When accounting business owner Sarah Parkinson and her bank manager husband Rohan left the city of Brisbane for the bush, they were headed to a property built by Rohan’s family more than 100 years ago, yet one which no Parkinson had ever lived in. Situated on 5500 acres (2225 hectares), near the rural town of Dulacca in the Queensland Western Downs region, roughly 400 kilometres west of Brisbane, Palardo has been in the Parkinson family for generations, but only ever occupied by managers of the family’s farming operation.
The original house was owned by Rohan’s grandfather Donald and managed by Ted White, who worked his entire life for the Parkinsons until retirement. It was built in 1915 and extended and joined by a breezeway in
