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I have just completed a 12month road trip around Australia and fascinating doesn't even begin to describe this amazing country.
Fun fact ... King Ranch in Texas, the biggest Ranch in the USA doesn't qualify in size to be classed as a station in Australia
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sorry not the right one
More like a hobby farm.
More like a home paddock.
There just holding pens
Yes in Queensland, we laugh when American's say, as big as Texas or nothing is bigger than what they have in Texas. Texas fits into Qld 2.5 times!
Back in 2011 we experienced a massive flood, Queensland (l live Lockyer Valley) l recall seeing a news anchorman explaining size comparison for the American viewers....the flood size covered the entire size of Texas.
Queensland (1.852 million square kilometres) is bloody small ya drongo, try Western Australia (2.646 square kilometres). More than four times bigger than Texas.
@@kenchristie9214 True Ken, but I can remember the look on George W Bush's face when Kevin Rudd told him Queensland was much bigger than Texas - a happy moment.
@@kenchristie9214 typical response from someone living in West Oz 😂 just a jealous Queenslander here mate!
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I think if W.A was a country, it would be the 10th biggest in the world.
Did you hear about the Texan rancher bragging to the Aussie station owner? He said his ranch was so big it took all day to ride the boundry on his horse. The Aussie dryly replied, yeah, I once had a horse like that.
Then the Texan saw dozens of kangaroos leaping across the valley. “What the heck are those things?” The Aussie replied, “What? You don’t have rats in Texas?”
@@Jeni10 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Jeni10 Lmao
@@Jeni10 . They aren't Rats . They're LOCUSTS .
@@johncunningham4820 But locusts are insects and don’t have fur. They’re definitely rats and have been rats for the last thirty years.
FYI, Lake Eyre, is pronounced 'Air'. Woomera, 'woo-ma-rah'. While Anna Creek Station is the biggest, it is among a lot of stations across Australia that are all incredibly big. In the Kimberley's and the Pilbara, roundups are done with helicopters because it's impossible to find and round up the stock otherwise.
ty and lake eyre is beautiful
@@judithhobson5868
Whether wet or dry, it's amazing. 😉😊
Oodnadatta - as in Mad Hatta.
A couple of years ago I posted on a similar video that a close friend of mine grew up on a sheep station larger than Scotland and the amount of flak I copped from people saying I was talking nonsense kind of dismayed me. Her driveway was over 90 kms long and by the age of 11 her dad let her drive down it to check if there was mail in the letter box. It was about a 3 hour round trip lol. I’ve visited quite a few stations in my time and spent a huge chunk of my life working in the outback and it’s a seriously big bit of empty. I love it there….
You’ve reminded me of when I lived in Belgium in 1977 and there was news of terrible bushfires all along the east coast of Australia. I could tell they didn’t really understand the scale so I said “Think of a fire that is burning all the way from Sweden to Spain”. They were shocked…
Some people in these tiny little country's have no idea what 'the outback' means.
I was born in claire valley Sth Aus and on our farms we all had bush basher cars us kids drove down to the front gate to get the bus to school.
Our was a old army FX Holden ute 3 speed manual column shift
Been driving since i was 10 and over 40 and only been in one accident and was a truck drivers fault who hit me in the side on a round about.
@@nedkelly9688 The first car I drove was an old FJ with "3 on the tree". Ah the memories...
Nowadays if people think you're lying, at least you can pull up Google maps and absolutely blow their mind and perception of scale
4:21 Australian farms also often use helicopters. The helicopter is used to locate groups of cattle, and then the pilot can direct the bike riders to the area.
They also use the helicopters for herding
@@nelsondawson9706 you mean like in this video that I've been trying to get Ian to watch for ages...
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@@nelsondawson9706 the job with the highest fatality rate in the world.
They're still jackaroos.
@@thebaconsonful source? otherwise it is a nope
When I was a younger man I worked on an outback station on the Northern Territory Western Australia border as a bore runner and station hand it was over 6500 square kilometres . My boss Peter Sherwin owned many stations and at one stage owned the
Equivalent of 6% of Australia’s landmass . Was a great experience but very Isolated and lonely . Left that to work in a coal mine in Queensland driving a giant dump truck . Special country the Kimberly country .
Yes it is mate 👍
Very lonely, so so beautiful. Every kilometre is different to the last if you open your eyes. Its a shame a lot of aussies dont ever travel their own country. so much better than overseas in my opinion.
Rawlinna station is actually the biggest station property in Australia. Situated in Western Australia on the Nullarbor. And hasn't Anna Creek station been scaled down over the years? 😕
@@jonb3848 Agree my parents took me out of school at age 7 and put us in to correspondence schooling and we travelled around Australia for two years in a caravan.. spent 3 days in the bush just pull up and stay the night.. hunt animals explore. once a week spent in van parks washing clothes and proper showers instead of camp showers lol.
