The Australian Bite
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Cricket, life & concerns over very cheap milk
3 March 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, milk in Australia has never been cheaper, with the two major supermarket chains slogging it out in a price war. But what about the dairy farmers? Also on the program, the police take on a team of international students in a community cricket match, and Olympic Bobsleigher Jeremy Rolleston, talks about his new book, A Life that Counts
Wildlife, dongas & the first ever map of Australia
3 February 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, we hear of a new campaign to to bring home an important part of Australia’s cultural heritage – the first map to use the name Australia. We get an insight into a different kind of life when resources worker Trent Hope shows us around his donga – or portable cabin – in the remote pilbara region of Western Australia. And city kids come face to face with nature at the Wangat wildlife refuge.
200 years of Australian sporting highlights
27 January 2011
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This week in the last of our special summer series of the Bite, an extended interview with veteran sports journalist Ian Heads, about his recently released book, co-authered with Gary Lester, called And the crowd went wild: sporting days that thrilled a nation.
Gum trees & an alphabet book of African stories
6 January 2011
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it’s all about books on this week’s Australian Bite. Michael Cathcart chats to the author of a fascinating book on the Australian eucalypt, or gum tree. And we meet two of the women behind A is for Aunty and Z is for Zigni – an alphabet book of of stories written by a group of refugee and migrant women from the horn of Africa, who now live in Flemington – an inner suburb of Melbourne.
