The Australian Bite
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Great sporting moments & sheep wearing backpacks!
25 November 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, veteran sports journalist Ian Heads joins me to talk about some of the great moments in Australian sport over the last 200 years. We’ll meet the leader of a group of Indigenous students from Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region as they prepare for a trip to Vietnam. And we’ll hear why sheep are wearing backpacks in rural New South Wales!
Teenage drinking & expat koalas
18 November 2010
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This week on the Bite, we talk koalas with Dr Geoffrey Pye who leads the koala medicine and surgery program at the America’s San Diego Zoo. We’ll hear how young Australians are experiencing overwhelming pressure to drink alcohol with their friends even when they don’t want to. And we drop in on an organic farming project providing much needed employment for people with disabilities in rural New South Wales.
Street art, good works and desert desserts
11 November 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we travel to Alice Springs for a cooking competition with an outback twist. We talk to one of the founders of Vietnam Vision – an Australian organisation doing great work restoring vision to cataract sufferers in Vietnam and Cambodia. And we”ll meet indigenous street artist Reko Rennie, whose art expores themes such as identity, law and justice, and tradition.
Cheese, “toughness” & a legend of motor sport
28 October 2010
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This week on the Bite, journalist Colin Fulton talks about his new book that looks at the early years of Australian racing legend, Peter Brock. we’ll hear how acting tough on a mine site is not necessarily good. And with the European Union looking to pursue tighter rules on what people from elsewhere can call their cheeses, we find out what two Australian cheesemakers think.
