Podcasts about environmental justice australia

Michigan's "Tim" who declares himself "troll" says: To completely replace fossil fuels with any other energy source, we'd have to ramp up mining, replace giant fleets of machines, and rebuild a massive amount of infrastructure, not to mention inevitable changes to how we live.  Doing that will (A) burn a bunch of carbon in the short run, (B) create new waste problems in the long run, (C) take too much time, (D) be very expensive, (E) put us in greater danger of crossing other planetary boundaries, and (F) cause social backlash that threatens political institutions.  And that's just in the West. "Robert Reich"; "Why Trump won"; "Environmental Justice Australia"; "‘Time is running out': Victoria, NSW turn to gas imports as energy crisis nears". "From sunburn to storms: How climate change is redefining the Aussie summer getaway"; "‘Devastation on the foreshore': Where coastal erosion has almost reached homes"; "Victoria bushfires: Third town told to evacuate immediately as fire spreads"; "Grief, Hope, Joy: Faith in the Time of Climate Change"; "New year, new reads: Here are my favourite climate-related books from 2024"; "Is silence golden? What a change expert says about family climate conversations at Christmas time"; "If you're thinking of buying or leasing an EV, now is the time"; "How to teach climate change so 15-year-olds can act"; "Average Briton causes 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day, study reveals"; "Climate 200 puts Coalition in crosshairs, with only one Labor seat on election hitlist"; "Insuring your home has never been harder. Here's how to do it."; "We invite you on a Transformative Journey"; "Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania's native grasslands: ‘We're better off working together'"; "The New Climate Gold Rush: Scrubbing Carbon From the Sky"; "Iran's Energy Crisis Hits ‘Dire' Point as Industries Are Forced to Shut Down"; "This European city made public transport free a year ago. Here's what happened next"; "‘Time is running out': Victoria, NSW turn to gas imports as energy crisis nears"; "How are decentralised energy grids revolutionising the future of energy?"; "A series of storms will bring rain, snow and wind to the West. How long it will last?"; "Record number of protesters will be in UK prisons this Christmas"; "Christian Sawyer: “The Great Simplification in Action: Building Resilience Through Local Communities”"; "They Fell Sick After Cleaning Up a TVA Toxic Disaster. A New Book Details Their Legal Battle"; "Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems"; "“This isn't journalism – it's fossil fuel propaganda”"; "Heatwaves and bushfires can be a dangerous mix for the electricity grid. Here's how to shore up your supplies this summer"; "Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners as Climate Shocks Worsen"; "How to Repair the Planet? One Answer Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight"; "Construction is the world's biggest carbon emitter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it". "E.P.A. Allows California to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035".

