The Australian Bite
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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.
Life on the mission & reclaiming multiculturalism
21 January 2011
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This week on the Australian Bite summer series, we’ll meet indigenous author Marie Munkara – whose award-winning debut novel Every Secret Thing chronicles life on a remote Catholic Mission. And we’ll hear why Australians are being urged to “reclaim multiculturalism.”
Calling for an “all-round education”
13 January 2011
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This week on the Bite, we hear from Anna Liu, a Chinese family support worker in southern Sydney who is trying to convince her community that they need not put so much pressure on their children to succeed academically.
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.
