Queensland Country Hour
By ABC Rural
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Podcast Description
The Country Hour brings you the latest in agricultural and mining news and developments from around Queensland
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Qld Country Hour podcast 25/5/12 | Dry season rain tops 300mm in a day. | 24 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/5/12 | Aus beef caught up in a US food safety scare. | 23 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/5/12 | A new El Nino could influence Australia's weather. | 22 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/5/12 | Cape York land is handed back to traditional owners. | 21 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/5/12 | Optimism about the sugar cane crush which starts this week. | 20 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 18/5/12 | Action is taken against live exporters linked to cruelty in Indonesia. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 17/5/12 | Analysis shows CSG extraction could lower bore water levels by more than a metre. | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/5/12 | Vegie growers tell the good and bad of dealing with the big supermarkets. | 15 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 15/5/12 | The Federal Government faces class action over 2011 live export ban. | 14 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/5/12 | Cotton prices fall to below cost of production. | 13 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 11/5/12 | A warning water price hikes will send farmers broke. | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 9/5/12 | Beef 2012 hears of a sustainability plan for the global industry. | 8 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 8/5/12 | Beef 2012 in Rockhampton. | 7 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour 07/05/12 | Beef 2012 kicks off in Rockhampton with some world first genomics research unveiled. | 6 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 4/5/12 | A supermarket commits to Aussie frozen veg. | 3 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 3/5/12 | An electricity price review has farmers worried. | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 2/5/12 | Landcare asks why groups are dwindling. | 1 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 1/5/12 | The last independent sugar mill in the far north is sold. | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 30/4/12 | Amalgamation anger at council elections. | 29 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/4/12 | End to interest rate subsidies for drought assistance | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 26/4/12 | The housing squeeze in a gas town pushes people to live at a showground. | 25 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 25/4/12 | Mad cow disease in the US and beef prices react. | 24 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/4/12 | Miners seek access to Wild Rivers areas. | 23 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/4/12 | Should deregulation be reversed for Australian agriculture? | 22 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 20/4/12 | A farmer to head the Gasfields Commission but no one is clear on it's role. | 19 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 19/4/12 | Tree clearing investigations suspended as prosecutions and penalties are reviewed. | 18 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 18/4/12 | A secure future for a Qld pest research centre. | 17 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 17/4/12 | Distance education families grapple with the new national curriculum. | 16 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/4/12 | Consultation wraps up on the Murray-Darling Basin water plan. | 15 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/4/12 | Murray Darling submissions close, what's a free roaming chicken, Liverfluke resistence growing | 12 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 12/4/12 | BMA closes a coal mine blaming floods, cost increases, lower prices and strikes. | 11 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 11/4/12 | Fuel prices head for a three and a half year high this week. | 10 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 10/4/12 | Truckies say any rise in road train registration costs will be passed on. | 9 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 9/4/12 | Wool prices have fallen but is not the only problem for wool growers, wild dogs are a massive problem. | 8 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour Podcast 4/4/12 | Farmers welcome LNP statement, that it will lift ban on shooting flying foxes, native bees can increase carrot yields. | 3 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour | Today on the Country Hour we spoke with new state mining and natural resources minister Andrew Cripps, and heard that supermarket price wars may be good for some consumers. | 2 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour Podcast 020412 | Today on the Country Hour, we meet new state agriculture minister John McVeigh, talk about a devastating citrus disease and get the latest on the weather and markets. | 1 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 30/3/12 | More cattle but fewer sheep in the latest livestock census. | 29 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 29/3/12 | Auditors look at Racing Queensland's books as country clubs ponder more meetings. | 28 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 28/3/12 | The community and the company talk about the huge Wandoan coal project. | 27 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/3/12 | Confidence may be down but farmers are optimistic about their long term prospects. | 26 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 26/3/12 | As the new LNP government discusses portfolios, farm groups talk about plans for a stand-alone agriculture department. | 25 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 23/3/12 | Farmers and miners talk about the Qld election campaign. | 22 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/3/12 | Slow start to the east coast trawl season raises questions about Easter seafood. | 21 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/3/12 | Details of the latest climate outlook as Qld roads are flooded and crops are flattened. | 20 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 20/3/12 | Heavy rain and wind hits towns, roads, cane and bananas in the north. | 19 