While the conflict between commercial and recreational fishing interests was significant in the Territory, so was the conflict between recreational fishing and conservation interests. (more…)
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 pleasure to have a time frame to get my teeth into.
This particular Friday Journal came about when I met Warren Purton, a Northern Tasmanian farmer who was still using draught horses to do some of the jobs more recently managed by tractors.
Talent: Warren Purton
To air: Friday Journal, 23 May 1984, duration: 14:03
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. (more…)
Photo from the 60s of kids sitting in corn husks with old vehicles from the 40sIn 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.
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. (more…)
