Discussions continue about the death of cattle on Mataranka Station, the Northern Territory training/education cattle station owned by Charles Darwin University. Estimates of the cattle that starved to death between September 2009 and May 2010 range from 200 to 800, but really the quantity is irrelevant because 200 is too many, if claims are correct that […]
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November 1st, 2010Australian Corporate Gifts and Mailing Gifts Overseas
October 27th, 2010‘Life as an Australian Horseman’ and ‘A Million Acre Masterpiece’ are very popular as unique Australian gifts. The number of orders received this week from businesses mailing corporate gifts overseas has prompted me to post a reminder – if you are mailing gifts overseas, either corporate or personal, then keep an eye on the calendar. (Also […]
Outback Television and Radio
October 24th, 2010Most Australians don’t know that remote areas have only had access to television services since satellite television came into being in the late 1980s. Until then it was impossible to receive a television signal in remote areas, regardless of how high the aerial. Even today, most of regional Australia can receive a signal from one ABC radio […]
AACo to sell Brighton Downs Station
October 20th, 2010The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has just announced they are selling another cattle station, Brighton Downs. Brighton Downs is situated on the Diamantina River, southwest of Winton (western Queensland). It will be auctioned in Brisbane by Elders on 8 December. It was bought by the AACo in 1950. The AACo says it expanded carrying capacity by entering […]
Australian Agricultural Company (AACo)
October 19th, 2010AACo Chief Financial Officer Kerrie Parker resigned lastAugust, leaving next month to work for Amcor after less than twelve months work. Kerrie worked for Golden Circle prior to taking up the AACo job. Phil Beale has just been appointed as the new AACo CFO and he starts work in February 2011. Phil has been working in […]
Durham Downs Station plane crash
October 19th, 2010Yesterday morning Durham Downs cattle station pilot Darren Zanker and station mechanic Graham McNamara died instantly when the station Cessna they were in crashed on Durham Downs (far south west Queensland, between Eromanga and the SA border). Apparently they were returning from repairing a truck at Woomanooka outstation to the east, and were asked to help look for a couple of horses on […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station, and farm safety
October 18th, 2010Interesting to observe discussion about Milton Jones driving the ute with ‘young Milton’ (4 years old) starting to learn to drive, sitting on his lap, on the first episode of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’. Travelling along a straight, private road on Coolibah Station, with his son just steering (not as if he was working the brake […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station, Channel 10
October 15th, 2010The television series ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ has just started screening on Thursday nights at 8pm to 8.30pm on Channel 10. The first episode ran for 60 minutes and the other 15 episodes are 30 minutes long. This ‘reality’ documentary features Milton Jones and his second wife Cristina, their four year old son ‘young Milton’ […]
Australian Food Security & foreign investment
October 14th, 2010After air and water, food is the most vital necessity for human beings. So only complete fools would ignore any threat to the future provision of quantity and quality food. Yet here we are, more than 20 million of us, virtually ignoring what is happening under our very noses. Why? Presumably because the average Australian […]
No Daylight Saving in northern Australia
October 12th, 2010Daylight saving is not wanted by people who live in northern Australia because during our lengthy summer people are pleased to see the sun go down so the temperature drops (at least slightly). Most northerners take the view that if people want to get up earlier, then they should simply get up earlier – why […]