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June 12th, 2012RMWAH’s purchase of Henbury Cattle Station, NT – on ABC Landline
March 23rd, 2012R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings (RMWAH) ‘carbon farming’ plans for Henbury cattle Station will feature on ABC television’s Landline programme at noon this Sunday (25th March). Landline is repeated at 11.00 each Monday morning. Henbury is a cattle station located in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory, and was purchased last year by RMWAH with the help […]
‘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 […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station, on NZ TV, and rural television
November 19th, 2011“Keeping up with the Joneses’ of Coolibah Station (NT) is now screening on television in other countries. ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ debuted on TV One in New Zealand today, in prime time – 7pm on a Saturday night (filling the gap made by Country Calendars break for the summer). And if website traffic is […]
Agricultural historical accuracy in film & television dramas
November 10th, 2011Today I discovered that I’m not the only one who notices agricultural errors in film and television dramas. William Hayes of the Meat Trade News Daily is well placed to comment on livestock breeds in the south of England where he grew up. ‘You see these magnificent period dramas, with beautiful costumes and every detail just right […]
Keeping up with the Joneses, Episode 9 on Channel Ten
October 31st, 2011Keeping up with the Joneses, Episode 9 – back to work at last. We discover that the chopper crash which we’ve seen glimpses of since the first series screened last year, was in fact not an NAH chopper. Milton described it as a ‘neighbours’ chopper. VH-HYE was manufactured in 1990 and had been registered to Venlock Pty […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station – returns Channel 10, Oct 20, 2011
October 17th, 2011‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ of Coolibah Station returns to Channel Ten on Thursday October 20 2011, 8-8.30pm. Great news for everyone who has enjoyed this insight into Territory cattle station life, Jones-style, via Milton and Cristina Jones and family and employees. For more comments on the ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ TV series, including background […]
ABC TV’s Gruen transfer returns – tonight
August 3rd, 2011The best programme on TV is back on tonight – ABC television’s The Gruen Transfer. Host Will Anderson is a vegetarian who grew up on a Victorian dairy farm, and he’s the only public-figure vegetarian I’ve ever seen who doesn’t try to convert all and sundry. And he’s hosted a very objective analysis of meat […]
Amazing Race Australia 2011 & 2012
August 2nd, 2011Much as they irritated me at times (deliberately setting out to use good looks [short shorts etc] to get ahead on so many occasions); on merit (tenacity, ability etc), the girls (Sam and Renae) should have won ‘Amazing Race Australia’ ahead of the blokes; especially considering the much higher number of tasks/challenges that favoured blokes […]