Baldy Bay Pty Ltd \u00a0has sold the NT’s Tanumbirini Station to a business apparently new to rural Australia, and about which very little is publicly known\u00a0– Thames Pastoral Company. \u00a0Tanumbirini Station was previously owned by Henry & Maria Townshend, who sold it in 2006.<\/p>\n
According to Beef Central<\/a>, David Connolly is the manager of Thames Pastoral Lty Ltd.\u00a0 David left\u00a0the\u00a0AACo position of Chief Operating Officer which he was appointed\u00a0to in May 2009, in\u00a0August of the same year, along with AACo Chief Executive Officer Steven Toms.\u00a0 The reason for these sudden departures was\u00a0quoted in an Age Newspaper article<\/a>\u00a0as being because the\u00a0‘AACo required a new perspective’.\u00a0 David grew up on sheep and cattle properties in western Queensland and began his career as a livestock agent;\u00a0working for Dalgetys early in his career, mostly in SE Queensland, then working for 17 years with Wesfarmers Landmark.<\/p>\n David Connolly commenced work for the AACo as the\u00a0Livestock Marketing Manager in 2003 and in the following year was appointed the feedlot manager as well.\u00a0\u00a0 Then, as described on the AACo website, ‘following an overall restructure in late 2005, David was promoted to General Manger – Livestock Operations, which now (sic) encompasses responsibility for all the Company’s Livestock, Feedlots and Breeding operations.’\u00a0 The ‘overall restructure’\u00a0 included the very sudden departure of AACo General Manager Geoff Wagstaff, after almost 27 years\u00a0working for the Australian Agricultural Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Baldy Bay Pty Ltd \u00a0has sold the NT’s Tanumbirini Station to a business apparently new to rural Australia, and about which very little is publicly known\u00a0– Thames Pastoral Company. \u00a0Tanumbirini Station was previously owned by Henry & Maria Townshend, who sold it in 2006. According to Beef Central, David Connolly is the manager of Thames […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,165],"tags":[108,158,161,166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}