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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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Life after Hazelwood: a just transition for the Latrobe Valley
An announcement on the future of Hazelwood power station is expected any day now.Situated in the Latrobe Valley, in eastern Victoria, Hazelwood is one of four…
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BP Bight's the Dust: a win against big oil
Oil giant BP has withdrawn plans to explore for oil in the Great Australian Bight. After several years, the surprise announcement has thrilled local and…
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What's in the water? Mapping pesticide pollution
Pesticides are one of the most prevalent pollutants in our waterways and scientific studies show that minute amounts of some of the most commonly used…
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Is Population the Problem?
This week we talk to Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance Councillor for Moreland, about whether human population really is a major cause of environmental…
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Aboriginal people already know nuclear: the radioactive waste debate in South Australia
The South Australian Government is promoting a plan to import high-level radioactive waste from around the world, and dump it in SA. Government teams armed…
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Working for the Earth: Citizen scientists, a frack free future and just transitions.
Today we report on the Goongerah Environment Centre's Threatened Species Day 2016 action, where they presented an invoice to the Victorian Treasurer, Tim…
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Another day in parliamentary politics
The good news is that unconventional gas mining has been banned in Victoria! On this show we speak to Alison Marchant from Friends of the Earth and Lock the…
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Cities for the Sun: renewable energy battles in the NT and SA
In a land drenched with sunshine, the towns of Alice Springs and Port Augusta are perfect candidates for renewable energy transitions. Coal power is closing…
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Caring for Country: Indigenous Protected Area's & Rangers
The first Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) was established in 1998 in South Australia and the Indigenous Rangers program has been operating since 2007. There…
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Obstacles to Transition
Australia is transitioning towards renewable energy, but it is just as necessary to consider the transition away from fossil-fuel based forms of electricity…
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After Don Dale: demanding change, not another Royal Commission
On 25 July, the ABC aired an episode of Four Corners showing the conditions of abuse in juvenile prisons in the NT, and in particular the Don Dale centre in…
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Mine rehabilitation; Tolak Reklamasi
There are more than 50,000 abandoned mines in Australia, and around 75 per cent of mines close unexpectedly or without proper site rehabilitation plans. The…
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Ditch Coal - Save Bulga
On this weeks show we are joined by Anne Harris to talk about the report 'Ditch Coal: The global impacts of the UK's addiction to coal' and how they are…
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Protecting Biodiversity
On this week's show we talk to Dr Peter Spooner who is a vegetation ecologist from Charles Sturt University about proposed changes to NSW's biodiversity…
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De-naturalising disaster - climate change and marginalisation in Australia
Feeling hopeless is an understandable response in the face of climate change. In fact, an emerging field of research is focusing on the mental health impacts…
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The TPP Corporatocracy and Plastic Free July
This week features a speech by Sam Castro from Friends of the Earth's Economic Justice Collective about the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and the…
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Facing the Anthropocene
Prominent Canadian eco-socialist Ian Angus delivers a talk about his new book "Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System"…
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Geelong Star super trawler; the end of uranium mining in Kakadu?
This week,the Geelong Star super-trawler been trawling through the small pelagic fishery on Australia's eastern sea board, catching protected species and…
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Creative Dissent: the pen (and voice) is mightier
This week we’re listening to poets, spoken word artists, activists and musicians who are changing hearts and minds with their art. Movements for change and…
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The sound of change [Repeat]
The climate is changing, and so is our world. But what does that sound like?Anja Kanngieser and Daniel Jenatsch’s ‘A story of extinction’ is a sonic story…
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S.A. too good to waste -- the radioactive racism of the proposed national nuclear waste dump
It’s a story that involves stolen country, stolen generations, and the threat of a stolen future — the fight against a national nuclear waste dump in South…
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Dire States: Threats to environment & culture
Today we look at the outcomes of two governmental inquiries that are seeking to undermine the environment and social justice. Cam Walker from Friends of the…
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Break Free from Fossil Fuels: Newcastle Blockade May 2016
On one fine Newcastle day, two thousand people gathered from across the country to participate in a collective resistance to the industries fuelling climate…
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Genocide and Ecocide
Following on from discussions between Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Boe Spearim, Earth Matters explores the relationship between the crimes of genocide and ecocide…
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From the forest to the sea
Environment East Gippsland set a legal precedent in 2009 when they successfully sued Vic Forests in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Since then a swag of…
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On the move - climate change displacement in PNG
The people of the Carteret Islands, a coral atoll off the coast of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, have been called the world’s first climate refugees.Like…
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Defending language, land and sea in SA: from the Bight to the APY lands
This week we tune in to the campaign to stop the Great Australian Bight from becoming an oil field. Kokatha elder Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine and Breony…
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Canary in the Coal Market
The first part of the show is a discussion with Isaac Astill from 350.org Australia about the financial troubles of Peabody Energy and the declining…
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Coal's Water Grab and the TPP: A deepening environmental crisis.
