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Tanbar Station
Tanbar Station is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station in Tanbar, Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia. It is located approximately south west of Windorah and north east of Innamincka in the Channel Country of Queensland. The Cooper Creek runs through the property. Established at some time prior to 1884 by John Costello he sold it to Armitage and Gillately shortly after taking it up. In 1886 the property was having a good season with of rain recorded in less than a month and all the waterholes were full John Henderson was running Tanbar in 1888. Mr B. Richardson acquired both Tanbar and Abbottsford Station, which is also on Cooper Creek, in 1903. By 1907 the Christian brothers owned Tanbar. The property was sold in 1911 when it was stocked with 10,000 cattle by the Christian brothers to the Rocklands Pastoral Company for £30,000. By 1931 the station encompassed an area of and was managed by Robert John Kyle Little but the property was still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Northern Miner (Queensland)
''The Northern Miner'' is an online newspaper published in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia. History ''The Northern Miner'' was first established in 1872 by James Smith Reid. Reid established the paper only eight months after the discovery of gold in the regional Queensland town Charters Towers. In 1876 Reid sold the paper to Thadeus O'Kane. As the owner and editor of the Northern Miner, O’Kane devoted himself and the paper to improving the lives of the miners working in Charters Towers. Of the five newspapers published in the goldfields ''The Northern Miner'' was the only one to survive the downturn in gold mining. The paper is still being published today from the same Gill Street address it has been at since 1878. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia * Charters Towers, Queensland Charters Towers is a rural town in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastoral Leases In Queensland
A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences. A ''pastoral'' is a work of this genre, also known as bucolic, from the Greek , from , meaning a cowherd. Literature Pastoral literature in general Pastoral is a mode of literature in which the author employs various techniques to place the complex life into a simple one. Paul Alpers distinguishes pastoral as a mode rather than a genre, and he bases this distinction on the recurring attitude of power; that is to say that pastoral literature holds a humble perspective toward nature. Thus, pastoral as a mode occurs in many types of literature (poetry, drama, etc.) as well as genres (most notably the pastoral elegy). Terry Gifford, a prominent literary theorist, defin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stations (Australian Agriculture)
Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle station, a cattle-rearing station in Australia or New Zealand **Sheep station, a sheep-rearing station in Australia or New Zealand Communications * Radio communication station, a radio frequency communication station of any kind, including audio, TV, and non-broadcast uses ** Radio broadcasting station, an audio station intended for reception by the general public ** Amateur radio station, a station operating on frequencies allocated for ham or other non-commercial use ** Broadcast relay station ** Ground station (or Earth station), a terrestrial radio station for extraplanetary telecommunication with satellites or spacecraft ** Television station * Courier station, a relay station in a courier system ** Station of the ''cursus publicus'', a sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Largest Stations In Australia
This is a list of the largest stations in Australia, which includes stations with an area in excess of . All of the largest pastoral leases are located in the states of South Australia (SA), Queensland (QLD) and Western Australia (WA); or in the Northern Territory (NT). The vast majority are cattle stations, with no sheep stations among the ten largest. Most of the properties are owned by pastoral companies such as Australian Agricultural Company, Consolidated Pastoral Company, S. Kidman & Co Ltd, North Australian Pastoral Company, Heytesbury Pty. Ltd., Paraway Pastoral Company and the Jumbuck Pastoral Company. Largest stations This list includes the stations in Australia by virtue of area: See also * List of ranches and stations#Australia *Pastoral lease A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to graziers for the purpose of livestock g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ranches And Stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance. West Africa *Obudu Cattle Ranch * SODEPA cattle ranches in Cameroon Australia ''Station'' is the term used in Australia for large sheep or cattle properties. New South Wales * Borrona Downs Station *Brindabella Station * Caryapundy Station * Cooplacurripa Station * Corona Station *Elsinora *Momba Station * Mount Gipps Station * Mount Poole Station *Mundi Mundi *Nocoleche * Oxley Station *Poolamacca Station *Salisbury Downs Station * Sturts Meadows Station *Thurloo Downs * Toorale Station *Uardry *Urisino *Yancannia Station Northern Territory * Alexandria Station *Ambalindum *Alroy Downs *Amburla *Amungee Mungee *Andado *Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area *Anthony Lagoon * Argadargada Station *Austral Downs *Auvergne Station * Ban Ban Springs Station *Banka Banka Station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and List of country subdivisions by area, the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. The archaeological hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocklands Station
