OPINION: Back to Wooleen - what a pair of idiots
On the one hand station owners David Pollock and Frances Jones are on the verge of something truly incredible,
On-farm
04 MAY 2012
OPINION: Forgive me friends, for I have sinned
I've never mentioned this. To anyone. Not the missus. And certainly never to the old man or mum. But
On-farm
27 APR 2012
OPINION: Making it mandatory - hammering sense into the senseless
Way back, when the Whacker was just a tacker, life was chock full of mandatories. Such as everyone sitting
On-farm
20 APR 2012
OPINION: Aussie beef gets the raw (Brazilian) prawn
Well, well, well. Yes, yes, I know, three holes in the ground. But there's nothing funny about the pigeons
On-farm
13 APR 2012
OPINION: Stop beefing about Indonesia and start selling
Now the old Whacker lays no claim to being any great economist. No, I hear you saying
On-farm
11 APR 2012
OPINION: Farming - a bloody business at the best (and worst) of times
In the forbidding old days of Imperial China, many a poor miscreant suffered the death of a thousand
On-farm
30 MAR 2012
OPINION: Holy cow! Now we're getting sacred cows!
Stone the crows. Is it a case of the lunatics running the asylum? Or in bush parlance, have we now got
On-farm
23 MAR 2012
OPINION: No sex please, we're farmers
One of my uncles actually began the family diaspora. The useless git simply could not stand in the middle
On-farm
15 MAR 2012
OPINION: Head to the left and cough!
The old Whacker's been somewhat reluctant, let alone embarrassed, to bring this up. But at a field day
On-farm
13 MAR 2012
OPINION: Business going right down the septic tank
What was it about the Yanks that my old dad used to say during the war? That's right. They're overpaid,
On-farm
02 MAR 2012
OPINION: Vote 1 Whacker!
For mine, politicians are not much better than stud breeders. Can't get to them when you want them, and
On-farm
24 FEB 2012
OPINION: Joe must go!
Now correct me if I am wrong. And as most of you would be all too well aware, the last time I was wrong
On-farm
17 FEB 2012
OPINION: You think you've got problems
JIM Stynes stepped down as Melbourne Football Club president last week.
On-farm
07 FEB 2012
OPINION: I think I can, I think I can...
Way back when my old dad first started farming, owning his own tractor seemed the stuff of dreams. Of
On-farm
03 FEB 2012
OPINION: Reds under our beds! Strike me pink!
When I was about knee-high to a grasshopper the bogeyman was the Russians. Those pesky Soviets were
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27 JAN 2012
OPINION: Carbon tax a black day for the bush
There was a time when I thought I had the potential to be a great writer. Albeit of fiction. My most
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