Buck Buchester was a ringer and a gentleman who had been described by those who knew him as the most unassuming bloke they know. Buck lived and worked in the NT’s Victoria River District for most of his life, including on Wave Hill station, where he passed on his knowledge of station skills to the […]
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Buck Buchester of Wave Hill station, has died, aged 80.
May 2nd, 2009The Seventh Day Adventist church have been funding a barrow push for animal rights extremists
May 1st, 2009As long as I can remember, there’s been Sanitarium Weetbix in our cupboard for breakfast. Well not any more – Vita Brits only from now on. Nestle may not be 100% Australian owned, but at least they’re not pushing vegetarian propaganda onto the general public. And guess what, Vita Brits are usually cheaper anyway. A […]
AACo sells Rockhampton Downs Station
May 1st, 2009On 28th of April the Australian Agricultural Company sold Rockhampton Downs Station, on the Barkly Tableland (Northern Territory), to the Harris family for $37 million. They probably can’t believe their luck. Shareholder and previous board member Nick Burton-Taylor has pointed out the obvious. Why would you sell a Rolls Royce (Rockhampton Downs; prime Barkly grassland, […]
Great Southern Limited to sell Wrotham Park, Chudleigh Park & Moola Bulla
May 1st, 2009A couple of days ago (29th April) Great Southern Plantations Limited finally publicly listed cattle stations Wrotham Park, Chudleigh Park and Moola Bulla for sale. Moola Bulla is near Halls Creek, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Chudleigh Park is located northwest of Hughenden, and Wrotham Park Station is near Chillagoe, west of […]
Who really owns & runs Primary Holdings International?
April 30th, 2009Primary Holdings International has bought Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) cattle stations earlier this year however little is known about PHI. Though the Primary Holdings International website says it will be online in ‘early 2009’, it is yet to happen. It appears Guernsey-registered Origa Resource Partners have stumped up about half the money – presumably as […]
Voiceless – domestic animals matter but native animals don’t
April 24th, 2009The Voiceless website has a dramatic counter on the home page which purports to show ‘the number of farm animals killed in Australia by the meat, dairy and egg industry, since you opened this page’. Perhaps Voiceless could consider a similar live counter that shows the worldwide number of acres of rainforest being cleared minute […]
Australian agriculture’s bad image
April 24th, 2009Quadrant is one of the few genuinely independent magazines in Australia today. Most of our newspapers and magazines are filled with the same old shallow, repetitive, syndicated tripe, ‘advertorials’ and sensationalist scaremongering that isn’t backed up with verifiable facts. Quadrant writers are individual thinkers who are not afraid to disagree with and discuss popular views, […]
The ‘Australia’ film – why did some people hate it and so many people love it?
April 17th, 2009The huge gulf between those who loved & those who hated Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ is best explained by reading the comments from the general public on some of the film forums, such as Nine MSN’s ‘Your Movies’. The comments on this blog illustrate two great things – a) most Australians think for themselves rather than […]
Victorian Producers Co-operative Company Limited (VPC)
April 12th, 2009Farmers are raised with a dislike of middlemen. The blokes between the grower and the end user are viewed as parasites who take few risks and expend relatively little effort, yet pocket a lot of profit. Farmer’s Co-ops are the result. This 2003 paper on VPC by John Gill (ex Chairman of the Co-operative Federation […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Movie sales figures
April 7th, 2009Baz Luhrmann’s Australia film grossed $206 million USD at theatre box offices in the first five months. In just one month, in the U.S., 2 million ‘Australia’ DVDs sold – which is 80% of what 20th Century Fox expected to sell in total. It’s good to see the public making their own minds up, rather […]