The first partnership between national developer <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/fortis">Fortis</a> and Adelaide-based developer <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/otello">Otello</a> has made a strong start, with the pair securing $21 million in unconditional sales at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/one-four-four-hutt-adelaide-144-hutt-street-adelaide-sa-5000">One Four Four Hutt</a>&nbsp;on the edge of the Adelaide CBD.

Over a third of apartments have been snapped up in the boutique 44-apartment project on the corner of Hutt Stret and Wakefield Road. Local downsizers and owner-occupiers wanting to remain in Adelaide's tightly-held southeast quarter have been the most prominent purchasers.

The DKO-designed, mixed-use development is one of the few new apartment projects in the precinct, an area where new housing supply has remained limited despite continued demand from buyers wanting to stay close to the CBD, Victoria Park and Adelaide's established east-end amenities.

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Fortis Head of Development SA Arthur Dendrinos said the early sales reflected both the strength of the local owner-occupier market and confidence in the Hutt Street location.

"The level of early commitment reflects the confidence local buyers have in the Hutt Street precinct," Dendrinos said.

"Many purchasers are long-term east-end residents who love the area and want to stay connected to the neighbourhood. They recognise the value of a well-designed, well-located development.

"Our partnership with Otello has been central to this success, and the number of unconditional sales at this stage only strengthens our confidence in the South Australian market."

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Otello Director Daniel Harris said the sales result also highlighted the lack of new apartment opportunities within the Hutt Street precinct.

"One Four Four Hutt has clearly resonated with buyers, with strong early sales reflecting both the appeal of the Hutt Street corridor and the lifestyle on offer," Harris said.

"The activated ground-floor retail has also been a key drawcard, with purchasers responding to the vision of a more vibrant and connected streetscape, not just the residences themselves."

One Four Four Hutt will deliver 44 one, two and three-bedroom apartments, alongside a collection of penthouses, above a ground-floor retail offering designed to further activate the Hutt Street precinct.

Construction is scheduled to commence in the third quarter of this year, with completion anticipated in 2028.

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Fortis Head of Development SA Arthur Dendrinos said the early sales reflected both the strength of the local owner-occupier market and confidence in the Hutt Street location.

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Fortis makes Adelaide debut with Otello as One Four Four Hutt records strong early sales

For all its prestige, Roseville hasn't seen many new apartment developments that genuinely cater to the suburb's owner-occupier market.

Most new projects on Sydney's North Shore have focused on increasing supply, but Aqualand Prestige's <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/boronia-by-aqualand-roseville-2-4-larkin-street-roseville-nsw-2069">Boronia</a> is taking a different approach.

The 111-apartment project on Larkin Street has been designed around a buyer who already knows the area, whether they're downsizing from a nearby family home, upgrading from an older apartment, or moving into the suburb to be closer to schools and transport.

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Boronia is the first project from Aqualand Prestige, the boutique residential division of Aqualand, the developer behind projects including AURA in North Sydney and Blue at Lavender Bay. The project is being delivered in partnership with Phoenix Property Investors.

Rather than trying to maximise density, the focus has been on creating apartments that feel much closer to a house. There's a strong weighting towards larger three-bedroom residences, alongside a limited collection of four-bedroom duplex-style sky homes, a product that's rarely delivered in apartment projects on the Upper North Shore.

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Architecture firm Woods Bagot has designed the building to sit within Roseville's established tree canopy rather than dominate it. The building steps down the site with deep balconies, generous setbacks and a material palette of masonry and natural stone that reflects the suburb's established character.

"The forms float among the canopies along the Larkin Street ridge to maximise the outlook across the green sea of the treetops," Woods Bagot Principal Jason Fraser said.

"The architecture is deliberately simple and understated, so that the detail, the craftsmanship and, above all, the landscape can be the hero."

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The same approach continues inside.

Interiors by COX take inspiration from the surrounding bushland of Lane Cove National Park, using natural stone, timber and handcrafted finishes throughout the residences. Kitchens feature Gaggenau and Bosch appliances, while the penthouse collection includes upgraded stone finishes and bespoke detailing.

"We wanted the homes to feel like an urban retreat, where the boundary between inside and out simply dissolves," COX Director Brooke Lloyd said.

Landscape architecture by Ground iNK extends that connection outdoors, with mature tree planting, deep soil landscaping and retained established street trees helping the development blend into one of Sydney's leafiest suburbs.

Residents will also have access to landscaped communal gardens, a wellness centre and outdoor spaces designed more as an extension of their own homes than traditional apartment amenities.

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The location is another reason Aqualand Prestige believes Boronia will resonate with buyers.