Rocklands Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station along the border of the Northern Territory and Queensland in the Barkly Tableland region. The station was established in 1864 by brothers James and George Sutherland. It is situated about north of Camooweal and north east of Alpurrurulam. The property shares a boundary with Adder and Avon Downs Station to the west, Alexandria Station to the north and Austral Downs to the south. The Herbert River flows through the middle of the property. The Barkly Highway runs through the southern end of the property. Rockland The property was acquired by the Paraway Pastoral Company from the Western Grazing Company in 2016 along with Tanbar Station for 130 million. The property was stocked with 35,000 head of Brahman, Brahman cross Santa, Charbray and Senegus cattle. Western Grazing acquired Rocklands, from the Stanbroke Pastoral Company Stanbroke Pastoral Company was a company once owned by AMP Limited that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanbroke Pastoral Company
Stanbroke Pastoral Company was a company once owned by AMP Limited that was once one of the largest land owners in Australia. Established in about 1964, by 2003 the company owned 27 cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory controlling some of pastoral country. Properties owned by Stanbroke included; Augustus Downs, Davenport Downs and Tanbar Stations and in Queensland and Banka Banka, Brunchilly, Lake Nash and Helen Springs Station in the Northern Territory. The company was purchased in 2004 by the Nebo Group who paid 417.5 million plus taking on outstanding debts. The sale was by far the largest rural transaction in Australia's history and included a herd of approximately 5000,000 cattle. The Nebo group were a consortium made up of the founder of Hungry Jack's Hungry Jack's Pty Ltd. is an Australian fast food franchise of the Burger King Corporation. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Competitive Foods Australia, a privately held company owned by Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Country Life
''Queensland Country Life'' is a newspaper published in Queensland, Australia, since 1935. It focuses on rural news. History The ''Queensland Country Life'' newspaper is the second of that name. The first newspaper was published from 1900 to 1910 and is unrelated to the current newspaper. The ''Queensland Country Life'' newspaper was first published on 25 July 1935. In its first issue, it described itself as a subsidiary of a New South Wales newspaper ''Country Life'' and that it incorporated the ''Grazier's Review'' and was the official organ of the: * United Graziers' Association of Queensland * Brisbane Wool Selling Brokers' Association * Brisbane Fat Stock and Produce Brokers' Association The newspaper is published once a week. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier-Mail
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, Queensland, Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, Queensland, Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. It is available for purchase throughout Queensland, most regions of Northern New South Wales and parts of the Northern Territory. History The history of ''The Courier-Mail'' is through four Nameplate (publishing), mastheads. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' later became ''The Courier (Brisbane), The Courier'', then the ''Brisbane Courier'' and, since a merger with the Daily Mail in 1933, ''The Courier-Mail''. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' was established as a weekly paper in June 1846. Issue frequency increased steadily to bi-weekly in January 1858, tri-weekly in December 1859, then daily under the ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charleville Times
''The Charleville Times'' was a newspaper published in Charleville, Queensland, Australia, from 25 December 1883. History ''The Charleville Times'' was printed and published by Richard Boyd Echlin for the Charleville times Printing Co. and was first published on 25 December 1883. In 1961 it absorbed the ''Maranoa News'' published in Mitchell. Later it became the ''Western Times''. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia. National In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965. Daily newspape ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Charleville Times, The Defunct newspapers published in Queensland 1883 establishments in Australia Publications establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
