The Australian Bite
Posts Tagged ‘ food’
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.
Hoon drivers & a fair go for older workers
11 March 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, they’re young, reckless and think they’re indestructible . . . . we head out to Melbourne’s Northern suburbs, where its kids versus cops in a big police crackdown on hotted-up cars and illegal drag racing. We’ll hear why older Australians are finding it tough when it comes to getting a job. And finger lime anyone? We find out about a delicious Australian native fruit.
Support for International Students & trekking solo to the Pole
11 February 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite we drop in at the opening of the new International Student Care Centre in Melbourne – the first of its kind in Australia. We visit a test farm in Tasmania that’s growing a whole range of grains not normally found in Australia, including Ethiopia’s staple grain teff. And destination North Pole - Western Australian adventurer Tom Smitheringale tell us why he’s setting off to pull a 160 kilogram sled for 70 days across the Arctic ice - all on his own.
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
