South Australia auctioneer retires after 53 years

from Radio National Breakfast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

For more than half a century, Tom Penna has wielded the gavel for Elders over livestock auctions across South Australia — through droughts and export market collapses, to booming demand and world-record sales.

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