Background Briefing - Galleries
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Intervention consequences
- 16 images
- Published: 16/11/2008
Reporter Lorena Allam visited several communities in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory. While remote Aboriginal communities are safer, everyday living is more complicated. There's a 600 dollar cab fare to town, and then Centrelink has to approve toys for your kids.
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Metals, money and madness
- 5 images
- Published: 02/11/2008
The global economic collapse is now seen to be caused by greed and theft. There's a parallel in the looting of metals, especially copper, around the world.
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Hendra and the bats
- 6 images
- Published: 31/08/2008
Bats carry many of the nasty viruses, even SARS, Ebola, Nipah and Hendra. Scientists think bats may be using these deadly viruses in a war with other species, including horses and man.
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Privatising nature
- 24 images
- Published: 27/07/2008
An astonishing six million hectares of Australia, something like the size of Tasmania, is now being privately protected for plants and animals. Hundreds of millions of dollars are involved as schemes spring up around the country. But private conservation faces big challenges.
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Bury, Burn or Compost
- 11 images
- Published: 20/07/2008
There's a boom in funerals around the corner as the Boomers face mortality, but neither cemeteries nor crematoria are eco-friendly. The business of burials is beginning to adapt, and so are their future customers.
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One Family Farm
- 25 images
- Published: 04/05/2008
Today's generation of farmers is experiencing unrelenting change - climate change, drought, globalisation and plummeting incomes. Many families are finding the pressures too much to bear. Reporter Di Martin grew up in sheep and wheat country, and tells the story of one of her cousins, as he puts his property on the market.
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Children of Zimbabwe
- 5 images
- Published: 27/05/2007
Children of Zimbabwe Gallery
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