Pip Courtney
@pipcourtney.bsky.social
Rural journalist working on the mainland - love my home state of Tasmania, horses, cats and telling stories
Great Project - some interesting work being done to set farmers up for the future
This week we had a great opportunity to highlight a project we’re part of to help livestock producers address the impacts of climate change and sustained periods of dry conditions on the pasture feedbase.
Dr Rowan Smith led a field trip for Project 365 partners to sites that are part of the project.
Dr Rowan Smith led a field trip for Project 365 partners to sites that are part of the project.
October 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Great Project - some interesting work being done to set farmers up for the future
Are the flowers in your vase imported?
Half the cut flowers in Australia are imported, but country of origin labelling (like we have for food) isn't required.
Meet the family doing something about it #grownorflown?
Half the cut flowers in Australia are imported, but country of origin labelling (like we have for food) isn't required.
Meet the family doing something about it #grownorflown?
Flower growers want imported blooms to carry country-of-origin labels
About half of Australia's cut flowers are imported, but there is no requirement to add a label informing consumers of their origin.
www.abc.net.au
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Are the flowers in your vase imported?
Half the cut flowers in Australia are imported, but country of origin labelling (like we have for food) isn't required.
Meet the family doing something about it #grownorflown?
Half the cut flowers in Australia are imported, but country of origin labelling (like we have for food) isn't required.
Meet the family doing something about it #grownorflown?
The rise and fall of John Norman, the respected farmer who became a fraudster - ABC News
July 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The rise and fall of John Norman, the respected farmer who became a fraudster - ABC News
Biosecurity matters … doesn’t it?
Industry aghast as black marketeer avoids jail for 62-tonne food import: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-28/tougher-biosecurity-control-illegal-thai-food-import/105467700
Industry aghast as black marketeer avoids jail for 62-tonne food import
Meat and seafood producers are calling for tougher biosecurity penalties after a woman avoided a prison term for illegally importing 62,000kg of meat, fish and insect-infested fruit from Thailand.
www.abc.net.au
June 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Biosecurity matters … doesn’t it?
The @newyorker.com ‘read by an automated voice’ 😳
noooooo ✋ 🛑
Just pay 💰 journos to do it 😠
It’s called broadcasting
You are better than this
noooooo ✋ 🛑
Just pay 💰 journos to do it 😠
It’s called broadcasting
You are better than this
June 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The @newyorker.com ‘read by an automated voice’ 😳
noooooo ✋ 🛑
Just pay 💰 journos to do it 😠
It’s called broadcasting
You are better than this
noooooo ✋ 🛑
Just pay 💰 journos to do it 😠
It’s called broadcasting
You are better than this
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And here’s part 2 with @pipcourtney.bsky.social and Karin Stark, this time focusing on fruit and vegetables!
🍓🍒🍆🥒🥦☀️⚡️💪
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
🍓🍒🍆🥒🥦☀️⚡️💪
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
Using the Sun Twice: Growing fruit and vegetables alongside solar
ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production
www.abc.net.au
June 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
And here’s part 2 with @pipcourtney.bsky.social and Karin Stark, this time focusing on fruit and vegetables!
🍓🍒🍆🥒🥦☀️⚡️💪
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
🍓🍒🍆🥒🥦☀️⚡️💪
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
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First of a 2-part series on #agrivoltaics by @pipcourtney.bsky.social and featuring Karin Stark.
Great to see the improved productivity from sheep grazing under the panels.
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
Great to see the improved productivity from sheep grazing under the panels.
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
Solar Livestock: Running livestock in solar paddocks
ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production
www.abc.net.au
June 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
First of a 2-part series on #agrivoltaics by @pipcourtney.bsky.social and featuring Karin Stark.
Great to see the improved productivity from sheep grazing under the panels.
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
Great to see the improved productivity from sheep grazing under the panels.
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
What a read!
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What a read!
Check this story out on Landline tomorrow @12.30
One for the rock doctors!
One for the rock doctors!
Could 'blue metal' be farming’s next big climate solution?: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-17/basalt-rock-fertiliser-carbon-trials-queensland/105299634
Could 'blue metal' be farming’s next big climate solution?
A growing number of scientists believe crushed basalt, a volcanic rock used in roads, could be used as a fertiliser, with trials showing it can improve soil and capture carbon.
www.abc.net.au
May 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Check this story out on Landline tomorrow @12.30
One for the rock doctors!
One for the rock doctors!
A really interesting read - brings back a lot of memories
The legacy of Australia’s worst drought lives on in our bathrooms
Some kids had never seen a puddle until the Millennium Drought broke. The decade-long dry spell sweeping Australia delivered more than cracked earth, it changed our relationship with water.
www.abc.net.au
May 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
A really interesting read - brings back a lot of memories
My story for tomorrow’s Landline
Love seeing how R&D pays off (Qld govt earns $$$ from plant variety rights)
Love seeing how R&D pays off (Qld govt earns $$$ from plant variety rights)
Why scientists and a Hollywood star are excited about this Australian plum
A plum bred in Queensland is showing promise in the fight against dementia. Australian researchers are testing whether an extract from the fruit can boost brain health.
www.abc.net.au
April 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My story for tomorrow’s Landline
Love seeing how R&D pays off (Qld govt earns $$$ from plant variety rights)
Love seeing how R&D pays off (Qld govt earns $$$ from plant variety rights)
Green Leaf Australia Group and director fined for illegal dams in wetland
Company fined $300k over illegal dams in 'nationally significant' wetland
A commercial farming company and one of its directors have been penalised for constructing and using dams without approval in NSW, including in a freshwater wetland.
www.abc.net.au
March 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Green Leaf Australia Group and director fined for illegal dams in wetland
What great news
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What great news
PSA:
Landline is back foe rhe 2025 season
12.30 PM every Sunday
It’s up on Iview now
And repeat is Monday’s at 1PM
Landline is back foe rhe 2025 season
12.30 PM every Sunday
It’s up on Iview now
And repeat is Monday’s at 1PM
February 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
PSA:
Landline is back foe rhe 2025 season
12.30 PM every Sunday
It’s up on Iview now
And repeat is Monday’s at 1PM
Landline is back foe rhe 2025 season
12.30 PM every Sunday
It’s up on Iview now
And repeat is Monday’s at 1PM
Pick 5 things that you love
A book, a song, a place, a movie and a thing.
