It’s depressing enough seeing “celebrity” cooks (eg Maggie Beer, Curtis Stone), musicians (eg Missy Higgins) and sports people (eg Pat Cash) jumping onto fashionable bandwagons without having the wisdom to check whether they’re being told the truth, and seeking information direct from people at the coal face. Which can now be done easily, within minutes, […]
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Animal Rights Extremist propaganda
November 23rd, 2013RSPCA’s Lynne Bradshaw, at the LiveExchange Conference in Townsville
November 3rd, 2013Here’s another reason why all farmers should be on social media (see previous blog post). To actively counter misinformation, and share quotes. Lynne Bradshaw, National President of the RSPCA, spoke at the LiveExchange conference in Townsville last Friday. The talk was in the form of an interview by Landline presenter, Pip Courtney. These are some […]
Australian National Park Management and Conservation
October 28th, 2013Apparently the Queensland LNP are continuing property purchase talks with the owners of 3 cattle stations in far South-West Queensland, for yet more millions. Several questions are immediately obvious: Where is the money coming from to purchase these cattle stations. Some of it wouldn’t be from taxes paid by remaining cattle station owners, by any […]
Printed newspapers about to vanish & online quality not as good
October 2nd, 2013We all take for granted daily news brought to us by trained, experienced journalists & filtered by editors. Where do radio stations get their news from? Newspapers. Where do online bloggers etc get their facts & ideas from? Newspapers. Where do many television stations get their news leads from? Newspapers. Apart from the ABC’s 4-Corners […]
North Queensland Farmer’s Market – Graham Phillips interview
July 21st, 2013After much trial and terror I’ve made a few videos and finally have the first uploaded onto YouTube. Sarah Gayton is the driving force behind the UK’s “Farmers On Film” project and she has been prodding us to get busy. When our Quadrant farm tour group meets Sarah in England in September I must have […]
RMWAH in receivership – failure of the Henbury Cattle Station project
July 2nd, 2013R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings (RMWAH) has gone into receivership. No surprise. What is surprising is that blindingly obvious questions, which I posed in blog posts dating back to the company’s formation, remain unanswered. Years later. I hope taxpayers enjoyed kissing their millions goodbye. I’ve written a number of blog posts mentioning RMWAH; here are several of the […]
Solar power systems in northern Australia
June 28th, 2013I recently installed a solar power system & found it difficult to find information regarding the top third of the Australian continent. Almost all the information online relates to our largest capital cities, which are of course all located in the bottom third of the continent. Why does this matter? Because once you are north […]
Cooper Creek Oil Spill & the Australian media ignoring the outback
June 21st, 2013I have my ear to the ground fairly well but it took 4 weeks for me to hear about the Santos crude oil spill in the vicinity of Cooper Creek. But in the meantime I’ve heard all about, ad nauseam; Labor in-fighting and electioneering, celebrity rubbish, yet more asylum seeker debates and endless conversations about whether gay […]
Coles and Animals Australia
June 15th, 2013The following anonymous article appeared in the magazine that came with our local (News Ltd) newspaper today. As there is no byline; the source is dubious. In fact, I’d put money on this being an Animals Australia media release (either issued by them formally or written and sent out by a member, to increase chance of […]