Country Breakfast

Timorese seasonal workers are picking mangoes in the territory; we visit a daylily farm; go on a wildlife boat tour; and Ivan McNally hangs up his butcher's apron aged 86.

Report finds biosecurity failure led to prawn disease outbreak; WA Government axes Schools of the Air; Avocado pop up serves it up 20 different ways.

Fire danger rating systems are getting an overhaul, with fire scientists modelling a new system to take into account different vegetation types and weather conditions. Australians are not only embracing coffee culture, but also the craft of bean roasting, with the country's top roasters judged at a recent competion.

The education gap in Australia is getting wider, with new data released this week showing that school attendance at regional, rural and remote schools is going backwards. And despite extensive funding in Closing the Gap programs, Indigenous attendance is not improving. Now schools and lawmakers are realising discipline isn't always the answer.

Wild weather hits cherries, oysters and grain crops; Overseas lawyers allege backpacker tax breaches international treaties; Peak wool industry body to undergo audit; BoM declares La Nina.

Teenage refugees go bush to tell their stories; country kids polish up their team sports skills; crowdfunding helps save a native fish; and meet Kempsey's stamp lady, Lyn Saul.

It's a boozy program this week as we find out what Australian whisky could taste like; discover a career change for doctors turned distillers and meet a martini whisperer.

We look for nesting sites of the little tern; meet a former FIFO miner turned chicken farmer; open the gate to social farming; and pen up sheep with 86-year-old stock agent Linton Bradley.