The popularity of the ‘McLeod’s Daughters’ telemovie in 1996 resulted in the long-running and highly successful television series produced by Channel 9. Written by Sydney resident Posie Graeme-Evans, filming the ‘McLeod’s Daughters’ television series commenced in 2001 and continued until 2008 – 223 episodes over 8 series. McLeod’s Daughters has now been screened in 41 […]
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August 8th, 2012Foreign investment in Australian agricultural land & food production companies
August 6th, 2012Trade Minister Craig Emerson says the increase in foreign ownership of Australian farm land has been negligible. ‘Barely 6%’ is foreign owned and there has been ‘little change in 25 years’. How about Craig trots out the precise figures, so we can draw our own conclusions? Or do his figures only include land sales that […]
Townsville Biosecurity Lab – scrapped
July 26th, 2012The risk of catastrophic quarantine breaches in northern Australia is far greater than ever before. This is directly due to increasing numbers of illegal arrivals by boat (not all of whom call for Navy Taxis) and the steady depopulation of Cape York Peninsula (pastoral families leaving due to increasing areas of National Parks and indigenous-owned […]
Sustainable fishing of tuna & other fish species
July 11th, 2012It has always puzzled me that there’s a substantial group in society persistently accusing farmers of environmental vandalism while virtually ignoring what is involved in providing the seafood they’re eating (a number of whom will be self described ‘vegetarians’; but that’s another discussion). A farmer sinks money into buying land, machinery, livestock and undertaking capital […]
Ken & Geoff Warriner leaving Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC)
July 4th, 2012It’s not really a surprise that Ken Warriner is set to leave Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) because it was likely sooner or later. However it is a big surprise to hear today that Ken’s son Geoff, CPC Chief Operating Officer, is also set to leave the company – and in less than 4 week’s time. […]
‘I’m farming and I grow it’ YouTube video
July 1st, 2012The creators of the ‘I’m farming and I grow it’ YouTube video, the three Peterson brothers, were interviewed on Fox News two days ago. They’re modest as well as talented. Not even a week after ‘I’m farming and I grow it’ was put on YouTube, and more than 2.3 million people have viewed it. […]
The Peterson Farm Brothers – ‘I’m farming & I grow it’
June 28th, 2012If anyone needs proof of the large numbers of rural people, worldwide, who have taken to social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogging – then the run-away viral success of this online video is it. Greg Peterson and his younger brothers Nathan and Kendal feature in their YouTube video they’ve called ‘I’m […]
The Great Cafe Challenge-bridging the urban/rural divide
June 21st, 2012Blogger and rural resident Alison Fairleigh and Weekly Times journalist Emma Field have done a fabulous job creating a movement called ‘The Great Cafe Challenge’. The aim is to encourage all cafes, Australia-wide, to include at least one rural newspaper in the reading material they have on hand for customers. After all, cafes (restaurants etc) […]
‘LEAF’, Linking the Environment And Farming, England
June 15th, 2012‘LEAF’ is a registered charity in England which promotes public understanding of farming through all-year-round visits to demonstration farms and ‘Open Farm Sunday’; plus competitions, surveys etc; and promotion of ‘environmentally responsible farming’ via technical field days for farmers, with approved produce sporting the Leaf logo. On LEAF’S ‘ Open Farm Sunday’ website the latest […]
‘The World’s Toughest Trucker’ TV show
June 12th, 2012An Aussie roadtrain driver was amongst the 8 truck drivers competing in ‘The world’s toughest trucker’ TV show. Australia features in the first and second episodes of the 8-show series. And while a lot of film crews will venture inland a couple of hour’s drive from a coastal city and call it ‘the outback’, ‘The […]