A 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 […]
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April 29th, 2012AACo – Corella Lake on Brunette Downs
March 17th, 2012It was nice to open up the Townsville Bulletin today and see David Farley, CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). Because he is standing in front of one of my aerial photographs of Corella Lake, one of the large freshwater lakes on the AAco’s blue-ribbon cattle station in the Northern Territory, Brunette Downs. The […]
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 […]
Australian Outback Calendars – outback photos
October 13th, 2011After many years of customer requests I was all teed up to finally produce a 2012 Australian outback calendar. I even had the format planned and most of the photos picked out. Just before I got stuck right into calendar production, I was approached by Landmark because they wanted the 2012 Landmark calendar to feature large […]
Foreign ownership of Australian land and water
October 4th, 2011There has been quite a bit written about recently published figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing the percentage of overseas ownership of Australian land. Many writers have conveniently interpreted the figures to mean Australians are a paranoid, parochial lot – unreasonably concerned with mythically increasing overseas ownership. There is virtually no objective analysis and in-depth discussion of […]
Channel 10’s ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ of Coolibah Station, back on TV in October 2011
September 22nd, 2011Just heard the news today – great news for everyone who has enjoyed watching life on Coolibah Station on television. Milton and Cristina Jones, ‘little Milton’ and the crew will be back on television in Series Two of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’, in October 2011. On Channel 10. Only a few weeks away unti the […]
Ken Warriner and Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC)
August 22nd, 2011Mark Irwin became the new CEO of Consolidated Pastoral Company on 1st August, replacing long-term CPC CEO Ken Warriner. However Ken will stay on as CPC Chairman, and still presumably owns a 10% stake in the company. Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is Australia’s second largest beef producing company, after the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). In 1983 Kerry Packer […]
AACo has sold Meteor Downs Station to Xstrata, presumably to be run by Colinta Holdings
July 23rd, 2011AACo has sold the central Queensland cattle station ‘Meteor Downs’ to the Swiss mining company, Xstrata. Meteor Downs is 17,000 ha 40km SE of Springsure (between Emerald & Roma), and it was purchased in 1990 to run the AACo’s Brahman and Santa Gertrudis studs. In recent years it has been running Wagyu cattle, and growing forage crops […]
RMWAH buys Henbury Station, Alice Springs
July 5th, 2011R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings (RMWAH) has apparently just purchased Henbury Station, on the Sturt Highway 125km south of Alice Springs. The 5,168 square kilometre station has an extensive creek and river system (including Finke and Palmer River frontage) and has 15 permanent waterholes. It was for sale through Elders – after being passed in at auction […]
Banning live exports and meatworks in northern Australia
June 18th, 2011During the 1970s beef crash in northern Australia, there was no money to employ staff, muster, wean and truck cattle as sale prices were at rock bottom. Many beef producers simply went broke. Others hung on by the skin of their teeth with increasingly large debts. They had no option but to leave cattle to die in overgrazed paddocks at […]