Australia with Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve travels along Australia's breathtaking coast and ventures deep inland on a fascinating adventure around this single-country continent, meeting both aboriginals and the constantly evolving immigrants attracted by its treasure trove of mineral and other riches. Australia is a traveler's paradise: a land of stunning coral beaches that give way to vast tracts of parched red earth wilderness. It's also booming like never before, but the environmental price exacted from (ab)used nature becomes a growing problem.
- 2013-2013
- 1 season
- Documentary
Simon Reeve travels along Australia's breathtaking coast and ventures deep inland on a fascinating adventure around this single-country continent, meeting both aboriginals and the constantly evolving immigrants attracted by its treasure trove of mineral and other riches. Australia is a traveler's paradise: a land of stunning coral beaches that give way to vast tracts of parched red earth wilderness. It's also booming like never before, but the environmental price exacted from (ab)used nature becomes a growing problem.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2013
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
58 mins
Simon Reeve travels along Australia's breathtaking coast and ventures deep inland on a fascinating adventure around this enormous country. Australia is a traveller's paradise: a land of stunning coral beaches that give way to vast tracts of parched red earth wilderness. It's also booming like never before, thanks to its treasure trove of mineral riches.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
58 mins
Simon Reeve travels along Australia's breathtaking northern coasts, where Aboriginals are indispensable scouts in the territory's military defense, while the major invasions are (il)legal asylum seekers, refugees and destitute people, as well as imported species, some of which became dominant, like rabbits, something endangering local species, like the poisonous giant toad in Queensland, where it failed to control sugar cane pests. Simon ends at the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral constellation and vital home to a surprisingly large part of marine life.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
59 mins
On the third and last leg of his Australia tour, Simon visits the rich, old demographic core with the two metropolises: sophisticated, pleasant old Melbourne and first bustling, fast-growing economic capital Sydney. The country's main real estate tycoon explains about skyscrapers to cater for Asian immigrants' needs, some for them about the success and boundaries of integration and assimilation. A professor's carbon dioxide climate effects research cues Simon's balanced views on Australia's bright Asia-oriented future and major environmental as well as social challenges.