PRESERVING THE PAST
Diversify or die is the mantra of business in the bush these days but Richard and Marisse Kinnon have taken it to the next level in the centralwestern Queensland town of Longreach. Richard, who grew up on a cattle property at Clermont, and Marisse, who came from a pineapple farm near Rockhampton, were no strangers to the vicissitudes of country life. Yet when they decided to branch out on their own in 2001 and bought a property at Morella midway between Longreach and Winton, they walked straight into a drought that has pretty much endured ever since. With the futures of their now adult children, Abigail, Jeremy and Lane, as
