Australia with Simon Reeve

- Season 1

(2013)

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.

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.

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 ...