Host: Influential Women Written by Carly Brooks – CEO, Influential Women. Welcome to an Influential Women (IW) workshop, watch your step, this tangle of extension leads is powering secret women’s business. Whether there are 20 beef producers in a frosty showground pavilion or a dozen grain growers in a stifling town hall, IW workshops are tonic […]
Host: Influential Women Written by Carly Brooks – CEO, Influential Women. Saddle up Central Station, The forecast for Western Australia is blue skies, clean air, and a large chance of high pressure photo taking. A dozen East Javanese businesswomen arrive in Perth to begin Part Two of the ‘Empowering Women in Agriculture – Australia and Indonesia’ project. […]
Host: Influential Women Written by Carly Brooks – CEO, Influential Women. Selamat Pagi Central Station, Hang onto your hat – IW is going to take you where no man has gone before; on a mission to empower women in agriculture in East Java and WA. We’ve taken the leg work out of it so you don’t […]
Host: Influential Women Written by Carly Brooks – CEO, Influential Women. Let’s cover off on some Day One stuff and attempt to articulate ‘a day in the life of Influential Women (IW).’ I will do my best to paint a picture, however it is hard to define this travelling roadshow. IW is now based in the […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Nikki Elezovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. Here we are at the end of our week’s blog and you have met our wonderful employees Jenna and Josh and caught up with both Kurt and my perspectives about our current and future endeavours. I feel that we really have been […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Nikki Elezovich – Owner and Jenna – Governess, Country Downs Station. Yesterday, you got to meet Josh, our newest member of the team. Today, you all get to meet our current Governess, Jenna. Now, Jenna is from Finland and started out with us undertaking her rural work in order […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Nikki Elezovich – Owner and Josh – Station Hand, Country Downs Station. Already Day Five . . . time just flies when you’re having fun! Yesterday, you got a short and succinct version of events from Kurt. As you can probably guess, we are currently so busy that all […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Kurt Elezovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. Once again, I have managed to convince Kurt to write about his perspective of what we have been up to and where we are heading . . . this is also great for me as I get a small window of insight […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Nikki Elezovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. So I left you yesterday at the end of our relaxing day and having got the go ahead to visit an abattoir that night. After an early dinner and quick couple of hours sleep, we dragged ourselves out of our comfortable hotel […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Nikki Elezovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. My parents (being the wonderful people that they are!) late last year, had offered Kurt and I to not only look after the property, but the kids as well (good gracious . . . that’s a whole lot of love!) for a […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Nikki Elezovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. Hi everyone and welcome back to Country Downs. About the same time last year we introduced ourselves to you all and gave you a bit of a run-down of what we do and why we do it. Well, a year later and […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Barb Camp – Station Hand, Kalyeeda Station. Cows and horses are large, unpredictable animals and they can be pretty bloody dangerous. It’s a fact that more people are killed by cows than sharks every year. This is where when you’re working with animals, you need to work with animals. This idea […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Barb Camp – Station Hand, Kalyeeda Station. Situated in the tropical North of WA, the weather in the Kimberley is very different to my native Scotland. The Kimberley has only two seasons – the wet and the dry. To explain this in terms of the daily ABC weather report – there […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Barb Camp – Station Hand, Kalyeeda Station. One of the best things about living on a station is the animals we get to have around the place. We’ve had orphan dingo pups and injured wallabies. Corellas that have fallen out the nest and brolgas that like living in the machinery shed. […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Barb Camp – Station Hand, Kalyeeda Station. We call it club Kalyeeda, and to be honest, it’s a bit of a big deal. They say the crew that parties together stays together and I know I’ve partied with some of the best friends you could hope to meet on the verandah […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Barb Camp – Station Hand, Kalyeeda Station. Hi everyone, My name is Barb, I’m a 27 and live on Kalyeeda Station in the East Kimberley with my husband, James and his family – the Camps. We raise Brahman cross cattle for sale primarily via live export on the our 120,000 hectare […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Manager, Dampier Downs Station. There aren’t many days off in the middle of the cattle season. When I lived in town, weekends were a chance to sleep late, maybe wander down to the local coffee shop for a lazy breakfast and a leisurely peruse of […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Manager, Dampier Downs Station. Many of the recent stories on this site have detailed the excitement – and hard work – that is part and parcel of a standard mustering round. Here on Dampier Downs, while we do use helicopters as well, we also use […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Manager, Dampier Downs Station. You’ve heard about the big horizons, the scrub bulls, the good horses, and all the adventure of living and working on a remote cattle station. You’ve got the Wranglers, the boots, and the ute and you’ve decided to head north to […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Manager, Dampier Downs Station. When I said “No more puppies!” I did not expect to come home from town one day to find two tiny kittens installed in my kitchen. These little cats, one girl, one boy, had been abandoned by their mother and were […]