We speak with Martin Baker from Greenpeace's Coal and Water Project about the release of 'The Great Water Grab' a report that maps the deepening water crisis…
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"There will be no mining in Pondoland"
The east coast of South Africa is home to a conflict as old as the industrial age. A start-up company from Perth wants to mine a precious stretch of remote…
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CSIRO cuts - Will the last person please turn off the lights?
The new CSIRO management has announced drastic cuts and a controversial change of priorities for the nations' peak scientific research body. Drawing global…
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Water more precious than Gold!
Today we look at yet another case of corporate interest versus the protection of public health and the environment. Australian mining company Oceana Gold are…
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Seeds of Africa
REVIVING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMSWestern scientists have an obligation to acknowledge and make amends for the damage that their coloniser disciplines have…
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Invasion Day 2016: No Pride in Genocide
Invasion Day, also known as Australia Day, is commemorated every year as a day for mourning the Aboriginal warriors fallen in the defence of their country, as…
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The Internet is Not a Cloud (repeat)
From data centres, to phones, to modems, to mobile towers, to intercontinental fibre optic cables spanning the globe... it takes a lot of energy to keep the…
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The sound of change
The climate is changing, and so is our world. But what does that sound like?Anja Kanngieser and Daniel Jenatsch’s ‘A story of extinction’ is a sonic story…
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Stopping the Chopping: forest defence in Victoria
The forests of East Gippsland, Victoria, continue to fall victim to an over-subsidised and under-regulated forestry industry. While some threatened species of…
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Flood the System
This week is a journey of voices and sounds from a morning of creative resistance in the centre of the city that was the Flood the System in Melbourne. Flood…
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Undermining Tanzania: Australians Exploit Africa
Tanzanians are all-too-familiar with the promises made and not kept by mining companies and the national government. The mining of gold, diamonds, copper and…
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COP 21 - Voices from Below
As politicians from around the world meet in Paris for the latest round of climate talks, we hear some of the voices of resistance from below. We bring you…
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BHP Billiton's ecological disasters under fire at their AGM's
On the 5th of November a catastrophic failure of a tailings dam at the Brazillian Samarco Iron Ore mine caused Brazils largest ecological disaster and possibly…
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Adani Carmichael mine - Reapproved but not without Resistance
On October 16th, the Federal Government re-approved the Adani Carmichael coal and railway project. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt, or Minister for…
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The Murray-Darling's Political Flows
The Murray-Darling's Political Flows: Basin Plan under attackIn response to the failing health of the vital inland Murray-Darling river system, the…
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Climate science: a primer
Now, you’re concerned about climate change, and you know it’s caused by human activity. But the facts, figures and statistics can be bit elusive. And the…
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#HeyASIO: data retention and the threat to activism
As someone who cares about the environment and social justice you could be excused for feeling a little bit paranoid at the moment. 2015 has seen the Federal…
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Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments
New Chum toxic waste dump is situated on geographically unsuitable land within the suburbs of the busy urban centre of Ipswich, Queensland. We talk to Jim…
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The Green Witch Hunt
The Green Witch Hunt: another angle to cripple dissentGreen groups have been put under the microscope by the Federal House of Representatives Inquiry into the…
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#FreeKaren - debunking the Government's scare tactics
On the 21st of September the Federal Justice Minister and the Attorney General’s department launched a booklet titled ‘Preventing Violent Extremism and…
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Learning to co-exist: trees versus road safety
Today we're looking at a highway duplication between Beaufort and Ararat. Vic Roads completed an environmental effects statement that said they would cut down…
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Earth Matters 1000th Episode
On this episode we interview five former producers - Juliet Fox, Indira Naryan, Gab Reade, Nicky Stott and Helen Gwilliam - about who they are, some of their…
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Leadfish and shale gas: resistance in the Northern Territory
Leadfish and shale gas: resistance in the Northern TerritoryNear Borroloola, NT, the McArthur River Mine continues it's scandalous modus operandi by failing to…
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Defending Sacred Sites and energy autonomy in North America
Defending Sacred Sites and energy autonomy in North AmericaCorrina Gould is a Chochenyo/Karkin Ohlone woman who has dedicated her life to protecting her…
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Deep Sea Mining
It’s been described as the next big land-grab - the race to dig-up the sea bed. It’s called deep sea mining. And the mining industry see it as their next new…
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Environmentalists for Peace
On this episode of Earth Matters we talk to Robin Taubenfeld and Kim Stewart from Friends of the Earth Brisbane about their report 'US Bases in Australia: the…
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A Royal Waste of Time
The South Australian Royal Commission into nuclear expansion is losing credibility as it continues. The expert advisory panel is stacked with nuclear advocates…
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Trans Pacific Partnership
Australia is currently part of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership which is a secretive free trade deal between 12 countries led by the united…