Trade Minister Craig Emerson says the increase in foreign ownership of Australian farm land has been negligible. ‘Barely 6%’ is foreign owned and there has been ‘little change in 25 years’. How about Craig trots out the precise figures, so we can draw our own conclusions? Or do his figures only include land sales that […]
Fiona Lake Blog
AACo – 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 […]
Tanumbirini Station sold to Thames Pastoral Company
February 23rd, 2012Baldy Bay Pty Ltd has sold the NT’s Tanumbirini Station to a business apparently new to rural Australia, and about which very little is publicly known – Thames Pastoral Company. Tanumbirini Station was previously owned by Henry & Maria Townshend, who sold it in 2006. According to Beef Central, David Connolly is the manager of Thames […]
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 […]
Geoff Wagstaff & Paraway Pastoral Company
May 27th, 2010Geoff Wagstaff (ex King Ranch & AACo) now working for Paraway Pastoral Company.