Project: Country Viewpoint
Country Viewpoint is a site for anyone who lives outside our capital cities (or perhaps has a connection to rural or regional Australia) who wants to share an experience, place or idea that is close to their hearts.
Country Viewpoint has been airing on ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program for almost a decade, but now we are taking it online and into the greater community that is Pool.
If you'd like to express your view about anything that's happening in your backyard - be it funny, serious, topical, or merely something that you love or something that irritates you - then this is your chance to get on your soapbox.
Want to read what others have written? click here
As well as written pieces, you can post photographs of yourself, your home, your surroundings - anything really. You can also record your own voice or other sounds, or post your own videos to support your written words.
Creativity is encouraged.
We are particularly looking for pieces that are topical rather then merely nostalgic, passionate rather than merely descriptive - pieces that strike a chord with what is happening in rural Australia right now.
In 2009 written contributions on this site will be selected by the Bush Telegraph team to be recorded in an ABC studio near you. Each week one piece will be aired in our Country Viewpoint segment on ABC Radio National.
Keep in mind that pieces selected for on air broadcast will need to be between 350 to 400 words (2min to 3min recording time).
To get started on Pool, join up here and read about how to upload your work.
When you contribute your viewpoint be sure to select 'Country Viewpoint' from the list of projects in section two of the upload page.
More instructions are in the help
section.
