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The family business, Quilty and Sons, acquired the property in 1917 from Messrs, Mather, Ross, Manning and
Ralston for £34,000. The 900-square-mile (2,331 km) property was stocked with 8,500 head of cattle and 80 horses. Patrick Quilty was left to manage Bedford Downs while his brother
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Established some time prior to 1906 by the
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by white station hands and then shot or clubbed to death. The bodies were subsequently burned by the local police. The series of paintings by
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Buntine acquired the property in the early 2000s then sold it in 2011 to the Paraway Pastoral Company which is owned by the
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men occurred on the station after the men were tried for spearing a milking cow. They were fed food laced with
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Bedford were named in 1903 after Admiral
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It is situated about 84 kilometres (52 mi) west of
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414:. Melbourne, Victoria. 16 November 1921. p. 12
310:Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood
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460:"Retrospective works display rare intensity"
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119:and 109 kilometres (68 mi) north of
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350:The Sydney Stock and Station Journal
345:"Sales of WA and Territory Stations"
288:. Perth. 22 November 1907. p. 7
260:. Perth. 5 February 1928. p. 18
165:named Harry Annear was murdered by
16:Pastoral lease in Western Australia
381:Australian Dictionary of Biography
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377:"Quilty, Thomas John (1887–1979)"
173:in 1921. The Aboriginal artist,
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545:"Macquarie buys Buntine Assets"
280:"The Kimberley Cattle Industry"
385:Australian National University
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488:"Obituary Mr. Patrick Quilty"
136:Governor of Western Australia
49:Location in Western Australia
232:List of ranches and stations
215:from W. J. McAdam in 1948.
158:in the Northern Territory.
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449:Craftsman House, 1996 p.84
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252:"Western Australian Names"
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169:on the property near the
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307:Germaine Greer (2002).
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208:depicts these events.
206:Bedford Downs Killings
156:Euroka Springs Station
198:Indigenous Australian
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406:"Murder by Natives"
285:The West Australian
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768:Noonkanbah
753:Mount Hart
738:Mornington
668:El Questro
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238:References
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180:In 1924 a
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673:Ellenbrae
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594:Stations
226:See also
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