But i am happy if never see the world as have seen how beautiful Australia is.
And learned to not rely on shops etc..
During covid and food shortages i never panicked as would go fishing or hunting if needed to.
That is 461,280 sq kilometres.
5:25 The cave houses are done because they remain nice and cool, even in summer. In winter, the rock absorbs the limited sunlight, keeping them warm.
Dispelling the myth that only old peoples were cave people. All along it's just people living in caves.
LiMiTED ..I GREW MY KIDS IN CP ..NEVER is SUNSHINE ..LIMITD
Had a relative live in CP.. remember being hot as hell outside and cold down in the house underground.. remember a old relative sitting up with a blanket on and the heater going haha.
My dad did a charity motorbike ride around Australia for 6-8weeks. He's a registered nurse and with a bunch of other nurses and psychologists and psychiatrists who are also motorbike enthusiasts from all over the country they got together, called themselves Psychs on Bikes and went and visited remote communities to give free health checks and mental health checks and supports. I quite honestly hadn't seen him so happy and in his element. He sent me a picture one morning of a guy who'd just flown his helicopter to the local to grab coffees and take off again 😂 I'll get round to travelling the country one day, there's some amazing people with some amazing stories and priceless wisdoms and knowledge out there that I'd love to listen to and learn from
I lived on a big property years ago and I asked the owner how big it was and he said he runs a hundred thousand head of rabbits in the back paddock and two hundred thousand head of wombats in the front..
So the main part of the farm was for roos...
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Lake Eyre is pronounced "air" not "ire"... the moment it was out of his mouth my teeth started to grate...
also, Woomera is pronounced wum-a-rah (like woman but drop the "n"), the area was used as a nuclear test range in the 50s by the poms and still has defence department connections now...
Thanks - same here - these Americans and who basically read statistics and a story about somewhere and rattle them off, annoys the crap out of me. I'd rather have someone who has experienced our Country than these channels who purport to be experts and are basically wannabe know it alls.
not to mention it isnt "jibber" plains haha
@tGrandy 28 he pronounciation wrong isnt that so offensive ?
Don’t forget oood-na-dat-ah
@@jameswatson6752 i used to pronunce it as lake errie LOL
Lake Eyre is pronounced Lake Air.. Ive heard it pronounced a number of different ways but never the correct way... the one i loved the most was lake eerie.
Lake Eerie is Lake Erie . One of the Great Lakes on the St Lawrence River between Canada and the USA .
@@johncunningham4820 but we arent talking about a lake over there.. so not sure what ur point is
Yeah it's a clanger. In Ballarat quite a few streets have the same name and they pronounce it " i are", even though we all learned about Lake Eyre "air" as kids.
And in Warrnambool one of the main streets is Timor named after the Indonesian island /independent nation, but locals pronounce it "tie more".
@@CQuinnLady . It's a comment concerning You-Tube posters not really researching enough.............
@@CQuinnLady I got John’s point straight away. The narrator mispronounced Lake Eyre as he may be already be familiar with Lake Erie due to its location in North America. John gave us geographical perspective and a mini lesson in understanding someone else’s mistake. Your derisive comment just backfired.
I am the proud owner of 10 hectares (25 acres) of native bush in the Perth hills about 1 hours drive from the city centre my back fence is the boundary line of the Avon Valley National Park which is huge this means I have a lot of native wildlife roaming around. I often see Kangaroos and Wallabies etc when sitting on my back patio.
i had 23acres between toodjay an gidji. morangup
Sounds like paradise!
My family has 10 hectares of semi-arid land in far west NSW. It's nice it has a sometimes flowing river through it. Perfect place to get away from anything modern.
My dream!! Currently have 2500 square meters in Darlington. Next move will be out your way!
I was up at my sisters in Lesmurdie last night for tea...she only has half an acre but it's mainly a bush block .. it's so wonderful to sit out the back on her verandah seeing the possums in her gum trees and spotting Quendas and feeding the kookaburras...we love it up there ...I truly envy you your wonderful slice of heaven in the hills sounds like heaven 😊🇦🇺❤️
6:00 From someone who is driven most of it, Yup, it is a land of extremes. And I have loved exploring every bit of it.
The vast distances? I used to cannonball Townsville on the east coast to Alice springs and then back over a 3 day weekend (sometimes 2 days). That's a 4500km round trip (2796mi). But when you can have 250-300kms between towns, once you get away from the coast, it doesn't seam that far :)
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5:36 I have driven that stretch above when it looks like nothing but red dirt and death, and came back a week later after the storms and it is green and gold and alive with wild flower and life.
