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When Terry Eason's dog died a few years back, the rum-drinking, bachelor truckie, grief-stricken, took a fortnight off work. “People understood,” he says. The Kelpie-Border Collie cross got caught beneath the wheels of a tractor. For ‘Trucker Man’ Terry, the blow was huge. “He was brilliant,” he says of his mate. “If someone said to me they had the best...

For beef cattle they’re small, angular and resemble a dairy or dual-purpose breed more than the source of the world’s best beef. In just 20 years they have gone from being unknown in Australia to revered. Now, you can hardly find a top restaurant without Wagyu on the menu. It’s an undisputed fact that here, as elsewhere around the world, Wagyu – which translates...

"The light is so strong out here,” says artist Roxanne Minchin as she applies paint to a wall mural in the bar of the Family Hotel in Tibooburra, a tiny town in north-west New South Wales. “A lot of artists come out here because of the light and the colour.” Roxanne’s mural depicts the Wild Dog Fence, which draws a line between the states of South Australia, New...

The plan was to keep things simple in the garden on “Camawald” in South Australia’s Coonawarra wine country. After all, what could possibly compete with the majestic 500-year-old red gums that had captivated owners Sue and John Zwar from the moment they first saw them? In the late 1970s, the couple fenced off a two-hectare block now fringed with vineyards and paddocks,...

Outback romance, rural romance, farm lit, chook lit, call it what you will, this is a book genre going gangbusters. And it isn’t only in rural and regional Australia that readers can’t get enough of it, but in the capital cities as well. Many titles are published internationally to an audience attracted by an irresistible combination of love story – usually with a sassy,...

The mountains roll away at the end of the paddock, and a colt the colour of gunmetal grazes towards them. He is a curious horse, a two-year-old stallion with space between his shoulders and the hindquarters of a sport horse. His tail is high set, his legs thick and robust. He is a curious cocktail of something, perhaps a medley of local farm horse and thoroughbred. Or, he is of blood never seen...