Unfortunately, quite often I am contacted by people desperately looking for rural experience for a teenager. I say unfortunately, because very often these are parents (mostly mothers) who are very worried about a son whose formal education is not going well. Sometimes I am contacted by other relatives (eg a grandparent) and sometimes by someone [...]
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September 2nd, 2010Remote Area Zone Tax Rebate – Now’s our chance to fix it
August 31st, 2010It has been surprising that the Remote Area Tax Rebate (most recently referred to as the ‘Zone Tax Offset’) doesn’t appear to have been mentioned in the independent’s discussion list – in particular Bob Katter’s list. The single best achievement these rural independents could make would be raising the Remote Area Zone Tax Rebate/Zone Tax Offset up from the rates which don’t [...]
The ‘Farmers Arms’ poem and ‘God Speed the Plough’
August 31st, 2010While poking around an antique shop near Romsey (Vic) I spotted a large pottery cup and saucer produced by Adams (England) that I just had to buy. It has a very old poem on it that I think says it all, for farmers, albeit in olde worlde language & punctuation and no mention of the [...]
Another Chopper Mustering Accident
June 13th, 2010There has been yet another fatal mustering chopper accident. Each time I hear of one I am hoping it is not someone I know but of course it is a tragedy whoever it is. The chopper crashed on Mt Barnett Station (Gibb River road, roughly halfway between Wyndham and Derby in the Kimberley region of WA). Apparently he [...]
Pastoral Company Websites & cattle station jobs
June 10th, 2010Recently I was asked about cattle station websites. There are only three reasons why a cattle station or pastoral company will have a website: 1. To attract new investment & keep current investors informed, if it’s a public company. 2. To attract new staff and to boost morale amongst existing staff. 3. To help boost [...]
Australian Bush Poetry
June 9th, 2010A New South Wales customer rang today and told me what a caning they’d had over the last ten years or so, and that today they were drafting up sheep to send them off on agistment. To many false starts, too many times plants have germinated and not received the follow-up rain required to ensure [...]
Starting Work on Australian cattle stations
June 2nd, 2010Anyone looking for work on an Australian cattle station, or about to start work, would find this long list of information from Jumbuck Pastoral Company very useful. The list covers a whole range of useful information for new employees on cattle stations, such as: hours of work and the reasons for the need for flexibility; [...]
Have a gallop in Cobb & Co Coach at Longreach, Queensland
June 1st, 2010Cobb & Co. was the Australian equivalent of Wells Fargo, the horsedrawn stagecoach company made famous worldwide many decades later, via a myriad of American western films. Australia’s most famous coach business was created in Victoria in 1853 by Freeman Cobb and three other Americans who had migrated to Australia. Cobb & Co commenced services [...]
MacDonald Downs – Creative Outback Cattle Station marketing with new social media
May 19th, 2010In some circles, the popular stereotype of rural residents is of straw-chewing half wits, at least half a century behind the times. Whereas in reality, in rural and remote Australia there is actually a faster uptake and far greater use of the latest technology – at least, the practical, directly useful and durable bits (not [...]
