Tony Abbott, Australia's Prime Minister, has moved into a tent in a far-flung stretch of Outback bushland to govern the nation for a week from a tiny Aboriginal community.
In an unprecedented move by an Australian leader, whose usual residence is a stately 1920s house in Canberra, Abbott has shifted the seat of government to the outskirts of Yirrkala, a remote Aboriginal township in Arnhem Land, northern Australia with a population of 843.
He will govern from a canvas tent - complete with secure phone and video lines for Cabinet meetings and calls to international leaders - and has brought with him some of the nation's top civil servants, who are also staying in tents.
After landing by plane on a dusty red dirt tarmac, Abbott, looking somewhat bewildered and bemused, was given an official "welcome to country" ceremony by a group of red-skirted Aborigines smeared from head to toe in white clay; they beat sticks, chanted, leapt and danced.
"It is good to be back in this part of the world," Abbott said.