Tuesday, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:18
No malice intended Eagle and yes, I do think quite a lot about the large corporate Pastoral Lease Holders and their collective attitude toward the land.
My wife and I were involved for over 15 yrs. in an open cut opal mining venture in W.Qld.
We paid a bond for each lease worked which was not returned until satisfactory rehabilitation was approved. We had to fence open cut pits to prevent damage to livestock, there is a raft of mining regulations to abide by plus frequent inspections by Qld. OH&S topped off by a usually unfriendly attitude from the PLH.
Contrast this with PLH's who forever want gazetted but unmaintained roads closed, official TSR's closed which denies public access, get Govt. funding to maintain and upgrade airstrips....there are subsidies right left and centre but they don't value
heritage from a hundred or more years ago
I am not referring to cropping or sheep graziers, but these cattle barons effectively drought proof their operations by sheer size, rapid destocking or moving cattle around the country.
These are not the old generation of farmers, but modern day bean counters interested in one thing only.
mike
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