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- 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.
- Investigating a blossoming network of backyard stables, dedicated strappers, trainers, jockeys and equine enthusiasts, A Racetrack Somewhere explores the vast Australian landscape, delving into the heart of some of the country's most iconic and remote Thoroughbred racing events.
- In 1799 the crew of a small sealing vessel from Sydney Cove take over command, abandoning their boat master and a sick aboriginal "crew's wife" on a remote island of Bass Strait. The film follows the fortunes of the abandoned sealer as he attempts to leave the island.
- A portrait of the Mutton Bird industry in the Furneaux Group of islands in Australia's Bass Strait. Each year the 'Birders,' many of whom are descendants of Tasmanian aboriginals, harvest the fattening chicks of the migratory Mutton Bird for their down and oil.
- An affectionate and lyrical portrait of three people whose lives have become inextricably linked with islands and the sea, particularly that stretch of water between Tasmania and mainland Australia known as Bass Strait.
- A documentary about mining.
- Guest presenter Paul West visits the Furneaux Islands, a wild and windswept group of islands in Bass Strait, just off Tasmania. The cold ocean waters are full of treasures like lobsters and abalone, plus rusted shipwrecks.
- Heather Ewart heads to King Island, in Bass Strait half-way between Tasmania and Victoria. A place famous for cheese, seafood and the treacherous Roaring 40's winds, she finds out why many who've left are coming back.
- 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.
- The decade long drought that still grips many parts of the country has had many unforeseen consequences. For one city-based company, Drizabone, whose name goes hand in hand with the bush, no rain has meant no raincoats, and as a result the company has laid-off half of its production staff. And some fear that the famous maker of rustic country working clothes may have to abandon Australia all together.
- Kerry Lonergan heads to Beef Week to talk with one of the biggest names in the beef game, the Consolidated Pastoral Company, managing director and chairman of the board, Ken Warriner.