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Such a waste! What will it take to make us recycle?
1 April 2010
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Australians buy – and throw away – millions of electronic devices every year, but only a fraction of them are recycled. Mobile phone recycling is already available, and Federal regulation for e-waste such as televisions and computers is on the way, but there’s still a long long way to go. This week on the Australian Bite representatives from the mobile phone and television manufacturing industries talk about what’s been holding us back, and what we do and don’t recycle, and why. We also meet some farmers from Mudgee, New South Wales, who like to milk, not shear their sheep!
Taking a summer break . . .
23 December 2009
It’s summertime here in Oz, which means everything from long summer holidays, to Christmas and New Year celebrations, catching up with friends and family, camping at the beach, long balmy evenings on the verandah, hanging out at the local pool, or even just napping on the couch at home. I hope to be doing all those things and more as I take a break for a few weeks – but while I’m gone you can still tune in to the Australian Bite on Radio Australia for a special summer season of longer feature interviews.
The Australian Bite program, along with the usual blog posts and podcasts, will return on 30 January. Until then, take care, season’s greetings and a Happy New Year to you!
Surfing, whales and a home underground
25 June 2009
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This week on the Bite we join a whale-watching trip off the coast of Queensland, we take a look at the book that won this year’s Miles Franklin literary award – Tim Winton’s “Breath”, and we take a tour of an underground house in the opal mining town of White Cliffs, in north west New South Wales.
Swine flu calls for egg-stra eggs
18 June 2009
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Laboratories such as Australia's CSL rely on large supplies of chicken eggs for flu vaccine development
This week on the Bite, we find out how farmers are playing a role in the development of a vaccine for swine flu. We drop in on some soldiers having a blast of a time at the Australian Defence Force training range at Mt Bundy. And here’s a question for you. When renowned author HG Wells visited Australia in 1939 what did he say to annoy the heck out of the then Prime Minister Joseph Lyons? Listen in to the show for the answer to that question.
