Geography

Canberra Confidential

A cemetery with lights...the world’s most boring city. Nothing much happens in Canberra, never has. That’s what most people think. ABC presenter Annabel Crabb is set to change your mind in Canberr...

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Australia - The Time Travellers Guide

Of all continents on Earth, none preserve the story of the formation of our planet and the evolution of life quite like Australia. Nowhere else can you simply jump in a car and travel back through the...

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Mawson: Science and Survival

Mawson the Survivor is the epic and relatively untold story of one of the Antarctic’s most incredible stories of survival – the remarkable ill-fated trek of Douglas Mawson in 1912-13. Sir Douglas...

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Wildscreen - Wombats: Bulldozers from the Bush

When shipwrecked sailors first encountered wombats they did what they had to do to survive, they ate them. Over 200 years later the wombat still suffers at human hands, blamed for damaging fences and...

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Foreign Correspondent - Sumatra: Paper Tiger

Riau province in Sumatra is home to the world’s biggest paper plant. It’s owned and run by Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd, better known by the more disarming acronym APRIL. The company h...

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Foreign Correspondent - Bali: They Paved Paradise

There’s a growing resistance - particularly among young Bali locals - to rampant development on the island and tourism at any cost so they’re mobilising. They’re angry about the environmental a...

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Foreign Correspondent - Burma: The Road to Mandalay

Burma, also known as Myanmar, has long been closed off to the scrutiny of the outside world. You’ve always been able to travel there as a tourist, albeit with restrictions, but with the leading opp...

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Four Corners - After the Gold Rush

What happens when a foreign mining company bails out of a big project in a developing country? Who wins? Who loses? These are the questions Four Corners explored following BHP's decision to exit the...

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Inside the Firestorm

On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster. 'Black Saturday' claimed 173 lives, left almost 8,000 homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Vic... Read on

Enough Rope - Professor Tim Flannery

A lot of what you are about to hear is upsetting and part of you will want to stop listening and change the channel. Try to fight that urge if you can because along with the terrifying evidence at the...

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