The practice of grazing sheep or cattle on Crown land.
the squatting system gave him ample scope to obtain all the land he needed
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The purchase of wild land, and the gradual creation from it of a cultivated landed estate, with stock and crop, does, eventually, prove a more profitable investment than mere sheep-farming conducted on the rude squatting system.
In May 1844, Gipps made another effort to bring some order and justice to the squatting system.
The greater part of the wool in Australia is produced under the squatting system.
The root of the trouble, it was said, was intimately connected with the squatting system.
One of few landowners to oppose the squatting system, in 1859 he introduced bills to abolish capital punishment and primogeniture.