IN THE LAND OF *******S AUSTRALIA BISHOP IS AN ACCEPTABLE PIONEER

IN THE LAND OF *******S THERE ARE ACCEPTABLE AND NON ACCEPTABLE
PIONEERS
Please note some of the worthless names highlighted in that piece of
**** the SMH rag 's pen slave John Huxley wrote :
1) Acclaimed as a Pioneer,
2) Frontiersman
3) National Hero
4) Dream that has Dazzled
etc

One is indeed taken at the throat by the fact that the Great Sandy
Desert Pioneers such Dr David Stuart Tyrwhitt, Searls, Thomson, Koehn,
Borner, Barr, & Atkinson, never received from either the Western
Australia Whorehouse aka Parliament or the WAR office ( West Australia
Rag ) or for that matter any others were outrageously praised that
way. Happily they have the Kalgoorlie Hall of Infamy to fall back on
once they have carked it !
( which hopefully could be any day now )

Nota : less than 2 month to the 14th of October Celebration all across
the LOB


brought to you courtesy of :

Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud
Australia Mining Pioneer
Discoverer of Telfer, Nifty & Kintyre mines in the Great Sandy Desert

Exploration Geologist & Offshore Consultant
Founder of the True Geology

~ Ignorance is the Cosmic Sin, the One never Forgiven ~

from Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...462523682.html
August 25, 2007
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Often seen as the most desolate part of the county, Australia's north
may yet prove to be an oasis for the drought-stricken agricultural
industry. John Huxley reports on the new frontier.

Deep into the Big Dry, Malcolm Bishop's swamp is still awash with
wildlife. His hay bales, small mountains of them, stand ready to be
taken by road train to the hungry south. And his swimming pool will be
filled just as soon as backpackers can be hired to empty it of
accumulated rubbish.

But the one thing that strikes townies most dramatically when they
visit Mal Bishop's 5550-hectare property, two hours' drive south of
Darwin, is the sprinkler system playing ceaselessly across his lawns.
Crisis? What water crisis?

"To be honest, most days I forget to turn the system off," says the
new Northern Territorian, explaining how hereabouts plentiful supplies
of water are coursing through the creeks, coming out of the ground,
being piped across vast tracts of land.

So different from the parched, southern land he fled in 2004. "I was
just sick of the dry, the dust, the bloody drought. Seven years of
drought. There seemed no end to it. Coming on top of a marriage break-
up ... well, I'd had a gutful."

Leaving Vondon, a broadacre property near Melrose, South Australia,
farmed by his family for 130 years was a wrench. But the 46-year-old
has no regrets about moving north, to Kumbyechants Station (a play on
the name of the same-sounding place in NSW) in the Douglas Daly
region, north of Katherine.

"Here you know you're going to get 40 to 50 inches of rain a year. It
may vary - when it comes and how much comes - but you're never going
to miss out. I love the place, love the people." A land of milk and
honey? "I wouldn't say that exactly."

Three years on, Bishop admits he's still slogging up a "steep learning
curve", still looking for a good woman - "'must have own bulldozer',
put that in" - and still hitting occasional setbacks. The previous day
he had run into a buffalo on the Kununurra road. The beast had to be
put down, the Land Cruiser put in for $14,000 of repairs.

But Kumbyechants has become a local success story: it carries several
hundred head of cattle - his own and those he holds on agistment - and
is planted with hay, corn, maize, sorghum and soya beans, an
experimental crop sent to a local bio-fuel plant. And much to the
surprise of a modest bloke who apologises for knocking about the
paddocks in floppy hat, sweat-stained shirt and torn pants, he is
becoming something of a NATIONAL HERO Bishop has been acclaimed as a
PIONEER, like his neighbours - the Thompsons, who migrated from
Walgett, via Goondiwindi, and the Bolands, who were driven north by
the prolonged drought around Moree.

"Sieved through other worthless australia Mass Merdias' rantings"


A farmer-FRONTIERMAN . A TRAILBLAZER for what has been described as
"Australia's greatest 21st century adventure": to transform the
Tropical North; to bring the southern farmers to the water, rather
than the northern water to the farmers; to turn the Top End into a
major exporter of food and, yes, water to Asia.

It is a DREAM that has dazzled and deluded Australians since before
the earliest European attempts at settlement in the Northern Territory
at Melville Island, Raffles Bay and Port Essington. Now, the nation is
looking hungrily to the north again.