Mixed emotions for WA farmer rescued by One Nation Senator Rod Culleton

Colin Bettles
Updated October 25 2018 - 12:51pm, first published August 27 2016 - 5:00am
Cuballing farmer Bruce Dixon at home on his property in WA's south-east Wheatbelt and resting up momentarily, on those now infamous straw bales.
Cuballing farmer Bruce Dixon at home on his property in WA's south-east Wheatbelt and resting up momentarily, on those now infamous straw bales.

SEVERAL rotting, weather-beaten straw bales - some would say hay bales - sit idly, parked at the side of the road in the front yard of Bruce Dixon’s sheep and grain farm at Cuballing in WA.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

Canberra Bureau Chief

Has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for Fairfax Agricultural Media since 2010 - survived the hung parliament - former media manager at Western Australian Cricket Association now covering national agricultural and rural issues in federal politics.

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