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Rural Reporter for Saturday March 6, 2010 - 06/03/2010

Rural Reporter: ABC Rural. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

This week we visit a boarding hostel that's a "home away from home" for young primary school children in far north Queensland; discover why scientists are dumping concrete blocks into the middle of a coral reef; and go fig picking with orchardist Bruce Salmon and his extended family in the Riverina.

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