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Originally station referred to the homestead – the owner's house and associated outbuildings of a pastoral property, but it now generally refers to the whole holding. Stations in Australia are on Crown land pastoral leases , and may also be known more specifically as sheep stations or cattle stations , as most are stock-specific, dependent ...
Anna Creek homestead Alexandria Station, homestead and outbuildings, Queensland, 1921 Channel Country, home to some of Queensland's largest cattle stations Dunes near Andado Cattle and horses in stockyards at Victoria River Downs circa 1985 Brumbies next to the Innamincka Track Innamincka Station 1910 Donkey team at Wave Hill station, Northern Territory, ca. 1946 Brolgas, Brunette Downs ...
Glenmore Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Belmont Road, Parkhurst, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.It was built from c. 1858 to c. 1920.The homestead and associated buildings once belonged to pastoral run on the Fitzroy River, seven kilometres northwest of Rockhampton, Queensland.
A map advertising the sale stated that the auctioneer was instructed by the owners Messrs Brown & Johnston to sell by public auction at his rooms, Bundaberg, Saturday Sept. 26th, 1891 subs. of por. 5, 9 & 10, Parish of Yandaran, County of Cook, Q'land, and 100 quarter-acre lots, and some garden lots, in same por. & farms 25 & 45 acres each.
Secondly, a new type of owner was created: grazing selectors, initially given 30 year leases on areas not larger than 20,000 acres (subsequently increased to 60,000 acres). The third major change was the successful establishment of freezing plants in north Queensland, enabling cattle producers to enter the world market.
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 grazing on rangelands.
Married women were given the right to hold a Grazing Homestead in their own right, after five years of the lease had elapsed. [7] Section 29 provided for ringbarking to be defined as an improvement. [7] Section 33 allowed a freeholder to select land adjacent to their property and not have to meet the residential requirement. [7]
Texas sits on Bigambul land, the Indigenous people of the region who inhabited the area for thousands of years prior to colonisation in the 1840s. [7] Texas, at one time, relied on its importance of grazing. It was settled in 1842 and was named after the largest nearby landholding in the area, known as Texas Station.