Hooley, who was given the pastoral lease in 1867 by the colonial Government of Western Australia as a reward for creating a stock route from Perth to Roebourne.
The first was led by Hooley, who assembled the men working on the station and went out with them to attack a nearby native campsite.
[4] A poem was written about the battle, which described it as "fierce, with casualties and woes", but the result was a massacre of Indigenous people with little wounding of the British combatants.
[14] Employees at Minderoo felt an air shock and heard a rumble of the first British nuclear tests on Monte Bello Island in 1952.
Reynolds then slaughtered and butchered the cattle and hired an Anson aircraft to deliver over 272 kilograms (600 lb) of beef to Carnarvon.
Donald's son, the mining magnate Andrew Forrest, whose early years were spent as a jackaroo at Minderoo,[18][19] bought the property in 2009[20][21] for A$12 million.
[22] After buying back Minderoo in 2009, Andrew Forrest hired Phil Clark to manage the property.
In 2017, Minderoo Station was already producing 120 hectares of Rhodes grass as cattle feed using this irrigation method.