The Australian Bite
Archive for the ‘ Travel & Tourism’ Category
Trouble in Alice & a python for a passenger
24 February 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, some German tourists get closer than they want to to nature, when a python hitches a ride in their car. We hear how alcohol – driven violence is causing big problems in the outback town of Alice Springs. And wilderness adventures with a difference, we hear about the work of Wild Mob, which takes volunteer teams into the bush, combining amazing sights with wilderness conservation work.
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.
To climb, or not to climb?
6 August 2009
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Uluru is one of Australia’s most popular and spectacular tourist attractions. But should people be allowed to climb it? We’ll hear some arguments for and against on this week’s Australian Bite. We’ll also drop in on a new restaurant in Melbourne’s fashionable inner city suburb of Fitzroy, where disadvantaged and indigenous young people are being given a leg-up into the hospitality trade. And finally we’ll meet marathon cyclist Kate Leeming, who’s about to embark on a 20,000 km tour around Africa – all for a good cause.
