How many of the people calling for the banning of Australian livestock exports, will forgo holidays in Indonesia (in particular, Bali) by way of protest? How many Australians care enough to protest loudly about the way prisoners are treated in Indonesian prisons? How many of the people complaining about Australia’s live export trade, continue to […]
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Australia’s live export trade
June 7th, 2011‘A Little Aussie Battler’ article by Greg Bearup, Good Weekend Magazine
June 6th, 2011Another classic quote regarding representation of rural Australia in urban media: ‘But this being Queensland, the owner, a stubborn 80-year-old grazier who’d live on the block all his life, refused to sell to the government at any price.’ The article concerns the preservation of the red-finned blue-eye fish whose natural territory is confined to a […]
Keeping chooks in the backyard
June 1st, 2011The rift between urban residents and rural residents has been steadily growing. Primarily because in Australia’s largest cities, increasing numbers of people have never had anything to do with food-producing animals (and perhaps not even any kind of domestic pet), and little or no garden (that may not be the owner’s hands-on job to maintain, […]
More bush blokes on television – Amazing Race Australia
May 16th, 2011Two bushies are about to feature prominently on Channel Ten’s ‘Amazing Race Australia’ television series which begins at 8.30pm tonight. One is Matt Nunn, from ‘Sunnyside’ near Stonehenge (south of Longreach). Matt comes from an extended tribe of very keen bronco branding competitors, residing throughout western Queensland’s channel country down into northern South Australia, who have collectively won more […]
Australian outback books heading overseas
March 1st, 2011Just been running through the December 2010 quarter figures (BAS time) and discovered almost 25% of book sales at this time were mailed to overseas addresses. Primarily America and New Zealand, but also Canada, Europe and England. Given that many countries overseas are having a tougher time economically and that the Australian dollar is stronger […]
60 minutes story on NT cattle station price rises
February 25th, 2011I stumbled upon a very interesting June 2008 60 minutes story on NT property prices, titled ‘Bonanza’. Liz Hayes does a good job of interviewing Ben and Traci Tapp of Mountain Valley Station, Tony Davis of Limbunya, and Marlee and Franz Ranacher of Bulloo River Station. The story focuses on the rise in cattle station prices and […]
BBC television programmes featuring Australian cattle stations
February 17th, 2011The BBC is in the midst of screening a TV series on the world’s grasslands, called ‘Grasslands – Roots of Power’. Included is a clip featuring Australian chopper mustering, called ‘Australian Helicopter Cowboys’. It features Territorian Ben Tapp and another chopper pilot, Rankin Garland, mustering a couple of thousand head last year on the Tapp’s Maryfield station. Beautifully filmed […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah station, 2011
January 22nd, 2011A photo of young Milton Jones holding his pet crocodile features in current Channel 10 promos for up and coming 2011 television shows, and apparently ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ will be back on TV in October 2011. In the meantime, anyone who has enjoyed watching ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ will also enjoy the best-selling coffee […]
Queensland Floods – charities helping rural residents
January 12th, 2011The worst thing about the flooding in Brisbane is that it takes the spotlight off flooding in rural communities – just as occurred in 1974 when Queensland’s Gulf Country went under water. The fact is, average income and asset ownership is much lower in the bush than in cities and suburban areas. Cities have much […]
Uniting Church McKay Patrol (Cloncurry) and the RFDS
January 5th, 2011The McKay Patrol is a remote-area aerial padre service run by the Uniting Church of Australia, based in Cloncurry (northwest Queensland). It is named after the Reverend Fred McKay. In 1927 Fred was appointed by Reverend John Flynn to oversee the formation and operation of the aerial medical service that later become the Royal Flying Doctor […]