For Tom Warriner and Matt Nunn, tragedy strikes in the form of a bright orange shirt. More accurately, an industrial sewing machine and pieces of orange cloth that had to be sewn into a shirt. It was a great task to throw in amongst the challenges with so many heavy-lifting endurance feats that clearly favoured […]
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Amazing Race Australia – Matt Nunn & Tom Warriner eliminated
July 26th, 2011Amazing Race Australia – who is most likely to win, surfers or ‘farmers’?
June 14th, 2011I’ve never watched a reality TV series before so don’t know what sort of person usually wins these contests. Because there’s two people from outback Australia involved in the first series of Amazing Race Australia and I know many of the Warriner family, I had to watch. And barring unforeseen bad luck or events completely out of their […]
Amazing Race Australia – Matt Nunn and Tom Warriner
May 17th, 2011Who could resist watching Amazing Race Australia, to see how the two blokes from the bush get on, Matt Nunn and Tom Warriner? Anyone who denies the media predilection for stereotyping people in rural areas as straw-chewing Hicksvilleans need only to pay close attention to the specific music used for different people. The young surfers […]
More bush blokes on television – Amazing Race Australia
May 16th, 2011Two bushies are about to feature prominently on Channel Ten’s ‘Amazing Race Australia’ television series which begins at 8.30pm tonight. One is Matt Nunn, from ‘Sunnyside’ near Stonehenge (south of Longreach). Matt comes from an extended tribe of very keen bronco branding competitors, residing throughout western Queensland’s channel country down into northern South Australia, who have collectively won more […]
Keeping up with the Joneses – CASA action re Milton Joneses flying style
April 30th, 2011Apparently in early March this year the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) raided the Melbourne offices of WFTN, the producers of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’, the television series featuring Milton Jones and his family on NT’s Coolibah Station. CASA staff came to WTFN to take the master copies of the ‘Keeping up with the […]
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 […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah station, 2011
January 22nd, 2011A photo of young Milton Jones holding his pet crocodile features in current Channel 10 promos for up and coming 2011 television shows, and apparently ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ will be back on TV in October 2011. In the meantime, anyone who has enjoyed watching ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ will also enjoy the best-selling coffee […]
Keeping up with the Joneses TV show, Channel Ten
January 5th, 2011Stumbled upon an interesting Whirlpool forum discussion regarding ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’. It beautifully illustrates the increasingly wide chasm between born and bred politically-correct inner suburbanites and Australians who have some connection with the bush. As well as those who have an understanding of operating a business and those who don’t. ‘They both have incredibly […]
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 […]
The Joneses of Coolibah Station
November 11th, 2010‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ is poking along nicely each week although I’d love to see a lot more on the work and details of what work on a cattle station really entails, rather than just more of what the Jones family do in their time off. Which unfortunately could give anyone who doesn’t know […]