Max Armstrong reports on the marching orders issued to lobbyists from delegates from the American Farm Bureau Federation. Max shares that a poll ahead of the delegate meeting shows that most are family farm owners. He looks at the group’s continuing push to expand crop insurance to offer expanded coverage. And the group wants to […]
Fifteen-year-old Clancy ONeill, Ongerup, drove the familys 1980s, 4450 John Deere tractor, named Beverley, with its 30-year-old red chaser bin for their harvest. The family had two headers running and was pleased to achieve a good, average yield after a very wet 2022. Click to check the original article.
The aptly-named Paradise Point has come up for sale, and it’s one of the finest houses we’ve seen on the south coast for a long, long time. With its green hills tumbling steeply down into impossibly blue sea, and views across the water to where you’ll see more of the same, there are few spots […]
A bushfire ‘advice’ is in place for people in an area bounded by Cleaver Street to the south, Liberton Road to the east, Dinsdale Road to the north and Lilydale Road to the west in northern parts of Chidlow in the Shire of Mundaring and southern parts of Gidgegannup in the City of Swan. Click […]
Jonathan Self muses on the abandoned, forgotten and mislaid objects which dot his surrounds. On one of my regular walks, I pass a ruined tower house that bizarrely, although windowless, still has a solid oak door. It is my occasional habit (I concede it is a little eccentric, but it brings me pleasure) to stop and, […]
‘Digging up the Past’, a mural by The Zookeeper, Joel Fergie, and DRAPL, Travis Vinson, that decorates one of Hughenden’s water towers, is one of the recognised must-see creations, along with the streetscape revitalisation at Miles, Wandoan’s Soldier Settlers Precinct, and Roma’s Sculpture Out Back exhibition. Click to check the original article.
All descriptions sold to a dearer market under stronger competition. Click to check the original article.
Clive Aslet considers the town that was one of Roman Britain’s greatest cities — and even, for a while, its capital: Colchester. The Emperor Claudius ordered the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43, arriving in person once the fighting was all over to lead his army into what would be the capital of his new province, […]
Gilgandra Jockey Club 2022 NYE meeting. Click to check the original article.
A North Burnett school principal is following a dream of cattle grazing. Click to check the original article.
The ensuing regulation sets mandatory due diligence rules for operators who place specific commodities on the EU market deemed to be associated with deforestation and forest degradation – beef, soy, palm oil, wood, cocoa and coffee, along with derived products such as leather and furniture. Click to check the original article.
A mission to reduce stress in its herd has not only led to better milk at the McVeigh dairy on the Southern Downs, it has earned it a spot in a prestigious top 100 list. Click to check the original article.