Ted O'Connor
Reporter and Producer at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
ABC reporter/producer
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor
From the air, it is easy to see a green strip separating a river and a dry paddock. The 50-metre-wide buffer along the bank is known as the riparian zone. This one was man-made more than 20 years ago to improve the health of the Hopkins River. The system winds almost 300 kilometres through dairy, sheep, cattle and cropping country in south-west Victoria, from near Ararat to Warrnambool.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor
Andrew Patterson's binoculars jolt as a fluffy grey ball on spindly long legs rushes out from behind a clump of dry seaweed. "Oh there's a chick, I can see a chick," he says. He spots one, then two, newly hatched hooded plover chicks, darting about the sand on Port Fairy's East Beach in south-west Victoria. "It's always exciting to see the new ones," he says. But what's interesting to him is where the parents have placed the nest, perched on a ledge, about a metre up the dune face.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor
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Oct 7, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor
A project to seal a 313km stretch of a remote highway in Western Australia has exceeded its Indigenous employment target of 30 per cent. The Tanami Road sealing project began two years' ago, and its more than 100-person workforce is now 50 per cent Indigenous.
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Oct 7, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor
On a construction site in Western Australia's remote far north, loader driver Kevin Long stands proud as he inspires a group of young Aboriginal jobseekers. "I wanted more in my life. So I'm chasing my dream and I'm going to keep going for it in the future," he said.
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