99 episodes
Queensland Country Hour ABC Podcasts
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Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world, with our team of specialist reporters covering the big issues of rural life.
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Would you eat dinosaur food?
A nutritious native nut once eaten by dinosaurs has huge potential to be part of the booming Indigenous bush food industry.
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Clean energy, planning pitfalls, and the young people flocking to mining.
Queensland remains one of Australia's largest coal states, and young people are flocking to mining for well-paying jobs in a cost of living crisis.
Ambitious new emissions reduction targets are now set in law, but without the the people, the land and the planning approvals in place can it truly decarbonise?
As farmers stare down significant long-term threats to farm productivity, resilience and sustainability, Australia's top scientists say now is the time to change -
People are still keen to be farmers, even when they know it's tough.
From natural disasters, to poor prices from retailers and world markets, there are plenty of reasons not to become a farmer.
But as some veteran producers retire and others exit altogether, there are plenty of keen beans ready to take up the job. -
From droving cattle on horseback to driverless trucks, freight has come a long way.
The term 'horse-power' may have come about as a marketing tool to sell steam engines in the 1770s, but for the biennial Eidsvold Cattle Drive in country Queensland it's still literal. Using horses to move cattle into town, they're raising money for charity at the same time.
In age of urbanisation it could be easy to forget the role horses play in our food supply chain, or the careers on offer working with them, like becoming an outback horse trainer.
On the eve of a planned trial of driverless trucks, it shows just how far moving goods around Australia has come. -
Producers say its natural and sustainable, but is wool still fashionable?
The Australian wool industry has set new sustainability standards, and wants to spruik its green credentials to the world. But is it fashionable, or even affordable, to wear wool anymore?
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Vergemont Station set to become Queensland's newest National Park.
The state government has bought the outback station nestled between Longreach and the Diamantina Lakes, planning to create a corridor of national parks in some of the most unique country in Queensland.
It's the next chapter for a landscape known for its opal bearing-ranges, indigenous watering holes and as a cattle and sheep grazing operation.
It comes as the federal government outlined the next stage of it's plan for a tough new Environmental Protection Agency to police conservation efforts.