The purchase (for $23.75m)and closing down of Toorale Station at Bourke, can now be viewed with the value of two years hindsight and can be clearly seen as the great act of bastardry that many saw it as at the time. It was an action totally driven by cheap politics for consumption in Adelaide, that … Continue reading Toorale Station, Bourke
Month: March 2010
Lower Lakes
I sent the following letter to the SMH on Sunday 28th March,2010,"Your heart warming lead article on beneficial flooding in western NSW, (SMH 27th March) attributes a statement to Professor Richard Kingsford that the Lower Lakes (Alexandrina and Albert) at the mouth of the Murray, are below sea level for the first time in 7,000 … Continue reading Lower Lakes
Grandson
Now to important matters. We have a new grandson Maximus Ernst David Wintzer. A 9.5lb. boy to our baby daughter Susan and her husband Hagen. Max is the "ants pants", just ask his maternal grandmother (and his parents).
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