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 19/3/12 | Fishing and flooding in the streets as rain lashes north Qld. | 18 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/3/12 | The official report on the 2010-2011 summer flood disaster and what councils and a key farmers group think of its recommendations. | 15 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 15/3/12 | Four political parties talk to the Country Hour about Coal Seam Gas. | 14 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/3/12 | A climate report has found that in spite of La Nina, Australia's climate is continuing to warm. | 13 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/3/12 | Hear what the Qld election might hold for the state's rural roads. | 12 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour pocast 12/3/12 | Hear what Queensland's farm lobby groups think of the state election campaign so far. | 11 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 9/3/12 | The new Comptitiveness Minister talks about the tough international trading environment. | 8 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 8/3/12 | The Great Barrier Reef is under international scrutiny during a UNESCO visit this week. | 7 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 7/3/12 | Transport headaches for farmers with a key highway flooded and rail bridge broken. | 6 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 6/3/12 | Mining communities name their priorities for election promises of funding. | 5 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 5/3/12 | Queensland's main north-south highway again cut by floodwaters. | 4 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 2/3/12 | Australia's cattle industry is urged to support an international beef futures market. | 1 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 1/3/12 | Doctors say mining companies should be made by law to contribute to rural health services. | 29 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 29/2/12 | Graziers dismayed as the Federal Agriculture department investigates new claims of cruelty against cattle. | 28 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 28/2/12 | New video and new questions about the treatement of Australian animals in Indonesian abbatoirs. | 27 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/2/12 | How gluts kill good prices for farmers and how they could be prevented. | 26 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/2/12 | The biggest agribusiness companies to discuss their own lobby group. | 23 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/2/12 | Rural leaders tell the ALP to sort out its leadership once and for all. | 22 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/2/12 | A report names Cloncurry in Queensland as a good spot for a northern meatworks. | 21 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/2/12 | Australia's biggest tomato grower in administration and 60 people out of work. | 20 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 20/2/12 | A rally against a coal mine puts the election issue of mining in agricultural areas into the spotlight. | 19 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 17/2/12 | Anger from anti-mine campaigners about a grazing land sale in central Queensland. | 16 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/2/12 | The man who's sold a central Queensland property to a foreign miner says he didn't have a choice. | 15 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 15/2/12 | A Queensland coal mine strike is set to interrupt supply to Asian customers. | 14 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/2/12 | A land deal between a leading cattle man and an Indian mining company angers a union. | 13 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/2/12 | How Queensland's inland floods have brought Australia's biggest cattle sale to a standstill. | 12 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour | The Australian Meat Industry Council can't explain why animal cruelty has been happening in a NSW meat works. A farmer south of Dirrinbandi says water is rushing over his paddocks, the floods are already exceeding levels he saw last year and the peak is still a good day away. And we'll hear from the baker in St George who is hoping authorities let his family and other residents back into the town this afternoon, because despite being a baker, he reckons he's a terrible cook and have been living on baked beans for a week now. | 9 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour Podcast 9/2/12 | We're continuing to keep you updated about the floods in the south west. Now the peak has passed St George and the cleanup at Mitchell is underway there is a call for people to shop locally to best help the community get back on its feet. We'll check in with cotton growers along the Balonne to see how they are coping with record flooding and I have the latest hydrology report for people at Dirranbandi. You can still expect a 5.5 metre flood. And completely unrelated to the floods (and something that may gross you out a little) did you know that female crocs can store sperm in their bodies for up to 2 years! | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour Podcast 8/2/12 | People who have been flooded now have the opportunity to apply for grants of up to $25 000 to help them recover, it includes farmers, small business and not for profit groups. There were concerns a weir near St George was going to blow and there was some confusion as to whether that threat has now passed our Southern Queensland reporter, Arlie Felton Taylor clarifies. And for many years the north west has ridden on the back of Xstrata's success as a miner but today they have agreed to merge with another company in a deal worth 83 billion dollars. | 7 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour 7/2/12 | Its raining in Roma and Mitchell this lunchtime so we'll chat with the weather bureau and see what this might do to already full creeks and rivers. Charleville residents are making they're way back home with the flood threat passed, what a great feeling for them - we'll chat with the mayor soon and we're going to talk with a grazier who usually lives along the Maranoa but at the moment is camped here in Brisbane after his house and property have been badly flooded. | 6 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 6/2/12 | Floods have ravaged southern Qld and towns in central Qld, mining giant Xstrata palns to merge with Glencore | 5 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour podcast 