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From 'The Australian' online: great to see ELD selected as the agency for a nice little commission!

(the train would have been the then Commonwealth Railways' 'Trans Australian' that in those days ran from Port Pirie, South Australia to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia connecting at each end with a train from/to Adelaide and at Kal with a narrow gauge train to/from Perth, as the 'Indian Pacific' spanning Sydney to Perth as one train didn't commence until 1970):

The famed Consolidated Pastoral Company has bought Australia’s biggest sheep station Rawlinna after it was put on the block when tycoon Andrew Forrest last year dumped plans to buy it for a renewable energy project.

The CPC business, which was once controlled by the late Kerry Packer, is now owned by English financier and investor Guy Hands and his wife Julia Hands through the Hands Family Office.

Rawlinna was developed in the 1960s by veteran grazier Hugh MacLachlan after he spotted a WA land parcel while on a stop-off on the Indian Pacific train.

Real Estate firm Elders said the MacLachlan family’s Jumbuck Pastoral and Consolidated Pastoral Company had entered into a sale and purchase agreement for the station for an undisclosed sum.

The deal is conditional on CPC receiving Foreign Investment Review Board approval for the acquisition of the station, and the customary WA government approval to the transfer of the pastoral lease. Rawlinna sold on a going concern “walk-in, walk-out” basis, including the sheep flock.