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Christmas 100 years ago

The Holt Caterpillar working on the Longreach-Winton Railway Line. (Image from The Capricornian, 12 April, 1924)

For this month’s article, we’ve gone back 100 years to see what was happening around Christmas time in Longreach in […]

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