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125th Anniversary Timeline

Goyder draws a line through South Australia

George Woodroffe Goyder is remembered today for Goyder's Line of rainfall, a line used in South Australia to demarcate land climatically suitable for arable farming from that suitable only for light grazing. Full Story
 

The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia

Rabbits were introduced into Australia as a 'harmless' addition to hunting sport in 1859, when Victorian grazier Thomas Austin imported 24 rabbits from England and released them on his property. Full Story
 

The Dingo Fence

The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest-exclusion fence that was built in Australia during the 1880s and finished in 1885, to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where they had largely been exterminated) and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland. Full Story
 

Agricultural Innovation

The untamed landscape of Australia, quite different from the results of centuries of cultivation in the United Kingdom, presented challenges to Australian farmers which they overcame with great ingenuity and innovation. Full Story