The World From Below

Place

Australia · Central Highlands / Capricorn Highway

Bluff

A small central Queensland highlands township on the Capricorn Highway where cattle country meets open-cut metallurgical coal leases — including the Bluff coalmine footprint beside long-held family paddocks.

Illustrative photograph of the Bluff Hotel on the Capricorn Highway, Bluff township, Queensland (Wikimedia Commons / RegionalQueenslander, 2017). Editorial place card — NOT Goodwin’s farmhouse, NOT her cattle.

Illustrative place identifier for Bluff township on the Capricorn Highway (Wikimedia Commons / RegionalQueenslander, 2017). Used to identify the place — NOT Goodwin’s farmhouse, NOT her cattle, not from The Guardian. · Credit: RegionalQueenslander / Wikimedia Commons · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bluff3.jpg

Related forces

Spoil & Lease

Stories

The Country They Never Rehabbed

Patricia Goodwin stayed on the Bluff cattle paddock her family has worked for nearly 120 years while successive coal companies left unrehabilitated spoil, unfinished fences, and neighbour contracts that never closed.