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- In Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.
- A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.
- After four men on a fishing trip discover a dead body in the water, they choose to delay reporting it and continue fishing.
- A young cult member's quest for purity in the shadow of the end of the world.
- A man is about to turn 50 years old. He needs time away to re-access the direction of his life. He seeks isolation at an old ski lodge he visited as a child. He meets a group of youths that he interacts with and through them he is forced to accept the idea of becoming old man.
- Two men's struggle between hope and despair in a fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic world.
- A young woman sews rocks into the hem of her dress and jumps into a hydro-commission lake, drowning herself.
- Shell Shocked: A collection of poultry fanciers who've spent nearly 10 years trying to import rare breeds from the United Kingdom, has been given until next Thursday to prove why their flock shouldn't be destroyed. Shutting Down: It's been two years since Hendra moved south to the NSW Mid North Coast, but in the last six weeks it's killed four horses. Grain Wrap: The harvesters are rolling again in North America after the worst drought in decades. Local grain prices are still pretty strong - the question is - how long will it last?
- The wall of one of the country's newest dams being lowered for safety; A young farmer succeeding on the land after the sudden loss of his father; Making beer from jujubes; On the road with a travelling vet.
- Action is expected on the wool stockpile. New rural enterprises have helped restore Katherine's agricultural base. In Western Australia there are signs that the mallee may be just about to make the long march from unwanted plant to environmentally friendly cash crop.
- This week Chris Clark takes a look at the work being done to adapt grazing enterprises.
- When we talk about environmental problems in Australia, two subjects invariably emerge at the top of the list: water and soil. In many ways, the problems we face with these two basic natural resources - such as salinity and soil degradation - are interwoven and the solutions often work in tandem as well. Many of the problems with soil and water arise from the mismatch between Australian soils, water balance and climate and the traditional European farming and grazing methods.
- A Goondiwindi cotton grower has joined the rag trade, turning home-grown, cotton into home-sewn clothes. His value-adding vision is to have all cotton production from farm to garment done in the local area.
- 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.
- The snake bite season will begin in the next few weeks. Vets in Mount Isa in Queensland traditionally report the first brown snake bites when the weather turns warm - many of the victims are farm dogs.
- Salinity has been identified as probably the biggest environmental issue in Australia today, but in Western Australia it's been part of the landscape for decades. A combination of clearing and the unique system of paeleo channels beneath the Western Australian wheat belt have resulted in 8 per cent of arable land there going saline. Ironically, the State with the most experience at tackling the problem and the biggest immediate need of help, is the only one in Australia yet to secure any of the Federal Government's $700 million under the National Action Plan for Salinity.
- Maurie Jarvis's passion is old English game bantams. For 80 years Maurie has been striving to breed the perfect bird. He reckons he has struck gold more than a few times but even at 86-years-old, is still gripped by gold fever.
- Japan's retail, food service and media industries are being targeted in a $14 million promotional campaign aiming to restore Australia's $1.7 billion beef export market. About 90 per cent of Australia's beef trade to Japan was cut last year after BSE or Mad Cow disease was discovered in Japan. And while the Japan sales recovery campaign swings into action with 4,000 in-store promotions, at least one Aussie beef exporter has been busy turning good animal husbandry into a marketing success story.
- 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 a long time mussels were used most commonly in Australia as fishing bait. But they're fast becoming one of the most popular seafood items on restaurant menus - so fast, the industry expects local production will double within two years. While growers claim the blue mussel is threatening to overtake oysters in popularity, the shellfish is facing threats to its own existence.
- There has been a sharp rise in the number of illegal fishing boats caught in Australian waters. Ten boats, most of them Indonesian, have been apprehended in the last six weeks. Their target has been shark fins.
- 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.
- Three months ago all hell broke loose in Australia's key scientific establishments. A virus believed to be fatal to wheat had been found in CSIRO glasshouses. Tens of thousands of plants were destroyed. The grains council claimed the virus could put a $200 million dent in the national grain income. But last month, the Agriculture Minister announced an about-face on the status of the virus, saying it was not such a problem after all. Mr Truss claimed the virus was probably endemic across much of the wheat belt, with no real impact. And farmers could go back to business as usual. What on earth happened in between?
- Take a look at the deli case in any Australian supermarket and there are probably a bewildering range of specialty cheeses available and most of them will be Australian made. It's a testament to how far the local specialty cheese industry has come along in just 20 years, but as you'll see and hear in this report, there are some critics who believe it still has a long way to go.
- An increasing number of Australian chefs are making their mark at some of Asia's best-known hotels and restaurants. Thanks to improved logistics and airfreight, most of the quality fresh ingredients they learned to work with here in Australia are still on their menus.
- Exotic fruits such as custard apples, Buddha's hand citron, Inga beans and carambolas are unlikely to ever match apples and oranges for mass-market appeal. But if one NSW mid north coast producer has his way, Australians will soon be able to taste up to 120 exotic varieties see how they're grown and learn about where they're from.
- Kerry Lonergan spoke to olive grower and processor Mark Troy about issues facing the Australian olive industry, including the decision by Customs to drop their investigation into a request for countervailing tariffs on EU-subsidised olive oil.
- The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Mark Vaile, explains why AWB, by law, is Australia's monopoly wheat exporter.
- The buffalo industry has been renowned for producing quality meat, but now buffalo milk is making its mark in the dairy industry. A dairy farmer in far north Queensland has teamed up with a family of Italian cheesemakers to produce award winning buffalo cheese. While the industry has been thriving overseas, it's still in its early stages in Australia.
- In the near future, farmers could be major players in the global energy market. With dwindling oil supplies and international campaigns to cut carbon emissions, the bio-fuel industry is growing. But this new industry is not without controversy with some analysts questioning whether it makes economic and environmental sense to convert food crops, into fuel.
- 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.