Senior journalist Sally Gall explores the archives, reflecting on some of the most impactful stories from previous years.
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00:00Hi, I'm Sally Gore from the Queensland Country Life and welcome to the Queensland Country Life Archive.
00:06I'm in here because QCL is having its 90th anniversary and we are searching through the archives to bring you all of our history.
00:17And basically this is a history of rural Queensland in paper, in print, 90 years of our publication.
00:24So here's a glimpse into one of our papers. It comes from the August 12, 1976 edition, obviously the exhibition edition.
00:34So there's a big bull on the front page, a Sharaloe bull with some Japanese visitors admiring it.
00:40And then next to that is the big news at the time.
00:43Our editor at the time, Malcolm Akoska, talking about Australia's big abattoirs and what the US thinks was showing us how to do it, how to run our abattoirs.
00:55A shipping bottleneck, it's beef for Japan, oilseeds levies, a probe on dairying, a variety of things in these big broadsheet newspapers.
01:05And now let me show you a more recent edition.
01:08So one of the big issues in 2005 was the introduction of the NOIS tags.
01:13It made our front page and then we had a big two-page look at it all inside.
01:21It was really interesting to see that there was quite a rejection of the whole scheme, especially at Roma,
01:28where buyers refused to pay the 50 cent per head levy for the costs.
01:35And the Roma Salyards Board has spent $270,000 installing the NOIS infrastructure.
01:41It was a big deal in 2005.