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- Lauren and Ned, in love and engaged, have just ten days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents, and pull off their dream wedding.
- Back Roads is taking viewers to some of Australia's most interesting and resilient communities. The towns chosen for the programnme are full of colourful characters whose grit and good humour continues to uplift and inspire.
- The struggle of the Mirrar people against the Jabiluka Uranium mine. Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) pushes to open a new uranium mine that is surrounded by the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park.
- Join award-winning journalist and Murawari-Gomeroi man Allan Clarke as he uncovers the small community of Jabiru. Buried deep in Kakadu National Park, it is one of the most extraordinary places on the planet. (Season Final)
- Calls for Australians to eat more home-grown barramundi; Farming pearls in cooler waters; A world first climate atlas charting the weather for our wine regions; Plus embracing the challenges of a tree-change.
- Australian scientists discover how to grow coloured cotton; Reviving Australia's wool processing industry; Changing the way milk processors and dairy farmers do business; Plus the latest monthly Climate Outlook.
- When you're farming the driest continent on earth, it's water not land that's the limiting factor. It's also the cause of friction between stakeholders competing for a fair and sustainable share of this precious resource. And while there are obviously dozens of disputed catchments across the country there is only one where our biggest cotton grower is staring down a State Government threat to shut it down completely. Landline's been to Dirranbandi in Queensland's south west for this report on the case for and against Cubbie Station.
- A group of militant farmers is attempting a coup in northern Victoria. The rebels are pitting their forces against their local Council over the issue of rates. The rural ratepayers of the Gannawarra Shire want immediate reform of the current rating system which they've decried as 'unjust'. After a two long battle and the failure of repeated mediation talks, this week the conflict goes before the Victorian Supreme Court. It's a court case which could have significant implications for rural shires across Australia.
- They may not be as well known as the man from Snowy River but the "cattlemen of the sea" who work Victoria's southern coast also deserve to be immortalised. For more than a century, they've moved cattle through the ocean at low tide in search of island pastures.
- The fine balancing act between domestic politics and international trade has again come into sharp focus this week over sugar. On the one hand Canberra has been promoting the merits of its latest rescue package for canegrowers while our trade minister challenges the fairness of Europe doing much the same sort of thing for its farmers. There is certainly a strong view that if you can't beat them... join them. But long-term the industry might need to take a serious look at alternative markets for sugar cane, like fuel ethanol and bioplastics.
- If you have never heard of the oddly-named weed, Branched Broomrape, you should consider yourself lucky. It is one of the world's worst parasitic pests, causing billions of dollars in crop losses mostly in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. Parts of North America are also struggling to get rid of the weed and now we have it in Australia.
- For many years Australian natives trees have been just as integral to third world countries where other plants died, hardy Australian species have thrived providing much needed food and fuel resources. At the heart of both our revegatation and aid efforts is the little-known Australian Tree Seed Centre.
- We've come to rely on road transport delivering not just the food and fibre we produce but most of the freight that sustains families and farming communities right across the country as well. Now one small town's fifteen minutes of fame has also turned up on the back of a truck, a very long truck, as it turned out.
- All the movers and shakers in Australia's beef industry have been in Rockhampton for the past week, taking part in Beef Expo 2003. They had a lot to talk about live exports, SARS, the rising dollar, the sale of Stanbroke and, of course, the growing trend towards the branding of beef. These days the triennial event is not so much a cattle show but a stock take. Last years drought put a dent in cattle numbers.
- It is not often you come across a qualified chemist who does not like to use chemicals or an organic farmer who strongly supports the use of genetic engineering. But the winemaker who owns Australia's largest organic winery is such a man. Furthermore, he has just joined forces with several other organic grapegrowers to become the biggest producer by far of organic wine in this country.
- When it comes to lamb Australians eat more than just about any other nationality. Only New Zealanders beat us in the lamb stakes. We consume around 13 kilograms per person per year and almost 60 per cent of households buy fresh lamb. But with the ever increasing price of prime lamb, butchers need to make each cut go further.
- Run your eye down the classifieds in our major rural newspapers and magazines prior to the mustering season and you'll find plenty of jobs for jackaroos and jillaroos. And right beside them are ads for an increasing number of entry-level cattle industry courses offered by rural colleges across the country. Some of the most popular are run at the Northern Territory University's Katherine campus which this year will turn about 500 "ring-ins" into top end ringers.
- Thirty or 40 years ago, mushrooms fetched about the same price per kilogram as wild prawns, but demand was limited to say the least and most mushrooms were sold processed in a can. But as our culinary horizons broadened, the mushroom started to take a regular place in the recipe books of Australia�s kitchens and restaurants. So much so that Australians are now eating more mushrooms than ever before - and the industry is responding with a growing selection of the most exotic mushrooms available.
- With their motto: "Waste is a resource in the wrong place at the wrong time," an enterprising group of food scientists in Sydney has turned one of the cheese industry's biggest problems into potential profit. They've developed a technique for converting whey into pharmaceutical grade lactose, worth billions globally for the manufacture of tablets. But as Sean Murphy reports, there's a big gap between promising research and a commercial venture,
- The life and times of duck producer Pepe Bonaccordo read like a movie script. From humble beginnings on a subsistence farm in his native Italy, he has become the biggest duck producer in Australia and New Zealand and predicts the Bonaccordo name will be around for generations to come.
- Conscientious consumers, ethical eaters, credence or virtue purchasers, call them what you will but there's no denying they're an increasingly important group of Australians influencing what we eat, how it's produced and delivered to market. Ethical eating is a trend that's even more advanced in some of the nation's key export markets.
- Police launch a dangerous operation to end gun violence on our streets. In the most remote part of Australia, police need to discover what a large group of men are hiding. A frightening confrontation triggers a terrifying chase.