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Amungee Mungee Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia.
The Overland Telegraph was completed in 1873 and led to the first leases being taken up in the area shortly afterwards. Many were surrendered in 1889 for non-payment of rent. In 1883 Harold Murray Bathern, known "Bullwaddy Bates", droving a herd of cattle to Brunette Downs Station. Bates and George Bostock took up Beetaloo Station with Bates leaving the property to Bates after he walked off the property.
In 1968 the block of land now known as Amungee Mungee was put up for ballot and was won by Jeff and Cooee Hills. The station was renamed Cooee Hills and was inhabited by the Hills in 1971. The family fenced the property and stocked it with 1,250 head of cattle. The family left the property and went back to Queensland after their son died in 1977. Reg and Mollie Hartig acquired the property shortly afterwards and remained there until 1981 when Reg died and was buried on the property.
The Zlotowski family, who also own Wollogorang Station near the Queensland border, acquired the property at some prior to 2006.
As of 2014 the property was still on the market along with at least 15 others in the Kimberley and Northern Territory. The destocked property sold later the same year for 6.5 million by the Zlotowski family to a partnership. The majority partner in the venture is BB Retail Capital, headed by Brett Blundy, and the other partner is the Bullwaddy Pastoral owned by Adrian and Emma Brown. 10,000 head of cattle were purchased from the Australian Agricultural Company to restock the property later in 2014. The partnership hope to increase the number of watering points around the property from 20 to 160 and increase the stocking rate from 20,000 head to 100,000 head of cattle.
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