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I've just seen his post on Facebook. He hadn't actually made it to the nullarbor, was still in the Goldfields area. Traffic is pretty light on the road he is on, but it's busier than the main desert stretch. There's basically one large town which needs everything to come from Perth.
The road there is wide and smooth, but I got one close pass from a truck along that bit. There was another one coming the other way and the idea of waiting if it's (just) a bike is an alien concept - cars at least as much as trucks. There's about 2' of hard shoulder along there and the expectation is that you'll pull onto it if something wants to overtake when there's an oncoming vehicle. Lots of the Aussies use mirrors so they aren't taken by surprise.
He shouldn't have run out of water there. It's 150km from the Yellowdine Roadhouse to Coolgardie. It's probably the first big gap he would have encountered. He must have either messed up roadhouse opening times or tried to do it on two 750ml bottles or something.