Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-30
1106 Radioactive waste disposal Earlier this week we looked at the vexing issue of where to locate a radioactive waste dump. 1118 Rural News The former monopoly wheat exporter AWB is no more. East coast bulk handler GrainCorp will swallow up the organisation in a merger announced today. 1125 Buying local meat Would you prefer to buy Tasmanian meat if it was clearly labelled as coming from the apple isle? 1132 McEwen electorate 1141 Music from Chris Aronsten (not in podcast) The song "The Willow" from Chris\'s new CD "The Road to Ballyvaughn" 1144 Barra and walkabout chef The sounds of feeding fish are the key to turning fish into food for humans. 1158 Bush Telegraph mailbag Listener comments on last Friday\'s story about Chia.

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-29
1106 Mental health funding One of the big voter shifters or deciders in any election is health. But mental health does not have the same weight or influence. 1122 Call for national rural land register There are growing calls for the creation of a national register of foreign purchases of land or water in rural Australia. 1130 Geraldton\'s merry-go-round Australia\'s most renowned merry-go-round sits under a huge Morton Bay fig tree in Geraldton, WA, near the sea. 1137 Music from Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely (not in podcast) The song "Broken Down Merry-Go Round" from the CD "A Time to Remember: 20 Original Recordings from 1950" 1140 Alana\'s gifting One of the great hopes of people on the land is that they\'ll be able to pass on their farm - and its legacy - to the next generation.

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-28
1106 Top End cattle too heavy for Indonesia Cattle producers in the Northern Territory are feeling the pinch following Indonesia\'s decision to buy fewer cattle. 1126 Grain prices strong It has been a tumultuous year for the Australian grains industry. 1137 Music from Emma Donovan and Dvanti Astelle (not in podcast) The song "Koori Time" from the ABC CD "Sending A Message" 1141 Indigenous land councils There is increasing conflict between indigenous land councils and the traditional owners they claim to represent

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-27
1106 Muckaty nuclear waste dump The land on Muckaty Station was a volunteer nomination by the Northern Land Council in 2007 to the Howard Government for a nuclear waste dump but there are now claims that not all of the traditional owners were properly consulted. 1133 Music from Chris Aronsten (not in podcast) The song "Silver Dollar Moon" from Chris\'s new CD "The Road to Ballyvaughn" 1138 Can geoengineering solve climate change? The multilateral approach to climate change attempted at Copenhagen and Kyoto have so far not managed to substantially reduce our carbon emissions and therefore slow climate change. 1156 Bush Telegraph mailbag Listeners enjoyed our interview with David Montgomery, the author of "Dirt"

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-26
1106 Where are the Nationals in this election campaign? The national media has been fully focused on the electoral battle between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition leader Tony Abbott. But the National Party is also on the campaign, on what\'s known as the Wombat Trail. 1123 International student numbers drop On the weekend Opposition leader Tony Abbott vowed said he would cut immigration intake to no more than 170,000 for the next three years. 1131 Music from Liz Stringer (not in podcast) The song "You Say So Many Things" from the CD "Pendulum" 1135 Flynn electorate 1147 Art in a Tin Shed Crocodiles, old boats and the wild life of the territory are the stuff of art at the Tin Shed.

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-23
1106 Funding regional cities The Gilliard government has invited 47 regional cities to bid for up to 15 million dollars each. 1123 Rural News A code of ethics will be introduced in an attempt to clean up working conditions for backpackers in south-east Queensland. 1128 Durack electorate The Federal election campaign is just about through it\'s first week so it\'s time we dropped in to the first of our three adopted electorates, Durack, in Western Australia\'s north. The seat covers more than two and a quarter million square kilometres and it\'s believed to be the largest electorate in the world. 1145 Music from Dom Mariani (not in podcast) From his new album of reworked compositions stretching back to the 1980s, the former member of The Stems re-visits his tune, \'For Always.\' 1148 Food on Friday - super foods? \'Super Foods for a Super You\' is a book containing a list of 101 so-called "super foods" that can supposedly reverse the effect of ageing, improve health and boost energy.

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-22
1106 The story of Dirt According Professor David Montgomery, civilisations rise and fall on the quality of their soil. 1132 Contamination concerns shut Cougar pilot project South Burnett locals say they\'ve lost faith in the Queensland Government\'s ability to monitor the underground coal gasification (USG) industry. 1141 Music from Broderik Smith (not in podcast) The song "A River Runs Through my Heart" from the ABC CD "Dirt Music" 1145 Glyphosate resistant weeds now in roadsides Glyphosate is so popular you can buy it in the supermarket for your garden. Farmers use it by the drum-full to kill weeds in crops. 1157 Bush Telegraph mailbag Listeners commented on the safety of quad bikes, reclaiming phosperous from human urine, and the sound-track of "We of the Never Never"

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-21
1106 Youth parliament Federal Parliament has risen and the ears of Australia are filled with the slogans, insults and the promises of the election campaign. 1122 Mic wired to the saddle In the Territory, there are hundreds of horsey people getting involved in campdrafts, polocrosse and gymkhanas each weekend. 1128 Music from The Finishing School (not in podcast) The song "Good Old fashioned Heroes" from their new CD "The Hopeful Chorus Line" 1133 Environmental fencing system There are around 85 million fenceposts in Australia and an estimated 6 billion on the planet. They constantly need repair and maintenance and South Australian Brian O\'Malley reckons he\'s come up with an environmental solution. 1140 Farm safety - quad bikes It\'s Farm Safety Week and one area the organisers Farmsafe Australia have in their sights is the use of 4-wheel motorbikes. They are known as quad bikes or ATVs, (all terrain vehicles).

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-20
1106 Food conference There are three great global and local challenges that need to be dealt with this century - food production, landscape health and human health. 1125 Regional Population Labor\'s plan to encourage people to move to regional areas, is not a new one. 1130 Music from "Darren Hanlon" (not in podcast) "Modern History" from the new CD "I Will Love You at All" 1135 Top food producers recognised at 2010 Produce Awards The 2010 Produce Awards held in Melbourne recognise the country\'s finest food producers.

Bush Telegraph - 2010-07-19
1106 Bush Telegraph\'s adopted electorates The 2010 federal election campaign is finally, officially underway. Bush Telegraph has adopted three electorates for the campaign\'s duration. In Western Australia we have Durack, there is the marginal Labor seat of Flynn in Queensland and McEwen a Liberal knife-edge seat in Victoria and we have people in each electorate, including a Bishop, a barber, a community worker, a publican and a mechanic keeping their ears and eyes open and reporting on sentiment in their home towns and regions as the campaign unfolds. 1132 On the vine Our Mildura reporter Nikolai Beilharz has been lent two rows of dried fruit vines by a local grower. 1137 Music from the CD "Under the Tall Trees" (not in podcast) "Emmanuel" by the popular French composer, Michel Colombier. 1141 The untrained environmentalist When John Fenton took over the family farm in western Victoria he inherited a degraded asset with little future as a sheep property.

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