3/2/12 | We're going to keep you updated with the flooding situation in the south west, the bureau have just revised their river models to give us a better picture of what heights the likes of the Maranoa and Balonne as well as the M****e are going to get to. We'll drop in on a property owner north of Mitchell and see how he's coping with record flooding and we'll hear from a St George farmer who says his cotton is already going under. But we're pleased to report the situation in western Queensland is settling down - the sun is even trying to come out in Charleville. | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour podcast 31/1/12 | What do local shoppers think of Coles decision to slash prices of some lines of fruit and vegetables? You may not be surprised to hear that many think its great, because it will reduce the weekly shopping bill but industry is baffled, asking how growers who have signed supply deals with Coles are able to stay afloat. And despite a challenging year with the temporary suspension of the live cattle trade with Indonesia and the high Australian dollar - the Australian Agricultural Company has posted a healthy profit. | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour 24/1/12 | The Cattle Council of Australia is the peak lobby group for beef producers but is experiencing financial difficulties and need a restructure. Today they released a draft plan on what it suggests will get them on their feet again. And what colour rose do you think is in vogue at the moment, we'll visit a nursery in the tropical north to find out. | 23 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour Podcast 23/1/12 | Meat and Livestock Australia reckon we are in for a record breaking year for beef production and the blame game between commercial and recreational fishermen for the low numbers of coral trout being hauled in from north Queensland waters continues. | 22 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour podcast 20/1/12 | On the program, it's been a year since the milk price wars started, which saw supermarkets selling milk for a dollar a litre. Today we hear from the qld dairy farmers organisation who say the pain of low returns continues for their members. Paraway Pastoral company are now big players in the cattle and sheep industry but say they have finished up buying properties and we head to Tamworth where the Country Music festival gets underway tonight and a Queensland pineapple grower has headed down for a little boot scooting. | 19 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour Podcast 19/1/12 | On the progra, we're going to have a chat about foreign investment in agriculture, Senator Bill Heffernan and AgForce have a problem with how high the trigger is before the Foreign Investment Review Board step in to give any purchase the ok. Currently they only look at investments over 230 million dollars but AgForce have said today they want the trigger to be set as low as 15 million. A number of sugar research employees who work for BSES are being offered redundancies, just how many is still unclear but grower groups are saying its going to mean they will have to employ the likes of an agronomist to fill the void. And the stock squad have recovered 100 000 dollars worth of stolen property in the far north. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour Podcast 18/1/12 | On the program, the federal government comments on the latest report into foreign investment in agriculture. They say outsider investment is actually good for productivity and not a bad thing as many people think. 53 people are set to lose their jobs in Toowoomba after a local tannery is to be shut down, the union says the timing couldn't have been worse and we head to far north Queensland to chat with a lovely dutch couple who grow Anthuriums - do you know what they look like? | 17 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour podcast 17/1/12 | On the program, we have details on the severe weather warning for the coast and islands of the Wide Bay and Burnett but chat with a grazier near Gympie who is actually enjoying the rain. Every year in January the National Farmers Federation give the federal government their budget wishlist and on the program we pick through it and in the far north of the state there are objections by growers to the increase in the mango levy. | 16 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 16/1/12 | On Country Hour today, a 300 million dollar rail project in North Queensland will see the capacity for more minerals from the North West get to port more efficiently and there are now more rules around sending beef to Indonesia as well as weather and markets. | 15 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/1/12 | Brisbane floods one year on, livestock exporter looks to new markets and a horse fly named Beyonce | 12 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 12/1/12 | Indonesia annouces reduction in boxed beef quotas, Thai prawns rejected due to bacterial contamination, testing bull fertility and pinepales with sunscreen protection | 11 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 11/1/12 | The Foreign Minister has been talking cattle in Indonesia while the Chief Vet defends Australia's ability to keep food and mouth disease out. | 10 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 10/1/12 | Farmers share their year of rebuilding after a flash flood tore through parts of southern Queensland. | 9 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 9/1/12 | Fishermen find no answers in the latest scientific report on Gladstone Harbour. | 8 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 6/1/12 | Horse owners are on alert with a new case of hendra virus in the north. | 5 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 5/1/12 | Theodore's cotton is thriving but repair work continues a year after record floods. | 4 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 4/1/12 | Condamine locals talk about a year of flood repairs and recovery. | 3 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 3/1/12 | The Bureau of Meteorology describes Queensland's 2011 as a wet, cool year. | 2 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour podcast 2/1/12 | The challenges and opportunities that 2012 offers Australia's rural industries. | 1 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour podcast 30/12/11 | Australia's insurers declare 2011 their most catastrophic year. | 29 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour podcast 29/12/11 | Are restrictive country town trading