“…Rates are < 5-10 m Myr −1 for bedrock outcrops Heimsath et al, 2010;Struck et al, 2018) and 5-20 m Myr −1 at the catchment scale (Bierman et al, 1998;Heimsath et al, 2010). The slow evolution of the central Australian landscape is a function of low relief due to restricted tectonic uplift (Sandiford, 2002;Jansen et al, 2013) combined with intensified aridity since the Miocene (Bowler, 1976;McGowran et al, 2004;Martin, 2006;Fujioka and Chappell, 2010). Ongoing intra-plate tectonic deformation is driven by far-field compressive stresses (Sandiford et al, 2004;Hillis et al, 2008;Waclawik et al, 2008; together with dynamic processes beneath the lithosphere, which have caused long-wavelength deformation on the order of hundreds of metres in vertical amplitude .…”