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Discover new people, places and perspectives with Voice of Real Australia. Each episode showcases stories from rural and regional Australia. A podcast from ACM -- Australia's largest independent media network.

  • What's the buzz about delivery drones?
    This isn't just a story about flying take-out.
  • The Roadkill State
    Tasmania has earned a reputation as the roadkill capital of Australia. The stats say 32 animals are killed every hour - that's more than 500,000 marsupials, reptiles and birds killed on the state's roads every single year. And this is despite Tasmania being an island that's known for its unique biodiversity and world heritage wilderness. You could argue that there're more animals here so there's going to be more dead ones. But when you look closer you see holes in animal protection policy that leaves even endangered species exposed. Read about it: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7780267/ This podcast was produced by Laura Corrigan and Tom Melville. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
  • What happened to Bendigo’s Chinese miners?
    During the gold rush Chinese immigrants made up a quarter of Bendigo’s population, but now only one percent trace their ancestry back to these diggers. The goldfields were a dangerous place in the 19th century particularly for Chinese miners who faced inhibitory discrimination and suffered xenophobic attacks. Despite this many made Bendigo their home and helped shape the city it is today. Their legacy can be seen in the annual Chinese Dragon parade, Golden Dragon Museum, and Chinese gardens. And some miners still haunt the Chinese section of a local cemetery although many of the bodies were exhumed. Reporting by Bendigo Advertiser journalists Petula Bowa and Tom O’Callaghan who writes a semi-regular history series on his hometown, called ‘What Happened?’ Read the feature article: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/7763262/ More about 'Swedish Charlie;: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/7762980/ This podcast was produced by Laura Corrigan and Tom Melville. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
  • Farmers and fishers feud over riverside camping in Victoria
    A simple policy change to allow camping on public land - Crown river frontages - has become a divisive issue among farmers a...
  • Disaster Country Part 2: Living in an unlivable world
    When a disaster strikes it's amazing to see the number of people who are ready to lend a helping hand. Neighbours saving neighbours,...
  • Disaster Country Part 1: It's getting harder to live here
    Floods, fires, drought, and blistering heat have always been a part of Australian life. But, with rising global temperatures, are they...
  • Coming on Tuesday May 10: Disaster Country
    The recent floods in the northern rivers were the worst on record, by around two whole metres in some...
  • Goat yoga sets the baa for mental health care
    What have goats got to do with yoga? And what does any of it have to do with mental health? It can be tough to get mental health...
  • Finding a place for autistic kids in regional Australia
    In Tamworth, Melissa Reinikka is struggling to get her son into the right class at school. Eight-year-old Jacob has autism, anxiety and...
  • Carbon farming for big and small change
    Carbon farming is being touted as a way to slow down and reverse climate change. The idea is that you can suck carbon from the...
  • Should we turn waste into watts?
    Plastic waste is a huge and growing problem in Australia. What can't be reused or recycled ends up in landfill. An alternative is to...
  • Will the Hunter Valley be ready when the change comes?
    Coal employs around 14,000 people in the Hunter Valley. Whole communities have risen up out of the dark soil, established on lucrative...
  • Sins of the Fathers: Clergy abuse weighs on western Victoria
    School should be a safe space, not a peadophile's playground. The community was in shock after the 2013 Royal Commission revealed...
  • Waves of nostalgia at legendary South Coast break
    The surfer's getaway Don Hearn's Cabins is a throwback to when a break was a break on the South Coast. The cabins at Cunjurong Point...
  • Diabetes: The silent assassin
    Type 2 diabetes is everywhere in this country and around the world - there could be 700 million cases worldwide in the next 25 years....
  • Should we eat our national animal?
    Kangaroos are an Aussie emblem, but they're also a source of native red meat. Roo harvesting divides Australians but there's evidence...
  • When culture is a crime: Fishing on the South Coast
    Aboriginal people are being prosecuted on the South Coast of NSW for fishing, something their ancestors had done there for thousands of...
  • Why wombats are rotting to death
    Mange riddled wombats die an agonising death without treatment, but governments don't consider the parasite a conservation issue. This...
  • Closing the map: Restoring Aboriginal place names
    Some Aboriginal place names are so iconic, like Noosa or Wollongong, that we don't even think about them. But over two centuries of...
  • Regenerating a valley and a community
    Bylong's population dwindled after a coal mine bought up family farms, the school, the general store and the Catholic church. Over a...