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- A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
- 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.
- Follow the lives of Rikky, a talanted geologist, and her brother Pete, an off-the-wall mechanical genius. To find peace of mind they travel to the outbacks of Australia and meet up with a desert mining town full of zany individualists.
- The film dramatises the early life and career of Australian country music singer/songwriter Slim Dusty, interspersed with footage of a 1980s round Australia tour by the Slim Dusty family and featuring several songs from Dusty's long career.
- Features the final tour of the world's last remaining tent-boxing troupe. An important chapter in Australia's rural history is about to end with a bang.
- Return of the Catalina is an epic documentary that follows a group of retired Aussie pilots and engineers as they fight restore a 70 year old PBY Catalina to life, in order to remember unsung pilots of WWII.
- 'Crossing the Line' follows the journeys of two young medical students, Amy and Paul, who leave their safe middle class homes and university behind to be thrust into the harsh reality of everyday life on Mornington Island. Like most Australians, they have never been exposed to life in a remote Indigenous community. Throughout their eight-week placement in this remote Indigenous community, Amy and Paul move beyond their professional roles to make personal connections with some of the locals. There is an ongoing tension between their personal experience with the community and the professional distance they are told they need to maintain in order to practice professionally. Extremely moving yet unsentimental, this film offers a rare insight into the practical realities of providing Western medical services to Indigenous communities and illustrates ways in which engagement can contribute to an improvement in the crisis in Aboriginal health today.
- In Nigeria, Shagon Shano participates in a traditional fight known as Dambe. Boxers can strike anywhere on the body, with the fist or the feet. The goal is to deliver a single decisive blow to cause the opponent's hand or knee to touch the ground.
- Heather Ewart finds there are many surprises in the tiny town of Boulia on the edge of the Simpson Desert about 1700km from Brisbane.
- If you have never heard of the oddly-named weed, Branched Broomrape, you should consider yourself lucky. It is one of the world's worst parasitic pests, causing billions of dollars in crop losses mostly in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. Parts of North America are also struggling to get rid of the weed and now we have it in Australia.
- Australia has a very proud tradition of producing top rodeo riders. We've had many world champions and many Aussies compete successfully on the tough but lucrative American rodeo circuit. Where do these good rivers come from? They don't just happen - in fact many start at rodeo school.
- For a long time mussels were used most commonly in Australia as fishing bait. But they're fast becoming one of the most popular seafood items on restaurant menus - so fast, the industry expects local production will double within two years. While growers claim the blue mussel is threatening to overtake oysters in popularity, the shellfish is facing threats to its own existence.
- 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.
- A constant complaint these days is about the taste of tomatoes, why don't they possess the flavour they used to have? And why are the skins so thick? The answer to those questions are partially to do with mass production and partially to do with ease of transport, after all, thin-skinned tomatoes do not travel well. A Victorian company is trying to address these shortcomings in the modern tomato. The solution, apparently, starts with hydroponics.
- 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.
- Each team will take turns to transform an ordinary home into an instant restaurant for one pressure-cooker night. They'll plate up a three-course menu designed to impress the judges and their fellow contestants.