Delegate Shearers Front western australia Bunkyo-ku for 80 years before

Bunkyo-ku for 80 years before a fire in July 2007 displaced its final residents

Sunlight cuts through a grimy office window at Waratah Park

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

purpose-built in 1957 to serve the Balmain Tigers community

from 1957 until it closed on 28 March 2010

Delegate Shearers Front western australia Bunkyo-ku for 80 years beforeThe weathered timber and corrugated iron facade of the Delegate shearers' quarters, its empty windows and peeling paint marking the end of seasonal work that once brought gangs of men together each year. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, one of the earliest pastoral frontiers in New South Wales, with European settlement reaching this far south from 1827. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.