Roseville Station is around a five-minute walk away, placing Chatswood just one stop down the line, while the Sydney CBD remains within easy commuting distance. The suburb also sits within the NSW Government's Transport Oriented Development precinct, where planning changes are encouraging more housing around existing rail infrastructure.

Despite those planning reforms, opportunities to secure a new apartment in Roseville remain relatively limited, particularly developments aimed at owner-occupiers rather than investors.

Aqualand Prestige Executive Director Wayne Xiong said Boronia was designed for buyers intending to stay for the long term.

"These are homes built for decades of living rather than for the moment," Xiong said.

"Whether buyers are downsizing, raising a family or simply seeking more space, they're choosing the scale and craftsmanship of a fine house in a suburb they love, with the ease and connectivity modern life calls for."

Boronia's two-bedroom apartments are priced from $1.79 million, three-bedrooms from $2.49 million, penthouses from $2.85 million, and four-bedroom duplex-style Sky Homes from $4.5 million.

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Aqualand Prestige launches Boronia to undersupplied Roseville apartment market

For most new apartment buildings, the Owners Corporation starts life with little more than a bank account and the first quarterly strata levies.

At <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/buildings/9-gay-street-castle-hill-9-gay-street-castle-hill-nsw-2154">9 Gay Street</a> in <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/castle-hill-nsw-2154">Castle Hill</a>, it starts with around $7 million in reserve.

It's an unusual legacy of what was once one of Sydney's highest-profile apartment remediation projects. When the development, originally known as Skyview and built by disgraced developer Top Place, came under scrutiny by then NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler, an $11 million remediation bond was negotiated to ensure any building defects could be fully rectified.

The building underwent an 18-month remediation program, during which around $4 million of that bond was spent bringing the building up to the standard it should have been in from the outset.

After extensive inspections, all active rectification orders have been lifted. What's more, around $7.2 million remains secured for the Owners Corporation for the next 15 years.

In a twist few would have predicted, what began as a significant concern for purchasers has left the building with something almost unheard of in the apartment market: a multi-million-dollar financial reserve from day one.

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<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/project-marketer/equitifund-group">Equitifund</a> Executive Chairman Greg Huxley said the structure offers buyers a level of certainty that is difficult to replicate.

"The $11 million bond established for the Skyview Castle Hill development represents exceptional value, providing genuine financial security for purchasers," Huxley said.

"Unlike a standard insurance policy, this bond consists of real funds held in trust for the Owners Corporation, offering a tangible layer of protection and added peace of mind."

The apartments themselves have been designed with a focus on practical, contemporary living. Interiors feature Smeg appliances, stone benchtops, tiled living areas, carpeted bedrooms, 2.7-metre ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glazing, and ducted heating and cooling throughout.

Residents also have access to a range of shared amenities, including two rooftop barbecue areas, a swimming pool, children's playgrounds, secure building access, storage cages, and visitor parking.

The location continues to be one of the project's strongest drawcards. Castle Hill Metro Station sits virtually on the doorstep, providing direct connections across Sydney's expanding Metro network, while Castle Towers offers extensive retail, dining, entertainment, and service amenities within walking distance.

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The building, now named after its location at 9 Gay Street, comprises a diverse mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments starting from just under $600,000.

Equitifund National Sales Director Ben Hamblett said demand in the Hills District continues to be driven by buyers seeking convenience and connectivity.

"Interest from both owner-occupiers and investors in Castle Hill remains exceptionally strong, with buyers consistently prioritising developments in close proximity to the Metro station and Castle Towers Shopping Centre," Hamblett said.

"There is a clear trend in the market, with purchasers seeking convenient access to transport and lifestyle amenities that support a seamless, low-maintenance way of living."

On top of the long-term protection afforded by the remaining $7.2 million bond, Equitifund is offering a limited-time stamp duty rebate on selected apartments.

Eligible purchasers can also secure finance options, including a 3.99 per cent two-year variable rate, loan-to-value ratios of up to 90 per cent, and interest-only lending options through EquitiCredit.

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Why this Castle Hill apartment building starts with a $7 million advantage

For much of the past few years, conversations about Australia's property market have centred on the rapid growth seen in Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Perth. <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/melbourne-vic-3004">Melbourne</a> has followed a different trajectory.

That relative underperformance is now encouraging some buyers to reassess the city, particularly those willing to look beyond short-term market movements and focus on quality property in established locations, along with the long-term growth prospects of a city expected to overtake Sydney as Australia’s most populous.

John Bekiaris, Research &amp; Market Insights at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/project-marketer/equitifund-group">Projects by Equitifund</a>, said Melbourne's current position is attracting increasingly sophisticated purchasers.

"Melbourne continues to present one of Australia's strongest long-term investment stories," Bekiaris says.

"While other capital cities have experienced stronger recent growth, that relative underperformance is exactly what's attracting sophisticated counter-cyclical investors."

