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• Rural Reporter, November 2 2013

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  Saturday 2 November 2013

  

  This week we make music at the October Moon Festival; and rear free ranging piglets in Gippsland. The CWA bakes more than 300 scones at the Hobart Show and they're racing at Santa Teresa.

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• Rural Reporter, October 26 2013

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  Saturday 26 October 2013

  

  Ravenswood waits for the gold boom to return; and scientists use audio recorders to keep an ear on the environment. They're racing at Landor; and we go into the announcer's box at the Mildura show.

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• Rural Reporter, October 19 2013

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  Saturday 19 October 2013

  

  Today some much needed rest and relaxation for bush families; we take a spin in aWW11 jeep; and go to a dog show. And mango growers resort to laser lights to scare the magpie geese.

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• Rural Reporter, October 12 2013

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  Saturday 12 October 2013

  

  Bush Heritage celebrates a decade of conservation work; botanical artists paint in Menindee; hack horses get a makeover; and the cricket season gets underway.

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• Rural Reporter, October 5 2013

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  Saturday 5 October 2013

  

  This week we put our green thumbs to work developing a community garden; and kids teach kids where their food comes from. We enrol in a rodeo school, and go diving for seaweed.

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• Rural Reporter, September 28 2013

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  Saturday 28 September 2013

  

  Wildflowers carpet the desert country; the magpie geese season starts in the territory; wild brumbies find new homes and we meet one of the last bullockies in Australia.

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• Rural Reporter, September 21 2013

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  Saturday 21 September 2013

  

  This week we go droving with the Brinkworth mob; head to the Pannawonica rodeo; and meet a young apprentice female jockey. We also pick the first peony flowers of the season.

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• Rural Reporter, September 14 2013

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  Saturday 14 September 2013

  

  This week social media saves a farm; organic grain growers take control of their product; and black garlic's on the menu. There's also high hopping bunnies and performing circus cows.

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• Rural Reporter September 7, 2013

  Saturday 7 September 2013

  

  This week we're knitting with camel hair, and walking an indigenous heritage trail in Tasmania. Unusual animals are on display at the EKKA and we visit a beer can collection.

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• Rural Reporter August 31, 2013

  Saturday 31 August 2013

  

  This week we visit the remote town of Milparinka, meet the frog lady of Quambatook; and go truffle hunting at Oberon. We also go behind bars with country music singer Bill Chambers.

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• Rural Reporter, August 24 2013

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  Saturday 24 August 2013

  

  This week we go bush with indigenous guides, and find out why there's a lighthouse in central Australia. And Aussie wine and cheese take out some international awards.

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• Rural Reporter, August 17 2013

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  Saturday 17 August 2013

  

  This week we're collecting scientific data from the sea and under our feet, and the bush comes to the city when Brisbane hosts the Royal Queensland Show, better known as the EKKA.

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• Rural Reporter August 10, 2013

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  Saturday 10 August 2013

  

  This week we're burning cane in the Burdekin, panning for gold at Pine Creek; disadvantaged youth get a helping hand, and coppers versus the bushies at Harts Range.

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• Rural Reporter August 3, 2013

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  Saturday 3 August 2013

  

  Visit a wine cellar that's been blasted out of a granite hillside; deliver fish eggs to a trout farm; teach young boys and girls to parade their cattle and a special bush tucker garden opens in Alice Springs.

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• Rural Reporter, July 27 2013

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  Saturday 27 July 2013

  

  This week we make a scarecrow and watch a Superdog show. Horses and fireworks don't mix in Alice Springs and we go camel racing at Boulia.

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• Rural Reporter July 20, 2013

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  Saturday 20 July 2013

  

  We ride the bi-centennial horse trail and fish for scallops in Tasmania. Sick turtles get the spa treatment and we check out a barbed wire collection in South Australia.

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• Rural Reporter July 13, 2013

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  Saturday 13 July 2013

  

  A poor wet season for Territory crabbers, a travelling lumberjack, poultry on the NSW coast and poddies in the NT.

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• Rural Reporter July 6, 2013

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  Saturday 6 July 2013

  

  Spuds, mobile chicken coops, a veteran woodchopper, and sausages. And Elina Garreffa the chilli lady.

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• Rural Reporter June 29, 2013

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  Saturday 29 June 2013

  

  Heading bush with the mobile toy library, two lads from Liverpool trying their luck in the bull ride at Brunette Downs, cooking with kangaroo and goanna and researchers in Victoria on eating seaweed.

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• Rural Reporter June 22, 2013

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  Saturday 22 June 2013

  

  Cable Beach in Broome a playground for kids from the Port Hedland School of the Air, teasing your tastebuds with Mediterranean olives and native Australian finger limes, and meet two old drovers and their unique annual walk.

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• Rural Reporter June 15, 2013

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  Saturday 15 June 2013

  

  Saddling up for the Tom Quilty endurance horse ride, a 160km/24 hour challenge for both horse and rider.  An early start to the NSW truffle harvest and we visit the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore where a fully equipped gym is getting a good workout.

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• Rural Reporter June 8, 2013

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  Saturday 8 June 2013

  

  We head to the Simpson Desert to study one of Australia's rarest trees and meet a publican in an outback pub. We're on hand to see the final hydrogen weather balloon lift off in Mildura and we join Charlie McKillop on a cruise along Cobbold Gorge, an oasis in north Queensland.

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• Rural Reporter June 1 2013

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  Saturday 1 June 2013

  

  One of Australia's last eucalyptus oil producers; a unique farm diversification into bow-hunting tourism, tips on cooking the perfect steak and Dinky the dingo's musical career.

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• Rural Reporter May 25 2013

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  Saturday 25 May 2013

  

  This week a focus on volunteers - meeting the people who spend days, weeks, even months rebuilding fences and communities through the Blazeaid organisation; and they're looking for volunteer firefighters in the Kimberley town of Kununurra.  We find out what makes a great working dog; and meet Marg Enkelmann, a woman with a vivid imagination who makes wearable art from farm junk.

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• Rural Reporter May 18, 2013

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  Saturday 18 May 2013

  

  A wild mushroom hunt, kindy kids on a day trip in the Grampians, breeding the perfect orchid and getting messy at an urban wine making experience.

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