Country Breakfast

A high tech dummy is helping the Royal Flying Doctor's Service save lives in the outback, Lychee farmers are hard at work getting fruit to market for Lunar New Year Festivities, and a town without water is slowly dying.

Life of a travelling carnival no sideshow for fourth-generation show family; inmates learning news skills at farm prison; beekeeper encouraging others to host a hive; Aboriginal elder in a race against time to pass on traditional knowledge.

Regional communities band together to fight the blues and the bulge; a visit to Australia's biggest pineapple plantation; OAM for regional business icon.

Koalas displaced by housing development are finding a new home on a Queensland cattle station; production ramps up at a remote oyster farm off Arnhem Land; performers run away from the circus to become avocado farmers; and an urban farm does a roaring trade in farmgate produce.

Cattle deaths on Pilbara Station; NSW Water minister denies responsibility for second major fish kill; Drinking water delivered to drought-affected far-west NSW; Medical journal calls for food system overhaul to tackle major global issues.

Researchers sound warning bells over levels of microplastics on farms; WA farmers send massive convoy of fodder for their drought-affected counterparts in the east.

A camera repairer harvests old parts to keep vintage models alive; bush kinder teaching kids resilience and risk taking; tasting tiny vegetables that are big on flavour; and caper growers finding a market for their crop.