*UPDATE* The July-August 2018 ‘Paddock to Plate’ farm (& photography) tour of Ireland & the UK details can be found on this blog page. 2013 tour details: Kerry Moss and I are taking a Quadrant Agricultural Tour to the British Isles in late August, until late September. We’ll be zig-zagging over farms and memorable sites in […]
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August 27th, 2013Ideal gifts for Father’s Day – Sunday 1st September
August 1st, 2013The coffee-table style outback books “A Million Acre Masterpiece” and “Life as an Australian Horseman” are ideal gifts for parents, who are typically hard to buy for. And the older they become, the harder it is to find memorable gifts! There are many comments from happy (and often very relieved!) book purchasers on the Testimonials page. Father’s Day is […]
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 […]
Well-known people choosing not to be vegetarian
July 10th, 2013Australian newspapers regularly print anti-meat eating opinions. Unfortunately, almost all of it is situated amongst what is supposed to be objective news reporting. The Weekend Australian Magazine has been a front runner. A classic comment from the fashion editor a few years ago, was a pronouncement on a handbag double-page spread, to not buy leather handbags as […]
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 […]
Real charities and the questionable organisations who appear to do little hands-on good
June 13th, 2013Australia has many organisations, religious and otherwise, doing fabulous community work that could not be funded by governments. For example; Blue Care & Frontier Services (Uniting Church); St Vincent de Paul (associated with the Catholic Church, but not funded by it), Masonic Care Queensland (Freemasons). Etcetera. Quite rightly, these organisations have been granted Charitable Status, so […]
The Farm Fixer; BBC television series, now on SBS Television
June 10th, 2013British television is sprinkled with television programmes that feature rural landscapes. Better still, they have more programmes that feature farming. The latest BBC farm-featuring documentary to appear in Australia is “The Farm Fixer”; screening on SBS HD, 6pm. The 8 part ‘reality’ series is set in Northern Ireland, and features Nick Hewer offering diversification advice to struggling farmers. […]