Property Rights Australia

  Ron has spent a lifetime on the land. After attending boarding school in Brisbane he went home to help on the small family farm which he later bought from his father.

In 1971 he and his wife, Lorna, drew a brigalow block and moved to the Marlborough area with their three young sons. He was active in the Cattlemens Union, and since buying land with access to irrigation water has been involved with Fitzroy Basin Food and Fibre (board member) and is chairman of Fitzroy Barrage Irrigators Consultative Committee.

 He is currently a member of the Community Reference Panel reviewing the Fitzroy Basin WAMP. The three sons are all interested in the land. One son runs his own property but the other two are still working in the family business. Ron is passionate about Australia’s need to protect the farmer’s rights to produce without undue bureaucratic interference.