A broken jaw playing country rugby league led farmer Ross Thompson to get serious about shearing sheep in the northern New South Wales town of Inverell. It was the 1990s when some 10,000 shearers ...

The government and industry have announced a joint $75,000 fund to support welfare training for shearers, but advocates say ...

New South Wales shearer Nikki Lyons has set a women's world record by shearing 395 merino lambs in eight hours. In a shearing shed in Bowning near Yass, in southern NSW, surrounded by dozens of ...

A dedicated $75,000 fund has been established to support targeted training programmes that improve knowledge, skills, and ...

George Shearing enjoys an international reputation as a pianist, arranger and composer. Equally at home on the concert stage as in jazz clubs, Shearing is recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz.

This is not your average beauty school. Your clients can be pretty cranky. Sometimes they’ll even walk out mid-haircut. And you have to hold them down -- with only your legs -- while wielding an ...

George Shearing, the elegant pianist who expanded the boundaries of jazz by adding an orchestral sensibility and a mellow aesthetic to the music, has died. He was 91. Shearing died Monday of ...

Didling Farm’s flock manager, Matt Blyth, has seen a marked improvement in lamb weights and survival since he started shearing ewes before lambing five years ago. The indoor lambing flock of 1,050 ...

This week's Piano Jazz was originally broadcast in 1987, when pianist George Shearing made his second appearance on the program. The late George Shearing was a pianist, arranger and composer widely ...

"Have you been blind all your life?" an interviewer asked. "Not yet," said George Shearing. His conversations were peppered with sardonic wit. Blind from birth, he was to become Britain's leading jazz ...