Suplejack Station cattle deal sends Tanami Desert stock 3,000km to new home near Dubbo

It has been a busy week for one of Australia’s most remote cattle stations.

Suplejack Station in the Tanami Desert region of the Northern Territory trucked 18 decks of female cattle to a buyer near Dubbo in New South Wales — in a deal worth nearly $400,000.

This was not a normal sale for Suplejack, which usually targeed the live export trade out of Darwin.

But a decision to sell 475 head via the online platform AuctionsPlus, exposed the desert cattle to eastern states buyers looking to restock.