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    SET IN STONE

    May 03, 2018 4 minutes
    by KIRSTY MCKENZIE, photography KEN BRASS

    When Ian and Helen Cathles bought the 7500-acre (3000-hectare) Cooradigbee station at Wee Jasper in the NSW Brindabella Ranges, everyone told them the historic pisé homestead was beyond salvation. Built in 1911, when the flooding of the Murrumbidgee River to fill the newly constructed Burrinjuck Dam submerged the original homestead, Cooradigbee’s homestead was indeed a sorry sight when the couple bought the property in 1988. Closer inspection revealed that the walls made of rammed earth reinforced with barbed wire were actually quite sound and Ian and Helen went ahead with a year-long renovation.

    “The verandahs were hanging off all around the house,” Helen recalls. “But once you looked

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