Pulverised running in a good cause: Editorial
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Glencore completes rebrick of Mount Isa copper smelter | The North West Star
During the five week maintenance shutdown of the operation for the project, the copper smelter’s workforce more than doubled, with an additional 350 contractors joining our 255 employees, including 80 specialist refractory brick layers, as well as riggers, fitters, boilermakers, electricians, spotters and crane operators. Click to check the original article.
Four rescued in three Mount Isa missions
The Mount Isa-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew have had a busy weekend, airlifting four people in three separate missions. Click to check the original article.
Ten of the world's largest farms revealed
Monster dairy complexes and huge cattle stations dominate our list of the biggest farm properties in the world today. Click to check the original article.
Outback Queensland Masters 2022 golf tournament tees off at Roma | Queensland Country Life
Sally Gall Senior journalist – Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I’ve raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region – its history, tourism, education and communications. Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I’ve raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and […]
Seven absolutely gorgeous country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
Our pick of the best homes to come to the market via Country Life in the past week or so is genuinely sumptuous. Eynsham Mill, Oxfordshire. Somerset — £6,500,000 The Pavilion is a spectacular transformation of a contemporary modern house, to create a striking home built in classical architectural style. For sale with Knight Frank. […]
Alan Titchmarsh: The best plants to grow in a boggy garden
Alan Titchmarsh doesn’t like soggy socks, but there are plants that love standing around in the damp all day. I can think of few things more uncomfortable on a daily basis than wet feet. Give me a good pair of wellies and I am happy. There are plants, however, that relish having their feet in […]
Clearance rates subdued in 19,261 head online offering
These 49 Angus steers 10-11 months averaging 308kg from Book Book, NSW, returned 717c/kg or $2210 – headed to a buyer from Mansfield, Victoria. Their 59 heifer sisters 297kg made 726.5c, or $2160 ON the back of some larger physical yardings this week, 19,261 cattle were offered across AuctionsPlus commercial cattle sales this week – […]
How to stop your puppy crying at night
The heartbreaking whimper of a puppy calling for you will tug on the heartstrings like few other things, but you don’t have to suffer — and you don’t have to leave it crying either, as Ben Randall explains. Dogs have been living with humans — and evolving alongside them — for tens of thousands of years, […]
Former Injune locals return to celebrate town centenary
Injune locals celebrated the town centenary with a week of events and activities. Click to check the original article.
Gustavus III: The designs of the king who dreamed he was an architect
Many monarchs of the Enlightenment showed an active interest in architecture. Inspired by a new facsimile of royal drawings from Sweden, Clive Aslet looks at the designs of Gustavus III. In 1779, Gustavus III of Sweden commissioned a painting from Pehr Hilleström called Conversation at Drottningholm Palace. It shows the King and his court in […]
Breed switch is working well
Simmental genetics have been a part of Grant and Jane Maudsley’s beef production operation for close to 20 years, and they’re working towards establishing a larger Black Simmental influence in their herd. Click to check the original article.