Qualla: Rawlinna Station https://qualla.com/rawlinna-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/f/3/p/rawlinna-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rawlinna Station https://qualla.com/rawlinna-station Rawlinna Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/rawlinna-station/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. 17177 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Two and a half million acres. Say it slowly, because the number is hard to hold. Rawlinna Station spreads across more than 10,000 square kilometres of the Nullarbor, an expanse of land bigger than some entire countries, all of it given over to sheep. This is the largest sheep station in Australia, out in the parched south-east corner of Western Australia where the Trans-Australian Railway runs ruler-straight along its boundary. To muster a flock here is to manage livestock across a wilderness, and the wilderness was never going to make it easy.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/p/rawlinna-station-wp/qf3p-rawlinna-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rawlinna Station: A Wall Against the Dingoes https://qualla.com/rawlinna-station/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. 17177 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. The great enemy of a Nullarbor grazier is the wild dog. Dingoes and feral dogs hunt sheep across this open country, and Rawlinna's answer is a fence on a scale to match the station: a three-metre dog-proof barrier, 370 kilometres long, with marsupial netting buried at its base to...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/p/rawlinna-station-wp/qf3p-rawlinna-station-a-wall-against-the-dingoes.mp3 0:06 2 full Rawlinna Station: Ten Thousand Years Before the Fence https://qualla.com/rawlinna-station/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. 17177 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Long before any lease was pegged, this was the country of the Ngalea and Wangai peoples, who have lived across this region for more than ten thousand years, reading a landscape that newcomers found baffling and bleak. When the explorer Edward John Eyre crossed the Nullarbor in 18...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/p/rawlinna-station-wp/qf3p-rawlinna-station-ten-thousand-years-before-the-fence.mp3 0:06 3 full Rawlinna Station: The Work of the Wool https://qualla.com/rawlinna-station/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. 17177 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Rawlinna is an amalgamation of three older holdings, the Pondana, Rawlinna and Vanesk leases, fused into one giant under the long stewardship of the Jumbuck Pastoral Company. The numbers of the work are staggering in their own right: in 2001 the station shore 78,417 sheep for 2,1...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/p/rawlinna-station-wp/qf3p-rawlinna-station-the-work-of-the-wool.mp3 0:06 4 full Rawlinna Station: A Giant Changes Hands https://qualla.com/rawlinna-station/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. 17177 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Even Australia's biggest sheep station feels the pull of larger forces. In 2023 the mining and energy company Fortescue announced plans to buy Rawlinna and turn its endless sun-struck flats into renewable energy generation, before withdrawing in 2024 amid delays in the ministeria...

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