Today’s Rivers Catalogue had a great ad for leather shoes, pointing out: ‘Leather is a premium lining material that gives the shoes added strength and durability. It also allows the feet to breathe better, which means they are less likely to sweat or smell.’ Rivers produce one of the best catalogues around – full of […]
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‘Cool Australia’ Enviroweek – It’s easier being green than checking your facts
September 23rd, 2009Famous Territory livestock brands
September 8th, 2009The list of Northern Territory livestock brands that are still current that were registered before 1928, under the South Australian brands ordinance, is interesting. It’s a short list – just 7 owners, and 9 cattle stations. The two most recognised Australian cattle station symbol brands are on the list – the Victoria River Downs (VRD) […]
Aussies Overseas – Aussie Expats
September 6th, 2009Approximately 1 million of Australia’s 20 million citizens are living overseas at any one time. 50% of this website’s visitors live in countries other than Australia, as can be seen on the world map. It’s a fair bet that a slab of these overseas visitors are Aussie expats. Australians like to roam about. There are […]
Rural Television Programmes
September 6th, 2009Australian Country Television Programmes ABC television — Landline 12noon to 1pm on Sundays. Landline Extra – 6pm Mondays. The ‘Best of Landline’ runs during December and January. A first class quality, unique programme, that features rural business and environmental stories and news, including weekly weather and market summaries. Despite the midday time slot and lack […]
Australian Biosecurity & Quarantine
September 6th, 2009Australia is one of the few countries in the fortunate position of having no other countries connected to it by land. So keeping foreign pests and diseases out should be a piece of cake, compared to the majority of other countries which have the infinitely more difficult job of monitoring massive quantities of road traffic, […]
Wrotham Park Lodge closing – for good
September 5th, 2009Wrotham Park Lodge, located on Wrotham Park Station (near Chillagoe, far north Queensland), has always shut in November (late in the dry season) and re-opened around the start of April (after each wet season). However this year it is shutting up on 16th October, apparently for good. Mid October happens to be 60 days since […]
MLA ‘Give chops a chance’ ad
September 2nd, 2009It’s the 40th anniversary of the famous Woodstock music festival, and the MLA has a top new ad out – Give Chops a Chance (We love our lamb in spring), featuring a bunch of ultra-clean (and healthy) hippies, tucking into barbequed lamb chops to ‘Turn, turn, turn’. Enough to make you want to run to the […]