Opinion

SPRING has arrived but the temperature has been pretty variable. The vines are kicking along and as we near flowering some consistent warm weather would…

FAR be it for yours truly to tell our country’s leaders how to actually run the country. But I could certainly give them some tips…

NEVER let it be said the Whacker is not up to speed with what’s going on in the outside world – like Melbourne. For example,…

Was talking to a mate the other day. Who said he had a joke. Sighing (it’s an opening line making a chap of my rapier…

OPINION By Isaac Jeffery THE National Irrigators’ Council has released its submission to the finalising the Murray Darling Basin Plan ideas consultation process. It comes…

I REMEMBER it like it was yesterday. Those fabulous 21sts in shearing sheds and, occasionally, in some of those stately old bluestone mansions (when the…

The farmer’s in the den The farmer’s in the den Hey-ho the dairy-oh The farmer’s in the den WELL, I can’t think the last time…

I HAVE been as flat out as the proverbial lizard drinking. And on rare occasions I have felt about as useful as a hip pocket…

TO save the people involved any embarrassment, the only thing I’ll say is this market was in one of those sister city places along a…

  ALL those newspaper headlines and interviews on the wireless have really been getting to me. If I only believed half of what I had…

The changes to assessable income to provide better access to the youth allowance, for example, have come too late to help yours truly. Unless I…

THE wine grape harvest is well underway, and the dry weather has been ideal. But if we are to safely get the reds off as…