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June 28th, 2013Steele Rudd – Arthur Hoey Davis
March 13th, 2013I believe Arthur Hoey Davis (pen name “Steele Rudd”) is by far and away Australia’s best ever writer, due to the originality and relevance of his stories and characters, combined with his great writing ability. Only heard of ‘his’ Dad & Dave jokes? (Actually written [very badly] by others…much to Steele Rudd’s dismay). Do your […]
Cattle station work featured on ‘Big Australia’ – 7Mate TV channel
November 26th, 2012The most recent episode of 7Mate’s ‘Big Australia’ TV series featured life on a northern Australian cattle station. Over the one hour programme, 3,000 head were mustered out of Green Holes paddock on the Acton Land & Cattle Company’s ‘Millungera’ Station, in Queensland’s Gulf Country. Brothers Graeme and Evan Acton are well known in the […]
Farmer & grazier advertising industry stereotypes
November 21st, 2012The Weekly Times newspaper is running a Poll gauging opinion on whether the latest dairy farmer bogan-stereotype Devondale ads should be ditched. Unfortunately over the years farmers of all kinds have been portrayed by the Australian advertising industry as straw-chewing hicksvilleans. It’s invariably a reflection of the lack of education (on the practical front), intelligence […]
The Peterson Farm Brothers – ‘I’m farming & I grow it’
June 28th, 2012If anyone needs proof of the large numbers of rural people, worldwide, who have taken to social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogging – then the run-away viral success of this online video is it. Greg Peterson and his younger brothers Nathan and Kendal feature in their YouTube video they’ve called ‘I’m […]
‘The World’s Toughest Trucker’ TV show
June 12th, 2012An Aussie roadtrain driver was amongst the 8 truck drivers competing in ‘The world’s toughest trucker’ TV show. Australia features in the first and second episodes of the 8-show series. And while a lot of film crews will venture inland a couple of hour’s drive from a coastal city and call it ‘the outback’, ‘The […]
Wongai Coal Mine, Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape York Peninsula
April 29th, 2012A 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 […]
Phone problems & the NBN
March 23rd, 2012Please note that our phone has not been working properly since Saturday 17th March (we can ring out, most of the time, but callers trying to ring us either get just a dial tone, crackling or other sounds – it doesn’t even go to Messagebank, which is a first). Telstra says the deadline for repair […]
‘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 […]