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Canobie Station, often just referred to as Canobie, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station. It is located about 143 kilometers (89 mi) north of Cloncurry and 198 kilometers (123 mi) southwest of Croydon in Queensland. The station takes its name from a corruption of the traditional owners' name of the locale: Conobie.[2] The station was first established in 1864 when Edward Palmer, originally from Wollongong, stocked the property with cattle and sheep.[2] The first wool was taken off Canobie in 1865 to Burketown. Palmer's partner, Mr Shrewing, died of gulf fever in the first year and the station was drought-stricken for the first few years then flooded in 1869–1870. Palmer was of the view that British colonizers like him had "a peculiar mission to supplant" the Aboriginal Australians and to "occupy the country that was wholly theirs". Palmer confirmed that Indigenous people were commonly shot and were "a hard-used race", but he thought that "the troublesome question" of finding a "solution" for the "blacks" was that "we have to occupy the country and no two races can inhabit the same country but the weaker must go to the wall". Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canobie_Station#:~:text=The%20stati....

The Kunja (Gunya) were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland. Norman Tindale calculated Kunja lands as having spread over some 12,000 square miles (31,000 km2) of territory Warrego River from Cunnamulla north to Augathella and Burenda. Their western extension lay somewhere between Cooladdi and Cheepie. Their eastern boundary lay at the present day Morven and Angellala Creek. Charleville was on Kunja land.[1] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunya_people

A Brief History of Widgee For thousands of years, the Widgee area was home to the Kabi Kabi aboriginals of the Wide Bay region, with one tribal group, the Kaiabara, particularly associated with Widgee. Unfortunately, the advent of European settlement resulted in much friction between the local aborigines and the settlers early on, finally resulting in the local tribes being driven from the area. Their former presence is marked today by a number of bora rings and by many of the local place names. The first European settlers arrived in Widgee in the late 1840s following William Tooth and Company's successful tender for two runs in the area. Tooth and Company's Widgee Station was renowned in its early days for the quality and quantity of beasts fattened in the area, and for the exploits of the local horsemen. The tradition of horsemanship lives on today in the annual Bushman's Carnival held each May. Source: www.widgee.info/widgee_history.htm