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CSIRO's Christmas Crackers

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[Music plays, checkered blue picnic rug rolls out]

[Text appears on screen: The rug underneath you.]

[Image changes to a green checked rug rolling out.]

[Text appears on screen: We’ve developed 95 per cent of all Australian cotton varieties. We’ve improved environmental sustainability and profitability, through water efficiency and reduced insecticide spray.]

[Image changes to a blue checked rug rolling out with red and green tinsel on it.]

[Text appears on screen: To seed or not to seed]

[Image changes to include a plate on the picnic rug and mandarin oranges falling on it.]

 [Text appears on screen: Our two varieties of mandarin are sweet, juicy and easy-to-peel. They also have the capacity to be seedless.]

[Image changes to a blue checked picnic rug with green and red bon bons. Juice is being poured into a glass.]

[Text appears on screen: It’s all in the juice. We put the HPP in Preshafruit juices. High pressure processing means juice that tastes better, lasts longer and is better for you.]

[Image changes to a cleared blue picnic rug]

[Text appears on screen: Throw another Black Tiger prawn on the barbie]

[Image changes to a plate with green lettuce, prawns and lemon wedges.]

[Text appears on screen: We bred a bigger, tastier and more sustainable prawn which is producing record farm yields – which means locally produced seafood that’s more efficient and cost effective.]

[Image changes to a cleared blue picnic rug with red and green tinsel and a couple of Christmas tree ornament balls. A bottle of red wine is poured into a glass.]

[Text appears on screen: A wonderous wine. Tyrian is a wine grape variety we developed, better suited to Australian growing conditions. It’s a deep-red coloured wine with a full-bodied palate, berry fragance and spicy fruit flavour.

[Image changes to a cleared blue picnic rug]

[Text appears on screen: Aerogard]

[Image changes to an arm with flies on it. A can of insect spray is sprayed on the flies and they disappear.]

[Text appears on screen: Developed by CSIRO to protect the WWII troops from mosquitos carrying malaria the repellant became a household name when it protected Queen Elizabeth II from the Aussie flies during her 1963 tour.]

[Image changes to an aerial view of the picnic rug laid out with presents, mandarin oranges, prawns, and glasses of red wine and orange juice.]

[Image changes to plain blue background and CSIRO logo]

[Text appears on screen: Happy Holidays from CSIRO.