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- Set against the harsh natural surrounds of outback Northern Territory, Jedda captures a rare and honest glimpse into the heart and history of indigenous Australia. Young Jedda is caught between two cultures forbidden from learning about her indigenous heritage and never fully accepted by the other.
- 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.
- Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.
- 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 Ghan is an innovative three-hour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive, visually stunning journey on Australia's most iconic passenger train. In Australia's first 'Slow TV' documentary, The Ghan doesn't just travel through the heart of Australia, from Adelaide to Darwin, it explores the part the Ghan played in the foundation of modern multicultural Australia.
- A look into the daily life of the police in the Northern Territory.
- Two children get stranded in the desert in Australia's Top End.
- Take Heart lifts the lid on this life-threatening disease that is 100% preventable. This powerful and provocative film is the first in a global series that focuses on Australasia - Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers play a vital role in the primary health workforce. They provide clinical services, health promotion and work with their communities responding to local health priorities. They deal with patients, clients and visitors in hospitals and also assist in coordinating and providing health care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community health clinics. In particular they look after the spiritual, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the whole community. This documentary showcases the unique and significant role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and aims to bring greater understanding to the integral role that they play in 'closing the gap' for their people. Presented by Daniel Browning, presenter and producer of the Awaye. program on ABC Radio National, this half-hour documentary has been filmed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services around Australia. It features filmed interviews and case studies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers who are making a significant difference to the spiritual, emotional and cultural wellbeing of their communities: Wuchopperen Health Service in Cairns features the role of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker as the first point of call at the Health Service. This case study shows a primary care model where clinical services are coordinated with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker playing an integral role in this service. Karpa Ngarrattendi Aboriginal Health Service in Adelaide shows how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers facilitate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at a cardiac unit at Flinders Medical Centre. This case study underlines the impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients of having to leave their communities, often for the first time, and engage with a complex medical facility and illustrates the important role of educational, liaison and support role played by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers. Wurli Wurlinjang Health Service in Katherine. This case study focuses on the development of clinical skills, advocacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, and the relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and non-Indigenous health workers. It shows the 'on the job' training provided at Wurli. Nunga Lunch provided by Noarlunga Aboriginal Primary Health Unit each week. The whole team are in attendance so it is a great way for the community to interact with the Aboriginal Health Workers.
- Explores the pioneering health work of Barbara Braddock and her cohorts Jack Little and Hannah Brumby in the 1970s, tending to the health concerns of Indigenous Australians on the outskirts of Katherine in the Northern Territory. A captivating look at her achievements, establishing the Katherine Clinic, Barbara and her team set out to improve living conditions and make a difference to the many people living in this isolated Australian community.
- Heather travels to Pine Creek, a pioneering outback town in the Northern Territory. On the fringes of Kakadu National Park, Pine Creek has long been a boom or bust mining area, but the town now finds itself at a cross roads.
- A unique insight into the NT town of Katherine, where blakfella and whitefella walk together. With Bardi-Kidja guest presenter Albert Wiggan.
- Getting a foothold in the NT's cattle industry; The bright future for jumps horses after racing; A sustainable seafood enterprise in Arnhem Land; 60 years of crop saving information for temperate fruit growers.
- 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.
- The noise is the first thing that hits you in Reno. It is the relentless clatter of quarters cascading into pokies. And it hits you as soon as you step off the plane because Reno-Tahoe International Airport is jammed packed with slot machines.
- This year, more than 7 million hectares of Australia was farmed 'organically'. A further 7 million hectares is in the process of being certified 'organic'. But it wasn�t that long ago when to admit you were an organic or biodynamic producer, meant you were held up for ridicule.
- If you had to name Australia�s favourite fruit it would have to be the banana. We eat millions of them every year and although we usually associate banana growing with Queensland and northern New South Wales the most productive plantations in Australia are in western Australia. The bananas from the west are grown in tightly packed plantations and as a result they are not as large as their eastern cousins but some clever marketing has turned a negative into a positive.
