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CAMPFIRES & CROWS
"Campfires and Crows" is a column by Rex, published in various regional newspapers. While he primarily writes about the outback and nature, his focus has increasingly shifted to critiquing the bureaucracy that, in his view, is steadily bringing the country to its knees.
The Campbell Brothers
Graham and Rod Campbell. Graham was my best man when I was married, and I was Rod’s best man when he was married. I first met these...
Rex Ellis
Oct 4, 20243 min read
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HOUSES
The big preoccupation at the moment with Government (and people who haven’t got them) is “houses”. Despite the government's prediction...
Rex Ellis
Sep 20, 20243 min read
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Warburton River / Lake Eyre
The Warburton Creek is the bottom channel of the Diamantina River, where it exits the vast Goyder’s Lagoon Swamp in Northern South...
Rex Ellis
Sep 3, 20244 min read
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LOVING THE BUSH
The “Australian Bush”, in all of its forms, is a wondrous thing. A hundred years ago there was plenty of it left. Even fifty years ago....
Rex Ellis
Mar 9, 20243 min read
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THE DROMEDARY
I’ve owned the Dromedary for nearly 15 years, mostly built by Andrew Cook at Mildura - a man born to build paddle boats. It is a 60’...
Rex Ellis
Feb 9, 20242 min read
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SAVE THE SWIFT PARROT
The Australian Swift Parrot is arguably the fastest parrot in the world, and one of only three parrots that are migratory. They travel...
Rex Ellis
Jan 19, 20242 min read
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McLAREN VALE WINERIES
McLaren Vale is famous in Australia and many parts of the world, for being a premium wine producing area, particularly for full bodied...
Rex Ellis
Jan 5, 20247 min read
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HIP HIP HOORAY
I am writing on my experience with this subject because I know of a number of people who have had a hip replacement and others who are...
Rex Ellis
Dec 31, 20232 min read
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STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY
I can’t think of another country in the world where the majority of the population is as ignorant about its country, as Australians are....
Rex Ellis
Nov 8, 20233 min read
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FOODS WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO EAT
After considerable thought I decided to incorporate this synopsis of the story of “Percy’s Powder” in this column. Many people will no...
Rex Ellis
Oct 28, 20234 min read
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LOCKED UP
I am having a hip replacement later this year, partly, no doubt, due to walking/riding camels around 80,000kms in 34 years in soft sand...
Rex Ellis
Sep 21, 20233 min read
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BUSH CAMPS
You can become very fond of, and attached to your home, and equally so to Bush Camps. Places where you might have spent a long time. I...
Rex Ellis
May 9, 20235 min read
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BLINMAN AN OUTBACK GEM
I’ve spent about 60 years travelling around Australia – professionally and privately, and I’ve never come across a town quite like...
Rex Ellis
May 3, 20237 min read
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Awards Part II (no ‘poke in the eye’ this time)
Some of you may recall an earlier column (also a chapter in “Go With The Flow”) titled Awards. So just to recap… Over 20 years ago the...
Rex Ellis
Apr 3, 20234 min read
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THE PERILS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Two cases come to mind where repercussions resulted when I have placed myself at the mercy of two different forms of public transport....
Rex Ellis
Mar 20, 20234 min read
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RIVERS DO WHAT RIVERS DO
Before the River Murray began ‘misbehaving’ itself, a lot of people said “there would never be another 1956”. Well, how wrong they were…....
Rex Ellis
Mar 8, 20233 min read
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LAST BOATS TO LAKE EYRE… (maybe!)
By Rex Ellis The Warburton, normally a river of sand, has occasional navigable water. A very unpredictable river. I have travelled it...
Rex Ellis
Nov 9, 20223 min read
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FULL CIRCLE
Around 1988 Patti and I returned to the mainland after living ten years at The Ravine De Casoars, down near Cape Borda, Kangaroo Island....
Rex Ellis
Aug 24, 20222 min read
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BILLY'S GONE
A week ago we lost our little mate in his 18th year —just a few months after his brother, Maccy, died (owned by John and Di Haevey). He...
Rex Ellis
Jul 30, 20223 min read
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CAMPFIRES
For my generation of Australians and those before me, enjoying a campfire is not a rare thing. However, for the current generation it is...
Rex Ellis
May 27, 20223 min read
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