Australian Story: May 11

TV gardener Don Burke introduces tonight’s episode of Australian Story, part 2 of a look at Stuart Andrews and his family at the heart of a spectacular tug of war over their NSW property.

It’s Tarwyn Park in the Hunter Region of NSW. It’s where Stuart Andrews’ father Peter turned ruined and ‘environmentally bankrupt’ farmland into a ‘miracle’ of green, fertile pastures.

But a Korean open cut coal mining venture has acquired the property, bringing more than one billion dollars in investment and jobs.

Hard choices have to be made at Tarwyn Park and there are lasting implications for fractured family relationships.

But also at stake, according to some, is nothing less than the future of the Australian landscape, vested as it is in the pioneering approach of Peter Andrews and his ‘Natural Sequence Farming.

8pm Monday ABC.