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Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.

As a result of these causes the grazier' marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the ' graziers , only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.

They have been here, the bora rings, for over twenty thousand years, it is believed; it is only in the past hundred, a hiccup in time, that indifferent graziers and the treads of their four-wheel drives have scattered the stones and have imprinted zippered cars across their sacred clay skin.

The ‘grazier'’ image can be contrasted to that of the ‘cocky’. ' Graziers have tended to own large tracts of land, have inherited family wealth from the heady days of high wool prices, often reside in stately homes, possess a good education, and have taken leadership roles in the industry.

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