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John Skinner

Press Service International

John Skinner served as an infantry soldier in Vietnam then the Tasmanian Police before taking up the position of CEO of the Australian Rough Riders Association (professional rodeo based in Warwick Qld). Before retirement to his small farm, he was a photo-journalist for 25 years. He is married with 3 children and 7 grandchildren.

  • Bidirectional Single-track railway lines

    It means a single line which allows trains to run in both directions.

  • Weeds! Why God?

    A weed is any plant growing in the wrong place. This is what all horticulturists are taught from the very beginning.

  • Riding on the sheep’s back

    It has been said Australia rode on the sheep’s back.

  • The Vermont sheep in Australia

    The Vermont (USA) rams devastated the Australian wool industry when introduced in the 1880s and the effects are still being felt 140 years later.

  • Arthur Stace & Eternity

    It was just after midnight on January 1, 2000, when the word ‘Eternity’ appeared in copperplate writing on the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

  • Grain on Rail Again

    Railway trucks full of grain are once again travelling through Warwick on their way to Brisbane.

  • The droving days

    I’ve mustered a thousand cattle or more, during my life and heaven only knows how many sheep but I was never a drover.

  • Our Pigeons

    Some time back, senior Christian Today writer Sheelagh Wegman wrote an article about pigeons which reminded me of the loft my brother and I had at my parent’s home in Hornsby, NSW.

  • The chestnut work horse - Chester

    I had helped start young horses before I had Chester but he was the easiest.

  • Maritime Triumph and a Triumph of Humanity – New South Wales 1788

    The First Fleet of 11 ships arrived at Botany Bay after a 252 day voyage carrying over 1,000 passengers including 586 male convicts, 192 women convicts and wives and 213 marines plus some of their wives and children.