The Australian Bite
Posts Tagged ‘ Tasmania’
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.
A tale of convicts and cannibalism
8 October 2009
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Feeling hungry? Well hopefully not so much as the miserable bunch of escapees featured in the new Australian film Van Diemen’s Land. The film tells the story of Alexander Pearce, the only survivor of a small group convicts who escaped into the Tasmanian wilderness and turned to cannibalism, and we meet the film’s director, Jonathan auf der Heide on this week’s Australian Bite. We also find out why many former inmates of Australia’s immigration detention centres are breathing a collective sigh of relief, and hear how Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service has hit the runway in a popular mobile phone game.
Platypuses in peril & hip hop indigenous style
10 September 2009
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On this week’s Australian Bite hear how the platypus is coming under threat from yabbie traps. Caitlyn Sawrey travels to the Garama Festival in Arnhem land, and talks to hip hop artists from around the Territory. And sustainable burials – find out how to reduce your carbon footprint when you die – and give something back to the earth.
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.