hours pushing rural shoppers online? | 28 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour podcast 27/12/11 | Doctors warn rural areas will lose out to pay for new after hours services in the cities. | 26 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/12/11 | A prediction of record farm exports next year. | 22 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/12/11 | Exports of some vegetables to New Zealand stopped. | 21 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/12/11 | The beef industry ends the year on a high note with very strong prices. | 20 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 20/12/11 | More seasonal workers from Pacific nations to come to Australia. | 19 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 19/12/11 | No promotion campaign to help Gladstone after a fish disease outbreak. | 18 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/12/11 | What's next for the beef industry now Indonesia's cut its quota? | 15 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 15/12/11 | Details of a plan to try irrigated cropping along two north west rivers. | 14 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/12/11 | Queensland's beetroot growers talk to a cannery interstate while pineapple growers pull back from supplying a plant in Brisbane. | 13 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/12/11 | Dozens of teachers leave Queensland's agricultural colleges. | 12 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 12/12/11 | Graziers debate the future with Wild Rivers officially declared in Queensland's west. | 11 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 9/12/11 | Sucrogen talks about its plans for the Proserpine sugar mill now its takeover has been approved. | 8 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 8/12/11 | Heavy rain brings flash flooding as southern Queensland rivers rise. | 7 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 7/12/11 | The Murray Darling Basin Authority visits southern Qld, Qld government to investigate spiralling rental costs in mining towns. | 6 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 5/12/12 | The ALP national conference rejects a motion to ban the live export trade, vale legendary rural journalist Malcolm McCosker, the Salvation Army release post disaster DVD to assist people to recover from the emotional impact of floods, cyclones and bushfires. | 4 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 2/12/11 | Queensland's new cropping land protection laws explained. | 1 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 1/12/11 | The Murray Darling Basin draft plan could be challenged in the courts say lawyers. | 30 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 30/11/11 | Today an upbeat assessment of sugar prices from Queenslanders at a world cane and beet growers meeting. | 29 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 29/11/11 | The use of a herbicide on crops like sugarcane and bananas is suspended for the wet season to minimise run-off. | 28 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 28/11/11 | Communities and farmers along the length of the Murray Darling Basin talk about the latest draft plan for it's managment. | 27 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 25/11/11 | Details of a plan for the world's biggest marine reserve just off the Queensland coast. | 24 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/11/11 | Details of a very close call to foot and mouth disease in Australia. | 23 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/11/11 | The Premier announces a gas royalty-funded education trust. | 22 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/11/11 | Farm groups are claiming a victory in the political negotiations over the mining tax. | 21 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/11/11 | Farmers are warned to be ready for a bumpy commodity prices ride over the coming months. | 20 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 18/11/11 | The LNP releases a mining policy which aims to make all payments from gas companie to farmers public. | 17 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 17/11/11 | Several hundred graziers are in Longreach in western Queensland for Meat and Livestock Australia's AGM and many want the company wound up. | 16 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/11/11 | New leaders for the cattle and sheepmeat producers point to live exports as challenges for their industries. | 15 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 15/11/11 | Queensland reaffirms its uranium mine ban in the face of forecasts of a global shortage and the Prime Minister calling for exports to India. | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/11/11 | A draft report says cane, vegetable and cotton farmers should pay up to 50 per cent more for their irrigation water. | 13 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 11/11/11 | An index of agribusiness stocks shows they've taken a dive but the underling assessment of the sector is that it's strong. | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 10/11/11 | New animal tracing and auditing requirements are pushing up the price of Australian beef in Indonesia. | 9 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 09/11/11 | Protesters in Gladstone Harbor claim dredging for a gas terminal is harming sea life. | 8 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 08/11/11 | Kangaroo numbers are up by a third in Queensland but why haven't last year's cull quotas been filled? | 7 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 07/11/11 | A north Queensland sugar mill goes into voluntary administration prompting a new round of offers from foreign companies. | 6 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 04/11/11 | Queensland Dairyfarmers are bitterly disappointed with the results of the senate inquiry into supermarket milk pricing. | 3 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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QLD Country Hour podcast 03/11/11 | Country Hour 03/11/11 | 2 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 02/11/11 | A new bill to protect water has been introduced into the Senate by the Greens. | 1 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 1/11/11 | Coal seam gas companies are urged to follow Santos and put their water testing data online. | 31 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 31/10/11 | The Qantas stoppage leaves hundreds of small towns without a doctor. | 30 