Graziers are discovering there's millions to be made from their flat red earth.
Taxpayers are funding billions to reduce the nation's carbon footprint.
Reporter Geoff Thompson investigates whether carbon farming will really undo the damage we're doing from burning fossil fuels.

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Folge vom 21.11.2021Boom time in carbon farming country
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Folge vom 14.11.2021The hidden terror that's splitting people's identitiesReporter Tracey Shelton spent years as a correspondent giving a voice to people in war zones who'd experienced trauma. When she returned to Australia, she was surprised to find people here suffering similar symptoms, so she set out to investigate the cause.
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Folge vom 07.11.2021Vulnerable, unvaxxed, and running out of timeThese people were supposed to be near the front of the queue for Covid vaccines. But in Yarrabah, an Aboriginal community near Cairns, local doctors are still scrambling to get the vaccination rate above 50% With only six weeks until the Queensland borders open, reporter Mayeta Clark went to find out why.
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Folge vom 31.10.2021How a conspiracy and a question led to 18 years jailHe was sentenced for a crime that shocked Australia: the terrorist plot to attack Sydney's Holsworthy barracks. But Nayef el Sayed's family are still confused about why he's doing so much jail time, and they're not the only ones with questions about the law used to convict him. Mahmood Fazal investigates.