Coila's Pretty View listed for sale
A 50 hectare NSW South Coast holding near Tuross and Moruya has been listed for sale through Webster Nolan Real Estate. The five bedroom main Coila residence is set amongst landscaped gardens and lawns...
View ArticleTinkler horse stud close to $9 million plus sale
Mining tycoon Nathan Tinkler’s Richmond Grove thoroughbred stud farm in the NSW upper Hunter Valley is close to a $9.2 million sale, according to The Australian. It cost around $26 million to...
View ArticleGina Rinehart buys another northern cattle farm
Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, has expanded her cattle business. She has bought two more cattle properties located south-west of the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory. They were...
View ArticleCasella buys McLaren Vale vineyard
The NSW Griffith-based winemaker Casella Family Brands has secured a McLaren Vale vineyard. Their South Australia wine country purchase cost around $12.4 million. It secured about 162ha across the...
View ArticleSweetwater, Hunter Valley vineyard estate sold
The property developer/hotelier Sam Arnaout has bought the prized Sweetwater, Hunter Valley vineyard estate. His Mediterranean-style weekender had been listed at around $12 million by Duncan and Lyn...
View ArticleCollaborative farming – the future for family farms?
GUEST OBSERVER Having been a lawyer looking after farmers and graziers for almost 40 years, I have focused on the future of family farms all my professional life – indeed, my practice and those of...
View ArticleBillionaire Michael Hintze buys Deltroit
MH Premium Farms (MHPF), the Australian agricultural investment group of UK-based hedge fund founder, Sir Michael Hintze, has bought Deltroit, the Gundagai district farm. The 2573 hectare Mundarlo...
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Crippling rural debt looms as biggest threat to our beef producers
GUEST OBSERVER What will happen now that the rains have come to many parched beef lands of Queensland? Current high cattle prices and renewed pastures suggest optimism, even good times. Perhaps record...
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Government needs to get balance right in regulating agriculture
GUEST OBSERVER The Productivity Commission’s latest draft report on the regulation of agriculture highlights the need to get the balance right, as to when the government should and shouldn’t intervene...
View ArticleTwin Hills Stud listed by Godolphin
The thoroughbred breeding and horseracing empire Godolphin has listed Twin Hills race horse stud farm near Cootamundra in the NSW Riverina. It has been listed by William Inglis director, Jamie Inglis...
View ArticleChinese buy Ord River cattle station from the Brits
A Chinese company has purchased a historic cattle station featured in the Baz Lurhmann film, Australia, in a deal worth about $60 million. Spanning 476,000 hectares across the Western Australian Ord...
View ArticleCargill buys more on Queensland's Darling Downs
Calmyle, a 966-hectare cropping property in Queensland's Darling Downs has been sold for $5.6 million to One Tree Agriculture, the subsidiary of the US agribusiness and food giant Cargill. It is their...
View ArticleBaillieu's sell Woodhouse Station
China's Fucheng Group has acquired the last remaining parcel of the Baillieu family's Woodhouse Station on Melbourne's outskirts for about $100 million for new housing. The 4953-hectare rural property...
View ArticleLempriere Group look at Agrium Landmark acquistion
The Lempriere Group is in due diligence to buy Agrium's Landmark agency and trading business. The deal is estimated to be worth about $1.2 billion, Fairfax Media suggest. Agrium bought Landmark as...
View ArticleVergemont in central Queensland comes to market
Vergemont, a 352,590-hectare cattle grazing property near Longreach in central Queensland, has come to market. It last traded for $6.5 million in December 2012 when sold to the Bode family by the Logan...
View ArticleRobyn Holt buys Southern Highlands rural acreage
The former Vogue veteran Robyn Holt and her husband, actor Jim Holt, have secured a $1.175 million Southern Highlands retreat. The purchase comes after the couple sold their stylish Woollahra home for...
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Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
GUEST OBSERVER Land-clearing laws are being fiercely debated in both Queensland and New South Wales. These two states are responsible for the majority of cleared land in Australia’s recent history....
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Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
GUEST OBSERVER Australian cities are remarkable in the sheer diversity of wildlife that somehow manages to live among us, from flocks of raucous cockatoos or noisy lorikeets to the dusk fly-out of...
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Stopping land clearing and replanting trees could help keep Australia cool in...
GUEST OBSERVER Land clearing is on the rise in Queensland and New South Wales, with land clearing laws being fiercely debated. In Queensland in 2013–14, 278,000 hectares of native vegetation were...
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Koalas are feeling the heat, and we need to make some tough choices to save...
GUEST OBSERVER Koalas are a much-loved Australian icon and a tourism moneyspinner too, contributing more than A$1 billion each year to Australia’s economy. Worringly, however, there is growing...
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