‘Cool Australia’ Enviroweek – It’s easier being green than checking your facts

September 23rd, 2009

Today’s Rivers Catalogue had a great ad for leather shoes, pointing out: ‘Leather is a premium lining material that gives the shoes added strength and durability. It also allows the feet to breathe better, which means they are less likely to sweat or smell.’ Rivers produce one of the best catalogues around – full of [...]

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Sterling Buntine selling up cattle stations

September 10th, 2009

Tobermorey 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 [...]

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Famous Territory livestock brands

September 8th, 2009

The 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) [...]

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Aussies Overseas – Aussie Expats

September 6th, 2009

Approximately 1 million of Australia’s 20 million citizens are living overseas at any one time. 50% of this website’s visitors live in countries other than Australia, as can be seen on the world map. It’s a fair bet that a slab of these overseas visitors are Aussie expats. Australians like to roam about. There are [...]

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Rural Television Programmes

September 6th, 2009

Australian Country Television Programmes ABC television — Landline 12noon to 1pm on Sundays. Landline Extra – 6pm Mondays. The ‘Best of Landline’ runs during December and January. A first class quality, unique programme, that features rural business and environmental stories and news, including weekly weather and market summaries. Despite the midday time slot and lack [...]

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Australian Biosecurity & Quarantine

September 6th, 2009

Australia is one of the few countries in the fortunate position of having no other countries connected to it by land. So keeping foreign pests and diseases out should be a piece of cake, compared to the majority of other countries which have the infinitely more difficult job of monitoring massive quantities of road traffic, [...]

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Wrotham Park Lodge closing – for good

September 5th, 2009

Wrotham 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 [...]

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The sale of Stanbroke Pastoral Company by AMP – 6th anniversary

September 4th, 2009

Amp 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 [...]

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MLA ‘Give chops a chance’ ad

September 2nd, 2009

It’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 [...]

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