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Keeping up with the Joneses’ troubles

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is investigating Keeping Up with the Joneses' Milton Jones, over alleged aviation safety breaches.

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The Civil Aviation Safety Authority last week raided the offices of Melbourne production company WTFN and seized videotapes of Keeping Up with the Joneses, following complaints of alleged aviation safety breaches.

The complaints made against Milton Jones, owner of North Australian Helicopters, include using a helicopter to pull a skier along the water, allowing people to ride on the skids of a helicopter and leaving a running helicopter unattended.

CASA took seven of fifteen episodes that aired last year, claims The Australian. The observational series sees Jones and his family running a 400,000 hectare station southwest of Darwin.

But Jones will go to the Federal Court in Melbourne in a bid to block CASA from viewing the tapes.

It isn’t the first time the show has attracted controversy.

Last October Farmsafe Australia criticised a scene in which three year old “Little Milton” was shown steering a truck while sitting on his father’s lap. In 2009, his Top Springs Hot became the first licensed outlet to be prosecuted under the NT’s intervention liquor register laws.

The remaining 8 eps are due to air on TEN later this year.

Source: The Australian

23 Responses

  1. Reality check! This is life!~ This is one of the few documentaries that depicts the real country life. People do not realize there is more then their pretty little city buildings. These people are true Australian’s & living the Aussie dream. From another aussie living the dream to another Good Luck Milton & Christina! Authorities officials need to get off their high horses and look at themselves (their personal lives) for once.

  2. @ ? Man.
    I hope you jest, if not there is something seriously wrong with someone who cannot switch to another channel. So instead you seek out this site to uttterly whinge?
    The Jones’ are living most people’s dreams! Top reality entertainment, no scripts, maybe thats why ? Man doesn’t understand it.

  3. I hope they need get of the show. I love very thing about the show. I love to live and work out there. I could’t thing of any think better. People how say they hate it needs to get a life. How do you think our for father start out. If it was’t for our farmer all you city people would go hunrgy. Country people are more down to earth then city peolpe anytime. I use to live in the city need need again. And kid grow up tuff in the country and little milton is no diff.
    Put a city kid in his place and they stand they an ball there eyes. So leave the joneses alone.

  4. Keeping up with the Joneses shows how different it is being brought up on a country property. I have lived on a farm my entire life and wouldn’t change it for the world. Speaking from experience, kids brought up on farming properties are a lot more mature, responsible, careful and aware of their surroundings than city kids. Little Milton would know about the dangers of machinery, cars, cattle, horses, guns, snakes and crocs and a hell of a lot more. Put a city kid out there and they wouldn’t have a clue. Country kids are brought up tougher and soon learn what’s what. Good on the Joneses for bringing up those kids on a property.The younger they learn about everything on a station as remote as Coolibah, the better, for the sake of their safety and their general upbringing in life.

  5. it is a private piece of land so they cant stop a kid from driving because it is up to the parents and i pretty sure if theylive on that size land the would know all the saftey rules back to front

  6. Oh here we go… kids are not allowed to have fun anymore. Let’s make another pathetic cooking show and bore the audience to tears. Keeping up with the Joneses is fun and one of a kind, love the show. The fun police should go pick on someone else.

  7. Love it. At 67 & now a city fella I recall the 640 acrea little family farm in SAus- idriving cars, trucks tractors & the Bomb – cut down ’24 Dodge car; all by the time I was 7-8. Couple of prangs- the 53 Customline into a fence; Bomb into a shed. Motor bikes by 9-10- a few spills. No harm; get a life autorities re kids driving. Planes & Choopers a different thing- the rules matter.
    Go for it- great way to grow up.Try to understand the Bush life.

  8. love the show… wtf leave them alone just cause they are teaching there kids the right way and not the city’s way. I say country all the way.. Oh oh hang on dont teach your kid’s to drive when u can take them to the city were they can smmoke dope and fly…. Yeah thats what they are realy trying to say…….. Keep up the great work joneses true country : )

  9. Seriously get a life I’m from the city I only wish I had the opportunity to raise my children out there and give them that way of life. Find something else to do with ur time and leave the joneses Alone !!!

  11. casa and all you city folk need to wake up to yourself and get a life. i grew up doing all the stuff little milton was doing and even more i was driving bymyself at the age of 4. now im a pilot and an apprentice helicopter engineer and none of the stuff they were doing i deem unsafe its part of life for us. as for the early hands on learning is better then anyclass room ive ever sat in. and its not as if caution is not taken, more people are killed driving to work in the city everyday then what people are on farms in a week. as for casa they dont have the authority to seize tape without a warrant and they only act when they want to, no matter what the out come is they always have their own way.

  13. It was our “love of the show” that caused me to Google what happened to the Joneses. I am shocked to see the results! It seems to be true that “City folk” have absolutely no idea of country life. We moved on to a farm when I was 9yrs old (in the ’60s). I quickly learned to drive a tractor, and drove the ute (with Dad in the car) to my school bus stop. I believe this “early learning” made me a skilful and experienced driver well before I was “of age” to get behind a wheel. I’m sure most country kids will agree.

  14. hello
    i love the show and i love the little boy. can he be mine. we would get along really well with each other and i am living on a farm it the territory and i love it i and it is about 500km away from you.
    i am came to see you soon

    love the little boy

    Kate

  16. lol… wth? who are casa to raid a tv studio? surely they don’t have that sort of authority? even the cops would need to get a court ordered warrant.

  17. My grandfather used to carry us around in the front bucket of his backhoe and tip the bucket forward like he was going dump us on the ground.

    City folk just don’t get the farming lifestlye me thinks.

  18. I understand what people are saying, but just because there are other people doing more dangerous things, doesn’t make this acceptable. These guys happened to be caught on tape. It’s like speed cameras. Heaps of people are driving over the limit, but only the unlucky few get caught

  19. This was innevitable especially when children are involved with vehicles. In my personal oppinion if the child is in a vehicle with his father or mother and they are on a farm and no one else is on the property then i dont really see a problem with a child who is old enough to be behind the wheel of a truck especially when they have a parent ritght there with them. I can see why CASA is concerned but their are plenty of other children doing more dangrous things and their parents are not there with them.

  20. I thought exactly this would happen when I saw it on tv.

    @Craig. At the end of episode 1 they had a sneak peek to the rest o the season and a lot of it never happened in the episodes ten showed so it was obviously one season hat ten split. According to Jeff o’connors Facebook he left coolibah over 18 months ago. So the episodes must be getting very old.

  21. I didn’t know they already had more eps done, TEN should be showing them now!

    As for the CASA stuff, seriously don’t they get it all TV tricks and I’m sure farmers do thing like this all the time, it’s just not normally broadcast on TV.

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