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Vergemont Station set to become Queensland's newest National Park. Queensland Country Hour
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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.
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.
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