The Australian Bite
Archive for the ‘ rural’ Category
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.
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?
Asylum seekers, Green votes & locusts set to swarm
26 August 2010
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This week on the Bite, it’s been called a greenslide – the largest vote for the Greens in Australia’s electoral history. But with the Greens not only winning their first lower house seat, but also soon to hold the balance of power in the Senate, Irene Scott talkes a look at the opportunities and possible pitfalls they’ll face. Also, asylum seekers – calls have been made for a bipartisan approach to addressing this very divisive issue. And locusts – farmers in many parts of Australia are bracing themselves for what’s expected to be one of the worst locust plagues in recent history.
