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Adelaide trials a tour with a difference
17 December 2009
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If you were thinking about visiting Australia and going on an Aboriginal cultural tour, what would come to mind? Would you immediately think of visiting Uluru, or remote communities in the top end? If you did, you wouldn’t be alone. But Australian cities are also full of Aboriginal history and culture, and this week on the Australian Bite we accompany Kaurna elder Uncle Frank Wanganeen on an a very special tour of Adelaide’s CBD. We also meet a couple who like to share the Christmas spirit with the lonely and the marginalised, and look at the where things are at with private educational colleges in Australia.
Letters tell the stories of a nation
3 September 2009
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Australia Post has been asking Australians to send in their most interesting, moving, or historically significant letters, in order to document what life has been like for the past 200 years since the postal service began. We’ll hear more about it on this week’s Bite. We’ll also hear from a man who believes that Australia is becoming one of the most Godless nations on earth. And feral camels – they’re wreaking havoc in Central Australia, and we’ll take a look at a new DVD that’s aimed at tackling the problem.