Also sprays of saltbush, shakes of Davidson plum powder, wattle seeds in many forms, jumbuck, Vegemite, snow crab, emu-egg sabayon and even a precise and witty take on the smashed avocado on toast you can find in nearly every restaurant in this city.
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Between 2002-2010, the Proton Jumbuck was sold in Australia as a ute.
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Jumbuck is an Australian term for a male sheep, and is featured in Banjo Paterson's poem "Waltzing Matilda".
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The word may come from a Gamilaraay (Indigenous Australian) word, dhimba, of unknown meaning."jumbuck." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 28 Jun. 2010.
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Down came the > troopers, one, two, and three. "Whose is that jumbucksometimes "Where's that > jolly jumbuck" you've got in your tucker bag? You'll come a-waltzing > Matilda, with me." (Chorus) Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the > billabong.
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The Jumbuck Pastoral Company is an Australian company that operates numerous cattle stations and sheep stations in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory It is one of the largest landowners in Australia and the biggest wool grower. Jumbuck controls over of holdings which run approximately 320,000 head of sheep and 80,000 head of cattle. The company is a privately held company owned by the MacLachlan family and is based in Adelaide. It was established in 1888 by H. P. MacLachlan who was known for his ability with stock and being able to ride out a drought.
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The station manager in 2012 was Michael Simons, who had replaced Wood in 2007. Simons started with Jumbuck in 1983 and now runs Rawlinna along with 14 staff. The property is stocked with approximately 60,000 sheep, with wool being sent to Adelaide for testing and sale. The record number of sheep shorn at Rawlinna is 80,000.
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The swag would generally be carried as a sausage-shaped roll slung over the shoulder, and the tucker bag in front. The term "tucker bag" appears in a number of traditional Australian songs and poems, including Waltzing Matilda "Whose is that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?", reflecting the tucker bag's place in Australian culture and history.
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The swagman's "swag" was a bed roll that bundled his belongings. ; billabong: an oxbow lake (a cut-off river bend) found alongside a meandering river ; coolibah tree: a kind of eucalyptus tree which grows near billabongs ; jumbuck: a sheep ; billy: a can for boiling water, usually 1–1.5 litres (2–3 pints) ; tucker bag: a bag for carrying food ; troopers: policemen ; squatter: Australian squatters started as early farmers who raised livestock on land which they did not have the legal title to use; in many cases they later gained legal use of the land even though they did not have full possession, and became wealthy thanks to these large land holdings. The squatter's claim to the land may be as unfounded as is the swagman's claim to the jumbuck.
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This followed a good season where the property received of rain, nearly double the annual average. In 2012 a fire burned for three days near Madura covering the Eyre Highway in smoke. Over of bushland was consumed by the blaze. Madura Plains Station was purchased by CC Cooper & Co, Jamestown, South Australia from Jumbuck Pastoral in February 2016 for 10 million.
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In 2012 the property was run by Wallco Pastoral Company until it was placed in receivership by the National Australia Bank before a refinancing. Killarney was sold in 2014 to the Jumbuck Pastoral Company for about 35 million. At the time it occupied an area of . Most of Birrimba and a small portion of Killarney were burnt out by a bushfire in 2014.
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The station was acquired in 1971 by H.G. MacLachlan of the Jumbuck Pastoral Company who still owned it in 2012. The land occupying the extent of the Mount Victor pastoral lease was gazetted as a locality by the Government of South Australia on 26 April 2013 under the name 'Mount Victor Station'. The term 'station' was added to prevent duplication of the locality name within Australia.
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The origin of this word was long unknown. It is thus explained by Mr. Meston, in the Sydney Bulletin, April 18, 1896: The word jumbuck for sheep appears originally as jimba, jombock, dombock, and dumbog. In each case it meant the white mist preceding a shower, to which a flock of sheep bore a strong resemblance. It seemed the only thing the aboriginal mind could compare it to.
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Commonwealth Hill Station more commonly known as Commonwealth Hill is a pastoral lease currently operating as a sheep station. Commonwealth Hill is located about north north west of Tarcoola and south west of Coober Pedy in the state of South Australia. The property occupies an area of approximately or one million hectares, making it the second largest sheep station in Australia, after Rawlinna Station. It is currently owned by the Jumbuck Pastoral Company.
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The station occupies an area of about or 2.5 million acres in the remote south east of Western Australia, making it the largest sheep station in Australia. It is currently owned by the Jumbuck Pastoral Company. The station encompasses part of the Nullabor Plain, so the geology changes from the red dirt of the goldfields to the plain's famous white limestone outcrops. The vegetation changes from woodlands to the east to drought-resistant shrubs and grasses on the plain.
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New Zealand English terms of Australian origin include bushed (lost or bewildered), chunder (to vomit), drongo (a foolish or stupid person), fossick (to search), jumbuck (sheep, from Australian pidgin), larrikin (mischievous person), Maccas (slang for McDonald's food), maimai (a duckshooter's hide; originally a makeshift shelter, from aboriginal mia-mia), paddock (field, or meadow), pom or pommy (an Englishman), skite (verb: to boast), station (for a very large farm), wowser (non-drinker of alcohol, or killjoy), and ute (pickup truck).
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Mackie was taken to hospital in 1951 with heart troubles and the station was sold later the same year to a group of developers who were to turn the area into a tourist resort. In the 1960s the Birmingham family (Charlie Carter's grocery chain) held the lease, and the station manager was Brian O'Connor - brother of the politician Ray O'Connor. The Jumbuck Pastoral Company acquired Madura in 1987, adding it to the neighbouring Moonera and began sub-dividing large paddocks and installing extra windmills and water points. Matt Haines was appointed manager in 2011; in the same year 30,000 sheep were shorn producing 850 bales of wool.
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The property occupies an area of and supports a herd of approximately 25,000 Brahman cattle. It is owned by the Jumbuck Pastoral Company and has been managed by Troy Haslet since 2015. The property was established prior to 1883; a station employee, Henry Thomas Best, died on Meda that year. By 1885 the property was owned by Messrs Marmion and Co. and was hit by severe flooding. Over 1,300 sheep were lost from the property during a cyclone that swept through the area. In 1891 shearing produced 100 bales of wool. Record flooding hit the area in 1894 following a cyclone. The station manager reported to Marmion that another 1,300 sheep had been lost from the property.
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Retrieved 4 March 2014. In an account of "The Murray Expedition", published in the Southern Australian on 6 July 1841, the following passage occurs: "...we found that the whole of the sheep had long before been slaughtered, as we saw their carcases and bones thrown about in vast heaps in various places where the blacks had formed large encampments, and had folded the sheep; and though we saw and chased thirteen natives, (the only number seen on our side of the river, though numerous enough, on the other), they were ever too closer to the water's edge to admit of our securing them, for they took to the river when driven through the high reeds on its banks, and which rose above our heads when on horseback, and thus, from the want of boats, escaped us, though only a few yards distant. They might, all with certainty have been shot, but when they found we would not fire, the villains laughed at and mocked us, roaring out "plenty sheepy," "plenty jumbuck," (another name of theirs for sheep)..."Southern Australian 6 July 1841. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
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