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Equitifund isn't just commenting on Melbourne's property market, it's investing in it.

The Sydney-headquartered capital partner has taken over the remaining apartments at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/buildings/victoriana-melbourne-20-queens-road-melbourne-vic-3004">Victoriana</a>, the recently completed glass-encased development opposite Albert Park Lake in Melbourne's tightly held St Kilda Road precinct.

Designed by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/architects/rothelowman">Rothelowman</a> and built by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/builders/hickory">Hickory</a>, Victoriana places residents between one of Melbourne's most recognised parklands and the CBD, offering oversized two and three-bedroom apartments aimed at owner-occupiers seeking a genuine alternative to a traditional family home.

The development comprises 232 completed residences alongside a suite of resident amenities, including a 25-metre indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, landscaped entertaining areas, resident lounges, EV charging, secure basement parking and a concierge-style arrival experience.

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The apartments have been designed with owner-occupiers firmly in mind.&nbsp;Open-plan living and dining areas flow onto generous balconies framing views across Albert Park Lake, Fawkner Park, the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Melbourne skyline.

Kitchens feature Gaggenau appliances, stone benchtops and generous preparation space. Bedrooms include built-in robes, while bathrooms feature full-height textured tiling. Hardwood flooring and ducted air conditioning complete residences designed for long-term living.

Rothelowman's architecture takes its cues from the landscape opposite the site. Sweeping horizontal glazing references the movement of Albert Park Lake, while generous balconies and expansive glazing strengthen the connection between the apartments and the surrounding parklands. The result is a building designed to deliver the scale and amenity expected of luxury apartment living, while offering the larger floorplans increasingly sought by owner-occupiers.

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The location is one of Victoriana's defining characteristics. Positioned on Queens Road, residents are directly opposite Albert Park Lake and within easy reach of Fawkner Park, the Royal Botanic Gardens, South Melbourne, St Kilda Road and the CBD. With few comparable development opportunities remaining in the precinct, buyers are increasingly placing value on outlooks that are unlikely to be interrupted by future construction.

Greg Huxley, Founder of Equitifund, believes those qualities become even more valuable over time.

"Premium real estate has always rewarded buyers who take a long-term view," Huxley said.

"Victoriana represents the kind of asset that's increasingly difficult to recreate today, particularly in an established location like Queens Road."

He said rising construction costs are also changing the way buyers assess completed developments.

"When you combine an irreplaceable location with thoughtful architecture and premium finishes, you create something that becomes increasingly difficult to reproduce as construction costs continue to rise."

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According to National Sales Director Ben Hamblett, enquiry has been driven largely by Melbourne downsizers and buyers upgrading from smaller apartments.

"Interest in Victoriana continues to build, with strong buyer focus on the larger owner-occupier residences within the development," Hamblett says.

"Enquiry is increasingly driven by local buyers who recognise the rarity of what's on offer: park-facing apartments in an established neighbourhood where new development opportunities are becoming increasingly scarce. At Victoriana, the view is not just a feature; it's an appreciating asset in its own right."

He said interstate enquiry has also strengthened as buyers reassess Melbourne's position within the national property cycle.

"Melbourne currently stands as the most compelling entry point of any major Australian capital, and discerning buyers are beginning to recognise what those who move early always understand: the best opportunities are taken before the price rise confirms them."

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Why now is the time to buy in Melbourne's premium apartment market

Developers and apartment buyers have a narrowing window of opportunity before Brisbane's Olympic infrastructure pipeline begins competing directly with residential construction, pushing up costs, tightening labour supply and making new projects increasingly difficult to deliver.

While Brisbane's apartment market continues to benefit from strong population growth and limited housing supply, industry research suggests the years leading up to 2027 could prove to be the most important period for developers looking to secure builders and buyers hoping to purchase before the next wave of price increases.

A new Colliers report, Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Creating Solutions, highlights the scale of the challenge. While thousands of new homes are planned across South East Queensland, the Brisbane Olympic Athletes Village alone will deliver more than 10,500 beds during the Games before being converted into around 1,750 to 2,000 apartments. Equivalent to almost two years of typical inner-city apartment supply, the project will also absorb a significant share of the construction workforce and building materials.

The broader construction pipeline paints an even clearer picture.

Construction Skills Queensland's Horizon 2032 report forecasts Queensland's annual construction pipeline will average $69 billion over the coming years before peaking at $75 billion in 2027-28. Demand for construction workers is expected to increase by 17 per cent to almost 150,000 people, with the industry facing an annual shortfall of around 19,000 workers that could blow out to as many as 35,000 during the peak construction period.

The Olympic venues, athletes village and supporting infrastructure will account for billions of dollars worth of work across South East Queensland through to 2032, creating intense competition for labour at a time when Australia's residential construction sector is already under pressure.

