The Australian Bite
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Archery, fencing & quotas for company boards
17 March 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, fun and hard work in the bush. We meet the Mallee Sunset Field Archers, who not only like to shoot arrows, but also throw knives and axes! And we head up to northen New South Wales, where young volunteers have been fixing fences damaged in January’s floods. We also look at the ongoing debate about whether a quota system should be imposed to get more women on Australian company boards.
Sailing with a disability, & tough times for Queensland fishing communities
11 March 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite, we hear how some Queensland fishing communities are having tough times in the wake of cylcone Yasi. Mark Durnan tells us why being in a wheelchair hasn’t stopped him from learning to sail, and we find out why so many young women are taking to farming – outnumbering new male students at a Victorian agricultural college.
New book turns heat on footballers behaving badly
7 October 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we meet doctor and crime fiction author Kathryn Fox, whose new book Death Mask is set against a background of sex, violence and football stars. We also hear how Tasmanian expertise in growing pyrethrum is helping subsistence farmers in Papua New Guinea.
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?
