What a desolate place!
Yes, and it was 15 miles from Marble Bar, statistically the hottest town in Australia. What a great place to be posted!
I flew into here regularly in the late 1960's, despite being closed in 1945 it was then quite well preserved. The revetments were impressively huge and in a much better state than they are now - then they still looked exactly like the three you can see in the background to my 25 Sqn photo....
There is another airfield at Noonkanbah (then called Nookanbah), ESE from Derby, with similarly enormous revetments (positioned even further away from the airfield) obviously intended for the same purpose, although it doesn't seem to have seen much use in fact.