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Earth Matters
Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
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15 months for 28 minutes - Violet Coco on bail
Violet Coco is out on bail after recieving a 15 month sentance for blocking a lane of traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge. On Earth Matters we hear from her…
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First Nations call to Stop Fracking and compensation for damages from bad land management decisions
Rikki Danks; a Karanjini Gundanji women talks from COP27 in Egypt. She wants compensation for first Nations people impacted by climate change and poor resource…
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Sybil Disobedients: Aprons, Agitprops and Climate Action
Sybil Disobedients: Aprons, agitprops and climate protest You may have seen them on your telly or in front of the AGL building in Melbourne’s CBD in their…
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The lands of flooding rains
The 3rd year of La Lina compounding with the Indian Ocean Dipole has been unrelenting on communities across eastern Australia. In the southern Murray Darling…
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Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 2
Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 2While climate catastrophe escalates globally, mutual aid movements are…
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Birrarung: Stories of the River
One of Victoria's most iconic rivers, the Birrarung (also known as the Yarra River), is a site of beauty and contradiction. The river is a vital water source…
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Indigenous Justice Advocacy Network
Al Oshlack talking about the work of the Indigenous Justice Advocacy Network. Insider stories from the epic conservation battles at Timbarra, Iron Gates, the…
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Save Our Songlines: A campaign of the Murujuga
Earth Matters speaks with Raelene Cooper from the Save Our Songlines campaign against over-development of the Murujuga in Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia…
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Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 1
Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 1While climate catastrophe escalates globally, mutual aid movements are…
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Calls to stop Seismic blasting in the Otway Basin
Calls to stop seismic surveys in the Otway Basin First Nations peoples, environmental groups and fishers were alarmed at the news that international oilfield…
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Origin Divests from the Beetaloo Basin
Breaking this week, Origin announced it is divesting 100% of its interests in the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory and we dip into the history books to…
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Cultural Burning on Kangaroo Island
Cultural Burning on Kangaroo IslandGuest presenter Nicky Page speaks with Tagalaka man Victor Steffenson from Firesticks Alliance, and Kangaroo Island resident…
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Benny Zable on maintaining activism and Arcology
Benny Zable is a radical performance and visual artist. Benny wears a gas mask and white gloves. Have you seen him? He has been present at many camps to defend…
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Information & politicisation of the Great Barrier Reef
Since colonisation the Great Barrier Reef has been the subject of national interest and identity. It’s also been subject to misinformation and politicisation…
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Elizabeth Russell-Arnot on the environmental focus of her arts practice
Elizabeth Russell-Arnot on the environmental focus of her arts practiceGuided soundscape with Tasmanian artist and academic Elizabeth Russell-Arnot about the…
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Vic Youth Parliament e-waste bill & eco-anarchist Greek update
Vic Youth Parliament e-waste bill & eco-anarchist Greek updateGuest Producer Jacob Gamble in conversation with high school students who developed a bill on…
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Floodplain Harvesting Disallowance Denied
“Disallowance denied”Floodplain Harvesting Regulations Stand in NSW Parliament After years of contentious debate, regulations to licence floodplain harvesting…
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Uncle Micky Ryan tells the cultural significance of Sleeping Lizard Mountain NAIDOC Crabbe’s Crk sends love. Mebbingarri says her mind about greedy developers. .
Micky Ryan has been fighting in court for eleven years to stop residential development on his traditional land: Sleeping Lizard Mountain also known as North…
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The Lismore floods showed Dee "We cant rely on the government to come and help us. "
Dee Mould tells how she clambered into a boat and rescued people through windows and from rooftops during the dark night the Lismore floodwater kept rising …
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Wild Deer in Victoria
Wild deer pose a growing threat to Victoria's biodiversity, cultural heritage, and state infrastructure. With an estimated population of one million deer, the…
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“An Act of Bad Faith”
Draft Water Sharing Plans in NSW are on public exhibition until early July, but the NSW Minister for Water Kevin Anderson has asked the Minister for…
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Tiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill & Blockade Australia update
Tiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill & Blockade Australia updateJacob Gamble touches base with Jason Fowler from the Northern Territory…
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"The urgent plan to restore our catchment is the only way to reduce flood heights in Lismore."
"The urgent plan to restore our catchment is the only way to reduce flood heights in Lismore." John Corkill John Corkill was dismayed when he heard that the…
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Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 3
Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 3: Indigenous ActionPart 3 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with…
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Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 2
Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 2: Indigenous ActionPart 2 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with…
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Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 1
Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 1: Indigenous ActionPart 1 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with…
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Who’s shouting the black box?
On this week’s Earth Matters we get an update on the lower Darling/Baaka and thier floodplain that haven't got the water we'd expect despite the exceedingly…
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The Forest Fairy - Leadbeater Possum
The Leadbeater Possum was named Victoria’s state fauna in 1971. Yet despite this status the Leadbeater possum exists in a state of extinction. This episode…
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Trees not Bombs Cafe in flood devastated Lismore.
