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Feb 2024
54m 57s

Tasmanian Country Hour

ABC Radio
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The Country Hour visits one of Tasmania's prized cropping and livestock estates,  Vaucluse and we talk to a farmer managing Glencoe and Enstone Park stations as big rains hit Tasmania's North East.

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