Tom Brinkworth dies

[Farmer Roy]

Tom Brinkworth made headlines in 2013 when he bought 18,000 cattle from the AA Company's Barkly Tablelands properties and trucked them to Longreach, enlisting boss drover Bill Little from Roma to walk them 2000 kilometres to Uardry, in the Riverina district of NSW.

Tom Brinkworth dies aged 83

One of Australia's largest landholders, pastoralist Tom Brinkworth has died.

www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au

 

[Farmer Roy]

Pretty much a self made man as well
Always looked more like a homeless person than a multi millionaire

very much a “hands on” operator

 

[Farmer Roy]

He acquired it all through his own grit & acumen - not because some ancestor was granted favours by a king 600 years ago . . .

 

[PSQ]

He acquired it all through his own grit & acumen - not because some ancestor was granted favours by a king 600 years ago . . .

And he didn't have a monumental chip on his shoulder, unlike some of his countrymen

 

[Bury the Trash]

He acquired it all through his own greed & acumen - not because some ancestor was granted favours by a king 600 years ago . . .

 

[Gerbert]

He acquired it all through his own grit & acumen - not because some ancestor was granted favours by a king 600 years ago . . .

I am curious to know, where is the line between selfmade and apperently "been granted favours"? If your parents (or ancestors) did anything more than the bare minimum?

 

[egbert]

I am curious to know, where is the line between selfmade and apperently "been granted favours"? If your parents (or ancestors) did anything more than the bare minimum?

A bit like the Socialists, who hate the idea of inherited wealth/privilege/property.
They want everyone to have the same start and help, and everyone to succeed...succeeed, so as to struggle to get their kids into a good skool/education/university/job. so that those kids could look after their kids etc etc etc.

hmm

 

[jonny]

A bit like the Socialists, who hate the idea of inherited wealth/privilege/property.
They want everyone to have the same start and help, and everyone to succeed...succeeed, so as to struggle to get their kids into a good skool/education/university/job. so that those kids could look after their kids etc etc etc.

hmm

Local wit used to say socialists have nothing and they want to share it with everyone

 

[jackrussell101]

 

[egbert]

I don't want to stray on this...the bloke mentioned sounds like quite a fella.
I'll raise a drink to him in a minute.

 

[tepapa]

I don't want to stray on this...the bloke mentioned sounds like quite a fella.
I'll raise a drink to him in a minute.

Yes sounds like the kind of fella you'd want to spend a 12 month work placement with , following him around with your ears open. Probably learn a thing or three.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Seventh illegal land clearing conviction for wealthy pastoralist - InDaily

One of Australia’s richest landholders Tom Brinkworth has been convicted – for the seventh time – of illegally clearing protected SA native bushland, prompting calls for harsher penalties against wealthy offenders.

indaily.com.au

 

[Gerbert]

@Farmer Roy or any other australian who might be slightly more knowledgeable on the above, I'd like to hear your opinion.
Not trying to be a dick, I would just like to know what said law entices and if it is a legitimate law.
Lik egbert, if he was a fair businessman, I'll take my hat off for him.

 

[Hindsight]

Wasn't he the one that Thatcher paid homage too and instigated the 1980 - 82 recession and destroyed the manufacturing base in this country. UK became a laboratory for Friedman to experiment with his concept of money supply economics. Edit - Monetarism - knew it would come to me. Stripped the heart out of many communities. Farmers wouldn't notice as the early 80s was EEC bonanza time.

 

[Grazza]

He lived just up the road from my old farm. I used to go on the school bus with his youngest son.
Tom certainly has a unique way of doing things. He management style was to buy properties and to not spend any money on them. He would then leverage up all the proceeds to buy more land. Up until quite recently he would give direction to his workers personally every evening. Would be on the phone from 7 till 10 every evening giving everyone directions for the next day, then talk to his his finance guy until midnight.

 

[Grazza]

Funniest Tom Brinkworth story I can think of off the top of my head was when he went to court on land clearing charges. Someone else who was in custody was appearing in court that day, so he got his lawyer to go and tell the judge he would give him a job if the judge would give him bail. Anyway, the man in question ended up living 70 km out of town buy himself , he thought jail wasn’t so bad.

 

[Cowcorn]

Wasn't he the one that Thatcher paid homage too and instigated the 1980 - 82 recession and destroyed the manufacturing base in this country. UK became a laboratory for Friedman to experiment with his concept of money supply economics. Edit - Monetarism - knew it would come to me. Stripped the heart out of many communities. Farmers wouldn't notice as the early 80s was EEC bonanza time.

Thats him all right the man whose economic theories closed most of british industry . Mind you the unions didnt help .

 

[Farmer Roy]

https://www.facebook.com/109736009057839/posts/3525668874131185

 

[Farmer Roy]

Seventh illegal land clearing conviction for wealthy pastoralist - InDaily

One of Australia’s richest landholders Tom Brinkworth has been convicted – for the seventh time – of illegally clearing protected SA native bushland, prompting calls for harsher penalties against wealthy offenders.

indaily.com.au

yeah, I never said he was a saint . . .

obviously anyone who acquired that much land in one lifetime will be fairly hard nosed & willing to push the boundaries a bit

 

[Farmer Roy]

@Farmer Roy or any other australian who might be slightly more knowledgeable on the above, I'd like to hear your opinion.
Not trying to be a dick, I would just like to know what said law entices and if it is a legitimate law.
Lik egbert, if he was a fair businessman, I'll take my hat off for him.

yeah well, I’m a bit of a tree hugging greenie idealist, who also happens to be a broad acre grain & cotton farmer - so I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who clear land illegally. No matter how big they are.
I am also very much on the record as being disillusioned with my countries environmental record & very anti open cut coal mining developments here

I personally think our land clearing laws should be a lot tighter, but will readily acknowledge that some of them are ridiculous & should be open to “common sense”

not condoning his actions though . . .