Host: Soudan Station Written by Sarah Ferriday – Overseer, Soudan Station. Hi, my name is Sarah Ferriday, my husband Shane and I are the Overseers on Soudan Station, a 1.3 million acre outstation of Alexandria, with North Australian Pastoral Company (NAP Co). We started at Soudan 12 months ago; and what an amazing experience it’s […]
Host: Miss Chardy Written by Danielle Doyle – Manager, Mittiebah Station. Well we have had another run in with the RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) today. This time it was my oldest boy – Tom. Yesterday the boys headed home with Mrs Savvy B for a bit of a sleep over. Things were so peaceful […]
Host: Mt Bundy Station Written by Sue Witham – Owner, Mt Bundy Station. Almost four years have gone by since we tragically lost our son Ben. I often think when people say that they have “lost” someone, I think “what – down the back of the couch or in the supermarket?”- but no, we lost him […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Owner, Hodgson River Station. This week I was trying to look at different aspects of ‘change’ in the northern beef industry. Today I’m using some old photos from my husband’s family to consider some points of how things have changed from the early 1900’s and through that century […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Connie Gray – Manager, Blina. Over the 2014 wet season, my trusty old ride-on lawn mower spontaneously combusted . . . literally spontaneously combusted. She was a Greenfield and she looked about 100 years old . . . I swear this thing was the first ever ride on mower invented […]
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Company. It’s the wet season, the days are hot and thunderstorms are rolling in nearly every afternoon with the smell of rain on the wind. The mustering season is over, most of the crew have gone home for a well deserved break with Christmas […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. After two years with Rangelands NRM in a job where you create your own work, I had created myself a mountain! Not only had to finalise a series of projects before the end of June (because it was the end […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Station Manager, Dampier Downs. Many previous hosts on this site have spoken about low stress stock handling. At Dampier Downs, this is pretty much the closest thing we have to religion. Mike even went as far as to travel to America to learn from the […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Haydn Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. My name is Haydn Sale. My wife Jane and I live and work at Yougawalla Station. Jane and some of the other women from local pastoral stations came up with the great idea for this blog, to give people an insight into […]
