My father was just working for the forestry, and I went to school, then I went to Melbourne working for a couple of years. But then my father got on to this bush block. So I bought that and I came back and worked at Brighton and we used to get the original run on the Bogong High Plains and starting taking cattle up there, in 1958 I suppose.

The government changes the rules. Everytime you go to do a subdivision, now it's a 100 acres, you can't sell it.

They've taken away our water right, our right to store water on our farms. You've got to have water but the government won't build dams just to supply Melbourne so they've just robbed it from the north-east farmers.

They make it a National Park and then they extend the boundaries of the National Park and that brings it right down to your fence. It's a double whammy because they take away your right to graze, but then they, all the pest animals, just build up and they just hop into your place as well.

Well there's no future as far as... I'll put it this way, if you won Tattslotto and put it back into the farm you would only be squandering the money.

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