[Turing_Machine]

Google Maps seems to show a fair number of small settlements in the general area, but not within the city limits of Alice Springs.

[richardjam73]

I'm bad at explaining this.

Remote Australia is not like the rest of world. It is not easy to supply these places with goods. Doing so illegally is even more difficult.

Those outlying communities are not just relay points in some chain going back to the coastal cities. Like you would get in other places.