Everyday Australians are out in the world doing remarkable things,
join us on our journey as we meet some of them.
Through our aid program Australians work in partnership with regional
countries to help them become more prosperous and secure Abigail Trewin is a paramedic from
the Northern Territory who helps lead Australia's response to international disasters.
So in the warehouse that you're sitting in this facilitates a 28-ton field hospital which
is a surgical field hospital. Because when you arrive in a disaster people have already
been potentially waiting for help, within an hour and a half we can have patients inside
this and operating. We had a visit from SBY, the former president of Indonesia, and he
described our region as the supermarket of disasters, and I think he's probably correct.
If you start to look at our region at the moment, you know we have volcanic activity,
we've got earthquakes, we're coming into cyclone season, so disasters is part of where we live.
I think they expect us to be there when they ask for help, and we need to be.
Lachie Hart, Darling Downs based Stockyard Beef Company is exporting products to Japan
and 14 other countries around the world.
My father founded the company 60 years ago with my mother.
His local community is growing along with him to meet the challenge
Look it has been a fantastic opportunity for Australian exporters of beef. Just last year
alone, we saw a 34 percent increase in the volume of business we're doing to the Japanese
market. The industry is changing, we've seen a lot of youth, we've seen a lot of job opportunities
in our industry, and particularly for women. We're seeing communities actually being developed,
because of the growth in the agricultural communities within Australia, and because
because what we we produce here at the feedlot, its high-end Angus or the Japanese Wagyu genetics
that produces that juicy succulent tender product time and time again.
Wendy man is chief pilot for Geraldton Air Charter.
Lima Charlie Bravo she's called and she's a beautiful old girl.
She's making entirely new opportunities in the Midwest and Coral Coast regions of Western
Australia by encouraging the growing Chinese tourist market
One day last year that I flew a big group of them on a birthday, and so they thought
it was fabulous that I was must have been my 70th birthday that I was actually flying
than them. So as we're approaching up the coast you've got the beautiful blue green
of the sea, and you've got the fields on the land side, and then the Pink Lake doesn't
look pink until you're almost right on top, of it then all of a sudden you see this pink
and you hear the people in the aeroplane go ah.
Jason Roberts, is an Antarctic researcher and one of the many talented Australians demonstrating
to the world Australia's credentials in science.
The Antarctic Treaty, actually science is the currency of the treaty. It is how nations
demonstrate that they're serious about Antarctica. That their doing work they're trying to understand
Antarctica and go forward. The Ice Cap Project, the aerial survey work when we fly
around in this really lovely old aircraft, it looks like something out of an Indiana
Jones movie.
Where do you think the science will lead us? To make informed decisions.
Australians take on challenges all over the world Paige Philogene studied fashion in
New Delhi through the New Colombo Plan.
I mean it gave me an opportunity experience another industry, that's part of sort of a
greater industry that I'll be a part of in the future, and I can now say I'm a New Colombo
Plan scholar.
The Australian government supports the Indo-Pacific Health Security initiative.
So the tall poppy Awards I think are recognition for my part and our team's work that we've
been doing studying malaria and predominantly in Malaysia for the last few years. I lived
up in the northwest tip of Borneo, in a small town called Kudat, and we also travelled to
a number of the small rural district hospitals there, so yeah it was great. I think a good
day in Sabah was seeing the direct sort of policy implications of the work you're doing,
and seeing the pleasure and the happiness that it brought. Some of those days where
we got to show them the actual work, and what had happened was pretty exciting.
Leilani Bin-Juda is treaty liaison officer representing the Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait.
The connections between Australia and Papua New Guinea, or the Torres Strait and Western
Province in particular expands thousands of years, six thousand years plus. It's evolved
and it has come to be a modern day experience if you like for traditional inhabitants.
Right in the thick of it, we live it and breathe it every day.
Back in Canberra Mathew blow, an Australian federal police officer and his loyal partner
Leo are keeping Australia safe by detecting illegal movement and concealment of currency
and illicit drugs within Australia.
If the dog responds on something, that well people should be bringing in that's the satisfaction
of you stopping those things coming into the country or stuff like that.
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