Your bottom comment needs to be seen.
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5:36 I have driven that stretch above when it looks like nothing but red dirt and death, and came back a week later after the storms and it is green and gold and alive with wild flower and life.
@@garryrichardson4572 It is amazing to see. Something I have witnessed several times now :)
Same in the north of Western Australia. Pillars and Kimberly is incredible country
@@carolynh8866 I have done the afternoon sunsets across the ranges and the colours are awsomes :P
When Sir Sydney Kidman died in 1935 it is estimated he owned land variously stated to have covered from 85,000 square miles (220,000 km2) to 107,000 square miles (280,000 km2), the latter figure equating to 3.7 per cent of the area of Australia's mainland.
If his property holdings were a country it would be the 107 th biggest country in the world. Bigger than North Korea, Iceland, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, Taiwan and so on.
Also, a while back you did a thing on the highway across the Nullabor Plain. Have a look at the Gunbarrel Highway. It consists of about 1,350 km (840 mi) of washaways, heavy corrugations, stone, sand and flood plains. The Gunbarrel Highway connects Victory Downs in the Northern Territory to Carnegie Station in Western Australia.
Rawlinna station in Western Australia per say is the biggest in Australia. Anna Creek is probably the biggest cattle station although definitely not the most productive due to SA being the driest state, once you are north of Port Augusta you are the least fertile areas of Australia with lite rain all year.
Yea Kidmans owned 13 properties at one point and is actress Nicole Kidmans family.
Remember her saying would visit on holidays.
@@nedkelly9688 Nicole Kidman isn’t a direct relative of Sid Kidman Sid only had female children who survived childhood Hence his descendants aren’t named Kidman. He married a cousin of mine and my great great grandfather and great aunts lived in his house at Kapunda, South Australia.
One great aunt married George Kidman Sid’s nephew. George died on the Birdsville track before his only son was born.
My grandparents managed two of his stations Tinapagee and another whose name escapes me.
Yea maybe tell all the sources on the internet that then lol.
Are a few saying they are related to those Kidmans who own those properties.
Another famous family that had large station lease was the Duracks that had land in the Kimberley known as Argyle Downs.
My dad was a stockman at Alexandria Station back when it was 11,000 square miles and the biggest farm in the world. Before most of it had to get sold off because of a law restricting the amount of foreign ownership of Australian land was introduced. And back then they still used horses almost exclusively, it was long before helicopter herding.
Lake Eyre is actually pronounced “Lake Air” and not “Lake Ire” like the commentator said.
Oh thank you, I was about to correct that
That also ircked me. If you can spend the time to make a video you can spend the time getting the names pronunciation right
@@lesliedavis2185 You choose your own preferred pronunciation. I deliberately say Mel Born and Briz Bane. It drives me mates nuts but I love it.
I lived in a dugout in Coober Pedy for about a year when I worked at the Opal Inn just before 9/11. Great place. The golf course green is created with sump oil.
Speaking of road trips, 500km in a straight line, no fences, no hills, the occasional road train... isn't a lot of fun. You go a little stir crazy after a while but the sunsets are incredible. Imagine a huge red ball that covers literally half the horizon.
G'day, I lived on a Cattle property in North West QLD, about 800SQ KM (500SQ Miles), They ran a small Caravan park and would get lits of "Grey Nomads" and "Backpackers", Good times. They ran about 6000 breeders.
800 sq km is about 308 sq miles. For our Texan readers, note that this is still more than twice the size of the average backyard in Australia.
@@rais1953 Wanted to say that but you beat me to it 🙂
@@rais1953 G'day, I thought there might have been something wrong with my math. i was trying to convert to km as the owner is into his 80s now. He still thinks and speaks in the old language.
Rawlinna station is the biggest in Australia situated on the Nullarbor plain in Western Australia it's bloody huge people have wandered onto it never to be seen again. Temps can hover up to 52C in the summer. Anna Creek is the biggest Cattle station.
NT and Qld have some vast areas too I understand that but there are more individual stations.
There used to be a cattle station bigger than the state of Texas. It was called Victoria Downs, after Queen Victoria, but got split between 2 sons when the father or grandfather died & became Victoria Downs & Elizabeth Downs - Queen Victoria & Queen Elizabeth.
Yeah, back in the day Victoria River Downs had an area of 41,000 square kilometres (15,830 sq mi). So just short of being twice as big as Anna Creek. Not bigger than Texas though, but maybe some of the pastoral companies had combined holdings that big. When checking the numbers, the Internet tells me China has 2 mega dairy farms bigger than Anna Creek. But it is China, and the Government can do whatever it wants, so not that surprising really.
Good old VRD.
