ABC Rural

Country Breakfast

Saturday, 17/05/2008

Rural news and issues across Australia for the week.

• Rural News Week ending May 16, 2008
  Rural news for the week.
• Rural Reporter for Saturday, May 17 2008
  This week we visit a school that grows, harvests and cooks up its own native bush foods; watch Aboriginal artists at work in the historic town of Cossack in the Pilbara; and we've got an appointment with the dentist - that's a horse dentist - for a bit of a check up! We also meet a family living their lifestyle dream on a farm outside Bundaberg in southern Queensland.
• Reinventing the bush
  We're used to hearing about how young people are leaving regional areas, and how that that stay are often bored, or unable to reach their full potential.
• Country Viewpoint: Anne Carson, Melbourne
  Anne Carson, reflects on how sometimes we don't see things that are right under our nose.

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