Brooding Skies Size:S The former storage room sat

The former storage room sat untouched through nearly a decade of vacancy before the entire campus was demolished in 2018

Paint peels from the walls of Cathcart Corner in layers

photographed in 2018 with paint peeling back from the walls in thick

Boco Homestead at Rural New South Wales and ACT

run the length of a woolshed exterior set on a granite boulder foundation

Brooding Skies Size:S The former storage room satWeathered timber walls and broken windowpanes mark a farmhouse now open to the sky, its slab construction a record of the hands that built and then left it. Structures like this one were the physical residue of the selector's gamble: 320 acres of Crown land for 1 per acre, three years' residence required, and the Monaro doing its best to collect on the debt. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.