Gentlemen,

I keep hearing stories of such and such happening at ________________ Station and it has me curious. What is a station?

Thanks,

Big farm just like a ranch

Big Farms is right. Carmor Plains Station was 100,000 acres, Mt. Keppler Station 400,000 acres. All cattle, no sheep up there-- too many dingoes, too hot for sheep. Lots of extended family needed to run them.

I went to palce called Alexandria, it was 5,200 square miles..

I went fishing on VRD and we camped where the Vic and Whickam rivers meet. Caught some nice barra to! VRD is so big its divided into 4 stations each with their own manager.

Near Katherine is Manballoo station which is a million acres. The manager told me once that only 3-4 40,000 acre paddocks are used as it cost to much to muster the rest of the property. Anything that gets out of those paddocks is written off the books.

One station I was on for 2 years was only a tiddler, just over 1000 square miles. Didn't need a southern boundary as cattle will only wander so far without water, which was mostly from bores.

quote:

Originally posted by SGraves155:
Big Farms is right. Carmor Plains Station was 100,000 acres, Mt. Keppler Station 400,000 acres. All cattle, no sheep up there-- too many dingoes, too hot for sheep. Lots of extended family needed to run them.

400,000 acres? thats pretty big mate, but you live in a big country. unsure if any over here in NZ are 400,000 acres!

Stations are those things that white man has to buy and battle the drought and pay back the bank with interest, and if he dont the bank will take his property plus the guys fathers and brothers property who put them up for guarantee for the loan.
Stations are also those things that the Federal GOv. buy for indigenous people to lay to waste cause they prefer to spend their time drinking and driving in a Gov. purchased $60K Toyota.They also dont change the oil in them, just drive them till they stop,leave them on the side of the road and then just go and order another one.

However,they keep telling me this is an equal oportunity nation.

The black fellas looked after this place better than any white fella has.....mate.

This joint was prestine wilderness for 40,000 years and it's gone to shit in 200.

There is a real world outside of dreamtime and XXXX beer. Although It may not have changed much for them in 40,000yrs The world itself was changing around them.The arriving changes came relatively sudden.It was theirs, Now its ours, for how long I dont know.So goes the history of mankind on the planet. Why do they feel they should be exempt from what every other human can be subjected to?
They had it for so long and did little with it, thats fine. But there are other people who see a greater use for it all and thats fine too. Despite what they like to believe about themselves and their culture they are not the centre of the universe.Nor are they necessarily greatly aware of what the true course of the human race should be. If one bases the integrity of ones exhistence on dreamtime/mythology/falacy instead of the raw truth and what really needs to be done,If you are unwilling to accept change and adapt to the times you get swept aside, If you are simply incapable of change/adaption then extinction looms, a simple fact of nature. As I said the world is a changing place and we dont have to like those changes,but many of them are inevetable and beyond ones control. Hence ones wisdom/survival is not necessarily based on wishful wanting of things to stay the same, but rather insightful adaption, sometimes rapid adaption,depending on circumstance. There are good reasons cromagnon man came to dominate over neanderthal and why neanderthal became greatly reduced in numbers and locations.Those principles apply all through the ages.

How they figure it to still be be their land I dont know. At some point like white man,they wandered here also,and it would not matter if it was 1000,or 40,000yrs ago. they just took up residence. How that makes it all originally theirs or thats it should be,I cannot fathom. If one feels that it is theirs then it is up to them to defend that principle.If one does not have the ability to do so,then its only natural that you must let it go or reduce it to something manageable,or die facing a superior force. The French knew they could not hold their colonies in Nrth America,and let them go. Europe has had alot of changing borders and movement/dissplacement/inialation,of people over the centuries,I dont see the decendents of Greeks,Romans,Carthagens,Visigoths,Norsemen,Dutch,Spanish etc,etc,etc wanting to reclaim their empires or greatly resenting the seemingly unfare vast violent losses of life that took place in the course of things. They realize they have had their day in the sun and that conquest comes at a price. The indigenous here have had many more days in the sun, some 40,000 relatively peaceful yrs in comparison.Instead of complaining,one should be greatful for what one has had and accept the new.To call that new good or bad is not really the best place to put ones energies, the fact is, its here, and thats the reality one needs to deal with. Justice in this world is just an ideal and a person may wait their whole life for what they believe justice to be and to arrive and it still may not happen.

Changes are not the problem in this world, but more so the denial & resistance to essential change that causes more pain and suffering than necessary.

You dont need the Gov. to buy someone a multiMillion dollar cattle station to drink ones life way, at the same time denying those with the willingness and ability to run that station the chance to do so.

I spend some time in Sydney, where the idigenous bother you for money. I told one who was persistent, no I dont have any for you now Fckoff. He got offended, and told me to get out of his country, I told him to take get his face out of the bottom of a beer glass and take a good look around, it aint your country anymore, get used to it and stop resenting the system,your kind did nothing for 000s yrs, now your actually getting paid to do the same, so stop complaining.

Good post Woodjack.

Yeah great post Woodjack,spoken like a true bigot.

I'm 100% sure there are whites who get drunk,bother people on the streets for money,steal,rob,bash,rape,murder,hit their spouse,kick their dog,screw kids,bludge on welfare.

Yeh there sure are whites that also do all those things you mention, so kind of makes us equal in that regard.
Now if the Gov. would just give some white folk a chance at a free CattleStation and Toyota, things would then be equal in some other regards.
I dont have a problem with people being on welfare.But even when it comes to that, whites have to do a lot more continual paper work,compulsory courses, and provide much more justification for payment. With indigenous, its straight into the bank account on a continual unquestioned basis.
To manage a life takes responsibility and dicipline,eg: be at work at 7am, pick the kids up at 3pm, enjoy dinner at 6pm.with an ale.
But if some choose to lead a life of BeerOclock around the clock, they get what they deserve.
Cheers.