My grandfather took a mortgage on the place, my father went there and lived there when he was 19 and we've had it, ah well I don't know how many years, but probably be 80 odd I suppose.

You've got your freedom, like when your cows are calving you've got to check them. In my case I'm only a grazier, so it's like I've just had two days at tennis. But at the present moment the only thing I'm really doing, is doing the weeds.

A lot of people want this alternative lifestyle and there's hundreds of thousands of people that seem to have a hundred grand or find a hundred grand and they come out and buy 50-100 acres or whatever and build a house and have a weekender, and that's just kicking the land prices up all around us and now we've got a government that's backing the bloody pine trees.

Pine trees are a weed as far as farming goes.

So get out into the bush or country and instead of making the rules from the city, get out and let some of the country people help make the rules.

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