Corporate Body
Australian Agricultural Company (1824 - )
- From
- 1824
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Functions
- Agricultural industry
- Alternative Names
- AACo (Parallel)
- Website
- http://www.aaco.com.au/
- Location
- Level 31, Aurora Place, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney New South Wales 2000
Summary
An Act of the British Parliament in 1824 established the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). AACo is one of Australia's oldest companies. The Company began for the purpose of improving flocks of Merino sheep, and later moved into cattle. AACo has 18 Cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory, with around 400,000 cattle. Their head office is located in Sydney.
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Bairstow, Damaris, A Million Pounds, a Million Acres: the Pioneer Settlement of the Australian Agricultural Company (Cremorne: 2003), 418 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- King, Hazel, 'John Macarthur Junior and the Formation of the Australian Agricultural Company', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 41 (3) (1985), 177-188. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-624566. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_a.html. Details
- Armstrong, John ed., Shaping the Hunter: a story of engineers, and the engineering contribution to the development of the present shape of the Hunter Region, its river, cities, industries and transport arteries (Newcastle, New South Wales: Institution of Engineers, Newcastle Division, 1983), 192 pp, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2021-09/Shaping-the-Hunter_0.pdf. Many references from page 7 to page 177. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 16 March 2000, Last modified: 17 June 2010
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