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    WELLSHOT HOTEL

    Jun 17, 2021 6 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOS COLIN WHELAN

    RATED 4 OUT OF 5 HELMETS

    Wellshot Hotel

    South side, Landsborough Hwy Ilfracombe, QLD (07) 4658 2106 wellshothotel.com.au

    ILFRACOMBE – 80 KILOMETRES west of Barcaldine and just 20 minutes east of Longreach is a place where, if you’re interested in this country’s history you’ve just ‘gottagota’.

    And if you’re interested in stunning iconic pubs full of unique stories and in the care of good people, it’s Wellshot Hotel is the place for you

    As the boss of the Qld A.W.U. explained it in 1954:

    “The Labor Movement in Queensland as we know it…, was born in the pastoral areas of this vast State.

    In 1886, at Wellshot station… industrial trouble arose at shearing time because shearers would not accept the… slave-like conditions of work proposed (and) went on strike, and the news of their action went like a bushfire throughout the outback (and) when no settlement was reached at Wellshot the men began to march on Blackall (where, with shearers from other gangs and

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