According to the Melbourne Age Newspaper, receivers McGrathNicol have taken Wrotham Park and Moola Bulla off the market while they are mustered, and they will be offered for sale again early next year, after ‘the next big wet, due in November’. This article is a classic example of a journalist who has absolutely no understanding […]
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Wrotham Park and Moola Bulla taken off the market until 2010
July 30th, 2009Andrew Forrest buys back Minderoo, the cattle station he grew up on
July 30th, 2009Self-made mining magnate and entrepreneur Andrew Forrest grew up on Minderoo Station near Onslow in the Pilbara. Minderoo was in the Forrest family for 120 years but his father Don eventually sold it in disillusionment in 1998, after years of drought and mounting debt. Andrew has just bought back the 226,585 ha station with 10,000 […]
Mail order business specialising in books on tractors, earthmoving equipment etc
July 21st, 2009Just discovered Plough Book Sales, a Victorian online mail-order business that specialises in books on tractors, old engines, earthmoving equipment, steam engines and metal working. The sort of specialist books you’ll never find on A & R or Dymocks shelves. Plough Book Sales also has a list of interesting links to related topics and book […]
Sandy Thorne – bush story teller, poet, entertainer & public speaker
July 19th, 2009For the first 7 months of this year I’ve been trapped in the office tackling mountains of administration every day (that’s literally every day, not public-service ‘every day’; i.e. it has been the best part of 7 days a week, including public holidays; except for a couple of days over Easter and a trip away […]
Careers in the aviation industry
July 13th, 2009I have come across quite a few low-hours fixed wing pilots when roaming around the country side. Young blokes (it’s more than 99% blokes) from cities who’ve ended up in the bush flying fixed-wing aircraft, usually single-engine Cessnas; doing fence and bore runs, store runs, and ferry work etc on cattle stations. These pilots are […]
‘Only in South Africa’ – 3 stolen cattle in a Toyota sedan
July 6th, 2009Last year I was sent some photographs titled ‘Only in South Africa’, showing three brahmans that were tied up and squashed into the back of a stolen car, which is apparently the South African model equivalent of a Toyota Corolla hatchback. I just discovered it on YouTube; well worth a look (and a laugh), if […]
Australian Cattle Dogs & Sheep Dogs, Dingoes & Pigdogs
July 1st, 2009Most dogs that work with sheep and cattle in Australia are either kelpies or border collies. And to a lesser extent, with cattle – blue or red heelers (also known as ‘Queensland heelers’ or ‘Australian cattle dogs’). Australian kelpies are black and tan, short-haired, bouncy dogs that will usually wag their tails when you rouse on […]