A 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 [...]
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April 29th, 2012RMWAH’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 [...]
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). [...]
Best Rangeland Practice and Innovation (Bestprac)
January 24th, 2012There’s a great source of useful rural management stories and interesting information on the ‘Bestprac’ website. Bestprac is supported by AWI (Australian Wool Innovation) and specialises in the promotion of best practice management of arid rangelands, helping cattle producers as well as sheepmeat/wool producers located in more sparsely settled areas (i.e. lower rainfall farming regions) hear first hand stories from [...]
Vegetarianism chosen for moral reasons
December 21st, 2011An objective, analytical discussion on the choice of vegetarianism for moral reasons, was written by Michael Martin of Boston University in 1976. It is publicly available today on the internet as it is on the American ‘Reason Papers’ website. Michael Martin’s article is titled ‘A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism’ and it runs to 43 pages including footnotes/references. I haven’t [...]
The Conversation – excellent, thought provoking discussion of issues relating to the environment & agriculture
December 19th, 2011The internet is full of forums and soapboxes and there’s a lot of chaff hiding the grains of wheat. Just discovered an excellent website called ‘The Conversation’. In what way are ‘The Conversation’ articles and ensuing discussions, different to the multitude of other online material? What makes The Conversation special? The content on The Conversation is [...]
Peter Sherwin – Sherwin Pastoral Company
December 14th, 2011Discovered a very interesting newspaper article on Peter Sherwin, titled ‘Peter Sherwin: the battles of a real strange critter’. Written by Colleen Ryan and Sue Lecky, this lengthy article on Peter Sherwin was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on January 7th 1989. It can be read now on the Toowoomba Hotel website. As they say, [...]
Lyn White, Animals Australia campaigner, Australian of the Year finalist
November 9th, 2011The Weekly Times are running a poll on whether Lyn White should be Australian of the Year. Lyn White is the Communications Director for the animal rights extremist organisation, Animals Australia, and Lyn was instrumental in providing footage to the 4-Corners programme that resulted in the live export ban. Doubts have since been cast about the reliability [...]
Our quarantine breach punishments are a sad joke
November 1st, 2011A Peruvian bloke found guilty of smuggling an Andean saddle-backed tamarin monkey and a yellow-footed tortoise into Australia in July last year, just received a $6,000 fine. It’s also mentioned that he aspires to be a doctor and is in his second year of a medical degree. Well he can’t be blind and deaf and has a reasonable education, so [...]
Bush Heritage Australia – and another exercise in misguided self-congratulation
October 25th, 2011Read the latest load of hot air on the urban academics saving threatened species by purchasing ‘flogged out Simpson desert cattle stations’; if you can concentrate on the words above the racket the chorus of angels is making: Old cattle stations now wildlife haven. It’s yet another self-congratulatory article spouting on about how well the environment is [...]
