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Growing up in the country abc.net.au/radionational/pro…

Growing up in the country - ABC Radio National

Country Australia is often romanticized as some kind of idyllic paradise of rolling hills and wide open spaces. But where do the droughts, plagues and floods fit in? What about the tragedies, the...

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School leavers opting for outback Aussie adventures instead of overseas travel abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-0…

School leavers opting for outback Aussie adventures instead of overseas travel

The borders are open, bags are packed, and the lure of adventure in a far-off land is almost too hard to resist, but where these young Australians are going doesn't require a passport.

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Adelaide Zoo invokes Ukraine war in spat over palm oil in ice cream abc.net.au/news/2022-03-28/a…

Adelaide Zoo invokes Ukraine war in spat over palm oil in ice cream

Adelaide Zoo's decision to award its ice cream supply contract to Peters, rather than South Australian company Golden North, has prompted a ripple of backlash, but the zoo is defending its tender...

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Australia and Vietnam reach agreement on agriculture visa abc.net.au/news/2022-03-28/v…

Australia and Vietnam reach agreement on agriculture visa

Vietnam signs up for Australia's Agriculture Visa Program, but it is not clear how many farmer workers it will deliver, or when.

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How a neighbourhood banded together to get a playground built in their street abc.net.au/news/2022-03-28/f…

How a neighbourhood banded together to get a playground built on its street

Nehar Samar and Samar Patel are the driving forces behind the construction of a new playground in their Shepparton neighbourhood after garnering community support.

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LISTEN: Ancient berry becoming more popular with gin distillers in Tasmania abc.net.au/radio/programs/ta…

Ancient berry becoming more popular with gin distillers in Tasmania - ABC Radio

An ancient berry brought to Tasmania by early farmers is gaining more support from local gin distillers to make a unique gin.

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Ancient berry becoming more popular with gin distillers in Tasmania abc.net.au/radio/programs/ta…

Ancient berry becoming more popular with gin distillers in Tasmania - ABC Radio

An ancient berry brought to Tasmania by early farmers is gaining more support from local gin distillers to make a unique gin.

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Record fuel prices didn't make this farmer switch to electric, saving his lambs did abc.net.au/news/2022-03-28/e…

Record fuel prices didn't make this farmer switch to electric, saving his lambs did

Every year, sheep farmer Ian Kelly worries about his lambs dying to miscarriage and mismothering. Checking the flock every day on a loud petrol motorcycle was not helping.

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What's next for the Muster Dogs kelpie pup champions? abc.net.au/news/2022-03-28/f…
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Pride Train rolls into Bendigo in colourful display of support for queer communities abc.net.au/news/2022-03-27/v…

Pride Train rolls into Bendigo in colourful display of support for queer communities

Young LGBTIQ+ people often leave regional and rural areas to seek out a better life, but a colourful Pride Train has rolled into Bendigo to send a message of support to those communities.

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Commercial fishing nets to go in Port Phillip Bay, but there's a catch abc.net.au/news/2022-03-27/f…

Commercial fishing nets to go in Port Phillip Bay, but there's a catch

One of the fiercest opponents of commercial net fishing in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay now says the Victorian government should save one of the fisheries set to close this week.

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'You can't put it in the ground and grow it': The lucrative production of Australian black garlic abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/b…

'You can't put it in the ground and grow it': The lucrative production of Australian black garlic

Black garlic is an emerging ingredient found on restaurant menus and celebrity cooking shows, but the recipe for success is tightly guarded.

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How much should farmers be paid to host wind turbines used to make green hydrogen? abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/a…

How much should farmers be paid to host wind turbines used to make green hydrogen?

Wind turbines have proven a windfall for farmers, who are paid fees by electricity generators to put the infrastructure on their land. But will the deals be as good for landowners embarking on lease...

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Damned if they do, damned if they don't: Are dams good or bad? abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-0…
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Man dies in underground coal mine in Central Queensland abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/q…
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Wage wipe out as government scheme leaves foreign workers taking home $100 a week abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/q…

Wage wipe out as government scheme leaves foreign workers taking home $100 a week

There's plenty of talk about the cost living at the moment, including groceries — but not so many of us are talking about the cost of producing those groceries, Kath Sullivan writes.

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Red tape keeping hemp farmers in 'the dark ages' as stakeholders push for reform abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/r…

Red tape keeping hemp farmers in 'the dark ages' as stakeholders push for reform

Australian industrial hemp farmers believe crops with no psychoactive properties could be five times more valuable if regulations are relaxed.

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Best friends quit jobs to chase dream of teaching line dancing around Australia for charity abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/l…

Best friends quit jobs to chase dream of teaching line dancing around Australia for charity

They admit it is a slightly wild plan, but Claire Harris and Kate Strong are determined to share their love of boot scootin' with the nation to raise money for rural communities.

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Growing taste for goat meat behind expansion of Queensland processor abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-0…
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'We'd never touch it if we knew': Farmer locked in carbon credit scheme backs inquiry into 'rort' abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-0…
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