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- Picking up the pieces after catastrophic bushfires on Kangaroo Island, in New South Wales and Victoria. Plus culling of thirsty camels to protect water supplies in the Southern Rangelands of WA.
- Agricultural innovators working smarter not harder; an alternative to plastic drinking straws; eco-friendly surfboards from plantation timber; Canowindra's young champion putting community first.
- Our news summary begins this week with official confirmation of what most farmers already know - that this drought is threatening their continued existence in rural Australia.
- Exotic fruits such as custard apples, Buddha's hand citron, Inga beans and carambolas are unlikely to ever match apples and oranges for mass-market appeal. But if one NSW mid north coast producer has his way, Australians will soon be able to taste up to 120 exotic varieties see how they're grown and learn about where they're from.
- Australia is responsible for about 40 per cent of the world's mineral sands mining. But with the traditional mining areas of Western Australia and Queensland beginning to reach maturity, the hunt is on for new sources of rutile, zircon and ilmenite. The new boom area is the Murray Basin, where mining companies are offering some communities affected by the drought a financial lifeline.
- The chief climatologist with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Dr Roger Stone, checks on the weather prospects for this spring.
- Here in Australia that theory about a possible connection between the bones from the sub-continent and BSE in humans has been met with some scepticism.
- The British Labour Party has lost a by-election for the first time in more than 20 years with a swing against it of 18 per cent.