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The outback is the colloquial
name for the vast desert region
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that comprises most
of Australia's interior.
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It describes the emptiness,
remoteness and the huge
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distances of inland Australia.
In fact, nothing says Australia
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quite like her outback. And you
can find a little of the outback
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in every state of mainland
Australia. The open spaces that
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seem to stretch on forever tell
the story of the exploration and
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development of our red-brown
land and reflect Australia's
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pioneering spirit and unique
identity. And nowhere is this
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more evident than in the
livestock industry, especially
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on the vast cattle stations
that cover much of the outback.
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Australian cattle stations
are often mentioned in the same
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breath as the Australian outback
Here cattle kings built their
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empires encompassing some of
the toughest and driest country
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Australia has to offer. Today
we're going to consider the
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ultimate cattle empire and
discover how it affects each of
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us.
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Yes, nothing says Australia
quite like our outback. From
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ghost towns around the
billabong to plains that stretch
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to eternity, and from rugged red
mountain ranges and spectacular
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gorges, to the longest stretch
of straight railway track in the
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world and the largest mines
in the world. The Australian
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outback symbolizes the essence
of Australia. Here in the wide
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open spaces adventure and
opportunity await at every turn.
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And it was this sense of
adventure and opportunity that
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attracted men of vision
who opened up the outback and
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established cattle stations
larger than some European
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countries. Cattle station is an
Australian term for a large farm
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or ranch whose main activity
is the rearing of cattle. Cattle
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stations are a big and important
part of the Australian outback
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and are by far the biggest
in the world. The Australian
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outback is so dry and the
vegetation so sparse that a
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large amount of land is needed
to support enough cattle to make
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a living. The style of farming
out here is very different from
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any other parts of the world.
Cattle are raised in a very
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natural way. The animals are
basically wild. They are usually
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born and grow up without
any human contact. They feed on
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natural grass and rarely require
any chemical treatment. Perhaps
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the best known cattle king
is Sydney Kidman who established
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an empire in the 1890s
that developed into Australia's
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largest land holding and
encompasses 19 properties across
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four states and territories.
These Kidman cattle stations
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cover over 100,000 km/sq of
land in total. That's more than
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one percent of Australia's land
mass and larger than Ireland.
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One of its properties is
Anna Creek, the world's biggest
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cattle station which stretches
across 24,000 km/sq. Now to
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to put this into perspective,
Anna Creek cattle station is
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larger than Israel and
over seven times larger than the
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biggest ranch in the United
States of America. So how does
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an Australian cattle operate?
Well, to find out we're going to
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head to the Kimberly region in
remote northwestern Australia to
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visit the Roebuck Plains cattle
station which is located near to
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where the Sydney Kidman empire
stretch rides through to this
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region. Here in the Kimberly's
dreams have always been big
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while success in the Kimberly's
has often been challenging,
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that hasn't discouraged
the indigenous stockman and
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traditional land owners who now
hold the Roebuck Plains station
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lease. Despite challenges
they operate a successful cattle
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station with a herd of
over 30,000 animals in western
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Australia. The Roebuck Plains
Station is an iconic pastoral
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station bordering the
Indian Ocean on West Australia's
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Kimberly coast. The property has
recently been handed back to the
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traditional owners of the
country the Yawuru people and is
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now a leading cattle producing
enterprise and a successful
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training ground for young
indigenous cattle workers who
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dream to work in the pastoral
industry. Aboriginal stockmen
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and rural workers have played
a vital part in developing the
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cattle industry in the Kimberly.
And Roebuck Plains Station is
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playing a leading role in
ensuring that this tradition
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continues by training young
indigenous people in the skills
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of cattle work.
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Located just 14 km from the
historic town of Broome, Roebuck
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Plains Station covers nearly
300,000 hectares and runs more
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than 30,000 head of cattle that
are cared for by a work force
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of mostly aboriginal stockmen
with keen young trainees at
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their side who are helping to
build Roebuck Plains into one of
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Australia's most significant
cattle enterprises. The center
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of the universe on any cattle
station is the homestead where
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the manager or owner lives.
Roebuck Plains homestead is a
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hive of activity. It's
surrounded by sheds, machinery,
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mechanic workshops,
accommodations for workers,
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a truck depot, cattle yards,
vegetable gardens and on and on
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it goes. One of the most
important aspects of life on a
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cattle station is that everybody
who works here is part of a
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close knit team. Everybody here
relies heavily on each other and
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everybody works hard from
sunrise to sunset. Team work is
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an integral part of working
life at Roebuck Plains Station.
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Teamwork is very important.
Everyone has to do their role.
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Otherwise everything could just
go everywhere. Cattle would be
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lost out in the scrub, or I
don't know, someone could get
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hurt on horseback. Very
important thing to do is team
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work.
