The Barbarians players included cattle producers, agents, buyers and beef industry identities.
They showed plenty of heart but were beaten convincingly by the Classic Wallabies, who were captained by Lote Luqiri and included the likes of Stephen Moore, Nathan Sharpe and George Smith.
Hanson said despite the result, he and his teammates were thrilled to be involved.
âThat was living a lifelong dream to play against the Wallabies. I loved every minute that we were out there,â he said.
âThe idea came up to put a beef industry team together. It took a bit of doing and the first time the whole team met was on Thursday at five oâclock for the captainâs run.
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Celebrity chef Ben Willis showed Beefgoers how to elegantly cook Australia’s most prestigious cut of steak - wagyu tenderloin.
The owner of Canberra restaurant Aubergine showed the audience how to make this dish with Jack’s Creek beef, after being invited to the Rockhampton event as an Australian Capital Territory representative.
“I’ve tried to do a pretty simple thing for people to cook at home,” he said.
Mr Willis used celeriac, a little-used root vegetable with a mild celery flavour to it.
“It’s a hard vegetable so a lot of people think you have to roast it or cook it, but thinly cut it raw, it’s a really delicate salad,” Mr Willis said.
Beef Week draws large crowd to weekly cattle sale The cow price reached 339c/kg at the Central Queensland Livestock Exchange Prime and Store Cattle Sale last Wednesday. Picture: Contributed
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A packed crowd of spectators watched on as the cow price reached 339c/kg at the Central Queensland Livestock Exchange Prime and Store Cattle Sale last Wednesday, a 12c/kg surge compared to the previous sale.
TopX Gracemere’s Morgan Harris said Beef Australia 2021 had increased onlookers and added a few extra buyers to the bidding gallery.
“Across the board, the market was firm to dearer,” Mr Harris said.
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9.35am: It seems someone didnât get the memo Beef Australiaâs parading events have finished.
Police are responding to reports a âbig black cowâ is wandering among traffic in Norman Gardens.
They are checking CCTV footage for the whereabouts of the beast which was last spotted at the intersection of Yeppoon and Norman Rds. cows
Are We Indigenes Yet?
The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonisers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish inhabitants have had the strength to get special recognition today.
No human race evolved in Australia – several races walked, paddled, sailed or flew here over the past 60,000 years. Some displaced earlier arrivals, others mixed with locals. Some left rock art distinctly different from that of later arrivals and some destroyed or hid evidence of earlier tribes. Some were cannibals, some brought domesticated animals with them and all hunted native animals, sometimes to extinction. None can claim moral superiority.