If you like bragging stories, Kerry Packer at the casino is a good one. Story goes he was playing in a High roller area and this American guy was bragging on and on about how rich he was. So Kerry just turns to him and says I'll toss you for it!
Yep, have a read of 'The rise and rise of Kerry Packer'. Its an interesting yarn.
I love how people say "Things are bigger in Texas" obviously knows anything about Australia.
We have the biggest ranch, biggest rock, biggest reef, Biggest Spiders, biggest crabs (on Christmas Island) and longest fence. 😂
Adds largest weapons testing area. 🤣 And termite mounds. Sure I must have missed other things.
The longest straight railroad line in the world across the Nullarbor Plain, thanks JamesDavy2009.
The Big Pineapple
The Big Orange
The Big Lobster
The Big Koala
Just to name a few! 😉
@@samcox9133 😂🤣
@@samcox9133 HAHAHA🤣🤣😂😂
@@samcox9133 I wasn't counting those touristy things. 😂 Other countries might have similar, pretty sure the US does.
Biggest chickens, biggest rats?
The leasing arrangement is pretty common in the more arid areas as the government owns most of it. It's called Crown Land. But the leases are usually a 99 year lease and they are pretty much guaranteed to be renewed once the 99 years lapse. It's more of a weird administration oddity than a typical land lease. They were introduced as a way for the government to try to entice people to develop the arid interior years ago. The ACT and Canberra is also all government owed land so nobody actually owns land in Canberra. You can buy a house but not the land it sits on.
Property titles must be drawn up different to the rest of The Nation in regards to stipulations etc .
@@yannikavadas1490 They are, as being and ex Canberran, people across the border in Queanbeyan used to think you were stupid to buy a house in Canberra because of the lease. I think it is to do with act, and NT being territories rather than states.
@@thebaconsonful yep it is
@@yannikavadas1490 its true
So at any time in canberra the gov can go "you got 60 days to move we gonna seize your land to mine for uranium"
Yes, and this also means that pastoral leases can operate alongside mining leases on the same ground, which means resources can be extracted easier, rather than dealing with an "owner" you just have the pastoralist.
Gads, so many mispronunciations it was painful.
My Dad had the postal contract that ran from Leonora (Outback Western Australia, where we lived in the 1970s) to Wiluna, 180 miles each way. There’s not much out there except sheep stations, mining camps and small watering holes. “Mail” was anything from a letter to a truckload of diesel, bales of wool, kangaroo carcasses (for pet food), you name it.
5:27 The first photo of William Creek is accurate. It's desert. It's flat. It's pretty sparse. Yes it absolutely has a hotel but not the modern-looking multistorey hotel pictured... it's what you'd expect - it's basic and the pub (ie. bar) is the main function of the hotel. The camping and cabins across the street are also basic. The golf course isn't dunes. Everything there is flat desert. I stayed the night in the campground in a swag (a thin mattress in a canvas bag that you add a sleeping bag into) directly on the ground looking up at the amazing stars and I've never felt further from everywhere than there. You can watch the sunset and sunrise without getting up because of how flat it is.
The William Creek hotel is ,,, well very basic. The modern hotel pictured is NOT at William Creek which has very little going for it.
My partner and i have a holiday home at Coober pedy with an underground pool
That's cool
The level of UV and light in Australia is insane. 200 years ago when the first European settlers came their paintings of Australia did the light wrongly; they couldn't adjust from the lower levels in Europe.
Yes they did not come from a culture 60,000 years old, not like Albert Namatjira - he captured it perfectly
My uncle has 3 cattle stations in WA I’ll have to ask how much land he owns all up. But I’m pretty sure the Queen is technically the largest land owner in the world
Aww I miss the Queen
I had 50 acres once, down in Tasmania, near Hobart on on the slopes of Mt Wellington. It had a nice creek for water that sometimes raged due to snow melt. It was fabulous but I ended up having to sell it as my plans for moving jobs from Melbourne to Tassie didn't pan out and my partner who was there was too lonely. I really wish I still had it.
I am in country Vic at the moment with a half acre and lovely surrounds but still might go to Tassie and get a bit more land. I don't want to be too close to people both for privacy and for noise levels. Both ways.
Did you notice the straight piece of the road out of the homestead, that is probably also the landing strip for the Royal Flying Doctor Service for emergency medical services if required.
Right you are.
Corporate pasteral holdings have Pilatus PC12 8 seaters or 1 tonne of freight only need 800 mts airstrip to take off and land 3000km rannge and fly at 500kph
I'm on 163 acres in Upper Hunter Valley NSW Australia that's considered tiny it's enough to get lost on love seeing American reactions to Australia awesome channel mate keep up the good work hottest day I've ever experienced was 53° in summer 45°+ is common
I used to operate a national help and hints line for games and other stuff we sold. It was 75c a minute. But I remember an old lady who'd call me every Wednesday arvo and have an hour long chat about nothing. Our rates were actually cheaper than interstate calls back then. She lived on a station somewhere in the NT. She was lonely. Her husband was away dawn to dusk every day. Who knows where. Kids had moved to the city. She spent all day using our creative editing software to make cards and stuff to send to her family. Typical Facebook Grandma, before Facebook. :)
She'd ask if I could mail her some new formats, and then we'd just talk.
