Primary Holdings International has bought Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) cattle stations earlier this year however little is known about PHI. Though the Primary Holdings International website says it will be online in ‘early 2009’, it is yet to happen. It appears Guernsey-registered Origa Resource Partners have stumped up about half the money – presumably as […]
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Who really owns & runs Primary Holdings International?
April 30th, 2009Voiceless – domestic animals matter but native animals don’t
April 24th, 2009The Voiceless website has a dramatic counter on the home page which purports to show ‘the number of farm animals killed in Australia by the meat, dairy and egg industry, since you opened this page’. Perhaps Voiceless could consider a similar live counter that shows the worldwide number of acres of rainforest being cleared minute […]
Australian agriculture’s bad image
April 24th, 2009Quadrant is one of the few genuinely independent magazines in Australia today. Most of our newspapers and magazines are filled with the same old shallow, repetitive, syndicated tripe, ‘advertorials’ and sensationalist scaremongering that isn’t backed up with verifiable facts. Quadrant writers are individual thinkers who are not afraid to disagree with and discuss popular views, […]
The ‘Australia’ film – why did some people hate it and so many people love it?
April 17th, 2009The huge gulf between those who loved & those who hated Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ is best explained by reading the comments from the general public on some of the film forums, such as Nine MSN’s ‘Your Movies’. The comments on this blog illustrate two great things – a) most Australians think for themselves rather than […]
Victorian Producers Co-operative Company Limited (VPC)
April 12th, 2009Farmers are raised with a dislike of middlemen. The blokes between the grower and the end user are viewed as parasites who take few risks and expend relatively little effort, yet pocket a lot of profit. Farmer’s Co-ops are the result. This 2003 paper on VPC by John Gill (ex Chairman of the Co-operative Federation […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Movie sales figures
April 7th, 2009Baz Luhrmann’s Australia film grossed $206 million USD at theatre box offices in the first five months. In just one month, in the U.S., 2 million ‘Australia’ DVDs sold – which is 80% of what 20th Century Fox expected to sell in total. It’s good to see the public making their own minds up, rather […]
NAPCo selling Roxborough Downs
April 4th, 2009Roxborough Downs, located SW of Mt Isa (on the road from Boulia to Alice Springs), is to be sold to fund expansion of NAPCo’s Wainui Feedlot, located west of Toowoomba on Queensland’s Darling Downs. The agent is Dick Allpass of Elders.
Farmers are uneducated peasants who destroy the landscape and cause global warming
April 3rd, 2009In today’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper Paul Myers, freelance journalist and former Rural Press General Manager, former editor of The Bulletin and R.M. William’s Outback Magazine, has written an excellent piece on the woeful state of the general public’s image of Australian farmers and graziers. Paul rightly points out that the world only grows enough […]
National Vegetarian Week & How does being vegetarian save the planet?
April 1st, 2009An article by Natascha Mirosch in the Brisbane Courier Mail on ‘National Vegetarian Week’, is filled with subjective steering such as: ‘most Australians… still have a heavy, meat-based diet’. Heavy? Does she mean like a lead weight? And another beauty: ‘while vegetarians such as…found their way to a meatless diet purely because of a distaste […]