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Colliers Queensland Residential Director Andrew Scriven said the convergence of these projects is creating a clear window of opportunity for both developers and buyers.

"From 2027 onwards, the market will shift dramatically," Scriven said.

"Labour will increasingly be locked into government-led infrastructure and Olympic projects, which means private residential developments will face higher costs and tighter margins. The developers who move now are the ones most likely to get projects off the ground."

Scriven said the same dynamic would also affect buyers, with fewer apartment projects expected to launch once construction capacity tightens.

"If you're looking to change your lifestyle over the next five years, now is your window of opportunity to buy."

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Developers are already positioning themselves ahead of that window.

Following the success of Monarch at Toowong, Consolidated Properties is preparing to launch two new Brisbane apartment projects in the second half of 2026. They include <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/gloriette-30-bedivere-street-yeerongpilly-qld-4105">Gloriette</a> at Yeerongpilly Green, a 25-storey tower within one of Brisbane's key Olympic precincts, and <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/castile-47-skyring-terrace-newstead-qld-4006">Castile</a>, a recently approved 25-storey riverfront development at 47 Skyring Terrace in Newstead.

Hutchinson Builders will deliver both projects, with early works already underway at Yeerongpilly and Newstead expected to commence later this year.

The timing comes as Brisbane's fundamentals continue to strengthen, with strong interstate migration, population growth and vacancy rates remaining below 1.5 per cent.

Colliers Queensland researcher Pragya Sharma said Greater Brisbane is forecast to require around 40,000 new apartments between 2021 and 2031.

"There's a real mismatch emerging between when housing is needed and when it will be feasible to build," Sharma said.

"As a result, the period leading up to 2027 presents a key window of opportunity for developers to secure approvals, funding and construction capacity, while buyers will have greater choice before supply constraints intensify."

Colliers research outlines a critical pre-2027 window to start residential projects before labour squeeze: now is the time to buy

Developers, buyers on watch in South East Queensland ahead of construction crunch: Colliers

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Australia's superannuation funds typically invest just 0.3% in agricultural investments, according to a survey of 114 superannuation funds.
The sector is, however, increasingly attracting foreign pension fund investments in farmland and farming businesses.
The survey results, commissioned by accounting group BDO and conducted by the University of Queensland Business School's commercial arm UniQuest, came after Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce accused Australian superannuation and investment funds of failing to understand the agricultural sector.
"With attracting investment from super funds, I find some of the biggest arguments is trying to get the asset managers to understand the fundamentals of agriculture," Joyce told The Australian's Global Food Forum.
"They seem to understand how to wear RM Williams boots and they like photos of horses, but the understanding of what agriculture can actually do is probably not as precise as it should be."
However, the super funds have hit back, the Australian Financial Review noted as the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's chief executive Pauline Vamos saying agriculture had a difficult investment history.
"Australian super funds are very well aware of the difficult history of some agricultural vehicles, particularly under managed investment schemes," Vamos said.
"The highly unpredictable nature of returns in this sector has not necessarily aligned well with the goals of super funds which are looking for less volatile income streams. However, these investments may suit sovereign wealth funds whose goals are better aligned."
 