When forest activist, Susie Russell heard that friends in flood devastated Lismore had lost everything they owned and were hungry, she swung into action to…
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2020/2021 Indian farm workers strikes feminist reflections
Feminist Navsharan Singh reflects on the crucial role of women workers in mobilising the 2020/2021 Indian farmers and agricultural workers strike, and film…
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Disproportionate Indigenous vulnerability to climate change & systemic climate misinformation
Priya Kunjan speaks with ANU researcher Bhiamie Williamson on the disproportionate vulnerability of Indigenous peoples to climate change & mitigation…
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Unprecedented floods and a slap in the face
As floodwaters recede in the Northern Rivers, the federal budget offers little to those facing the impending climate crisis. This week on Earth Matters we hear…
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Anarchist prepping with Margaret Killjoy (Part2)
Preparedness: an anarchist perspectivePart 1 of a two part show with activist, musician, author and podcaster Margaret Killjoy, host of How to Live Like the…
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Forestry Corporation busted by citizens and fined for the removal of hollow-bearing trees.
Forest Corporation in NSW has been caught and fined for logging hollow trees in NSW.Opposition is rising to Rio Tinto’s application to log The Northern Jarrah…
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Anarchist prepping with Margaret Killjoy (Part1)
Preparedness: an anarchist perspectivePart 1 of a two part show with activist, musician, author and podcaster Margaret Killjoy, host of How to Live Like the…
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Protecting Urban Native Bees: Wildlife Corridors & Community Gardens
Guest presenter Phuong speaks with Emma Cutting from The Heart Gardening Project about the vital importance of creating insect friendly wildlife corridors and…
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Floods, fish & a bush dish
An Outback Oasis roars with life as flood waters move through the Murray Darling Basin. The Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes are gushing at long last…
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Woodside threatens Murujuga at Burrup Peninsula & cops threaten climate defenders
Kuruma Marduthunera woman Josie Alec on Traditional Owners deep concerns in WA’s Pilbara region with Woodside’s dangerous new gas project at Murujuga on the…
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Call to “Put our heads together” to crack serious Heat Threat to the Great Barrier Reef.
Three young Queenslanders have stepped up their fight to protect the Great Barrier Reef by writing to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee,They urge the icon be…
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Young Climate Feminists: Radical Futures Roundtable Pt 2.
Young intersectional feminists re-imagining climate justice [Encore]This week on Earth Matters Part 2 of a two part series envisioning radical futures with…
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Young Climate Feminists: Radical Futures Roundtable Pt 1.
Young intersectional feminists re-imagining climate justice [Encore]This week on Earth Matters Part 1 of a two part series envisioning radical futures with…
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Centering fisher folk narratives: World Forum of Fisher Peoples Pt 2
Centering fisher folk narratives: World Forum of Fisher Peoples Pt 2Part 1 of a webinar recorded last year by the World Fish Centre featuring small scale…
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Centering fisher folk narratives: World Forum of Fisher Peoples Pt 1
Centering fisher folk narratives: World Forum of Fisher Peoples Pt 1Part 1 of a webinar recorded last year by the World Fish Centre featuring small scale…
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North East (NSW) Forest Alliance update: RFA court case & Redbank Biomass Reboot
North East (NSW) Forest Alliance update: RFA court case & Redbank RebootDailan Pugh from North East (NSW) Forest Alliance updates listeners on the upcoming…
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What can we bring to the climate challenge ?
Jonica Newby author reading from her latest book Beyond Climate Grief: A journey of love, snow, fire and an enchanted beer can. She tells the story of a man…
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Pursuing Global Justice (Part 3)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Pursuing Global Justice (part 3) is from a 3 part episode, and the speakers explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
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Pursuing Global Justice (Part 2)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Pursuing Global Justice (part 2) is from a 3 part episode, and the speakers explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
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Pursuing Global Justice (Part 1)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Pursuing Global Justice (part 1) is from a 3 part episode, and the speakers explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
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Community Healing (Part 3)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Community Healing (part 3) is from a 3 part episode, and the panellists explore the impacts of global warming on…
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Community Healing (Part 2)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Community Healing (part 2) is from a 3 part episode, and the panellists explore the impacts of global warming on…
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Community Healing (Part 1)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Community Healing (part 1) is from a 3 part episode, and the panellists explore the impacts of global warming on…
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Uncle Albert Hartnett and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy 5oth Anniversary. Glue-Ons, Prams, Roadblocks. Resisting fossil fuels.
The lead up to the global climate chaos meetup in Glasgow saw escalating actions from Extinction Rebellion and Blockade Australia.The theme was Duty of Care to…
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Healing Our Lands (Part 3)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Healing Our Lands (part 3) is from a 3 part episode,and the panellists explore ways of collectively looking after…
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Healing Our Lands (Part 2)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Healing Our Lands (part 2) is from a 3 part episode, and the panellists explore ways of collectively looking after…
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Healing Our Lands (Part 1)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Healing Our Lands (part 1) is from a 3 part episode, and the panellists explore ways of collectively looking after…
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Listening to First Nations knowledge to inform Earth-centred, collaborative governance: Women's Climate Conversations 2021 #6
Dr Mary Graham explains aspects of the relationalist ethos and the law of mutual obligation: “The environment looks after us, keeps us alive and keeps us human…
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Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systems [ENCORE]
Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systems [ENCORE}Brad Moggridge, Kamilaroi man & geologist, and Tyson Yunkaporta of the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York…
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Custodians of Country (Part 3)
Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Custodians of Country (part 3) is from a 3 part episode, which covers the role and relationship of First Nations…
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New NT water laws open door to cotton
The Northern Territory Government recently changed the water act when they passed the Territory Economic Reconstruction Bill, to boost economic recovery…
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Womens Climate Congress Conversation; Strategies for Climate Grief, Climate Communication.
The Women's Climate Congress is a new project that asks: How can womens rising transform our response to climate change? And they call to the women of…