Thu, Feb 12, 2009
Landline Reporter Chris Clark brings you up-to-date with the fire ravaged townships in Victoria. And Megan Pailthorpe reports from Ingham on the Queensland clean-up, after the worst floods in three decades. Anne Kruger also talks to Agriculture Minster, Tony Burke who joins us from Canberra to discuss the Commonwealth's financial commitment to the rural and regional areas affected by either fires or floods, over the past weeks.
Thu, Mar 12, 2009
It is perhaps appropriate the latest shot-in-the-arm for Australia's sugar industry may well be administered by a Queensland nurse. For the past 10 years Sonya Maley has been working on a radical value-adding process and she is determined to prove there is more to cane than crystallised sugar.
Thu, May 14, 2009
It is the condiment with the funny name which has the singular job of adding zing to roast beef. Horseradish might well be a dark horse in the vegetable industry but there can't be too many vegies that can fetch upwards of $50,000 a tonne, once they have been minced up and put into jars.
Sat, Jun 6, 2009
While country shows are dying out in many parts of the nation, Australia's longest running show, the Campbell Town Show in Tasmania, celebrated its 171st outing on the weekend. Since the early 1960's the event has been sponsored by one of Australia�s biggest buyers of premium wool, but as Conor Duffy discovered, this year the sponsors of the show's biggest draw card have pulled out.
Sat, Jul 11, 2009
There was a time when every saddle was tailor made for the horse it sat on. In more recent times, saddlery like so many other traditional trades has been swamped by cheaper, mass produced goods. However Tim Lee's found a master saddler in Melbourne who's bucking that trend with his commitment to cutting edge design and hand-crafted quality.
Sat, Jul 25, 2009
In the past 10 years hundreds of bores across the Artesian Basin have been capped and integrated into farm irrigation schemes as part of a project funded by federal and state governments and landholders. Yet there was a hostile reaction recently among some farmers to the New South Wales Government's plan to sell-off some of the water that's been saved by bore capping.
Sat, Aug 22, 2009
The tuna season in South Australia is winding down after the most tumultuous year in more than two decades. Prices have plummeted, as Japanese consumers tighten their purse strings and Tuna producers are also under pressure from conservationists as campaigns against tuna fishing gather pace.
Sat, Aug 29, 2009
This year thousands of tourists have flocked to the remote desert country where Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia meet to see some of the nation's great wild rivers in flow. As Sean Murphy discovered, artists have also been drawn to the rich and rugged beauty of the outback in full bloom.
Sat, Sep 5, 2009
Every year for the past 28, some of the best musicians in the country and their fans have made the pilgrimage to the Amamoor State Forest in Queensland's south-east for the National Music Muster. In this special edition of Landline we'll bring you some of the highlights of another very successful event on and off stage, including some tributes by artists to their fathers in honour of Fathers Day.
Sat, Sep 12, 2009
The debate over how Australia uses the water from the Murray-Darling Basin is hot news again and not just because Queensland's Cubbie station is on the block. Regardless of whether the Federal Government does buy any water from Cubbie Station, it's already spent hundreds of millions buying back water from other irrigators.
Sat, Oct 10, 2009
For years the mussel has battled to make it onto Australian dinner tables out shone by shellfish with sexier images. However in South Australia's seafood capital the humble mollusc is starting to make its move after something of a makeover. Kerry Staight reports on the one time fishing bait that's starting to land some big fans.
Sat, Oct 17, 2009
It is often suggested that outsiders provide the sort of objectivity and rigour lacking in even the most robust self analysis. Professor Andrew Fearne is an expert in food supply chains, marketing and consumer behaviour. He's normally based at the University of Kent in England. However he's just finished a stint as Adelaide's thinker in residence during which time he had a detailed look at just how effectively Australians add value to food and wine.