Business

It's Sunday and Peter Whiddett’s only day off. As the co-owner and manager of Tarzali Lakes Aquaculture Centre on North Queensland’s lush Atherton Tableland, he has been up until the...

Kerry Jonsson and daughter Kristine are pioneers of a flourishing organic meat industry based in Tully in Queensland’s tropical north. Jervoise Organic Meats is the end result of an organic...

Outside the farmhouse dust swirls around harvested paddocks, the sheep finding shelter under a lone tree. A big sky sweeps endlessly across the desert. But inside it’s another world. Glistening...

 Fiona Chambers’ Fridays go something like this. First thing in the morning she might go for a walk in the forest to shoot foxes; then she’ll check emails and return phone calls from...

 Henry Townsend’s dogs have made an art form out of lounging around the homestead veranda when they should be out rounding up cattle. Henry, from East Mathison Station, 90 kilometres west...

  Neil Turner starts the week by single-handedly hoisting a three-metre steel gate from the back of his truck. Positioning the gate with one hand, he kicks a wedge underneath it, chatting in...

  Cool morning mist blends with moist balmy air as Ben Hedderman opens the door to a large shed. He steps inside, pausing in the doorway to adjust the straps on his angling waders, then...

With extensive computer experience from American companies such as Netscape Communications in California’s Silicon Valley, Simon Holmes á Court has put his swag of technical skills to...

When your Dad has a reputation bigger than a Brahman bull and as broad as this sunburnt country, you have a lot to live up to. But John Dyer, 27, whose father Rod opened up the most remote parts of...

There are some who will look back on their youth with a fondness for the idealism and excitement of their “hippie” years. Now in their fifties and sixties, they probably judge the “movement”...

It’s not unusual to hear farmers compared to gamblers, repeatedly staking their fortunes on the roll of a dice, the outcome totally dependent on the hand Mother Nature deals them. If that...

A cold June wind buffets the rolling plains of “Titanga” near Lismore in Victoria’s Western Districts. This is nothing unusual – it can be a cold and windy place. It is also...

It’s a good thing Bruce Ewart loves people. He’s worked seven days a week for the past four years managing Margaret River’s Bridgefield Guesthouse, meeting every visitor who has...

Lachlan Fisher has taken his passion for the game of cricket to the extreme. With the help of some of Victoria’s farmers, he’s taking on the English at the wily art of bat-making. Fisher...

It's an industrious scene in the converted woolshed on Danthonia, a one-time soldier settler block just 25 kilometres east of Inverell, in northern New South Wales. Bearded Lester Wright deftly...

The Big Ram that welcomes visitors to the New England town of Guyra may be on its last legs. While prime lamb production remains central to the region’s history and fortunes, the ageing...

You can tell from his beaming face that Allan Clarke loves rabbits.  It’s not just the way he fondles the kittens and talks to the does (female rabbits), it’s also the pride he takes...

Water is a most precious resource for any outback community, and nowhere more so than in the north-west Queensland mining city of Mount Isa. In an area that has an average annual rainfall of about...

A water-saving device, originally developed to meet the needs of subsistence farmers in South Africa, could become one of Australia’s most important inventions. Called the FullStop, it simply...

When government tourism bodies told the founders of Outback Beds, an industry-based tourism network in outback New South Wales, that they wouldn’t be taken seriously, it simply gave the...

Moe McCosker had a bit of a head start when he decided to get into the hydroponics business in 1992. Formerly a plumber, Moe at least knew about pipes, drains and waterworks – but that was...

Two innovative young women have set up a farm succession and consulting business that, since its inception two years ago, has seen them travel all over the country helping farming families with...

It may be a long way from fighting off wolves and bears in the Italian hills to guarding chooks on South Australia's Kangaroo Island (KI), but the value of using Maremma dogs to watch over their...

There is quiet pride and a hint of glee in Kerry Herron’s voice as he explains that the only traffic lights between his hilltop property, which adjoins Lamington National Park, and his head...

Everything about Fred Ford’s mobile suspension conversion business, Fred’s 4WD Conversions, seems to fit. Not only does it allow the motor mechanic by trade to be hands-on with vehicles,...

John Lever is looking for a new home for one of his 3000 residents – ‘Snappy Tom’ – a huge 30 year-old Crocodylus porosus, more commonly known as an estuarine crocodile, salt...