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- A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.
- 15 year old Dion is profoundly deaf and has muscular dystrophy but his love of dogs and his carer's love have transformed him.
- 'Living Country' observes the campaign by Aboriginal people of central Australia to protect their land and lives from two proposed sites for uranium dump sites. For these people, their land sustains life: the land feeds and heals. Traditional bush tucker has fed generations, the bush supplies medicines, and these traditional homelands hold sacred sites and are the focus of ceremonial rites and dreaming stories. Steve McCormack and his family live 4km from one of the proposed sites on the Tanami Highway, 25km north-west of Alice Springs. They worry about the effect of the toxic waste on their water supply and bush tucker, as well as their own health. At Engawala homestead, 125km north-east of Alice Springs, and 12km from another proposed site, traditional owners Herbie Bloom and Kenny Tilmouth talk about their reliance on bush food. They stress the urgency for everyone to speak up and protest.
- Drought-stricken grain growers taking their last chance on a crop; Demand soars for organic fruit and vegetables: Keeping a country newspaper alive; Plus the struggle to save unwanted working dogs.
- A struggling western Queensland town has found "value-added" uses for its underground water supply. An Australian company has succeeded in selling sake to Japan. Lentils are emerging a viable alternative crop in The Wimmera.
- One of the greatest problems any farmer faces is the unpredictable nature of our weather. A South Australian market gardener appears to have found a solution with high-tech, double-skinned plastic greenhouses. Not only are they temperature-controlled and built to survive hailstorms, they're proving a boon to the growth of the farmer's cucumbers.
- Environmentally-friendly toilets have not always been more user friendly. A new "hybrid toilet" that does not use water for flushing promises welcome relief from all that.
- The noise is the first thing that hits you in Reno. It is the relentless clatter of quarters cascading into pokies. And it hits you as soon as you step off the plane because Reno-Tahoe International Airport is jammed packed with slot machines.
- Champion Paralympian Kurt Fearnley finds a heart of gold shining brightly in the townsfolk of Tennant Creek. Locals are overcoming intergenerational trauma by nourishing residents with great education, art and religion.
- Who can deny that the future of Australian agriculture depends on enthusiastic farmers? But with advancing technology, globalisation and new opportunities in the city ... the number of young people interested in a life on the land is dwindling. There is however a dedicated band of young farmers who are intent on showing farming is a viable choice.
- He's from one of Australia's most prominent family business dynasties. Now Peter Holmes a Court, the eldest son of Janet and the late Rober Holmes a Court is aiming to make his own mark in the corporate world. Holmes a Court's unashamed ambition is to create the world's largest cattle company, and like his late father, his approach is already making waves. Let's profile the man who aims to be Australia's new cattle King.
- As family farms are passed down from one generation to the next, so too are any problems brought on by years of working the land. Today we look at one farmer in Western Australia who is turning such an inheritance into an asset. He's found a way to make his salt ravaged land pay by building a series of salt ponds and growing trout.
- Fifteen years ago the farmers of Barooga, a rural community in southern New South Wales had just experienced another wet winter. Yet again more water was lying around in great sheets, drowning valuable winter crops and waterlogging productive land. When the State Government said the problems in Barooga were too big to fix farmers were left demoralised and in despair. Today Barroga is a different place, it's vibrant and profitable. And it's all down to a group of farmers who decided they would show the bureaucrats that their homes, farms, and futures were not beyond help, and that salinity, waterlogging, and high water tables aren't a death sentence.
- Less than three years ago pork producers in this country were talking about the death of their industry. Rising imports from Canada and Denmark had brought growers to their knees; many forced to start killing their stock, as it was not viable to send them to market. But desperate times in another country, Malaysia, have brought a new prosperity to the pork industry that is now enjoying record prices as well as a massive jump in exports to Asia. Julia Limb looks at the changing fortunes of Australia's pig farmers.
- Five years ago, George King's neighbours scoffed at the idea he could turnaround the fortunes of his family's farm without spending a fortune in the process. By any objective measurement the place was falling to bits. The paddocks were clapped out, the stock was in-bred and the dams were silting up. He believed the problem was not the farm as such, but the way it was being managed, lots of decisions with no clear goal in mind. After a decade in the red, the place is in the black and we have just been back to see how George King turned it around.
- As the world's driest vegetated continent, Australia is continually being moulded by fire. With its summer droughts, northerly winds, steep terrain and tall, dry eucalypt forests - no environment is more fire-prone or combustible than southern-Australia. It has a history dotted with catastrophic bushfires. Seventy per cent of lives lost to bushfire have occurred in Victoria and historically the state also accounts for 70 per cent of the nation's economic loss. It is not surprising then, that land managers are reluctant to use fire as a management tool.
- With critical pasture and water shortages, kangaroos are very much in the spotlight. So why is the RSPCA calling for a ban on farmers shooting kangaroos? Well, it's a cruelty issue. The RSPCA says farmers have yet to prove they're culling kangaroos as humanely as the professionals and drought isn't about to sway its view.
- All the movers and shakers in Australia's beef industry have been in Rockhampton for the past week, taking part in Beef Expo 2003. They had a lot to talk about live exports, SARS, the rising dollar, the sale of Stanbroke and, of course, the growing trend towards the branding of beef. These days the triennial event is not so much a cattle show but a stock take. Last years drought put a dent in cattle numbers.
- Speak to the person in the street about alpacas and they will probably assume you are a shonky tax scheme operator looking for someone to dupe. While the reputations of many emerging rural industries took a battering in the late 1990s at the hands of those who have never got their hands dirty, alpaca breeders have been quietly growing the largest alpaca herd outside of South America. And while that is not a lot of animals yet, the industry is confident its fleeces will one day rival the finest merino wool at the high end of the luxury fibre market.
- It is not often you come across a qualified chemist who does not like to use chemicals or an organic farmer who strongly supports the use of genetic engineering. But the winemaker who owns Australia's largest organic winery is such a man. Furthermore, he has just joined forces with several other organic grapegrowers to become the biggest producer by far of organic wine in this country.
- Whether plunging, showering or hand jetting sheep for lice control, there's a growing awareness by Australian producers about the need for protection against harmful chemicals. That said though, the full extent of workplace exposure to the group of organophosphates known as diazanon is still unknown. More than 30 years after they became commonplace in the sheep and wool industry, the National Farmers Federation has pushed for a comprehensive trial of diazanon exposure, which could have major implications for future ectoparasite control.
- Kerry Lonergan spoke to olive grower and processor Mark Troy about issues facing the Australian olive industry, including the decision by Customs to drop their investigation into a request for countervailing tariffs on EU-subsidised olive oil.
- The sudden expansion of the Northern Territory's high value hardwood timber industry has caught many people by surprise. In the last 18 months there has been something of a tree change in the Douglas Daly region, as African mahogany growers make their move. However what is seen by some as a way of saving native forests is perceived by others as a waste of good food cropping land at a time when it is so badly needed.