The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has asked for a halt on share trading until Friday, while the company assesses the impact of the live export ban. The AACo is Australia’s oldest pastoral company and now Australia’s largest, with landholdings of more than 1% of the continent’s landmass and almost 500,000 head of cattle. Indonesia is Australia’s largest export […]
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60 minutes story on NT cattle station price rises
February 25th, 2011I stumbled upon a very interesting June 2008 60 minutes story on NT property prices, titled ‘Bonanza’. Liz Hayes does a good job of interviewing Ben and Traci Tapp of Mountain Valley Station, Tony Davis of Limbunya, and Marlee and Franz Ranacher of Bulloo River Station. The story focuses on the rise in cattle station prices and […]
BBC television programmes featuring Australian cattle stations
February 17th, 2011The BBC is in the midst of screening a TV series on the world’s grasslands, called ‘Grasslands – Roots of Power’. Included is a clip featuring Australian chopper mustering, called ‘Australian Helicopter Cowboys’. It features Territorian Ben Tapp and another chopper pilot, Rankin Garland, mustering a couple of thousand head last year on the Tapp’s Maryfield station. Beautifully filmed […]
NT’s Victoria River District cattle stations for sale
January 22nd, 2011In 1956 Pat Underwood bought Inverway Station in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory. Riveren and Bunda Stations were split off the original Inverway station – with John and Terry Underwood settling on Riveren in the 1960’s and Reg and Janelle Underwood on Bunda. Then in 2007 John and Terry Underwood bought Inverway and […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station
December 1st, 2010The TV series ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ consists of 1 x 60 minute introductory episode followed by 15 x 30 minute episodes. The first episode featuring the lives of Milton Jones, his family and employees screened on Channel 10 on 14th October and it was followed by 6 episodes, up until November 25th. I.E. 7 […]
Acton’s Moray Downs sought by Indian Company, Adani Enterprises
September 22nd, 2010Indian Company Adani Enterprises has bought Linc Energy’s coal tenement which runs acrossActon-owned Moray Downs, north west of Clermont (Central Queensland). Unsurprisingly, Adani Enterprises are interested in purchasing Moray Downs cattle station as well. Owning the land where mining tenements are located simplifies the development and operation of mines for the owners. Buying the pastoral lease as well as […]
Amalgamation of pastoral leases
May 11th, 2010Why does the government continue to turn a blind eye to the amalgamation of northern cattle stations that are large and profitable enough to be run as stand-alone businesses; running down built assets that have taken generations to acquire, and creating conglomerations that are out of financial reach of all but a tiny number of exceedingly well off Australians?
Properties owned by Macquarie’s Paraway Pastoral Co
May 9th, 2010Farms and cattle stations owned by Macquarie Bank’s Paraway Pastoral Company.
Outback Australia – Climate & Landscape
October 11th, 2007The Australian outback landscape ranges from vast, naturally treeless blacksoil plains growing Flinders and Mitchell grasses (referred to as ‘downs’ country), to rocky hills covered in spinifex, ghostgums and coolamon trees, to dense grey mulga scrub, red sandhill country, lignum and coolabah swampy channel country, to dusty nondescript scrub of bullwaddy, lancewood, gidyea or eucalypts […]
Buying a Cattle Station
October 11th, 2007Almost all the largest cattle stations are owned by companies due to the high amounts of capital required to run them. The biggest have a dozen or more people living and working on them. That’s a lot of housing to provide and maintain and a lot of wages to pay, especially when seasonal conditions or […]