A Peruvian bloke found guilty of smuggling an Andean saddle-backed tamarin monkey and a yellow-footed tortoise into Australia in July last year, just received a $6,000 fine. It’s also mentioned that he aspires to be a doctor and is in his second year of a medical degree. Well he can’t be blind and deaf and has a reasonable education, so […]
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Our quarantine breach punishments are a sad joke
November 1st, 2011Foreign ownership of Australian land and water
October 4th, 2011There has been quite a bit written about recently published figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing the percentage of overseas ownership of Australian land. Many writers have conveniently interpreted the figures to mean Australians are a paranoid, parochial lot – unreasonably concerned with mythically increasing overseas ownership. There is virtually no objective analysis and in-depth discussion of […]
Rally at Anthony Albanese’s Marrickville office
September 2nd, 2011There are some well written reports online regarding yesterday’s anti-carbon tax rally outside Anthony Albanese’s Sydney office. These reports include informative images, such as on the No Carbon Tax website. Unfortunately there are many biased reports also, implying that the crowd jostled Anthony Albanese etc. One ABC report unfortunately also says that yesterday’s rally outside Anthony Albanese’s office […]
Another La Nina weather pattern for Australia in late 2011?
September 1st, 2011The Australian Bureau of Meteorology says current La Nina/El Nino-related weather measurements are at present still mostly neutral. However there is some possibility that the Pacific Ocean will cool further, which will result in the return of a La Nina weather pattern (though not as strong as was the case for the last wet season, which was indicated as […]
Convoy of No Confidence & petition calling for a Federal Election
August 31st, 2011The Consumers & Taxpayers Association (CATA) has organised a No Carbon Tax rally to be held outside Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese’s Marrickville (Sydney) office at 12 noon tomorrow (Thursday 1st September). This is in direct response to Anthony Albanese’s sneering ‘Convoy of No Consequence’ remarks. For more info on the latest No Carbon Tax […]
AACo has sold Meteor Downs Station to Xstrata, presumably to be run by Colinta Holdings
July 23rd, 2011AACo has sold the central Queensland cattle station ‘Meteor Downs’ to the Swiss mining company, Xstrata. Meteor Downs is 17,000 ha 40km SE of Springsure (between Emerald & Roma), and it was purchased in 1990 to run the AACo’s Brahman and Santa Gertrudis studs. In recent years it has been running Wagyu cattle, and growing forage crops […]
Nuclear waste dump in ‘the middle of nowhere’ – Tennant Creek
July 22nd, 2011If the vitriolic anti-bush comments in relation to the live export ban didn’t convince rural Australians that there is a sizeable slab of urban Australia who despise them (though urban residents rely on rural residents for food & export income), then the recent online forum comments regarding the planned nuclear waste dump near Tennant Creek, surely will. Discussions on […]
Australia 2012 Year of the Farmer
July 7th, 2011I must be living under a rock because until yesterday I didn’t know that 2012 is the Year of the Farmer. Sponsored by Elders, the Year of the Farmer board is impressive. Included are Deb Bain (Wool & sheep meat producer and Farm Day instigator, Vic), Geoff Bell (NSW), Bill Belotti (agronomist, NSW), Philip Bruem […]
Great Southern – David Bryant & Rural Funds Management Ltd
July 5th, 2011Anyone interested in the Great Southern Limited (GSL) saga and what the key Great Southern participants are now doing, would be interested in reading Robert Gottliebsen’s Business Spectator article on David Bryant and his Rural Funds Management company. Also, this October 2010 Money Management article on the buyback of RFM. And the June 2011 article in The […]