I played along!
A book, a song, a place, a movie and a thing.
I played along!
#171 Pip Courtney
Podcast Episode · Five of My Life · 03/02/2025 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Pick 5 things that you love
A book, a song, a place, a movie and a thing.
I played along!
A book, a song, a place, a movie and a thing.
I played along!
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Leading harness trainer suspended over 'systemic' horse mistreatment: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-30/stewards-panel-finds-ben-yole-guilty-mistreating-horses/104878738
Leading harness trainer suspended over 'systemic' horse mistreatment
Leading Tasmanian harness racing trainer Ben Yole has had his racing licence disqualified for three years for the mistreatment of horses on his property at Sidmouth, near Launceston.
www.abc.net.au
January 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Leading harness trainer suspended over 'systemic' horse mistreatment: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-30/stewards-panel-finds-ben-yole-guilty-mistreating-horses/104878738
A great in depth article - which I read as another rain storm hammered Brisbane
Love the description of winds as ‘slack’
Wild weekend to bring flooding rains, thunderstorms, heatwave for eastern states - ABC News
Love the description of winds as ‘slack’
Wild weekend to bring flooding rains, thunderstorms, heatwave for eastern states - ABC News
January 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A great in depth article - which I read as another rain storm hammered Brisbane
Love the description of winds as ‘slack’
Wild weekend to bring flooding rains, thunderstorms, heatwave for eastern states - ABC News
Love the description of winds as ‘slack’
Wild weekend to bring flooding rains, thunderstorms, heatwave for eastern states - ABC News
😟 😟 😢
A desperate push is underway to save platypus habitat in southeast Queensland before the species declines any further. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6TJ...
Race to save platypus populations in suburban Queensland | ABC News
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
😟 😟 😢
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So, in 2024, we published 42 episodes of If You’re Listening. The one I worked hardest on was about Domestic Violence.
Sadly, though perhaps predictably, that’s the episode with the fewest views of any ep we’ve made.
Anyway if you want to watch it, it’s here. youtu.be/p0_VTGzZj2U?...
Sadly, though perhaps predictably, that’s the episode with the fewest views of any ep we’ve made.
Anyway if you want to watch it, it’s here. youtu.be/p0_VTGzZj2U?...
Should we treat domestic violence like we treat terrorism? | If You’re Listening
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
youtu.be
January 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
So, in 2024, we published 42 episodes of If You’re Listening. The one I worked hardest on was about Domestic Violence.
Sadly, though perhaps predictably, that’s the episode with the fewest views of any ep we’ve made.
Anyway if you want to watch it, it’s here. youtu.be/p0_VTGzZj2U?...
Sadly, though perhaps predictably, that’s the episode with the fewest views of any ep we’ve made.
Anyway if you want to watch it, it’s here. youtu.be/p0_VTGzZj2U?...
What a cool xmas story
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Everyone's heard of Santa Claus, but what about the Christmas crow?
While many Australians await the arrival of Santa Claus, kids in outback Australia are celebrating with their own unique Christmas icon.
www.abc.net.au
December 20, 2024 at 9:29 PM
What a cool xmas story
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Great story
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Farmers rarely see their GP so healthcare is going directly to the saleyards
Finding time to visit the GP can often be difficult for farmers, but in country Victoria, nurses are bringing healthcare directly to them by running free monthly medical clinics at the saleyards, and ...
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Great story
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Great story from my colleague Halina
Scientist turns down $500 million to keep waste-to-compost invention in Australia - ABC News
Scientist turns down $500 million to keep waste-to-compost invention in Australia - ABC News
December 8, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Great story from my colleague Halina
Scientist turns down $500 million to keep waste-to-compost invention in Australia - ABC News
Scientist turns down $500 million to keep waste-to-compost invention in Australia - ABC News
I may have done this to one of my cats!
Not appreciated 😾 @meatwatcher.bsky.social
Not appreciated 😾 @meatwatcher.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 8:03 AM
I may have done this to one of my cats!
Not appreciated 😾 @meatwatcher.bsky.social
Not appreciated 😾 @meatwatcher.bsky.social
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This week's discussion of the agriculture big news topics
We chat about controversial Bovaer, China wanting Australia on good terms and the protests at Woolworths.
We also launch our first competition.
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6WUBvXd...
#agsky
We chat about controversial Bovaer, China wanting Australia on good terms and the protests at Woolworths.
We also launch our first competition.
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6WUBvXd...
#agsky
December 4, 2024 at 11:01 PM
This week's discussion of the agriculture big news topics
We chat about controversial Bovaer, China wanting Australia on good terms and the protests at Woolworths.
We also launch our first competition.
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6WUBvXd...
#agsky
We chat about controversial Bovaer, China wanting Australia on good terms and the protests at Woolworths.
We also launch our first competition.
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6WUBvXd...
#agsky