ABC Rural

Country Breakfast

Saturday, 23/08/2008

Rural news and issues across Australia for the week.

• Rural News Week ending August 22, 2008
  Rural news for the week.
• Rural Reporter for Saturday, August 23, 2008
  Animals and birds take centre stage this week. It's feeding time at the Werribee Zoo, a tricky situation for the head keeper sourcing food supplies during a drought; we go crocodile spotting in the Kimberley and meet a man and his troupe of duck divas, strutting their stuff on the catwalk at the local show. We also come face to face with another feathered creature who doesn't like the limelight at all!
• The life of a drover (part 2)
  Last week on this program, we brought you the first of our series of droving tales, where drover and bush poet Bruce Simpson spoke of life on the long paddock in outback Queensland and the Northern Territory.
• World’s biggest tractor
  What's five metres high, four metres wide, eight metres long, with 570 horsepower?
• Country Viewpoint: Gloria Meltzer, Chewton, Victoria
  Not all of us have the chance to return to a lifestyle in a part of the country we once called home. Viewpointer Gloria Meltzer headed back north from her residence in central Victoria to find things had changed but not always for the better.

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