Qualla: Mount Margaret Station https://qualla.com/mount-margaret-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Mount Margaret Station https://qualla.com/mount-margaret-station Mount Margaret Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/mount-margaret-station/ To grasp the scale of Mount Margaret, forget acres and think in countries. At its height this single pastoral lease on the Wilson River sprawled across 599,000 hectares of south-west Queensland - more ground than the entire sultanate of Brunei. It was, for a time, the largest sheep station in Australia, and in a continent built on big runs, that is no small claim. Out here, where the Channel Country flattens toward the Cooper, distance stops being a measurement and becomes a kind of weather: something you live inside, day after day, fence line after fence line.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/j/y/mount-margaret-station-wp/r5jy-mount-margaret-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mount Margaret Station: An Empire of Wool https://qualla.com/mount-margaret-station/ Mount Margaret's fortune was wool. By 1956, under the Killeen family's Elsinora Pastoral Company, the station carried a flock of 76,000 sheep alongside 5,000 cattle, the woolclip rolling out across one of the most remote corners of the country. Shearing on this scale, in this hea...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/j/y/mount-margaret-station-wp/r5jy-mount-margaret-station-from-sheep-to-cattle.mp3 0:06 4 full Mount Margaret Station: The Meaning of Big https://qualla.com/mount-margaret-station/ It is worth pausing on what a place this size actually means. A property larger than a nation is not measured in paddocks but in journeys; mustering it is a campaign, not a chore, and a stockman might spend days riding ground that never leaves the lease. Stations like Mount Marga...

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