Following the advent of the revision of the Land Act limiting holdings up to one million acres, several of the properties of the Emanuels had to be disposed of.
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It was named after Robert Ramsay Mackenzie, who served as Premier of Queensland in 1867–1868 and was also member for Burnett, it was formally named and bounded by the Governor in Council on 7 March 1901 under the Land Act 1897.
A further Land Act in 1909 fostered by the liberal Chief Secretary for Ireland Augustine Birrell allowed for tenanted land where the owner was unwilling to sell to be bought by the Commission by compulsory purchase.
"Proxy colonialism" was legalized by the Public Land Act of 1919, invalidating Muslim Pusaka (inherited property) laws.