A person who works on or owns a sheep or cattle station.
the station men troop in to see the first sheep shorn
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Walking up the street we meet a knot of station-men from the Murray.
One Saturday evening when the station men were all at the homestead collecting their rations and grinding their flour, a howling surge of warriors came across the ridge.
The station men all had some ability to make themselves understood in a mixture of bush English and Anmatyerre or Warlpiri.
The station men had taken up position among the boulders beneath the rock-shelters, from which there was no escape other than coming out into the open.
The shearing came round on the Maroo just as the station man got back from Queensland.
The miners, as well as some old drovers and station men, had come to Australia from every nation on earth.
Dinny believed that, as the station men approached, a draft of wind had caused the fire-sticks to flare, and given their hiding place away.
Most of the evenings at Terinallum — and on all sheep stations — are like this; a station man and his wife, his household and his lonely house, and all around the immense emptiness of the Australian plains.