The Australian Bite
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Life on the mission & reclaiming multiculturalism
21 January 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite summer series, we’ll meet indigenous author Marie Munkara – whose award-winning debut novel Every Secret Thing chronicles life on a remote Catholic Mission. And we’ll hear why Australians are being urged to “reclaim multiculturalism.”
Mining, comedy and a welcome to country
29 April 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, aboriginal elder Richard Walley explains the significance of the Welcome to Country ceremony performed at a growing number of public events in Australia. We talk to journalist Kathy Marks who has written a very interesting essay on the history of mining in Australia and how it has shaped the way we think, and meet Nazeem Hussein, from the comedy duo, “Fear of a Brown Planet.”
Marysville lunch a step on the road to recovery
26 March 2010
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Marysville after the Black Saturday fires
This week the Australian Bite travels to Marysville, a Victorian town virtually razed to the ground in last year’s bushfires. A year on, the mood is positive as the locals and visitors get together to celebrate an outdoor lunch as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. We also hear about the new “Asia Literacy Ambassadors” program that’s just been launched in secondary schools, and go asparagus picking in the wee small hours of the morning.
Platypuses in peril & hip hop indigenous style
10 September 2009
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On this week’s Australian Bite hear how the platypus is coming under threat from yabbie traps. Caitlyn Sawrey travels to the Garama Festival in Arnhem land, and talks to hip hop artists from around the Territory. And sustainable burials – find out how to reduce your carbon footprint when you die – and give something back to the earth.
