Qualla: Aramac Station https://qualla.com/aramac-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/z/m/aramac-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Aramac Station https://qualla.com/aramac-station Aramac Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/aramac-station/ Photo credit Contributor(s): Reckitt & Mills, Public domain. The name is a riddle solved by a tree. Somewhere on a creek in central Queensland, the pastoralist Robert Ramsay Mackenzie carved his initials into the bark: "R.R. Mac." When the explorer William Landsborough came through in 1859 and found the watercourse, he named it for those letters, and so a creek, and later a station, and later a whole town came to be called Aramac, the contracted signature of a man who would go on to become Queensland's first colonial treasurer and, briefly, its premier. He never lived here. He only left his mark, and the mark became a place.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/z/m/aramac-station-wp/r5zm-aramac-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aramac Station: The People Whose Country This Was https://qualla.com/aramac-station/ Photo credit Contributor(s): Reckitt & Mills, Public domain. Long before any of that, this was Iningai country. The plains along Aramac Creek, a tributary of the Thomson River, had been home to the Iningai people for thousands of years, and when an archaeologist later excavated one of the old camp sites along the creek he recorded the arte...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/z/m/aramac-station-wp/r5zm-aramac-station-the-people-whose-country-this-was.mp3 0:06 2 full Aramac Station: A Run on the Frontier https://qualla.com/aramac-station/ Photo credit Contributor(s): Reckitt & Mills, Public domain. The station was established in 1863, just after neighbouring Bowen Downs, when John Rule and Dyson Lacey settled along the creek and stocked it with sheep. The country tested them at once. Waterholes failed in the dry, and when the rains finally came in June the creek flooded so ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/z/m/aramac-station-wp/r5zm-aramac-station-a-run-on-the-frontier.mp3 0:06 3 full Aramac Station: Sheep by the Hundred Thousand https://qualla.com/aramac-station/ Photo credit Contributor(s): Reckitt & Mills, Public domain. Once established, Aramac grew into one of the great runs of the west, sprawling across roughly 850 square miles of grazing and desert country. It changed hands often, each owner reckoned by the size of the flock. Roderick Travers folded it into his Malvern Downs holding; by 1875 ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/z/m/aramac-station-wp/r5zm-aramac-station-sheep-by-the-hundred-thousand.mp3 0:06 4 full Aramac Station: Fire, Hardship, and the Carve-Up https://qualla.com/aramac-station/ Photo credit Contributor(s): Reckitt & Mills, Public domain. Life on the run was precarious for the men who worked it. In December 1876 bushfires swept the station, and Robert Durban, a town volunteer who had come out to help beat back the flames, was burned to death alongside a Pacific Islander labourer, one of the South Sea men whom the ...

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