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- An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle station in Australia. Following the death of her husband, a baron plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her station.
- In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.
- Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Soon, Jay's investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
- An Aboriginal student on the west coast of Australia in the late '60s runs away from a Catholic boarding school with his cruel headmaster in hot pursuit, meeting eccentric characters along the journey back to his hometown.
- Australian all-round athlete Vadim "Outback Jack" Dale's hand in marriage is the amazing prize for a dozen spoiled US fashion-addicts. It must be won by following him on a long, arduous trek, in Spartan camping conditions, trough his Outback (bush) home, which he shares with creepy and dangerous animals, and various tests. Girls are eliminated in every episode, usually by his choice. Other tests win one or more contestants chances to spend quality time with Jack and/or avoid nasty chores. A luxury hotel rest day sort on turns the tables in between.
- Produced in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra in Western Australia, this moving documentary features three women who talk about their paintings as an expression of their relationship to their country. The women share a sense of belonging to their place and express this belonging through dance and song and all of their artistic expressions. On a trip into the bush around Cockatoo Lagoon near Kununurra, they explain the stories of their Dreaming and of their land, and talk of their own experiences growing up as workers on stations in the area. Each artist talks about why they paint - to teach and to share stories about their country with others in the community and wider afield. The film also observes them working on paintings, each giving her personal interpretation of a loved environment and a living culture. The paintings are all very different in style but all express a life-affirming sense of identity intimately linked to their own country.
- Russell makes his way to the North Queensland Daintree region. Again sharing his own version of the history of the region and historical figures. Whilst giving survival tips for the outback. All of which should not be taken seriously.
- 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.
- 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.
- It's been said that at its peak, Melbourne's wool stockpile alone would have filled the Melbourne Cricket Ground three times over. Aided by a low Australian dollar and a recovering wool market, nationally six hundred thousand stockpile bales have been cleared since the start of the year. It's ten years since the wool reserve price scheme collapsed leaving 4.7 million bales in storage so the end of the stockpile, not only marks a major milestone it also removes a major millstone from around the wool industry's neck.
- With agriculture in crisis worldwide there's good news from Latin America. Harvests are being tripled. Rainforests are being saved. The whole environment is benefiting from a remarkable bean that really does work miracles with people's lives. In the fairy story, Jack plants a magic bean and his family prospers. Now in Latin America farmers are planting a magic bean with similar results. The bean is called "Mucuna" - the a velvet bean and extraordinary claims are being made for it: bigger harvest and more food without cost to the environment.
- Conservation farming is the name for an approach to cropping, that an increasing number of Australian farmers are switching to. Those that do change have to be brave, as it's a system that turns on its head, nearly every long held tradition associated with cropping, including doing away with one of the cropper's favourite tools - the disc plough. There are now enough farmers adopting conservation farming principals in central western New South Wales for an annual award to be handed out, and this years winners are attracting a lot of praise for their sustainable approach to cropping.
- 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.
- Harnessing the awesome flow of one of the north-west's wildest rivers, the Ord Irrigation Scheme created fertile farming land out of vast grazing country. Now, there are plans to double the size of the scheme, but key questions of who will pay for it, and what crops will drive the expansion remain unanswered. Some fear that the reluctance of the Western Australian Government to stump up the cash for vital infrastructure may doom not only stage two, but the entire project.
- The Federal Government is about to make a decision on whether the Tax Act is providing too much benefit to managed investment schemes (MIS). One sector that's eagerly awaiting the decision is the local olive industry, where MIS are growing in popularity. While MIS advocates say they bring money to the bush and boost exports, opponents say they're a tax rort for rich city investors that distort the agricultural climate.
- Phil Higgins is a man on a mission to give kids in the bush the kind of hands-on learning experience their city counterparts often take for granted. Once a year this retired professor packs up his plane and heads to remote parts of the country to share his passion for science.
- Australia's new Governor-General Quentin Bryce has immediately hurled herself into one of the most contentious issues in the bush, the fate of the Murray-Darling river system. Nance Haxton spoke to the Governor-General who was in Goolwa.
- Australia's productivity commission has recently recommended beefing up the powers of the agri-chemical regulator. Under its plan the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority would assume control from the states over the certification and use of chemicals. However critics say even if the changes are adopted it may be too little too late.
- 2016–202352mTV EpisodeErnie hits the dirt roads and river crossings of Kununurra, Rae catches up with a young Tasmanian marine scientist, and Aaron gets a lesson on the skill of etching with a talented artist.