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Here in northwest Australia
there are only basically two
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seasons, the wet season and the
dry season. The dry season is
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the time for mustering, an
incredibly work intensive period
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of very long days. All year the
cattle have been grazing freely
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all over the property that have
to be brought in to be taken to
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market. Gathering the cattle
together and herding them from
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the vast outback paddocks
to the cattle yard is called
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mustering. Because of the
rugged nature of the Australian
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outback a lot of mustering is
still done on horseback. On the
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morning of the muster the
stockmen prepare the horses
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earlier. They are put through
their paces in the yard before
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being saddled up and loaded onto
trucks and transported to the
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paddock that is to be cleared
of cattle. So, yes, horses are
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still an important part of
station life in Australia's far
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northwest. However, more
and more stations are also using
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helicopters, quad bikes
and motorbikes. But horses are
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still absolutely essential
to the operations of many large
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cattle stations. This is
certainly true at Roebuck Plains
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Station where both helicopters
and horses are used to muster
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the cattle. Some of the paddocks
to be mustered on this station
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are nearly 100 km/sq. and the
cattle spread far and wide to
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graze and so the use of
helicopters is integral to the
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mustering operation. Often the
heli musterers work in tandem
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dipping and diving to drive the
cattle home. They're continually
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in what pilots call the dead man
zone, flying low and flying slow
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using small maneuverable
helicopters for the muster is
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now common place on many
of the vast stations across
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Australia that holds a total of
30 million cattle. Each year 10
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helicopter musterers die in
crashes, so it's dangerous work.
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The helicopters go to the
back corners and far ends of the
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paddock to bring the cattle
in towards the watering points
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where the horses and motor bikes
will gather them together and
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walk them towards the holding
yards. Once the 1000 or so
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cattle from this paddock
are gathered together, they are
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walked about 10 to 20 km to
the cattle yards during their
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mustering journey. The stockmen
work as a team to keep the herd
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together. They move the cattle
slowly and methodically to keep
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their stress levels low. At the
cattle yards they are divided
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into groups depending on age and
size. Some will be trucked to
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the abattoir and others will be
prepared for live export while
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many of the younger cattle will
be weighed and vaccinated and
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cows pregnancy tested before
being returned to the paddock.
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Once all that is done the
mustering effort will turn to
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the next paddock some of which
are over 200 km/sq. in size.
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Cattle mustering in the outback
is hard work and it's not for
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the faint-hearted. But the
people involved here wouldn't
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have it any other way and
wouldn't change their way of
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life for anything.
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I'm a stockman. I do a bit
of branding, mustering, a bit of
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fence work, do a bit of horses
work, a bit of quad bike. Rope a
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few bulls every now and then.
Pretty much everything mate.
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I love working with horses, and
cattle. My favorite work would
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have to be mustering or horse
riding. I enjoy, out in the bush
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chasing the cattle
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on horseback. Gives you
that good adrenaline rush. Yeah.
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When we are mustering, we get
up at five. Go have breakfast at
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5:30. Start
moving around about six.
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Get our horse about 6:30.
Start moving it before 7:00
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And we've got to the yard or got
to the actual site where we're
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going to muster. Or jump off
there and wait until the chopper
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comes round to bring them in.
Hold the mob together and start
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moving back to the yard. To do
a muster, you need eight men on
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horses or nine or whatever
number you can make up. A couple
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of boys on Toyotas, maybe a few
bikes. Helicopter is the main
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thing you need. That does the
job quicker. The chopper would
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be better to move faster than
a vehicle or a motorbike or a
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horse because it flies tree top
height and it can move quicker.
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And what if it gets out,
and breaks out, you can bring it
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faster. The choppers is what
Roebuck Stations leaves off a
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couple of acres at the
back there. They're pretty much
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company-owned by father and son.
They own about three choppers,
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R22s. They play a big role.
Get the cattle out, get them all
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together. Because with a horse
it's take you a day and a half
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to get to them or a whole
day. With a chopper, it's only
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something like 45 to an hour.
How does it feel to muster a big
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herd Numbers a
couple hundred or thousand.
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If you're handling about
800- 900 it'd be pretty hard
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You've got to pull em up every
10 km's or something to get the
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tail together 'cause you don't
want to string them off too much
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or they'll wander off. You've
got to keep them all bunched up.
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If a big bull breaks out, I'll
try to get him in the mob. Bring
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him back. If I can't I'll whip
down in the chopper to bring him
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in. When we try on horseback,
we'll try to steady them cows up
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And try to get them in a
walking pace, not running.
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Once we get them in a walking
pace the calves can keep up with
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their mums, they wouldn't get
straggled behind. Team work goes
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a long way. If you didn't have
any team work you'd be pretty
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much stuck in one place, you'd
have gone round and round in
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circles, not getting anywhere.
Yeah, it's very important for
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everyone to pull their weight
around. You can't depend on
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someone else to do your job and
try and do the other one at the
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same time.
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Oh, we could be back anytime,
twelve, one. This all depends on
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gettin' em together. The process
of mustering is is getting them
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cattle out of the scrub and
everything. Getting them all
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together, bringing 'em all
in. And pretty much clean that
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paddock up. Like, you don't
leave anything behind. Gotta
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keep it clean because one of
you'll put it back in that same
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paddock. You want it to be the
way that you'd put it back in.
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So it's pretty much pull
the livestock, export cattle up
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All the marketing cattle, all
your wieners. Put them with the
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cows. Put your fresh watered
cows back in. Leave it for a
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next year run. Oh, it's a good
place, this station. Yeah. Nice
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cruisy little number
here. A good little place to be.
