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Swimming with crocodiles & Aboriginal Sydney
16 December 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, Kaitlyn Sawrey goes crocodile catching in Australia’s tropical north. We take a look at the newly revised edition of the guidebook Aboriginal Sydney. And we meet Melbourne author Maryanne Harris, who has written a children’s book about disability with a strong positive message.
Great sporting moments & sheep wearing backpacks!
25 November 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, veteran sports journalist Ian Heads joins me to talk about some of the great moments in Australian sport over the last 200 years. We’ll meet the leader of a group of Indigenous students from Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region as they prepare for a trip to Vietnam. And we’ll hear why sheep are wearing backpacks in rural New South Wales!
Cheese, “toughness” & a legend of motor sport
28 October 2010
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This week on the Bite, journalist Colin Fulton talks about his new book that looks at the early years of Australian racing legend, Peter Brock. we’ll hear how acting tough on a mine site is not necessarily good. And with the European Union looking to pursue tighter rules on what people from elsewhere can call their cheeses, we find out what two Australian cheesemakers think.
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.
