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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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Gomeroi vs Environment Minister
Extractive industries threaten Indigenous heritage across this continent and the Shenhua Watermark Coal Mine is no exception.Gomeroi woman Dolly Talbott has…
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From #NoDAPL to #BlackLivesMatter and beyond
"Police violence is an environmental justice issue...Abolition should be a demand of environmental justice." - Nick Estes. This week we bring you an edited…
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Environmental Racism: BIPOC in climate movements
Environmental Racism: BIPOC in climate movementsPatrisse Cullors—climate justice & decarceration activist— and one of the original founders of the Black Lives…
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Save the Swift Parrot. New research: Logging increases bushfire intensity.
BirdLife Australia has launched a campain calling for logging to stop in the habitat of the critically endangered Swift Parrot. Armed with Forestry Harvest…
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First People First: Pay the Rent
First People First: Pay the RentGunai & Gunditjmara activist Lidia Thorpe speaks with Teishan Ahearne about the ongoing impacts of colonisation on Country, and…
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Victoria's forests and a tribute to Jack Mundey
This week we’re looking at the fight to save Victoria’s native forests, and what the government and their logging agency are getting away with under cover of…
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Bleached Again?! Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet has experienced its third mass coral bleaching event in 5 years. But what…
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Something in the Water? Regional contamination of our water supply
Australia is known to have high quality drinking water, and standards that ensure the health and safety of the population. But is this really the whole…
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Pandemic in a time of Big Oil: When holding down a blockade is an Essential Activity
Pandemic in a time of Big Oil: When holding down a blockade is an Essential ActivityThe 3 day Climate Strike Action planned for April 22-24 to coincide with…
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No Home to Go To. Homeless people falling through gaping holes in Covid19 responses.
As the Covid19 virus proliferates humans watch in horror at how nature can disrupt and destroy our lives. While those with a place to live retreat to their…
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Can sharks provide hope in a time of crisis?
Australian waters are an ecological hotspot for sharks and rays populations. It's a fact that might concern some and be a cause for celebration for others…
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Future histories [encore]
Can we simply innovate our way out of the present climate crisis? Or do technological fixes hide another problem - that of a deeply unequal and unjust world?…
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Doing it ourselves: Renewables & bio-hacking COVID-19
Doing it ourselves: Renewables & bio-hacking COVID-19As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, the neo-lib stance on privatised & for-profit "herd-culling"…
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Harriet Swift: Close the Eden chipmill and end Native forest logging.
A hundred thousands tons of woodchips and the Eden wood chip mill burned in January bushfires. 80% of the New South Wales, South East state forests were…
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Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systems
Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systemsBrad Moggridge, Kamilaroi man & geologist, and Tyson Yunkaporta of the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York, and…
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BIPOC Women’s Resistance: IWD 2020
BIPOC Women’s Resistance: IWD 2020BIPOC women in the global south are necessarily at the forefront of climate activism, as it is their communities that are the…
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Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie Forests Frontline
Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie forests frontlineLisa Searle (Bob Brown Foundation) gets us up to speed with the rapidly shifting landscape of forest…
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Windara Reef Restoration: Reinvigorating ocean ecosystems
Windara Reef Restoration: Reinvigorating ocean ecosystems Most of the continent now known as colony-Australia was once surrounded and protected for thousands…
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Not Quiet Australians: On the Steps Rally, Parliament House, Canberra, 4th, February 2020
Exceptional speeches calling for climate action ring with rising anger in response to government denial and inaction. MC: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki makes climate…
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Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part2): Narm protest rally & march
Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part2): Narm protest rally & marchPart 2 of a two part Invasion Day tribute features selected speakers from the Narm protest…
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Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part1): Narm Dawn Service
Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part1): Narm Dawn ServicePart 1 of a two part Invasion Day tribute features the Dawn Service in Narm last weekend, as we pay our…
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Workers responding collectively to bushfire pollution
As bushfires have been raging across Australia since October last year, cities have been blanketed in toxic smoke. What are the health impacts of this? And how…
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Animals burnt out and injured. Join the Wildlife feeding, rescue, care and release responses.
We are in a terrible, fiery climate emergency. Humans and animals are in crisis. We have seen at least a billion animals die [not including billions of…
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Heal the Ancestors: East Gippsland bush fires
Heal the Ancestors: East Gippsland bush firesElders Robbie and Mick Thorpe on 3CR’s Fire First discuss bushfires and the Law of the Land, while Mick shares his…
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Tiny House Warriors: Secwepemc struggle
Tiny House Warriors: Secwepemc struggleSecwepemc land protector Kanahus Freedom on how Secwepemc people are resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion and…
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In excess - debunking the myths of floods of migrants and scarcity of resources in Australia's border regime
What does it mean when we talk of floods of migrants? Is it accurate or even useful? Or does it distract from the real floods, the disasters brought on by…
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Richard Flanagan's call to climate action. Extinction Rebellion tells Capitalism to bite the dust!
As our eyes sting from the ashes of the forests, Richard Flanagan's call for climate action becomes prophetic . Extinction Rebellion rebels blockade Canberra…
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For the love of Soil: Urban Tilth
For the love of Soil: Urban TilthDoria Robinson from Urban Tilth speaking this year at the Community Alliance for Global Justice about dismantling extractive…
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Fungi fights forest fire and builds the Global Carbon Soil Sponge
We must start cooling the planet. Walter Jehne and Cindy Eiritz explain how to restore the Earth s hydrological cooling system AND restore the “soil carbon…
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On the chopping block. An end to native forest logging in Vic.?
Finally the Victorian government has acknowledged that native forest logging must end. After decades of mismanagement, financial losses and environmental…
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Defend the Laws that Stop New Coal Mines.
