Station 707

Currently there is no legal requirement for trains to be lit to a particular standard in Australia. 80% of the 23,000 railway crossings in Australia don’t have warning lights. The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator reports that 26% of railway collisions with vehicles at level crossings occur during night time hours. The Jensen family, and many other families around Australia, have lost l...

Making difficult choices and navigating change doesn't have to be overwhelming.  Louise O'Neill is a wife, mother, founder of Farm Life Fitness, winner of the 2022 AgriFutures Western Australian Rural Women’s Award, and a good friend.  Farm Life Fitness has really grown and developed since I first spoke with Louise during our radio days, and she joins us now for an open and honest conversation to...

Peter Rundle is the Deputy Opposition Leader in WA, and is also a farmer from Katanning.  We cover a broad range of local, political topics in this interview, and Peter also shares some personal insights as to the day-to-day workings of Parliament in WA.  ----more---- Subscribe in your preferred podcast app to be notified whenever a new episode is released If you would like to support the work of...

Emily Hill is from Colbinabbin in Victoria. It's a small farming community, and a great wine growing region with a fantastic soil profile. Family farms and mixed enterprises are common.  There's plans afoot to install a massive solar plant right in the middle of it. Around 700,000 + panels on over 600ha of land.  Emily lays out the impacts this could potentially have on the region, and the familie...

The federal government decision to phase out live exports will have far reaching impacts, no matter where you live in Australia.  Steven Bolt wears many hats, but we are chatting to him today as a farmer, and as one of the directors of The Livestock Collective.  Steve talks about his farm, live export, and how it will affect and has already affected many industries and family businesses. *At the t...

Greg Tilbrook is the WA state wool and livestock manager with AWN Rural. In this episode of Station 707, we catch up with Greg briefly to discuss the local outlook here in WA for the coming season or two, and also how the live export ban is affecting producers' decisions moving forward, and what the economic impacts of that may look like.    If you would like to support the work of Station 707, pl...

A quick G'day and introduction to the show, your host, and an invitation.  Thanks for listening!