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 28/10/11 | Agriculture ministers are due to decide whether to ban Australian abattoirs from slaughtering livestock without stunning. | 27 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/10/11 | Storms cause problems with hail hitting wheat crops and lightening sparking new fires. | 26 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 26/10/11 | Another Queensland council says it doesn't want a resource exploration exclusion zone around a town and farmers nearby are worried. | 25 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 25/10/11 | The weather bureau says Queensland's summer will be wet with flooding but nothing like last year. | 24 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/10/11 | A statistical snapshot of agribusiness in Queensland shows things are picking up after the floods and cyclones. | 23 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/10/11 | New standards and rules for the export of live animals have been announced. | 20 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 20/10/11 | Help is being rallied for graziers burnt out by bushfires in Queensland's central west. | 19 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 19/10/11 | With thousands of hectares of western Queensland burnt by bushfires, thousands of head of cattle have been left with nothing to eat. | 18 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 18/10/11 | A legal barrier is removed to allow graziers on leased land to get involved in carbon trading. | 17 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 17/10/11 | Wild weather hits Queensland primary producers. | 16 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/10/11 | Fisheries Qld suspects a flood link to the sick barramundi problems in Gladstone Harbour as the local fish market says it's dumping a lot of stock. | 13 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/10/11 | Queensland's farm production is tipped to top $14 billion this year despite the summer of floods and cyclones. | 12 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 12/10/11 | Queensland farmers visit Canberrra to tell the government how their spending millions of dollars of Reef Rescue money. | 11 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 11/10/11 | Another horse dies in Queensland as the govenrment hands out millions of dollars of hendra virus research money. | 10 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 10/10/11 | Queensland farming farwells former AgForce president Peter Kenny who died over the weekend. | 9 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 07/10/11 | Today on the Qld Country Hour, what's the future for the north west now a big energy project has bitten the dust? | 6 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 06/10/11 | The Qld Country Hour looks at the state of the organics industry now that supermarkets are on baord and meets dairy, vegetable and beef farmers who've made the switch. | 5 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 05/10/11 | The Qld Country Hour hears claims leasehold land rents are sending people broke and need to be reviewed. | 4 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 04/10/11 | Queensland's floods and cyclones have meant a record year for the body handing out government assistance to farmers and rural businesses. | 3 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 03/10/11 | Do consumers want to know how much a farmer was paid for the fruit and veg they're looking at in the shop? A couple of politicians think the price should be displayed. | 2 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 30/9/11 | Weather bureau this summer's tropical cyclone season won't be as widespread or as intense as last season, it's grandfinal time so why wouldn't you paint your sheep in Geelong colours, and indigenous students being trained at Longreach. | 29 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 29/9/11 | Some useful rain in the south and west of the state, but fire warnings in other parts of the state, the falling dollar is putting a spring in beef producers steps. | 28 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 28/9/11 | The World Conservation Agriculture Congress heads to Gatton. CA is basd on reduced tillage, retaining stubble and crop rotation. | 27 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/09/11 | Cropping land protection laws will go to the Queensland parliament next month. | 26 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 26/09/11 | Calls for compensation as a central Queensland fishing fleet says its reputation and livelihood has been ruined by the discovery of sick and dying fish. | 25 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/9/11 | The Queensland flood inquiry is told more controls are needed over levee banks on farms and mine sites. | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/09/11 | Today the Qld Country Hour hears of optimism in the live export and meat trades but world grain prices are dropping faster than analysts had expected. | 21 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/09/11 | Journey along the coal seam gas pipeline in Queensland from exploration to export. | 20 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 20/09/11 | A political argument heats up about rural firefighting as grass and bushfires burn across Queensland. | 19 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 19/09/11 | Queensland begins the week with fires burning at all points of the compass and a new mapping facility for the state's river catchments and floodplains. | 18 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/09/11 | Big targets set for Queensland's farmers to boost production as the LNP unveils an agriculture strategy today. | 15 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 15/09/11 | The Queensland Country Hour capturing all the action from the annual conference of rural lobby group AgForce. | 15 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/09/11 | At around the half-way mark, Queensland's sugar cane crush has been revised downwards but cotton farmers are planting one of the biggest crops ever. | 13 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/09/11 | One the Qld Country Hour; dairy farmers confront Coles in Toowoomba and banana packers hard at work on post-cyclone crops in the far north. | 12 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 12/09/11 | The Country Hour looks at issues of foreign farm ownership and what's next for the Proserpine sugar mill. | 11 