The Australian Bite
Posts Tagged ‘ Western 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.
Advice for students & a day at the races
22 October 2009
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The quadrangle at Sydney University (photo by iansand - flickr)
On this week’s Australian Bite, Danny Ong, the former President of the Monash University international Students Asociation joins me to talk about his very informative new book, The International Students Handbook – Living and Studying in Australia. And we also head up north to the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and drop in on the annual Picnic Races and fundraiser in Derby.
Sports science – the competition behind the scenes
18 September 2009
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Sports science helps athletes like Olympic silver medallist Sally McLellan achieve their best
Behind every successful athlete there’s a team of professionals helping them achieve their peak performance. And this week on the Australian Bite, we drop in on the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra to find out what’s happening in the world of sports science and sports medicine. We also meet some of the dynamic young women who recently attended the Australian Women in Agriculture future leaders’ course. And doped-up kids – there’s disturbing evidence that that some Australian parents are giving marijuana to children as young as six in order to sedate them.
Porn at the corner store?
2 July 2009
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In Australia, a range of so-called “adult” magazines are commonly displayed in newsagencies, corner shops and petrol stations. But many people argue that they shouldn’t be. This week on the Bite, a discussion of some of the issues around magazine classification and availability in Australia. We also hear about a new documentary called “Contact” which tells the remarkable story of first contact between white patrol officers and a group of aboriginal people in the Western Australian desert in 1964.
