Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Barbara Camp “She’s proper rooted this time, Barb. There’s no coming back” “But what do you mean? She’s always rooted! It’s her constant state of running! she’s been rooted for as long as you’ve had her! She’s had more lives than the cat! Surely we can fix her! We can always […]
Host: Annaburroo Station Written by Barb Phillips – Manager, Annaburroo Station. Our first impressions of each other were ‘not much’. Adrian had separated from his wife and detested women. He had no time for small talk, he was there to get a job done and get out of there; Adrian was a man on a […]
Host: Annaburroo Station Written by Barb Phillips – Manager, Annaburroo Station. In a nutshell, I have no idea why the idea of northern Australia appealed to me. The warmth, the palm trees, the ‘frontier ring’ it had about it, whatever it was, I knew it was for me. Me, Barb. My name is Barb Phillips. […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini O’Loughlin – Owner, Lochon Contracting. It was bitter cold, windy and it rained rained rained. Last year Lochon went mustering and bull catching in the desert behind Hall’s Creek. Winter had fully set in and the weather was not on our side. Winter jackets and big camp fires were […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini O’Loughlin – Owner, Lochon Contracting. When last year’s cattle season came to an end in the Kimberley, we had finished contract mustering and Locky and I were delighted to spend some quality time with our new baby girl. I had been in town since the arrival of our daughter […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini O’Loughlin – Owner, Lochon Contracting. This time last year I was pregnant. Locky and I were preparing ourselves for a new chapter in our lives, which we are in the middle of now. Locky runs a contract mustering business, which takes us all over this part of the country […]
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 […]
