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Directed by Ken Hannam, Sunday Too Far Away follows a group of hard-working, hard-drinking sheep shearers in the shadow of the 1956 shearers’ strike. Foley (played by Jack Thompson) arrives at a new sheep station
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Biblical times dwell upon shepherds and flocks, man and sheep. In their eyes, beyond language, sheep evince deep admiration and devotion to their companion species mankind, considered a great and powerful friend. Personkind, in requite,
Read moreSheep, when bunking with seafarers, are frequently overboard (often by choice, to escape rather unsavory reasons we shan’t consider here). So, yes, sheep can swim. While “sheep overboard” is a curious seafaring circumstance, it is
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Extract from Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management c~1861 This valuable animal belongs to the class under the ox – the Mammalia; to the order of Rumenantia, or cud-chewing animal; to the tribe of Capridae,
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I first met sheep as an antipodal child on a vast dry continent in a previous century. Following a great war, as Europe and Asia rebuilt themselves, this isolated British colony breathed a collective sigh
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Reproduced from Australian Encyclopaedia, circa 1950 The demand for a dual- purpose sheep was responsible for the developing in Australia and New Zealand of two important breeds—the Corriedale and the Polwarth. Corriedale and Polwarth The
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Sheep latest victims in deadly game of genetic dice. In an ironic twist of cross-species interaction, having eluded SARS by immunity acquired from close contact with New Zealand graziers, sheep have succumbed to Avian Influenza.
Read moreExtract from Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management c~1861 Technology-based societies increasingly view food as merely output of factory processes, not of farming. This series of industrial-strength mutton recipes read like a manual for a
Read moreGross-out little bratface, who’s been hammering his PlayStation for the last 12 hours and expects you to go buy him KFC Or: Everything you wanted to eat but were afraid to cook Extract from Isabella
Read moreOvine Rights protest PETA Mulesing mauling MUDGEE ~ Australian branch of Ovine International expressed alarm at PETA’s campaign against sheep Mulesing. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have the Australian sheep industry on
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