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Plan of six farms on the Fitzroy River, Rockhampton, 1859

Fitzroy River

Rockhampton

Australia

See map: Google Maps

1 January 1859

6 December 2010

Location

Fitzroy River

Rockhampton

Australia

See map: Google Maps

6 December 2010

Surveyor General’s Department, New South Wales

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Plan of six farms on the Fitzroy River, Rockhampton, 1859. The inset drawing by the surveyor Clarendon Stuart depicts two Aboriginal people observing a boat on the Fitzroy River. Potentially they would dispute the sale of the best land indicated on the plan. Collection of the Queensland State Archives.

Properties for sale, 1908

1 January 1908

17 November 2010

The Land seekers guide to Queensland and catalogue of properties for sale and crown land selection, from Land seekers guide to Queensland, Brisbane, Pulsfields, 1908

Queensland for ‘the best kind of population, primary producers’

As the second State in Australia, Queensland, while smaller than Western Australia, could still fit, within its borders, the entire land mass of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, with New Zealan

Missions and reserves

‘Surviving the system’

DPI officers surveying contour bank, Murgon District, 1958. Slides by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Soil

I used to put my dairy herd in that paddock, and if all of the cows stood in the bottom of a gully at the same time, you couldn’t see a beast in the paddock!

Brigalow land sale, 1973

1 January 1973

22 October 2010

Collection Queensland State Archives

Free plan for Brigalow land sale, west of Rockhampton in 1973. The plans were drawn by Survey Office and published by the Department of Lands, Brisbane. Good quality plans could be purchased from the Survey Office, this plan on thin tracing paper was for free distribution. Collection of Queensland State Archives

Pulling brigalow scrub with chain and hiball, and rotary slasher in brigalow suckers, 1964. From R.W. Johnson, 'The ecology and control of Brigalow', 1964, Plate 24 and 60

Brigalow suckered country near Tara, reclaimed by burning off and stocking with five sheep to the hectare in the late 1930s. Note the water-filled melonholes. Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Plate IXb

The Brigalow

In Burning off, Dorothea MacKellar, author of My country, celebrates the destruction of native bushland as a ‘great and old’ tree becomes ‘A red-hot column whence fly the sparks,