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The <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/australias-largest-private-landholder-s-kidman--co-puts-business-up-for-sale-20150410-1mhz3a" target="_blank">announcement</a> of <a href="https://www.kidman.com.au/" target="_blank">S. Kidman &amp; Co</a>’s intention to sell their pastoral business and 11 leases marks a new waypoint in South Australia’s progress towards a post-colonial world. From the time when Sidney Kidman first cohabitated the bush with <a href="https://teq.queensland.com/~/media/185E91B3D97A4D08B60F585237250381.ashx?la=en-ME">Billy the Aboriginal</a> to the <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/apy-inquiries-still-under-wraps-no-action-taken-on-recommendations/story-fn9hm1pm-1227188926313?login=1">adjistment of stock</a> in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara-Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in 2014, Kidman’s history has been interwoven with Indigenous Australia. Not surprisingly the announcement has sparked interest across Indigenous social networks.
The company’s success has generated spectacular interest ever since Kidman’s first Kapunda horse sale in 1900. Kidman’s biographers <a href="https://www.idriess.com.au/thecattleking.htm">Idriess</a> (1936) and <a href="https://browseinside.harpercollins.com.au/index.aspx?isbn13=9780732286101">Bowen</a> (1987) provide fairly romantic pictures of the man and his early colonial success, which can be collaborated in Aboriginal accounts.
Kidman relied on good judgement of people, animals and land. At a time when others in industry were struggling to affirm terra nullius and Social Darwinism as necessities in the settler legal fiction, Kidman was recruiting indigenous “boundary riders” in places with no boundaries, branding cleanskin cattle and ensuring flows of cattle were heading to market.
Land-holding was secondary to maintaining flows and relationships. At his retirement dinner in 1927, Kidman <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/https://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/40773564" target="_blank">quoted a reputable authority</a>: “he never saw blacks happier or better cared for than at Macumba”.
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 ‘Cattle King’ Sidney Kidman built his company on good relations with the Indigenous inhabitants of the land. <a class="source" href="https://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/06750/B6749.htm" target="_blank">State Library of South Australia</a>
Under successive Kidman managers, the station went on to devise strategies preventing a Macumba stolen generation. Multi-racial communities survived at Macumba until the late 1950s and at Anna Creek till 1979. Rain-makers were paid on productivity bonuses and aspects of customary law were easily maintained on Kidman stations.
Kidman stations became havens for those fleeing poor treatment elsewhere. In 1980, when I first arrived at Oodnadatta, I soon learned of stockman finding skulls with bullet holes in the dune country north-east of the Macumba. Not until 2014 did I learn that some of the same men were actually descended from <a href="https://archive.org/stream/RecordsSouthAus25Sout/RecordsSouthAus25Sout_djvu.txt" target="_blank">Wangkangurru survivors</a> who fled the killings in the Kalakoopah around 1884.
A long struggle for land rights
The passing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anangu_Pitjantjatjara_Yankunytjatjara_Land_Rights_Act_1981" target="_blank">Pitjantjatjara Lands Act</a> in 1981 generated a sense of betrayal in Oodnadatta. Senior Yankunytjatjara men living at Oodnadatta had supported the bill, knowing that under customary law their own interests to the north-west would eventually be recognised. Those of Lower Southern Aranda and Wangkangurru descent had missed out.
My employers at the time, the men called me to a meeting: "How come that mob get their land back first? We work hard on stations and speak English. They don’t speak English and sit down all day and they get their land back first!"
It was a question I could not really answer, but I knew that somehow black, spear-carrying Pitjantjatjara symbolised “real Aborigines”, empowering a politic within the settler mythology. A month later, in April 1981, the men confronted the land minister, Peter Arnold, at the Oodnadatta airport. According to one department official, “the minister was sorely embarrassed”.
About the same time, Labor MLC Frank Blevins and the future deputy premier, Don Hopgood, met the Oodnadatta Aboriginal Housing Society chairperson, Aboriginal lawman and former Kidman employee, Sidney Stewart, on the police station lawn. (Two-and-a-half years later, in custody again, Stewart would die pushing the lawnmower.) Blevins and Hopgood looked out on streets paved with broken glass and vowed to do something about it.
Once in government, they did; Mt Dare station was purchased to become a national park. The pastoral leases that would have terminated around 2000 were converted into rolling 28-year leases, the closest thing to perpetuity for Kidmans. As early as 1983, the government began informal recognition of native title on non-indigenous pastoral leases, with the first attempts at mining industry “site clearances” to protect Aboriginal heritage in the Arckaringa basin.
In 2012, after a 14-year claim process, the Arabana were <a href="https://www.nntt.gov.au/News-and-Publications/latest-news/Pages/ArabananativetitleclaimresolvedinSouthAustralia.aspx" target="_blank">granted native title</a> to almost a fifth of South Australia. The determination remains controversial, with a lack of clarity as to who is really represented.
<a href="https://www.nntt.gov.au/ILUAs/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Indigenous land use agreements</a> (ILUAs) signed by the claimants and other parties transfer most future rights to the State of South Australia and other persons. The <a href="https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples-1" target="_blank">United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</a> (UNDRIP) provides for future economic development by Indigenous people, something expressly ruled out in the Arabana consent determination.
The <a href="https://nativetitle.org.au/profiles/profile_sa_arabana">Arabana Aboriginal Corporation</a> (RNTB) reported assets of around $3.3 million in 2014, a paltry sum compared to what may be realised in the Kidman sale and the “future acts” of the colonising government. As a result of native title, Kidman leases gained additional certainty.
While Western Australia’s <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-04/ningaloo-station-negotiations-western-australia/6279262">resumption of pastoral leases</a> for tourism and closure of Indigenous communities as a <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-28/calls-for-apology-over-27lifestyle-choices27-comment/6298084" target="_blank">“lifestyle" change</a> make news, the 2013 <a href="https://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/community-based-adaptation-arabana" target="_blank">Arabana Climate Change Adaptation Project</a> found Arabana people already living in cities and co-management with mining companies as two manifestations of climate-change adaptation.
‘How do we get the land back?’
When I returned to the north of South Australia last year, I discovered people still putting the same question: “How do we get the land back?” They are still sharing a vision of a post-colonial world that has yet to arrive. Despite the <a href="https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/dicc/dicc">outlawing of colonisation</a> by the United Nations in 1960, a second wave of colonisation has proceeded with increasing land enclosure masked by native title.
Coming as it does in a boom market, Kidman’s deserve to get a good price for the business; however, what will Central Australia’s future be like under new, less-related owners? While South Australia continues to be supported by <a href="https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/landtitle.htm">settler legal fictions</a>, whose country is really up for sale?
Any sale is more likely to involve the Foreign Investment Review Board than the Indigenous Land Corporation. I cannot help wonder when the bones of Wangkangurru ancestors will stop surfacing east of the Macumba.
Paul Reader is senior research fellow at University of New England.
This article was originally published on <a href="https://theconversation.com" target="_blank">The Conversation</a>.
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The Merriwa property, Brindley Park was up for sale for $20 million plus in 2010, then $15 million plus two years ago, and now has returned to the market with even pricier expectations.
Colliers International's Richard Royle has been appointed to sell the property which has $30 million hopes. The neo-Palladian manor house built of Indian sandstone on the fertile plains of the Merriwa River has been relisted by pioneer discount share broker Greg Moore and his wife Libby.
Currently a thriving sheep and lucerne cropping business, the property is located three hours from Sydney on the edge of the Hunter Valley.   
"I have already had a significant number of enquiries from overseas for this property," Royle told The Australian Financial Review.
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The mansion boasts eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. 
The neo-Palladian main residence with sandstone columns and facade, tessellated granite flooring, five-metre ceilings, slate roof, Teak panelled entry and hand-carved marble fireplaces, is an imposing building that speaks of grandeur.
The property also comes with a private library, butlers pantry, a summer house with five metre wide screened verandas and games rooms, a pool, bocci pit, chip-and-putt golf lawn and an English style half acre moated garden.
Originally, the landholding was granted to William Wentworth and John Blaxland in the early 1800s and is said to be one of Australia's oldest farming properties.
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Wentworth and Blaxland are most renowned for leading a 1813 expedition, along with fellow explorer William Lawson, to discover a route throught the Blue Mountains. 
The Australian Dictionary of Biography notes that James Brindley Bettington was of significant importance to the property also.
The property comes with historic stables and 110-stand shearing shed, which in 1888, its peak year, had 58,000 sheep shorn.
According to CoreLogic RP Data, the property last transacted in 1998 for $510,000. It has been listed by Greg Moore who set up Pont Securities.
The working farm comes with fertile soil, 4.8 kilometre double frontage to Merriwa River, and 414 hectares of underground mains piped irrigation country. 
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Brindley Park returns with $30 million hopes

