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The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) Board Changes
May 4th, 2010Wrotham Park Lodge dismantled & moved to NT
April 28th, 2010Wrotham Park Lodge closed and the buildings packed up and moved to the Northern Territory, after the sale of Wrotham Park station by Great Southern to Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC).
Volcanic eruption – Iceland’s Mount Eyjafjallajokull
April 16th, 2010The current volcanic eruption in Iceland which began last month and has now resulted in clouds of ash interfering with air travel, is a timely reminder that however much the activity of human beings affects the earth, volcanic eruptions beat it hands down. This volcano is located under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier and apparently it erupted […]
Australian Outback Maps
April 6th, 2010Topography, Road & Station Maps of Inland Australia The cattle stations I visit are situated along good quality bitumen roads such as the Flinders Highway, Barkly Highway, Stuart Highway, Arnhem Highway, Victoria Highway, Great Northern Highway and Gulf Development Road; and bitumen roads that are narrow, with edges not always in ideal condition, such as […]
RMWAH investment by Westscheme Superannuation
March 29th, 2010Westscheme, a Western Australian based industry superannuation fund managing more than $2.8b billion, has become a minor shareholder (under $2 million ) in RMWAH. R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings is a joint venture between Ken Cowley and Primary Holdings International.
Preserving Australian Rural Heritage & the ICOMOS conference
March 16th, 2010Australian – International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is the peak body for Australian professionals who work in heritage conservation. This year the annual conference theme is ‘Outback & Beyond – The Future of Historic Towns, Industrial Heritage & Pastoralism’. The upcoming conference will be in Broken Hill (far western NSW), 22-25 April 2010. […]
Recycling paper & envelopes
March 16th, 2010The latest fashion is to include ‘Please consider the environment before printing this email’ on the bottom of emails. To me the most likely effect of this is to simply make the printed email take up more paper than it otherwise would (along with those mile-long legal disclaimers), while giving the sender a perfectly pointless […]
Global warming & climate change sceptics – Jennifer Marohasy
March 12th, 2010Two of the most thought-provoking and interesting blogs I’ve come across are by female Australian scientists, both with years of experience working in scientific fields. One website belongs to Western Australian Jo Nova, and the other to Queenslander Jennifer Marohasy. Jennifer spent her early years on the family farm near Darwin, and has lived in […]