Australian ABC Radio: Regional Radio – especially 5am-7am and the Country Hour from noon until 1pm, weekdays. The Queensland Country Hour ‘ Australia All Over‘ with Ian McNamara, Sunday mornings, 5.30am to 10am. It can be heard outside Australia via shortwave radio or over the internet. ‘ Saturday Night Country ‘ with John Nutting, ABC […]
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Rural Radio Programmes
December 6th, 2009Rural Television Programmes
September 6th, 2009Australian 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 […]
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 […]
Burdekin Agricultural College set to close
August 12th, 2009There has been no official announcement however there’s no prizes for guessing that the Queensland Government is intent on shutting the Burdekin Rural Ag College (or as it is now known, the ‘Burdekin Campus of the Australian Agricultural College’). Word has it that the government will explain it away by saying it’s due to dwindling […]
Mail order business specialising in books on tractors, earthmoving equipment etc
July 21st, 2009Just discovered Plough Book Sales, a Victorian online mail-order business that specialises in books on tractors, old engines, earthmoving equipment, steam engines and metal working. The sort of specialist books you’ll never find on A & R or Dymocks shelves. Plough Book Sales also has a list of interesting links to related topics and book […]
RSPCA
June 19th, 2009Dug up a very interesting website commenting on the activities of the RSPCA (primarily in NSW), SOS News; ‘RSPCA – The Dark Side’. Well worth a read. I can’t verify the facts quoted; however I do know that the RSPCA has shifted from what was originally a conservative, well-respected organisation set up to protect domestic […]
Farmers voices uniting all over the world, at last
June 2nd, 2009With increasing urbanisation, worldwide, it has become increasingly apparent that farmers often have more fundamentals in common with farmers in other countries, than they have in common with inner-city residents of their own countries. And that farmers, worldwide, have many basic problems in common. At long last, instant and virtually cost-free worldwide networks are forming, […]
The cost of living in remote areas & the Zone Tax Offset
May 28th, 2009This week the Queensland Government has been talking about scrapping the fuel subsidy. This is a very sensible idea – blanket subsidies (such as the first home owners grant) are hugely expensive, are being paid to those who don’t need financial assistance (not just those who do), and only distort market forces (and create inefficiencies […]
Floods in northern Australia
February 5th, 2009Everyone has seen footage of Ingham and other flooded areas on the east coast. But just as happened in 1974, flooding in remote areas is being relatively overlooked. Very little of this devastation has appeared in the media and they are receiving next-to-no government assistance. Until John Nelson sent photographs to media organisations in early […]