Host: De Grey Station Written by Mark Bettini, Owner – De Grey Station Throughout the dry summer I found myself spending a lot of time on my phone checking out websites looking for rain. When one website didn’t give me a good forecast I’d move to the next one. The long-range forecast was for March […]
Host: De Grey Station Written by Mark Bettini, Owner – De Grey Station “I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me!” – Dorothy Mackeller […]
When Felicity “Flic” Brown decided to go traveling around Australia, she told her everyone she’d be back in two years. 25 years later she’s become one of the most recognizable faces of the Kimberley community, and not yet made it back home. Flic’s journey has taken her across a number of cattle stations in northern […]
Host: Donal Sullivan *Please do not try this at home without additional research or the help of a professional poddy feeder. Raising poddy calves can be both rewarding and heartbreaking, and is not for the faint hearted. Poddy: a term to describe an orphaned calf. Equally rewarding and soul destroying, raising poddy calves is a […]
Host: Umbearra Station Every year we conduct two rounds of mustering. These two rounds of mustering, depending on season conditions, can take anywhere from 4 to 8 weeks to complete. We muster our cattle via trapping and mustering with planes and helicopters. Trapping the cattle at watering points is our preferred option due to lower […]
Host: Horses for Courses for Bush Kids Written by Tiani Cook, Suplejack Station, Northern Territory Hi there, my name is Tiani Cook and I’m the founding director of Horses for Courses for Bush Kids. I’m an enthusiastic advocate raising awareness of the many issues rural and remote families face. I’m also passionate about finding solutions […]
Host: Horses for Courses for Bush Kids Written by Tiani Cook, Suplejack Station, Northern Territory As you may have figured out from my previous two blogs, Horses for Courses for Bush Kids (H4C) uses the platform of horses to raise awareness of the issues facing rural and remote children and their families, but the annual […]
On June 15 the Central Station podcast was launched through Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Episode 1 featured Tom & Annabel Curtain from Katherine Outback Experience. The story of how Katherine Outback Experience came to be is once of devastation and resilience. Left without work after the live cattle export ban of 2011, Tom started singing four times […]
Host: Horses for Courses for Bush Kids Written by Tiani Cook, Suplejack Station, Northern Territory At the beginning of October last year I saddled up with ‘Horses for Courses for Bush Kids’ and took it to Central Australia to continue raising awareness of the issues facing Aussie Bush Kids and their families. Riding along the […]
The 2019 Katherine show was an extremely successful show. It was attended by Taminmin College, Charles Darwin University, Bunda Station and Stud, DoE Tennant Creek and Alice Springs (with Coodardie Brahmans cattle). With more than 60 head of led cattle, the competition was strong! The steward was Tiffany Baker and Mathew Noakes was the judge. All […]
Host: Horses for Courses for Bush Kids Written by Tiani Cook, Suplejack Station, Northern Territory Hi there, my name is Tiani Cook and I founded ‘Horses for Courses for Bush Kids’ back in 2017. Along with a childhood friend Natuccia Walker, we rode horses 1,000kms across the Northern Territory finishing up in Darwin over a […]
Written by Talya Kirkham, Governess – Moorarie Station, Meekatharra, Western Australia It was midnight in October 2015 after a 22-hour flight from Europe when I landed in Perth, jumped in my little blue Holden Cruze and drove 10 hours to Moorarie Station Meekatharra. I got to my aunties station at around 10.30am to head to […]
Host: Donal Sullivan Name a more iconic duo. Every year I say goodbye to people who have decided to leave the Territory and move back ‘down south’. It seems that in many cases, and across many industries, the Territory is not seen as a viable place to build a life or pursue a career. Rather, […]
Host: De Grey Station Written by Steph Rose, 1st year Stationhand – De Grey Station Ever since I graduated from Harvey Agricultural College, I’d wanted to head north and have a go at working on a station. Little did I know that my 2019 New Years Resolution to do this, would come to life within a month. […]
Written by Steph Coombes, Central Station editor Drought isn’t a new concept to Australian farmers. Much of the east coast has been in drought for the last 7 years, or even longer. However, over here in northern WA we’ve been pretty bloody lucky. There’s been a few dry times, but nothing as prolonged and gut […]
Host: Mallina Station Written by Lindsay Newland I can safely say that I had a pretty extreme introduction to my first cyclone experience. From all reports Cyclone Veronica was the biggest and slowest moving cyclone that WA had seen in over a decade and from the earliest reports it was heading straight for Mallina homestead. […]
Host: De Grey Station Written by Hayley Goad, Office Manager – De Grey Station There are days when that term “Office Lady”, bloody annoys me. If you’ve read my previous blog, you’d know by now that I haven’t spent my career in an office. I’ve built up (hopefully) a respectable career in the agricultural industry […]
Host: Mallina Station Written by Lindsay Newland I have always loved art. Back in the years following school I went to TAFE to study art not only because I enjoyed it but also because I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. After several years of studying, working and struggling […]
Host: Challa Station Written by Debbie Dowden We shouldn’t be running cattle here, it’s sheep country. Challa Station has some of the best saltbush flats in the district and was carefully selected in the 1880s by the astute George Chandler Dowden and his sons. They had driven their mob of sheep across from Burra, SA […]
Host: Umbearra Station Well here we go; I have never been one to put ourselves out there but with encouragement from Steph Coombes and my husband Angus I am giving this a red-hot crack. So, hang in there and hopefully we will produce some good reading! A little about ourselves… My name is Kimberley, and […]
