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.
Unfair pay, remote food & dressing up statues
21 October 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we’ll hear about the challenges involved in getting good healthy food into remote communities. We’ll take a look at why women working in Australia’s financial industry are generally paid way less than men. And we meet two women who have been dressing up some of Sydney’s public statues in colourful costumes – and telling their stories through art.
Australia geared up for the Shanghai World Expo
9 April 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we have a sneak preview of the Australian pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, which opens on the 1st of May. We also find out why many young Australians fear the Australian Dream of owning their own home is fast disappearing, and take a look at an exhibition of Aboriginal art which challenges the audience to think again about sterotypes.
Marysville lunch a step on the road to recovery
26 March 2010
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Marysville after the Black Saturday fires
This week the Australian Bite travels to Marysville, a Victorian town virtually razed to the ground in last year’s bushfires. A year on, the mood is positive as the locals and visitors get together to celebrate an outdoor lunch as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. We also hear about the new “Asia Literacy Ambassadors” program that’s just been launched in secondary schools, and go asparagus picking in the wee small hours of the morning.
