Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Homestead.
In nearly every farming district there are to be observed farm homesteads that gladden the eye and the heart, and others that are most depressing to look at (says the “Agricultural Gazette”).
In practically every part of this prolific land, it is not a question of momentary outlay that governs the difference between a comfortable and beautiful little home and a miserably bare one.
It is just a matter of personal taste, and if the old folks will not improve the place in the thousand and one inexpensive ways possible for their own sakes, they certainly should do so for the sake of the little ones.
One may often see a settler in the slack time spending hours and hours chopping a rabbit out of a great log, when the same amount of time and energy spent round the homestead would result in paving