Maria Ann Soper’s death in January 1999 at the age of 21 was a tragic reminder of how dangerous it is to overheat and dehydrate in the hot, humid weather of the northern wet season, and how quickly death can occur. If it isn’t raining in January, it is usually the hottest month of the [...]
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‘Australia’ (the film)
January 28th, 2009Baz Luhrmann was quoted as saying he didn’t make films for critics, he made them for audiences. (So if a film was good, word-of-mouth would eventually get people in to see it – regardless of what was published in the press.) More than 3 million Australians, out of a population of just 21.2 million, have [...]
Butchering the Australian language
January 25th, 2009I don’t know who wrote the half-page Cairns Regional Council Cairns Post newspaper ad for the Australia Day Celebrations, but it must have been either a backpacking pom on work experience, or an Australian who ought to be deported. Every Australian knows that ‘Aussie’ is spelt with two s’s, NOT z’s. But it really was [...]
The new Cattle Council of Australia president
January 20th, 2009Last November Greg Brown, a cattle producer from Mt Garnet (nth Qld) was elected President of the Cattle Council of Australia. I don’t know Greg, but I do know his son Alistair. Alistair and his wife Nellie run Brown Gully Photography & Framing at Roma, and were responsible for the best-run exhibition that I’ve ever [...]
The Sherwin family saga
January 18th, 2009Peter and Florence Sherwin have won a court battle to have their ex son-in-law repay more than $1 million given in four instalments between 1999 and 2002. Plus interest. 26 year old Craig Commens and the Sherwin’s 19 year old daughter Maria (nicknamed Rusty) left Walhallow station together in 1986 when Dalby-born Craig worked for [...]
Giddy Goanna – Farm Safety for Adults & Children
January 12th, 2009Giddy Goanna is a not-for-profit child safety promoting organisation that began with a focus on farm safety. 6 books have been published – three of which feature farm safety: 1. Farm Safety fun with Giddy Goanna (1995). Written by Pamela Brown and illustrated by Rebecca Berrett. 2. Giddy Goanna – Fun on the Farm (1997). [...]
Alternative Rural News Source – Agmates
January 6th, 2009Agmates is a source of rural news that has gone unmentioned or only reported from one (very biased) angle, in the mainstream rural newspapers, which have a monopoly in most states. So as Steve Truman describes it, ‘Agmates’ is an alternative news source for rural Australians, in the same way that ‘Crikey’ is an alternative [...]
‘Beaten by a Blow’ – A shearer’s Story
January 3rd, 2009Dennis McIntosh’s riveting autobiography is well written, funny, thought-provoking and very, very poignant. On top of that, it’s an exceedingly important historical record of shearing life from the 1970s to the early 1980s. It’s these rural cultural aspects that I enjoyed reading about most, because they are almost never discussed. This book deserves a swag [...]
