Home On the Range timber slats its slats buried under years

its slats buried under years of lichen and moss

rebranded from Kinugawa Family Ranch to Western Village in March 1982

from the selector's gamble of the 1860s onward to the progressive abandonment that followed

Dust-covered tables and chairs remain in the restaurant of the former Balmain Leagues Club

Light cuts through an opening in the attic of Mittagong Maltings

Home On the Range timber slats its slats buried under yearsA weatherboard cottage sits low on open grazing land beneath a heavy storm front, a single poplar standing to its left and a power line running to a pole at the paddock's edge. Timber framed and iron roofed, it represents the selector's cottage typology that spread across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, after the Robertson Land Acts opened Crown land to smallholders. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.