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Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group set to buy Australia's biggest sheep station at Rawlinna, WA

Rawlinna Station covers more than one million hectares of the WA outback. (ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)

Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group is set to acquire Australia's biggest sheep station, the million-hectare Rawlinna Station on the Nullarbor.  

The ABC understands a conditional contract has been signed with the owners of the station, which was established in the 1960s by the MacLachan family.

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