Western Australia Country Hour
ABC (Australia)
Hosted by Belinda Varischetti, the presenter of the Western Australian Country Hour, the country's finest hour
Location:
Perth, WA
Genres:
Podcasts
Networks:
ABC (Australia)
Description:
Hosted by Belinda Varischetti, the presenter of the Western Australian Country Hour, the country's finest hour
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.abc.net.au/
Episodes
Western Australia Country Hour
5/7/2024
After six "very challenging" years of below-average rainfall, drenched outback stations in Western Australia's Nullarbor region are transforming into a lush green oasis, and some pastoralists are finally bringing back livestock onto their properties.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
5/6/2024
The Premier Roger Cook hasn't ruled out the possibility of a freight rebate for producers interested in trucking sheep to the eastern states, but restricted by the cost of freight.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
5/3/2024
Northcliffe dairy farmer Wally Bettink never imagined water shortages could become so dire.
Duration:00:55:12
Western Australia Country Hour
5/2/2024
An Australian mining company has revealed its plan to be the first to utilise Lake Argyle's hydro-electricity project since the closure of the Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia's far north.
Duration:00:54:41
Western Australia Country Hour
5/1/2024
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/30/2024
Ruby Plains station, just south of Halls Creek, in the east Kimberley has had an impressive and enviable wet season with 1002 millimetres of rain, more than double the average wet season.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/29/2024
WorkSafe is investigating the death of a teenager at a farm in the Wheatbelt over the weekend.
Duration:00:54:59
Western Australia Country Hour
4/26/2024
State agriculture minister Jackie Jarvis has announced an $8.6 million funding package to support agricultural industries and rural communities impacted by the current drought conditions.
Duration:00:55:12
Western Australia Country Hour
4/25/2024
The WAFarmers grain section president has welcomed a modification approved by a global certification system which exempts WA farmers from some rules around aerial spraying, but he says it doesn't go far enough.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/24/2024
A high profile farmer from the wheatbelt says it's tragic that a global certification system has approved a modification for WA growers that is more lenient on the rules around aerial spraying.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/23/2024
The WA Livestock Exporters Association says a proposal to reduce the moratorium period on the live sheep trade by sea this year could see an extra 20-thousand head shipped out of Western Australia, but that comes with a number of caveats.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/22/2024
Over the weekend, a convoy of 8 trucks loaded with fodder travelled from Esperance on the south coast to stations based in the Mid West and Gascoyne.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/19/2024
Rural news and events from Western Australia and the nation.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/18/2024
One of the organisers of a dry season update meeting held in the state's south west yesterday says he was very pleased to see hundreds of farmers at the event, but was disappointed no one from the state government attended.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/17/2024
Over 200 people from 10 different shires attended a dry season update at Yornup, 270 kilometres south of Perth in the state's south-west, this morning.
Duration:00:55:12
Western Australia Country Hour
4/16/2024
Woolworths and Coles executives have been grilled in Canberra today at a Senate Select Committee inquiry on supermarket prices.
Duration:00:54:41
Western Australia Country Hour
4/15/2024
The state government has established a dry season taskforce to help address the challenging seasonal conditions.
Duration:00:55:10
Western Australia Country Hour
4/12/2024
Tassal is best known for farming salmon in Tasmania but it's moved into prawns in New South Wales and north Queensland and has now bought up big in Western Australia's Kimberley region. It has options to expand but some locals are uneasy at that prospect.
Duration:00:55:11
Western Australia Country Hour
4/11/2024
Farmers happily travel hundreds of kilometres a week to play in the Old Fellas Football League.
Duration:00:55:12
Western Australia Country Hour
4/10/2024
Farmers are worried any changes to the Working Holiday Maker visas will create a labour shortage crisis reminiscent of the COVID years.
Duration:00:54:55