Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. G’day you chickees and blokes out there, I am Noreena’s oldest known cow, so yeah I’m 28 in human years and 165 cow years, still waiting on the queen writing me, it’s gotta come soon, not like waiting or anything . . […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Yulia – Yougawalla Pastoral Co. My name is Yulia, I live at Bulka Station (Yougawalla owned) with my husband Gary and our son Seamus. I am from Indonesia, my husband is Irish and we have been living together in Australia for the last three years. Our first two years […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. As I am the resident Central Station host currently living in Indonesia, I was asked to write a piece about Ramadan and what it’s all about. I am more than happy to do this, for numerous reasons, last but not least being […]
Written by Deti Inayatun – Student, 2013 Indonesia Australia Pastoral Industry Student Program. Edited by Libby Doney, Program Coordinator, Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association. Dreams do come true! I am on the plane heading back to Darwin after meeting with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Canberra yesterday, can you imagine? Okay, so this trip started when […]
Written by Irvan Prasetya – Student, 2013 Indonesia Australia Pastoral Industry Student Program. Edited by Libby Doney, Program Coordinator, Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association. When the birds are singing, when the wind is knocking on the door, when the dogs are barking, it is our call to wake and get prepared for work. We are working […]
Written by Libby Doney – Program Coordinator, Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association. Photos courtesy of the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association and Kerry Sharp. It’s the last day of April, and at 3.00am I blunder my way out to the car and drive through the deserted streets to collect my colleagues, Mick and Alward, from their hotel. […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Manager, Anna Plains Station. Imagine crippling an industry overnight. Imagine cutting off supply of a food source to a nation that is a close neighbour and an important strategic ally. Imagine acting before you investigate thoroughly what’s going on and damaging the relationship with that neighbour! […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Manager, Anna Plains Station. The weekend can be as eventful as it can quiet. My head seems to spin less, but Saturdays can keep me on my toes. Depending on how the muster went during the week will depend on how many things I need to […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Victor Pitt – Bore Runner, Anna Plains Station. Hi my name is Victor Pitt and I am the boreman on Anna Plains Station. My role involves checking windmills, fixing leaks in pipelines, checking and refuelling diesel motors that pump water to our tanks and troughs throughout the property. Anna […]
Host: Anna Plains Station I want you to bear with me for just a moment; imagine you’re 17, just finished high school in Perth, Western Australia, and deciding what to do with your life. Firstly; you know you don’t want to go straight to uni, you want to get some experience under your belt first. […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Manager, Anna Plains Station. A day with “Mrs Plains”, Helen Stoate. Anna Plains homestead. It won’t be the longest walk I take today, but the walk from the house to the camp kitchen will be my most important. The things that run through my head . […]
Host: Anna Plains Station As a young girl I read Jillaroo by Rachel Treasure over 100 times. The thought of the bush and falling in love always appealed to me and I told my mother that one day, I would indeed live in the bush. Ten years later I am in fact living in the […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Manager, Anna Plains Station. The dry season is always the busy season in the Kimberley and this year has been no exception. Below is a weekly schedule from a few weeks ago which outlined the plan for that week. Monday, 8 July 2013 Feed Homestead and […]
Host: Wongawol Station 6 am- time for the the sale cattle to go on to a road train to take them from the station to the farm down south. At the farm they will be grown out on pasture and grain for the domestic and live export markets. One of the Mitchells Transport drivers preparing […]
Host: Wongawol Station Meet ‘Jiminiminy cricket’ the poddy calf (originally called Thomas the Tank Engine). He started getting tired during muster because he was only a young bub, so the boys picked him up and he got to ride in the car with me! Once we yarded up the cattle I picked him up and […]
Host: Wongawol Station It’s early morning and ‘Moose’ is waiting for the engine in his mustering buggy (called the ‘Beer Fridge’) to warm up Meanwhile Graham and Dusty are trying to warm up by having a morning smoke, while we wait for the chopper to find cattle. Dusty with his rolled smoke looking like an […]
Host: Wongawol Station In the pastoral industry, a “scrub” (also known as a “scrubber”, or “scrub bull”) is a male cattle who escaped castration early on in life. Or, as once said on McLeods daughters ‘A bull with balls’. You see, on a cattle station, during the annual muster (when we round up all the […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini O’Loughlin – Owner, Lochon Contracting. This will be our last blog for now. The Lochon Crew Lochy, Tini, Sean, Warrick & Gerwin. It has been a great week hosting Central Station and writing a little something every day. Although it’s just a little something to me, it may be […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini O’Loughlin – Owner, Lochon Contracting. 4.30am – the alarm goes off. It is still pitch black outside when we get up and prepare ourselves for a yet another day on a Kimberley cattle property. We are on Margaret River Station, where we are currently contract mustering for Jane and […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini O’Loughlin – Owner, Lochon Contracting. It is 5.40pm. We just got back from a long day fixing floodgates and checking the paddocks in preparation for tomorrows muster here at Margaret River Station I apologise to everyone who has been checking in earlier to read today’s blog. I fell asleep […]
