The Australian Bite
Archive for the ‘ health’ Category
Opals, prison & a voice for indigenous children
23 September 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we hear about a new study that questions the effectiveness of prison sentences – especially short ones dished out for relatively low level crimes. We meet opal miner Dick Wagner in the outback town of White Cliffs, New South Wales and we hear of the challenges faced by indigenous children in Australia and around the world.
Eyesight, truffles and a school in East Timor
9 September 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, Jennifer Gersbeck, the CEO of Vision 2020 Australia tells us about the importance of eye health, and what Australian organisations are doing to help reduce avoidable blindness in the region. We take a trip to a remote mountain village in East Timor, where a team of Brisbane high school boys have been helping build a primary school. And truffles – they’re an expensive delicacy that’s highly valued in international cuisine, but did you know they’re being grown in Western Australia?
Pine trees, polling and sleep-deprived teens
19 August 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, Australian teenagers – are they getting enough sleep, and if not, why? We travel to the remote Northern Territory community of Gunbalanya, as a mobile polling booth comes to visit. And we’ll meet a Tasmanian botanist who has been travelling the world collecting the seeds of endangered conifers.
A shed, an opera & a tame impala
5 August 2010
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This week on the Bite, we drop in on the Dubbo Men’s shed, where men from all walks of life get together for a yarn and a cup of tea. We meet some teenagers who are writing and staging their very own operas. And we travel to Cape Grim in Tasmania, where samples of air are collected and sent all around the world.
