Qualla: Murchison House Station https://qualla.com/murchison-house-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/1/4/murchison-house-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Murchison House Station https://qualla.com/murchison-house-station Murchison House Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/murchison-house-station/ Photo credit Hughesdarren, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1972 an Indian prince walked into a sheep station on the Western Australian coast and decided to stay. Mukarram Jah had been the 8th Nizam of Hyderabad, born to a dynasty so wealthy its rulers were once counted among the richest men alive. By the time he reached the Murchison, India had stripped away his titles, and he was looking for somewhere to disappear into. He found it here, at Murchison House Station - 350,000 acres of red earth, salt scrub and ocean frontage near the mouth of the Murchison River, one of the oldest working pastoral leases in the whole of Western Australia.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/4/murchison-house-station-wp/qe14-murchison-house-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Murchison House Station: Built by Convict Hands https://qualla.com/murchison-house-station/ Photo credit Hughesdarren, CC BY-SA 4.0. The station was founded in 1858 by Charles von Bibra, who set out to supply meat and wheat to the lead miners at nearby Galena, beef to a growing Perth, and remount horses for the British army in India. The first homestead, still known as von Bibra's cottage, was raised by convic...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/4/murchison-house-station-wp/qe14-murchison-house-station-built-by-convict-hands.mp3 0:06 2 full Murchison House Station: Death From a Clear Sky https://qualla.com/murchison-house-station/ Photo credit Hughesdarren, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 5 December 1921, the station witnessed a grim first. Sir Norman Brearley's West Australian Airways had just begun the country's first regular airmail run, and on one of those early flights a Bristol Tourer biplane got into trouble over the property. The pilot, Bob Fawcett, and...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/4/murchison-house-station-wp/qe14-murchison-house-station-death-from-a-clear-sky.mp3 0:06 3 full Murchison House Station: The Reluctant Nizam https://qualla.com/murchison-house-station/ Photo credit Hughesdarren, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mukarram Jah's chapter reads like a fable about the limits of inherited fortune. He had lost his royal titles and privileges in 1971 when India amended its constitution, and the following year he sank himself into station life on the far side of the Indian Ocean, more at home tin...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/4/murchison-house-station-wp/qe14-murchison-house-station-the-reluctant-nizam.mp3 0:06 4 full Murchison House Station: Goats, Guns and a Working Future https://qualla.com/murchison-house-station/ Photo credit Hughesdarren, CC BY-SA 4.0. The station never stopped being a working property. Earlier in its life it ran on a grand pastoral scale - around twenty thousand sheep and a hundred and fifty horses by the mid-1930s - before the long shift away from wool. The shearing shed, derelict by the late twentieth centur...

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