Roebuck Plains Station featured on ABC Landline

ABC Landline featured a story on Roebuck Plains Station on Sunday 7 July 2019 for NAIDOC Week. Landline is the ABC’s television program for current affairs coverage of regional and rural news and events.
It highlighted the uniqueness of the property and the collaboration of Nyamba Buru Yawuru and the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation (ILSC) in protecting cultural and environmental values of the land through the Yawuru Indigenous Protected Area whilst operating a successful pastoral enterprise - proving culture and cattle can work side by side.
A big thank you must go to Yawuru who assisted the ILSC in collaborating on this great story and all the hard working Indigenous stockmen at the property.
The ILSC purchased Roebuck in 1999 at the request of Yawuru people, it was officially handed back to the Yawuru Traditional Owners in September 2014 and the ILSC are currently subleasing the property back to run as a cattle enterprise.

[@kevdimo6459]

I see in these fantastic videos the sad detachment of these young Aboriginal men from their fathers. When talking of their teachers and heroes it invariably is their grandfather’s and uncles who are referred to. These young men have the opportunity to defy that and be their sons and daughters heroes. Good luck to you all you do yourself and your community proud. 👍🏻❤️

[@kimharris2599]

Any life opportunity that allows positive personal development for both young and old Indigenous men is a pathway of positive direction. From both personal and social prospective.
Great story.

[@sr633]

An honest picture of life there.

[@ricklink786]

Good to see, traditions handed down from the generations.Great for the young to learn , that somebody cares.

[@rmar127]

Fantastically produced article. It’s awesome to see a program like this succeeding. Have you considered concentrated rotational grazing. There are definitely some economical and ecological benefits to it

[@nathanroberts355]

I been to roebuck plains cattle station and my dad put in new radio telephone cable for the station from the roebuck plains mw transmission tower in 1995

[@sandwormgod4771]

I'd love to have Frank Skeen's hat.

[@d-fineza0449]

So what happens stays up here..?...kununurra is needing help also. Which if ya live here. Ya know why. But still a good bit film. Cheers land line.

[@rhysweertman1810]

Look into feral camels, for meat n milk as the middle eastern market is screaming out for our game camels. Same with goats, the diamond fleece, Angora. As well as meat, skins n fleece. There’s the goat/camel milk market. I pay over $3 for 1 litre lactose free milk that’s full of sugar. Imagine what you could profit, learn, barter(for more the equal value) with these external n internal markets.

[@rhysweertman1810]

Also Bush Tucker n Medicine can help people

[@BarnMouse]

Possibly goat skins for car seats gloves etc.

[@Iswhatitisssss]

@@rhysweertman1810 Hard. DMT, plenty of acacia trees here in WA

[@rhysweertman1810]

Wild Goats eating Wild DMT
WOULD BE A MARKET

[@Sambardown]

No money in it!

[@SamSam-du3le]

Wot a load of crap if it was not for the whitefella the blackfellars would still be Myalls.

[@bigears4014]

If it wasn't for the white fella, the black fella would be living happily ever after

[@travisutrecht1542]

@@bigears4014 So your saying if the English didn’t settle in Australia then no other nation would of settled there?
Not the Spanish? The Chinese maybe?
Do you really think Australia would still be inhabited by only aboriginal people in 2022 if it weren’t for the “white fella”?

[@bigears4014]

@@travisutrecht1542 what I meant was they were going fine till we fucked them over

[@petermcculloch4933]

@@travisutrecht1542 Colonization could have been managed better.

[@nigelmorgan3449]

@@bigears4014and still wiping there arses with a stick