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, Warragamba. Bullen was born to parents Alfred Percival Bullen and Lilian Bullen, who in 1920 founded Bullen's Circus. His circus career began at four, travelling the country as a child. He had a

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ceased at age fourteen. Stafford and his brother Ken Bullen ran the family business after their mother died in 1965. In 1968 they opened the

. It attracted over 200,000 visitors annually. In 1969 Bullen's Animal World opened at Wallacia, New South Wales. Stafford married Cleo; they had four children: Mark, Brenton, Sonya and Craig.

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