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- A small group of town residents have to band together after a devastating ground invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers, and work together for a chance to strike back.
- This mockumentary series follows the peculiar lives of six eccentric - and sometimes obscene - misfits who march to their own beat.
- A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
- A young Australian man sets out to prove himself, leaving behind his ballerina girlfriend to train for the Coolangatta Gold triathlon, a race once almost won by his father.
- A tender story about 11-year old Lou and her befuddled grandfather. After her father walks out and grandfather Doyle comes to stay, Lou discovers the healing power of love.
- Alchemy has fascinated people for centuries. Through expert interviews and a detailed historical time-line, this documentary argues that Alchemy is not just a quest for wealth or immortality, but a path towards transformation.
- Just before Easter 2001, a semi-trailer loaded with 40,000 bottles of beer crashed into the Tweed River on the out skirts of the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah (known as "Murbah" to the locals). With salvage crews ordered to clear the crash zone for the busy Easter traffic, the locals undertook their own salvage operation, making it their best Easter ever. Murbah Swamp Beer is a documentary about an event that could only happen in Australia. It captures the spirit of a small, country town as its citizens discover that beer definitely tastes better when it's free.
- Lucy Longbarrel is very bored - and hungry. With only dried old cracker biscuits in the cupboard, she decides to send herself and her smelly little brother to the Moon - by shooting themselves out of a cannon.
- Phil Taylor lives in the northern NSW town of Murwillumbah and occasionally sells second hand cars at "Taylor Made Car Sales and Hire". Every year his family enters a float in the town's annual Banana festival but this year a cloud of smoke surrounds Phil's entry to the parade. With a cast of hillbillies, three legged dogs, banana queens and classic old timers,Taylor Made is a warm and amusing look at life in small country town that time almost forgot.
- Rosie O'Rosey gives a speech at school about the time when the Queen of England visited Wagga Wagga, Australia.
- A man fights to prevent the death of his wife before the rigours of time travel tear his body apart.
- Trapped in a hotel room on the road with his working single mother, Dylan encounters a children's TV character that starts to make him do some very bad things.
- A small Victorian vineyard is set to revolutionise the way wine is sold. Giaconda, makers of some of the nation's most sought after wine, has just put its entire vintage out to tender on the net. But while the wine industry has been sizing up the opportunities of marketing on the Internet for some time, results have yet to match the hype.
- In the words of Mark Twain, "whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting over",. The fighting has certainly started in Victoria, where farmers are asking the question: who owns the rain? Under certain state government proposals, every trickle into every farm damn used for irrigation could face strict regulation, affecting the viability of individual businesses and burgeoning industries.
- If you're one of the many Australians who own a horse, be it for sport or play, then you've gone through the hassle of getting your mount shod. Well a Tasmanian inventor has come up with another choice, and his horse boots, described as running shoes for equine athletes, are set to take the world by storm. For humans, footwear is an important part of the wardrobe. Now horses have a choice about what goes on their feet, or hooves if you wish.
- One subject, which will inevitably involve farmers, is ethanol production. To create this fuel extender, farmers are needed to grow the crops from which ethanol is extracted. But as Landline found out, despite the inevitable decline of our fossil fuel resources, with few exceptions, enthusiasm for ethanol is surprisingly low-key.
- 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.
- 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.
- The issue of cloning has made many prominent headlines in recent months especially with claims by a controversial Italian scientist that he plans to clone humans. But cloning is already having an impact on agriculture and Australian scientists are at the forefront of this new frontier of science that promises amazing possibilities. But as Tim Lee reports, cloning also has many pitfalls and the issue has divided Australia's scientific community.
- The World Bank has weighed into the debate over the spiralling cost of food. With a call to action on agriculture which it argues is still the most effective weapon in the fight against poverty. The World Bank has released a major report into food security and Anne Kruger catches up with the co-author of the report Derek Byerlee.
- 2004– 2h 3m6.0 (12)TV EpisodeDay 16: The Grand Finale - I'd Do Well.
- 2004– 1h 59m6.2 (12)TV EpisodeDay 16: The Last Supper of the Finalists.