Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Routea story of contact, conflict and survival, of exodus and return. Above all, it is a story of family, culture and Country. The Aboriginal people of Australia's Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south.