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		<title>2010 September-November Dates Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the next few months I&#8217;ll be away from the office 2-3 times for photography trips &#38; a tradefair. Orders for books, cards and photographs are processed immediately upon my return, then email and phone messages are responded to. When I am away phone messages will be checked once a week or so when possible &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly renovated website online at last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After many weeks of work the newly renovated website went online today.  With the brand new &#8216;Kimberley Christmas&#8217; greeting cards (which should arrive from the printer next week.)  Still got lots of little bits of the website to update, but with luck it will all be completed by the end of October.  Just in time to start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news-2/newly-renovated-website-online-at-last/</link>
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		<title>Outback 8 Television Programme &#8211; ABC 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/outback-8-television-programme-channel-10/</link>
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		<title>Remote Area Zone Tax Rebate &#8211; Now&#8217;s our chance to fix it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been surprising that the Remote Area Tax Rebate (most recently referred to as the &#8216;Zone Tax Offset&#8217;) doesn&#8217;t appear to have been mentioned in the independent&#8217;s discussion list &#8211; in particular Bob Katter&#8217;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&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/remote-area-zone-tax-rebate-nows-our-chance-to-fix-it/</link>
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		<title>The &#8216;Farmers Arms&#8217; poem and &#8216;God Speed the Plough&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While 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 &#38; punctuation and no mention of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/the-farmers-arms-poem-and-god-speed-the-plough/</link>
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		<title>Stanbroke Pastoral Company suing Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stanbroke Pastoral Company has lodged documents with the Brisbane Supreme Court to sue Xstrata&#8217;s Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd (EHM) for just under $2 million ($1,989,520) to cover environmental damage caused by negligence, plus interest and costs.  The Ernest Henry mine is located 38km north of Cloncurry (North West Queensland) and it is within the boundaries of the Stanbroke-owned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/stanbroke-pastoral-company-suing-ernest-henry-mining-pty-ltd/</link>
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		<title>The U.S. cattle industry and Texas A &amp; M University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article on Beef producer&#8217;s views of the state of the U.S. cattle industry in Agrilife News.  Agrilife News is produced by Texas A &#38; M University- a university specialising in agricultural studies and research.  There are two campuses &#8211; one in Galveston (Texas) and the other in Qatar. Given that Texas is the U.S. state most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/agricultural-news-beef-cattle-industry/the-us-cattle-industry-and-texas-a-m-university/</link>
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		<title>Macquarie Pastoral Fund&#8217;s Paraway Pastoral Company buys more blue chip agricultural holdings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentinean John Kahlbetzer&#8217;s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold 3 NSW properties to Macquarie Pastoral Fund-owned Paraway Pastoral Company.  Riverina properties Mungadal (east of Hay), Gundaline Pastoral Company [Cooinbill] (near Carrathool) and Buttabone, northwest of Warren in central NSW. This has increased Paraway Pastoral Company&#8217;s livestock capacity to 200,000 sheep and 200,000 cattle. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/macquarie-pastoral-funds-paraway-pastoral-company-buys-more-blue-chip-agricultural-holdings/</link>
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		<title>Australian Plague Locusts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen grasshoppers of all kinds and lots of locusts (and have learnt that picking up big spur throated locusts is not wise), but can&#8217;t remember ever seeing locusts swarming.  That is until we drove home the other day, and went through locust swarms east and west of Julia Creek.  Most of them flew a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/australian-plague-locusts/</link>
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		<title>The Australian Wool Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often asked why I don&#8217;t take photographs of sheep.  It&#8217;s a good question.  I grew up on a wheat-sheep place and have over the years taken a lot of photographs of sheep and particularly love the wool industry.  But there&#8217;s two main reasons why to date, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time concentrating on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fionalake.com.au/blog/news/the-australian-wool-industry/</link>
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