Landline

Episode 18 (2014x18)

Air date: Jun 08, 2014

Toil and Soil: An increasing amount of food waste is being professionally composted and put back onto farms to improve the fertility of the soil. Interview with NCOs Ben Copeman: Peter McCutcheon talks to Ben Copeman; the General Manager of the organic certifier involved in the recent landmark judgement on genetically modified contamination. A Tree Falls: Coalition Governments at state and federal level are seeking to re-open forests previously declared off-limit to logging, potentially ending a 2012 timber industry peace deal. Chinese Pastoral: A group of Indigenous landowners have combined ten separate cattle stations in northern Australia to form a new cooperative and they're attracting serious interest from a Chinese investor.