Language is important, but there are usually no sheep stations on the discussions we have here.

an interesting figure of speech, which I haven’t come across before. Could you elucidate a bit, OP Tipping?

To say there aren’t sheep stations on something means that the stakes involved are not huge.

A related expression is “playing for sheep stations” (usually in the negative).

Further background:
“On” here is in the sense of “riding on” or “depending on” or perhaps “bet on”. A sheep station is a large sheep grazing property (equiv to ranch). They can grow sizeable in Australia, into the 1000s of square kilometres.

Thanks, OP—I would never have guessed that!

In the US, we have “don’t bet the ranch on it” to indicate skepticism, but nothing quite equivalent in terms of indicating that the stakes are minor.

Thanks, OP Tipping

(shakes head in wonderment)

about thirty of those would overflow my country.....

I also wondered about that phrase, so thanks for the question and the answer. Will it ever find its way to my neck of the woods, I wonder?

The exact formulation I used in the quoted phrase is not quite the normal idiom: it would be more normal to say “there aren’t sheep stations” etc.