Queensland Country Hour

The state government has bought the outback station nestled between Longreach and the Diamantina Lakes, planning to create a corridor of national parks in some of the most unique country in Queensland. It's the next chapter for a landscape known for its opal bearing-ranges, indigenous watering holes and as a cattle and sheep grazing operation. It comes as the federal government outlined the next stage of it's plan for a tough new Environmental Protection Agency to police conservation efforts.