Interesting to observe discussion about Milton Jones driving the ute with ‘young Milton’ (4 years old) starting to learn to drive, sitting on his lap, on the first episode of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’. Travelling along a straight, private road on Coolibah Station, with his son just steering (not as if he was working the brake […]
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Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station, and farm safety
October 18th, 2010Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station, Channel 10
October 15th, 2010The television series ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ has just started screening on Thursday nights at 8pm to 8.30pm on Channel 10. The first episode ran for 60 minutes and the other 15 episodes are 30 minutes long. This ‘reality’ documentary features Milton Jones and his second wife Cristina, their four year old son ‘young Milton’ […]
No Daylight Saving in northern Australia
October 12th, 2010Daylight saving is not wanted by people who live in northern Australia because during our lengthy summer people are pleased to see the sun go down so the temperature drops (at least slightly). Most northerners take the view that if people want to get up earlier, then they should simply get up earlier – why […]
Goods & Services Tax (GST) – we don’t want an increase, Julia
October 12th, 2010A New Zealand customer told me the other day that the NZ GST has just been raised from 12% to 15%; up from the original figure of 10%. Here’s hoping Julia Gillard can keep her hand out of our till and resist doing likewise. Our 10% goods & services tax was a great improvement on the […]
Outback 8 Television Programme – ABC 3
September 2nd, 2010The ‘Outback 8’ television series has inspired many kids to dream about living and working in the bush
Remote Area Zone Tax Rebate – Now’s our chance to fix it
August 31st, 2010The Remote Area Tax Rebate, or ‘Zone Tax Offset’ as it has been called most recently, needs raising so that it accurately reflects the true cost of living and working in remote areas of Australia
The ‘Farmers Arms’ poem and ‘God Speed the Plough’
August 31st, 2010While poking around an antique shop near Romsey (Vic) I spotted a large pottery cup and saucer produced by Adams (England) that I just had to buy. It has a very old poem on it that I think says it all, for farmers, albeit in olde worlde language & punctuation and no mention of the […]
Floods in far western Queensland
March 2nd, 2010Most of far western – southern/central Queensland has an average rainfall of around 6″ (150mm), but in Australia average rainfall figures are usually misleading. In many years Queensland’s channel country only receives 1-2″ (25-50mm) and in other years they get 10-15″ or more (250-375mm). Cattle stations in the channel country have had a fair old […]
Computer use in the bush
February 22nd, 2010There are still misguided souls who believe the percentage of computer literate rural residents is lower than the percentage of urban residents. In actual fact it’s quite the reverse. Most rural residents are so practical and efficient they will pick the eyes out of anything new and ignore what is time-wasting or unhelpful. There is […]
Escalating rural property prices & Qld’s Channel Country
February 17th, 2010I stumbled upon an excellent piece on AgMates on the history of many channel country families and management of sheep and cattle stations in the far south-western corner of Queensland – the country south and west of Quilpie. Well worth a read. In the AgMates article, David Edwards, Quilpie Mayor, is quoted frequently. One of […]