Australian Country

Set in STONE

Throughout the 1850s and ’60s, they set about constructing a cluster of bluestone buildings on the holding, which at its peak covered 23,000 acres (9307 hectares) of prime freehold and leasehold grazing land.

A respect for history and tradition runs deep in the veins of Rob (aka Richo) and Jill Richardson. Their children, Georgia, aged 14, Claudia, 12, Millie, 10, and Jack, eight, are the sixth generation of the family to have lived at Gorrinn station, just south of Ararat on the old Cobb & Co road to Geelong. Their ancestor, Robert Richardson, arrived

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