Anyway, I loved her. Always looked forward to Wednesday arvo. Always made sure I'd done all my work.
It sounds lonely out there...
A lot of inland Australia has never been up for actual sale, only for Lease Holding. Typical I believe are 99 years leases, with entitlement to extend over anyone else, so unlikely to change hands unless the current holder wants out.
A lot of large properties have changed hands (lease holder) in the past 20+ years. One very large holder of several large NT leases is a British Lord, another is Gina Reinhart, who inherited major Iron mines in WA. Others that have taken some big properties lease and purchases included are some big Chinese holdings who also own some major water rights that are being strongly fought, as the Chinese operations are preventing significant natural river waterflow and holding other properties to ransom, offering to buy out others.
Many of the big properties are so large, it is use of light aircraft making visits to neighbours or near towns, as driving can be days for trip turn around. Imagine telling your wife you expect to be back by tomorrow evening, from getting the mail from the mailbox, or back from saying hello to the neighbour in two days.
Many original large properties for example Wavehill Station in NT have been broken apart to some extent and been returned to Native Title, returned to Aboriginal local tribe to manage.
The big areas are definitely needed as number of stock is often many square miles per head of stock. Land shared by the stock, Kangaroos, EMUs, Camels and more.
Re road trips in au… they’re fun and everything, but another CZcamsr once pointed out that in America you can drive in any direction and you’ll end up in a big city…no so in Australia. That CZcamsr has a good new video that you’ll like, Ian. That Firebird guy the American living in Australia car guy.
You're referring to WastelandFirebird ?
@@michaelmclachlan1650 Yes that’s him👍
I lived in a remote Aussie sawmill town in the 70's, nothing but trees for 50 miles in any direction. Population hovered around 25, in 12 houses, one sawmill, a dirt airstrip, and a public telephone box. Nearest town was a 3hr return trip, nearest traffic light was a 5hr return trip. Loved every minute of it.
Come to Australia iWrocker and fam! We’ll find you a property that’s not too big, not too small but just right!
There's a million acres somewhere that crosses from NT into Qld.
And throw in some porridge as well. Topped with bananas,, strawberries, pineapple, mangoes and on the top, a Kakadu plum!
My son lives on a property 4 1/2 hours drive outside of Alice Springs. His mail fly's in once a week on a 1 1/2 hour flight from the Alice.
My aunt owned a property in Queensland. She was the second gate from the little town (general store, newsagent and maybe 5 other businesses at the most). Her gate was 9 miles from town. She had 5000 acres. A great holiday place for us to visit when we were kids.
My dad came from cattle station.... 500acre paddock, very normal. But these guys have 1000acre plus paddocks, they are massive.
There is actually a bigger one in Western Australia that is a combined mining and cattle lease owned by Gina Rinehart. It’s not a pure cattle station like Anna Creek, but Rinehart owns about 1.2% of Australia through various mining and pastoral leases in Western Australia.
Rawlinna station on the WA side of the Nullarbor is the biggest station in Australia followed by Anna Creek station in South Australia
My great uncle used to own heaps of land in north Queensland it was swamp land but owned heaps of it. Same deal it was considered useless until he sold it to people that turned it into sugar cane farms.
Yep, they gave a lot of that north QLD land to diggers after WW2 - my uncle went up to Atherton Tablelands.
At the time it was considered junk land - not good for farming. But they improved the land and grew bananas, mangoes and tobacco - made a mint in the end.
@@godamid4889 Love that. what a great outcome.
Sick cap mate! Good onya! Also, I can confirm the 55 degrees. Ive been in 55 before. We were workin out in the yards with the cattle at that time. bloody hot. this was out in a small town of 60 people
I saw a program that said Queen Elizabeth is the biggest land owner, but it's in different countries and not all in one place.
Cooper Pedy somehow always reminds me of the movie "The Hills Have Eyes".
Coo”B”er Pedy
@@IcanbePsycho Struth, you're right. Didn't do a spell check before I clicked. 😁
Fun fact; In Oz there was ,and possibly still, is an organisation called lone scouts for boys living isolation. they had an annual fund raiser called job week where scout did paid work and sent half to head office and kept the rest for their group. One lone scout raised over $500.00 and sent it in. when asked how he raised so much, he responded "collecting the mail for dad and the neigbours". Head office thought it was a ridiculous amount until they discovered that mail pick up run was a 4 hour round trip flight in his dads airplane. Out there kids can ride horses before they can walk and flt airplanes before they can legally drive a car.
