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‘The World’s Toughest Trucker’ TV show
June 12th, 2012Wongai Coal Mine, Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape York Peninsula
April 29th, 2012A few years ago I wrote an R.M. William’s Outback Magazine ‘station story’ on a beautiful cattle station – Lilyvale. Owned by the Shephard family for more than 80 years, it was the only cattle station that was a financially healthy pastoral business on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula. Lilyvale has a relatively […]
Honey production at the Rialto Intercontinental Hotel, Melbourne
March 17th, 2012Built by Melbourne’s Grollo Family in partnership with St Martin’s Properties in 1982-6 and still in the top 5 tallest buildings in the southern hemisphere (and still well known for spectacular views), Melbourne’s Rialto Towers (43 & 63 storeys high – 253 metres) are located right in the heart of the Melbourne CBD, at 495 Collins Street (corner of King Street). […]
‘A Farmer’s Life for Me’ BBC television series
February 21st, 2012‘A Farmer’s Life for Me’ was filmed by the BBC in 2011, and has just started screening on ABC television from 6pm-7pm on Tuesday nights. Filmed during midsummer in the beautiful rolling hills of Suffolk, ‘A Farmers Life for Me’ features 9 varied couples (siblings and married/partnered couples, gay/straight; of all ages & from all walks […]
Australia’s fine wool (Merino) industry
February 6th, 2012Imagine if a capital city newspaper ran a story on Toyota wheel drives and illustrated it with an image of a Mini Cooper S. Can you imagine the resulting laughter, too? Apparently it’s fine to use any old stock library image when it comes to illustrating a story on agriculture, however. The Feb 4-5 2012 edition of Brisbane’s […]
Rural Women Speaking Out
February 6th, 2012Stumbled upon a very interesting blog piece by ABC journalist Flint Duxfield titled ‘Women are farmers too, so why don’t we hear them more?’ Flint describes the all-too-common occurrence of ringing a farm, speaking to the wife who is clearly knowledgeable but when asked about the possibility of an interview – the wife defers to the […]
Farm blogs – personal stories from the bush
February 3rd, 2012There are now quite a few Australian farming blogs – and there are several different kinds. There are those that are entertaining and informative accounts of daily domestic issues, written by women, which highlight the lifestyle and financial management differences between living in towns and living in the bush. These blogs are interesting and very useful in regard to […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah final episode
December 15th, 2011After last week’s episode of Keeping up with the Joneses, full of end of year bullcatching, cane toad racing, croc egg collecting and Christmas preparations, it was great to see baby Jack Jones, the newest arrival in the Jones family. The story of Cristina Joneses pregnancy has reminded me of how different it is to have […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station
December 3rd, 2011Recent episodes of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ have touched on a number of issues associated with remote area living. These lifestyle/business management differences range from unique education arrangements (eg remote area students are enrolled in school of the air/distance education and meet their ‘classmates’ only rarely), medical issues (eg. the need to travel long distances […]