If you are starting to think that the grip of the coal and gas industry on Australian land and politics is impossible to break -take hope. New coal mines are…
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IMARC Blockade live outside broadcast (Pt 2)
IMARC blockade live outside broadcast (Part 2)Recorded live at the (IMARC) International Mining & Resource Conference blockade in Melbourne Oct 28-31…
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IMARC Blockade live outside broadcast (Pt 1)
IMARC blockade live outside broadcast (Part 1)Recorded live at the (IMARC) International Mining & Resource Conference blockade in Melbourne Oct 28-31…
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Resisting state repression - resisting business as usual
On today’s show we hear about Queensland’s new anti lock-on laws. Then we get a report-back from Blockade IMARC in Melbourne and the violent police response…
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"We wish to restore our rights over those countries": Uncle Albert Hartnett
"Everything that we have been fighting for over years of our activism has been for the rights to be able to make decisions about what happens on our countries…
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Djab Wurrung, XR & the Nueva Vizcaya Barricade
Djab Wurrung, XR & the Nueva Vizcaya BarricadeThis week on Earth Matters we hear from Djab Wurrung and Gunai sovereign Lidia Thorpe update on Djap Wurrung…
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Warburdar Bununu - Water Shield documentary
Warburdar Bununu - Water Shield documentary is a new short film highlighting the fight for water rights and mining on country near Boorooloola in the Northern…
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Fighting mining from Ecuador to Australia
Mining is at the forefront of climate change, and the opposition to it is the nexus of indigenous and environmental struggles. A prime example of this is…
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Black throated finch and Adani contractors under pressure.
This is about the fate of the black throated finch as Adani is bulldozing some of its last natural habitat . Michael Kane from the Mackay Conservation Group…
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Mauna Kea Struggle: Aloha, Not for Sale
Mauna Kea Struggle: Aloha, Not for SaleThis week on Earth Matters we hear from Kanaka Maoli activists involved in the ongoing resistance struggle and protest…
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Fighting Eco-Fascism
Fighting eco-fascism: an environmentalism without natureWe often think of environmental politics as inherently progressive and humane.But from more mainstream…
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Future histories - technology isn't neutral
Can we simply innovate our way out of the present climate crisis? Or do technological fixes hide another problem - that of a deeply unequal and unjust world?…
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Wangan Jagalingou establish a sovereignty camp / Sounds from a StopAdani lockon
Adani is currently clearing trees for the construction of its Carmichael mine in Queensland.In todays show we hear Adrian Burragubba leader of the Wangan…
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Djab Wurrung Eviction: Our Way, or the highway!
Djab Wurrung Eviction: Our Way, or the highway!The Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy blockade is facing eviction this week! For fifteen months now they…
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Behind Enemy Lines - The Songs of the Terania Creek and Nightcap Blockades
To mark the 40th anniversary of Australia's first forest blockade at Terania Creek in 1979 Earth Matters presents a program in which musicians Brenda Liddiard…
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The Vanishing River, Voices from the Darling, Part 3: Sarah Moles, Cathryn Milne.
Cathryn Milne: Student and environmentalist: Mildura: " We need a royal commission NOW and a grass roots human movement." There is desperation and calls for…
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Decolonising Anarchism: Indigenous Anarchist Federation
Decolonising Anarchism: Indigenous Anarchist FederationIAF members Bombshell and insurgent e on the formation of the Indigenous Anarchist Federation, and their…
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Kimberley Calling: The Frack is Back
Kimberley Calling: The Frack is BackThe WA moratorium on fracking is to be lifted in the Kimberley next month, with an estimated 40,000 wells set to be drilled…
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The Vanishing River, Voices from the Darling , Part 2: Barry Stone
Barry Stone: Employment Agent, lives on Lake Menindee in NSW. Behind him is 15 kilometres of dry lake-bed to the other side. As this water system dries he…
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Ask the Elders: Budj Bim Protection
Ask the Elders: Budj Bim ProtectionGuest presenter Will Mathews yarns with Uncle Denis Rose from the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners' Corporation about how…
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Listening to Nauru [encore]
Listening to Nauru - colonialism and climate change.Over a century of phosphate mining has eaten out the small Pacific island nation of Nauru. While the mining…
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The Vanishing River, Voices from the Darling
Produced in the Barkindji nation by Earthling Studios, Executive Producer Mark Merrit "This is serious, very seriousAn ever increasing and multiplying crime…
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Anti-politics
On this week's show we’re analysing the federal election with Elizabeth Humphrys. With growing distrust of politicians and disillusionment with the electoral…
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Fight for the Bight
Fight for the BightCoastal whale peoples from all over are concerned about oil drilling operations in the Southern Ocean's Great Bight. Norwegian…
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Sneaky, dirty business: BHP Olympic Dam Expansion
Sneaky, dirty business: BHP Olympic Dam expansionBHP is up to their old tricks again, trying to expand their dirty uranium mine and sneaky industrial…
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Passing the torch: A history of nuclear survival in the Pacific
Passing the torch: A history of nuclear survival in the PacificFrom 1946 to 1998 world players in the nuclear armaments industry conducted more than two…
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My Extremely Long Walk
This week we welcome you to a program with our guest Shannon and he yarns about his own initiative the MY EXTREMELY LONG WALK. And this walk from Melbourne to…
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Water: Kwatye for Wilora
On the 26th of January 2019 at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in a a yurt, I interviewed three women from Wilora ... a small town just off the Stuart…
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'Our History is the Future' the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
'Our History is the Future.' Nick Estes on the Long Tradition of Indigenous ResistanceNick Estes is Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. His…
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Traditional savanah burning cuts CO2 emissions and earns carbon credits for aboriginal communities.
The vision of the Aboriginal carbon foundation is to catalyse life-changing, community prosperity through carbon farming.The main method used is a return to…