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 09/09/11 | The Qld Country Hour reports on an apparent sabotage attack on 50 bee hives in one of Australia's biggest horticultural production areas. | 8 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 08/09/11 | Details of a review of Queensland's sugar pooling and pricing in response last season's multi-million dollar loss. | 7 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 07/09/11 | Today the Qld Country Hour heard about talks that could re-open the kangaroo meat trade with Russia. | 6 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 06/09/11 | Dairy farmers explain how they worked out that supermarket milk discounting has cost the industry $77 million. | 5 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 05/09/11 | On the Qld Country Hour, confusion over how many workers will have to live at a big, new mine site in the Bowen Basin and questions about the number of SES volunteers able to answer calls for help during the coming storm season. | 4 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 02/09/11 | Queensland's biggest flour mill has reopened after flood repairs but last year's wet summer is still haunting sugar cane growers and millers. | 1 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 01/09/11 | A Queensland climatologist says early indications suggest another La Nina will develop this summer. | 31 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 31/8/11 | Proserpine members vote down Sucrogen offer | 30 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 30/8/11 | Live export boat destined for Indonesia to load in Townsville | 29 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 29/08/11 | Today the Qld Country Hour looks at the criticism levelled at the coal seam gas industry from within the resources sector. | 28 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 26/08/11 | Canegrowers in the north gather to discuss foreign offers for their sugar mill and the Qld Country Hour joins them in Proserpine. | 25 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 25/08/11 | Industry leaders defend a cattle restraint box given to Indonesian meatworks but graziers tell the Qld Country Hour they're angry now its been ruled unsatisfactory by animal welfare standards. | 24 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/08/11 | The Port of Brisbane has told the Qld Country Hour it sent more grain, cotton and meat overseas last financial year in spite of the summers' floods and high Australian dollar. | 23 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/08/11 | Rural Queenslanders have more TV stations than ever before but the Country Hour asks why they've come at the cost of radio access. | 22 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/08/11 | Today the Country Hour reports on fears southern states will turn away Queensland fruit if a particular insecticide is banned. | 21 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 19/08/11 | Today there are tributes from regional Australia for three ABC newsmen believed killed in a helicopter crash. | 18 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 18/08/11 | Import and export debates dominate the Country Hour today. | 17 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 17/8/11 | Another horse dies of hendra virus in NSW, apple growers wait for news today of Biosecurity Australia's latest apple import agreement with NZ new Zealand apples. | 17 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 12/08/11 | The last day of beef judging at the Ekka, Bowen Hills. | 12 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 11/08/11 | The final day of beef cattle competition at the Ekka at Bowen Hills, Brisbane. | 11 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 09/08/11 | Another Queensland meatworks has flagged it will shut down for two weeks in September because of tough trading conditions. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 08/08/11 | Lobby groups, the Queensland Government and the opposition argue over the time it has taken to establish laws to protect prime farmland. | 7 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 05/08/11 | Wold markets have seen the worst day of trading since the global recession, we examine what the uncertainty means for rural and resources commodities. | 4 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 04/08/11 | The Senate inquiry into the impacts of the ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia gets underway in Darwin. | 3 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 02/08/11 | It'll be another month until live cattle are for slaughter are exported to Indonesia out of the north west Queensland port of Karumba. South East Asian Livestock Services says it hopes to source 700 head of breeder cattle from the Gulf region this week, before turning their sights to feeder cattle. | 1 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Queensland Country Hour Podcast 01/08/11 | Queenslanders await the release of the flood inquiry interim report, set to be handed to the premier Anna Bligh later today. | 31 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 29/07/11 | Representatives of the Dairy Farmers Milk Cooperative have secured an increase of about one cent a litre on the tier one, or bottled, milk price from the milk processor, National Foods. | 28 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 28/7/11 | The Aussie dollar hits $1.10US and its hurting exporters | 27 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/7/11 | Hendra virus confirmed in a pet dog, the Qld and NSW quadruple funding | 26 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 26/07/11 | A regional Queensland horticulture group wants to shoot flying foxes again after the practice was banned some years ago; the call has been labelled unreasonable by a conservation group. | 25 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 25/7/11 | Water use efficiency funds available, AAco losses for half year | 24 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 22/7/11 | Australian Food and Fibre challenge leadership of PrimeAg | 21 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 20/07/11 | The nation's kangaroo industry in crisis with the lucrative export market to Russia still shut, the industry says the market's crucial to sustain jobs in remote areas. | 19 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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QLD Country Hour Podcast 19/07/11 | The trucking industry is worried a six fold