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Mount Doreen Station is a pastoral lease operating as a
cattle station In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm ( station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a '' grazier''. The largest cattle stat ...
in the
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
of Australia. It is situated about north east of
Papunya Papunya ( Pintupi-Luritja: ''Warumpi'') is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is known as an important centre for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art ...
and approximately north west of Alice Springs just off the Tanami Track in the central region of the Northern Territory. The property shares a boundary with Yunkanjini Aboriginal Land Trust to the south, the Yuendumu Aboriginal Land Trust to the east (with Yuendumu the closest settlement), the Mala Aboriginal Land Trust to the north and the
Lake Mackay Lake Mackay, known as Wilkinkarra to the Indigenous Pintupi people, is the largest of hundreds of ephemeral salt lakes scattered throughout the Pilbara and northern parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and the Norther ...
Aboriginal Land Trust to the west. The nearest leases are Newhaven Sanctuary (formerly Station) to the south and Mount Denison to the east. Vaughan Springs, known to the
Warlpiri people The Warlpiri, sometimes referred to as Yapa, are a group of Aboriginal Australians defined by their Warlpiri language, although not all still speak it. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered thr ...
as Pikilyi, is a large and important waterhole near the
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.


Early history

The
traditional owners Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have right ...
of the area are the
Warlpiri people The Warlpiri, sometimes referred to as Yapa, are a group of Aboriginal Australians defined by their Warlpiri language, although not all still speak it. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered thr ...
. Pikilyi is an important
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for
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, at the junction of a number of different Dreamings, including Possum, Snake, Two Kangaroos, Flying Ant and Yam, which are represented in the work of artist Kumantje Jagamara. The Warlpiri received recognition for their
native title Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty under settler colonialism. The requirements of proof for the recognition of aboriginal title, ...
of the area in 2014. The initial application had been filed with the Federal Court in 2005, then later withdrawn in 2011 and filed again shortly afterwards, with recognition being awarded in 2013. A minor variation was registered in August 2020. The station was established by William Braitling, better known as Bill, and his wife Doreen Braitling in 1932. They acquired the lease after a few years working as drovers in the Territory. The property is named after Doreen. In 1945 Bill Braitling was charged with assault for tying an Aboriginal man to a tree, "thrashed him with four heavy mulga waddies". Braitling was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 1946 and unsuccessfully claimed improper police methods were used. Doreen Braitling applied for a mineral lease in 1947. Bill Braitling stood as the candidate for Stuart in the 1951
Northern Territory Legislative Council The Northern Territory Legislative Council was the partly elected governing body of the Northern Territory of Australia from 1947 until its replacement by the fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in 1974. Prior to 1947, there ha ...
election. In 1953, Bill Braitling attempted to establish the Northern Territory's first Arab stud at Mount Doreen. Bill lived on Mount Doreen Station until his death in Alice Springs in 1959.


Recent history

The property was put on the market in 2012 but was later withdrawn from sale. Matthew Braitling took over the station and 2013. He was charged with
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after an incident that had occurred in 2012 where he failed to alleviate the suffering of a cow with a deformed head and another that had an ingrown horn. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was later found guilty, but had no conviction recorded. Since 2007, it has been located with the locality of
Lake Mackay Lake Mackay, known as Wilkinkarra to the Indigenous Pintupi people, is the largest of hundreds of ephemeral salt lakes scattered throughout the Pilbara and northern parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and the Norther ...
.


Geology

Mount Doreen is in the
Ngalia Basin The Ngalia Basin is a small (ca. 15,000 km²) intracratonic sedimentary basin in central Australia, lying within the southern Northern Territory. Wells AT, Moss, FJ (1983). "The Ngalia Basin, Northern Territory: stratigraphy and structure". Burea ...
. In 1971, a type of
quartzite Quartzite is a hard, non- foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.Essentials of Geology, 3rd Edition, Stephen Marshak, p 182 Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure usually related to tec ...
was identified, named as Vaughan Springs quartzite. Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
licence.


Notable people

*Artist Kumantje Jagamara (1946 – November 2020), designer of the
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forecourt at
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, was born at Pikilyi. *Artist
Pauline Nakamarra Woods Pauline Nakamarra Woods (born 1949) is an Aboriginal Australian artist. Her first name is spelled ''Pauleen'' in some sources. Early life Woods was born in 1949, Vaughan Springs, west of Yuendumu, and grew up in Yuendumu. She later lived in Ali ...
(born 1949), the first
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woman to have her work used on an Australian
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, was born at Pikilyi.


See also

*
List of ranches and stations This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance. West Africa * Obudu Cattle Ranch * S ...
*
List of the largest stations in Australia This is a list of the largest stations in Australia, which includes stations with an area in excess of . All of the largest pastoral leases are located in the states of South Australia (SA), Queensland (QLD) and Western Australia (WA); or in the ...


References

{{Reflist, 30em Stations (Australian agriculture) Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory 1932 establishments in Australia