The Australian Bite
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Dogs, words and rescuing kids from traffickers
5 March 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we’ll hear about a new educational DVD helping people in indigenous communities to keep their dogs healthy and happy. Linguist Kate Burridge will talks about her new book which gives a very entertaining insight into the many peculiarities of the English language as its spoken in Australia. And we’ll meet the President of The Grey Man, an organisation devoted to rescuing trafficked children and women from the sex industry.
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.
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.
To climb, or not to climb?
6 August 2009
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Uluru is one of Australia’s most popular and spectacular tourist attractions. But should people be allowed to climb it? We’ll hear some arguments for and against on this week’s Australian Bite. We’ll also drop in on a new restaurant in Melbourne’s fashionable inner city suburb of Fitzroy, where disadvantaged and indigenous young people are being given a leg-up into the hospitality trade. And finally we’ll meet marathon cyclist Kate Leeming, who’s about to embark on a 20,000 km tour around Africa – all for a good cause.
