On Sunday (30th May ) a mustering chopper crashed on Rutland Plains Station (beside the indigenous community of Kowanyama, Gulf of Carpentaria). Apparently the tail rotor clipped a tree and the chopper crashed bubble first into the ground. The 30 year old pilot has survived and is in Cairns Base Hospital with facial injuries (broken […]
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Another mustering helicopter crash, near Kowanyama
June 2nd, 2010Have a gallop in Cobb & Co Coach at Longreach, Queensland
June 1st, 2010Cobb & Co. was the Australian equivalent of Wells Fargo, the horsedrawn stagecoach company made famous worldwide many decades later, via a myriad of American western films. Australia’s most famous coach business was created in Victoria in 1853 by Freeman Cobb and three other Americans who had migrated to Australia. Cobb & Co commenced services […]
Another remote cattle station advertised for sale online
June 1st, 2010Harkness Station is another remote cattle station for sale, being advertised online, by way of a Google Ad appearing up the top of searches for cattle stations for sale. Harkness cattle station is a very well-watered property located on the Coleman River headwaters on Cape York Peninsula – halfway between Mareeba/Cairns and Weipa (approx 500km […]
ABC Rural Blog
May 28th, 2010Just discovered the ABC has an excellent rural blog, primarily written by ABC rural reporter Libby Price (Elizabeth Farren-Price). Interesting, factual, to-the-point and witty.
Geoff Wagstaff & Paraway Pastoral Company
May 27th, 2010Geoff Wagstaff (ex King Ranch & AACo) now working for Paraway Pastoral Company.
MacDonald Downs – Creative Outback Cattle Station marketing with new social media
May 19th, 2010In some circles, the popular stereotype of rural residents is of straw-chewing half wits, at least half a century behind the times. Whereas in reality, in rural and remote Australia there is actually a faster uptake and far greater use of the latest technology – at least, the practical, directly useful and durable bits (not […]
Amalgamation of pastoral leases
May 11th, 2010Why does the government continue to turn a blind eye to the amalgamation of northern cattle stations that are large and profitable enough to be run as stand-alone businesses; running down built assets that have taken generations to acquire, and creating conglomerations that are out of financial reach of all but a tiny number of exceedingly well off Australians?
FOOD,INC film – let’s hope the vegetarian barrow-pushers don’t overshadow the important message
May 10th, 2010The film (movie) Food,Inc was produced in the U.S.A. and released in 2009, and is about to be released in Australia (next week – 20th May). Food,Inc. is especially relevant in the U.S.A. – the home of rubbish takeaway foodchains and an obesity epidemic (though not to suggest that we’re all Olive Oils here in […]
Properties owned by Macquarie’s Paraway Pastoral Co
May 9th, 2010Farms and cattle stations owned by Macquarie Bank’s Paraway Pastoral Company.