Country Breakfast

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Rural Australia, reported from the ground.

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Country Breakfast is ABC rural journalism with a Saturday-morning rhythm: practical, conversational, and grounded in regional reporting. It moves from urea supply and diesel pressure to floods, cattle stations, camp drafting, freight, biofuels, and country-town businesses.

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About Country Breakfast

Country Breakfast is a weekly rural affairs program with a wide paddock and a practical ear. It treats agriculture, transport, weather, trade, animals, and regional life as connected parts of the same national story. The tone is relaxed, but the reporting is rarely lightweight. One episode can begin with the question of why Australia depends so heavily on imported fertiliser, then move through urea manufacturing in Western Australia, government investment, gas costs, and the reality of what farmers need before planting. Another follows electric prime movers from promise to trial results, testing clean-transport claims against the experience of a forestry company hauling logs from forest to mill. The show is especially strong when big systems meet ordinary logistics. Fuel crises are heard through long school runs, freight routes, diesel use, biofuels, aviation fuel, and the cost of moving goods through disrupted shipping lanes. Weather is reported with similar attention to consequence. Ex-tropical cyclone Narelle, flooding in the Northern Territory, water over cattle stations, roof damage, flattened stockyards, and dry Victorian farms all appear as lived regional conditions, not abstract events. Country Breakfast also keeps a sense of rural culture in frame. Camp drafting, mountain calf sales, poultry collecting, cattle conferences, garden groups, racehorse breeding decisions, and a Brahman bull drawing crowds at the beach all add texture to the policy and disaster coverage. Its interviews favour people close to the work: producers, rural reporters, business owners, industry representatives, and residents explaining what has changed on the ground. The result is not a farm bulletin in miniature. It is a national program that understands distance, weather, animals, infrastructure, and regulation as daily facts for rural Australia.

Made for: Country Breakfast suits listeners who follow Australian agriculture, regional policy, rural weather, freight, livestock, and the communities behind those stories. It is especially useful for people who want national context without losing the local detail.

What sets it apart: The show links large policy and market questions to concrete rural experience, moving easily between trade settings, fuel security, cyclone damage, cattle stations, and country characters. Its strength is the bureau-led texture: reports sound close to the roads, paddocks, depots, saleyards, and towns being discussed.

In their own words

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

It turns rural policy and national disruptions into clear accounts of their effects on farms, families and regional businesses.

Country Breakfast starts from conditions on the ground and follows them into policy. David Claughton and Annie Brown lead editions that pair a rural news wrap with a longer reported examination, drawing on regional bureau colleagues and people directly affected.

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A 120-kilometre school run puts a different fuel story on your breakfast table.

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to hear what rising fuel costs mean when getting your kids to school takes a 120-kilometre round trip
to follow gun law changes into a Dubbo shop holding firearms its customers cannot collect

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rural news wrapsfertiliser and urea supplyfuel prices and freightfloods, cyclones, and droughtlivestock and cattle stationstrade agreements and export marketsbiofuels and energy transitioncountry sports and animal stories

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