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Language warning!We listen to Krautungalung Elder Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe's speech at last Sunday's Free Palestine Rally on the 27th of October. Uncle Robbie, introduced by Nour Salman, updated the crowd on his legal battles against those complicit in genocide, both in Palestine and here in Australia. Our thanks to 3CR volunteer Tom for recording!Uncle Robbie has two upcoming court hearings in the Federal and Melbourne Magistrate's Courts, where he's continuing to fight the illegal occupation of Aboriginal land here and israel's genocide of Palestinians. On Monday 11 November 2024, join Uncle Robbie at 9:30AM at the Federal Court, 305 William Street, Melbourne, where Attorney General Mark Dreyfus will be added as a respondant to the question: is the fire at Camp Sovereignty protected by Australia's Constitution? On Tuesday 10 December 2024, join Uncle Robbie at 9:30AM at Room 4 of the Melbourne Magistrate's Court, 233 William Street, Melbourne, to pursue the genocide prosecution of Mark Regev, former adviser to israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Stay up to date with these cases by following @blackpeoplesunion and @campsovereignty on Instagram.// We replay Michelle Fahy's presentation at the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) 2024 Conference, which was held earlier this month in Perth. In this speech, Michelle talks about the importance of a strong and fearless National Anti Corruption Commission for a peaceful democracy. The theme of IPAN's 2024 conference was Sleepwalking into War?, and you can find out more and watch the keynotes here. You can read and support Michelle's excellent independent investigative reporting on links between the weapons industry and the Australian government by subscribing to her substack, Undue Influence.// Jacquie Kelly and Nicole McKay from the community environmental justice group Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park join us to discuss the legal challenge that they're mounting with support from Environmental Justice Australia against the Victorian Government's planned environmental engineering works on the Murray River floodplain in northwest Victoria. Justified under the Murray Darling Basin Plan, the Victorian Government is seeking to embark on a multi-million dollar project creating levee banks and installing large pumps, weirs and water regulators at several locations along the Murray River to divert water onto floodplains and provide a reduced amount of water for these floodplain ecosystems. You can find out more about the legal challenge here, and support Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park's campaign fundraising here.// Palestinian filmmaker Reema joins us to talk about an upcoming film fundraiser on Tuesday November 12th for RISE Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees and Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity. The event will showcase two documentaries made this year about Palestinian and Yemeni resistance: From Inside the Mind of Sinwar and We Shall Prevail, and starts at 6PM on the 12th at Kathleen Syme Library in Carlton. Stickers and zines will be available for free and t-shirts will be sold by donation. The venue is fully accessible and masks will be provided. Find out more here.// Songs// Find My Way Back - Samuel Gaskin and Kee'ahn// The Bridge - Yirrmal// Eternity - Mi-kaisha//

Gaza Despatches - Dr Jamal Merei  here II after his recent visit to Gaza Dr Merei calls on Australia to do more to address the humanitarian catastrophe..A Palestinian Voice to Parliament - Dr Ziad Basyouny here II Dr Basyouny announced to the Town Hall Palestine Rally that he is now a candidate in the next Federal Election. This is in the seat of Watson held by ALP Tony Burke for 20 years.recordings: Vivien Langford Climate Action Show - Sydney Palestine Rally 18-8-2024Western Suburbs Letter to EPA - Please Explain here II The Anti-Toxic Waste Alliance, a coalition of about 40 community groups and organisations from across Melbourne's northern and western suburbs, has written to the EPA with the support of lawyers at Environmental Justice Australia. Senior lawyer at Environment Justice Australia Virginia Trescowthick joins us.The Children's Bach here II Singer Kate Amos, gives us some idea about the Lyric Opera production of The Children's Bach taken from the Helen Garner novella, being staged at Theatre Works from 31 Aug - 7 Sept tickets.This is the Week here II Kevin Healy slashes and burns the week with satire.Captured: How Neoliberalism transformed the Australian State here II The editors of the new publication from the Sydney University Press Captured: How Neoliberalism transformed the Australian State, Phillip Toner and Mike Rafferty join us.

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Marisa from Doin time show interviewed with Keiran Stewart-Assheton about the history of NAIDOC followed by Jodie Choolburra-Welsh, founder of Brolga Dance Academy Sonia spoke  Danya Jacobs with Senior Legal Counsel with Environmental Justice Australia spoke about the current Senate Inquiry into new nature laws. Make a submission here: https://envirojustice.org.au/senate-inquiry-new-nature-laws/ Marcelo Villalobos former member of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, a guerrilla organisation fighting against Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, at the Disrupt Land Forces public meeting on 21 June Sonia caught up with Max Quanchi, honorary senior research fellow at University of Queensland, talking about the shaping of Fiji in the colonial era and its photgraphic representation in colonial handbooks Songs//Redfirn girl by Glenn Skuthorpe No more Whispering by Glenn Skuthorpe Black Smoke by Emily WurramaraIraninan Freedom SongGanalili by Spinifex Gum feat Marliya Choir

