telegraph UK. Follow the trail of this fascinating story there.