Tolarno station is a
station
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 statio ...
in west
New South Wales situated about 440 km east-northeast of Adelaide, about 800 km west of Sydney. Peppora is at an altitude of approximately 57m. Tolarno Station is one of the westernmost homesteads in New South Wales.
History
Tolarno Stations is on the traditional land of the
Barkindji
The Paakantyi, or Barkindji or Barkandji, are an Australian Aboriginal tribal group of the Darling River (known to them as the Baaka) basin in Far West New South Wales, Australia.
Name
The ethnonym Paakantyi means "River people", formed from ...
people.
The first selectors arrived in the Tolarno and Peppora region in the late 1830s and by the 1890s a small town had grown on near by Tolarno Station, that included, with outer offices, stores, stables, a
blacksmith shop,
saddlers shop, cart shed, chaff stores,
shearing shed and shearers quarters, bachelors quarters and a large fruit and vegetable garden to feed the community.
A school was developed to educate the children station workers, and those on neighbouring stations. At its peak, the Station was also home to 3 hotels.
During the
1894 shearers strike
After the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike both of which were long, drawn out affairs in which trade unions were defeated, running out of funds, actions by increasingly militant and desperate unions led up ...
, workers from the station were involved in a number of violent actions in
Moorara Station (45 km downstream).
During the 2019 drought the station ran out of water amid fears of degraded water quality in the river.
Four months ago Kate McBride's video of her father pulling dead cod from the Darling River shocked Australia. Now she's intent on exposing locals' fears about their water and its possible health impacts.
See also
* Ross T. Reid
References
Localities in New South Wales
Stations in New South Wales
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