Empty Skies, Empty Dreams

Early rains had raised hopes that this year farmers would finally win in their gamble with nature. Now, with grain crops failing, the pain only grows more and more acute.

It's Berg To The Future On A New Hazard-filled Voyage

THE ICEBERG THAT SANK THE TITANIC, 8.30pm, ABC: In a first for television, a long-form documentary about an iceberg. Not just any berg but the one that put paid to the Titanic in 1912. The doco offers a useful entree to next Thursday's repeat screening of A Night To Remember (1958). But this is more than retrospective forensics despite the exact location and genesis of the massive ice slab being deduced. With global warming and melting glacial sheets spawning mega icebergs, navigational hazards ...