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Summary
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. vi |
Authors' Preface | p. viii |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
List of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Contractions | p. x |
Note on Measurements | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Genesis 1788-1830 | p. 3 |
The creation of a wool industry | p. 3 |
Expansion to the south and west | p. 8 |
Market forces on the Australian industry | p. 13 |
Adapting the Merino | p. 14 |
Summary | p. 18 |
Boom, Bust and Gold 1830-1860 | p. 19 |
Climbing onto the sheep's back | p. 20 |
Depression and boiling down | p. 37 |
Summary | p. 39 |
After the Gold Rush: An Evolving Industry 1860-1890 | p. 40 |
Changes across Australia | p. 40 |
Transporation | p. 54 |
Meat processing | p. 67 |
The best stock for Australia | p. 70 |
Summary | p. 74 |
Consolidation and Expansion 1860-1890 | p. 75 |
Optimistic expansion in New South Wales | p. 75 |
Victoria: stabilisation after the gold rush | p. 83 |
South Australia and Tasmania | p. 84 |
Western Australia: the slow starter | p. 86 |
Queensland: separation, boom, gloom and consolidation | p. 89 |
The Northern Territory: the new frontier | p. 103 |
Summary | p. 111 |
Depression and Drought 1890-1915 | p. 113 |
Advance and retreat in New South Wales | p. 113 |
Queensland: depression, drought and recovery | p. 116 |
The Northern Territory: two decades of stagnation | p. 123 |
Western Australia: the pace quickens | p. 126 |
Mixed fortunes: Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania | p. 129 |
Summary | p. 132 |
Maturity and the Golden Years 1915-1967 | p. 133 |
A national overview | p. 133 |
Transportation | p. 137 |
Twentieth-century consolidation in the south-eastern states | p. 142 |
Queensland: from drought to the golden years | p. 148 |
The Northern Territory under the Commonwealth regime | p. 158 |
The growth of Western Australia | p. 167 |
Summary | p. 171 |
Afterglow: Pastoralism into the Twenty-first Century and the Heritage of Earlier Centuries | p. 174 |
Endnotes | p. 182 |
Bibliography | p. 190 |
List of pastoral stations mentioned in the text | p. 198 |
Index | p. 203 |
Maps: | |
Spread of pastoral settlement across south-eastern Australia | p. 24 |
Ludwig Leichhardt's journey to Port Essington 1844-45 | p. 35 |
Early long-distance stock routes | p. 55 |
Spread of rabbits | p. 115 |
North Australia, expansion of pastoral settlement | p. 124 |
Queensland stock routes | p. 152 |
Boxes: | |
The Australian Agricultural Company | p. 15 |
A Saxony saga | p. 17 |
The shepherd | p. 30 |
The Overlanders | p. 33 |
Water in a dry land | p. 42 |
From shearing shed to woolshed | p. 48 |
Shearing and the shearer | p. 52 |
Droving | p. 58 |
Wool stores | p. 66 |
Establishing Bowen Downs station, Queensland | p. 92 |
The sheepdog and the cattle dog | p. 97 |
Artesian miracle | p. 101 |
The Never Ever? | p. 106 |
Erldunda station, Alice Springs district | p. 108 |
Whims and windmills | p. 110 |
Rabbits | p. 114 |
Wellshot: 'one of Australia's great sheep stations' | p. 118 |
Waltzing Matilda | p. 120 |
Bush culture | p. 127 |
The stockman | p. 128 |
Woolwashing and woolscouring | p. 130 |
Haddon Rig | p. 144 |
Walers | p. 147 |
Country Women's Association | p. 150 |
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