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A Big Country

A weekly Society and Culture podcast
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A Big Country

ABC Radio

A Big Country

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A Big Country

ABC Radio

A Big Country

A weekly Society and Culture podcast
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Meet a woodchopping legend, come on a fossicking family trip around Australia and join the crowd gathered to meet some famous Muster Dogs.
Three generations of family keeping tourist railway on track; remote worker survives weeks alone in the outback with the help of his guitar; Tassie devils adjusting to life in tropical north as part of conservation project;
Unwanted passionfruit pureed to make funky beer flavouring; relocating and restoring historic homestead in outback Queensland; turtle research focussed on keeping nests cool to prevent male drought; celebrating the rosella
A gap year with a difference for teen horseback adventurer; environmental project helping to restore river; family reunion to remember Italian forbears who made a new life in the cane fields of northern Australia; talking t
Appreciating biodiversity in the Capricorn Cays; photographer aiming to smash stereotypes of what a farmer looks like; lambs that love mangoes are helping farmers manage their orchard; growing rare varieties of bananas has
Demand growing for unusual autumn fruit; cast and crew of Castaway series return to filming location nearly fifty years later for history project; adventurous tree changers swap beachside apartment living for farm life; aft
Making beer with fresh, locally grown hops; accolades for century old wine; ambitious attempt to circumnavigate Australia in record speed; pony time helping with learning and relaxation.
Busy saffron harvest has bees in a flop; maritime restoration a labour of love; yachtsman finds connection to land through farm work; scientists make most of extraordinary breeding season to study pelican population.
Trading trout for Arctic greyling as female fly fishers head to northern hemisphere for ladies world champs; citizen scientists discover hidden koala colony during covid bush ramble; the wild, but true story that has inspir
Conservation detection dogs helping out with hunt for weeds; discovering distilling leads couple to new career working with botanicals and barley; short film project sharing stories of people living with dementia; beekeeper
Australian-born sun bear Maly celebrates 14th birthday, Walking from Sydney to Darwin to raise addiction awareness, a seed library bringing a community together and an iconic pub re-opens its doors.
Reliving the 1980s through a double-decker bus restoration, music lessons from 1000km away, kids get up close with fresh produce and a couple swap the hospital for the orchard.
Growing edible flowers for chefs and cakemakers; family living off-grid in rainforest 'paradise'; bandicoot study aiming to better understand mysterious marsupial; fifty years of collecting Furphy water carts.
Award-winning cheese maker using ancient methods; tree-change takes apartment-dweller back home to become custodian of 180-year-old country homestead; outback school's 'happy heart hub' helping boost student attendance; nat
School teens getting a taste for shearing with training course to ease skills shortage; outback cricket match brings remote communities together; craftsman turning ancient timber into wooden treasures; demand growing for ra
Wildlife filmmaker's grand plan to reveal marine secrets; regional artist's drawings capture humour of country life; prisoners learning horticultural skills, planting seeds of hope for future; farmer's beloved paddock bomb.
Next generation ringers learning skills of cattle trade; farmer swaps working the land for taking to the sky to pursue passion for flying; date farm in outback grazing country becomes popular tourist spot, pop-up garden pro
Decades of tree planting paying off with birds returning to rural landscape; thermal imaging drones aiding rare wallaby conservation project; farmer recruits guinea pigs to help munch through weeds; foraging for seaweed sna
Next generation of family farmers milling wheat crop into high-end baking flour; business blooming for hobby flower grower amid demand for locally grown bunches; modern day treasure hunter helping to solve mysteries, uneart
Next generation of family farmers milling wheat crop into high-end baking flour; business blooming for hobby flower grower amid demand for locally grown bunches; modern day treasure hunter helping to solve mysteries, uneart
Farmers and conservationists team up to help save endangered malleefowl; harvest with a difference as Indigenous led project experiments with native grain crops; , call out for volunteers to assist with farm flood clean up;
Croc farm welcomes new baby hatchlings; former station master keeping regional rail memories alive with history museum; on-farm, off grid camping proving a hit and money winner for dairy farmers; making salt among the mangr
Farming town chips in to buy local pub; beekeeper's sweet business springs from unwanted swarm; blacksmiths lead community in forging a memorial to Black Summer bushfires; surfer back riding waves and trading boards after s
Couple living their dream job, showing off the mighty Murray with river cruises on a converted old lifeboat; hard-working matriarch at the helm of a family florist and nursery continuously trading for 90 years; young fossic
Local surfer shares his love of photographing Midwest W.A wildflowers; farmers putting their grass fed beef on the menu at local pub; 21-year-old egg entrepreneur reflects on first 12 years in business and plans for the fut
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