Federation Drought
Jul 03, 2019
2 minutes
THE FEDERATION DROUGHT affected almost all of Australia and is widely considered the most destructive in our recorded history, based on the huge stock losses it caused. So named because it coincided with Australia’s Federation, the drought ended squatter-dominated pastoralism in New South Wales and Queensland.
By the end of the 1840s, about 280,000sq.km – almost all of eastern Australia – was occupied by at
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