Previously overshadowed in the public imagination by notions of American cowboys and the wild west, Australian stockmen are given the place they so richly deserve in pastoral and Australian history in this insightful study. From the lonely months on a long cattle drive to the boots they wore and the places they lived in, the stockmen and their unique way of life is intelligently explored in this comprehensive work.
This history of the Northern Territory pastoral industry outlines how, for almost a century, cattlemen were subject to the tyrannies of distance and drought. Distance vitally affected time and cost of travel, income and quality of life. Similarly, geographic and environmental factors - especially drought - determined stocking rates, created mustering problems and affected the quality of livestock turned off, and overall profitability. This book then describes how, with the end of the packhorse era in the 1960s and 1970s, and the introduction of aerial mustering, two-way radios and satellite communications, Beef Roads and road trains, and efficient and economical water boring equipment, cattlemen gained much greater control over their operations. The authors consider, however, that Land Rights, which are the consequence of Aboriginal dispossession, will continue to affect pastoral operations for the foreseeable future.
An edited version of the first draft of his history of the Pastoralists and Graziers' Association of Western Australia. The published work was launched on 30 January 2007 to mark the centenary of the foundation of the PGA. Industrial relations are highlighted, with the Association playing a dominant role in shearing conditions and disputes, while debates over the Aboriginal land rights processes of the 1980s and 1990s and the struggle for better pastoral land tenure are described in detail, along with the fight to retain live sheep shipments and to restore competition in the lamb, wool and grain industries.
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