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- In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
- Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
- An Indigenous teenager discovers photography during a youth trip in Western Australia.
- Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.
- 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.
- A group of Indigenous children plan to combat the threat of a mysterious dust cloud before it destroys everything in its path by unlocking the power of the 'Thalu' to destroy it.
- Rough and ready, fast and furious: a bunch of funny, cheeky Red Dirt Riders show you a thing or two about off-road riding and share stories about their world.
- Amongst the red rocks of the Australian desert, two Aboriginal women and one dependent white girl are looking for something.
- Frustrated by the partying ways of his young nephews, an uncle takes the boys on a life-changing journey out of town to reconnect with the land of their ancestors and the country they will take care of in the future.
- Back Roads travels to Marble Bar, known as the hottest place in Australia. Singer-songwriter and ABC Radio's Saturday Night Country presenter Felicity Urquhart takes the wheel as we visit red-dirt country in the Pilbara, WA.
- Heather Ewart heads to the Pilbara region of Western Australia to meet some of the remarkable locals who are driving change as the mining boom ends. There's also plenty of 'girl power' to be found out in this harsh landscape.
- A pollution controversy over dust from Port Hedland's booming iron ore port; Salmon profits halved by the pandemic; The grain grower diversifying into beer; Dedicated volunteers restoring Tasmanian train history.
- Heather Ewart reconnects with some of our favourite characters - remarkable local heroes who live on the back roads. From the parched red dirt of Roebourne in WA to the rolling green hills of Corryong in Victoria.
- There are unexpected encounters when colourful South Pacific and traditional cultures kick up the red dust of the Pilbara as Back Roads heads to the town of Tom Price in Western Australia.
- The bush food industry has been around for a long time and it's often promised to be 'the next big thing'. But for any number of reasons it's never quite delivered and bush food remains to this day, a niche business with little in the way of promotion or marketing. However that could be changing. Kirsten Aiken found out, there's a focus and a confidence about the potential of bush food.
- For many farmers their life is their land so giving it up can be a very difficult process. But as with so many family businesses there comes a time when the next generation is itching to take over whether their parents are ready or not. Today we look at a project in new south wales where farmers who have successfully made the transition into retirement help others to take a similar step.
- The snake bite season will begin in the next few weeks. Vets in Mount Isa in Queensland traditionally report the first brown snake bites when the weather turns warm - many of the victims are farm dogs.
- A series of changes for Australian wool growers is around the corner. They'll be asked to declare whether they carry exotic breeds of sheep alongside their merinos, and testing their wool for dark and medullated - or hollow - fibres will become easier and cheaper. It's all in response to some major and growing criticism from China and Europe, about increasing levels of this kind of contamination in our wool. Many in the industry are saying concern about contamination is threatening Australia's reputation as a source of clean white merino fleece.
- What's a man to do when he decides he's tired of making a living fishing the cold, dangerous seas of the Southern Ocean? For Dave Williams, it meant moving into aquaculture. His main criteria was that the business be profitable, and that he be warm and safe. After considering several options, he decided to go pearl farming in Queensland. Landline caught up with him as he harvested his first crop.
- It is harvest time for Australia's wheat crop. There has been a lot written and said recently about wheat - the size of the harvest, the quality of the wheat and its price. To discuss these issues Kerry Lonergan spoke with the general manager of AWB (International) Ltd, Sarah Scales.
- Shearers are often portrayed as hard men engaged in a physically tough occupation but West Australian gun Dwayne Black is smashing that image and smashing world records. Last weekend, Dwayne decided to attempt one of the toughest shearing records in the book and Landline's Tim Lee was there to provide us with this blow-by-blow account.
- Opinions are divided over the merits or otherwise of Australia negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with China. But when it comes to agriculture, we still enjoy a number of important comparative advantages over the Chinese in both goods and services, particularly in sustainable natural resource management. Landline checked on an Australian agricultural aid project that has been making a difference on the ground in northern China.
- 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.