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Landline

Season 2023 2023
TV-G

  • 2023-02-12T01:00:00Z on ABC
  • 55m
  • 1d 14h 30m (42 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • Documentary
Landline is an Australian national rural issues television program broadcast on ABC1. Since 1991 this program has been ABC-TV's main vehicle for current affairs coverage of regional / rural issues and events. Presented by Pip Courtney, the program discusses rural issues regarding farming, mining and fisheries from around Australia. Each week the show wraps up with an update on commodity prices for livestock and mining, and detailed national weather rainfall reports.

42 episodes

Season Premiere

2023-02-12T01:00:00Z

2023x01 Episode One

Season Premiere

2023x01 Episode One

  • 2023-02-12T01:00:00Z55m

Devastating flooding for farmers and communities in South Australia and Western Australia's Kimberley regions; Rebuilding from flood in central New South Wales; plus rejuvenated wetlands for birds.

2023-02-19T01:00:00Z

2023x02 Episode Two

2023x02 Episode Two

  • 2023-02-19T01:00:00Z55m

Crunch time for the Murray Darling Basin Plan; More to cherries than a Christmas treat; Kids on camp honing cattle skills; plus imperfect produce becomes gourmet dried fruit.

2023-02-26T01:00:00Z

2023x03 Episode Three

2023x03 Episode Three

  • 2023-02-26T01:00:00Z55m

Predicting outbreaks of the deadly Hendra virus; Celebrating diversity among Australia's farmers; Finding safe, affordable feed additives for carbon neutral cattle; and reaping the rewards of agri-forestry.

2023-03-05T01:00:00Z

2023x04 Episode Four

2023x04 Episode Four

  • 2023-03-05T01:00:00Z55m

How different communities along the Darling River are managing recent flooding; Queensland's camel queen conquering social media; and Tasmania's wool growing maverick doing things her way.

2023-03-12T01:00:00Z

2023x05 Episode Five

2023x05 Episode Five

  • 2023-03-12T01:00:00Z55m

Fighting chemical spray drift in the cotton industry; The quest for a national planning code for leaky weirs; Growing more rice using less water; plus protecting Indigenous culture for future generations.

2023-03-19T01:00:00Z

2023x06 Episode Six

2023x06 Episode Six

  • 2023-03-19T01:00:00Z55m

Carbon credit concerns about agriculture; Livestock with a difference - farming rats; A remarkable journey from Cambodian refugee to successful mango farmer; plus Connecting the world's Punjabi community with farming.

2023-03-26T01:00:00Z

2023x07 Episode Seven

2023x07 Episode Seven

  • 2023-03-26T01:00:00Z55m

Life on the water taking a mental toll on fishers; The swamp saviours of northern Victoria; Supporting early childhood learning in the bush; and tension over a proposed workers camp near a small town in Western Australia.

2023-04-02T01:30:00Z

2023x08 Episode Eight

2023x08 Episode Eight

  • 2023-04-02T01:30:00Z55m

The fashion designers with a passion for home grown wool; New hops varieties helping to create distinctive brews; plus how waste oyster shells are rejuvenating degraded waterways.

2023x09 Episode Nine: Rural Flavours

  • 2023-04-09T01:30:00Z55m

An encore of stories bound to make you hungry. Getting goat on more menus; The secrets of black garlic; Tasty, tiny tomatoes; The seafood provedore championing unpopular fish species and cuts; plus mixing rum and dairy cows.

2023-04-16T01:30:00Z

2023x10 Episode Ten

2023x10 Episode Ten

  • 2023-04-16T01:30:00Z55m

The renewable energy rush dividing rural communities; Draining the silent flood of salinity in the wheat belt; Raking cockles in Shark Bay; and reviving Rawlinna: the largest sheep station in the country.

A special Anzac Day tribute to Australia's mighty war horse, the Waler; No limits for a determined cane farmer; and the WA wheatbelt's need for lime at odds with a top tourism destination.

2023-04-30T01:30:00Z

2023x12 Episode Twelve

2023x12 Episode Twelve

  • 2023-04-30T01:30:00Z55m

The Australian wine industry limps to the end of one of its most difficult vintages; a spotlight on the outback kids taking to the stage to put on a musical; and the monthly water and climate outlook from the Bureau.

2023-05-07T01:30:00Z

2023x13 Episode Thirteen

2023x13 Episode Thirteen

  • 2023-05-07T01:30:00Z55m

Growing more of a fruit that many people have never heard of - jujubes; Dark, starry nights in remote Western Australia; plus it's showtime for the cast of the outback musical.

