cattle

Tropical cattle: the Brahman

Queensland is home to nearly half of Australia’s beef cattle, and the vast majority of those beasts contain at least some Brahman blood.

Cattle of the great grasslands, Walkabout, June 1951

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1 June 1951

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Location

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Melbourne

Walkabout

Cattle of the great grasslands, Walkabout, June 1951, showing the proximity of cattle to the main railway network. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Progress of dairying, 1908. From Land seekers guide to Queensland, Brisbane, Pulsfields, 1908

Pastoralism 1860s-1915

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