Jumbuk boys eye Anna Creek Station
The MacLachlan family is understood to be keen to add the world’s biggest farm, Anna Creek Station, to its portfolio.
The MacLachlan family, which owns vast reaches of rural and outback South Australia, NSW and Western Australia, is understood to be keen to add the world’s biggest farm, Anna Creek Station, to its farming portfolio.
The joint chiefs of Jumbuk Pastoral, brothers Callum and Jock MacLachlan — whose second cousin is AFL boss Gillon McLachlan (their family names are spelt differently) — are considered to be frontrunners in the race for the 23,000sq km property, ahead of British-based members of the Ayers family, one arm of the 58 family shareholders who are immediate descendants of cattle king Sidney Kidman and may be keen to claim the farm as part of their share of the sale booty. It was Anna Creek Station, on the western edge of Lake Eyre in South Australia, that caused Scott Morrison to reject the first attempt by an unnamed Chinese bidder — believed to be Shanghai Pengxin — to buy the Kidman estate in November.
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