The Australian Bite
Archive for December, 2009
Taking a summer break . . .
23 December 2009
It’s summertime here in Oz, which means everything from long summer holidays, to Christmas and New Year celebrations, catching up with friends and family, camping at the beach, long balmy evenings on the verandah, hanging out at the local pool, or even just napping on the couch at home. I hope to be doing all those things and more as I take a break for a few weeks – but while I’m gone you can still tune in to the Australian Bite on Radio Australia for a special summer season of longer feature interviews.
The Australian Bite program, along with the usual blog posts and podcasts, will return on 30 January. Until then, take care, season’s greetings and a Happy New Year to you!
Adelaide trials a tour with a difference
17 December 2009
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If you were thinking about visiting Australia and going on an Aboriginal cultural tour, what would come to mind? Would you immediately think of visiting Uluru, or remote communities in the top end? If you did, you wouldn’t be alone. But Australian cities are also full of Aboriginal history and culture, and this week on the Australian Bite we accompany Kaurna elder Uncle Frank Wanganeen on an a very special tour of Adelaide’s CBD. We also meet a couple who like to share the Christmas spirit with the lonely and the marginalised, and look at the where things are at with private educational colleges in Australia.
Marine “report card” shows Nemo heading south
10 December 2009
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This week on the Australian Bite we talk to one of the seventy scientists who have worked to compile the first ever report card on Australian coastal waters. It shows that as ocean temperatures continue to rise, there are some very big changes going on. We meet a bunch of Aussie blokes who are well over sixty years old, and just learning to cook – and I’m not just talking steak and potatoes. And we also have an update on moves to get more women into top management roles and on company boards in Australia
Buildings, bees and sistagirls
3 December 2009
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Bee in macro by StephenMitchell (flickr)
This week on the Australian Bite, landscape architect Andrew Prowse will tell us about his great job designing a town high on the side of a mountain in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province. We’ll hear about a tiny mite that strikes terror into the hearts of Australian beekepers. And artist and photographer Bindi Cole will explain the background to the photograph that’s just won her a major indigenous art award – the Deadly Art Award.
