The 2019 Katherine show was an extremely successful show. It was attended by Taminmin College, Charles Darwin University, Bunda Station and Stud, DoE Tennant Creek and Alice Springs (with Coodardie Brahmans cattle). With more than 60 head of led cattle, the competition was strong! The steward was Tiffany Baker and Mathew Noakes was the judge. All […]
My name is Kiralee Thompson, and I am the recipient of the inaugural Central Station Katherine Rural Campus pre-employment scholarship. The scholarship supports a person wanting to undertake a 10 week training course to develop the skills to work on a cattle station. I must have said something good in my application, because here I […]
Congratulations to the team from the Katherine Rural Campus for their outstanding results at the Katherine and Darwin 2018 shows! Photos and results below. As the deliverer of more than 160 qualifications, The Charles Darwin University (CDU) is the largest training provider in the Northern Territory. CDU delivers courses across eight campuses and centres and […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Russell Young I grew up on rural remote properties in North West Queensland. I completed my schooling through Mt Isa School Of The Air. After the completion of grade 10 I left school and started working for the McDonald family. A large privately owned family cattle […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines Hello again from the NT! So far, we have mostly done Central Station blogs on the Katherine Rural Campus and our team, the Agriculture and Rural Operations team, since we do horses and cows! (and machinery). So we thought for something different this year we […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines In 2018 CDU welcomed new staff member Ann Pedersen to the position of VET lecturer/workplace assessor beef cattle and horse production. Ann is joining the workplace assessment team going out to stations and delivering and assessing Certificate II, III and IV in Agriculture and […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines Here at the Katherine Rural Campus and in the Agriculture and Rural Operations Team we strive to be at the forefront of industry best practice and this means regular training in areas that increase animal welfare and business productivity. In 2017 and again in […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Danielle Brown Let’s start with a bit about me! My name is Danielle Brown and I live in Alice Springs, N.T. I was born and raised in Darwin and grew up on a small rural property in Noonamah located on the outskirts of Darwin. My sister and I […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Madeline Harley I should start with introducing myself, my names Maddi and I live in Katherine, Northern Territory. I work with for a feedlot company in Katherine that provide feed for the live export boats. I was born a station girl, my parents running large cattle […]
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Indigenous Traineeship Programme – Livestock Earn and learn straight out of school Regional locations in NSW, Queensland or the Northern Territory Ruralco Holdings Limited is Australia’s fastest growing agribusiness. With a national footprint of 48 individual business units and 500 outlets specialising in providing rural customers with products and services in rural merchandise, fertiliser, wool, […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University. In our first blog this month I mentioned we were on our way to Tasmania to present at a conference. Now . . . being hot weather and hands on, in the bush sort of people, flying to […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University. Katherine Rural Campus Show Team – Show Prep and 2017 Katherine Show – Photo Essay: It’s that time of year again at Katherine Rural Campus . . . SHOW TIME! Katherine High School students and CDU staff practising […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University. Each year, Sally and Ian Aldridge bring Rural Industries Skills Training Students from Victoria to experience three weeks living and working in the Northern Territory. The program combines two weeks on-station work experience and one week working with […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University. In 2017 the Agriculture and Rural Operations team have close to two hundred students on forty stations, scattered across some of the most diverse and remote landscapes the Northern Territory has to offer. Developing student skills and knowledge […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University. Hello Again from Alison and Fiona! You may remember us from our blog last year describing the work that we do for the Charles Darwin University’s Agriculture and Rural Operations team as VET Lecturers / Workplace Assessors (Horse/Cattle […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus We can come up for air now the show season is over. The cows are turned out in the paddock in preparation for calving, the bulls are busy and the students are out on work experience. 2016 local shows were a success for all cattle and students in […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University Agriculture and Rural Operations. The Agriculture and Rural Operations team are a great group to work with and are dedicated to providing the best service we can to our clients. Bob Piper, Chris Pech, Lee Hunt, and Murray Lauritsen […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Alison Haines – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University Agriculture and Rural Operations. Doug Jenkins works for Charles Darwin University’s School of Primary Industries as a VET Lecturer/Workplace Assessor. Doug spent five years at the Katherine Rural Campus, mainly teaching beef cattle production subjects to Certificate III Agriculture […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Kerrie Cokley – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University Agriculture and Rural Operations. Certificate II Agriculture residential students, VETis Students and RIST students practicing showing cattle in the lead up to Katherine and Darwin shows. With our local Ag shows just around the corner the Charles Darwin University’s […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus Written by Fiona Plunkett – VET Lecturer, Charles Darwin University Agriculture and Rural Operations. VET Lecturers/Workplace Assessors Fiona Plunkett and Lisa Devlin from Charles Darwin University’s Katherine Rural Campus have been out and about doing station visits. This is their story of a typical day whilst conducting workplace assessment […]