2023-05-14T01:30:00Z

2023x14 Episode Fourteen

2023x14 Episode Fourteen

  • 2023-05-14T01:30:00Z55m

A new weapon to help combat livestock theft; Over-fishing fears in World Heritage listed Shark Bay; The charity using farming to help mental health; and an artist's emotional connection to landscape.

2023-05-21T01:30:00Z

2023x15 Episode Fifteen

2023x15 Episode Fifteen

  • 2023-05-21T01:30:00Z55m

Electronic tracking of wool bales from the shearing shed through the supply chain; Uniquely crafted furniture in the Top End; plus the shearing doctor with the best of both worlds.

2023-05-28T01:30:00Z

2023x16 Episode Sixteen

2023x16 Episode Sixteen

  • 2023-05-28T01:30:00Z55m

An exclusive insight into the live export trade; Healing country and people in Western Australia's south-west; plus and honouring Sandy the Waler, the only horse to come home from the First World War.

2023-06-04T01:30:00Z

2023x17 Episode Seventeen

2023x17 Episode Seventeen

  • 2023-06-04T01:30:00Z55m

The second part in our series on WA's live sheep export trade; Australia's new apple, the Bravo; Increasing production of the premium delicacy marron; plus remembering Australian country music legend Joy McKean.

2023-06-11T01:30:00Z

2023x18 Episode Eighteen

2023x18 Episode Eighteen

  • 2023-06-11T01:30:00Z55m

The final instalment in our series on WA's live sheep export trade; A sky high future for mustering; Improving abattoir safety and efficiency through technology; and lifting the profile of persimmons.

2023-06-18T01:30:00Z

2023x19 Episode Nineteen

2023x19 Episode Nineteen

  • 2023-06-18T01:30:00Z55m

Fighting the scourge of skin cancer in the bush; The retired cattleman changing lives in Cambodia one cow at a time; and sealing the final stretches of Australia's Outback Way.

2023-06-25T01:30:00Z

2023x20 Episode Twenty

2023x20 Episode Twenty

  • 2023-06-25T01:30:00Z55m

Meet the Farmers of the Year; Western Australia's abalone rancher; How the destruction of millions of bees has affected farmers; plus reflecting on life on one of Australia's most famous outback cattle stations.

2023-07-02T01:30:00Z

2023x21 Episode Twenty One

2023x21 Episode Twenty One

  • 2023-07-02T01:30:00Z55m

A special report on the methane busting seaweed that is crucial to efforts to reduce livestock emissions; A new plantation model for forestry on the Tiwi Islands; and private properties open their gates to farm camping.

2023-07-09T01:30:00Z

2023x22 Episode Twenty Two

2023x22 Episode Twenty Two

  • 2023-07-09T01:30:00Z55m

Western Queensland is enjoying an incredible season after a decade of drought; Australian know-how transforming the care of buffaloes in Laos; and the young shearing boss recruiting new workers from all walks of life.

2023-07-16T01:30:00Z

2023x23 Episode Twenty Three

2023x23 Episode Twenty Three

  • 2023-07-16T01:30:00Z55m

A training program changing lives on a Kimberley cattle station; and pushing new boundaries in the alternative meat market.

2023-07-23T01:30:00Z

2023x24 Episode Twenty Four

2023x24 Episode Twenty Four

  • 2023-07-23T01:30:00Z55m

Ditching plastic for plant alternatives; Making money out of bee glue; plus shark-cage diving and the abalone industry.

2023-07-30T01:30:00Z

2023x25 Episode Twenty Five

2023x25 Episode Twenty Five

  • 2023-07-30T01:30:00Z55m

Australia's crop prospects; The family cattle business enjoying the benefits of cutting carbon emissions; plus Australian research growing the beekeeping industry in the Pacific.

2023-08-06T01:30:00Z

2023x26 Episode Twenty Six

2023x26 Episode Twenty Six

  • 2023-08-06T01:30:00Z55m

Safeguarding the future of Australia's spinach industry; Taking the centuries old tradition of drinking kava to the next level; plus the outback sculpture festival unearthing hidden talent.

2023-08-13T01:30:00Z

2023x27 Episode Twenty Seven

2023x27 Episode Twenty Seven

  • 2023-08-13T01:30:00Z55m

The fallout from Victoria's ban on native timber harvesting; A country community backing its own solar energy project; Using the power of numbers for better cattle management; plus off and racing at the Boulia camel races.

2023-08-20T01:30:00Z

2023x28 Episode Twenty Eight

2023x28 Episode Twenty Eight

  • 2023-08-20T01:30:00Z55m

Victorian logging ban exposes a rift among scientists; Nesting boxes reignite hope for endangered Cod; Cotton growers use "bank-less" systems to save water and improve efficiency plus a small town holds an annual rugby event.

