The Australian Bite
Junk food teens & the work of invisible women
17 February 2011
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One in four Australian teenagers is overweight or obese, and experts have described the situation as a chronic disease time bomb. But some young people just don’t care – as we find out on this week’s Australian Bite. We also look at the difficulties faced by the many thousands of Australian women who are caring for elderly, sick or disabled family members, and hear the charming story of Nellie – the cow who’s escaped the butcher’s knife twice.
Wheelchair tennis, indigenous employment & a brave young man from PNG
10 February 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, closing the gap in indigenous employment – we hear from CEO of the Aboriginal Employment Strategy, Danny Lester. We catch up with a couple of young Aussie tennis champions – who play the sport in wheelchairs, and we meet seven year old Gregory Jack from Papua New Guinea, who until some life-changing surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital was unable to close his eyes.
Wildlife, dongas & the first ever map of Australia
3 February 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, we hear of a new campaign to to bring home an important part of Australia’s cultural heritage – the first map to use the name Australia. We get an insight into a different kind of life when resources worker Trent Hope shows us around his donga – or portable cabin – in the remote pilbara region of Western Australia. And city kids come face to face with nature at the Wangat wildlife refuge.
200 years of Australian sporting highlights
27 January 2011
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This week in the last of our special summer series of the Bite, an extended interview with veteran sports journalist Ian Heads, about his recently released book, co-authered with Gary Lester, called And the crowd went wild: sporting days that thrilled a nation.
