With increasing urbanisation, worldwide, it has become increasingly apparent that farmers often have more fundamentals in common with farmers in other countries, than they have in common with inner-city residents of their own countries. And that farmers, worldwide, have many basic problems in common. At long last, instant and virtually cost-free worldwide networks are forming, […]
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Farmers voices uniting all over the world, at last
June 2nd, 2009The cost of living in remote areas & the Zone Tax Offset
May 28th, 2009This week the Queensland Government has been talking about scrapping the fuel subsidy. This is a very sensible idea – blanket subsidies (such as the first home owners grant) are hugely expensive, are being paid to those who don’t need financial assistance (not just those who do), and only distort market forces (and create inefficiencies […]
Mustering choppers crash on Springvale station, Halls Creek
May 6th, 20092 mustering helicopters (R22s) crashed on Springvale station, between Halls Creek and Turkey Creek (Warmun), WA; presumably some time before they were due to refuel at 8.30am. Both pilots, in their 30s, died. Troy Wareham was from Alice Springs but apparently based at Yeeda Station (near Derby) and Matthew Funnel was from Wanganui, New Zealand.
Buck Buchester of Wave Hill station, has died, aged 80.
May 2nd, 2009Buck Buchester was a ringer and a gentleman who had been described by those who knew him as the most unassuming bloke they know. Buck lived and worked in the NT’s Victoria River District for most of his life, including on Wave Hill station, where he passed on his knowledge of station skills to the […]
The ‘Australia’ film – why did some people hate it and so many people love it?
April 17th, 2009The huge gulf between those who loved & those who hated Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ is best explained by reading the comments from the general public on some of the film forums, such as Nine MSN’s ‘Your Movies’. The comments on this blog illustrate two great things – a) most Australians think for themselves rather than […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Movie sales figures
April 7th, 2009Baz Luhrmann’s Australia film grossed $206 million USD at theatre box offices in the first five months. In just one month, in the U.S., 2 million ‘Australia’ DVDs sold – which is 80% of what 20th Century Fox expected to sell in total. It’s good to see the public making their own minds up, rather […]
‘Australia’ movie available on DVD in Australia now
March 26th, 2009The DVD of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ movie was available for sale on Thursday 26 March, in ‘Sanity’ music shops, 1 week earlier than had been publicised.
Marie Mahood
March 23rd, 2009Well known rural resident and author Marie Mahood died earlier this month and her funeral was held in Mackay on 18 March. Marie wrote a number of books, the best known of which is probably ‘Icing on the Damper’. She and her husband Joe battled away on ‘Mongrel Downs’ station in the Northern Territory’s Tanami, […]