Podcasts by Earth Matters

Protecting Urban Native Bees: Wildlife Corridors&Community Gardens from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.690180

Guest presenter Phuong speaks with Emma Cutting from The Heart Gardening Project about the vital importance of creating insect friendly wildlife corridors and community gardens in urban areas, and ...

Anarchist prepping with Margaret Killjoy (Part2) from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.677308

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 World is Dying, on the concept of prepar...

2020/2021 Indian farm workers strikes feminist reflections from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.665951

Feminist Navsharan Singh reflects on the crucial role of women workers in mobilising the 2020/2021 Indian farmers and agricultural workers strike, and film maker/activist Navkiran Natt reflects on ...

Trees not Bombs Cafe in flood devastated Lismore. from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.660867

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 help. The North East Forest Alliance us...

Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 2 from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.644961

Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 2: Indigenous ActionPart 2 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Licker...

“An Act of Bad Faith” from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.618702

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 Environment to sign off on the plans before publ...

Information&politicisation of the Great Barrier Reef from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.605919

Since colonisation the Great Barrier Reef has been the subject of national interest and identity. It’s also been subject to misinformation and politicisation. In 2019 The Great Barrier Reef Marine ...

Calls to stop Seismic blasting in the Otway Basin from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.598251

 Calls to stop seismic surveys in the Otway Basin First Nations peoples, environmental groups and fishers were alarmed at the news that international oilfield services company Schlumberger and ener...

Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 1 from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.595334

Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 1While climate catastrophe escalates globally, mutual aid movements are interconnecting and building their power ...

Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 2 from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.586634

Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 2While climate catastrophe escalates globally, mutual aid movements are interconnecting and building their power ...

First Nations call to Stop Fracking and compensation for damages from bad land management decisions from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.579566

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  extraction decisions To protect cou...

Biodiversity on the line at COP 15 from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.573298

 Biodiversity on the line at COP 15The COP 15 UN biodiversity meeting held in Montreal Canada in December 2022, was seen as a"last chance"to save the nature upon which the world depends. The result...

Bushfire survivor stories help depoliticise global heating negotiations. from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.569939

Jo Dodds, co-founder of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action observed at COP27 that stories from victims of extreme climate impacts help depoliticise discussions aimed at solving the global heatin...

Australia's Carbon Credits Conundrum from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.561225

Carbon offsets have underpinned Australia's climate policies for the last decade. But the credibility of the carbon credits market has been tarnished with allegations of fraudulent credits, and que...

Carbon Cost of Logging from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.553238

Did you know that Emissions from native forest logging in south-eastern Australia are greater than Australia’s domestic aviation industry? This episode we speak with Dr Jennifer Sanger from environ...

Presenting evidence of First nations climate impacts on country. The case of the Waratah Coal mine, climate&human rights. Part 2 from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.539799

From the Women's Climate Congress:   Presenting evidence of First Nations climate impacts on country.  The case of the Waratah Coal mine, climate&human rights. Part Two This is the second part abou...

Reflections from roundtables in the transition to Net Zero from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.534015

Last year the Federal government announced a First Nations Clean Energy Strategy aimed at ensuring First Nations people have a say in energy policies and programs in the transition to net-zero. The...

Indonesia: forest peoples recognition and rights from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.520403

Forest campaigners Avi Mahaningtyas and Patrick Anderson talk about the importance of recognising forest peoples rights in  Indonesia, the  30 by 30 Biodiversity Convention, the effectiveness of tr...

Asia's melting glaciers and the climate activists fighting to save them from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.510939

Home to exquisite landscapes, rich culture, and the world’s tallest peaks, the mountainous communities that inhabit the Himalayas face an existential threat. Described as the ‘water tower of Asia’,...

Valuing the world's disappearing kelp forests from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.498098

Valuing the world's disappearing kelp forestsKelp forests are disappearing around the world and in Australia due to warming oceans, pollution and other human impacts.In this episode of Earth Matter...

Small Island Developing States and the climate crisis from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.493148

Small Island Developing States and the climate crisis In our final episode of the'Loss, Damage, and Denial'miniseries, Jacob speaks with Tristan Ward, a social and behaviour change officer at UNICE...

AUKUS: a feminist perspective from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.483176

Australia is preparing for war, but is there an alternative?Margaret Reynolds from the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom joins the show to discuss what AUKUS means for Australian so...

Unpacking the"Save the Bees"campaign from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.473274

"Save the bees"has become an environmental catch cry – but with honeybees colonies on the rise, what bee species are in need of saving and how should we go about saving them?This episode we chat wi...

Women bringing new agendas to COP28: Part One. from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.462637

At a time when the world has moved from global warming to'global boiling'according to the UN Secretary General, all eyes are on COP 28 (UAE, Dec 2023) for the world to take the actions needed to dr...

Ecuador votes to'keep oil in the soil' from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.458706

Waorani leader  Alicia Cahuiya standing next to a tree near her community marked to be cut down by Petroecuador, the company now banned from drilling in Yasuní National Park.Ecuador votes to keep o...

Fire threatens endangered purple-crowned fairy-wren from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.450329

Fire threat to purple-crowned fairy-wren Wildfire threatens the survival of the endangered purple-crowned fairy-wren, a tiny bird that lives in riparian zones, along the rivers and creeks of Austra...

World Disability Day: Dee Mould and Bec Horridge chat about Health Sovereignty and give praises to the Newcastle coal port blockade. from 2023-12-12T20:18:43.440021

Dee and Bec respond to the  Earths urgent screaming; the luscious, living system all around us and really try to help. Global boiling activists Dee Mould and Bec Horridge met on the ground at the i...

War and the Environment: Palestine from 2023-12-10T11:00

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”H.G. WellsAs true as it was back in 1936, it is still true today. And whilst the human cost of war is undeniable, not often considered is the environmental da...

World Disability Day: Health Sovereignty. from 2023-12-04T10:28:29.087045

Dee and Bec respond to the  Earths urgent screaming; the luscious, living system all around us and really try to help. Global boiling activists Dee Mould and Bec Horridge met on the ground at the i...

Emissions impossible and"Biodiversity on a knife edge"- Alpine insect decline from 2023-11-26T11:00

Nurrdalinji Aboriginal Corporation Members and Directors outside a flaring exploration well on Tanumbrini Cattle Station.Photo courtesy of Thomas Houlie kindly provided by Original Power and the Nu...

Fighting for Banaba Part 2 from 2023-11-19T11:00

Professor Katerina Teaiwa and Itinterunga Rae Banteiti join Priya to discuss the colonial history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the fight by Banabans for reparations and an end to extraction. T...

Fighting for Banaba Part 1 from 2023-11-12T11:00

Professor Katerina Teaiwa and Itinterunga Rae Banteiti join Priya to discuss the colonial history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the fight by Banabans for reparations and an end to extraction. T...

Can offshore wind and whales co-exist? from 2023-10-29T11:00

This week on Earth Matters, Phil Evans takes a dive into the renewable energy revolution happening in Australia, and asks: can offshore wind and whales co-exist?Offshore wind is just starting to ge...

Jail can not rehabilitate forest defender Dr Collette Harmsen. Just tear up the wood supply agreements. from 2023-10-22T11:00

Dr. Colette Harmsen, in lutruwita (Tasmania) was released on Friday 13/10/23 from her three months sentence in prison, for having stood up for the protection of our precious native forests. She spo...

Women bringing new agendas to COP28: Part Two from 2023-10-15T11:00

At a time when the world has moved from global warming to'global boiling'according to the UN Secretary General, all eyes are on COP 28 (UAE, Dec 2023) for the world to take the actions needed to dr...

Outcomes of the call to End Native Forest Logging in Australia at the ALP National Conference. from 2023-09-24T11:00

Sean O Shannessy talks with Felicity Wade from the Labor Environment Action Network about outcomes for our native forests at the recent ALP National Conference in Meanjin. Bob Browns with trumpets ...

Rising Tide: civil resistance for climate justice from 2023-09-17T11:00

With the effects of climate change being felt around the globe, a small grassroots civil resistance movement is reforming, and they are called Rising Tide.We spoke with Shaun Murray and 19 year old...

Uncle Bunja Smith:" A vote  for Yes is a vote for hope and opportunity".  43 climate groups support writing Yes. With Djaarmby Band. Transcript too.  from 2023-09-10T11:00

Uncle Bunja Smith says he wants"to see a permanent voice to parliament so we may be able to close the gap”. Uncle Bunja is asking people to find out about The Voice referendum coming up on October ...

Saving Westernport Bay: A community takes on AGL from 2023-08-27T11:00

Saving Westernport Bay: A community takes on AGL On October 17th 2017 AGL announced it would install a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) in Westernport Bay on the Mornington Peninsula...

Nuclear waste and what to do with it from 2023-08-20T10:00

A 2021 national inventory found Australia’s low and intermediate waste has a combined volume greater than seven Olympic swimming pools. This episode looks at the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal ...

Environmental dimensions of the'war on drugs' from 2023-08-13T11:00

Environmental Dimensions of the'war on drugs' We investigate the environmental dimensions of the war on drugs and the international drug prohibition regime.  Liliana Davalos, an evolutionary biolog...

"The Path to a Sustainable Civilization", by Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor. from 2023-07-29T11:00

Hear Rod Taylor co-author of a new book The Path to a Sustainable Civilization with Mark Diesendorf.with Ecopella environment choir singing  “Let's Pretend” and “My Kyoto”. “Break the bonds of corp...

The fight for container deposit schemes from 2023-07-23T10:00

As Victoria and Tasmania become the last two states in Australia to implement a cash for container deposit scheme Earth Matters reflects on the community effort to get the policy. We speak with Jef...