Give me 1000 acres with a house in the middle to get away from all the crazies in this world and I'll be a happy man 😊😊
The largest state, Western Australia is roughly the size of Texas... and the country of Mexico combined
Texas fits into Western Australia three times.
I currently live on a small farm of only 2000 acres+ in south Australia and have worked on many of those stations. I loved going on working holidays interstate to stay on friends stations, smallest was over 200+ mile's square. The Williams are neighbours who actually live not far away from me. A lit heads up for many Australians just down the road can mean a few hrs and hundreds of miles lol.
And "down the road a ways" means that you have no chance of getting there in less than a day!
You should look deeper into kidmans history, it's quite fascinating
Great video but the ive never heard soooo many place names butchered so badly hahaha
Kidman's is a quite a story, if you're interested.
He started out small, & rough, in cattle that grew into a large herd very, very remote from his market. In those days the only means of transport to market was on foot, & the trek through such dry country lasting many months, what survived of the herd was just a worthless leather bag of bones with hoofs & horns still attached.
So Kidman leased a series of way stations along his route where the herds could rest & regain condition before moving on to the next, & so on all the way to Adelaide where he presented them at the sale yards in the best possible condition.
It made him fabulously wealthy, but he never lost the lessons of his frugal upbringing in that he never wasted anything. He was a hard man, in a hard country, at a time of hardship. One famous story was that he once fired a stockman for striking a match with which to light his cigarette instead of walking over to the camp fire for a light.
Kidman was known as The Cattle King, & The Kidman Empire was broken up after his death.
My husband & I with some friends did a holiday in our 4x4s down the Strzlecki track, around the base of Lake Eyre (your guy didn’t say it right, it’s pronounced Lake Air) which actually had water in it at the time, a very rare occurrence. We went to Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta and William Creek which has a pretty awesome pub. It was rocking when we met up with our friends there. That area might be desolate,but it has a beauty all its own. I love your appreciation of all things Aussie. It’s about time you moved here oi!
All houses in Canberra are purchased with a 99 year property lease.. you own the house though and I still don’t think anyone will purchase a property and live long enough to test what happens after the 99 years.
Your children will test it I guess
@@xXSinForLifeXx 38, no kids, and I don’t think my dogs will live that long.. even if the most privileged child gets the deeds to a house at birth, I still think their pushing shit uphill with a pointy stick to test the lease.
@@keefy302 privileged? It's pretty common to leave your house to your kids. Who else is going to use it?
That was my point anyway people have kids and they pass houses down to them so I wonder how that lease will work for them.
Not any more
@@xXSinForLifeXx if a couple had a child, owned the house before the child was born, AND put the house in the child’s name at birth.. it would have to live to 99 years.. still way above the national average life expectancy.
That’s My family farm thanks for covering it, it is insanely huge and the up keep was almost impossible during covid trying to get workers in, we almost divided it to sell off but it’s back to normal again thank god
One would think that the sheer size of it would make you pretty safe from Covid.
Though I guess if it got in, it'd get everyone.
Ian have a look at cave diving on the Nullarbor Plain. It’s amazing.
Treacherous hobby for sure!
There was several that basically adjoined properties controlled by one conglomerate, and was taught to us at school as being one property instead of one holding, the total holdings was just under the size of Texas.
The total holdings at one stage by just one person/part of the conglomerate was around 3% of Oz at around 230,000sqkm. Currently the largest holder of land in Oz is Gina Reinhart with 92,000sqkm, but not in one property.
Hi There! When considering large areas here in OZ there is the Bradshaw Field Training area used by Australian and US forces for training purposes. The US command love it as it is 870,000 hectares or about 3,400 square miles...about the size of Connecticut I believe...
Just a heads up, from an Aussie, Lake Eyre is pronounced Lake “Air”, like as in air we breathe.
Every winter there is a three day concert held on a cattle station just outside of Birdsville in far west QLD. Adria Down's is the property and the concert, the Big Red Bash, is held on a dry lake bed, Lake Napanerika at the foot of the largest sand dune in Australia, Big Red, the eastern border of the Simpson desert. The homestead is 119 k's away from the eastern gate of the property.
Many years ago, don't think it was this guy, there was an older man that owned a massive chunk of rural Australia. He did it in an interesting way. When the husband died of a family the man would step in and help the widow wife and remaining family by helping with drilling water bore's and repairing anything on their properties that needed fixing free of charge, but he always had one request. If they ever thought to sell he requested that they come to him first. The family would get their land appraised and he would offer to buy them out by offering 3x their appraisal. All he had to do was sit and wait for the widow to pass away and then the kids to get tired of running the farm and come to him to sell.