2023-08-27T01:30:00Z

2023x29 Episode Twenty Nine

2023x29 Episode Twenty Nine

  • 2023-08-27T01:30:00Z55m

A rise in meat allergies caused by tick bites; A livestock judge tells his story of foster caring; Pharmaceutical cannabis market hindered by driving penalties, plus the NSW timber industry questions its future.

2023-09-03T01:30:00Z

2023x30 Episode Thirty

2023x30 Episode Thirty

  • 2023-09-03T01:30:00Z55m

Concerns over the environmental impact of commercial fertiliser; tourists experience the Roma saleyards, plus life aboard a live export ship.

2023-09-10T01:30:00Z

2023x31 Episode Thirty One

2023x31 Episode Thirty One

  • 2023-09-10T01:30:00Z55m

Protecting valuable sandalwood from bushfires, a look at the history of canola, growing mushrooms in the old Holden factory, plus turning manure into granular fertiliser.

2023-09-17T01:30:00Z

2023x32 Episode Thirty Two

2023x32 Episode Thirty Two

  • 2023-09-17T01:30:00Z55m

Encouraging workers to consider careers in agriculture, growing mushrooms in the old Holden factory, community opposition to the government plan to "re-wire the nation", plus the carpenter giving old shearing tables new life.

2023-09-24T01:30:00Z

2023x33 Episode Thirty Three

2023x33 Episode Thirty Three

  • 2023-09-24T01:30:00Z55m

Farmers enjoy success with regenerative agriculture, dry-land rice farmers reduce methane emissions and water use, plus a visit to the Mount Isa rodeo - one of the country's biggest.

2023-10-01T01:00:00Z

2023x34 Episode Thirty Four

2023x34 Episode Thirty Four

  • 2023-10-01T01:00:00Z55m

Italian and Indigenous cultures brought together at a hydroponic herb farm; the largest ever sustainability study of the red meat industry; plus enterprising equine vets in Victoria are set to launch a 'foal ambulance'.

2023-10-08T01:00:00Z

2023x35 Episode Thirty Five

2023x35 Episode Thirty Five

  • 2023-10-08T01:00:00Z55m

NSW cotton operation makes world-first verified carbon-positive cotton; salt-affected farm turns to growing salt-tolerant plants for consumption; hemp building products; plus a new flight school takes off in Cloncurry, QLD.

2023-10-15T01:00:00Z

2023x36 Episode Thirty Six

2023x36 Episode Thirty Six

  • 2023-10-15T01:00:00Z55m

A return to dairy farming in Far North Queensland; The remote station where cattle and conservation co-exist; Fighting ferals in Victoria's Otway region; plus changing lives through tiny acts of kindness.

2023-10-22T01:00:00Z

2023x37 Episode Thirty Seven

2023x37 Episode Thirty Seven

  • 2023-10-22T01:00:00Z55m

The impact on the honeybee industry of living with varroa mite; Lumpy Skin Disease disrupting cattle trade with Indonesia; plus the big investment in Australian grown and made popcorn.

2023-10-29T01:00:00Z

2023x38 Episode Thirty Eight

2023x38 Episode Thirty Eight

  • 2023-10-29T01:00:00Z55m

The army veterans finding a new mission through farming; Searching for the country's best high school agricultural programs; Protecting the Hunter's river red gums; plus the monthly weather and climate outlook.

2023-11-05T01:00:00Z

2023x39 Episode Thirty Nine

2023x39 Episode Thirty Nine

  • 2023-11-05T01:00:00Z55m

The fifth generation farmers adapting to changing climates and markets; Tough decisions for sheep producers; Educating young people about consent; plus the agent selling vast cattle properties in northern Australia.

2023-11-12T01:00:00Z

2023x40 Episode Forty

2023x40 Episode Forty

  • 2023-11-12T01:00:00Z55m

A biological alternative to traditional shearing; The sustainable food business turning farm waste into meals; plus the rare Australian made tractor popular with vintage machinery enthusiasts.

2023-11-19T01:00:00Z

2023x41 Episode Forty One

2023x41 Episode Forty One

  • 2023-11-19T01:00:00Z55m

Tagging and tracking wild cattle and buffalo in the Top End; Fighting illegal fishing; White spot virus leaves the NSW prawn industry at a standstill; plus changing how goats are farmed.

2023-11-26T01:00:00Z

2023x42 Episode Forty Two

2023x42 Episode Forty Two

  • 2023-11-26T01:00:00Z55m

An enterprising father and son growing tea; Lismore's ice cream factory back in business after flooding; A cowgirl on wheels breeding miniature goats; plus an outback postie delivering more than just letters. (Final for 2023)

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