Sunday: Sept 21, 2008 - Message in a bottle

Published: 11:53AM Wednesday September 17, 2008

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Message In A Bottle
What happens to all the plastic bottles we leave at the kerbside each week, the bottles we are encouraged to recycle? Why are they being shipped offshore, and why can't we process our own rubbish right here at home?

Money Pit
There's big money to be made, but it's hell on earth. Port Hedland, home of the planet's biggest open cast iron ore mine, is dizzy with boomtime. They can't dig the ore from the ground fast enough. You can earn $4000 a week if you can stand the heat, the flies, the long hours and the isolation. New Zealanders are flocking there, but as soon as they arrive, they leave...

Vincent - A Man And His Movies
Movie-maker Vincent Ward has worked with Hollywood's A-list including Steven Spielberg. His latest offering, Rain Of The Children, a haunting documentary interwoven with drama, is in cinemas this week. Ward is a complex man and his movies are intense and dark. SUNDAY finds out what makes him tick and what drives him.

SUNDAY - Where there's a story, we'll find it.

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