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Cattle herding with drones takes off in Australia

May 20, 2015 Leave a Comment

Herding Cattle with Drones

With cattle properties 1.5m hectares (3.7m acres) in size, it can take three months to muster the cattle in Queensland, Australia. Helicopters can be used to cover the vast areas, but that is an expensive option. So farmers are now using drones to locate and move their herds and to check fences and troughs in the outback. Adam Justice, International Business … [Read more...]

What Australian slang has given the world

May 4, 2015 Leave a Comment

Stewart at the "barbie", Palm Cove, Xmas Day, 2008

  "G'day Mate. Put another shrimp on the barbie". Australia is as well-known for its unique turns of phrase as it is for its ubiquitous meat pie. But few realise how many terms in use around the world originated down under, writes Mark Gwynn for BBC Culture: In 2013, ‘selfie’ became Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year. It’s become such a ubiquitous word, but few stop … [Read more...]

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