Communities say NO but seismic blasting in the Otway Basin one step closer as TGS/SLB Environment Plan released for public comment from 2023-07-16T11:00

 Community says NO but seismic blasting in the Otway Basin one step closer as TGS/SLB Environment Plan released for public comment  On Thursday, July 13th, TGS/SLB advised stakeholders that the nat...

Knitting Nannas confront Forestry in Australia and Japan's"green"strategy. They also offer youth Nanna wisdom.. from 2023-06-25T11:00

The Knitting Nannas were outside Forestry NSW demanding an end to the destruction of our forests that provide ecosystem services and species.  They also offer some caring advice and hope to young p...

The fight against plastic waste from 2023-06-17T10:00

According to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Australians used 3.4 million tonnes of plastics in 2018-2019.This week Earth Matters looks at two tools in the fight...

Forest Victories to Ocean Fails from 2023-06-11T11:00

Last month Victoria announce the end of native forest logging in the state would be brought forward to Jan 1 2024. And just this week, a whale is entangled in a shark net in Queensland. This week o...

HR23: Preventing drug-related harm; protecting human rights from 2023-05-28T11:00

HR23: Preventing drug-related harm; protecting human rightsStrength in Solidarity was the theme of the Harm Reduction International Conference held in Naarm/Melbourne from April 16th to 19th this y...

Fighting not drowning: the Pacific's battle against the climate crisis from 2023-05-21T10:00

On this episode of Loss, Damage, and Denial, Jacob speaks with Tongan law student Soane Tupola about how climate change will affect his island home, and his hopes for a climate positive future.We s...

Sweltering Cities and the risks of Heatwaves from 2023-05-14T10:00

Earth Matters speaks with Sweltering Cities, a campaign in Sydney and Melbourne seeking  to empower communities experiencing extreme heat by lifting up stories of lived experience and building comm...

Jabiluka 25 years on&and Menindee Fish Kills from 2023-04-30T11:30

Last month millions of fish washed up dead in Menindee as blackwater starve the river of oxygen. Barb Quayle of the Barkindji Elders Council in Menindee speaks in the days after the fish kill and f...

As the climate warms, lives and livelihoods are at stake in Sub Saharan Africa from 2023-04-23T10:30

Despite contributing the least to global emissions, Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most climate vulnerable regions in the world. With economic dependence on agriculture, high levels of poverty, a...

The Resistance Rocket Frog and Ecuador's anti-mining campaign from 2023-04-16T11:00

 The Resistance Rocket Frog and Ecuador's anti-Mining Campaign Liz Downes chats with Judith about the reasons behind the recent proliferation of mining companies in Ecuador,  the impact it's having...

Womens Climate Congress presents: The case of the Waratah Coal mine, climate&human rights. Part 1 from 2023-03-26T11:00

In a  recent historic ruling The Land Court rejected Clive Palmers proposed coal mine on the Bimble Box Nature Reserve. This ground breaking case was a test for Queensland’s new human rights act. H...

Youth climate activists from East Africa on Loss and Damage from 2023-03-19T11:00

CoP27 held last November in Sharm el-Sheikh reached a landmark agreement to establish a loss and damage fund.Rich countries have agreed to bear some of the costs for permanent and irreversible clim...

PEP11 and the impact of underwater noise from 2023-03-12T11:00

PEP11 and the impact of underwater noiseThe gas-drilling proposal known as “Petroleum Exploration Permit 11” or PEP 11, is back on the agenda despite opposition from the community and environmental...

Threats to Australia’s amazing wild bees from 2023-02-26T11:00

Threats to Australia's wild bees Around sixteen hundred and fifty species of bees indigenous to Australia have been identified through western science and it’s estimated that well over a thousand a...

How the climate crisis is worsening inequality from 2023-02-19T11:00

The climate emergency will continue to bring fire, floods, and extreme weather events all across the world— but not everyone is going to be affected in the same way.Communities that are white and w...

Save Big Spotty and Australian  forests . from 2023-02-12T11:00

Takesa  explains  her connection to  the forest she lives in on Yuin Country, NSW,  the  impacts  of taking trees and why  Australian forests need protection now more than ever.  Later in the show ...

Plastic Straw Bans and other false solutions from 2023-01-29T11:00

 The sustainability movement likes to tout self-promoted actions of recycling and zero waste, but are these movements possible for everyone? This week we problematise the lack of inclusivity in the...

From the Martuwarra to the Baaka - Communities in Flood from 2023-01-22T11:00

From the Martuwarra Fitzroy River in North West WA to the Darling Baaka River in Far West NSW.Remote communities are seeking control over disaster information and flood management as questions are ...

Rivers'Rights as Ancestral Beings from 2023-01-15T11:00

This week Earth Matters explores how uniting Indigenous world views with emerging legal concepts offers a strengthened calls for rights for nature.  It’s a republication of 2DRY FMs Water Watch epi...

Calling in from Japan from 2022-12-25T11:00

Japan is not doing great when it comes to climate action. Absent from COP27, awarded"the infamous'fossil'award and leading a revitalized push by for Nuclear energy, there is a lot to be desired for...

15 months for 28 minutes - Violet Coco on bail from 2022-12-18T11:00

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 acting solicitor Eddie Lloyd on the precede...

Sybil Disobedients: Aprons, Agitprops and Climate Action from 2022-11-20T11:00

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 hooped skirts and yellow aprons...moving s...

The lands of flooding rains from 2022-11-13T11:00

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 Basin, thousands of homes have been dam...

Birrarung: Stories of the River from 2022-10-30T11:00

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 for surrounding ecosystems, a reminder ...

Indigenous Justice Advocacy Network from 2022-10-23T11:00

Al Oshlack talking about the work  of the Indigenous Justice Advocacy Network. Insider stories from the epic conservation battles at Timbarra, Iron Gates, the North Lismore Plateau and more. He als...

Save Our Songlines: A campaign of the Murujuga from 2022-10-16T11:00

Earth Matters speaks with Raelene Cooper from the Save Our Songlines campaign against over-development of the Murujuga in Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia. The campaign has been vocal against th...

Origin Divests from the Beetaloo Basin from 2022-09-24T11:00

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 remember the story of Land Rights in ...

Cultural Burning on Kangaroo Island from 2022-09-18T11:00

Cultural Burning on Kangaroo IslandGuest presenter Nicky Page speaks with Tagalaka man Victor Steffenson from Firesticks Alliance, and Kangaroo Island resident Lara Tilbrook about the cultural burn...

Benny Zable on maintaining activism and Arcology from 2022-09-11T11:00

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 nature: Save The Franklin, Stop Rox...

Elizabeth Russell-Arnot on the environmental focus of her arts practice from 2022-08-28T11:00

Elizabeth Russell-Arnot on the environmental focus of her arts practiceGuided soundscape with Tasmanian artist and academic Elizabeth Russell-Arnot about the environmental focus of her arts practic...

Vic Youth Parliament e-waste bill& eco-anarchist Greek update from 2022-08-21T11:00

Vic Youth Parliament e-waste bill& eco-anarchist Greek updateGuest Producer Jacob Gamble in conversation with high school students who developed a bill on effective e-waste management as part of th...

Floodplain Harvesting Disallowance Denied from 2022-08-14T11:00

“Disallowance denied”Floodplain Harvesting Regulations Stand in NSW Parliament After years of contentious debate, regulations to licence floodplain harvesting in NSW were released on July 1 and fac...

The Lismore floods showed Dee"We cant rely on the government to come and help us." from 2022-07-24T11:00

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 . She lost almost all her things to the ...

Wild Deer in Victoria from 2022-07-17T11:00

Wild deer pose a growing threat to Victoria's biodiversity, cultural heritage, and state infrastructure. With an estimated population of one million deer, the Victorian government has published a n...

Tiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill&Blockade Australia update from 2022-06-26T11:00

Tiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill&Blockade Australia updateJacob Gamble touches base with Jason Fowler from the Northern Territory Environment Centre about Santos drilling for oil...

"The urgent plan  to restore our catchment  is the only way to reduce flood heights in Lismore." from 2022-06-19T11:00

"The urgent plan  to restore our catchment  is the only way to reduce flood heights in Lismore."                                                                                                     ...

Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 3 from 2022-06-12T11:00

Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 3: Indigenous ActionPart 3 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Licker...

Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 1 from 2022-05-29T11:00

Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 1: Indigenous ActionPart 1 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Licker...

Who’s shouting the black box? from 2022-05-22T11:00

 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 wet conditions, but thats about to chan...

The Forest Fairy - Leadbeater Possum from 2022-05-15T11:00

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 Earth Matters investigates the combinati...

Disproportionate Indigenous vulnerability to climate change&systemic climate misinformation from 2022-04-17T11:00

Priya Kunjan speaks with ANU researcher Bhiamie Williamson on the disproportionate vulnerability of Indigenous peoples to climate change&mitigation strategies.And Jacob Gamble speaks with John Cook...

Unprecedented floods and a slap in the face from 2022-04-10T11:00

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 from Elly Bird, coordinator with Resi...

Forestry Corporation busted by citizens and fined for the removal of hollow-bearing trees. from 2022-03-27T00:00

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 forests  in Western AustraliaAustralia...

Anarchist prepping with Margaret Killjoy (Part1) from 2022-03-20T00:00

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 World is Dying, on the concept of prepar...

Climate Crisis in the Courts from 2022-03-13T00:00

Since early 2010s climate action has been increasing in the court room both internationally and here in Australia. Each case challenges the environmental laws and systems we live in and can set new...

