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.
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In March 1984 while working in Tasmania I interviewed the worlds first abalone farmer.
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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.
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