Host: Katherine Outback Experience Written by Annabel McLarty – Owner, Katherine Outback Experience. How Tom and I met is something we regularly laugh about with friends. It is a story that has probably been told a few times on Central Station now – girl meets boy, falls in love, throws in her successful career and […]
Host: Katherine Outback Experience Written by Annabel McLarty – Owner, Katherine Outback Experience. A lot has happened in the past 12 months at Katherine Outback Experience that I’m looking forward to sharing with you however before we get ahead of ourselves, I had better introduce myself. Tom and I during a Katherine Outback Experience Show. […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by James Christian – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. Back in February 2006 I travelled out to Napperby Station from Sydney to visit my aunt and uncle and have a “working holiday” for two weeks. With the benefit of hindsight I’m now aware that meant they had to do their jobs plus […]
Host: Isolated Children’s Parent’s Association Written by Donna Donaldson – Owner, Surbiton South Station, Alpha QLD. Donna lives on a cattle property 60km north of Alpha with her husband and five children. Donna is passionate about education and is a member of ICPA. Over the years Donna has taught her children through Distance education and the […]
Host: Isolated Children’s Parent’s Association Written by Lynly Kerin – Manager, North Well Station. Lynly and her husband Mat have managed North Well station since 2006 during which time she began a part-time career in nursing at Roxby Downs, juggling both station duties and nursing until their daughter Elke was born in 2009. Lynly teaches […]
Host: Isolated Children’s Parent’s Association Written by Kirsty Williams – Mount Sarah Station, via Oodnadatta SA. Kirsty lives with her husband Cameron and three children Lucy (4), George (2), and Jack (5 months) on Mount Sarah Station located about 80km north of Oodnadatta in South Australia’s far-north. Kirsty was a primary school teacher before moving […]
Host: Isolated Children’s Parent’s Association Written by Nikki Elizovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. Nikki is from Country Downs Station, WA where she, with her husband Kurt own and operate Country Downs, producing cattle for live export. Country Downs Station is also a regular contributor to Central Station, hosting a week each year. Nikki is also the Treasurer of […]
Host: Isolated Children’s Parent’s Association Written by Sam Dillon Sam grew up in Quilpie, Jundah, and Birdsville and attended boarding school at St Brendan’s College, Yeppoon, approximately 1500km away. He has always had interest in school, even at Jundah State School where there was only 13 people. He has now finished his first year of […]
Host: AG Workforce Written by Caleb, Mixed Farm Hand and Mechanic. My name is Caleb and I’m a Mechanic. Just over five months ago I was looking for a change in career path. I had spent the past year or so doing FIFO (Fly-in fly-out) and was looking for something different. Soon enough, I found an […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by James Christian – Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. I have an exceptionally grand plan for marketing Australian beef to the rest of the world. It would require a vast amount of planning for huge levels of resources: tonnes of hay, fleets of trucks, a pub full of confident ringers, willing producers, skilled […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by James Christian – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. Due to the agenda of animal rights activists and their deplorable, contrived footage of extremely uncommon events, the former federal agriculture minister had an unimaginably bad knee-jerk reaction and put the kybosh on the northern live export cattle trade. This catastrophic decision had […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by James Christian – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. My cousin Sam and I got talking about ways to prop up our wages and decided beef cattle production was the best way forward. Kadaitcha Pastoral Company had the simplest of origins. I was staying in Brisbane overnight with my cousin Sam, en […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by James Christian – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. It is very easy to over-analyse what farming is about. Here is a simplistic, unveiled look at what we really are aiming to do. The theory behind being a beef farmer in central Australia isn’t particularly difficult, in my opinion anyway. All you […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. There is something about a cattle station that evokes a primitive disposition from everyone who is lucky enough to step foot over the boundary grid. The rawness of the environment has an enchanting power that casts a spell, which can never be broken. […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. I was born a rambling man, there’s no two ways about it. I’ve been living out of a bag since I went to boarding school at 10 years old. After school, becoming a mustering pilot was a natural progression, not that it came […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. As a helicopter mustering pilot working on cattle stations in Northern Australia you are constantly operating in a dangerous unpredictable environment with hot days, rough terrain, long hours, tough cattle, and wild weather. Aviation is inherently high risk and pilots are at the forefront […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. Everyone loves a good top ten and Central Station is no exception. Given the lack of voice coming from the middle of Australia, this list will fill you in on everything you’ve been missing from the Outback’s best-kept secret. 1. Bloody Good Beef […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. Holding Cattle (Photo Credit Yasmin Gray). At Blina, we have 15 breeder paddocks and they are mustered twice a year. The reason we muster twice a year is so that our cows are able to put on weight again over the wet season and […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. I was getting really stumped about what to write for Central Station and worried that I was running out of ideas for interesting and relevant things to write about. I turned to our lovely station cook (who is also my mother’s close friend) and […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. Being on a station isn’t just a job. It is a lifestyle choice. I often joke that Matt manages the stations, and I manage the manager. Our life revolves around the station, sometimes it is hard when you have plans to attend a party […]