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Kelvin Park, one of Sydney’s oldest privately owned properties, has been sold at slightly less than its $1,895,000 asking price.
The 2.7 hectare Bringelly property comes with a rich colonial heritage dating back to 1820.
Listed through <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/https://www.mcgrath.com.au/buy/house-bringelly-nsw-2556/253972" target="_blank">McGrath Estate Agents' Luke Mannion and Anna Younan</a>, it is reputedly the property from which 'The Wild Colonial Boy', bushranger John (Jack) Donohoe, escaped custody in 1828.
The semi-rural, seven acre property at 30 The Retreat comes with colonial Georgian style homestead with sandstone verandah.
It last sold at $990,000 in 2011. This time it fetched $1.85 million.
Heritage authorities regard it as an early Colonial Georgian, single storey, stuccoed brick bungalow with hipped, iron roof. The coach house dates back to 1851, a one and a half storey sandstock brick Early Victorian style building with a loft.
There is a tennis court and pool.
The estate, well suited to horse agistment, comes with coach house, two cottages and barn. Its stable complex has grass arena and round yard.
The property is within 45 kilometres of Sydney Airport and close to new south-west rail link.
Kelvin Homestead was part of the 243-hectare land grant in 1818 to Thomas Laycock Junior, the son of Sergeant Thomas Laycock of the NSW Corps. Thomas Laycock took part in the Rum Rebellion and fought in the American Civil War.
After he died in 1823, the property was bought by J.T. Campbell, former vice-regal secretary to Governor Macquarie.
In 1825 the property was leased by the Australian Agricultural Company, before their move to Port Stephens. 
Kelvin Park was purchased by Alfred Kennerley in 1833, later premier of Tasmania.
Since the summer of 2013 parts of the gardens and grounds have been used for<a href="https://www.kelvinhomestead.com.au/" target="_blank"> wedding ceremonies</a>, although not the Kelvin Homestead residence.
The McGrath agency also had the colonial five bedroom trophy home, <a href="/news/1840s-macquarie-field-house-glenfield-trophy-home-offering">Macquarie Field House</a> (pictured below) in Sydney's south-west for sale, marketed as a hobby farm. It has sold at an undisclosed price, but underbidder parties were advised that $4 million would be needed.
It sits on 23 hectares at Glenfield, surrounded by lemon scented gums, an elegant single-storey regency brick home with a wide verandah supported by graceful white columns.
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Suited to agistment or weddings, Kelvin Park at Bringelly sells

