Peter Hughes has paid $5m to buy Argadargada Station, located in the central Australia/lower Barkly Tableland region of the Northern Territory, SW of Mt Isa. Argadargada had been put to auction by the Broad family and passed in for $4.7m. Peter Hughes also owns Lake Nash Station which runs along the eastern boundary. Lake Nash was owned in […]
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Argadargada Station sold to Peter Hughes
July 20th, 2010Australian Plague Locusts
July 17th, 2010I’ve seen grasshoppers of all kinds and lots of locusts (and have learnt that picking up big spur throated locusts is not wise), but can’t remember ever seeing locusts swarming. That is until we drove home the other day, and went through locust swarms east and west of Julia Creek. Most of them flew a […]
The Australian Wool Industry
July 17th, 2010I’m often asked why I don’t take photographs of sheep. It’s a good question. I grew up on a wheat-sheep place and have over the years taken a lot of photographs of sheep and particularly love the wool industry. But there’s two main reasons why to date, I’ve spent a lot of time concentrating on […]
Richard Aedy’s ABC Life Matters, A vegetarian love-in
June 18th, 2010Anyone feel like reading a couple of hundred posts by a pack of white middle-class professional holier-than-though people convinced they are morally superior because they choose to not eat meat; engaging in a session of mutual back-scratching? If so, check out the vegetarian diatribe on ABC Life Matters with Presenter Richard Aedy. I was going to call […]
S. Kidman & Co’s Quinyambie Station for sale
June 16th, 2010S Kidman & Co Ltd (S.K.) has put Quinyambie station on the market. At 12,119 square kilometres Quinyambie station is one of the largest cattle stations in southern Australia. It starts 160km north west of Broken Hill (over the border in South Australia); running up into the Strzelecki Desert. The average rainfall is only 200mm (about 8″) and […]
Governments and the lack of Care for the Environment
June 16th, 2010Governments are not doing nearly enough to ensure mining activity does not damage the environment, in the short or long term
Pastoral Company Websites & cattle station jobs
June 10th, 2010Pastoral Company websites – why do they exist and why do so many companies not have a website?
Queensland Day 6th June
June 4th, 2010Sunday is Queensland Day (6 June) – celebrate with a laugh at the ‘Revenge of the Prawn’ video by Ben Hale. There’s a link on Andrew Griffith’s blog. …but next time Ben, remember to mention that they are supposed to be eaten with beef, not on their own!
Starting Work on Australian cattle stations
June 2nd, 2010What do new employees need to take and need to know when starting work on a cattle station? Jumbuck pastoral has a useful list of information for new cattle and sheep station employees