Central Queensland pastoral icon

By Peter Austin
Updated May 17 2016 - 7:28am, first published May 15 2016 - 5:00am
FarmBuy Real Estate
Although geared to beef in recent years, “Portland Downs” has a long history of successful woolgrowing, and 30 years ago produced the nation’s biggest private woolclip.
Although geared to beef in recent years, “Portland Downs” has a long history of successful woolgrowing, and 30 years ago produced the nation’s biggest private woolclip.

ON THE outer Barcoo (“where the churches are few”), sits not only the putative shanty of the Michael Magee immortalised in one of “Banjo” Paterson’s popular verses, but also one of Australia’s premier pastoral properties.

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