Anyone feel like reading a couple of hundred posts by a pack of white middle-class professional holier-than-though people convinced they are morally superior because they choose to not eat meat; engaging in a session of mutual back-scratching? If so, check out the vegetarian diatribe on ABC Life Matters with Presenter Richard Aedy. I was going to call […]
Fiona Lake Blog
Richard Aedy’s ABC Life Matters, A vegetarian love-in
June 18th, 2010S. Kidman & Co’s Quinyambie Station for sale
June 16th, 2010S Kidman & Co Ltd (S.K.) has put Quinyambie station on the market. At 12,119 square kilometres Quinyambie station is one of the largest cattle stations in southern Australia. It starts 160km north west of Broken Hill (over the border in South Australia); running up into the Strzelecki Desert. The average rainfall is only 200mm (about 8″) and […]
Governments and the lack of Care for the Environment
June 16th, 2010Governments are not doing nearly enough to ensure mining activity does not damage the environment, in the short or long term
Pastoral Company Websites & cattle station jobs
June 10th, 2010Pastoral Company websites – why do they exist and why do so many companies not have a website?
Australian Bush Poetry
June 9th, 2010A New South Wales customer rang today and told me what a caning they’d had over the last ten years or so, and that today they were drafting up sheep to send them off on agistment. To many false starts, too many times plants have germinated and not received the follow-up rain required to ensure […]
Feral Pigs in Australia
June 6th, 2010The first pigs arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, and ‘Captain Cookers’ have been recorded as thriving on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula for more than a century. Feral pigs are found right through rural Australia, except in areas where there is little or no permanent waterholes, or the water is protected from […]
Queensland Day 6th June
June 4th, 2010Sunday is Queensland Day (6 June) – celebrate with a laugh at the ‘Revenge of the Prawn’ video by Ben Hale. There’s a link on Andrew Griffith’s blog. …but next time Ben, remember to mention that they are supposed to be eaten with beef, not on their own!
Starting Work on Australian cattle stations
June 2nd, 2010What do new employees need to take and need to know when starting work on a cattle station? Jumbuck pastoral has a useful list of information for new cattle and sheep station employees
Another mustering helicopter crash, near Kowanyama
June 2nd, 2010On Sunday (30th May ) a mustering chopper crashed on Rutland Plains Station (beside the indigenous community of Kowanyama, Gulf of Carpentaria). Apparently the tail rotor clipped a tree and the chopper crashed bubble first into the ground. The 30 year old pilot has survived and is in Cairns Base Hospital with facial injuries (broken […]