- We often hear how life is tough on the land as farmers struggle to make ends meet on properties that have been in the family for many generations. But they are not the only ones trying to make a buck in the bush, there is also a new breed of farmers, city dwellers who are choosing rural life. And while beef, sheep and grains still dominate Australia's agricultural economy many of these novice farmers are experimenting in alternative ventures on their very own bush blocks.
- Who can deny that the future of Australian agriculture depends on enthusiastic farmers? But with advancing technology, globalisation and new opportunities in the city ... the number of young people interested in a life on the land is dwindling. There is however a dedicated band of young farmers who are intent on showing farming is a viable choice.
- He's from one of Australia's most prominent family business dynasties. Now Peter Holmes a Court, the eldest son of Janet and the late Rober Holmes a Court is aiming to make his own mark in the corporate world. Holmes a Court's unashamed ambition is to create the world's largest cattle company, and like his late father, his approach is already making waves. Let's profile the man who aims to be Australia's new cattle King.
- As dawn broke in the main street of Barcaldine, around 800 locals clustered to see the opening of the Queensland Biennial Festival of Music. The big moment everyone was waiting for was the world premier of the Barcaldine's very own Big Marimba Band. Around 150 kids and adults from the Barcaldine community have spent the last two months making and learning to play marimbas.
- Fifteen years ago the farmers of Barooga, a rural community in southern New South Wales had just experienced another wet winter. Yet again more water was lying around in great sheets, drowning valuable winter crops and waterlogging productive land. When the State Government said the problems in Barooga were too big to fix farmers were left demoralised and in despair. Today Barroga is a different place, it's vibrant and profitable. And it's all down to a group of farmers who decided they would show the bureaucrats that their homes, farms, and futures were not beyond help, and that salinity, waterlogging, and high water tables aren't a death sentence.
- Australian broadacre farmers have justifiably earned an international reputation for being among the most efficient and innovative primary producers in the world. This is due in no small part to their uptake of new technology. What's not always appreciated is that our agricultural engineers are responsible for many of those bright ideas from the stump jump plough through to precision farming equipment. In fact, when it comes to the development of GPS-guidance for farm machinery, the so-called "hands-free" steering systems, Australia's now the acknowledged world leader.
- If you happen to watch the Davis Cup at the end of the month, take a look at the $350,000 portable grass court. It is the end result of Bill Casimaty's decision four years ago to move on from sheep and cereals.
- Five years ago, George King's neighbours scoffed at the idea he could turnaround the fortunes of his family's farm without spending a fortune in the process. By any objective measurement the place was falling to bits. The paddocks were clapped out, the stock was in-bred and the dams were silting up. He believed the problem was not the farm as such, but the way it was being managed, lots of decisions with no clear goal in mind. After a decade in the red, the place is in the black and we have just been back to see how George King turned it around.
- Organisers have always hoped the Year of the Outback would be more than the sum of its parts. At last count there's been some 700 community events and festivals organised across the country. Many of them aimed at bridging the divide between urban and rural Australia and celebrating the distinctive, often isolated and challenging lifestyle that few in the bush would swap for anything.
- 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.
- 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.
- Last week horse lovers descended on Brisbane for Australia's third Equitana. The event was the largest horse expo ever held in this country, and on show were a big range of breeds, sports, and training philosophies. The four day event attracted thousands of riders hungry for information, and a chance to see some of the world's top riders in action.
- The drought is claimed to be a factor in the planned merger of Grainco and Graincorp. Industry analysts say a merger was always likely but the prolonged dry has brought the issue forward.
- The good news comes from Queensland where widespread rain over central and western areas of the state has been described as 'the best in years'. The rain came from the tale-end of former cyclone 'Beni'.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chris Tarrant rides 2000 miles north on "The Ghan" line from Adelaide (capital of the state of South Australia), across the "red desert" centre of the Australian outback, finishing at Darwin (capital of the Northern Territory).
- These days reality television has turned everyone from weight watchers to wannabe singers and dancers into overnight celebrities. The genres even helping farmers find wives. Now it's hoped the same sort of approach may convince more city doctors to consider a tree change and relieve Australia's chronic shortage of medicos in rural and remote areas.
- Anne Kruger also talks to the Coalition�s former Northern Taskforce Chairman, Senator Bill Heffernan about the idea of moving Australia�s agriculture north.