''Keeping up with the Joneses'' is an Australian

reality television Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...

series that follows the life of a family on a

cattle station In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm ( station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a '' grazier''. The largest cattle stati ...

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Coolibah Station Coolibah Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated about east of Timber Creek and south west of Katherine with the homestead situated along the Victoria River. The ...

—600 km south-west of Darwin,

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

. The show follows the daily lives of the titular Jones family—father Milton and mother Cristina—and their staff as they muster cattle with helicopters, fight fires, battle floods and even wrestle crocodiles. This raw and humorous snapshot of family life shows what it takes to live in the outback. The family own over 1,000,000 acres.

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Network 10 original programming 2010s Australian reality television series 2010 Australian television series debuts 2011 Australian television series endings Television shows set in the Northern Territory Television shows set in the Outback {{Australia-tv-prog-stub