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Raises money for food charities
11 August 2025
ABC News story about the Great Australian Cattle Drive, a 770-kilometre trek from Longreach to Roma.
Supporting BeefBank, a Brisbane-based not-for-profit that distributes meat to food charities struggling to access protein, the Great Australian Charity Cattle Drive has something in common with the droves of old — it is about making sure people get fed.
Source: ABC News
See also Queensland Stock Routes
A stock route, also known as travelling stock route (TSR), is an authorised thoroughfare for the walking of domestic livestock such as sheep or cattle from one location to another in Australia. The stock routes across the country are colloquially known as The Long Paddock or Long Paddock.
A travelling stock route may often be distinguished from an ordinary country road by the fact that the grassy verges on either side of the road are very much wider, and the property fences being set back much further from the roadside than is usual, or open stretches of unfenced land. The reason for this is so that the livestock may feed on the vegetation that grows on the verges as they travel, especially in times of drought.
Source: Wikipedia
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