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The tightly held Flinders rural icon, Pinnacle Park has been listed for sale.
Offers are due 15 June <a href="https://www.realestateview.com.au/Real-Estate/flinders/Property-Details-buy-residential-8683288" target="_blank">with Kay &amp; Burton</a>. More than $15 million is likely.
"It represents a once in a generation opportunity," listing agents Andrew Hines and Gerald Delany said.
The cliff top estate with three homes comprises 70 hectares - 174 acres - of rural land with six green wedge titles.
With frontage onto Bass Strait, it has operated as a cattle-grazing farm.
The property is currently exempt from land tax.
Pinnacle Park is available for the first time in more than 55 years since bought by the McHale family, best known for their association with the Collingwood AFL club.
Back in 2006 Gerald Delany sold the 20-hectare property at 4445 Frankston-Flinders Road, known as Solitaire, for $8.65 million.
The vendor, John Nilsen was the former owner of the former radio station 3UZ who had paid less than $1 million for the property two decades earlier.
Flinders last big sales involved fund manager Richard Fish and his wife Anne who bought from barrister John Walker for $10.25 million and sold their estate on 22 hectares on Punchbowl Road, Kaloon Park through Andrew Hines for $3.6 million last October.
 
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Clifftop Flinders rural icon Pinnacle Park listed

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About $13 million has been spent by one of Canada's largest pension funds, on two organic Queensland farms of the pastoral legend, Sir Graham McCamley.
The Oakleigh and Stoodleigh properties, north of Rockhampton, have been sold subject to approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board.
The Australian Financial Review put the sale price at around $13 million with Sir Graham's 13,650-hectare Oakleigh and Stoodleigh aggregation passed in for $8.15 million at November auction last year.
Not retiring, but focusing on one nearby farm, Tanderra the 82 year old Sir Graham told ABC Rural on their listing that he had suffered nine cancers, so it was time to enjoy his bush farm with his great-grandchildren.
The organically accredited properties were offered on a walk-in, walk-out basis with 5,000 head of cattle, plant and equipment through CBRE's Geoff Warriner, Chris Holgar and Danny Thomas.
Other cattle stations have interested overseas funds with the Dutch pension fund Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP taking a stake in Macquarie Group's Paraway Pastoral.
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board invests money the Canadian Public Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police members.
The organically certified landholding located in the sought after Fitzroy region was dubbed by CBRE Agribusiness dubbed as the beef capital of Australia. 
The properties, formerly part of the larger Glenprairie Aggregation, are situated 19 kilometres north-west of the rural township of Marlborough and 107 kilometres north-west of Rockhampton. 
Since last traded in 2005, the properties had undergone a significant development program over the past nine years.
They were <a href="/news/sir-graham-mccamley-lists-central-queensland-station-in-three-portions">first listed in 2012</a>.
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Canadian pension funds buys Sir Graham McCamley farms

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Mount Manning, a renovated five bedroom colonial homestead on 788 hectares, 200 kilometres to Brisbane has been listed for sale.
<a href="https://www.mcgrath.com.au/buy/acreage-rural-pratten-qld-4370/250457/?searchID=49296450" target="_blank">The Pratten district, Queensland property</a> has been a Santa Gertrudis cattle stud coupled with grain growing and horses.
It's located 20 kilometres west of Allora close to markets and feedlots. 
There is 220 acres of irrigated cultivation and four kilometres of frontage to the Condamine River.
McGrath agent David Benham has 572 Condamine River Road listed at $4,458,000.
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Queensland Santa Gertrudis farm for sale 

