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Lena is the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn is a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.

A series of interwoven portraits set in a remote Australian town.

'Big Girls Don't Cry' is about the strength and resilience of three people and their families coping with end-stage renal failure. Mariah Swan (from Moree) gets a kidney transplant at 18 months of age and now we visit her when she is 10 years old. Glenda Kerinuaia (from Bathurst Island) chooses to self-administer Peritoneal Dialysis so that she can participate in the cultural and family life of Tiwi Island. Essie Coffey OAM (from Brewarrina) speaks poignantly of the hardship associated with Haemodialysis. Essie tells us of her cultural dilemma in receiving a kidney transplant. Eventually with her weakened immune system, the common cold claimed her life. Renal physicians tell us what it means for Indigenous Australians living with debilitating renal disease in remote and rural communities.

John Pilger tells of their struggles of indigenous Australians as they were driven from their lands and he follows events throughout this century as they relate to Aboriginal rights.

Rob is a young farmer struggling under the relentless pressures of the Australian drought. Rob and his wife Sophie are both strong characters. As their livelihood is threatened, their relationship begins to suffer. Throughout their struggle Rob always seems to remain positive and constantly tries to support his wife. However the pressure is slowly getting to him and he is left with a choice that no one should have to face.

Young people tell their own stories. Tales of trouble, hope, insight and survival.

This Program was screened daily on the ABC in Australia to excite regional, rural and remote communities about the arrival of new Satellite Television and Radio services. It also explained some of the installation choices available for consumers.

HURT is a docu-drama like no other. 250 young Australians from rural areas and small towns, have been given the opportunity to tell their own stories, with their images, in their own words. Challenging, haunting and ultimately uplifting, HURT recounts episodes in the lives of these young people whose faces have been marked with the lines of experiences beyond their years. Cruelty, beauty and isolation seen through young eyes. The cast and crew included 15 car thieves, 23 homeless young people and 9 young people with mental illness. There were 200 camera operators, 98 sound recordists and 85 performers. HURT includes 50 portraits, 8 stories, 11 image based scenes, 3 songs, 2 docu- drama scenes, 2 comedy scenes and 1 connecting narrative. An outsider film.

Woolgrowers scramble to assemble shearing teams due to border closures; Home-made soft drinks bubbling in popularity; Australia's underappreciated native mushrooms; How Israeli farmers are coping with COVID.

Late last year Landline introduced seedling producer Wendy Erhart. Wendy Erhart's entrepreneurial skills and business acumen have been recognised nationally as Wendy was named Australia�s Businesswoman of the Year.

This week is National Landcare Week and the Landcare organisation recently commissioned a survey on what city people know about farming and the results will no doubt disturb but perhaps not surprise many primary producers. Sally Sara talks about the results of the survey with Landcare boss Brian Scarsbrick.

The Prime Minister's $10.5 billion water plan may have focused attention on the poor state of the Murray-Darling system but previously untroubled waterways are also suffering. The Hunter is one such river, where added competition from the expanding coal mining industry is causing alarm. Wine producers, horse breeders and dairy farmers all fear a major new mine proposal in the Upper Hunter could seriously threaten their long-term viability.

Phil Higgins is a man on a mission to give kids in the bush the kind of hands-on learning experience their city counterparts often take for granted. Once a year this retired professor packs up his plane and heads to remote parts of the country to share his passion for science.

This time next week we will probably know if the National Party has managed to hold-on to former deputy prime minister Mark Vaile's seat of Lyne on the mid north-coast of New South Wales. If as predicted the Nationals lose the by-election, it will give them 9 seats in the lower house and four senators.

In the past 10 years hundreds of bores across the Artesian Basin have been capped and integrated into farm irrigation schemes as part of a project funded by federal and state governments and landholders. Yet there was a hostile reaction recently among some farmers to the New South Wales Government's plan to sell-off some of the water that's been saved by bore capping.