Rural
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Backlash
Backlash
Community, Environment, History, Rural, Social Justice
What happens when one company has more power than the government, and uses the courts to take on their opponents? This is the story of how logging company Gunns Ltd ran roughshod over the Tasmanian...
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CRUNCH
CRUNCH
Community, Rural, Social Justice
Tasmania has long been known as ‘The Apple Isle’. Forty years ago there were over 2000 apple farmers in Tasmania exporting 9 million cases a year to countries like the UK and China. Today there...
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El Mar, Mi Alma [Pt.II]
El Mar, Mi Alma [Pt.II]
Arts, Community, Environment, Health & Wellbeing, History, Human Rights, Indigenous, Refugees, Rural, Rural, Social Justice, Sport / Adventure, Youth
El Mar, Mi Alma [Pt.II] - A quest to seek harmony with nature. "The waves in themselves filled me with passion and terrified me. ...
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Honeybee Blues
Honeybee Blues
Community, Environment, Rural
Honeybee Blues tells the eerie saga of the disappearing honeybees around the world and the race of one Australian scientist to save them from extinction. The world is facing a perilous future without...
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My24
My24
Education, Health & Wellbeing, Refugees, Rural, Youth
MY24 is an interview-based 13 x 30 minute social history and biography series that profiles young people whose lives have been profoundly transformed by a single event that happened within the space...
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Ringbalin
Ringbalin
Arts, Community, Environment, History, Human Rights, Indigenous, Rural, Social Justice
Ringbalin is a multi-platform documentary project; comprising of 3 x 30 min broadcast series, and a website and mobile interactive documentary hosting 40 x 2 minute films. This is a story about a...
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Tears in the Sea
Tears in the Sea
Community, Environment, Health & Wellbeing, Rural
When a refugee boat crashed against the cliffs of Christmas Island in December 2010, over fifty lives were lost. For helpless on-lookers on the shore, the tragedy left scars for a lifetime. Tears in...
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That Old Man
That Old Man
Aged, Arts, Indigenous, Rural
In the vast Western Desert of Australia, Bill Whiskey is a healer. A Ngangkari. Powerful and hugely respected. Bill Whiskey is almost 90 and was well into his teenage years when he first...
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The Chikukwa Project
The Chikukwa Project
Community, Environment, Health & Wellbeing, Rural
A feel good story out of Africa. For the last 20 years an amazing permaculture project has been working in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger, malnutrition and...
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The Lost Crocodiles of the Ord River
The Lost Crocodiles of the Ord River
Environment, Indigenous, Rural, Sport / Adventure
In May 2007 Kieran Kelly and Andrew Gregory were the first explorers to kayak down the Negri and Ord rivers which are the source of Lake Argyle - the largest body of fresh water in Australia. They...
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The Snowman
The Snowman
Community, Disability, Health & Wellbeing, Rural
In 1978 Juliet Lamont's father, Jimmy a 33 year old happily married father of 2, scored his dream job with Operation Deepfreeze - training NASA astronauts in survival skills in Antarctica. He left in...
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The Strong Series
The Strong Series
Community, Education, Health & Wellbeing, Rural, Welfare
This project will continue and complete the Rural Health Education Foundation's ground-breaking series on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child and adolescent development by producing programs...