Petroleum License Buybacks and Space Debris from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.272020

The NSW government is buying back Petroleum Exploration Licenses (PEL). We talk to  Louise Steer from Stop CSG Sydney about what it took to make it this far and what's next in the fight to rid Aust...

No jobs on a dead planet: Just transitions - a May Day Special from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.263249

We are often told that we have to make a choice between jobs and the environment. And that we have no option but to continue with an economic system that has lead us to a point of climate catastrop...

They tried to make me go to rehab from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.248572

Slashing the RET and burning our forests from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.186480

Moves are afoot to keep Australia’s disastrous old-growth forest logging industry alive. Leaked documents have recently revealed what many have been saying for a long time, that logging in the East...

Deep Sea Mining from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.178635

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 hope. Canadian mining company Nautilus ...

Defending Sacred Sites and energy autonomy in North America from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.175164

Defending Sacred Sites and energy autonomy in North AmericaCorrina Gould is a Chochenyo/Karkin Ohlone woman who has dedicated her life to protecting her peoples'sacred sites, even though hundreds o...

Leadfish and shale gas: resistance in the Northern Territory from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.162315

Leadfish and shale gas: resistance in the Northern TerritoryNear Borroloola, NT, the McArthur River Mine continues it's scandalous modus operandi by failing to deal with toxic discharge contaminati...

#FreeKaren - debunking the Government's scare tactics from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.146927

On the 21st of September the Federal Justice Minister and the Attorney General’s department launched a booklet titled ‘Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation In Australia’.The kit is direc...

Climate science: a primer from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.138323

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 climate deniers are well rehearsed at seedi...

The Murray-Darling's Political Flows from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.101721

The Murray-Darling's Political Flows: Basin Plan under attackIn response to the failing health of the vital inland Murray-Darling river system, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan enables water allocatio...

Undermining Tanzania: Australians Exploit Africa from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.084007

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 many more minerals have left toxic wast...

Water more precious than Gold! from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.063343

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 suing one of the poorest countries in t...

Coal's Water Grab and the TPP: A deepening environmental crisis. from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.048282

 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 with current and proposed coal mines all...

From the forest to the sea from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.040388

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 endangered species of flora and fauna have be...

Genocide and Ecocide from 2022-03-07T00:52:53.036996

Following on from discussions between Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Boe Spearim, Earth Matters explores the relationship between the crimes of genocide and ecocide. Our special guest is Clinton Pryor fro...

The sound of change [Repeat] from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.992275

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 meditating on climate change, the anthropo...

The TPP Corporatocracy and Plastic Free July from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.973723

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 ramifications for our environment.  The ISDS ...

After Don Dale: demanding change, not another Royal Commission from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.893831

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 Darwin.The footage brought the horrific ...

Is Population the Problem? from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.871777

This week we talk to Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance Councillor for Moreland, about whether human population really is a major cause of environmental destruction.

Indigenous Struggles for autonomy, self-determination...“This is our time” from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.855779

Jaime Heunchullan is a Mapuche Indigenous leader from Chile. He shares his experiences fighting for his land against multi-national resources companies and the Chilean government. This was from the...

Colonisation, domestic violence and ecocide from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.799849

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, otherwise known as Ancestress. We discuss...

No to Roe 8 and Nuclear Weapons from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.777275

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 about the contested Roe 8 mega highway. L...

Talking Up Treaty: Victorian Aboriginal Sovereignty and Treaty Forum. from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.771044

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 organised by the Moondani Balluk Acade...

Cops Don't Make Us Safe: trans-liberalism and anti-violence politics from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.763274

Regrette Etcetera, Sydney-based DJ, writer and artist speaks about transliberalism: a political framework that seeks to assimilate trans people into the existing social hierarchies of the capitalis...

Coming of the Dawn: the Lubicon Cree community's fight for a clean energy future from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.748607

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 mining and their initiative to install...

Earth Law: Ideas for a Saner World from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.740886

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 Maloney. Michelle discusses how the Australia...

Voices from the #StopAdani roadshow from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.737900

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 Queensland.The case against Adani’s coal m...

Toxic Legacy from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.695019

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 toxic site in the Melbourne suburb of...

The river is like blood flowing through our veins from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.688479

"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 shortages in the Lower Darling River s...

A Crude Injustice: The ongoing effects of the Montara oil spill on the people of West Timor from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.676258

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 after, oil and toxic dispersants show...

Don't forget Paga Hill: landgrabbing in PNG and Australian aid from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.659410

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 hotel and marina on their land. The n...

NT Intervention: 10 long years, 10 years too long from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.646117

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. In June 2017 a conference in Alice Spr...

“This mine is a flashpoint”: Frontline resistance to Adani’s mega coal mine from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.638857

Resistance to Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin, Central Queensland, is heating up. The project is subject to sustained criticism because of the impacts on climate, the lac...

SAVE THE TARKINE LATEST from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.604402

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 sites and is also home to over 60 rare, t...

Will Lidia Thorpe be the first Aboriginal person in the Victorian Parliament? from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.592209

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 campaign launch held in Thornbury, Melbo...

Disability Day 2017 – Disability, Climate Change and Natural Disasters from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.581133

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 disability, climate change and natural d...

Protecting Belfast Coastal Reserve from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.564835

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 is important environmentally, culturall...

The Boot on our Necks from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.557114

All around the planet widespread ideological folly on the neoliberal bandwagon is targeting environmental activists systemically via government and big business. But Indigenous land rights activist...

Telling stories of cyclones from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.489503

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 shorelines, king tides, and the increased occurr...

Saving the Murray Darling PART 1 from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.475100

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. And today we’re in conversation with...

Resisting shock politics in a Trump world from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.471739

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 days after Donald Trump won the 2016 US...

Illawarra mining blues: locals defending water and climate from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.463584

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 and polluted creeks are some of the l...

"Direct action gets the goods" from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.445659

Changing the world is difficult, especially when you’re up against institutions that enjoy major political and financial power.Direct tactics of protest have played a major role in catalyzing chang...

No Trees, No treaty from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.438119

This week's show is about the Djapwurrung Embassy, established to protect sacred trees threatened with destruction, north of Ballarat in Victoria. The state government want to cut down over 3000 tr...

Green ban, red union [encore broadcast] from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.403705

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 trade unionist Jack Mundey.Jack talks ...

Fracking disrupting the web of life from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.388953

Today we hear from American biologist and author Sandra Steingraber, giving the keynote address to the Permanent People’s Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change.Sandra takes ...

Glyphosate's time is up from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.377396

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 cancer.Also this week: A new week, a new Prime...

Cassowaries need new laws. Crocs not for profit. from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.374715

Meet Ingrid Marker from Mission Beach  Queensland who lived alongside endangered cassowaries becoming known as a cassowary whisperer. Horribly, all the cassowary families she knew were killed by do...

Knitting Nanas against gas,coal and greed. from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.368407

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 to the massive Newcastle coal export te...

Keep Urannah Pristine. No Dam, Connection to Country. from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.298819

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 his family to live on Birri coun...

Nasty new logging rules from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.284932

The new  logging rules for public forests  have just been released. They are  described as disaster for old growth forests, rainforest, river health, threatened species, Koalas, and global warming....

Victorian state government investment in parks and camping across the state from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.282136

Coming up this week on Earth Matters you'll hear post Victoria state election reaction from Matt Ruchel - Executive Director: The Victorian National Parks Association. And we take a look at the Vic...

WATER films by John Harvey Torres Strait Islander Creative from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.270222

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 documentary ‘Water Shield’ about the c...

Saving The Murray Darling part 3 with local traditional owners from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.262365

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 William Brian Bates also known as'Badger...

The National Shark Summit 2019 from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.250267

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 to the 22nd of February 2019In this pro...

Traditional savanah burning cuts CO2 emissions and earns carbon credits for aboriginal communities. from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.241077

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 traditional ways of burning off savann...

Passing the torch: A history of nuclear survival in the Pacific from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.198505

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 thousand nuclear test explosions around the ...

Fight for the Bight from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.193083

Fight for the BightCoastal whale peoples from all over are concerned about oil drilling operations in the Southern Ocean's Great Bight. Norwegian multi-national Equinor released an environmental im...

Anti-politics from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.183715

On this week's show we’re analysing the federal election with Elizabeth Humphrys. With growing distrust of politicians and disillusionment with the electoral system, how does the environment moveme...

Ask the Elders: Budj Bim Protection from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.167833

Ask the Elders: Budj Bim ProtectionGuest presenter Will Mathews yarns with Uncle Denis Rose from the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners'Corporation about how the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape's nomin...

Wangan Jagalingou establish a sovereignty camp / Sounds from a StopAdani lockon  from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.097457

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 Jagalingou  family council  and  the tradit...

Future histories - technology isn't neutral from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.087170

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? Until we start to understand that clima...

Fighting mining from Ecuador to Australia from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.078789

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 Ecuador. It’s one of the most bio-diverse c...

Resisting state repression - resisting business as usual from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.064569

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.  Guests: Andy Paine (Frontline Action ...

On the chopping block. An end to native forest logging in Vic.? from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.057188

Finally the Victorian government has acknowledged that native forest logging must end. After decades of mismanagement, financial losses and environmental destruction. The government has announced a...

Fungi fights forest fire and builds the Global Carbon Soil Sponge from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.047989

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 sponge” offering resilience to global ...

Tiny House Warriors: Secwepemc struggle from 2022-03-07T00:52:52.038033

Tiny House Warriors: Secwepemc struggleSecwepemc land protector Kanahus Freedom on how Secwepemc people are resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion and ongoing impacts of colonialism&white ...

Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part1): Narm Dawn Service from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.991852

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 deepest respects to all the First Nati...

Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part2): Narm protest rally&march from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.988449

Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part2): Narm protest rally&marchPart 2 of a two part Invasion Day tribute features selected speakers from the Narm protest rally&march Earth Matters #1229 was produced...

Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie Forests Frontline from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.892074

Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie forests frontlineLisa Searle (Bob Brown Foundation) gets us up to speed with the rapidly shifting landscape of forest activism in Tasmania - as the end of t...

BIPOC Women’s Resistance: IWD 2020 from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.888680

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 most adversely affected by climate ch...

Future histories [encore] from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.797007

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? Until we start to understand that clima...

Something in the Water? Regional contamination of our water supply from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.776293

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 picture? Although most Australians are accust...

Environmental Racism: BIPOC in climate movements from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.701212

Environmental Racism: BIPOC in climate movementsPatrisse Cullors—climate justice&decarceration activist— and one of the original founders of the Black Lives Matter movement— speaks with Khristen Ha...

The NT Fight Against Fracking from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.688053

NT Fight Against FrackingThe Federal government's National Covid-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC) has proposed a boost to the country's economy through an increase to the gas industry.Wiradjuri an...

"Leave Our Lakes Alone"- Darling-Baaka Community Says No from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.677681

"Leave Our Lakes Alone"- Darling-Baaka Community Says NoThe Menindee Lakes in far west NSW are the site for large water savings project under the Murray Darling Basin Plan. After seeing this unique...

A history of the world in seven cheap things [encore] from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.674808

On today’s show, Raj Patel helps us un-pack the history of capitalism, and how it has radically altered the ecology of this planet. Patel is the co-author, with Jason W. Moore of the book 'A Histor...

Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 2) from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.659280

Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 2) The Gates Foundation funded project ‘Golden Rice’ is an unnecessary and unwanted GMO technology driven by big agriculture corpora...

Calling for a referendum on the environment and a renewables led recovery.&NSW, VIC, TAS forest campain updates from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.651049

The school strikers for climate action are back!   Rosie and Jimmy will tell you clearly what  they want.  Into the lawns of Parliament House Canberran,  they plant hundreds of  placards made by sc...

Against Eco-Fascism [encore] from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.635647

Against Eco-fascism: an environmentalism without nature [encore]    We often think of environmental politics as inherently progressive and humane.  But from more mainstream far right parties with a...

Indigenous Environment Network: Soil not Oil from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.596058

Indigenous Environment Network: Soil not OilThe Indigenous Environmental Network presents at the Soil not Oil conference 2020 on Indigenous traditional farming, loss of biodiversity and disease, an...

False Promises&Real Solutions: Part 1 from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.583727

False Promises&Real Solutions: Part 1We've all heard the extremely disturbing hype about geoengineering as a so-called solution for climate change—but how much do we really know about it? Where did...

Sydney's newest suburbs are too hot to live in from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.576147

Sydney's newest suburbs are too hot to live inTemperatures in western Sydney, home to 2.3 million of Sydney’s poorest residents, are already peaking at unliveable highs. Bureau of Meteorology weath...

The Climate Action Now Sign project (CAN Sign). from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.558208

A  well organised, new project bringing beautifully designed, inexpensive ?Climate Action Now Signs to the people promises to help wake Australia up to the need for urgent climate action now. This ...

Save Westernport from AGL from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.539394

Save Westernport From AGL Westernport Bay is an internationally significant wetland, home to a great diversity of marine life and endangered birds. But AGL plans to build a gas terminal in the hear...

Aric McBay: Full Spectrum Resistance (part 2) from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.493915

Interview with Aric McBay about Full Spectrum Resistance (part 2)Part two of a two part interview with farmer, anarchist, organiser and author Aric McBay, on his book Full Spectrum Resistance—an hi...

Lake Menindee Filling at Last from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.480846

Since 2016 Lake Menindee has laid desolate, dry as a bone. But this week flows returned and with them hope for people and the environment. This week on Earth Matters we talk to 5th generation farme...

Reconnecting and Protecting: Ecopsychology from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.461179

EARTH MATTERS RADIOTHON 2021: Please give what you can during our annual Radiothon fundraiser—You can donate now online and pledge your donation to Earth Matters—or call 03 9419 8377 Protecting t...

Young Climate Feminists: Radical Futures Roundtable Pt 2. from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.441605

Young intersectional feminists re-imagining climate justiceThis week on Earth Matters Part 2 of a two part series envisioning radical futures with young intersectional climate feminists at Climate ...

Fight for the Trees: National Tree Day from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.394493

'We actually can't live without trees. They keep everything going'(Peter Vadiveloo)Guest presenter Nicky Page chats with volunteer facilitator Anna Markey about her work with Climate for Change—a v...

Groundswell: Wrath of the Forest Protectors from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.388966

The fight to protect native forests intensifiesIn 2019 the Vic Gov supposedly committed to winding down the native forest logging industry with a 2030 end-date. But now they've sneakily proposed mo...

New NT water laws open door to cotton from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.368566

The Northern Territory Government recently changed the water act when they passed the Territory Economic Reconstruction Bill, to boost economic recovery through the pandemic. It opens the door to n...

Healing Our Lands (Part 3) from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.304978

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 Country and the panellists explore way...

Community Healing (Part 3) from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.297938

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 country&burning, rising desert temperat...

What can we bring to the climate challenge ? from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.275053

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 left battling flames with two buckets as...

North East (NSW) Forest Alliance update: RFA court case&Redbank Biomass Reboot from 2022-03-07T00:52:51.271997

North East (NSW) Forest Alliance update: RFA court case&Redbank RebootDailan Pugh from North East (NSW) Forest Alliance updates listeners on the upcoming court case against the federal government f...

Floods, fish&a bush dish from 2022-02-27T11:00

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. This week we hear from Barkindji and Mal...

Woodside threatens Murujuga at Burrup Peninsula&cops threaten climate defenders from 2022-02-20T11:00

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 Burrup Peninsula. Sasha and Greg from Bl...

Call to “Put our heads together” to crack serious Heat Threat to the Great Barrier Reef. from 2022-02-13T11:00

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 listed as ‘in danger’ due to the seve...

Centering fisher folk narratives: World Forum of Fisher Peoples Pt 2 from 2022-01-23T11:00

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 fisheries spokespeople from around the worl...

Centering fisher folk narratives: World Forum of Fisher Peoples Pt 1 from 2022-01-16T11:00

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 fisheries spokespeople from around the worl...

Pursuing Global Justice (Part 3) from 2021-12-26T11:00

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 Islander climate change priorities, ex...

Pursuing Global Justice (Part 2) from 2021-12-19T11:00

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 Islander climate change priorities, ex...

Pursuing Global Justice (Part 1) from 2021-12-12T11:00

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 Islander climate change priorities, ex...

Community Healing (Part 2) from 2021-11-28T11:00

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 country&burning, rising desert temperat...

Community Healing (Part 1) from 2021-11-21T11:00

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 country&burning, rising desert temperat...

Uncle Albert Hartnett and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy 5oth Anniversary. Glue-Ons, Prams, Roadblocks. Resisting fossil fuels. from 2021-11-14T11:00

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 kids from the harm of climate disrupt...

Government has a Duty of Care to kids from climate chaos impacts from 2021-11-14T11:00

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 kids from the harm of climate disrupt...

Glue-Ons, Prams, Roadblocks and coal train bridge absailing. Resisting Fossil fuels. from 2021-11-14T11:00

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 kids from the harm of climate disrupt...

Healing Our Lands (Part 2) from 2021-10-31T11:00

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 Country and the panellists explore wa...

Healing Our Lands (Part 1) from 2021-10-24T11:00

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 Country and the panellists explore wa...

Listening to First Nations knowledge to inform Earth-centred, collaborative governance: Women's Climate Conversations 2021 #6 from 2021-10-10T11:00

 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 and then we are  obliged  to do th...

Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systems [ENCORE] from 2021-09-19T11:00

Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systems [ENCORE}Brad Moggridge, Kamilaroi man&geologist, and Tyson Yunkaporta of the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York, and author of Sandtalk: How Indigenous ...

Custodians of Country (Part 3) from 2021-09-12T11:00

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 Peoples as Custodians of Country, custo...

Womens Climate Congress Conversation from 2021-08-29T11:00

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 Australia to join them. Earth Matters presen...

Womens Climate Congress Conversation; Strategies for Climate Grief, Climate Communication. from 2021-08-29T11:00

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 Australia to join them. Earth Matters presen...

Custodians of Country (Part 2) from 2021-08-22T11:00

Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Custodians of Country (part 2) is from a 3 part episode, which covers the role and relationship of First Nations Peoples as Custodians of Country, custo...

Custodians of Country (Part 1) from 2021-08-15T11:00

Heal Country, Heal Climate series NAIDOC 2021Custodians of Country (part 1) is from a 3 part episode, which covers the role and relationship of First Nations Peoples as Custodians of Country, custo...

Floodplain Harvesting: Legal or not? from 2021-07-25T11:00

Floodplain harvesting in the Murray-Darling Basin is under the spotlight once again.A new inquiry in the NSW Upper House will seek to determine if the practice of taking floodwater off the floodpla...

Bush fire, heatwave and storm havens. Creating safety for all. from 2021-07-18T11:00

When we are parched by heatwaves,  fires rage and smoke clogs the air we all want to be safe. The South Coast Health and Sustainability Alliance  in Moruya has retrofitted an old church to be a bus...

Bushfire, heatwave&storm havens: Creating safety for all from 2021-07-18T11:00

When we are parched by heatwaves, fires rage and smoke clogs the air we all want to be safe. The South Coast Health and Sustainability Alliance  in Moruya has retrofitted an old church to be a bush...