This week we hear about two campaigns at the forefront of opposition to the military expansion on this continent.  ‘Native Title Rockets' Campaign Coordinator and documentary Director Rocky speaks with Priya Kunjan (Thursday Breakfast) about Southern Launch's Koonibba rocket testing range that has begun commercial operation with its first rocket launch this week on Kokatha lands near Ceduna, South Australia.  Kokatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine brings us a call out for supporters to protect country from damage by the rocket testing operations.  Then we hear an interview from Phuong Tran (Tuesday Breakfast) with Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French political creative Laniyuk about the sacred lands of the Larrakia people, which are currently under threat of being destroyed by Defence Housing Australia. Binybara 'Lee Point' near Darwin is an area of deep cultural significance to the Larrakia Peoples and is also an internationally-significant site for migratory shorebirds and home to the rare and endangered Gouldian Finch. Larrakia people are being supported by community groups to have Lee Point protected and returned to traditional custodianship, after the Federal government gave Defence Housing Australia permission to develop the site 800 homes in 2018.  Last week Environmental Justice Australia made an application to the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (AAPA) to recognise sacred sites in the Lee Point development zone, including the Danggalaba Dreaming track, a sacred waterway and traditional camping places and ceremonial grounds on behalf of Larrakia Danggalaba Traditional Owner Tibby Quall.Support the campaign by signing the petition to Return Lee Point to the Care of Larrakia People.   

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 16TH 2023Produced by Vivien Langford "LIVING WONDERS" LOSE IN COURT The Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek was not in court to defend the challenge to her approval of two coal mine extensions. On her side were barristers for MACH Energy and  WHITEHAVEN coal. Justice Mc Elwaine dismissed the case. He said "Ultimately (this)...... raises matters for parliament to consider"   Environmental Justice Australia said "Unless it is appealed, today's judgement effectively clears the way for the minister to ignore climate change in her risk assessment of all new coal and gas projects on her desk- of which there are 25" I interviewed the president of the Environment Council of Central Queensland, Christine Carlisle about the impact on Australia's living wonders of more coal exports into the 2040's. Even now the Narrabri mine is leaking three times the climate changing  methane it claimed. If the extension is approved it will only add fuel to the climate chaos we are now experiencing everywhere. If you haven't see the Living Wonders project ,which ECoCeQ presented to Tanya Plibersek, please look at it now and check which of the living wonders  that you cherish will be imperilled. Explore the Evidence - Living Wonders Despite a promise to escape the climate 'naughty corner', the government just scored a win against environmentalists - ABC News Fine article by Michael SlezacLiving Wonders: Calls for law change after Federal Court ruling | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site Our "breaking News" interview will be followed by  a repeat of our 2022 show exploring the living wonders project featuring Professor Jakelin Troy and Lawyer Holly Kerwin. One of the wonders we look at is Lake Albacutya - Living Wonders.The hope we had then has had a setback in court. We had a new Environment Minister and Australia had overwhelmingly voted for Climate Action, but now state capture has been made obvious. Just as when our Former government passed around a shiny piece of laquered coal  and told parliament "Dont be afraid", now the Environment Minister is lined up with the coal companies who are defending her right to approve their mine extensions into the 2040's. That's the reality which should motivate a great deal of climate action. I think we must insist the reforms of the EPBC Act, promised for the end of this year, contain a climate trigger . Meantime, let us know if you are campaigning to delay the 25 projects.CLIMATE ACTIONOctober 29th SYDNEY- XR Zombie Walk  Events - Extinction Rebellion Australia (ausrebellion.earth)December 5-10th MELBOURNE -XR December RebellionNovember 17th - School Strike4Climate - Focus on stopping Fossil Fuel SubsidiesNov 17 | SS4C Australia (schoolstrike4climate.com)November 24-27- NEWCASTLE People's Blockade of the Coal PortPeople's Blockade — Rising Tide 

