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Well it’s beautiful Country, really—

Mike Ross

Spring 2024

and not much development on it. Very little. There’s still Country that hasn’t been touched for a long time.

Only time it’s been touched is back with the mining mob—way back in 1823, when the Palmer River Goldfields closed down and they opened a gold field at Alice River. ‘Alice Queen’ they call it and all our Country was under pastoral lease.

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