Family farm days at Erriba, south of Ulverstone in Tasmania. Alternatives ’85 was run by the Kentish Baha’i community. [audio:http://www.raeallen.net/audio/alternatives-85.mp3] View Larger Map
A seminar run by the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Farm Management Society, looking at the Tasmanian Taskforce into Agriculture. Chairman of the task force was John Alright. [audio:http://www.raeallen.net/audio/siezing-the-opportunities.mp3]
While working in Tasmania for the Rural Department, One of our commitments was a 15 minute radio documentary each Friday. Normally interviews mixed with voice-overs and actuality, their production was sometimes the last thing anyone wanted to do on a Friday, but at a time of 2 to 5 minute interviews I found it a […]
Up until the mid-1980s, Antarctica was more or less cut off from the world for 6 months of the year. In 1984 telephone communication was established with Mawson base in Antarctica and I was one of the first half dozen people to call the research station.
In March 1984 while working in Tasmania I interviewed the worlds first abalone farmer.
Fish farming story from Tasmania [audio:http://www.raeallen.net/audio/fish-farming.mp3]
A Friday Journal documentary piece on the Tasmanian berry industry http://www.raeallen.net/audio/berry-industry.mp3
Story on Aloe Vera, a ‘new’ crop into Tasmania [audio:http://www.raeallen.net/audio/aloe-vera.mp3]
In 1983, one of the radio documentaries I produced was on the rise of organic agriculture in Australia, it’s costs and benefits. At the time organic farming was thought of as very much ‘hippie farming’ at a time when scientific and business professionalism was the catch cry for Australian agriculture. [audio:http://www.raeallen.net/audio/muck-and-mystery.mp3]
My first stretch of work in the Territory was in 1982 when I was a Rural Reporter filling behind the incumbent on extended leave. This interview is with Peter Fogarty a researcher with the Conservation Commission who had ben studying the damage caused by free roaming feral buffaloes in the fragile wetlands.