Delegate Shearers Front western australia Sunlight cuts through a grimy

Sunlight cuts through a grimy office window at Waratah Park

it is one of many former businesses left standing as Yubari's population fell toward fewer than 6

The building is one of the rural vernacular structures Brett Patman photographed across the Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019

the one corner of a working factory where the machinery stopped and the people were just people

Delegate Shearers Front western australia Sunlight cuts through a grimyThe weathered timber and corrugated iron facade of the Delegate shearers' quarters, its empty windows and peeling paint marking the end of seasonal work that once brought gangs of men together each year. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, one of the earliest pastoral frontiers in New South Wales, with European settlement reaching this far south from 1827. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.