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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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Local Whittlesea council environment and recycling initiatives
this week on Earth Matters our guest JOCELYN HARTE - The Resource Recovery Officer City of Whittlesea as we yarn about environmental initiatives at the recent…
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School Strike for Climate Action
On March 15th more than 1,5 million young people in 2069 cities of 125 countries across world went on strike from school calling for real climate action. In…
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Coal to hydrogen
Hydrogen has been touted as the next technology for power storage, in both large and small scale. It’s often talked about as a green energy, but it all comes…
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Dear Mr Gates, We Do Not Consent
Big profits for agribusiness & military are recklessly risking the spread of a new GMO technology called Gene Drives around the world, regardless of their…
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The National Shark Summit 2019
The National Shark Summit 2019This week on Earth Matters a conversation on the latest from the NATIONAL SHARK SUMMIT which took place in Sydney from the 21st…
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Thunder and Enlightenment. No Water Mining
Wadu, a Gidabal and Arakwal elder sat down with Muzz, and dozens of others, in the middle of Uki's main street to block a water extraction truck. They needed…
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Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justice
Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justiceToday, we’re bringing you First Nations voices in the fight for water. First up, the Royal Commission…
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Saving The Murray Darling part 3 with local traditional owners
In what is a national environmental disaster this week on the program we yarn about the health of the Murray-Darling river systems. I’m joined by our guests…
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Ten Eighty Summit, Part 2: The effects of 1080 poison use in Australia focusing on dingos.
Part 2 of the 1080 Summit focuses on the poisons impact on dingos. Australia and New Zealand use almost 95% of the world's supply of 1080. It is rated a…
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Coal power's toxic health toll [encore]
Coal power's toxic health toll [encore broadcast] This week we bring you a story we first aired in 2007. Coal-fired power stations emit toxic chemicals and…
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Warm Belly, Cool Planet
Last year the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. This represents…
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WATER films by John Harvey Torres Strait Islander Creative
This week on the program you’ll hear from John Harvey. As we yarn about 2 of his latest films. One documentary in post-production and the English name for the…
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Ten Eighty Summit. Calling for a ban on the deadly poison. Part One.
Join the audience for Part Two of the Ten80 Summit into the effects of 1080 poison use in Australia.1080 poison is one of the deadliest toxins in the world. It…
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Treesitters and troubadours
Earth First! is a radical environmental network that first emerged in the United States during 1980 in response to the pro-development policies of the Reagan…
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Where’s your Genocide Convention Oz? Talkin Treaty with Djuran Bunjileenee
Dec 9 marked the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations Genocide Convention. Djuran Bunjileenee Borun MunDunDarung (aka Robert Thorpe) an Elder from both…
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Victorian state government investment in parks and camping across the state
Coming up this week on Earth Matters you'll hear post Victoria state election reaction from Matt Ruchel - Executive Director: The Victorian National Parks…
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Nasty new logging rules
The new logging rules for public forests have just been released. They are described as disaster for old growth forests, rainforest, river health, threatened…
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Listening to Nauru - colonialism and climate change
Over a century of phosphate mining has eaten out the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru. While the mining continues, today Nauru is better known as the site…
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Cats Contained Canberra
Cats kill one million birds in Australia every day. Beloved as pets, they are one of the greatest threat to Australian native wildlife. To protect birds…
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Forest Defenders conference Thailand
Forest Defenders conference Thailand.In a worsening climate for activists and civil society, 50 environmental defenders from around Southeast Asia came…
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Keep Urannah Pristine. No Dam, Connection to Country.
Hear the insights of Ken Peters Dodd, a sovereign Birriah man whose ancestors were forced from their land west of Bowen in Queensland. Now he has returned with…
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Roger Knox and traditional bush medicines.
This week on Earth Matters you’ll hear how Country musician Roger Knox survived back to back plane crashes and then going on to continue to perform his music…
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Greening 'Red October' [encore]
Greening 'Red October'.2017 marked the centenary of the October revolution in Russia that ultimately brought the Bolsheviks to power and lead to the formation…
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Don't mention the emergency?
Don't mention the emergency? Reassessing climate messaging. This week we bring you a talk given by Jane Morton about the psychology of climate messaging…
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Knitting Nanas against gas,coal and greed.
30 Knitting nanas are in action, dressed in black and yellow with placards “No New Coal” on the verge of busy road; Industrial Drive in Newcastle, right next…
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Victoria's forests update
On this weeks’s show, as the November Victorian state election approaches we discuss the dire situation of native forests in Victoria, and some wins on legal…
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Superannuation Trustees do the Climate Wiggle.
Anthony Too and Margie Pestorius are with ten others from Stop Adani Cairns outside the Cairns convention centre where a conference for superannuation trustees…
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Cassowaries need new laws. Crocs not for profit.
Meet Ingrid Marker from Mission Beach Queensland who lived alongside endangered cassowaries becoming known as a cassowary whisperer. Horribly, all the…
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Glyphosate's time is up
This week we hear about a landmark case in the United States that found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the common pesticide RoundUp, causes…
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Forests are for life
There is a long history of resistance to old growth forest logging in Western Australia's South West. In this week's show I speak with Jess Beckerling…
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Aboriginals were the first Bread Makers.
