The house on the hill: The transformation of Australia's farming communities
On the land and in country towns, the battle to survive goes on forever. Increasingly, the world needs food and fibre, but squeezes out the communities which provide them. Young people leave, farmers sell up, towns die, football teams amalgamate, communities keep reinventing themselves. What's going on? What can we do? Neil Barr looks close up, and he looks at the big picture. What affects real people on the land affects everybody.