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‘Cool Australia’ Enviroweek – It’s easier being green than checking your facts
September 23rd, 2009Sterling Buntine selling up cattle stations
September 10th, 2009Tobermorey station (west of Boulia, on the NT side of the Qld border) is to be sold. The current owner is not mentioned however presumably it is still Sterling Buntine. (I was told by a resident employee in 2006 that Sterling Buntine was the owner, however have not seen ownership ever mentioned elsewhere.) Described as [...]
Famous Territory livestock brands
September 8th, 2009The list of Northern Territory livestock brands that are still current that were registered before 1928, under the South Australian brands ordinance, is interesting. It’s a short list – just 7 owners, and 9 cattle stations. The two most recognised Australian cattle station symbol brands are on the list – the Victoria River Downs (VRD) [...]
Wrotham Park Lodge closing – for good
September 5th, 2009Wrotham Park Lodge, located on Wrotham Park Station (near Chillagoe, far north Queensland), has always shut in November (late in the dry season) and re-opened around the start of April (after each wet season). However this year it is shutting up on 16th October, apparently for good. Mid October happens to be 60 days since [...]
The sale of Stanbroke Pastoral Company by AMP – 6th anniversary
September 4th, 2009Amp Ltd sold (or more aptly, ‘gave away’) Stanbroke Pastoral Company in September 2003. The sale of one of Australia’s most successful pastoral companies was a controversial process and ended in two court cases, that got AACo (the most significant of the losing tender bidders) absolutely nowhere. The Stanbroke sale was controversial because (A) AACo [...]
MLA ‘Give chops a chance’ ad
September 2nd, 2009It’s the 40th anniversary of the famous Woodstock music festival, and the MLA has a top new ad out – Give Chops a Chance(We love our lamb in spring), featuring a bunch of ultra-clean (and healthy) hippies, tucking into barbequed lamb chops to ‘Turn, turn, turn’. Enough to make you want to run to the [...]
