Rural Reporter: ABC Rural. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The complete Rural Reporter program from the ABC's team of specialist reporters. Rural Reporter is heard across Asia and Europe on Radio Australia and in Australia on Radio National's Country Breakfast
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42 Episodes of this Podcast:
Rural Reporter for Saturday November 14, 2009 - 14/11/2009
Published: 2009-11-13 08:00:00This week we go hunting for the very elusive and endangered northern hopping mouse; meet a man who spends his holidays restoring old mine machinery in the Pilbara, and head further north to the Kimberley where they're getting ready to blast at the Ellendale diamond mine.
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Rural Reporter for Saturday November 07, 2009 - 07/11/2009
Published: 2009-11-06 08:00:00This week thousands converge on the small country town of Dimboola in Victoria's western Wimmera region to celebrate its 150th birthday; an alpine hut destroyed in the 2003 Kosciusko National Park bushfires rises from the ashes; and we take a behind the scenes look at life and work on Lake Nash Station, a huge pastoral property in the Northern Territory.
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Rural Reporter for Saturday October 31, 2009 - 31/10/2009
Published: 2009-10-30 09:00:00This week we're putting on our scientific hats, tracking the critically endangered hawksbill turtle in the Gulf of Carpentaria and studying the Edith River ecosystem in the Northern Territory; we go behind the scenes at the Renmark rose festival; and forget the spring racing carnival in Victoria - we've got worm races in Queensland!
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Rural Reporter for Saturday October 24, 2009 - 24/10/2009
Published: 2009-10-23 09:00:00We step back in time this week for a walk beside the historic Perth to Goldfields water pipeline, recently named a world engineering landmark; boarding school students in north Queensland reminisce about the year their school was requisitioned as a military hospital and they spend the rest of the year camped by the Burdekin River; the Nyngan pony club packs up camp and heads out bush on a droving expedition; and lonely bachelors from Broken Hill audition for a part in a proposed American reality TV show.
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Rural Reporter for Saturday October 17, 2009 - 17/10/2009
Published: 2009-10-16 09:00:00This week live jazz entertains the crowds in the Central Australian desert; trans-Tasman rivalry is alive and well with students battling it out in the rodeo arena; and the ladies swap their knitting needles for power tools with a "sheila's shed" opening in Kempsey.
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Rural Reporter for Saturday October 10, 2009 - 10/10/2009
Published: 2009-10-09 09:00:00Bats and flying foxes feature on this week's program.
Rural Reporter for Saturday October 3, 2009 - 03/10/2009
Published: 2009-10-02 09:00:00This week noisy V8s, horses, dogs, motorbikes and even ride-on lawn mowers are put to the test in a special farmers' challenge; we visit a remote cave in western New South Wales which has special significance to the local aboriginal people; and rocks in the Pilbara reveal their true beauty in the hands of Lyndon Williams.
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Rural Reporter for Saturday September 26, 2009 - 26/09/2009
Published: 2009-09-25 09:00:00There's a definite food flavour to this week's program.
Rural Reporter for Saturday September 19, 2009 - 19/09/2009
Published: 2009-09-18 09:00:00This week CWA ladies channel their artistic talents with flowers and song; we hear how difficult it can be to play a tune on the didgeridoo; and join Melbourne expat Peter Hermans as he pedals his way across the Outback.
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Rural Reporter for Saturday September 12, 2009 - 12/09/2009
Published: 2009-09-11 09:00:00This week Tim Marshall goes to school to learn the ins and outs of picking up a good bull; we go backstage in country South Australia when <em>Oklahoma!</em> the musical opens to capacity crowds; and join Broken Hill policeman Wayne Demrey as he prepares for an ironman event, training in the heat and dust of outback New South Wales.
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