The Australian Bite
Posts Tagged ‘ China’
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.
Street art, good works and desert desserts
11 November 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we travel to Alice Springs for a cooking competition with an outback twist. We talk to one of the founders of Vietnam Vision – an Australian organisation doing great work restoring vision to cataract sufferers in Vietnam and Cambodia. And we”ll meet indigenous street artist Reko Rennie, whose art expores themes such as identity, law and justice, and tradition.
Organics, books & teaching in China
4 June 2009
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Organic farmer Phil Jones at his property in Takone, Tasmania. Photo by Eliza Wood
On this week’s Bite, we meet some of the people behind Queensland-based indigenous publishing house Black Ink Press. Tasmanian diesel mechanic – and organic farming convert – Phil Jones, shows reporter Liz Wood around his impressive vegie patch, and we drop in on a young Australian woman working as a teacher in Chengdu, China.
