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- In Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the station; he's mid-40s, detached, thrice divorced, hatchet faced. But both sisters next door find him attractive: awkward Dimity, only 20, who works in a Chinese restaurant with few patrons, and perky Vicki-Ann, a hairdresser with a hope chest who invents a happy future with Sherry based on little but his arrival. First Dimity then Vicki-Ann spend the night with Ken, one concluding he's her boy friend, the other her fiance. Then Dimity begins to smell something fishy.
- 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.
- Heather Ewart visits Robinvale, in Victoria, which was named after a local soldier, Lieutenant George 'Robin' Cuttle, who was killed at the Somme during the First World War, near the town of Villers-Bretonneux in France.
- 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.
- A heavy reliance on lotfeeding has helped raise United States beef production, quality and consistency, with the flow-on effect of boosting returns for producers. America now has 13 million cattle in feedlots, easily outstripping Australia's 1 million head despite a 20 per increase in local lotfeeding in the past year.
- Australia's sugar industry's been through some tough times in recent years. Growers have been battered by bad weather, low sugar levels, and even lower commodity prices. But perhaps the most serious challenge to this one billion (Australian) dollar export industry emerged about four years ago, when our biggest competitor, Brazil, developed a new improved brand of raw sugar. It immediately set new standards in quality and purity and threatened Queensland's position as preferred supplier in some of our premium markets.
- When Jeannie Gunn wrote the quintessential tale of life in the top end against all odds, she called it We of the Never Never. The Northern Territory even coined the "never never" phrase to attract tourists, though for the past century it may have just as easily summed up your chances of getting to Darwin by train. It seems you should never say never. The project that has been sidetracked more often than a shunting yard loco, has finally got the greenlight and $1.2 billion to make it happen.
- Property owners in Australia are no strangers to the tough times of drought. After all why else would Australia be known the world over as a wide brown land? But for all the problems associated with unreliable rainfall, some graziers have been able to successfully beat the odds and triumph over a lack of water. In some of our arid zones wool producers have been relying on a native plant which hasn't always been feted in scientific circles, but they say the hardiness of saltbush speaks for itself.
- Less than three years ago pork producers in this country were talking about the death of their industry. Rising imports from Canada and Denmark had brought growers to their knees; many forced to start killing their stock, as it was not viable to send them to market. But desperate times in another country, Malaysia, have brought a new prosperity to the pork industry that is now enjoying record prices as well as a massive jump in exports to Asia. Julia Limb looks at the changing fortunes of Australia's pig farmers.
- Imagine a wheat crop that is drought proof, provides a return just two weeks after planting and best of all could earn nearly $800,000 per hectare. It is not a fantasy designed to torment farmers unable to even get a crop away this year. It is wheatgrass, the latest health food trend promoters claim is the new fountain of youth.
- In Australia there are nearly two thousand certified organic farmers growing all manner of produce such as fruit, nuts, vegetables, meat, wool, coffee and grain. One of the oldest players in the industry is based in Toowoomba, two hours west of Brisbane. Kialla Pure Foods has reached the stage many organic producers are aiming for; selling to supermarkets and securing lucrative overseas markets.
- 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.
- The Queensland Biennial Festival of Music is this country's biggest and most diverse celebration across the musical spectrum. For 10 days there are performances all over the state which include jazz, classical, rock, country, theatre, opera. You name it - it is bound to be performed somewhere at some time. There is also a host of specially commissioned pieces including an innovative creation at Winton, better known as the birthplace of Waltzing Matilda. As you will see when the festival asked for community involvement, the locals from Winton responded with considerable enthusiasm.
- Victorian Farmers Federation president Paul Weller and Greens Senator Bob Brown go head-to-head in this week's Landline debate.
- The honey industry is facing increasing threats to its resource from land clearing, urban encroachment, drought and salinity. In the latest blow, Queensland will evict beekeepers from more than a million hectares of state forest and there are more closures to come. The industry says the move puts at risk not just the relatively small $10 million honeybee industry but two thirds of the state's horticultural crops, which rely on honeybee pollination.
- Kerry Lonergan visits AgQuip. Held in August near Gunnedah in north-west New South Wales, AgQuip attract around 100,000 visitors every year.
- The Tasmanian Government has taken the fight against depression to high schools, teaching resilience skills to students. The idea is that the more resilient a child is made, the less likely a person is to suffer depression later in life.
- In Queensland's western Darling Downs region, the locals are still celebrating the planting of a world record breaking wheat crop. One of the regions top grain farming families is using the event to raise awareness for organ donation.
- For years the National Party has been trying to differentiate itself from its conservative coalition partners across the country. However in Western Australia they have struck gold and the balance of power thanks to a young leader and an ambitious policy.