Australian Country Homes

A ROYAL TRADITION

Simon Rowe is practically crowing down the phone from his home at Burra in South Australia’s mid-north. It’s been raining all night at Princess Royal station, where he and his wife, Andrea, and their adult children, Jack, Katherine and Rebecca, have lived since 2000. As the true cattleman he is, to him, it’s the best day so far this year. “It’s been 97 days since we had rain,” he reports, barely

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