Country Breakfast

This week we revisit cattle graziers, families recovering since the February floods in far northwest Queensland, and Tasmania is seeing a booming $2 billion investment in wind energy.

A team of scientists and artists discover a tiny fruit bat and 90 plant species around just one tree in a vertical BioBlitz of Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve on the Sunshine Coast.

Labor outlines its jobs plan for regional Australia supporting timber and meat processing workers and surveillance is stepped up to counter activists invading saleyards, farms and abattoirs.

This week it's been farmers versus vegans, but what is it like to bear the brunt of activist protests? And how Tasmania's fires and hot summer have devastated the local honey industry.

Schools abandoning classrooms in favour of bush education; desert drive-in a social hub for outback community; pursuing a passion for working with dogs sees city office worker relocate to isolated farm; choir singers raise spirits and money for drought affected community.

This week the final report on the Menindee fish kills; vegans protest over livestock farming, and one of the last dairy farms in the southern Riverina shuts up shop.