increase in registation charges will affect regional carrying companies. | 18 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 18/07/11 | The Prime Minister answered questions about the carbon price and the implications for agricluture. | 17 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour Podcast 14/07/11 | A glut in the citrus industry has meant growers have had to lay off workers and leave fruit rotting on their trees. | 13 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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QLD Country Hour Podcast 13/07/11 | Queensland meat processors cut their kill days and sales have been cancelled in Western Queensland. | 12 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 12/07/11 | A trucking company blames the disruption to the live export trade for job losses. | 11 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 11/07/11 | Farming and mining lobby groups react to the new carbon pricing arrangements. | 10 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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QLD Country Hour podcast 08/07/11 | The Queensland beef industry reacts to the lifting of the live export ban to Indonesia. | 7 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 07/07/11 | We asked listeners if they thought it was okay to resume live cattle export trading with Indonesia without pre-slaughter stunning being mandatory. | 6 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 06/07/11 | More Hendra virus cases suspected in Queensland sees vets refusing to treat horses for fear of catching the disease and more beef on the domestic market could put pressure on the price of lamb. | 5 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 05/07/11 | Chinese company COFCO corporation takes a controlling share in north Queensland's Tully Sugar Mill and questions about the impact a carbon price could have on the livestock and grain transport sectors. | 4 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 04/07/11 | The Hendra virus claims more horses in Queensland after another positive test and the latest on the live export trade between Australia and Indonesia. | 3 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 1/7/11 | Graziers unhappy with governments response to live export crisis in Indonesia, concerns Australia will not get export permits, grain prices collapse and Mango growers say their trees are looking wonderful. | 30 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 30/6/11 | The Prime Minister announces $30million dollars for the cattle live export industry, JBS blames sluggish demand from Japan for two week closure of Beef City, NRL hopefuls in Rockhampton | 29 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 29/6/11 | Today the Qld Country Hour looks into the latest hendra virus case, a JBS meatworks shutdown near Toowoomba and QSL defends its single-desk marketing system for sugar. | 28 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 28/6/11 | Today the Qld Country Hour hears from Don Heatley, the man who heads up Meat and Livestock Australia, on live exports and compensation; the state government wants Qld biofuels powering the US Navy; the cane crush gets underway at northern sugar mills; and the gloss is off cotton as prices fall. | 27 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/6/11 | Today on the Qld Country Hour, meat processors welcome the news that Indonesia will allow more chilled beef imports from Australia next year; a court challenge to a ban on artificial insemination in the thoroughbred industry; federal and state governments are working on a national approach to finding and prosecuting water thieves; and Mackay Sugar has made its offer to Tully Sugar shareholders unconditional. | 26 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/6/11 | Today on the Country Hour, the suspension of the live cattle trade to Indonesia has seen the loading facility at Karumba mothballed, with the loss of eight jobs. | 23 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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QLD Country Hour 23/6/11 | Today we heard from lobby group the Cattle Council, who have just returned from Indonesia. We also spoke to Central Queensland agent on the record sale of two brahman bulls, and got the numbers from the Blackall and Roma. | 22 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld country Hour podcast 22/6/11 | Today on the Country Hour, thousands of cattle to be sent to Qld following the suspension of the live cattle trade with Indonesia. | 21 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 21/6/11 | Today on the Qld Country Hour hundreds of cattle producers gather in Darwin and Canberra to say the ban on live exports to Indonesia is sending them broke; a coal seam gas company is fined for not doing the right thing on a farm; and locals are worried about the roads being ripped up as the first coal is exported from the Galilee Basin. | 20 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 20/6/11 | Today on the Country Hour banana production is at it's lowest level since before cyclone Yasi, the planting window is closing and we meet some enthusiastic cheese makers | 19 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 17/6/11 | Today's Queensland Country Hour featured discussion of the impacts the coal-seam gas industry has on underground water, salinity risks posed by the industry, and possible water re-use. Also today, Queensland dairy farmers worried about suggestions that the supermarket price war isn't impacting as badly on the industry as first thought. | 16 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 16/6/11 | In today's Queensland Country Hour a dairy analysts says the supermarket milk price war hasn't yet had a major impact on the wholesale price of milk; a Western Australian cattle producer cancels a big order for Queensland bulls a result of the livex ban; and a Western Queensland mayor says the states Agriculture Minister is out of touch with the issues affecting the bush. | 15 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 15/6/11 | Today the Qld Country marks the end of an era as Exceptional Circumstances drought assistance wraps up; takes a loot at the impact of the Indonesia export ban on cattle prices at Australian sales; asks who will need to be paying more after a wage ruling by Fair Work Austrtalia?; and finds out why fresh fruit and vegetable prices should be getting back to their pre-disaster levels in the shops. | 14 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 