OPINION: Canberra's carbon cash cow (or how we got milked - again)
As kids we never had a money tree in our backyard. Not even hidden away in one of the back paddocks,
On-farm
25 NOV 2011
OPINION: Grandad, the Pope and our percentile problems
MY OLD grandad Frank was notorious in our family for stretching the longbow.
On-farm
18 NOV 2011
OPINION: It's a stinking mess
Is it any wonder us poor cockies are developing a bit of a siege mentality. What with governments telling
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11 NOV 2011
OPINION: Digging a hole of disaster
Have you heard the one about the airline, the miners, Canberra and the farmers? Probably not. Because
On-farm
04 NOV 2011
OPINION: Croppers come a cropper - what's new?
I forget which one of those scientific brainiacs came up with it – maybe Newton (the weirdo with the
On-farm
28 OCT 2011OPINION: Get off our land - and stay off it
Coal seam gas. Three words that stink, right across rural areas of the eastern seaboard. When they
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21 OCT 2011OPINION: It all smells fishy to me
If it wasn't so serious it would be hilarious. First Coles tries to tear the dairy industry apart.
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14 OCT 2011OPINION: It just don't add up
(or how the dollar makes absolutely no cents – economically speaking) I hate economists. They're right
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07 OCT 2011
OPINION: Get serious about bushfire season
Fair bloody dinkum. It's September and the Christmas decorations are already going up in the shops.
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30 SEP 2011OPINION: Rural water tax on the nose
If you're an irrigator I hope you can hold a tune. Such as whistling Dixie. Because and let's call
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22 SEP 2011OPINION: Stepping it out - the hard way
Here's the wake up call of all wake up calls. My harvester is in better shape than me. How do I know
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15 SEP 2011OPINION: Hearing is believing - not always
It took me a long time to work it out. That my old man took untold pleasure, for too many years, in
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14 SEP 2011OPINION: Farmers unfairly pay the price
Here we go again. Far be it from me to join the doomsayers, but don't say I didn't warn you. While
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01 SEP 2011OPINION: Industry its own worst enemy
Baksheesh. For Baby Boomers it was a strange word brought home from various battle zones of World War
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26 AUG 2011OPINION: What happens when no one is looking
As far as Woomera and Australia's place in the space race goes, it is a quite famous phone call. I know
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19 AUG 2011OPINION: Where is Aussie wool industry heading?
Long before my mind was abuzz with buzz words, this guy I knew was intent on being what he described
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