Allan Macpherson was a squatter, pastoralist and politician in the colony of New South Wales, a member of the Legislative Assembly.
Allan Macpherson (holding hat) and Family in 1884 at Blairgowrie, Scotland
Squatting (Australian history)
In the history of Australia, squatting was the act of extrajudicially occupying tracts of Crown land, typically to graze livestock. Though most squatters initially held no legal rights to the land they occupied, the majority were gradually recognised by successive colonial authorities as the legitimate owners of the land due to being among the first white settlers in their area. The term squattocracy, a play on aristocracy, was coined to refer to squatters as a social class and the immense sociopolitical power they possessed.
Archibald Clunes Innes, a prominent squatter in the colony of New South Wales
Colonial artist S. T. Gill supports Aboriginal land rights and condemns the Squattocracy in Squatter of N. S. Wales: Monarch of all he Surveys, 1788 (above) and Squatter of N. S. Wales: Monarch of more than all he Surveys, 1863 (below).
Warfare between squatters and Aboriginal people in South Australia
1845 political cartoon by Edward Winstanley, critical of Governor George Gipps' land reforms