He did that for many years and the family acquired a massive property. I have no idea if it stands still today.
G'day mate, Sir Sidney Kidman when he was alive, was the largest landowner in the history of the world, and will most likely never be overtaken. He owned a system of interconnected cattle stations from North to South and believed that he could beat droughts in Australia by moving his cattle. He was wrong, it did not work.
Yes, Nicole Kidman is from this family. She still likes to give interviews in women's magazines, pretending that her family was extremely poor.
It's kind of weird, the way Nicole Kidman goes on and on about her families poverty.
@@izzyboot9408 I said it was weird. I didn't claim it was unprecedented.
Haven’t been to this channel in a while. It’s definitely grown!
Hey mate
Cant believe what I just seen. In your video at around 1:25 there is some very green grassy farms.
I lived and grew up in the mountains just behind there on our family farm.. Mount Mitchell. Its in screen right there.
Those other farms are our neighbours that I know really well..
Total classic. There area is Rose Valley Gerringong NSW. Where the mountains touch the sea. About one and a half hours south of Sydney.. lovely dairy farming country on the south coast.
Certainly not station country!
Pastoral leases have often been held by the same family for generations.
I use to service many of these Stations for 2 years with the Road Trains bringing in supplies, like food, general goods fuel etc. From the main hwy to the main home stead, the biggest one I went to, was an 8 hour drive. Many of the home steads have many buildings, for the main residence to the workers or farm hands. The little shed like shown in this video, is normally like like satellite building scattered at certain location where they would muster the live stock for relocation, to sale yards, export and even for local use.
Some home steads are like a very tiny village too, kids here go to school over the internet now, but before it was on HF and short wave 2 wave radio,
It's an extreme and interesting to visit I recommend Daily Waters in Northern Territory, as it will cater for back packers and campers. Best time to visit this region is around June, July August, yes extreme weather between late October to early May
Queen Elizabeth is the largest land owner in the world. 2nd place is King Abdullah who is obviously working for the queen.
Still loving your videos!!
I was on a property in Australia on one occasion. The Station Owner used to use his light aircraft to fly out over the water holes to observe if any stock was stuck in the water. I stayed in a drovers room/ A steel frame over 4 paint cans, very old mattress on top of the steel frame.
you'll have to have a look at the Henley on Todd regatta. boat race on dry creek. they had to cancel it one year as there were rains and the river filled up.
I have met one of the owners of ACS and they are the most down to earth people you could ever meet.
ths is what most of central Australia is like. I am from north east SA and its sheep stations mostly. its always funny hearing americans talk about how gig things are in texas and their "Ranches
International perspectives of how vast and remote Australia is, is very blinkered and limited. It's a big country with the majority of it arid. A country we're drought is second nature. Forget 4 seasons; it's either drought or flood.
p.s. it is not a 4hr drive from Brisbane to Uluru (Ayres Rock). And you cannot climb it.
Ok, minor whinge - we don’t use the work ‘ranch’, unless it’s in a dressing. We have stations, farms, farmlets and properties.
I was a jillaroo for a couple of years until a horse smashed me into a wooden yard fence and broke a couple of ribs. When I asked to go to hospital they said no and set up a prayer vigil! One of the guys called my sister and she drove out to get me. Spoiler - I recovered, lol!!
@@frank.t3884 They were prepared to let God heal me, rather than get the ‘evil magic of science’ to do its evil work.
@@frank.t3884 From the other side? No, I’m still here!
@@frank.t3884 OI OI OI ! ! !
@@frank.t3884 Sydney as well. Born and bred!
@@frank.t3884 I’m a child of the North Shore
My dad was a Jackeroo in the 1940's and drove cattle from the channel country down to south west Queensland to sell and rail to Brisbane.
I've been to William Creek on a 2 week road trip, it is quite literally in the middle of nowhere, the pub roof is full of peoples ID.
Also on that road trip we drove the equivalent of London, England to Athens, Greece... And back
As an Aussie , i know at one Station the letter box is 300 klm ( 186 miles ) away from the homestead , who going to check the Mail today !! Ahhaaaa
This property was owned by Sir Sidney Kidman. He married a cousin of mine. This was not his only property he once owned / controlled more land than the British Monarchy.
He drove cattle from as far away as his Queensland cattle stations down a track now named Kidman Way to market in Adelaide. He was known as the Cattle King but he was very humble man preferring to sleep on a hard surface and be frugal.
Although there’s biographies about Nicole Kidman bring a relative she wasn’t as far as my research found unless it was generations ago back in England.