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Company owned. Working on a
private station, you'd be in a
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in a rush to do this messing
around. But here you're just
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pretty much just pluggin' along.
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Roebuck Plains Station is about
a million acres, It's huge. It
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is pretty important for
aboriginal people to own this
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land, 'cause half the
local people in town get an
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opportunity to work on the
stations. So with them owning
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this place, well, I reckon
about five percent of aboriginal
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people would get a chance
to come out here and have a go.
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Roebuck Station is owned by the
actual indigenous people. The
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Yawuru tribe. ILC company pretty
much just leases it and run
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cattle.
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It's been a privilege to spend
some time on one of the large
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and progressive cattle stations
of the outback and see how they
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operate and manage a herd
of over 30,000 animals. It's
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amazing to consider such a huge
operation with so many cattle.
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But let me tell you about an
even larger operation, about the
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ultimate cattle king and empire.
Here's what it says in Psalm
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chapter 50 and verse 10:
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Did you know that God is in
the cattle business. Here God is
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reminding us that he is the
ultimate cattle king and that
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his empire extends not across
nine or even 19 huge properties
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but across the entire planet.
God is almighty He's the creator
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the maker of heaven and earth
and so everything belongs to
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him. Every beast of the
field and, yes, the cattle on a
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thousand hills. His operation
deals not with hundreds of
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thousands, not even millions,
but billions. He deals with
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billions of creatures and
billions of people. God is truly
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the God of billions. But here's
what's amazing. Although God
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runs this huge empire and is
God of the billions, he's also a
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personal God to you and me.
Isn't it amazing that Almighty
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God wants to have an intimate
relationship with you and me
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today, and he personally cares
for us. Listen to what the Bible
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says in 1 Peter
chapter 5 verses 6 and 7:
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Jesus gives us some insight into
just how much God cares for us.
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When Jesus was here sparrows
were insignificant little birds
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that were sold for a very low
price, two of them for a penny.
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But listen to what
Jesus said in Luke chapter 12
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verses 6 and 7:
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So insignificant were these
little sparrows that you could
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buy two for a penny. And if you
bought four sparrows the seller
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would throw in a fifth one for
free. It was this extra sparrow,
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this fifth worthless sparrow
of which Jesus said, Not one of
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them is forgotten by God. The
point that Jesus was making is
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this: If God is concerned about
the fifth sparrow, the worthless
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sparrow, and notes its
fate how much greater must his
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concern and love be for us
who are worth immeasurably more
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than the fifth sparrow. In God's
eyes no one is worthless or
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insignificant. Jesus said that
God knows all about us. He even
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knows the number of hairs on our
head. He really cares about each
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one of us. God's continued and
certain care for us brings peace
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and contentment to our lives and
his love for us is immeasurable
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and unconditional. Even though
we may have made mistakes in our
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lives that have separated us
from God even though we may be
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experiencing huge challenges
in our lives, even though we may
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feel worthless like the fifth
sparrow, we are of immense value
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to God and he still loves us
with an unending love. God was
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even prepared to give his entire
empire in order to bring us back
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to him and have a close
relationship with us. He gave
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his only Son Jesus to die in our
place to pay the penalty for the
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mistakes we have made in
our lives. Here's what the Bible
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says in John
chapter 3 and verse 16:
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When God gave Jesus, he didn't
just give the best his empire,
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heaven, had to offer. He gave
all that heaven had. He gave
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everything. He gave his empire.
Without Jesus heaven just wasn't
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the same, but God was prepared
to give all in order to win us
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back to him and have an
intimate relationship with us.
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That's how much he cares, that's
how much he loves us. If you
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would like to respond to that
love and experience the peace
00:23:24.43\00:23:27.84
and fulfillment that God's care
brings, why not ask for it right
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now as we pray. Dear
Heavenly Father, help us to
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understand your greatness, your
mightiness and your sovereignty.
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May we grasp the truly amazing
concept that although you are
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the God of the billions, you are
also our heavenly Father and our
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God and that you are interested
in us, know all about us and
00:23:53.93\00:23:59.47
love us personally. Lord, today
we want to respond to that love,
00:23:59.50\00:24:04.14
accept Jesus and have a close
relationship with you. Help us
00:24:04.17\00:24:09.71
to walk with you and talk
with you today. In Jesus' name
00:24:09.74\00:24:15.32
we pray, Amen.
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Thousands of cattle are
regularly mustered from the vast
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paddocks of the outback. It's
been fascinating watching the
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helicopters, bull catchers, quad
bikes and motor bikes and horses
00:24:28.36\00:24:32.27
rounding up the cattle
and moving them to the yards.
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Watching it all happen on such
a vast scale is a reminder that
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God owns the cattle on a
thousand hills and that he's the
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ultimate cattle king and that
his empire extends right across
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this planet and beyond. Yet he's
a personal God to you and me and
00:24:49.72\00:24:56.12
he's interested in each one of
us and wants to have a personal
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relationship with us today.
He cares about us. If you would
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