Indigenous fishermen revive net fishing tradition; working dogs sniff out farm jobs for young owners; family of toymakers bringing joy of traditional toys to new generation; outback horse race goes ahead without spectators.

This week we find out how COVID-19 is affecting the highly mobile force of international backpackers; dive deeper on the price hikes for fruit and veg; and give a round of applause to businesses changing what they do to help fight the disease.

Green sea turtle returns to the wild after being nursed to good health; compassionate community finds forgiveness for accidental fire starter; the story behind quirky roadside mailboxes; and farmer comes up with crafty contraptions to reduce back-breaking load.

This week we hear about the changes we want to keep post coronavirus; why veggie seedlings and seeds are selling out and will more Australians look to farm work as job losses increase?

Smoke-tainted wine grapes helping feed wildlife; spectacular sunflower crop brightening drought affected landscape; residents of rural village preparing to rebuild homes after devastating fires; tips on life in isolation from couple who have called remote island home for more than 30 years.

This week we welcome water down the Darling River, all the way to Pooncarie; the panic buying of mince has now led to heavy discounting; and let's spend some hours on the road with the nation's busiest drivers - truckies.

Woodworker teaching others how to make 18th century style chairs by hand; ancient art of blacksmithing helping farming family find a way through drought; traditional shoemaker embracing slow fashion to produce bespoke items, grandfather passing on skills of tanning trade to his granddaughter.

This week we find out what it is to be flexitarian; discover the precautions farmers are taking to keep their workforce safe amid coronavirus; and learn how a vegetable could become part of your sunscreen.

Meet the passionate people preserving relics of the past in regional Australia. Whether it's old houses, churches, trucks, or trains, we'll introduce some of those undertaking painstaking restoration work to bring beauties of the past back to life.

This week how the closure of restaurants is hurting other boutique business; and butchers are bouncing back after a rush on meat.

Feeding the village, tourist town helping residents get by with hampers of good grub; wildlife sanctuary staff making sure animals get lots of attention during lockdown; bustling market falls quiet as stalls stripped back to bare essentials, end of an era as nuns leave former convent, turned ecology site.

This week we find out why Australia wants a review of wet markets; why farmers can't get their tractors repaired and how agriculture is hitting its sweet spot.

Finding fossils in underground cave dig; street artist turning country town into open air art gallery; friends turn super sleuths to solve historic mystery; tricks to growing tasty tomatoes on huge trellises.

This week we find out why the US meat industry is in coronavirus chaos; hear the Belgian potato industry's cry for frites; and discover why this Mothers' Day will be a great one for flower growers.

Uncompromising, truly unique music from the experimental veteran.

Offers more than a whistle-stop tour of the hits.

Cope’s solo standout, and a record he’d naturally never repeat.

Cocker’s an oddly innocuous voice on an album too smooth to really impress.

A mixed manifestation of electronic pop from the former Kraftwerk-er.

How the US and China have handled the coronavirus contagion and the secret history of Labor's election debacle.

Is the government pulling the right levers to mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19. How long can the Australian economy survive shut downs before we tip into irreparable damage? 

Hear from the chair of Infection Control at the National University Hospital in Singapore, who says home isolation is impossible to enforce, and everyone who tests positive for coronavirus should be isolated in hospitals or in designated hotels until they recover. Plus, veteran British historian Max Hastings discusses his new history of the World War Two Dambusters raid.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has told the army to shoot to kill anyone who violates strict COVID-19 lockdowns. Has he gone too far, or is this just more of the strong-man machismo that made him so popular? We talk to Sheila Coronel, Professor of Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School. Also, why don't Australian prime ministers leave quietly? Australia has had 30 prime ministers since its Federation in 1901. According to political historian Norman Abjorensen they all have one thing in common: a marked reluctance to relinquish power.

What impact will Boris’ bout of COVID-19 have on his leadership and the nation’s fight against the virus?  His former boss, political columnist Charles Moore weighs in. Later in the program Moore discusses his best-selling three volume biography of Margaret Thatcher. Was the Iron Lady really an eco-warrior? Would she have supported Brexit?

How do we revive the economy once the pandemic passes? Coronavirus has Australia headed for a deep recession, so what can we do now to plan our way out of it? Is the answer more government intervention and state planning? Or, is now the time to launch a new reform agenda that sharpens the incentives to work, save, invest and hire? And, Alexander Downer: “I don’t know what China’s problem is” Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for an investigation into the origins of the virus. But China’s Ambassador in Canberra upped the stakes this week by threatening a trade and tourism boycott of Australia. Australia’s longest serving Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer says China’s Cold War style rhetoric will backfire on it, and it is in everyone’s interests to investigate the origins of the virus. But as we head into recession, can we afford to aggravate our largest trade partner?

Sweden's virus experiment: death sentence, or a way forward?

If your government failed to provide running water, electricity, roads, safety from gender violence, or other staples of everyday life, what would you do? In the Solomon Islands people are taking matters into their own hands, even schoolgirls. If their government can’t provide, they’ll try.

Stolen hand sanitizer, an iso wedding, losing all three of your jobs in one week – life at home in lockdown in Australia, as told through the intimate audio diaries of three women.

Crocodiles have been reported as far south as Angourie in northern New South Wales, but did they ever inhabit the region?

Alice Baxby wasn't around to enjoy (endure) the scrunchie hair trend of the 1980s and '90s, but she's selling hundreds of the hair ties to help drought-affected families.

Floodwaters more than 50 kilometres wide came through Queensland's Channel Country earlier this year, but the extended weather forecast is not promising a return to average rainfalls.

Floodwaters that crippled North Queensland's cattle industry have turned the Channel Country further downstream into a landscape of dramatic contrasts.

Three-dimensional zebra crossings have turned up in Iceland, England and even the tiny outback town of Boulia in Queensland and now one Sydney council is exploring whether it could join the trend.

Often underprepared but determined to live the dream, hordes of grey nomads are keeping the Royal Flying Doctor Service busy in the outback.

Bull riding has always been the cowboy's domain, but young cowgirl Riley O'Dell is bucking the trend and taking home prized buckles in outback Queensland.

Winton shines in the new television series, Total Control, starring Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths.

When it comes to stealing scenes and hearts, these Winton dogs know all the tricks.

The outback Queensland town of Barcaldine has officially set a new world record for the longest line of motorhomes.

When outback pioneering single mother Mary Emmott started rainfall records in 1914 she had no idea how important they would be.

The first fall in the small town of Ilfracombe in Central West Queensland since 3mm was measured in March

Governor Hutchinson's May 4 directives on the re-opening of indoor and outdoor venues indicate closures will be lifted on May 18, but that's not what the event calendar at Fort Smith's Temple Live says.

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The Racing Commission had a long and open discussion but again cleared the Cherokee Nation's belated application for a casino permit in Pope County. A Mississippi casino operator says it will sue if the Cherokees win the permit.

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The business lobby wants to use the pandemic as an excuse for its dream of dreams -- lawsuit immunity.

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Coronavirus today: May 18 set for reopening of casinos.

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Saline County juveniles are free to roam, but they are encouraged to follow directives on social distancing. They will, right?

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A prosecutor will argue for a capital murder conviction in the slaying of former Sen. Linda Collins because the defendant had a motive of pecuniary gain.

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Coronavirus today:

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