Morning light across the showgrounds where we had an overnight stop. The Tree of Knowledge (a 200 year old ghost gum) at Barcaldine is regarded as the birthplace of the Australian Labour Party as it was the headquarters of the 1891 Australian shearers strike. An act of vandalism poisoned the tree with glyphosphate and it was declared dead in 2006. Several cuttings propagated from the tree before it died grow in the town
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