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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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Decolonising Climate Action
This week on Earth Matters - A Decolonising Climate Action panel discussion held in Melbourne at the Black Dot Gallery Brunswick in April 2017.Featuring a…
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Natural Beekeeping Part 2
Earth Matters this week we bring you to PART 2 of our conversation - Keeping Bees in a natural environment with program guest Adrian Iodice from Beekeeping…
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Protecting Belfast Coastal Reserve
On this week's show we're going to Belfast Coastal Reserve. Stretching 22 kilometres between Warrnambool and Port Fairy in Victoria, this small strip of land…
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Natural Beekeeping Part 1
Coming up in this program all you need to know about natural bee care in our environment as we explore Beekeeping Naturally and we take a look at how it…
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Gideon Levy. Gaza, the biggest cage on Earth
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and commentator. He writes for Haaretz newspaper and is a fierce critic of the occupation of Palestine.On this episode of…
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Disability, Climate Change and Natural Disasters Part 2
This week's on Earth Matters we bring you Part 2 of our International Day of people with a Disability broadcast as we bring you audioof a timely discussion on…
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Why should environmentalists care about the peace movement?
On today's show we're looking at the recent cases that were held in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, prosecuting peace activists who walked onto the…
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Disability Day 2017 – Disability, Climate Change and Natural Disasters
This week's on Earth Matters we celebrate International Day of people with a Disability and we bring you audio of a timely discussion on the intersection of…
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Out of our depth: deep sea mining in Papua New Guinea - episode 2
Newly engineered deep sea mining machinery sits waiting at Port Moresby. Canadian company Nautilus Minerals wants to mine gold and copper 1600m underwater in…
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Out of our depth: deep sea mining in Papua New Guinea - episode 1
It’s a race to the bottom of the sea on the frontier of extractive industries: experimental deep sea mining.Canadian company Nautilus Minerals is planning to…
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Incredible Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are small organisms that drift around in all aquatic environments. They are important because they create about 50-85% of the world's oxygen, and…
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Will Lidia Thorpe be the first Aboriginal person in the Victorian Parliament?
Will Lidia Thorpe be the first Aboriginal person in the Victorian Parliament?In this Earth Matters episode we take you inside Lidia Thorpe's official Greens…
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Greening Red October
2017 marks the centenary of the October revolution in Russia that ultimately brought the Bolsheviks to power and lead to the formation of the Soviet Union.When…
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Kids in country, not in custody
The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT has finished its hearings; will this process lead to change? People are taking to…
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Indigenous and Grassroots Movements Solidarity Gathering
This week on Earth Matters we take you inside the INDIGENOUS GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS SOLIDARTY GATHERING – SO CALLED AUSTRALIA – LATIN AMERICA – ASIA PACIFIC.This…
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SAVE THE TARKINE LATEST
The Save The Tarkine campaign aims to protect pristine rainforest and this land it is also home to many significant and sacred Aboriginal cultural heritage…
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“This mine is a flashpoint”: Frontline resistance to Adani’s mega coal mine
Resistance to Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin, Central Queensland, is heating up. The project is subject to sustained criticism…
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Prices versus the planet - changes to the Victorian Renewable Energy Target
On this week's Earth Matters we're looking at the Victorian government's recent promise to legislate their renewable energy target. Victoria currently produces…
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Voices of the Future
On this week's Earth Matters we look into the future and find out what kids are learning at school about sustainability. I spoke to Julie Harris who is the…
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The Aboriginal Carbon Fund
This episode on Earth Matters we take a look at The Aboriginal Carbon Fund and find out what the fund is doing to assist Aboriginal Traditional Owners with…
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NT Intervention: 10 long years, 10 years too long
It’s been 10 years since the beginning of the Northern Territory Intervention, a far-reaching and disempowering intrusion into the lives of Aboriginal people…
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Coal power's toxic health toll
Coal-fired power stations emit toxic chemicals and particulates that are highly damaging to human health. And our governments - both state and federal - are…
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Nanotechnology
On this episode of Earth Matters we explore the environmental implications of nanotechnology. In what ways could it harm the environment, in what ways could it…
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TELL EXHIBITION - 2017 Ballarat International Foto Biennale
On Earth Matters this week we yarn on the new TELL EXHIBITION with 2 deadly Aboriginal women as we hear about their work on display at the upcoming art…
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Don't forget Paga Hill: landgrabbing in PNG and Australian aid
The Paga Hill community in Papua New Guinea have spent years resisting an Australian-run developer, Paga Hill Development Company, determined to build a 5-star…
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Changes to the Environment Protection Authority Victoria
The Environment Protection Authority, or the EPA, of Victoria is going through some big changes. On today's show we're going to talk to two community…
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Food Waste
On this week's Earth Matters we discuss the issue of food waste.Guests: Madeline Wilson, Victorian state manager for food rescue organisation OzHarvest.Bruises…
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Eco Cities and Water Keeping
This week on Earth Matters we have Vivien Langford speaking with Beyond Zero Emissions CEO Vanessa Petrie about BZE’s presentations to the Ecocity 2017…
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A Crude Injustice: The ongoing effects of the Montara oil spill on the people of West Timor
The Montara oil field is in the Timor Sea, off the Northern coast of Western Australia. In 2009 it was the site of one of Australia's worst oil spills. Shortly…
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Urban Aboriginal Creatives: Timmah Ball & Kent Morris.
