Family ties

They say you have to go away to appreciate what you have at home. For Peter and Roberta Doneley, who live on Dunraven station near Barcaldine in Queensland’s central-west, it was a group tour to WA’s Kimberley that prompted them to open their home to tourism.

“We had a fantastic trip and saw lots of amazing things,” Roberta recalls. “But there was an underlying sense that even though we were travelling through stations, we weren’t actually learning much about the way the places were run — the nitty gritty details such as carrying capacities, how the livestock were managed and how the owners were dealing with challenges. We