I’ve never watched a reality TV series before so don’t know what sort of person usually wins these contests. Because there’s two people from outback Australia involved in the first series of Amazing Race Australia and I know many of the Warriner family, I had to watch. And barring unforeseen bad luck or events completely out of their […]
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Amazing Race Australia – Matt Nunn and Tom Warriner
May 17th, 2011Who could resist watching Amazing Race Australia, to see how the two blokes from the bush get on, Matt Nunn and Tom Warriner? Anyone who denies the media predilection for stereotyping people in rural areas as straw-chewing Hicksvilleans need only to pay close attention to the specific music used for different people. The young surfers […]
More bush blokes on television – Amazing Race Australia
May 16th, 2011Two bushies are about to feature prominently on Channel Ten’s ‘Amazing Race Australia’ television series which begins at 8.30pm tonight. One is Matt Nunn, from ‘Sunnyside’ near Stonehenge (south of Longreach). Matt comes from an extended tribe of very keen bronco branding competitors, residing throughout western Queensland’s channel country down into northern South Australia, who have collectively won more […]
Weather Bureau forecasts – rainfall, frost and cyclones
May 16th, 2011In addition to the excellent ‘Water and the Land’ ‘Forecast Rain’ map, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology now has a similar ‘Forecast Frost Potential’ map. They are seeking feedback on the usefulness of the ‘Frost forecast potential’ service, so anyone who wants to put their two bob’s worth in, should, without delay. There are many businesses that I […]
In search of real hamburgers, not those made with frozen sausage mince
May 9th, 2011For years I relied on hamburgers once every day or two for a proper feed when travelling. All five food groups – cereals (roll), dairy (cheese), meat (mince and maybe steak as well, and certainly bacon), salad (lettuce, fried onion, beetroot and tomato) and fruit (a pineapple ring). Plus a bit of barbeque sauce [certainly […]
Flash food in the bush (the real bush, not the outer suburbs of Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne)
May 9th, 2011Discovered another top eatery on the road in April, Bertoldo’s Pasticceria and Panetteria in Griffith (central NSW). Apparently Bertoldo’s bakery opened in 1952 but for some reason I haven’t discovered it until now. By sheer chance we were driving past just as the Easter Sunday after-church crowd were feasting. The crowd in the quiet street […]
Keeping up with the Joneses – CASA action re Milton Joneses flying style
April 30th, 2011Apparently in early March this year the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) raided the Melbourne offices of WFTN, the producers of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’, the television series featuring Milton Jones and his family on NT’s Coolibah Station. CASA staff came to WTFN to take the master copies of the ‘Keeping up with the […]
Quadrant Agtour to NT cattle stations
March 2nd, 2011This year Quadrant Agtour is running another cattle station tour. This year it runs for 21 days in June-July, and the travellers are escorted by Brian Hill. The cattle stations to be visited include: Alexandria, Brunette Downs, Hayfield, Victoria River Downs, Wave Hill and Melaleuca. Other tour highlights included are: the buffalo programme on Beatrice Hill Farm, Kakadu, […]
60 minutes story on NT cattle station price rises
February 25th, 2011I stumbled upon a very interesting June 2008 60 minutes story on NT property prices, titled ‘Bonanza’. Liz Hayes does a good job of interviewing Ben and Traci Tapp of Mountain Valley Station, Tony Davis of Limbunya, and Marlee and Franz Ranacher of Bulloo River Station. The story focuses on the rise in cattle station prices and […]
BBC television programmes featuring Australian cattle stations
February 17th, 2011The BBC is in the midst of screening a TV series on the world’s grasslands, called ‘Grasslands – Roots of Power’. Included is a clip featuring Australian chopper mustering, called ‘Australian Helicopter Cowboys’. It features Territorian Ben Tapp and another chopper pilot, Rankin Garland, mustering a couple of thousand head last year on the Tapp’s Maryfield station. Beautifully filmed […]