Stories of Australia's gold rushes are common in history books, but a little less visible was the rush of settlers - often squatters - across the country. Aside from displacing the first Australians, they brought with them farm animals such as sheep and cattle.

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English settlers brought cattle to Australia in 1788 and, after a slow start, expanded rapidly from the early 1800s.

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They "opened up" the land, but one of the problems they faced was how to get their produce to market. Without a means to p

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