Bonus Downs restoration uncovers historic background

Lucy Kinbacher
Updated January 19 2017 - 9:26am, first published 9:00am
FarmBuy Real Estate
Madonna Connolly with her grandson Benjamin Wilkinson at the entrance to the Bonus Downs Homestead. Picture: Lucy Kinbacher
Madonna Connolly with her grandson Benjamin Wilkinson at the entrance to the Bonus Downs Homestead. Picture: Lucy Kinbacher

WHEN Madonna and Lyle Connolly purchased Bonus Downs, south-west of Mitchell in 1990, everybody in the district thought they were mad.

Lucy Kinbacher

Lucy Kinbacher

Editor - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Raised on a cattle property at Biggenden, Lucy Kinbacher has spent 10 years working across metropolitan, regional and rural publications in both Queensland and NSW. Lucy has been the editor of the Queensland Country Life and North Queensland Register since 2021.

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