Dehorning rams on Biddenham Station, Charleville, 1915. From Queensland sheep and wool industry, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Shorn sheep at Jondaryan Woolshed, Darling Downs, 1915. From Queensland sheep and wool industry, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Sheep on Oondooroo Station, near Winton, 1915. From Queensland sheep and wool industry, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland sheep and wool industry, 1918. Compiled and issues by the Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, Queensland.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

After two decades of land seizure and frontier bloodshed, by 1859 the pastoral grazing of sheep and cattle had completely transformed at least a quarter of the land use in Queensland and had become

Queensland, agricultural pastoral and mineral resources, 1959

Australia
1 January 1959
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

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Australia
Jacaranda Press

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland, agricultural, pastoral and mineral resources, 1959. From Queensland: daughter of the sun, Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1959

I used to put my dairy herd in that paddock, and if all of the cows stood in the bottom of a gully at the same time, you couldn’t see a beast in the paddock!

From the air, the braided Channel Country constitutes some of the most distinctive landscape in Australia.

From the 1820s, scarcity of good land led pastoralists to establish runs on the Darling Downs and east of Moreton Bay.

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