The 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 […]
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Another La Nina weather pattern for Australia in late 2011?
September 1st, 2011Convoy 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 […]
Ken Warriner and Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC)
August 22nd, 2011Mark Irwin became the new CEO of Consolidated Pastoral Company on 1st August, replacing long-term CPC CEO Ken Warriner. However Ken will stay on as CPC Chairman, and still presumably owns a 10% stake in the company. Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is Australia’s second largest beef producing company, after the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). In 1983 Kerry Packer […]
ABC TV’s Gruen transfer returns – tonight
August 3rd, 2011The best programme on TV is back on tonight – ABC television’s The Gruen Transfer. Host Will Anderson is a vegetarian who grew up on a Victorian dairy farm, and he’s the only public-figure vegetarian I’ve ever seen who doesn’t try to convert all and sundry. And he’s hosted a very objective analysis of meat […]
Amazing Race Australia 2011 & 2012
August 2nd, 2011Much as they irritated me at times (deliberately setting out to use good looks [short shorts etc] to get ahead on so many occasions); on merit (tenacity, ability etc), the girls (Sam and Renae) should have won ‘Amazing Race Australia’ ahead of the blokes; especially considering the much higher number of tasks/challenges that favoured blokes […]
Dr James Wright giving anti-meat eating advice
July 29th, 2011Just as it is disconcerting to hear admired, talented musicians and actors spouting on about politics or issues unrelated to their field of work, it’s disappointing to discover writers and other well known/famous people, doing the same. For many years I’ve read and listened to the commonsense advice handed out by Dr James Wright. Then this ‘gem’ of […]
Henbury Station – R.M. Williams Agriculture – carbon trading scheme
July 27th, 2011Further to the June 5 post re. Henbury Station’s purchase by RMWAH, here’s quote in The Australian from CSIRO ‘site leader’ Ashley Sparrow, regarding ‘revegetating’ Henbury and turning it into a ‘carbon sink’: “…. the rejuvenation would be “a slow process, since most recovery relies on big rainfall events. I would expect in a while, and after […]
Amazing Race Australia – Matt Nunn & Tom Warriner eliminated
July 26th, 2011For Tom Warriner and Matt Nunn, tragedy strikes in the form of a bright orange shirt. More accurately, an industrial sewing machine and pieces of orange cloth that had to be sewn into a shirt. It was a great task to throw in amongst the challenges with so many heavy-lifting endurance feats that clearly favoured […]
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 […]