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW January 16th 2023  First broadcast: August 1st 2022Produced by Vivien LangfordL I V I N G   W O N D E R S  &  MINISTER TANYA PLIBERSEK “I'm going to make a decision on any project that comes before me based on the information and the science that I have before me at the time…” Tanya Plibersek, Environment Minister . The Environment Minister's decisions this year could shape the next thousand.   GuestsNgarigu woman Professor Jakelin Troy - Sydney University and Friend of The Living  Wonders Project. Meet the client - Living Wonders Christine Carlisle - President of The Environment Council of Central QueenslandHelp fund a landmark climate legal intervention #beforeitsgone | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising(link is external) Hollie Kerwin - Lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia Our living wonders - Living Wonders The LIVING  WONDERS website is a vault of information on the climate impact of 19 coal and gas projects. Proposals for these 19 projects are sitting on the desk of Tanya Plibersek, minister for Water and the environment.The dramatic question is HOW can she approve a new gas or coal project if she digs into this vault of living wonders and sees  the climate disruptions caused by more coal and gas?  A small group called The Environment Council of  Central Queensland has started a legal intervention under a rarely used section of the National Environment laws, to ask Tanya Plibersek to reconsider the 19 proposals. Through their lawyers at Environmental Justice Australia they have made it easy for the minister to access scientific research, much of it paid for by the Government. Environmental Justice Australia (envirojustice.org.au)Environment Council of Central Queensland at Queensland Conservation CouncilJakelin Troy | ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAUGUST 1ST 2022Produced by Vivien LangfordL I V I N G   W O N D E R S  &  MINISTER TANYA PLIBERSEK “I'm going to make a decision on any project that comes before me based on the information and the science that I have before me at the time…” Tanya Plibersek, Environment Minister . The Environment Minister's decisions this year could shape the next thousand.   GuestsNgarigu woman Professor Jakelin Troy - Sydney University and Friend of The Living  Wonders Project. Meet the client - Living Wonders Christine Carlisle - President of The Environment Council of Central QueenslandHelp fund a landmark climate legal intervention #beforeitsgone | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising Hollie Kerwin - Lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia Our living wonders - Living Wonders The LIVING  WONDERS website is a vault of information on the climate impact of 19 coal and gas projects. Proposals for these 19 projects are sitting on the desk of Tanya Plibersek, minister for Water and the environment.The dramatic question is HOW can she approve a new gas or coal project if she digs into this vault of living wonders and sees  the climate disruptions caused by more coal and gas?  A small group called The Environment Council of  Central Queensland has started a legal intervention under a rarely used section of the National Environment laws, to ask Tanya Plibersek to reconsider the 19 proposals. Through their lawyers at Environmental Justice Australia they have made it easy for the minister to access scientific research, much of it paid for by the Government. Environmental Justice Australia (envirojustice.org.au)Environment Council of Central Queensland at Queensland Conservation CouncilJakelin Troy | ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions  

In this show we looked at the Living Wonders Legal Intervention. Community legal centre Environmental Justice Australia, on behalf of their client Environment Council of Central Queensland, has submitted 19 reconsideration requests to federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek, asking her to reconsider the first stage of the assessment of almost every pending coal and gas proposal and expansion across the country, currently on her desk. These reconsideration requests have been submitted under a rarely used provision of the Commonwealth legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (under section 78A).We were fortunate to be joined by one of the lawyers from Environmental Justice Australia, Brittni Dienhoff. Brittni specialises in climate projects and has worked closely on the Living Wonders legal intervention.

