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Sep 2024
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An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000...

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In 1882, thousands of sheep set off from a property in Western Victoria. Their destination was a huge station in the Northern Territory, land which a sheep had never set foot on. To get there, these animals and their drover battled drought, flood, famine and doubt.   Tom Guthrie is a winemaker and sheep farmer in Western Victoria, and is a descendent in a ... Show More
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