The Australian Bite
Archive for November, 2009
When the river runs dry
26 November 2009
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This week on the Australian Bite, what do you do when your river’s about to run dry? We meet two rural Australians who are facing that prospect. With World AIDS Day coming up this Tuesday 1st December, we take a look at how rural health services are coping with the growing number of people with HIV who are living in regional areas. And finally we meet the policeman who decided to spend his long service leave break in a very unusual way – shearing sheep!
Sports hall punches above its weight
19 November 2009
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The award winning Berry Sports & Recreation Hall in regional NSW
This week on the Australian Bite, we meet the project manager of an innovative country sports and recreation hall, which recently won best Sports building at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. In the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, we find out what climate change activists on a hunger strike outside Canberra’s parliament house are hoping to achieve. And farmer, cattle station manager and writer Sheryl McCorry talks about her new memoir, Stars over Shiralee - the follow up to her successful first book, Diamonds and Dust – the story of a million-acre cattle queen.
Music, drought and horses
12 November 2009
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The Drones by Tony Mott from his book "Every Picture Tells A Story" (see Australian Bite 18 April 09)
A couple of books feature on this week’s Australian Bite. The first is a great new book by music journalist Craig Mathieson called “Playlisted – Everything you need to know about Australian music right now”. The second is more sombre. It’s called “Beyond Reasonable Drought”, and it features a range of photographic works documenting the impact of drought in Australia over the last ten years. Then to finish up we travel to Central Australia, where young indigenous girls are learning valuable lessons at a horse training course.
Wombats, cakes and women on boards
5 November 2009
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This week on the Australian Bite, reporter Sarina Locke heads out to Braidwood, near Canberra, to find out why wombats are a hot topic of debate. Former Qantas director Margaret Jackson gives us her take on suggestions by the Federal sex discrimination commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick that companies should set voluntary targets to boost the number of women sitting on their boards. And we catch up with the final year bakery students at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory, as they prepare thirty cakes each for the end of year exams. Yum!
