Host: White Kangaroo Station Written by Sarah Streeter – Manager, White Kangaroo Station. Stock water and the pumps we rely on for delivery of this life-giving entity, are the bane of my existence as the dry season drags on. Check fuel, switch on, choke on, pull. Ahhh . . . the sweet sound of a […]
Host: White Kangaroo Station Written by Sarah Streeter – Manager, White Kangaroo Station. I work White Kangaroo solo for most of the time. My brother and sister-in-law with one other employee come in only for the week or so that it takes to do each round of mustering, which we do three times a year […]
Host: White Kangaroo Station Written by Sarah Streeter – Manager, White Kangaroo Station. I prefer not to define myself by being a single parent. There are countless women raising their child/children on their own, whether it is due to the ending of a relationship, their partner spending weeks or even months away working, or a […]
Host: Mt Bundy Station Written by Sue Witham – Owner, Mt Bundy Station. Kasey the youngest daughter had been schooled at home for the last two years (grade 8 and 9) through the School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE). We all needed to regroup after Ben’s death and this has worked well for us, it also […]
Host: Mt Bundy Station Written by Sue Witham – Owner, Mt Bundy Station. This piece is a follow up to yesterdays blog about losing our son Ben. Something internal keeps us going. We still had two daughters who were mourning too. Bec had started a science degree at uni and gave that up to be home […]
Host: Mt Bundy Station Written by Sue Witham – Owner, Mt Bundy Station. Almost four years have gone by since we tragically lost our son Ben. I often think when people say that they have “lost” someone, I think “what – down the back of the couch or in the supermarket?”- but no, we lost him […]
Host: Mt Bundy Station Written by Sue Witham – Owner, Mt Bundy Station. If you have read our previous blog, you are probably waiting to see how our new life was working out . . . Well, the sulking teenagers got the better of us and seriously I was going to poke someone in the eye […]
Host: Mt Bundy Station Written by Sue Witham – Owner, Mt Bundy Station. If you have ever had to sell the family farm, all the livestock, arrange a clearing sale, pack up 15 years of house and farm equipment, two sulking teenagers, a six year old, five horses, four mad kelpies, and the family ginger cat […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Christeen Young – Station Cook, Myroodah Station. There’s a very important lady on the Station here who I like to refer to as our “Lamington Queen”! She is our Station Cook and I assure you it is one of the most important roles on any cattle station that employs staff. If […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniells – Manager, Myroodah Station. I first fell in love with Myroodah in April of last year. Upon completion of three months’ rural work I was to head on, to continue my travels throughout Australia. Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans . . . Fast-forward […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniells – Manager, Myroodah Station. Managing Myroodah Station four years on, for the Indigenous Land Corporation, we have not wavered in our commitment to support and help provide better outcomes for Indigenous people in the cattle industry. We are all ears and keen to assist when new opportunities arise. One […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Chris Daniels – Manager, Myroodah Station. It is not until you have travelled to a less fortunate country that you really appreciate how fortunate you are. A few years ago my wife Pam and I travelled to Peru in South America for a three week holiday. The majority of the […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniels – Manager, Myroodah Station. It is the start of March and we have our core station crew back on board for the new year comprising our Cook, Headstockman, Stock camp of six, Machinery Operator, Bore Runner, Governess, and Workshop Allrounder. Our entire crew have returned from 2014 which is […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniels – Manager, Myroodah Station. A lake on Myroodah Station full of water in January 2015. While many northern cattle properties around the Top End have missed out on their average rainfall this wet season, we have been very fortunate to have been under the right weather systems bringing some […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Ainsley McArthur – Owner, Mystery Park. The beginning of the school year was a photo worthy occasion as we recorded the beginning of Andrew’s high school years at boarding school. Seems he has found his rhythm in both the boarding house and the day school. Lots of people have asked […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Ainsley McArthur – Owner, Mystery Park. School holidays are winding up and like many families in rural Australia, we are preparing to drop our eleven year old off at boarding school. Andrew is beyond excited, chatting about the changes, gathering his belongings at the door, delegating his chores to his siblings, and […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Ainsley McArthur – Owner, Mystery Park. Sunrise is my favourite time of the day . . . I’m yet to convince Lachlan of the tranquility of sunrise! Although with cattle to yard up and trucks to load, he didn’t groan too much about pulling on his boots and hat to […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. I’ve always loved mornings, but 2am is pushing the friendship! The reason for this insanity? A beef production. This week I am processing around 250 head of 110 day grainfed steers. Since hosting Central Station in 2014, I have taken on a role managing […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – General Manager, Signature Beef. I couldn’t imagine growing up anywhere other than on a cattle station. At ‘Mystery Park’, like many family owned and operated cattle stations, kids are an integral to the operation. Rather than juggling parenting, childcare and station duties, we came along for the […]
Guest Host: Sally Leigo Sally lives in Alice Springs and travels frequently around remote Australia leading a research project for the beef industry called the Precision Pastoral Management Tools Project. It is one of twelve research projects being undertaken by the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP). She is employed by both the […]
