Qualla: Mount Augustus Station https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mount Augustus Station https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station Mount Augustus Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0. In 1923, the auctioneers advertised a property the size of a small country: one million acres, four thousand square kilometres of the Gascoyne, stocked with 4,500 cattle and watered by three rivers and five wells. The land wrapped around the base of the largest rock on Earth. Mount Augustus Station had already changed hands and fortunes more than once by then, and it would again - but the headline that drew buyers was always the same. Here was room to run cattle until the horizon ran out, in a country that gave generously in the good years and took it all back in the dry.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-station-wp/qeej-mount-augustus-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mount Augustus Station: Two Brothers and a Frontier https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0. Samuel James Phillips and John Hughes Phillips established the station in 1887, claiming grazing country at the very edge of European settlement in Western Australia. The edge pushed back. The Wajarri people whose land this was did not surrender it quietly, and the early years we...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-station-wp/qeej-mount-augustus-station-two-brothers-and-a-frontier.mp3 0:06 2 full Mount Augustus Station: The Duffer Rush https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0. In 1893, word raced through the colony that gold had been struck near Mount Augustus. The diggers came fast, as they always did, dreaming of the next Coolgardie. The dream collapsed almost as quickly. The gold proved scattered across one small patch and nowhere else worth the lab...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-station-wp/qeej-mount-augustus-station-the-duffer-rush.mp3 0:06 3 full Mount Augustus Station: Boom, Bust, and Better Rains https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0. The station's ledger reads like a barometer of the outback's moods. By 1909, after a run of generous seasons, the property carried 10,000 head on land in fine condition. Other years brought drought, debt, and the auctioneer's gavel. Ownership passed through the Western Australian...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-station-wp/qeej-mount-augustus-station-boom-bust-and-better-rains.mp3 0:06 4 full Mount Augustus Station: From Cattle to Travellers https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0. The drovers eventually gave ground to tourists. By 2012 the Hammarquist family held the station, and alongside the cattle work they ran the Mount Augustus Tourist Park - fuel, supplies, and a bed for the thousands of travellers who now make the long pilgrimage each year to see Bu...

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