Queensland is home to nearly half of Australia’s beef cattle, and the vast majority of those beasts contain at least some Brahman blood.

Edward River Mission (now Pormpuraaw) crocodile farm, 1990. Slides by Marie Hayes. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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Crocodile caught near the punt on the Normanton River, trapped by the local police sergeant, Normanton, 1973. Slide by John Hindmarsh.

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Crocodile hunting, North Queensland, postcard. Murray Views Collection, Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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Crocodile sunbaking on the Daintree River, postcard. Murray Views Collection, Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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Rene Henri, founder of the Australian Crocodile Shooters’ Club, also wrote a children’s book featuring crocodile hunting.

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Skinning crocodiles is a skilled and unpleasant task as the skin needs to be cut away – it cannot be pulled away from the body like mammal skin.

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Modern firearms allowed large animals to be killed with some reliability, although at times crocodile hunters found themselves hauling in animals that were only stunned.

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This crocodile skin is being processed in Australia; many were sent overseas to be turned into manufactured goods.

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Dulice Campbell, with two crocodiles at Sunday Gully, North Queensland, c1950. While crocodile hunting was widely perceived as adventurous, dangerous, and macho some women participated.

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