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AgriCast Episode 13: December 3, 2024 | Rawlinna Station sale
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Chris McLennan, ACM's national property writer, discusses the sale of Australia's largest sheep station in the Nullarbor Plain. Founded in the 1950s, this vast property is attracting global interest.
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Hi, welcome to Agricast. Well, the largest sheep station in outback Australia is on the
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market and to tell us about that is Chris McClellan. He's the National Property Writer
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for ACM. Tell me about this property.
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We always talk about the biggest and the best, and this is probably not the best, but the
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biggest always captures the imagination and there's a lot of adventure and romance and
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all that sort of stuff attached to this property. It was only founded in the 1950s, so it's
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a relatively new property. It's one of the last pastoral properties in Australia, I suppose,
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because no one really thought about farming the Nullarbor Plain. Not a mecca for high
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production agriculture normally, but one of the McLaughlins from Dumbuck Pastoral, which
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is a very old and very large pastoral company based in Adelaide, was travelling on the
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Indian Pacific and went through Royal Inner. It's a stop on the side there and he saw something
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that no one else had ever done and saw potential for a farm. And that's how it all began.
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And it's attracting global interest, or at least the real estate agents think it will?
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Yes, they absolutely believe it will. When you've got a million hectares or a couple of million
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acres of country on offer, it's hard not to attract interest like that. It's not the dirt
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that is attracting the attention so much as all the work that the McLaughlins have put into the
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property. So that's why the agents are very confident that overseas buyers will be interested.
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And have the McLaughlin family been there the entire time?
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They have. They're not getting out of the pastoral game by any stretch. Dumbuck's still a very big
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operator in the national cattle and sheep market. But Royal Inner, for whatever reason,
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is surplus to requirements and someone else has been offered the chance to have a crack at it.
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What does the sale actually include and how's it being run?
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Elders are taking it up and they've got some of their biggest names across
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South Australian NWA running the SAR, which closes midway through this month
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for an expressions of interest campaign. From there it will go on. So there's been talk about
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a price of around $20 million. It's not just the price that captures the imagination, it's just the
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sheer audacity of forming a sheep station in the middle of the desert.
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Fantastic. Chris, thank you so much for giving us that update.
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