 His week that was – Kevin Healy The vultures are circling: mining ventures in Bougainville – Fyfe Strachan, Policy Director of Jubilee Australia (Scramble for Resources 2022 report available here) Results of first round of elections in Colombia – David, from United for Colombia Australia (UFCA) Update on West Papua – Ronny Kareni Draconian penalties for saving Victorian fauna and flora – Sue McKinnon  (links: Environmental Justice Australia petition and info, Environmental Justice Victoria website, Human Rights Law Centre media release) 

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images and discussion of Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander people who have died Each year, hundreds of people around the country gather on the Sunday of the June long weekend to commemorate the unprovoked massacre of at least 28 Wirrayaraay women, children and older men by a group of stockmen on Myall Creek Station on June 10, 1838. The Myall Creek Memorial was constructed near Bingara on 10 June 2000 by a group of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people working together in an act of reconciliation. In 2008 the massacre site and memorial were included on the national heritage register, and also received NSW state heritage listing in 2010.  This week, Marisa presents part two of a yearly commemoration of the Myall Creek Massacre, interviewing Keith Munro, Aboriginal co-chair of the Friends of Myall Creek Memorial National Committee, and grandson of Uncle Lyall Munro Snr, to continue last week's discussion with co-chair Cecilia Blackwell and talk about their special upcoming annual memorial event. Keith gives listeners a comprehensive picture of the events and legal proceedings surrounding the massacre, including jurors openly admitting bias, and remembers the work of lawyer George Plunkett, without whom 7 of the 11 initially acquitted perpetrators would not have been re-trialed and convicted.  He notes that despite continued colonial violence with widespread horrific massacres before and after the event, it shines through as a time in history where good people did fight for justice, and discusses the legacy of the Myall Creek memorial services in bringing together decendants of both perpetrators and survivors of the massacre, allowing everyone to remember history truthfully in a step to heal intergenerational trauma and educate the wider community.  Alongside the memorial event this year, there will also be a community concert Myall Creek Rocks the Roxy taking place 3-5pm Saturday June 11 at the Roxy Theatre in Bingara.  Memorial special guest speaker, local historian and author James Wilson-Miller, is also delivering a special program Yarning About Truth-Telling on Friday June 10 at the University of New England in Armidale. The memorial event will take place on Sunday 12th June 2022, at the memorial site located roughly mid-way between Bingara and Delungra - for more information, or to become a member of Friends of Myall Creek, you can go to their website www.myallcreek.org   Later in the Show, Marisa interviews Ellen Maybery, Senior Lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia, about a controversial amendment they are urging the Andrews government to withdraw from parliament as it will see draconian law that criminalises peaceful protest.  The Sustainable Forest Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones Bill) 2022 was introduced by the Victorian Government last week, and would see protesters who are attempting to prevent native forest logging in Victoria face fines of up to $21,000 or 12 months in jail.  Ellen comes on the show to discuss that in the face of recent catastrophic bushfires and devastating climate end ecosystem collapse, the protest of illegal logging should be protected. Instead, VicForests is facing 9 court cases brought by the community - where instead of regulating the logging indistry and cracking down on illegal logging, the Victorian Government is trying to introduce amendments to current laws to create tougher penalties for protesters, citing health and safety concerns.  

