Beef Week is over for another 3 years. This year a record crowd attended of almost 85,000 people, over 5 days. Many Beef Australia visitors travelled from interstate and remote areas, and other countries. Though the tradefair keeps me flat out for the duration, it’s immensely enjoyable. I’m already looking forward to Beef Week in [...]
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Wongai Coal Mine, Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape York Peninsula
April 29th, 2012A few years ago I wrote an R.M. William’s Outback Magazine ‘station story’ on a beautiful cattle station – Lilyvale. Owned by the Shephard family for more than 80 years, it was the only cattle station that was a financially healthy pastoral business on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula. Lilyvale has a relatively [...]
Queensland Election – the reasons why
March 26th, 2012If Australia doesn’t get a send-us-broke carbon tax due to a Federal ALP rethink, then NSW, Vic, ACT, Tas, SA, WA & NT business owners & employees & households & investors can thank Queensland. Odd that the Qld Labor party put the defeat down largely to the ‘poor explanation’ regarding the privatisation of publicly owned assets, [...]
RMWAH’s purchase of Henbury Cattle Station, NT – on ABC Landline
March 23rd, 2012R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings (RMWAH) ’carbon farming’ plans for Henbury cattle Station will feature on ABC television’s Landline programme at noon this Sunday (25th March). Landline is repeated at 11.00 each Monday morning. Henbury is a cattle station located in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory, and was purchased last year by RMWAH with the help [...]
AACo – Corella Lake on Brunette Downs
March 17th, 2012It was nice to open up the Townsville Bulletin today and see David Farley, CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). Because he is standing in front of one of my aerial photographs of Corella Lake, one of the large freshwater lakes on the AAco’s blue-ribbon cattle station in the Northern Territory, Brunette Downs. The [...]
Honey production at the Rialto Intercontinental Hotel, Melbourne
March 17th, 2012Built by Melbourne’s Grollo Family in partnership with St Martin’s Properties in 1982-6 and still in the top 5 tallest buildings in the southern hemisphere (and still well known for spectacular views), Melbourne’s Rialto Towers (43 & 63 storeys high – 253 metres) are located right in the heart of the Melbourne CBD, at 495 Collins Street (corner of King Street). [...]
Tanumbirini Station sold to Thames Pastoral Company
February 23rd, 2012Sterling Buntine’s Baldy Bay Pty Ltd has sold the NT’s Tanumbirini Station for around $33 million to a business apparently new to rural Australia, and about which very little is publicly known - Thames Pastoral Company. Sterling paid Henry & Maria Townshend $38 million for Tanumbirini Station in 2006. According to Beef Central, David Connolly is the manager [...]
‘A Farmer’s Life for Me’ BBC television series
February 21st, 2012‘A Farmer’s Life for Me’ was filmed by the BBC in 2011, and has just started screening on ABC television from 6pm-7pm on Tuesday nights. Filmed during midsummer in the beautiful rolling hills of Suffolk, ’A Farmers Life for Me’ features 9 varied couples (siblings and married/partnered couples, gay/straight; of all ages & from all walks [...]
Australia’s fine wool (Merino) industry
February 6th, 2012Imagine if a capital city newspaper ran a story on Toyota wheel drives and illustrated it with an image of a Mini Cooper S. Can you imagine the resulting laughter, too? Apparently it’s fine to use any old stock library image when it comes to illustrating a story on agriculture, however. The Feb 4-5 2012 edition of Brisbane’s [...]