Yanaay Santos: Give Gomeroi Land and Water Back from 2021-07-11T11:00

'Enough is enough', says Gomeroi Woman Polly Cutmore from Moree Community.'It's Time!'Gomeroi Woman Polly Cutmore from Moree Community speaks about her ongoing concerns for community health and saf...

Young Climate Feminists: Radical Futures Roundtable Pt 1. from 2021-06-27T11:00

Young intersectional feminists re-imagining climate justiceThis week on Earth Matters Part 1 of a two part series envisioning radical futures with young intersectional climate feminists at Climate ...

2021 Radiothon Live Show: PLUS Via Campesina bonus from 2021-06-20T11:00

Please give what you can during our annual Radiothon fundraiser—You can donate now online and pledge your donation to Earth Matters —or call the station on 03 9419 8377Radiothon 2021 Live Show: PL...

Reconnecting and Protecting: Ecopsychology & eco therapy from 2021-06-17T09:58:36.067290

EARTH MATTERS RADIOTHON 2021: Please give what you can during our annual Radiothon fundraiser—You can donate now online and pledge your donation to Earth Matters—or call 03 9419 8377


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How much can a koala bear? from 2021-06-13T11:00

Between land clearing, climate changed induced bushfires and native forest logging our cute and cuddly koala have had a rough trot.  Michael Jones from 2NVR interviewed Susie Russel from North Coas...

School Strike 4 Climate: Back on the Frontline from 2021-05-30T11:00

The School Strike 4 Climate Australia movement is back on the streets!Tens of thousands of students are back on the front line with mass climate strikes for the first time since Covid hit last year...

In Murky Waters&Baaka - the Forgotten River from 2021-05-23T11:00

Something's fishy in water management. This weeks episode brings you two special productions - Baaka the Forgotten River and In Murky Waters. Feast your ears on art and activism for the Darling Baa...

Tomorrow Movement:&Sunbury against Toxic Soil from 2021-05-16T11:00

Tomorrow Movement &the Sunbury against Toxic Soil CampaignGuest presenter Eiddwen Jeffery chats with Desiree Cai all about the new Tomorrow Movement—a broad collective focused on climate&economic j...

Bones and Winiata of Camp Olney halt logging from 2021-04-25T11:00

Five months ago  Bones and friends halted logging in Olney State forest with a blockade camp across the road.  Earth Matters visited this quiet camp in lush rainforest humming with gliders, goannas...

This is called getting in harms way in order to stop a much greater harm. Treason March of Last Generation and Blockade Australia: from 2021-04-18T11:00

 Climate urgency spawns more pledges to disrupt using non-violent civil disobedience. Sergei, Greg and The Treason March supporters are walking from Sydney to Canberra along the edge of the  Hume H...

The Online Safety Bill is a threat to activism from 2021-04-11T11:00

What if the government stopped you from sharing videos of police violence? Or spied on your private communications? And did it in the name of keeping you safe?  These are some of the possible outco...

Aric McBay: Full Spectrum Resistance (part 1) from 2021-03-28T11:00

Interview with Aric McBay about Full Spectrum Resistance (part 1)Part one of a two part interview with farmer, anarchist, organiser and author Aric McBay, on his book Full Spectrum Resistance—an hi...

Vaccine Apartheid: People before Profit from 2021-03-21T11:00

Vaccine Apartheid: People before Profit90% of people in the global south won't be vaccinated for up to several years due to corporate profiteering. Millions are predicted to die—while the risk of t...

To save Koalas we must [get off our asses and] come together please. from 2021-03-14T11:00

Koalas are in crisis.  To save Koalas we must come together. Long time campaigner Sue Arnold says:  "We need a national protest over what's happening to our koalas."Koala scientist Kara Youngentaub...

The People's Clean Air Action Plans from 2021-02-28T11:00

Every year, approximately almost 5,000 people die in Australia as a result of exposure to toxic air pollution. Environmental Justice Australia has released two new reports: The People’s Clean Air A...

The Last Forests: It's blockade time again folks! from 2021-02-21T11:00

The Last Forests: It's blockade time again folks!Chris Schuringa from Goongerah Environment Centre speaks with Nicky Stott about how concerned community members&activists up in the Errinundra Plate...

Lake Torrens: Is it the next Juukan Gorge? from 2021-02-14T11:00

Is Lake Torrens the next Juukan Gorge? Lake Torrens in South Australia is a sacred site and place of deep cultural significance to Kokatha, Adnyamathanha, Kuyani and Barngarla peoples. However gove...

Invasion Day Naarm 2021: Dawn service&rally highlights from 2021-01-31T11:00

Invasion Day Naarm 2021: Dawn service&rally highlightsHighlights from the Invasion Day dawn service and rally in Naarm (melbourne) this week including ceremony, speeches, music and the honour call ...

Under the cover of COVID from 2021-01-24T11:00

There’s so many things we had to stop and put on hold when COVID hit. But one thing that didn’t stop was the relentless resource extraction of mining and forestry.    On today’s show we hear about ...

False Promises&Real Solutions: Part 2 from 2021-01-17T11:00

False Promises&Real Solutions: Part 2Part two of a two part series with long time anti-geoengineering watch orgs—ETC Group&Friends of the Earth crew fighting against geoengineering and "net zero"gr...

Fungi fights forest fire and builds the Global Carbon Soil Sponge [Encore] from 2021-01-10T11:00

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 sponge” offering resilience to global heat...

Massive opposition to 850 fracking holes in the Pilliga from 2020-12-27T11:00

 When Polly Cutmore   heard that Minister Susan Ley had approved the 850  gas fracking wells in the Pilliga  she  immediately  took a detour to   Canberra to rally  against the announcement. She ta...

Can legislation strangle a river system? from 2020-12-20T11:00

The practice of diverting floodwaters into private storages is being legislated in the NSW northern Murray-Darling. What will this mean for environment and communities that depend on it. We speak w...

Drinking water for coal from 2020-12-13T11:00

The ground is cracking and subsiding, water is vanishing, wetlands are being drained, and habitats are destroyed.    Why?    Because successive New South Wales governments have allowed mining in Sy...

And the REST is history from 2020-11-29T11:00

A young ecologist, Mark McVeigh, took his super fund REST to court over its failure to consider the risk of climate change to his investments. Today on Earth Matters we hear about this historic leg...

Follow the Money: federal budget recap from 2020-11-22T11:00

Follow the Money: federal budget recapIn the federal budget announced last month, A$52.9 million was allocated to expanding Australia’s gas industry, and an extra A$8.7 million was slipped to NSW’s...

How good is hemp. Grow it and Regenerate Earth. from 2020-11-15T11:00

What detoxes CO2 out of the air, regenerates the soil, needs little pesticide or water and helps prevent deforestation?Hemp is a strain of Cannabis Sativa that contains only a trace of the psychoac...

Plans to Pump the Fitzroy from 2020-10-25T11:00

The Martuwarra or Fitzroy River in the Kimberely, WA, is one of the last pristine rivers on Earth, but farming magnates are seeking to open up this unique ecosystem to irrigation and undermine deca...

Lessons from the fires - Climate change and threatened species from 2020-10-18T11:00

12 months on from the start of last year's horror bushfire season, four experts discuss what we can learn from last summer's fires to better protect not just property and assets, but Australia's bi...

Guardians of the Forest: Indigenous youth global call out from 2020-10-11T11:00

Guardians of the Forest: Indigenous youth global call outThis week on Earth Matters four young indigenous rights activists from around the world discuss impacts of COVID on their communities, and o...

Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 3—Final) from 2020-09-27T11:00

Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 3—Final)The Gates Foundation funded project ‘Golden Rice’ is an unnecessary and unwanted GMO technology driven by big agriculture co...

Workers for Climate Action from 2020-09-20T11:00

At the beginning of the pandemic the Morrison Federal government announced the creation of the COVID commission. Stacked with mining and fossil fuel interests, it’s little surprise that now in Sept...

Inquiry Into Fast Tracked Dams from 2020-09-13T11:00

NSW Upper House inquiry underway into impacts of dams in Murray Darling fast tracked by NSW Gov.The Murray-Darling supports RAMSAR wetlands and critical ecosystems for endangered fish&migratory bir...

200 Years in Antarctica: Australia's bicentenary development plans from 2020-08-30T11:00

200 Years in Antarctica: Australia's bicentenary development plans On the 200th anniversary of the first European sighting of Antarctica, Australia is planning the biggest single development in Ant...

 "The extinction crisis in Australia's cities and towns" from 2020-08-23T11:00

A new report titled  "The extinction crisis in Australia's cities and towns" has just been released by the Australian Conservation Foundation.It shows that there a lot of threatened plants and anim...

Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 1) from 2020-08-16T11:00

Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 1)The Gates Foundation funded project ‘Golden Rice’ is an unnecessary and unwanted GMO technology driven by big agriculture corporat...

‘Once in a decade chance’: Australia’s environment law review and why it matters from 2020-07-26T11:00

‘Once in a decade chance’: Australia’s environment law review and why it mattersLidia Thorpe, Gunai/Brabwauloong/Briakaloong/DjapWurrung/Gunditjmara Greens Senator;  and Suzanne Milthorpe, Environm...

Non-violence verses direct action: We need both! from 2020-07-19T11:00

Non-violence verses direct action: We need both!Leslie James Pickering, Burning Books co-owner&former ELF spokesperson, and radical treatise'Eco-Warriors'author Rik Scarce, debate non-violent civil...

Tall trees trashed for pulp and planks. We wont buy it! from 2020-07-12T11:00

Jenny Weber  works alongside Bob Brown. She takes us to the heart of the  campaign to save Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness where 20 people recently occupied tree sits. Bunnings hardware store  has ju...