On this week's Earth Matters show you’ll meet two deadly fine Aboriginal Contemporary Urban Creatives. Writer Timmah Ball on Aboriginal Art, Writing, Feminism…
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The Finkel report is a climate failure
The Finkel Report on Australia’s energy future was meant to break the political deadlock in energy policy federally and secure the future of our electricity…
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Nuclear dump-stopping + Black Rhymes
SA high-level dump project "dead"After two years of Government pressure and community resistance, the SA Premier has finally declared that his proposal for the…
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The river is like blood flowing through our veins
"The river and the lakes mean to us now... it's like blood flowing through our veins" - Uncle Badger BatesOn this episode of Earth Matters we look at the water…
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Meet bryan Andy Social Media Bossman YIRRAMBOI First Nations Arts Festival
This week on Earth Matters you’ll meet bryan Andy -Yorta Yorta man, broadcaster, writer and a social media whiz for the YIRRAMBOI First Nations Arts Festival…
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Shut Youth Prisons, Chelsea Manning + stopping Adani
A special report from Else Kennedy of Shut Youth Prisons in Alice Springs explores the juvenile (in)justice system from the perspectives of Dylan and Kirra…
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Toxic Legacy
There are an estimated 160 000 toxic sites in Australia. In this episode we investigate how well they're being monitored and remediated, using the example of a…
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Crunch Time for Adani
We return to what has been touted one of the most significant social and environmental struggles of our era, the fight against the proposed Adani coal mine on…
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Nuclear legacies and a new chance to end the nuclear age
Marshallese activist and educator Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner uses the power of words and performance to explore the effects of nuclear testing and climate change on…
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Voices from the #StopAdani roadshow
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you would probably of heard about the proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin of…
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Earth Law: Ideas for a Saner World
In this week's Earth Matters we explore the idea of Earth jurisprudence or Earth Laws with the director of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, Michelle…
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Victorian treaty and self-determination community forum
Victorian treaty and self-determination community forumToday on Earth matters we yarn on TREATY and Self-determination in Victoria. It was back in mid-December…
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Energy on Country
On this week's Earth Matters we take you to the opening plenary of the Coalition for Community Energy congress, where Aboriginal elders and activists from…
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Bulldozers at the Beeliar and Frack-Free WA
Bulldozers have been clearing land in the Beeliar Wetlands near Fremantle, WA, to make way for a new road known as Roe 8. The project has been plagued with…
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Coming of the Dawn: the Lubicon Cree community's fight for a clean energy future
Melina Laboucan-Massimo is Lubicon Cree from Northern Alberta. On this week's episode of Earth Matters she talks about her community's fight against tar sands…
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Victoria's native forests in crisis
An extinction crisis and a jobs crisis looms for Victoria's native forests as the state government tries to continue with business as usual.Victoria’s native…
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Sovereignty Art at ACCA
This week on Earth Matters you’ll get an up close and personal guided tour with Melbourne based Aboriginal Artist Paolla Bella - A Wemba-Wemba & Gundijtmara…
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Fighting for land justice in Saskatchewan, Canada
Come on a journey to the land of the English River Nation, in Saskatchewan, Canada. Earth Matters speaks to Candyce Paul, member of the English River Nation…
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Cops Don't Make Us Safe: trans-liberalism and anti-violence politics
Regrette Etcetera, Sydney-based DJ, writer and artist speaks about transliberalism: a political framework that seeks to assimilate trans people into the…
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Invasion Day special 2017
While the 26th of January is officially known as Australia Day, marking the day in 1788 when First Fleet made their unwelcome arrival to these shores. For many…
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Genetic patenting of Indigenous knowledge
This week we're talking to Henrietta Marrie who's a Gimuy Walubara Yidinji woman, an associate professor at Central Queensland University and who formerly…
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Aboriginal Cricket Team recognition
Audio recorded by the scar tree at the MCG of the official ceremony on Boxing Day 2016 and paying tribute and recognising Australia’s very first sporting team…
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Talking Up Treaty: Victorian Aboriginal Sovereignty and Treaty Forum.
This week we feature a discussion of Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Treaty process that is currently underway in what is now known as Victoria. The forum was…
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No to Roe 8 and Nuclear Weapons
Today we’re hearing from a campaigner with Rethink the Link, travelling West to the country of the Noongar people in Western Australia, to get the down low…
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Green bans, red union
In 2016 we celebrated 20 years of Earth Matters on the air, and 40 years for 3CR Community Radio.This week we’re delving into 3CR’s rich archive to bring you…
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Anarchy in Athens: militancy, emotions and violence
Exarcheia is an urban community of resistance created by anarchists and anti-authoritarians in the heart of Athens, Greece. Just 10km from Parliament House…
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The Fight against Adani
Today we’re travelling to the Galilee basin in Central Qld, to the country of the Wangan and Jagalingou peoples, where Adani Mining is proposing to mine coal…
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Colonisation, domestic violence and ecocide
As part of the conversations happening for the 16 days of action on gender based violence, Earth Matters speaks with Murri artist and writer Teila Watson…
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Resisting Neoliberalism with Shalmali Guttal
Shalmali Guttal has worked for decades researching, writing and organising around the impacts of neoliberal development in Southeast Asia. She says that the…
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Sydney College of the Arts: Here to Stay
Within the broader context of the corporatisation of higher education, visual art colleges are under attack. The University of Sydney is planning to slash its…
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Indigenous Struggles for autonomy, self-determination...“This is our time”
Jaime Heunchullan is a Mapuche Indigenous leader from Chile. He shares his experiences fighting for his land against multi-national resources companies and the…