It survived the birth of Canberra but it won't survive Mr Fluffy

By Emma Macdonald
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:52pm, first published June 24 2015 - 6:41pm

In 1890, on a grazing plain which spreads across what is now the Gold Creek Golf Course and the growing sprawl of Nicholls, the beautiful homestead "Deasland" was built by Canberra pioneer George Harcourt.

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