ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
A cattle farmer from our town’s northern fringe bought himself a Range Rover last week because he had the money and wanted one.
Eduardo Green, 55, had an upbringing that made Prime Minister Anthony Albanese look like a Christopher Pyne. He now commands one of the lower Diamantina’s largest cattle portfolios.
Over the years, he says, the luxury afforded to him by the latest LandCrusier Sahara hasn’t been up to the standard he wants.
“There is Lexus but they don’t come in diesel, which is what I want,” he said.
“The LandCrusier is a tired design. It’s practical, but tired nonetheless. But really, I got a Range Rover because I wanted one.”
Despite the nearest Range Rover dealership being over a hundred kilometres away in Windorah, Eduardo said that didn’t worry him because it’s a problem that money can fix.
“It’s only money. One day in the future, I might not have any. I might have more than I have now. Right now, I have enough to buy a Range Rover so I bought a Range Rover last week,” he said.
However, Eduardo admitted that the vehicle is not exactly brand new. It has less than a thousand kilometres on the clock and was ordered new by someone in our cosmopolitan desert community who has “done his arse”.
“He was in construction,” he laughed.
“So he put it up for sale as soon as he took delivery. There’s a two year wait on a new Range Rover right now, so I paid overs for it but I don’t care. It’s only money.”
Some in the community say that Eduardo’s story gives him a “pass” for owning a car usually reserved for chintzy professionals, perverted film stars and the assorted WAGs of the Betoota soccer competition.
Local petty criminal Dale Musgrove told our reporter that he often finds pleasure in keying Range Rovers and putting a blade through the wall of each tyre.
However, he knows which Range Rover belongs to Eduardo.
“I won’t touch that one,” he said.
“He’s only had it for a few days but I know. There’s not many of them in Betoota. I reckon if I key that one, and he catches me, he’d proper kill me and then just sit in the gutter and wait for the cops.”
More to come.
