Australia's longest-running radio show is celebrating 80 years on air, and while so much has changed in farming and broadcasting, the core of The Country Hour remains the same. On December 3, 1945, not long after the end of World War II, former Hunter Valley auctioneer Dick Sneddon launched the then-national program. All of these years later, the show is still talking about issues of food security, weather, markets and a whole lot more at midday each weekday on The Country Hour. Choose your news

Warning: This story contains details some viewers may find confronting. On December 11, 2005 violence erupted on the streets of Cronulla. Thousands of mostly young Australian men gathered at the beach for a "Leb and Wog bashing day". The racial tension reached a crescendo after a confrontation between local lifesavers and young Middle Eastern men at the beach, which resulted in a fight and one arrest. Spurred on by talkback radio and media coverage of the incident, later described by police as "

Australian broadcaster Hamish Macdonald is the presenter of Mornings on ABC Radio Sydney. We asked him what the mood is like in Sydney, just hours after the shootings on Bondi Beach. #Australia #BondiBeach #Channel4News | Channel 4 News