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- A rock'n roll singer gets stranded in a small Australian town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a trailer park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death. In HD.
- In January 2017, adventurer Grant Rawlinson attempted to row and cycle 12,000km from Singapore to New Zealand. What followed was the story of success, failure and the awesome force of nature's power colliding with human ambition.
- Landline goes to Bass Strait and Australia's largest remaining scallop fishery. Also meet the scientist whose work in sheep helped in the births of 10 million IVF babies. Plus the old alcohol that's new again - mead.
- The growing divide between city and country has seen another push to teach children from metropolitan areas about life and work on the land. The Kondinin group has just released another book in its children's educational series, this time it looks at beef. It seeks to educate young urban Australians into the culture of the beef industry, its history and its importance to the rural and national economy.
- Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. By weight it's worth more than gold. Prized for its intense colour, aroma and flavour, the dried stigmas from the crocus flower are used in Middle Eastern and European cooking. Twelve years ago a Tasmanian couple decided to try growing saffron, even though no-one had ever managed to grow it south of the equator. After a devastating false start they've established themselves as Australia's only saffron suppliers.
- It has been touted as an industry with huge potential but so far, the Australian camel business is taking tentative small steps not giant strides forward. But in a coup akin to sending tea to China, Saudi Arabia has just accepted its first shipment of camels from the red centre. Those pushing camel still believe the industry will take off, if more graziers get behind it.
- Each year thousands of stockmen and women choose to take a little time away and pack up their families and horses to go campdrafting. One of the big meets was in Cloncurry last weekend and Landline went along for the ride.
- With critical pasture and water shortages, kangaroos are very much in the spotlight. So why is the RSPCA calling for a ban on farmers shooting kangaroos? Well, it's a cruelty issue. The RSPCA says farmers have yet to prove they're culling kangaroos as humanely as the professionals and drought isn't about to sway its view.
- Speak to the person in the street about alpacas and they will probably assume you are a shonky tax scheme operator looking for someone to dupe. While the reputations of many emerging rural industries took a battering in the late 1990s at the hands of those who have never got their hands dirty, alpaca breeders have been quietly growing the largest alpaca herd outside of South America. And while that is not a lot of animals yet, the industry is confident its fleeces will one day rival the finest merino wool at the high end of the luxury fibre market.
- 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.
- Farmers throughout the world have a history of accepting and adopting new technology as fast as it becomes available. The massive rise in food production in the last century only came about after the widespread use of new chemicals, including herbicides, pesticides and artificial fertilisers. When GM technology emerged a couple of decades back, once again many farmers saw this scientific advance as the way of the future, a method of producing more food with less chemicals. Well, that was at least partially true but only part of the story. Landline will be looking extensively at the GM experience in America, Canada and of course Australia. Those stories will feature over coming weeks. We begin the GM journey with the BBC�s comprehensive look at the history of this remarkable technology.
- Australia's first trials of genetically modified drought-resistant wheat are under way in north-west Victoria. If successful, the new varieties could deliver up to a 15 per cent increase in yield under drought conditions. Many argue this type of research is essential in helping Australia adapt its agricultural sector to increased climate vulnerability.
- Ernie takes in 360-views of Augusta from an iconic lighthouse, Narelda learns the fascinating history of whaling in Eden and Aaron connects with a Cape York local making an impact in her community.
- The humble goat has an appetite that's almost as legendary as its toughness. So much so, that it's often blamed for turning marginal country into a desert. However after some tough seasons and a turnaround in export prices some canny land managers have let the goats loose on woody weeds.