Cloud Frightening: Techno-spin&false solutions from 2020-06-28T11:00

Cloud Frightening: Techno-spin&false solutionsLouise Sales (FoE Emerging Tech Project)&Silvia Ribeiro (ETC Group) discuss environmental, safety and green washing concerns of global proportions over...

Gomeroi vs Environment Minister from 2020-06-21T11:00

Extractive industries threaten Indigenous heritage across this continent and the Shenhua Watermark Coal Mine is no exception.Gomeroi woman Dolly Talbott has taken the Federal Environment Minister S...

From #NoDAPL to #BlackLivesMatter and beyond from 2020-06-14T11:00

"Police violence is an environmental justice issue...Abolition should be a demand of environmental justice."- Nick Estes.    This week we bring you an edited extract from a wide-ranging discussion ...

Save the Swift Parrot. New research: Logging increases bushfire intensity. from 2020-05-31T11:00

BirdLife Australia has launched a campain calling for logging to stop in the habitat of  the critically endangered Swift Parrot. Armed with Forestry Harvest Plans we take a drive into a partially b...

First People First: Pay the Rent from 2020-05-24T11:00

First People First: Pay the RentGunai&Gunditjmara activist Lidia Thorpe speaks with Teishan Ahearne about the ongoing impacts of colonisation on Country, and her vision for how non-indigenous allie...

Victoria's forests and a tribute to Jack Mundey from 2020-05-17T11:00

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 the COVID-19 pandemic.  Then later in t...

Bleached Again?! Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef from 2020-05-10T11:00

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 impact is this having across the who...

Pandemic in a time of Big Oil: When holding down a blockade is an Essential Activity from 2020-04-26T11:00

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 Earth Day 50th anniversary was cancelle...

No Home to Go To. Homeless people falling through gaping holes in Covid19 responses. from 2020-04-19T11:00

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  homes the most vulnerable have no home t...

Can sharks provide hope in a time of crisis? from 2020-04-12T11:00

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. During times of global crisis, what can w...

Doing it ourselves: Renewables&bio-hacking COVID-19 from 2020-03-29T11:00

Doing it ourselves: Renewables&bio-hacking COVID-19As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, the neo-lib stance on privatised&for-profit"herd-culling"healthcare has directly precipitated a drastic shorta...

Harriet Swift: Close the Eden chipmill and end Native forest logging. from 2020-03-22T11:00

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 incinerated. Harriet Swift tells us what'...

Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systems from 2020-03-15T11:00

Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systemsBrad Moggridge, Kamilaroi man&geologist, and Tyson Yunkaporta of the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York, and author of Sandtalk: How Indigenous Thinking ...

Windara Reef Restoration: Reinvigorating ocean ecosystems from 2020-02-23T11:00

Windara Reef Restoration: Reinvigorating ocean ecosystems Most of the continent now known as colony-Australia was once surrounded and protected for thousands of years by massive reefs built up by s...

Not Quiet Australians: On the Steps Rally, Parliament House, Canberra, 4th, February 2020 from 2020-02-16T11:00

 Exceptional speeches calling for climate action ring with rising anger in response to government  denial and inaction. MC: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki makes climate science segways.   Zali Stegall the In...

Workers responding collectively to bushfire pollution from 2020-01-26T08:15

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 might workers respond to this new env...

Animals burnt out and injured. Join the Wildlife feeding, rescue, care and release responses. from 2020-01-19T11:00

 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 insects. This number is rapidly rising  as ...

Heal the Ancestors: East Gippsland bush fires from 2020-01-12T11:00

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 first hand account of the evacuation ...

In excess - debunking the myths of floods of migrants and scarcity of resources in Australia's border regime from 2019-12-29T11:00

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 climate change? Lauren Piko, presents her ...

Richard Flanagan's call to climate action. Extinction Rebellion tells Capitalism to bite the dust! from 2019-12-22T11:00

As our eyes sting from the ashes of the forests,  Richard Flanagan's call for  climate action  becomes prophetic .  Extinction Rebellion rebels blockade Canberra  streets  preventing politicians fr...

For the love of Soil: Urban Tilth from 2019-12-15T11:00

For the love of Soil: Urban TilthDoria Robinson from Urban Tilth speaking this year at the Community Alliance for Global Justice about dismantling extractive culture. She gets the ball rolling with...

Defend the Laws that Stop New Coal Mines. from 2019-11-24T11:00

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 being knocked back by the courts for th...

IMARC Blockade live outside broadcast (Pt 2) from 2019-11-17T11:00

IMARC blockade live outside broadcast (Part 2)Recorded live at the (IMARC) International Mining&Resource Conference blockade in Melbourne Oct 28-31. Presenters Viv Malo&Robbie Thorpe (The Black Blo...

IMARC Blockade live outside broadcast (Pt 1) from 2019-11-10T11:00

IMARC blockade live outside broadcast (Part 1)Recorded live at the (IMARC) International Mining&Resource Conference blockade in Melbourne Oct 28-31. Presenters Robbie Thorpe and Viv Malo (The Black...

"We wish to restore our rights over those countries": Uncle Albert Hartnett from 2019-10-27T11:00

"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. .  My Country is been raped and pil...

Djab Wurrung, XR&the Nueva Vizcaya Barricade from 2019-10-20T11:00

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 protection blockade; Extinction rebellion sp...

Warburdar Bununu - Water Shield documentary from 2019-10-13T11:00

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 Territory. In this program you'll hear...

Black throated finch and Adani contractors under pressure. from 2019-09-29T11:00

 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 challenges the legitimacy of usi...

Mauna Kea Struggle: Aloha, Not for Sale from 2019-09-22T11:00

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 blockade against the construction of a ...

Fighting Eco-Fascism from 2019-09-15T11:00

Fighting eco-fascism: an environmentalism without natureWe often think of environmental politics as inherently progressive and humane.But from more mainstream far right parties with a presence in n...

Djab Wurrung Eviction: Our Way, or the highway! from 2019-08-25T11:00

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 have made a stand to protect more than...

Behind Enemy Lines - The Songs of the Terania Creek and Nightcap Blockades from 2019-08-18T11:00

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 and Lisa Yeates reflect on the songs t...

The Vanishing River, Voices from the Darling, Part 3: Sarah Moles, Cathryn Milne. from 2019-08-11T11:00

 Cathryn Milne: Student and environmentalist: Mildura:"We need a royal commission NOW and a grass roots human movement."             There is desperation and calls for strong action  as the Darling...

Decolonising Anarchism: Indigenous Anarchist Federation from 2019-07-28T11:00

Decolonising Anarchism: Indigenous Anarchist FederationIAF members Bombshell and insurgent e on the formation of the Indigenous Anarchist Federation, and their own personal and political histories ...

Kimberley Calling: The Frack is Back from 2019-07-21T11:00

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 across the region. Meanwhile big agri...

The Vanishing River, Voices from the Darling , Part 2: Barry Stone from 2019-07-14T11:00

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 knows  the actual  damage that is happe...

Listening to Nauru [encore] from 2019-06-23T11:00

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 continues, today Nauru is better know...

The Vanishing River, Voices from the Darling from 2019-06-16T11:00

Produced  in the  Barkindji  nation  by Earthling Studios, Executive Producer  Mark Merrit "This is serious, very seriousAn ever increasing and multiplying  crime has been occurring against our peo...

Extinction Rebellion from 2019-05-19T11:00

The Extinction Rebellion demands                   1. that Governments tell the truth about the ecological crisis and declare a Climate Emergency .                  2. the creation of a war cabinet...

Sneaky, dirty business: BHP Olympic Dam Expansion from 2019-05-12T11:00

Sneaky, dirty business: BHP Olympic Dam expansionBHP is up to their old tricks again, trying to expand their dirty uranium mine and sneaky industrial practices, by spinning it with the tired old hy...

My Extremely Long Walk from 2019-04-28T11:00

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 Canberra is to create awareness and ch...

Water: Kwatye for Wilora from 2019-04-21T11:00

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 Hwy 300 ks North of Alice Springs ....

'Our History is the Future'the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance from 2019-04-14T11:00

'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 new book is ‘Our History Is the Future:...

Local Whittlesea council environment and recycling initiatives from 2019-03-31T11:00

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 Whittlesea Community Festival and we a...

School Strike for Climate Action from 2019-03-24T11:00

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 Canberra students spoke to a massive cro...

Coal to hydrogen from 2019-03-17T11:00

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 down to how the hydrogen is produced.  ...

Dear Mr Gates, We Do Not Consent from 2019-03-10T11:00

Big profits for agribusiness&military are recklessly risking the spread of a new GMO technology called Gene Drives around the world, regardless of their currently largely unknown consequences. Gene...

Thunder and Enlightenment. No Water Mining from 2019-02-24T11:00

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 to make the point that there is nothin...

Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justice from 2019-02-17T11:00

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. Rene Woods, Nari Nari man and Chairperson...

Ten Eighty Summit, Part 2: The effects of 1080 poison use in Australia focusing on dingos. from 2019-01-27T11:00

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 category 1 poison by the WHO - their most to...

Coal power's toxic health toll [encore] from 2019-01-20T11:00

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 particulates that are highly damaging to ...

Warm Belly, Cool Planet from 2019-01-13T11:00

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 the culmination of a long historic st...

Ten Eighty Summit. Calling for a ban on the deadly poison. Part One. from 2018-12-30T11:00

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 is colourless, odourless, and one tea...

Treesitters and troubadours from 2018-12-23T11:00

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 government. Its members adopted a"No C...

