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The ABC Natural History Unit was a department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a desire to consolidate the Corporation's growing number of nature-related programs. The unit was based at the ABC's Southbank offices in Melbourne, and won numerous awards. In 2007 the unit was closed, and all nature programming outsourced. [1] [2]

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