Landline
Season 2015
Landline is Australia's only national agricultural television program covering stories from Australia's rural and regional heartland.
Where to Watch Season 2015
8 Episodes
- Episode 1E1
Episode 1Import Ban: Pip Courtney speaks with Joseph Saina, Head of the Australian Horticultural Exporters Association, regarding Vietnam's ban on Australian horticultural imports. Chicken Town: There were grave concerns for the little town of Inglewood when its largest employer went into receivership, but a local family came to the rescue. Mixed Blessing: Is buffel grass a destructive weed or productive feed? Kerry Staight travels to South Australia's APY Lands as well as pastoral properties in Queensland and Alice Springs to find out. - Episode 2E2
Episode 2China Boom: Tasmanian farmers are hoping a recent visit by one of the world's most powerful leaders, Chinese President Xi Jinping, will have lasting ramifications for the Island state. Comeback Kids: Landline returns to the Flinders Rangers in South Australia to see how the second batch of western quolls has fared, alongside their feline predators. Water Woes: During the Federal and State Government water buybacks, irrigators warned the loss of water to revive the parched Murray Darling Basin threatened their viability, but three years on have those fears have been realised? - Episode 3E3
Episode 3Northern Hope: Since the suspension of the live cattle trade to Indonesia in 2011 Australia's northern beef industry has made a slow recovery but as the north gears up for the mustering season there's finally a feeling of hope in the air. The Colour Purple: The latest super food to hit the shops is a plum Queensland Government Scientists accidently bred a decade ago and its gaining worldwide interest for its antioxidant properties. Rhubarb: When vegetable processor Simplot pulled out of north-east Tasmania 10-years ago, it was a huge blow to the community but one local farmer took a punt growing a vegetable he knew nothing about. Young filmmaker documents effects of drought: Ten-year-old Ellen Gett is a city kid living in Brisbane - and like a lot of people, she also has a connection to the land. - Episode 4E4
Episode 4Lake Cropping: Every 10 years or so, major floods in Australia's largest river fill lakes on the Lower Darling's massive flood plain in far western New South Wales. When the lakes dry up the farmers get busy growing crops on the moist and fertile lake beds. Old Man River: Alpine ecologist Alec Costin has devoted much of his life to studying and protecting Australia's unique mountain ecology. They're Back: Despite a huge public backlash against its supertrawler two years ago, Seafish Tasmania is now bringing another smaller factory ship to Australia. Markets Report: Landline's weekly commodities analysis and report. Tears From the Sky: 10 year old city raised Ellen made a video of her Grandfather's drought-stricken farm to show her school friends.