Qualla: Dillalah https://qualla.com/dillalah 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/p/z/dillalah-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dillalah https://qualla.com/dillalah Dillalah: Introduction https://qualla.com/dillalah/ Photo credit Public domain. The name comes from a bird at a waterhole. In the local Aboriginal language, dillalah means galah - the pink-and-grey parrot that gathers in noisy flocks across inland Australia - and the name was taken from a waterhole on the Warrego River where the country was first stocked. From that small, specific origin grew one of the great pastoral runs of southwest Queensland: a station that at its peak sprawled across more than a thousand square miles, changed hands again and again as fortunes rose and collapsed, and outlasted a procession of owners whose names survive now mostly in the auction notices of long-dead newspapers.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/p/z/dillalah-wp/r5pz-dillalah-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dillalah: Stocking the Warrego https://qualla.com/dillalah/ Photo credit Public domain. Dillalah lies on the western side of the Warrego River, roughly 54 kilometres southwest of Charleville and about 138 kilometres north of Cunnamulla, cut through by the Nimminmulla Creek and its chain of permanent waterholes. That water was the making of it. By 1864 the run was he...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/p/z/dillalah-wp/r5pz-dillalah-stocking-the-warrego.mp3 0:06 2 full Dillalah: A Run That Kept Changing Hands https://qualla.com/dillalah/ Photo credit Public domain. Few properties illustrate the restless economics of frontier grazing better than Dillalah. In 1869 it belonged to Russell and Company, who offered it for sale with 2,100 head of cattle. By 1873 it was on the market once more, paired with neighbouring Yarronvale Station; together ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/p/z/dillalah-wp/r5pz-dillalah-a-run-that-kept-changing-hands.mp3 0:06 3 full Dillalah: From Cattle to Sheep https://qualla.com/dillalah/ Photo credit Public domain. By the late 1870s and 1880s the run was larger still and under new management. Frederick Walters was running it in 1878, and he stayed on as manager when the Dillalah Company took ownership in 1883, by which time the property had reached around 1,000 square miles. That same year ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/p/z/dillalah-wp/r5pz-dillalah-from-cattle-to-sheep.mp3 0:06 4 full Dillalah: A Name From the River https://qualla.com/dillalah/ Photo credit Public domain. It is easy to overlook how much the land here speaks an older language. Long before W. G. Conn stocked his first cattle, the waterholes of the Warrego carried Aboriginal names, and Dillalah is one of them - the word for galah in the local tongue, fixed to a particular bend of riv...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/p/z/dillalah-wp/r5pz-dillalah-a-name-from-the-river.mp3 0:06 5 full Dillalah: Resumed, and Rained On https://qualla.com/dillalah/ Photo credit Public domain. In 1916 the Queensland government stepped in, resuming the homestead portion of the run - a total of 24,000 acres carrying 3,100 cattle - as part of the era's drive to break up the big leases for closer settlement. The state paid £13,000, with another £10,000 earmarked for future...

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