Where’s your Genocide Convention Oz? Talkin Treaty with Djuran Bunjileenee from 2018-12-16T11:00

Dec 9 marked the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations Genocide Convention. Djuran Bunjileenee Borun MunDunDarung (aka Robert Thorpe) an Elder from both the Krautungalung Clan (Gunai/Kurnai)...

Listening to Nauru - colonialism and climate change from 2018-11-25T11:00

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 for Australia's offshore detention camp...

Cats Contained Canberra from 2018-11-18T11:00

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, bettongs, skinks and lizards in “The Bush ...

Forest Defenders conference Thailand from 2018-11-11T11:00

Forest Defenders conference Thailand.In a worsening climate for activists and civil society, 50 environmental defenders from around Southeast Asia came together in Thailand to talk about security, ...

Roger Knox and traditional bush medicines. from 2018-10-28T11:00

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 releasing albums and touring for audien...

Greening'Red October'[encore] from 2018-10-21T11:00

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 of the Soviet Union.When we think of th...

Don't mention the emergency? from 2018-10-14T11:00

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, recorded at the Melbourne Sustainable Livin...

Victoria's forests update from 2018-09-30T11:00

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 and economic fronts.First up, we hear f...

Superannuation Trustees do the Climate Wiggle. from 2018-09-23T11:00

Anthony Too and Margie Pestorius are with ten others from Stop Adani Cairns outside the Cairns convention centre where a conference for superannuation trustees is being held. They are waiting in ca...

Forests are for life from 2018-08-26T11:00

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, Convener for Western Australia Forests Allian...

Aboriginals were the first Bread Makers. from 2018-08-19T11:00

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 people were unsophisticated hunter gathe...

Farmers fight new coal mines to protect the Great Artesian Basin from 2018-08-12T11:00

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 were turned upside down when they took...

Organising for the future from 2018-07-29T11:00

This show features Zac Romagnoli-Townsend, coordinator with SEED, Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network. He is talking about organising for the future in the climate justice movement, ...

How to Win against fossil fuels from 2018-07-22T11:00

How to win against fossil fuelsBuild our movement; Make political change, Divest MoneySam La Rocca, Deputy Director of The Sunrise Project talks on courage, organising and building a movement to be...

Juru traditional owners call for Adani to stop work from 2018-07-15T11:00

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 Aboriginal Corporation are the cor...

Criminalising dissent in Australia and Indonesia from 2018-06-24T11:00

Dissent and protest are being criminalised and suppressed around the world.The Australian government is seeking to introduce new foreign interference and espionage laws that threaten our democracy....

Earth Matters -"Dont Push Our Bush" from 2018-06-17T11:00

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 water and methane emissions. Stand bes...

La ZAD from 2018-06-10T11:00

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 struggle against a proposed airport.B...

Saving the Murray Darling PART 2 from 2018-05-27T11:00

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 William Brian Bates (also known as Bad...

Artificial Light at Night from 2018-05-20T11:00

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, parking lots, landscaping, residential, ...

A history of the world in seven cheap things from 2018-05-13T11:00

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 capitalism, that's our task on this 200th ann...

Climate Change in Australia - A Sunburnt Country from 2018-04-29T11:00

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 program guest Joelle Gergis an award winni...

The Desert Pea and The Frontier Wars March on Anzac from 2018-04-22T11:00

The Australian frontier wars were a series of conflicts fought between Indigenous Australians and white settlers during the Brittish colonisation of Australia.Hear from two activists who decided ei...

Roadtrip to Nuclear Australia from 2018-04-15T11:00

The Radioactive Exposure Tour is a road trip exploring nuclear Australia, past and present, and forging connections for the ongoing campaigns to keep uranium in the ground, to stop unwanted and unn...

War Costs the Earth from 2018-03-25T11:00

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 manipulation, depleted uranium, and  C...

Land-clearing in NSW + growing solar from 2018-03-18T11:00

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 Australia have solar panels. Solar Citize...

Exploring Seedbanks from 2018-03-11T11:00

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 inside the Australian Grains seedbank ...

Protect language, protect country from 2018-02-25T11:00

Karina Lester, Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman from South Australia, tells us about her work to reclaim, revive and maintain Aboriginal languages.Karina's late father was blinded by the nuclear testin...

Chinese Ban on recycled products impacts Victorians from 2018-02-18T11:00

This week on Earth Matters we explore the current recycling issue affecting some Victorians as the Chinese Government ban on foreign recyclables came into effect on January 1st 2018. The Victorian ...

We need writers who can remember freedom from 2018-02-11T11:00

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 futures.Hannah Donnelly is a Wiradjuri woman fr...

CRISPR; update on Fawkner toxic site from 2018-01-28T11:00

At the end of last year the Commonwealth government’s Office of the Gene Technology Regulator quietly proposed to deregulate a new genetic modification technique know CRISPR.Also, we bring you an u...

Decolonising Climate Action from 2018-01-21T11:00

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 poetry performance by Kate West panel foll...

Natural Beekeeping Part 2 from 2018-01-14T11:00

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 Naturally and coming up in this program y...

Natural Beekeeping Part 1 from 2017-12-31T11:00

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 compares to conventional bee keeping methods...

Gideon Levy. Gaza, the biggest cage on Earth from 2017-12-24T11:00

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 Earth Matters we hear him speak in Can...

Disability, Climate Change and Natural Disasters Part 2 from 2017-12-17T11:00

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 the intersection of disability, climat...

Why should environmentalists care about the peace movement? from 2017-12-10T11:00

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 secretive Pine Gap military base. We will b...

Out of our depth: deep sea mining in Papua New Guinea - episode 2 from 2017-11-26T11:00

Newly engineered deep sea mining machinery sits waiting at Port Moresby. Canadian company Nautilus Minerals wants to mine gold and copper 1600m underwater in Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Sea.The sur...

Out of our depth: deep sea mining in Papua New Guinea - episode 1 from 2017-11-19T11:00

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 mine a hydrothermal vent 1500m underwat...

Incredible Phytoplankton from 2017-11-12T11:00

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 they are the basis of aquatic food ch...

Greening Red October from 2017-10-29T11:00

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 we think of the USSR we often think o...

Kids in country, not in custody from 2017-10-22T11:00

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 the streets to demand real action for ...

Indigenous and Grassroots Movements Solidarity Gathering from 2017-10-15T11:00

 This week on Earth Matters we take you inside the INDIGENOUS GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS SOLIDARTY GATHERING – SO CALLED AUSTRALIA – LATIN AMERICA – ASIA PACIFIC.This gathering is for Indigenous traditio...

Prices versus the planet - changes to the Victorian Renewable Energy Target from 2017-09-24T11:00

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 about 17% of its electricity using re...

Voices of the Future from 2017-09-17T11:00

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 Executive Officer at Environment Educatio...

The Aboriginal Carbon Fund from 2017-09-10T11:00

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 Savannah Burning across some parts of Nor...

Coal power's toxic health toll from 2017-08-27T11:00

Coal-fired power stations emit toxic chemicals and particulates that are highly damaging to human health. And our governments - both state and federal - are failing to protect us.This is revealed i...

Nanotechnology from 2017-08-20T11:00

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 be used to help the environment, and ...

TELL EXHIBITION - 2017 Ballarat International Foto Biennale from 2017-08-13T11:00

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 exhibition the ‘2017 Ballarat International F...

Changes to the Environment Protection Authority Victoria from 2017-07-30T11:00

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 advocates, Wendy Farmer from Voices of the Vall...

Food Waste from 2017-07-23T11:00

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 from Melbourne Food Not Bombs.

Eco Cities and Water Keeping from 2017-07-16T11:00

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 worldwide summit about Zero Carbon Communitie...

Urban Aboriginal Creatives: Timmah Ball&Kent Morris. from 2017-06-25T11:00

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, Urban Planning and her latest creativ...

The Finkel report is a climate failure from 2017-06-18T11:00

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 needs. But the Federal Coalition is deep...

Nuclear dump-stopping + Black Rhymes from 2017-06-11T11:00

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 state to import high-level nuclear was...

Meet bryan Andy Social Media Bossman YIRRAMBOI First Nations Arts Festival from 2017-05-28T11:00

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 (5-14 May 2017) Melbourne. bryan shares...

Shut Youth Prisons, Chelsea Manning + stopping Adani from 2017-05-21T11:00

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 Voller, in the wake of the NT Royal Commi...

Crunch Time for Adani from 2017-04-23T11:00

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 Wangan and Jagalingou peoples'land in ...

Nuclear legacies and a new chance to end the nuclear age from 2017-04-16T11:00

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 her beloved home, the Marshall Islands...

Victorian treaty and self-determination community forum from 2017-03-26T11:00

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 of 2016 when the Aboriginal Victoria ...

Energy on Country from 2017-03-19T11:00

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 around the country and around the world ta...

Bulldozers at the Beeliar and Frack-Free WA from 2017-03-12T11:00

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 controversy and effective blockading by t...

Victoria's native forests in crisis from 2017-02-26T11:00

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 forests are facing a crisis like never ...

Sovereignty Art at ACCA from 2017-02-19T11:00

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 woman&Co-Curator of the SOVEREIGNTY Art ex...

Fighting for land justice in Saskatchewan, Canada from 2017-02-12T11:00

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, and spokesperson for the Committee for ...

Invasion Day special 2017 from 2017-01-29T11:00

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 First nations peoples it is know as I...

Genetic patenting of Indigenous knowledge from 2017-01-22T11:00

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 served with the United Nations environment...

Aboriginal Cricket Team recognition from 2017-01-15T11:00

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 to tour Nationally which was the All A...

Green bans, red union from 2016-12-25T11:00

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 an interview with trade unionist Jack M...

