The huge gulf between those who loved & those who hated Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ is best explained by reading the comments from the general public on some of the film forums, such as Nine MSN’s ‘Your Movies’. The comments on this blog illustrate two great things – a) most Australians think for themselves rather than […]
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Victorian Producers Co-operative Company Limited (VPC)
April 12th, 2009Farmers are raised with a dislike of middlemen. The blokes between the grower and the end user are viewed as parasites who take few risks and expend relatively little effort, yet pocket a lot of profit. Farmer’s Co-ops are the result. This 2003 paper on VPC by John Gill (ex Chairman of the Co-operative Federation […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Movie sales figures
April 7th, 2009Baz Luhrmann’s Australia film grossed $206 million USD at theatre box offices in the first five months. In just one month, in the U.S., 2 million ‘Australia’ DVDs sold – which is 80% of what 20th Century Fox expected to sell in total. It’s good to see the public making their own minds up, rather […]
NAPCo selling Roxborough Downs
April 4th, 2009Roxborough Downs, located SW of Mt Isa (on the road from Boulia to Alice Springs), is to be sold to fund expansion of NAPCo’s Wainui Feedlot, located west of Toowoomba on Queensland’s Darling Downs. The agent is Dick Allpass of Elders.
Farmers are uneducated peasants who destroy the landscape and cause global warming
April 3rd, 2009In today’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper Paul Myers, freelance journalist and former Rural Press General Manager, former editor of The Bulletin and R.M. William’s Outback Magazine, has written an excellent piece on the woeful state of the general public’s image of Australian farmers and graziers. Paul rightly points out that the world only grows enough […]
National Vegetarian Week & How does being vegetarian save the planet?
April 1st, 2009An article by Natascha Mirosch in the Brisbane Courier Mail on ‘National Vegetarian Week’, is filled with subjective steering such as: ‘most Australians… still have a heavy, meat-based diet’. Heavy? Does she mean like a lead weight? And another beauty: ‘while vegetarians such as…found their way to a meatless diet purely because of a distaste […]
‘Australia’ movie available on DVD in Australia now
March 26th, 2009The DVD of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ movie was available for sale on Thursday 26 March, in ‘Sanity’ music shops, 1 week earlier than had been publicised.
Marie Mahood
March 23rd, 2009Well known rural resident and author Marie Mahood died earlier this month and her funeral was held in Mackay on 18 March. Marie wrote a number of books, the best known of which is probably ‘Icing on the Damper’. She and her husband Joe battled away on ‘Mongrel Downs’ station in the Northern Territory’s Tanami, […]
Macquarie’s Paraway Pastoral Company
March 23rd, 2009Paraway Pastoral Company is the trading name for the Macquarie Pastoral Fund. Set up in 2007, seven properties were apparently purchased in the Riverina district of NSW, including well known Merino sheep studs Pooginook and Stud Park North (near Jerilderie), Steam Plains (between Conargo & Carrathool), mixed sheep & cropping property The Bulls Run (west […]
Australian cattle station sales
March 21st, 2009The Sydney Morning Herald has published a comprehensive and interesting overview of cattle station corporate ownership changes over the last 6-12 months, with comments on expected changes. Written by Paul Myers, the unusually good quality article well illustrates the fact that he’s been writing about Australian agriculture for several decades (as distinct from the usual […]