From afar, it seems unremarkable -- a dilapidated house on a wooded 40-hectare block.
But the rural block at Tara, west of Brisbane, has been catapulted into the national consciousness after two police officers and a neighbour were gunned down at the scrubby property at Wieambilla on Monday.
Sold off by company Washington Developments in the 1970s and 80s, there are countless numbers of these rural blocks — with the majority having no power or water — across the Western Downs.
