In the 1920’s thousands of UK immigrants arrived in Western Australia on a promise that they would be given farms to work. Few understood the hardships they would face clearing the hardwood forests to make a dairy industry in WA.

At the end of the First World War many British ex-servicemen joined the queues of the unemployed. When films and glossy brochures appeared promising ‘a new life, a new start on your own dairy farm in the paradise of Western Australia, unsuspecting British families travelled to the other side of the world under a hastily-conceived immigration program known as the Group Settlement Scheme. But instead of the promised paradise, Group Settlers were greeted by an unforgiving, alien landscape and a harsh, regimented lifestyle. Those who stayed were determined to survive, despite the hardships. They gradually cleared the bush and turned it into pasture, developing the south-west into the ‘land of milk and honey’ it is today.