I grew up on a 100 acre farm, and my brother has now increased that to about 450 acres. I now live on a small rural block which is just less than 1 acre and that suits me.
Hate to mow the yard.
It would have to be a push mower considering the price of petrol
Interesting.
On my mum's side of the family we have 14 thousand acres, 3 dairys and run sheep and black angus beef, my uncle's inherited the lot & i help out where i can during hay season & working in one of the dairys.
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57 deg C on the mine site I worked at in the shade of a shipping container and ground temp of 63 deg C
Hey Ian, gday. We have many great ski resorts here, and plenty of snow in winter. Mt. Hotham in Victoria has good powder, Thredbo in NSW is great. Check 'em out man, it's not all hot, dry, tundra.
A lot of the (internal land) stations were bought around the 60-70s,
for about $0.20 cents a hectare, and are now are worth millions
that photograph that they say is Anna creek station...is actually a photo of William creek Hotel (you can see the waterbuffalo cage out back).
I came remember when Sydney television stations used to prove summer was here by frying an egg on the footpath, and that isn't tropical or desert.
I work in lands administration departme in QLD. One location was out by 700km, but was still within the correct region. In a lot of places that would be in a different, state, provence or even contry. I was looking after an area bigger than Texas! There are a lot of large mostly uninhabited areas of land around Australia!
Sir Sidney Kidman at one stage owned outright or had pastoral leases comprising 13% of the continent. One section stretched in an unbroken line from the middle of the Northern Territory to Adelaide. Anna Creek was on the way. He accumulated them so that when driving his cattle to port for processing and export, they always travelled over his own land. It saved him paying other graziers a fodder and water use fee to transit their properties. He did the same from Southern Queensland all the way down New South Wales to the Murray River for the same reason. He caused many a forced sale by underhand means to do this. The S. Kidman properties today are what remains plus others they picked up for a song over the years. To many, he was a predator.
Sir Sidney Kidman is related to actress Nicole Kidman.
G'day Ian. I used to work for Sydney Kidman in 1984-85.; At the height of Syds'empire. He could travel from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Adelaide , without leaving his own land.
You might try & react to a good video on Syd Kidman if you can find one.
Born in 1857, he left his home in Adelaide at the age of 13 with only five shillings and a one-eyed horse that he had bought with his savings.
On his death aged 78 in 1935 he left most of his £300,000 estate to his family and to charities.
His private company 'S. Kidman & Co' at that time had 68 stations totaling 220,149 square Km (85,000 square miles), 176,000 cattle and 215,000 sheep.
BTW, in ~1877 he sold a 1/14th share in what became BHP for £150
If you are interested the story of Sidney Kidman it is festinating, he left home at 10 or 12 years old penniless, and ended up owning a string of stations from North Queensland to South Australia all on the main rivers Mostly
I absolutely LOVE my outback trips, done about 5 so far... every trip is 4 to 5 weeks long and over 8000km on the clock... It is sparse landscape but never boring.. it changes every year, after some rain it's green! Thunderstorms at Uluru are a sight to be seen to be believed, and a few days later it blooms...
I could not go for the last 2 years (covid) but I am gearing up for the next one.. the "towns" are great fun.. 3 buildings - a pub (of course), a shop, a service station and campground.. "next town 350km" :-)
I am a city person from Vienna and I take european students with me, driving 6 to 8 hours per day is nothing.. super cool to do
i did a stint as a jackaroo on an Angus beef farm when i was 20
It's huge in area but no one is out working all the land every day or anything like on a smaller ranch. Planes are used to find the herd etc. It's definitely worth going through there!
Friend of mine worked on a station. The ''home paddock' was 10miles X 10 miles.
The queen is the biggest landowner in the world Ian!
A few years ago I worked on the Tipperary group of stations . 13000 square kilometers with between 80 and 120 workers depending on the season it was owned by a lawyer named Myres it ran six small choppers and had a tarmac runway that could land a Hercules air plane
The Australia Pastoral Lease system has been in place almost since the beginning.
Squatters could Lease as much land as they wanted for $1 pound for a 99 year lease as long as they 'improved the land', was a big deal in the 70s-90s when a lot of the leases were up for renewal, but mostly they got continued, apart from the land that got returned due to Mabo. Its technically government owned, but in real terms the squatters own it.
Its more secure than for example Chinese housing where the leases end after 25 years.
God, every statement has to have a thousand caveats, history is complicated, but in real terms, they own the land.
44% of Australia's land is held under Pastoral Leases. Even Avalon Airport is under a similar arrangement, technically owned by the Department of Defence, but really owned by Lindsey Fox.
I've worked on 2 stations, pretty Plains and strathpark, that were both bigger than any ranch in Texas
Have done work at Anne creek, helped mustering years ago, beautiful station