Queen Elizabeth has clearly been a life-long horse fanatic. She appears to love horses of all breeds – the mark of a true horse lover, as distinct from those who favour just one breed or just one type. The sight of the horses from the royal stables included in the Diamond Jubilee Tattoo was a […]
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The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations & Royal Horses
June 6th, 2012AACo Darwin Abattoir go ahead-North Australian Beef Ltd
May 30th, 2012Managing Director of the AACo, David Farley, has said that the AACo is now proceeding with plans to build an abattoir south of Darwin. The NT government has given approval for the project. The Darwin abattoir has already received support from the RSPCA because it provides producers with an option other than live export, and […]
Wongai Coal Mine, Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape York Peninsula
April 29th, 2012A few years ago I wrote an R.M. William’s Outback Magazine ‘station story’ on a beautiful cattle station – Lilyvale. Owned by the Shephard family for more than 80 years, it was the only cattle station that was a financially healthy pastoral business on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula. Lilyvale has a relatively […]
Queensland Election – the reasons why
March 26th, 2012If Australia doesn’t get a send-us-broke carbon tax due to a Federal ALP rethink, then NSW, Vic, ACT, Tas, SA, WA & NT business owners & employees & households & investors can thank Queensland. Odd that the Qld Labor party put the defeat down largely to the ‘poor explanation’ regarding the privatisation of publicly owned assets, […]
RMWAH’s purchase of Henbury Cattle Station, NT – on ABC Landline
March 23rd, 2012R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings (RMWAH) ‘carbon farming’ plans for Henbury cattle Station will feature on ABC television’s Landline programme at noon this Sunday (25th March). Landline is repeated at 11.00 each Monday morning. Henbury is a cattle station located in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory, and was purchased last year by RMWAH with the help […]
AACo – Corella Lake on Brunette Downs
March 17th, 2012It was nice to open up the Townsville Bulletin today and see David Farley, CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). Because he is standing in front of one of my aerial photographs of Corella Lake, one of the large freshwater lakes on the AAco’s blue-ribbon cattle station in the Northern Territory, Brunette Downs. The […]
Honey production at the Rialto Intercontinental Hotel, Melbourne
March 17th, 2012Built by Melbourne’s Grollo Family in partnership with St Martin’s Properties in 1982-6 and still in the top 5 tallest buildings in the southern hemisphere (and still well known for spectacular views), Melbourne’s Rialto Towers (43 & 63 storeys high – 253 metres) are located right in the heart of the Melbourne CBD, at 495 Collins Street (corner of King Street). […]
Tanumbirini Station sold to Thames Pastoral Company
February 23rd, 2012Baldy Bay Pty Ltd has sold the NT’s Tanumbirini Station to a business apparently new to rural Australia, and about which very little is publicly known – Thames Pastoral Company. Tanumbirini Station was previously owned by Henry & Maria Townshend, who sold it in 2006. According to Beef Central, David Connolly is the manager of Thames […]