You think the ‘buy from the bush’ campaign is a good idea? Here’s an equally useful way to shift large amounts of money into the bush. Agricultural conferences have traditionally been run in capital cities for sound reasons. Because back when ag conferences started to crank up: Regional flights were less frequent and a lot […]
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All agricultural conferences must now be in regional areas. No excuses!
February 9th, 2020How many women are speakers at ag events?
June 2nd, 2018Actually – that’s not the right question to ask. Instead, ask: How many women speaking at ag events have been given equal billing to the men listed on the programme? Are there women speaking who have travelled similar distances? Are the women recompensed at the same level? Via my secondary Twitter account, @Agri_Events, I’ve been […]
Care for the environment – like charity – must begin at home
February 12th, 2017Pheasant coucals are one of Australia’s most splendid birds. They are quirky characters with disproportionally long tails, a habit of engaging in disorganised, ungainly dances in bare spaces that include roads, and a hauntingly memorable call. I heard a pheasant coucal long before I ever saw one, several decades ago, in the thick vegetation lining […]
Foreign Investment in Australia
February 12th, 2015Great news – finally; the threshold for unscrutinised purchases of land from non-Australians has been lowered, and the total is now cumulative. The new limit is $15 million in total; down from a whopping $240 million per purchase (not cumulative!) So from 1st March 2015, anyone who intends purchasing land for $15 million or more, […]
Meat that isn’t real (artificial, fake, faux, mock, pretend)
October 10th, 2014You know vegans who tell the rest of us not to eat meat, because methane from cows is causing polar icecaps to melt and bovines are water hogs as they’re drinking but not excreting? And how healthy, wholesome and nutritious a meat-free diet is? And how tasty a vegan or vegetarian diet is? Guess what […]
The rise & rise of Australian food snobbery
February 7th, 2014In relation to the SPC cannery, someone recently tweeted, in summary: Canned food is old-fashioned SPC needs to modernise (and produce more relevant products, which people will want to buy) The only people who buy tinned food are the ‘price sensitive’. (The implication being, tinned food buyers are either peasants or bogans, or both.) Unsurprisingly, […]
Printed newspapers about to vanish & online quality not as good
October 2nd, 2013We all take for granted daily news brought to us by trained, experienced journalists & filtered by editors. Where do radio stations get their news from? Newspapers. Where do online bloggers etc get their facts & ideas from? Newspapers. Where do many television stations get their news leads from? Newspapers. Apart from the ABC’s 4-Corners […]