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- Follows Abby, a child who befriends a magnificent wild blue grouper while diving. When Abby realizes that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her activist mum, Dora, and takes on poachers to save her friend.
- Join comedian Bill Bailey in the massive State of Western Australia, one of the most surprising and extraordinarily beautiful places on the planet.
- Giant Australian cuttlefish migrate annually to the waters of upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia to breed. Major industrial development plans threaten their survival. Can compromise be struck, or will the phenomenon be lost forever?
- Popular Norwegian TV-personality Per Ståle Lønning combines his lifelong hobby of fishing with the talk-show-formula. He travels around the world with famous Norwegians as teammates, participating in international fishing competitions. The competition works only as surroundings for a closer and more personal meeting with some of Norway's most controversial public figures. Among his guests are the defense minister Kristin Krohn-Devold, the outspoken whaler Steinar Bastesen, the liberal priest Einar Gelius, and the famous political secretary Arne Treholt who in 1986 was sentenced to life for espionage, but later pardoned.
- The state of Western Australia consists of 30% of the area of Australia, hosting a population of only 2 million people.
- They say you can grow just about anything in the Top End - anything, that is, that thrives on water, stacks of sunshine and space. Few know this more than Darwin's nursery operators.
- Five years after the Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD) escaped quarantine on Wardang Island off South Australia, rabbit numbers across Australia have almost halved. But the virus has not been effective in all areas and more needs to be done to control them.
- If you had to name Australia�s favourite fruit it would have to be the banana. We eat millions of them every year and although we usually associate banana growing with Queensland and northern New South Wales the most productive plantations in Australia are in western Australia. The bananas from the west are grown in tightly packed plantations and as a result they are not as large as their eastern cousins but some clever marketing has turned a negative into a positive.
- 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.
- As family farms are passed down from one generation to the next, so too are any problems brought on by years of working the land. Today we look at one farmer in Western Australia who is turning such an inheritance into an asset. He's found a way to make his salt ravaged land pay by building a series of salt ponds and growing trout.
- Less than three years ago pork producers in this country were talking about the death of their industry. Rising imports from Canada and Denmark had brought growers to their knees; many forced to start killing their stock, as it was not viable to send them to market. But desperate times in another country, Malaysia, have brought a new prosperity to the pork industry that is now enjoying record prices as well as a massive jump in exports to Asia. Julia Limb looks at the changing fortunes of Australia's pig farmers.
- Landline reports on the cash crop that's clean and green and at the cutting edge of technology. Wind turbines are springing up on farms all over the country. In fact they are proving so popular that renewable energy analysts believe Australia could be producing at least 10 per cent of its power from the wind within a decade. Apart from the significant environmental spin-offs, the projects could generate substantial investment and jobs across rural and regional Australia.
- Although still only a relative small industry in Australia, quail farming does have big ideas. After taking a devastating blow in the export arena when Newcastle disease struck the poultry sector several times in recent years, these growers are once again looking to take their product overseas.
- The saleyard - for many it's just as much a social meeting place as a site where livestock is bought and sold. But the saleyard is about to undergo a transformation - and soon it'll have just as many barcode scanners as the local supermarket. Electronic identification is here to stay and your local saleyard may never be the same.
- After a lifetime of collecting, former scientist Ken Plomley has reluctantly decided to part with his treasures. Among them are some of the rarest and valuable books on early Australian agriculture. The jewel of his library is an 1826 book on agriculture and grazing in New South Wales, by James Atkinson. It cost Ken 50 pounds back in the early 1960s. The winning bidder in Melbourne on April 16, will likely pay more than $30,000. They may be antiquarian, but Ken's agricultural books make some surprisingly sharp observations about farming in the fledgling colony.
- The Royal Flying Doctor Service came about under the guidance of the visionary John Flynn. Dr Flynn's combination of medicine, aviation and communication, helped overcome the tyranny of isolation for the people of the Outback. John Flynn's legacy grows stronger each year. But one part of his heralded life remains virtually forgotten. Dr Flynn was an avid photographer and his photographs played a crucial role in realising his dream.
- The Queensland Biennial Festival of Music is this country's biggest and most diverse celebration across the musical spectrum. For 10 days there are performances all over the state which include jazz, classical, rock, country, theatre, opera. You name it - it is bound to be performed somewhere at some time. There is also a host of specially commissioned pieces including an innovative creation at Winton, better known as the birthplace of Waltzing Matilda. As you will see when the festival asked for community involvement, the locals from Winton responded with considerable enthusiasm.
- Take a look at the deli case in any Australian supermarket and there are probably a bewildering range of specialty cheeses available and most of them will be Australian made. It's a testament to how far the local specialty cheese industry has come along in just 20 years, but as you'll see and hear in this report, there are some critics who believe it still has a long way to go.
- Dr Roger Stone from the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Centre for Climate Applications talks to Landline about the effects global climate change will have on Australia.
- A dairy farmer in Cowra in the central west of New South Wales has been forced to close down his operation because of objections from neighbours about its environmental impacts.
- The man at the centre of the political storm about Queensland Local Government reform the Premier, Peter Beattie, who is standing firm on the issue. Mr Beattie spoke to Mark Willacy.