The Australian Wool Industry

July 17th, 2010

I’m often asked why I don’t take photographs of sheep.  It’s a good question.  I grew up on a wheat-sheep place and have over the years taken a lot of photographs of sheep and particularly love the wool industry.  But there’s two main reasons why to date, I’ve spent a lot of time concentrating on […]

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Richard Aedy’s ABC Life Matters, A vegetarian love-in

June 18th, 2010

Anyone feel like reading a couple of hundred posts by a pack of white middle-class professional holier-than-though people convinced they are morally superior because they choose to not eat meat; engaging in a session of mutual back-scratching?  If so, check out the vegetarian diatribe on ABC Life Matters with Presenter Richard Aedy.  I was going to call […]

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S. Kidman & Co’s Quinyambie Station for sale

June 16th, 2010

S Kidman & Co Ltd (S.K.) has put Quinyambie station on the market.  At 12,119 square kilometres Quinyambie station is one of the largest cattle stations in southern Australia. It starts 160km north west of Broken Hill (over the border in South Australia); running up into the Strzelecki Desert.  The average rainfall is only 200mm (about 8″) and […]

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Governments and the lack of Care for the Environment

June 16th, 2010

Governments are not doing nearly enough to ensure mining activity does not damage the environment, in the short or long term

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Another Chopper Mustering Accident

June 13th, 2010

There has been yet another fatal mustering chopper accident.  Each time I hear of one I am hoping it is not someone I know but of course it is a tragedy whoever it is. The chopper crashed on Mt Barnett Station (Gibb River road, roughly halfway between Wyndham and Derby in the Kimberley region of WA).  Apparently he […]

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Pastoral Company Websites & cattle station jobs

June 10th, 2010

Pastoral Company websites – why do they exist and why do so many companies not have a website?

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Australian Bush Poetry

June 9th, 2010

A New South Wales customer rang today and told me what a caning they’d had over the last ten years or so, and that today they were drafting up sheep to send them off on agistment. To many false starts, too many times plants have germinated and not received the follow-up rain required to ensure […]

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Feral Pigs in Australia

June 6th, 2010

The first pigs arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, and ‘Captain Cookers’ have been recorded as thriving on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula for more than a century. Feral pigs are found right through rural Australia, except in areas where there is little or no permanent waterholes, or the water is protected from […]

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Queensland Day 6th June

June 4th, 2010

Sunday is Queensland Day (6 June) – celebrate with a laugh at the ‘Revenge of the Prawn’ video by Ben Hale. There’s a link on Andrew Griffith’s blog. …but next time Ben, remember to mention that they are supposed to be eaten with beef, not on their own!

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Starting Work on Australian cattle stations

June 2nd, 2010

What do new employees need to take and need to know when starting work on a cattle station? Jumbuck pastoral has a useful list of information for new cattle and sheep station employees

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