Who were the first bread makers? Bruce Pascoe; Author of “Dark Emu “ has found ample evidence of Aboriginal bread making disputing the myth that aboriginal…
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Farmers fight new coal mines to protect the Great Artesian Basin
Annette and Bruce Currie are a farming couple in Central Queensland who found that their farm water is threatened by multiple proposed coal mines. Their lives…
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Fracking disrupting the web of life
Today we hear from American biologist and author Sandra Steingraber, giving the keynote address to the Permanent People’s Tribunal Session on Human Rights…
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Organising for the future
This show features Zac Romagnoli-Townsend, coordinator with SEED, Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network. He is talking about organising for the…
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How to Win against fossil fuels
How to win against fossil fuelsBuild our movement; Make political change, Divest MoneySam La Rocca, Deputy Director of The Sunrise Project talks on courage…
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Juru traditional owners call for Adani to stop work
In June 2018 a federal court found that Adani has been negotiating with the wrong traditional owner group and that the Juru people not The Kyburra Munda Yalga…
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Green ban, red union [encore broadcast]
Green bans, red union.An archival interview with Jack Mundey [encore broadcast] This week we’re delving into 3CR’s rich archive to bring you an interview with…
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No Trees, No treaty
This week's show is about the Djapwurrung Embassy, established to protect sacred trees threatened with destruction, north of Ballarat in Victoria. The state…
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Criminalising dissent in Australia and Indonesia
Dissent and protest are being criminalised and suppressed around the world.The Australian government is seeking to introduce new foreign interference and…
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Earth Matters - "Dont Push Our Bush"
The moratorium on fracking in the Northern Territory has been lifted. Join experts who describe the impacts this will have on the ecology, sacred sites, clean…
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La ZAD
La ZAD "Against the airport and its world."This week we’re hearing about the ZAD. An autonomous zone of resistance in rural France. It is the site of a 40 year…
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"Direct action gets the goods"
Changing the world is difficult, especially when you’re up against institutions that enjoy major political and financial power.Direct tactics of protest have…
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Saving the Murray Darling PART 2
This week on Earth Matters - Saving the Murray Darling Part 2 and Kerri-Lee is joined by guests Nicole McKay a passionate environmentalist from Nyah and Elder…
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Artificial Light at Night
For many centuries the nightscape was the moon and stars. Now we have many sources of artificial light such as street lighting, roadway lighting, stadiums…
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A history of the world in seven cheap things
A history of the world in seven cheap things "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" - Mark Fisher Imagining the end of…
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Illawarra mining blues: locals defending water and climate
Earth Matters looks at contemporary issues with coal mining in the Illawarra region, south of Sydney on Dharawal land. Long-wall mining, subsidence, slag heaps…
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Climate Change in Australia - A Sunburnt Country
This week on Earth Matters a conversation on climate change and the environment; A Sunburnt Country a new book release on climate change in Australia with…
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The Desert Pea and The Frontier Wars March on Anzac
The Australian frontier wars were a series of conflicts fought between Indigenous Australians and white settlers during the Brittish colonisation of…
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Roadtrip to Nuclear Australia
The Radioactive Exposure Tour is a road trip exploring nuclear Australia, past and present, and forging connections for the ongoing campaigns to keep uranium…
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Resisting shock politics in a Trump world
On this week’s show, we listen to a wide ranging conversation between best-selling author and journalist Naomi Klein and comedian Aamer Rahman. Recorded just…
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Saving the Murray Darling PART 1
Dr Jackie Kelly is one of the many people who dedicate their time and are committed to better environmental outcomes for the health of our rivers and wetlands…
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War Costs the Earth
In this edition of Earth Matters we look at the costs of war to the environment through habitat destruction, nuclear test fallout, chemical pollution, weather…
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Land-clearing in NSW + growing solar
Changing light bulbs isn’t stopping climate change so people are breaking their own addictions to coal and doing it for themselves. 1.8 million rooftops in…
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Exploring Seedbanks
Exploring SeedbanksAustralia is home to two seed banks and coming up on Earth Matters in this program we are joined by guest Dr Sally Horton as we take a look…
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Telling stories of cyclones
People of the Pacific Islands are already feeling the ravages of climate change - be that loss of food production as sea levels rise, the erosion of…
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Protect language, protect country
Karina Lester, Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman from South Australia, tells us about her work to reclaim, revive and maintain Aboriginal languages.Karina's late…
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Chinese Ban on recycled products impacts Victorians
This week on Earth Matters we explore the current recycling issue affecting some Victorians as the Chinese Government ban on foreign recyclables came into…
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We need writers who can remember freedom
On this week's show:We take time to listen to three writers and activists who help us see our world differently, helping us to imagine other possible…
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The Boot on our Necks
All around the planet widespread ideological folly on the neoliberal bandwagon is targeting environmental activists systemically via government and big…
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CRISPR; update on Fawkner toxic site
At the end of last year the Commonwealth government’s Office of the Gene Technology Regulator quietly proposed to deregulate a new genetic modification…