The Australian Bite
Posts Tagged ‘ climate change’
Solar power, jackaroos & a story of East Timor
18 February 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, solar power – we’ll hear some thoughts on why it’s not really taken off in Australia. I’ll be chatting with Steven Horne the author of a new Australian novel – a thriller set in East Timor. And we’ll meet some young people doing a jackaroo training course in Dubbo, New South Wales.
Marine “report card” shows Nemo heading south
10 December 2009
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This week on the Australian Bite we talk to one of the seventy scientists who have worked to compile the first ever report card on Australian coastal waters. It shows that as ocean temperatures continue to rise, there are some very big changes going on. We meet a bunch of Aussie blokes who are well over sixty years old, and just learning to cook – and I’m not just talking steak and potatoes. And we also have an update on moves to get more women into top management roles and on company boards in Australia
Sports hall punches above its weight
19 November 2009
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The award winning Berry Sports & Recreation Hall in regional NSW
This week on the Australian Bite, we meet the project manager of an innovative country sports and recreation hall, which recently won best Sports building at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. In the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, we find out what climate change activists on a hunger strike outside Canberra’s parliament house are hoping to achieve. And farmer, cattle station manager and writer Sheryl McCorry talks about her new memoir, Stars over Shiralee - the follow up to her successful first book, Diamonds and Dust – the story of a million-acre cattle queen.
Cowboy hats . . . and grass-fuelled aeroplanes?
28 August 2009
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On this week’s Australian Bite, we meet an Australian scientist who says that one day aeroplanes could be flying on fuel made from Australian native grasses. We talk to the President of the National Union of Students about the state of student services in Australian universities, in light of the Senate”s rejection of the Student Services and Amenities Bill. And cowboy hats – we find out about the latest trends and fashions being worn by those sartorially elegant blokes up North.