People everywhere are speaking out and one of those making themselves heard through podcasts is The Guardian; the first, from the Uk - "What a net-zero world will look like – and how to get there"; the second, from Australia: "Australia v the climate part 1: Kyoto". Other Quick Climate Links are: "Jane Fonda on the climate fight: ‘The cure for despair is action'"; "‘Don't talk about Fight Club‘: Government refuses to release net-zero details"; "Environmental Justice Australia are lawyers for nature and community"; "China to cut fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060"; "Young Australians lodge human rights complaints with UN over alleged government inaction on climate"; "Reaping the wind turbines: the little town in the Great Dividing Range split by green energy plan"; "NSW treasurer Matt Kean says federal Nationals ‘can resign from the ministry if they don't back net-zero"; "UN-backed report reveals rising climate change risk across Africa"; "Nationals win extra cabinet position for Keith Pitt as they sign up to net-zero deal"; "An ecosystem restoration approach to solving farmers-herders conflict"; "Calgary councillor Sean Chu suggests cold winter is evidence against climate change"; "Miracle of Reduction" by George Monbiot; "Powerful storm hits California amid warnings of ‘potentially historic rain"; "Modeller used to attack Labor policies hired to “verify” Taylor's net-zero modelling"; "‘We have left it too late': COP26 unlikely to limit warming to 1.5C, scientists warn"; "The Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX)" is an international research consortium of five Australian universities; "Boris Johnson says chances of Cop26 success are ‘touch and go'"; "PM net-zero plan to include rural reviews"; "NSW govt concern fast-tracking gas project would erode independent process: leaked emails"; "Paul Bongiorno: Morrison's big win over the Nationals looking more like a pyrrhic victory"; "Greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high last year, UN reports ahead of Glasgow COP26 climate summit"; "Energy spending, electric cars and cleaner fuel in Coalition's emissions plan"; "Australia's stumbling, last-minute dash for climate respectability doesn't negate a decade of abject failure"; "The Morrison government is set to finally announce a 2050 net-zero commitment. Here's a ‘to do' list for each sector"; "Billionaires taking action on climate change are part of a long tradition"; "Coalition drops in Newspoll; Australia “not doing enough” response on climate change falls"; "‘Addicted to secrecy': Net-zero plan still a mystery, days out from Glasgow"; "Farmers fear that Australian climate inaction could jeopardise future export potential"; "Farming the future: Trading on animal welfare and emissions, not tariffs": "Climate-smart food systems should be centre stage at COP26"; "Clean rail travel is vital to the UK's future: now we need a government that can deliver it"; "The Chinese Companies Polluting the World More Than Entire Nations"; "Big banks haven't quit fossil-fuel financing with $4 trillion since Paris"; "Colorado research farm studies benefits of pairing agriculture with solar panels"; "Greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high last year, as UN warns 'we are way off track"; "How to know if a country is serious about net-zero: look at its plans for extracting fossil fuels"; "Climate Conscious Is Bringing the World Together"; "COP26 forum: a just transition for all"; "Climate 101" from Inside Climate News. Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

Jordan Sanchez (pictured) brought some spoken "life" to a Defenders of Wildlife story about World Environment Day 2021 - "10 Ways to Help Restore the Environment"; From The New Republic - "The Severe Weather Event We Routinely Ignore: Poor Air Quality"; A short story from Climate Conscious - "Climate Anxiety: The Dangers of Despair"; Miki Perkins asks the question in the Melbourne Age - "Having kids in a climate crisis: would you do it?"; From The New York Times - "New Jersey's Stunning Storm Toll Includes Many Who Drowned in Cars"; The Guardian gives us some news about Australia's salmon farms - "WWF Australia admitted Tasmanian salmon farms ‘not sustainable', campaigner says"; And from the ABC we hear - "Australia records near-record warmth during the wettest winter since 1996"; And ABC story about the U.S. says - "US President Joe Biden says Hurricane Ida, wildfires show climate crisis has arrived"; Back at The New York Times were hear - "Overlapping Disasters Expose Harsh Climate Reality: The U.S. Is Not Ready"; Still at The New York Times, we hear more about the storm that tore through the Northeast - "43 Die as Deadliest Storm Since Sandy Devastates the Northeast"; An opinion piece from The Guardian says - "Climate activism isn't making young people anxious. Climate change is"; The Federalist reports - "California wildfire devastation was entirely preventable through proper land management"; Global Energy reports - "GlobalData: Renewables in Denmark to reach nearly 100% share"; Rolling Stone tells readers about - "Our Summer From Hell"; On The Guardian, Joe Biden says - "‘Climate crisis is here' says Biden in week of storms, floods and wildfires"; Environmental Justice Australia reports - "Take action for First Nations water justice". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines James, Jackson and Mercedes from Uprise Radio caught up with Friends of the Earth campaign coordinator Cam Walker to discuss the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report. Cam talks about the report's strengths and weaknesses and campaigning opportunities in the lead up to the looming federal election. This conversation is part of a 2 part special  - the full discussion can be found here. Thursday Breakfast speaks with a Victorian high school art and woodwork teacher, who has taught in regional and metro areas as well as overseas in London. They are currently teaching at an inner city public school, and join us to talk about the challenges of teaching through the recurring lockdowns in Naarm.  Heela Arsala, an Afghan Australian who moved to Australia 30 years ago with her family, joins us to talk about the current situation in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal. As well as how the non-Afghan community can stand in solidarity over the coming months. Heela is a practicing commercial lawyer and she spends a considerable amount of time giving back to the community by advising not-for-profits as well as being the director of Edmund Rice Camps Vic.  Brendan Kennedy is a Tati Tati Elder from Victoria's north-west. He is the Director of Tati Tati Kaiejin, an artist, teacher and linguist. Brendan joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about water rights and returning Cultural Flows to Margooya Lagoon, a permanent wetland on the Murray river in northern Victoria. A new report, produced by Environmental Justice Australia, lays out a plan for how this important action can proceed. You can support calls for Cultural Flows by sending a letter to government here.Kristin O'Connell, who does research and policy at the Antipoverty Centre, joins us to speak about the ongoing need to raise the rate and #PayPeopleToStayHome, provide updates on the mutual obligations bill, and discuss the Antipoverty Centre and People with Disability Australia's joint submission to the inquiry into the Disability Support Pension. SongsSimona Castricum - Grateful for the Heartache

