As we come into summer, warmer weather starts to set in and it is not unusual to experience a heat wave or two around the country.
Temperatures have soar to 40 degrees and over for days in a row, but everything can’t stop for the weather.
Topics: Animal Welfare, Production, Country, Outback, risk, Australian, South australia, cattle station
Written by Anna Nunn
It’s a moment as you are driving along that you feel like you need to rub your eyes or blink a few times quickly… crossing vast outback and in the distance, you spot a dog. It seems totally out of place.
Topics: Australia, Environment, Country, Outback, Stations, Australian, Australians, Drought, cattle station
Rural mental health is a topic that needs to
be discussed
,
frequently
.
The issue is often pushed into the spotlight after a life is
tragically
lost to suicide or an extreme weather event strangles parts of the country
.
However
,
we believe
that it is a topic that needs to
be brought
up in the nation’s conversation more often.
Topics: Australia, Mental Health, Health, City Life, Country, Outback, Australians
Written by Anna Nunn
As the sun makes its way over the ranges the stockman’s day has well and truly already begun. A cuppa or two and a hearty breakfast while discussing plans for the day around the table, waiting for just enough light to get going.
Read MoreTopics: Insider, Cattle, Livestock, Industry, Australia, Rural, Australian Beef, Outback, Stations, cattle station
No one goes to work looking to get hurt, but accidents do happen and help is usually on hand within minutes at most worksites
. On a cattle station, things are a little different.
Topics: Australia, CommunitySupport, Rural, Country Life, Health, Regional, Country, Outback, Australians
Drought and prolonged periods of low rainfall can have a profound impact on vital ecosystems and the people rely on the land to make a living
.
Topics: Australia, Farming Families, Welfare, Environment, Regional, Country, Outback, Australian, Australians, Drought
Australia’s outback stations are truly unique. Pastoral land in Australia is vast, often unforgiving and strikingly beautiful. The men and women that live and work on isolated cattle and sheep stations, work some of the biggest properties in the world.
Topics: Cattle, Livestock, Industry, Facts, Regional, Country, Outback, Stations
