Yet there is the competitor's relish for the challenges ahead and it is plain that Arsenal has got under his skin.
"The idea, visually, is to be light skin and dark skin, urban, rural and remote from all different parts of Australia, so there is a balanced visualisation of what Aboriginal women look like," Quilliam tells Guardian Australia on the road from Ntaria to Alice Springs.
Back in London, I find a 2008 paper on morgellons in the journal Dermatologic Therapy that describes patients picking "at their skin continuously in order to 'extract' an organism"; "obsessive cleaning rituals, showering often" and individuals going "to many physicians, such as infectious disease specialists and dermatologists" – all behaviours "consistent with DOP".
When these people arrive at Australian detention centres, they are left with severe sunburn and skin rashes, sitting in clothing drenched with faeces and urine while they await interrogation.
We have been handed a hard lesson on how terrorism does not care for nationality, citizenship, religion or the colour of one's skin.
Some had their eyes gouged out, others had flayed or badly bleeding skin.
The "apparent Muslim" has physical features supposedly similar to those associated with terrorism – brown skin, facial hair, turbans – but those who use the presumptive discrimination end up conflating racial and religious features.
Don't turn over – let the skin get golden and crisp.
Above all, it needs to be functional, in a neutral colour match to your skin tone.
This is not an entirely glamorous story: the bra stuck to her skin so firmly that it took two bridesmaids to remove it when she tested it out, but it worked on the day.
Lift off any skin that forms on the surface during cooking, taking care not to remove any of the aromatics with it.
