- Max Pearson: Press are interested, are they?
- Phil Henderson: Yeah. Drought makes a damn good story.
- Max Pearson: Something for them to read over their morning cornflakes.
- Phil Henderson: No, not quite.
- Max Pearson: Show them a picture of lambs after the crows've been at them. That'll open the tear ducts.
- John Quinney: A woman'll always spend her last dollar to buy a new dress.
- Const. Bert Hammond: Not in this town!
- Phil Henderson: Look, I don't particularly like these assignments - especially when most of the time it's the farmers' own fault.
- Rhoda Wilson: Hey, now, come on!
- Phil Henderson: Well, look, they run far too many sheep to the acre, they won't use modern methods, they refuse to try communal farming. They're the last of the world's great individualists.
- Rhoda Wilson: Can't wait to see you matched against Colonel Emerson.
- Phil Henderson: Emerson. I've heard that name before.
- Rhoda Wilson: Well, his grandson calls him Squire.
- Phil Henderson: Well, that's exactly what I mean! Feudal, old-fashioned, out of touch with the times.
- Rhoda Wilson: Just patient. My husband always said, "You can't fight the land. You can't thrash it, knock it down. You have to move with its beat, with its music."