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Australia's biggest private rural landholding, which includes the world's largest cattle station, is up for sale by the pioneering pastoralist company, S. Kidman and Co. 
Eleven cattle stations covering more than 100,000 square kilometres are set to be offered next month with documentation through Ernst and Young Adelaide.
S. Kidman and Co. is 98% owned by members of the Kidman family, represented by 58 shareholdings. Not all wanted to sell, The Land reported, adding last financial year the company reported a net operating cashflow of $9.3 million and paid dividends of 20 cents a share. 
But it recorded a net after tax loss of $1.4m as herd numbers declined 15 per cent because of tough seasonal conditions to 182,350 head, and their livestock market value fell about $10 million to $97.4 million.
The cattle king Sir Sidney Kidman's first purchase was in 1886: Owen Springs south-west of Alice Springs.
The business still has cattle stations across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and South Australia. 
Anna Creek Station in South Australia's outback is the largest at 23,000 square kilometres. 
The other holdings include Helen Springs in the Northern Territory and Ruby Plains in Western Australia, Durham Downs, Durrie, Glengyle, Morney Plains, Naryilco and Rockybank in Queensland; Innamincka, Macumba and Tungali in South Australia where the company is headquartered.
"This is a world class asset of international significance," said Alex Thamm a rural valuer with Colliers International.
The managing director of S. Kidman and Co. Greg Campbell said family members decided to capitalise on current demand for quality Australian agricultural assets. 
The company employs 170 staff.
The business supplies 1.3% of Australia's boxed beef exports. 
The 11 properties currently have 155,000 branded cattle with 30,000 more calves to be marked this year.
The Kidman family has $364 million net worth, as ranked 37th on the BRW Rich Family List, spread across family groups based in Australia, the United Kingdom and United States.
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Cattle king Sidney Kidman descendants list Australia's largest private rural landholding

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Glenray Park, the historic Yetholme homestead, has been listed by Mary Moody, one of Australia's leading horticulturalists and gardening authors.
Lovingly restored and cared for over her 20 year tenure, it was built near Bathurst by Mabel Walshaw in 1908.
It has been marketed as having stunning mature ornamental park-like garden surrounding the homestead which boasts the grandeur of historical homesteads with a surge of new age sustainable living. The five bedroom, two bathroom triple brick homestead has 14 foot ceilings, five fire places, and Oregon doors and trims.
Within the 20 acre property, there is a permanent mountain spring and Frying Pan creek water. There have been cattle run on the farm on the western slopes of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
The grounds have two irrigated propagation/shade houses for the professional market gardener and chook house and home vegetable garden. 
There's a 1920s dance hall once used for community dances and meetings could be transformed into a functions room or artists studio. 
<a href="https://raywhiteruralemmsmooney.com.au/nsw/yetholme/1276127/" target="_blank">Glenray Park</a>, at 61 Porters Lane, Yetholme, has been listed through Ray White Emms Mooney for 24 April auction through Patrick Bird and Sam D'Arcy. There are $700,000 plus expectations.
Yetholme is 20 minutes east of Bathurst and two hours drive from Sydney's CBD. 
<a href="https://www.marymoody.com.au" target="_blank">The gardening author</a> who trained as a journalist in the late 1960s at the Australian Women's Weekly was a long time presenter on Gardening Australia from her then Leura, Blue Mountains home. Her memoirs included Au Revoir, Last Tango in Toulouse, The Long Hot Summer and Sweet Surrender.
She has lead tours in France and the Himalayas and has written a book and made a film on a local rural French restaurant, Lunch with Madame Murat, for the SBS Network.
Glenray Park has been listed following the death of her partner, the film maker David Hannay in March 2014. It was 2001 when the couple relocated permanently to the Bathurst district after selling Villa Florence, their Katoomba cottage.
Moody is moving back to the mountains to be closer to family, but intends keeping a small block of land with an eco-cottage.
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Gardening author Mary Moody lists Glenray Park, her Bathurst market garden retreat 

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Retailer Malcolm Webster and his wife, Eileen, have finally sold Merrilla, their 380 hectare rural holding near Goulburn.
It was once part of a 1,000-hectare Chisholm family estate.
With prime agricultural grazing land including 1,200 metres of the Wollondilly River frontage, complete with garden ha-ha wall, Merrilla had been marketed by Christies International as one of the finest heritage homesteads of Southern New South Wales. Although it did not get a mention in G. Nesta Griffiths 1952 bible, Some Southern Homes of New South Wales.
No sale price has been given by agents Ken Jacobs and Bruce Eason, but there were last known $5 million aspirations and Fairfax Media suggest $6 million plus was actually achieved.
The homestead, which includes six double bedrooms, dates in part from 1838 and was restored under the guidance of heritage architect Howard Tanner. 
The estate, which also features a guest lodge, a greenhouse, stables and pool, comes with lawns, a tennis court and an ornamental lake. 
It was first listed in 2007 with $7 million plus hopes by the Websters with a different acreage.
Merrilla last traded in 2002 when bought from publishing entrepreneur Deke Miskin.
Title Tattle first visited the property in 1995, ahead if it being sold by businessman Michael Darling who had paid $561,659 for the Chisholm family farm in 1984. 
One of the seven historic Chisholm family residences in the district, Merrilla had been sold by the Chisholms in 1957 for $162,000.
Architect Howard Tanner who undertook the extensive restoration and renovation over nine years for Darling.
Title Tattle recalls the names of former residents Edith and Alice Chisholm could be found etched in the front window pane.
And the lasting impression of the magnificent matching bunya trees.
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