Anarchy in Athens: militancy, emotions and violence from 2016-12-18T11:00

Exarcheia is an urban community of resistance created by anarchists and anti-authoritarians in the heart of Athens, Greece. Just 10km from Parliament House, residents of Exarcheia implement their p...

The Fight against Adani from 2016-12-11T11:00

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 in what would be the southern hemispher...

Resisting Neoliberalism with Shalmali Guttal from 2016-11-20T11:00

Shalmali Guttal has worked for decades researching, writing and organising around the impacts of neoliberal development in Southeast Asia. She says that the ideology of private over public interest...

Sydney College of the Arts: Here to Stay from 2016-11-13T11:00

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 College of the Arts; deleting courses,...

Life after Hazelwood: a just transition for the Latrobe Valley from 2016-10-30T11:00

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 coal-fired power stations in the regio...

BP Bight's the Dust: a win against big oil from 2016-10-23T11:00

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 national campaigns working to protect this p...

What's in the water? Mapping pesticide pollution from 2016-10-16T11:00

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 chemicals can pose serious dangers to the heal...

Aboriginal people already know nuclear: the radioactive waste debate in South Australia from 2016-09-25T11:00

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 with shiny banners and scale models are m...

Working for the Earth: Citizen scientists, a frack free future and just transitions. from 2016-09-18T11:00

Today we report on the Goongerah Environment Centre's Threatened Species Day 2016 action, where they presented an invoice to the Victorian Treasurer, Tim Pallas, for over $2 million dollars of citi...

Another day in parliamentary politics from 2016-09-11T11:00

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 Gate about the campaign that brought thi...

Cities for the Sun: renewable energy battles in the NT and SA from 2016-08-28T11:00

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 down in Port Augusta, SA, and the “Repow...

Caring for Country: Indigenous Protected Area's&Rangers from 2016-08-21T11:00

The first Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) was established in 1998 in South Australia and the Indigenous Rangers program has been operating since 2007. There are now 60 IPA's and 109 Ranger groups e...

Obstacles to Transition from 2016-08-14T11:00

Australia is transitioning towards renewable energy, but it is just as necessary to consider the transition away from fossil-fuel based forms of electricity production. Changing the status quo mean...

Mine rehabilitation; Tolak Reklamasi from 2016-07-31T11:00

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 Australian Conservation Foundation and...

Ditch Coal - Save Bulga from 2016-07-24T11:00

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 linking up those at the global mine sites for...

Protecting Biodiversity from 2016-07-17T11:00

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 laws.We also hear archival audio of Dr Vanda...

De-naturalising disaster - climate change and marginalisation in Australia from 2016-07-10T11:00

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 of our changing climate. This can be in...

Facing the Anthropocene from 2016-06-26T11:00

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". Ian Angus starts from the point of the ...

Geelong Star super trawler; the end of uranium mining in Kakadu? from 2016-06-19T11:00

This week,the Geelong Star super-trawler been trawling through the small pelagic fishery on Australia's eastern sea board, catching protected species and controversy along the way.Also on the progr...

Creative Dissent: the pen (and voice) is mightier from 2016-06-12T11:00

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 justice come alive in the mouths of artis...

S.A. too good to waste -- the radioactive racism of the proposed national nuclear waste dump from 2016-05-29T11:00

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 Australia.Just one site has been ‘shortli...

Dire States: Threats to environment&culture from 2016-05-22T11:00

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 Earth reports on the attacks to the char...

Break Free from Fossil Fuels: Newcastle Blockade May 2016 from 2016-05-15T11:00

On one fine Newcastle day, two thousand people gathered from across the country to participate in a collective resistance to the industries fuelling climate change, at one of its most important sit...

On the move - climate change displacement in PNG from 2016-04-24T11:00

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 many low-lying islands in the Pacific,...

Defending language, land and sea in SA: from the Bight to the APY lands from 2016-04-17T11:00

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 Carbines from the Clean Bight Alliance Austr...

Canary in the Coal Market from 2016-04-10T11:00

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 profitability of fossil fuels. To celebrate 3CR'...

"There will be no mining in Pondoland" from 2016-03-20T11:00

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, coastal dunes for titanium; the local pe...

CSIRO cuts - Will the last person please turn off the lights? from 2016-03-13T11:00

The new CSIRO management has announced drastic cuts and a controversial change of priorities for the nations'peak scientific research body. Drawing global condemnation and outrage, the cuts to the ...

Seeds of Africa from 2016-02-28T11:00

REVIVING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMSWestern scientists have an obligation to acknowledge and make amends for the damage that their coloniser disciplines have wreaked on Indigenous knowledge system...

Invasion Day 2016: No Pride in Genocide from 2016-02-14T11:00

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 well as celebrating cultural survival....

The Internet is Not a Cloud (repeat) from 2016-01-24T11:00

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 internet running all over the world, for...

Yorta Yorta Survival Day 2003 - a repeat from the Earth Matters archives. from 2016-01-10T11:00

The sound of change from 2015-12-27T11:00

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 meditating on climate change, the anthropo...

Stopping the Chopping: forest defence in Victoria from 2015-12-20T11:00

The forests of East Gippsland, Victoria, continue to fall victim to an over-subsidised and under-regulated forestry industry. While some threatened species of flora and fauna should enjoy legal pro...

Flood the System from 2015-12-13T11:00

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 the System is a worldwide movement of p...

COP 21 - Voices from Below from 2015-11-29T11:00

 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 three different perspectives, and three ...

BHP Billiton's ecological disasters under fire at their AGM's from 2015-11-22T11:00

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 the biggest tailings spill in the wor...

Adani Carmichael mine - Reapproved but not without Resistance from 2015-11-15T11:00

On October 16th, the Federal Government re-approved the Adani Carmichael coal and railway project. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt, or Minister for Coal, released a statement of reasons for ...

#HeyASIO: data retention and the threat to activism from 2015-10-25T11:00

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 government attack the tax-deductibility...

Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments from 2015-10-18T11:00

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 Dodrill from Ipswich Residents Against Tox...

The Green Witch Hunt from 2015-10-11T11:00

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 Tax Status of Environmental Organisati...

Learning to co-exist: trees versus road safety from 2015-09-27T11:00

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 221 large old trees in this project. L...

BP in the Bight: Drilling for oil in our southern ocean from 2015-09-20T11:00

Earth Matters 1000th Episode from 2015-09-13T11:00

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 proudest moments and what they think Ea...

The Art of the Matter - Activism and the arts from 2015-08-23T11:00

Winning the case against coal! Court case brings Adani's proposed Carmichael Coal Mine to a halt from 2015-08-16T11:00

Environmentalists for Peace from 2015-07-26T11:00

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 social and environmental risks'. Robi...

A Royal Waste of Time from 2015-07-19T11:00

The South Australian Royal Commission into nuclear expansion is losing credibility as it continues. The expert advisory panel is stacked with nuclear advocates and barriers are high for public part...

Trans Pacific Partnership from 2015-07-12T11:00

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 states of america. Free trade agreements th...

Against the Grain from 2015-06-28T11:00

On today's show we talk to Bill Hampel who has written a book,"Against the Grain,"about farmers'efforts to prevent and adapt to climate change. We play one of the interviews that Bill did with shee...

End of an E.R.A. in Kakadu from 2015-06-21T11:00

This week, a good news story and some cautious optimism!Rio Tinto's Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has announced it's abandoning the Ranger 3 Deeps project. With the current mining lease expir...

Borroloola Frackdown: Resistance in the Gulf from 2015-06-14T11:00

Borroloola Frackdown: Resistance in the GulfBorroloola, NT, is a small town plagued by a big mine; the biggest zinc and lead open-cut mine in the world. The McArthur River Mine has contaminated the...

The answer is blowin'in the wind... from 2015-05-31T11:00

Wind Turbines are an excellent source of renewable energy, but some people say that they cause an illness called"Wind Turbine Syndrome". On this show we investigate the legitimacy of that claim.Gue...

That sinking feeling: climate change and forced migration. from 2015-05-24T11:00

Many people in the pacific are already experiencing the drastic effects of human induced climate change.Rising sea levels, storm surges and more severe weather events are forcing communities living...

The Federal Budget from 2015-05-17T11:00

This week's show will be a look at what funding was and wasn't allocated to the environment on Tuesday night's Federal budget. For an overall view we talk to Greens Senator Larissa Waters. Nick Hea...

Biodiversity across the Borders from 2015-05-10T11:00

Carbon Capture and Storage from 2015-04-26T11:00

Is Carbon Capture and Storage going to enable Australia to keep on burning coal? On this show we explore the feasibility of the technology and whether it is the best solution to the problem of glob...

A Toxic Legacy from 2015-04-19T11:00

The Tasmanian State Government has just axed a nine year long, nation leading project monitoring pesticide residues in waterways. We speak with Anthony Amis about the importance of that monitoring ...

Environmental Defenders: Writing and Fighting for the Environment from 2015-04-12T11:00

Science fiction and science fact from 2015-03-29T11:00

On this week’s show we delve into the (not-so-fictional) universe of Cli-Fi, or climate change fiction. We hear from novelists Alice Robinson, and Naomi Oreskes.And later in the program, something ...

Planet on a Plate: Farming and Eating for Our Future from 2015-03-22T11:00

This week on Earth Matters, we're tuning into Dr Vandana Shiva speaking in Sydney in February 2015.Dr Vandana Shiva is a scientist, ecologist, author and winner of the Sydney Peace Prize. She speak...

Earth Matters - Episode 201412141100 from 2014-12-14T11:00

The Bunya Pine is an ancient and sacred tree. It's native to Cubbi Cubbi country in South East Queensland. It has long been an important food source for Aboriginal Australians and European colonise...