ABC Rural

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Rural Highlights

Plague locust updates: The ABC Rural update site for information on plague locust outbreaks in your region.
Mining and Resources: Babs McHugh and our reporters cover the latest in mining news.
The Cold Esky Challenge: See the latest mouth-watering dish from our ongoing series.

News

Features

Hava Tassie avo

Avocado season has begun on the north-west coast of Tasmania. That's right - Tasmania - that chilly island south of Australia that's so well-known for growing cold-loving plants like berries and swedes. Not so well-known for tropical fruit.

Donnybrook Apple Fun Park

Imagine this: a huge playground with exercise equipment for adults as well, all enclosed so your kids are safe, barbecue equipment and toilets, open day and night.

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Smoke on the harvest - a recent fire in National Park adjacent to family farm, north-west of Patchewollock, Victoria, Australia.

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Audio

Rural Podcasts

Subscribe to ABC Rural podcasts. See the ABC Podcasting page for more information about podcasting.

Rural News Podcast

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/audio/nrnpodcast.xml

Bush Telegraph

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bth.xml

Country Breakfast

http://abc.net.au/rural/breakfast/rrfull.xml

Country Hour Highlights

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/audio/chpodcast.xml

Rural Reporter

http://abc.net.au/rural/reporter/rrfull.xml

ABC Rural Programs

Listen to the latest ABC Rural radio programs. For help listening to audio on your computer, see the ABC Streaming page.

Listen to National programs

Rural News [ RealMedia 28k+ | MP3 | ]
Bush Telegraph [ MP3 | RealMedia 28k+ | WinMedia 28k+ ]
Country Breakfast [ RealMedia 28k+ | WinMedia 28k+ ]
Rural Reporter [ MP3 | RealMedia 28k+ | WinMedia 28k+ | ]
Resources Beat [ MP3 | ]

Listen to the Country Hour

New South Wales [ Real ] | [ Windows ]
Victoria [ Real ] | [ Windows ]
Tasmania [ Real ] | [ Windows ]
South Australia [ Real ] | [ Windows ]
Western Australia [ Real ] | [ Windows ]
Northern Territory [ ] | [ Windows ]
Queensland [ Real ] | [ Windows ]

Visit the Programs page for more information about ABC Rural programs.

Last updated: 9:23am, Wednesday, 3 December 2008

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Rural Blog

Weather

National synopsis as of Thursday, 10AM

A trough over central Australia is generating showers for SA and western VIC. The trough is also causing storms over SA. A second trough is causing thundery showers for southeast QLD and northern NSW. Ridges of high pressure are keeping skies mostly clear over QLD, the NT and WA. The northern jet shows a weak trough over WA, helping direct moisture over the interior. The southern jet is directing a set of cold fronts and a Low pressure system south.

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