The Australian Bite
Archive for the ‘ New South Wales’ Category
Archery, fencing & quotas for company boards
17 March 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, fun and hard work in the bush. We meet the Mallee Sunset Field Archers, who not only like to shoot arrows, but also throw knives and axes! And we head up to northen New South Wales, where young volunteers have been fixing fences damaged in January’s floods. We also look at the ongoing debate about whether a quota system should be imposed to get more women on Australian company boards.
Calling for an “all-round education”
13 January 2011
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This week on the Bite, we hear from Anna Liu, a Chinese family support worker in southern Sydney who is trying to convince her community that they need not put so much pressure on their children to succeed academically.
Farewell to a Diva & Aboriginal seafarers
14 October 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, New Zealand Soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa talks about the legacy of the late Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland, who died in Switzerland on October 10. We check out a exhibition at Sydney’s Mitchell library that tells the many and varied stories of aboriginal seafarers. And with the anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings just passed, we’ll hear how a small group of survivors is campaigning for the site of the former Sari Club to be turned into a peace park.
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.
