I stumbled upon a very interesting June 2008 60 minutes story on NT property prices, titled ‘Bonanza’. Liz Hayes does a good job of interviewing Ben and Traci Tapp of Mountain Valley Station, Tony Davis of Limbunya, and Marlee and Franz Ranacher of Bulloo River Station. The story focuses on the rise in cattle station prices and […]
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60 minutes story on NT cattle station price rises
February 25th, 2011Angus & Robertson Bookstores – in voluntary administration
February 22nd, 2011A lot of surprise has been expressed about the demise of A & R bookstores and by association, Australian Borders bookshops (also owned by REDgroup retail). Voluntary administration is the slippery slope to bankruptcy. I’m actually surprised they didn’t go broke a few years ago – to me that’s the astonishing part. And I was mourning […]
BBC television programmes featuring Australian cattle stations
February 17th, 2011The BBC is in the midst of screening a TV series on the world’s grasslands, called ‘Grasslands – Roots of Power’. Included is a clip featuring Australian chopper mustering, called ‘Australian Helicopter Cowboys’. It features Territorian Ben Tapp and another chopper pilot, Rankin Garland, mustering a couple of thousand head last year on the Tapp’s Maryfield station. Beautifully filmed […]
Ban bullbars (or roobars)
February 7th, 2011Just like the daylight saving banning brigade, the bullbar banning brigade seems to crawl out from under the rocks every so often. They just won’t take no for an answer. As pointed out on many forums, perhaps it would be smarter to look at more ways of preventing vehicles from hitting pedestrians, rather than banning […]
Cyclone Yasi
February 7th, 2011The power came back on around midday today (Monday), after being off since 8.30pm on Wednesday night – but many other people are still waiting. Electricity crews have a massive job, with so many trees down over lines and power poles snapped off. At the end of our street the top half of a power […]
Message regarding cyclone Yasi – business interruption
February 1st, 2011A message re delivery times, contact details & business hours – business has been interrupted due to flooding in various parts of Queensland since before Christmas (and preparations for cyclones, eg cyclone Anthony). Now another cyclone – Yasi – is approaching the Qld coast and it is anticipated that parts of north Qld will be […]
NT’s Victoria River District cattle stations for sale
January 22nd, 2011In 1956 Pat Underwood bought Inverway Station in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory. Riveren and Bunda Stations were split off the original Inverway station – with John and Terry Underwood settling on Riveren in the 1960’s and Reg and Janelle Underwood on Bunda. Then in 2007 John and Terry Underwood bought Inverway and […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah station, 2011
January 22nd, 2011A photo of young Milton Jones holding his pet crocodile features in current Channel 10 promos for up and coming 2011 television shows, and apparently ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ will be back on TV in October 2011. In the meantime, anyone who has enjoyed watching ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ will also enjoy the best-selling coffee […]
Queensland Floods – charities helping rural residents
January 12th, 2011The worst thing about the flooding in Brisbane is that it takes the spotlight off flooding in rural communities – just as occurred in 1974 when Queensland’s Gulf Country went under water. The fact is, average income and asset ownership is much lower in the bush than in cities and suburban areas. Cities have much […]
Uniting Church McKay Patrol (Cloncurry) and the RFDS
January 5th, 2011The McKay Patrol is a remote-area aerial padre service run by the Uniting Church of Australia, based in Cloncurry (northwest Queensland). It is named after the Reverend Fred McKay. In 1927 Fred was appointed by Reverend John Flynn to oversee the formation and operation of the aerial medical service that later become the Royal Flying Doctor […]