David McGinnis interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3112852
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McGinnis, David, 1948-, interviewee
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- Description:
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- 2004
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 130 min.)
- Series:
- Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project.
- Summary:
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David McGinnis, a Pastoralist, speaks about his early years travelling through Queensland and the Northern Territory with his father and siblings after the death of his mother; his teenage years on the road; his education; the Gulf property 'Yeldham', bought in 1962 as a family partnership and sold in 1969; the current property Bowthorn, bought in 1966; the early years at Bowthorn; the problems with stock and water; spending nine months of the year in the saddle mustering and handling stock; top breeding stock to reduce debt; the introduction of helicopters for mustering; the energy requirements of Bowthorn; investing in two hybrid solar/wind/diesel power plants at the homestead and kingfisher camp; the property increasing in size from 500 square miles to 900 square miles; grazing approximately half of it; Brahman cattle; saving the stock work for the school holidays.
McGinnis discusses setting up the Kingfisher camp for tourism 10 years ago; the camp being located in the centre of the property, and staff living there all year round; 3000 vehicles per year; the problems with the cattle market; the abattoir closing and the implications; the new strategy with grazing; upgrading the genetics of the herd; the property's future; that northern properties are becoming valuable as breeding properties; requiring a licence for all bores and pumps out of the waterhole; the water moratorium last year.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on May 07, 2004 at Bowthorn Station via Mt.Isa, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Landowners
- Other authors/contributors:
- Borschmann, Gregg (Gregg John), 1955-, interviewer
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