The Australian Bite
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Talking about Green Cities
27 February 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we drop in on the Green Cities 2010 conference held last week in Melbourne. We’ll meet Romilly Madew, Chief Executive of the Green Building Council, who’ll tell us exactly what a Green City is, and how Australian cities are moving along the path to becoming more sustainable. Engineer and sustainability consultant Shane Esmore will tell us how the experts can measure the carbon footprint of buildings, and where things are heading with more environmentally friendly building materials. And environmental consultant Brenda Kingston will talk about the importance of indoor environmental quality.
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.
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.
Space, Chinese medicine & outback veggie gardens
13 August 2009
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It’s a real mixed bag on this week’s Bite. You’ll take a tour of Canberra’s Deep Space communication complex, and travel up north to Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region, where the people of Wangkatjungka are out in their gardens growing fresh fruit and vegetables. You’ll also hear about new rules regarding the practice of Chinese medicine and acupuncture in Australia.
