Australian Country Television Programmes ABC television — Landline 12noon to 1pm on Sundays. Landline Extra – 6pm Mondays. The ‘Best of Landline’ runs during December and January. A first class quality, unique programme, that features rural business and environmental stories and news, including weekly weather and market summaries. Despite the midday time slot and lack […]
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September 6th, 2009Australian Biosecurity & Quarantine
September 6th, 2009Australia is one of the few countries in the fortunate position of having no other countries connected to it by land. So keeping foreign pests and diseases out should be a piece of cake, compared to the majority of other countries which have the infinitely more difficult job of monitoring massive quantities of road traffic, […]
Wrotham Park Lodge closing – for good
September 5th, 2009Wrotham Park Lodge, located on Wrotham Park Station (near Chillagoe, far north Queensland), has always shut in November (late in the dry season) and re-opened around the start of April (after each wet season). However this year it is shutting up on 16th October, apparently for good. Mid October happens to be 60 days since […]
MLA ‘Give chops a chance’ ad
September 2nd, 2009It’s the 40th anniversary of the famous Woodstock music festival, and the MLA has a top new ad out – Give Chops a Chance (We love our lamb in spring), featuring a bunch of ultra-clean (and healthy) hippies, tucking into barbequed lamb chops to ‘Turn, turn, turn’. Enough to make you want to run to the […]
Alan Hayes (of Macquarie Pastoral Services and Prudential Pastoral Company)
August 27th, 2009Alan Hayes was the Managing Director of Macquarie Pastoral Services from 2006 to 2009 and in 2006 – 2007 was the CEO of Paraway Pastoral Company (Macquarie Pastoral’s operating entity), which Alan developed for Macquarie from 2005 onwards. Alan was also Chief Executive Officer/Chief Operating Officer of Prudential & Colonial Pastoral companies, from 1989 to […]
Dymocks – ‘Supporting Australian Authors’ (not)
August 26th, 2009I’ve just had a good laugh this morning, on reading the annual Dymocks Book franchise Father’s Day catalogue. Books by a number of authors in this year’s catalogue appear with a little green & gold book symbol with the words ‘Supporting Australian Authors’. Well I’ve sold thousands of books, and as at today’s count the […]
Australian roadtrains
August 25th, 2009It’s amazing the good things that turn up when you’re poking around the internet, that turn out to be produced by someone who just happens to live just a rock throw away. ‘Roadtrains‘ is a great example. The ‘Roadtrains’ website is run by Townsville resident Howard Shanks and it’s full of information and photographs of […]
People who make unexplained environmental statements re. agriculture
August 21st, 2009I thought about starting this list when I read the unexplained clanger by a fashion editor in a spread on handbags in the The Weekend Australian Magazine last year: ‘do your bit for the environment by not buying leather handbags’ (Are petrochemicals really better for the environment? How about ‘do your bit for the environment […]
Wrotham Park Station sold to Consolidated Pastoral Company
August 17th, 2009The sale of Wrotham Park cattle station to CPC has been confirmed in today’s AFR by James Thackray, Partner in Great Southern receivers, McGrath Nicol. Great Southern paid the AACo $53.5 million for Wrotham Park, however the sale price is apparently much less than that top-dollar price; at around $48 million. Consolidated Pastoral Company’s bid […]
Cubbie Station for sale & the discussion regarding water rights buyback
August 17th, 2009Cubbie Station is Australia’s largest cotton-growing property, and reputed to be the largest privately-owned irrigation farm in the southern hemisphere. Cubbie is actually an amalgamation of a number of irrigation properties in southern inland Queensland – near Dirranbandi, on the Culgoa River; and St George, on the Balonne River. Both these rivers are part of […]