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which is approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) south east of the station. Occupying an area of 10,353 square kilometres (3,997 sq mi) of open plains, floodplain and wooded sandhills the property carries about 45,000 head of cattle including about 20,000
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The government resumed an area of 1 square mile (3 km) from the station in 1930 to create a townsite. A works depot and a police station already existed in the area at the time. By the 1960s it was a virtual
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was a partner in the station along with Ken
Warriner, Peter Baillieu and Tony Chisholm when the group purchased the property in 1983. Packer later attempted to purchase the prestigious
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The station was turning off large numbers of cattle since the early 1900s, 1,100 were turned off via
Hergott Springs in 1905 and another 1,260 being droved to
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were once grazing at the station with the first flock of being moved off in 1897.
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in 1984 only to have the deal blocked by the state government. His son,
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781:"Terra Firma buys Packer's cattle ranches"
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671:"Big Bushfire In Northern Territory"
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443:"PASSING OF PIONEER PASTORALIST"
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