Meentheena Station
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Meentheena Station is a historic cattle station in Western Australia.[1][2]
It is located approximately 70-80 kilometers east of Marble Bar.[1][3]
It operated as a cattle station for many years, before being turned into a retreat location for Australian military veterans.[3]
As a cattle station, it was at one stage operated by a pastoralist named Charlie Blair.[4] Bill Dunn worked there at an early stage of his career as a cattle drover.[5] The station has been noted by historians as a relatively good place of work for Aboriginal Australians of the time, with Blair paying his aboriginal workers in cash wages prior to the practice becoming more widespread.[6] Blair was also noted to have treated Dunn as family and not discriminated against him on account of his race.[7]