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The
Australian Land and Cattle Company was incorporated in 1969 in Western Australia by Jack Miller Fletcher and Corey Crutcher. At its height, the company owned seven prime Kimberley stations covering nearly 20,000 square kilometres (7,722 sq mi) and carrying 100,000 head of cattle. Among
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Comprising an area of 2,650 square kilometres (1,023 sq mi), it has a carrying capacity of over 22,000 head of cattle. The livestock manager since 2010 has been Peter "Jed" O'Brien, but the property also grows fodder for livestock using three centre-pivot irrigators and is experimenting
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In 1949 the property occupied 700,000 acres (2,833 km) and the station recorded over 14 inches (356 mm) of rain in a week, resulting in more stock losses. It had 800 miles (1,287 km) of fencing dividing the property into 60 paddocks. For the previous few years an average of 57,000
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group consists of the main house, workers' kitchen and dining room, meat house, shearers' quarters, workshop and the garden. The main house has stone walls with cement mortar and corrugated iron roofing. The surrounding verandah has steel supports and unlined timber purloins. It was built in the
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acquired a 50% stake in both
Liveringa and neighbouring Nerrima Station in 2014. Rinehart teamed up with agribusiness group Milne Agrigroup who already owned the properties. Liveringa was stocked with approximately 22,000 head of cattle. The half share was acquired for
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between 1951 and 1953 with the number of cattle being reduced by half. This was the first drought suffered by pastoralists in 70 years, with many hurriedly sinking bores and buying feed to keep their stock alive. Other nearby properties that were affected were
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Kim Rose was appointed manager at
Liveringa in 1930; Rose was a director of the Kimberley Pastoral company that owned the property. Later the same year a freak deluge of rain left 210,000 acres (850 km) of land underwater and drowned 30,000 sheep.
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and storeroom were constructed between 1886 and 1888. The homestead and outbuildings were constructed under the supervision of John McLarty the inaugural manager of the property. The buildings were situated on a knoll with a view over a
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and the
Fitzroy River. The original homestead was made of bush timbers and corrugated iron and was demolished in 1908 by the third manager of Liveringa, Percy Rose, who was building a new one. The new homestead was constructed of local
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In 2002 the property commenced the process of gradually changing the genetic base of the herd by introducing a crossbreeding program to produce red lines suitable for live export or sale into southern markets. Red
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The property and surrounding areas were severely flooded in 1914, and again in 1938 resulting in the death of a former jockey, William
Skinner, who drowned in the flooded Nerrima River.
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under flood irrigation; the crop was then used in company feedlots to fatten cattle. In 1972 the last of the sheep were sold off to stations in the
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The
Kimberley Pastoral Company was formed in 1881 and won the lottery to acquire the leasehold for the area of land. The syndicate consisted of
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the properties acquired were
Camballin and Liveringa stations. At Liveringa the company cleared 25,000 hectares (61,776 acres) of land to grow
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393:"Large-scale fodder conservation, kangaroos, and crocodiles were among the highlights of a recent visit to A West Kimberley Sheep Station"
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The station contains large areas of river flats that are quite fertile and grow a variety of herbage suitable for fodder, including
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In 1973, a 6,000 hectares (14,826 acres) portion of the property to the west of the homestead was excised and reserved for the
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was chartered to take A. Cornish and the McLarty brothers along with sheep, horses, cattle and provisions from
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and the only stock remaining were cattle. The
Australian Land and Cattle Company collapsed in the 1980s.
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In 1911 the station was carrying a flock of 98,000 sheep and yielded a clip of 1419
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for fresh water before continuing inland to set up camp at
Liveringa. The first
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State
Register of Heritage Places in the Shire of Derby-West Kimberley
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region, the property has a 100-kilometre (62 mi) frontage on the
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Situated about 5 kilometres (3 mi) south east of the
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705:"Gina Rinehart invests in Kimberley cattle stations"
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and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south east of
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703:Olivia Garnett and Tyne McConnan (2 July 2014).
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555:"Drought Inflicts Big Cattle Loss In Kimberley"
502:"Liveringa's heritage – A window into the past"
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49:Location in Western Australia
331:List of ranches and stations
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421:"Liveringa Homestead Group"
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507:. Kimberley Society. 1996
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688:17 November
678:Farm Weekly
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622:18 November
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567:15 November
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405:17 November
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267:, Quandan,
209:Yeeda Creek
120:Description
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63:124°10′19″E
1002:Categories
977:Springvale
957:Noonkanbah
942:Mount Hart
927:Mornington
857:El Questro
789:region of
342:References
261:Noonkanbah
205:King Sound
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60:18°02′56″S
897:Liveringa
862:Ellenbrae
847:Cherrabun
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787:Kimberley
740:20 August
714:20 August
265:Cherrabun
231:sandstone
226:billabong
213:homestead
201:Fremantle
167:in 2005.
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94:Liveringa
84:Liveringa
38:Liveringa
952:Myroodah
783:Stations
479:cite web
325:See also
221:woolshed
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912:Mandora
887:Ivanhoe
872:Glenroy
785:in the
308:brahman
304:brangus
289:Pilbara
285:sorghum
273:Glenroy
256:drought
171:History
132:in the
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592:. 2011
187:, and
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