14/6/11 | Today on the Qld Country Hour; Meat and Livestock Australia rejects a Government call for it to compensate graziers caught up in the Indonesian live export suspension; more funds for festivals as a way of boosting the state's disaster recovery; a study says a carbon tax in Australia would cost four thousand jobs and eight coal mines; and we try to answer the question, What makes a good farmer good? | 13 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 13/6/11 | Today on the Qld Country Hour, the question of compensation for cattle producers caught up in the ban on live exports to Indonesia; some locals named on the Queens Birthday Honors list; German farmers talk about the bacteria poisoning case that's killed more than 30 people; details of a scholarship scheme to help Queenslanders rebuild their lives after floods and cyclones and government scientists explain why they're smashing huge timber poles in half. | 12 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour 10/6/11 | In today's Country Hour the head of the Australian Agricultural Company, David Farley speaks about the ban on live cattle; a southern Queensland horticultural operation fined for failing to take proper care of it's workers on the day a backpacker died; and a UK ban on fracking in the coal industry is being watched with interest here in Australia. | 10 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 9/6/11 | Today's Queensland Country Hour featured Indonesia's biggest importer of live cattle, Australia's biggest exporter of live cattle, and grass roots producers struggling to decide what to do with livestock following the ban on cattle to Indonesia. Today's program also discussed how moving Year 7 into high school will impact on bush kids; and Keith de Lacey's appointment as deputy chair of Chinese company COFCO. | 8 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 8/6/11 | Today on the Country Hour, reaction to the federal government's decision to suspend the live cattle trade to Indonesia for up to six months in response to footage of animal cruelty screened on Four Corners last week. | 7 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 7/6/11 | On the Qld Country Hour today, more evidence of cattle mistreatment in Indonesia; the NFF works out what a carbon tax would cost a sheep farmer; time to think of bushfire prevention in Queensland and a judge reveals how to find the best steak. | 6 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 6/6/11 | On the Qld Country Hour today, details of a cattle industry plan to limit the number of Indonesian meatworks allowed to take Australian animals; Bob Katter's new political party, record wool prices and the board of Tully Sugar says shareholders should sell to a Chinese company. | 5 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 3/6/11 | Today on the Country Hour, Sucrogen keen to buy Proserpine sugar mill, ticks found on cattle at the Roma saleyards and claims there ove 900 cattle processing operations in Indonesia, also clams that stunning cattle is unacceptable to the Islamic religion are refuted. | 2 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 01/06/11 | Today on the Qld Country Hour, the meat industry says if the live trade to Indonesia is stopped the cattle can be processed on shore; a meeting of beetroot growers in the Lockyer Valley assesses their future without Golden Circle; apple and pear growers call for assistance to face life with imports and how you can enter the Farmer of the Year competition. | 31 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 31/05/11 | Today on the Qld Country Hour graziers, politicians, researchers and consumers add their voices to the debate over the future of live cattle exports to Indonesia; and a new set of maps has been released as the state government seeks to protect high value croplands from mining. | 30 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 27/5/11 | Today's Country Hour discussed the suspension of Australian live cattle exports to 3 Indonesian abattoirs due to animal welfare footage showing cruelty to cattle; fertiliser company Hi Fert in administration; CSIRO research showing methane emissions from cattle in northern Australia is lower than current estimates would suggest; and the resignation of CEO of MSF Sugar Limited, Mike Barry effective this December. | 26 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 26/5/11 | Today's Country Hour featured the Federal Agriculture minister criticising the live export industry for being too slow in improving animal welfare standards; forecasts of a drier cane crushing season this year; a special report on women in developing countries bearing the brunt of poverty from a United Nations forum in New York; and a company planning to plant trees to make bio-diesel in north-west Queensland. | 25 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 25/5/11 | Today's Country Hour discussed cotton and beef exporters concerns over a week-long port strike in Brisbane; the last of the summer floodwaters trickling its way out of Queensland; pork industry concerns over a NZ decision to allow uncooked imports of pigmeat; and strong criticism from the Queensland Mines minister of Arrow Energy's response to a gas leak near Dalby earlier this week. | 24 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 24/5/11 | Today on the Country Hour concerns about possible strike action at the ports' of Melbourne, Sydney, Freemantle and Brisbane also today we talk flood and cyclone recovery money. | 23 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 23/05/11 | The Qld Country Hour today heard that mud had to be pumped into a gas well on the Darling Downs to plug a leak; Australia's live export industry denies its new animal welfare plan has deliberately been released prior to a television program on the controversial trade; the Maritime Union of Australia will start a series of rolling stop-work bans across four major ports including Brisbane and in news that has been welcomed by farmers, the country's only grains-to-ethanol plant has been sold to a major independent Australian petrol company. | 22 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qld Country Hour podcast 20/5/11 | Today's Queensland Country Hour visited the Gympie Show, heard why Maryborough Sugar has changed its name to MSF Sugar Limited, why the Climate Commission is holding a public forum in Mackay, and heard how cotton is once again 'king' in St George. | 19 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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