No dogs, cats or concrete driveways. How Allan Myers rules over Dunkeld
The billionaire barrister loves Dunkeld, the Victorian town where he grew up and large parts of which he now owns. But the locals are not in love with him.
When he ventures beyond his compound, Allan James Myers AC, KC, can glance around with great satisfaction, master of all he surveys. Nicole Reed
The Great Dividing Range runs the length of the continent, 3500 kilometres from Cape York down through NSW and into the bountiful plains of Victoria’s Western District. It comes to a magnificent conclusion with a couple of volcanic exclamations, Mount Sturgeon and Mount Abrupt, which tower over the pretty little town of Dunkeld.
A high-walled fort marks the point where the mountains succumb to the plains. The construction of this citadel’s wall was a gargantuan undertaking. Two metres high, and made of local sandstone, it took a team of masons 28 years to complete, longer than it took to build the Taj Mahal. You could squeeze the MCG within the walls.