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. NewsreportsDiscussion about issues relating to delivery drivers focusing on the Green Left article Menulog starts trial but gig economy worker's security remains precarious Interviews and DiscussionPre-recorded Green Left podcast where Green Left Sydney correspondent Peter Boyle speaks with Niels Henrik Hooge from Friends of the Earth Denmark and Søren Søndergaard, an MP from the Red-Green Alliance in Denmark, about Ecosocialist-Indigenous party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) winning the largest vote in Greenlandic elections held on April 4. The vote was effectively a referendum on whether a Chinese-Australian rare earth and uranium mining project should go ahead in part of the food producing belt along Greenland's eastern coast. IA won 37% of the vote and 12 out of 31 seats in the Greenland parliament on a platform opposing the toxic mining project. You can listen to the individual interview here.Interview with Bronya Lipski from Environmental Justice Australia about the risk of energy behemoth AGL 'cutting and running' at some point in the future and leaving behind massive cleanup bills for its three coal fired power stations (Bayswater, Liddell and Loy Yang A) and Camden coal seam gas field.Lipski outlines the ecological impacts of ash dams at coal fired power stations which leave behind a legacy of millions of tonnes of heavy metal contaminated slurry that must be contained to stop it polluting groundwater and releasing toxic dust. The massive brown coal mine adjacent that feeds Loy Yang A must also be rehabilitated and covered to prevent fires like the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire. AGL has allocated a grossly inadequate fund for rehabilitation and cleanup of the 4 sites and is racking up big losses at its coal fired power stations, which it has split off from its renewables and retail arm. You can listen to the individual interview here.Interview with Green Left Sydney correspondent and Rojava SolidaritySydney member Peter Boyle about the campaign to free Kurdish political activist Abdullah Ocalan from isolation on a heavily guarded prison Island in Turkey. Imprisoned since 1999 by the Turkish State, Boyle said that Ocalan can be compared to South African leader Nelson Mandela both in terms of the oppression he and the Kurdish people have faced and also in terms of the politically transformative effect that his release would likely have. Australians For Kurdistan are hosting an international webinar on their youtube page about the campaign to free Ocalan. You can listen to the individual interview here. 

WOMEN'S CLIMATE LEADERSHIPWHERE DOES IT TAKE US?8TH MARCH 2021Produced by Vivien LangfordGUESTS:Victoria McKenzie-McHarg - Women's environmental Leadership WELA and Chair of the Climate Action Network Australia CANALucy Manne - CEO of 350.org AustraliaJanet Laurence - Artist and Curator of REQUIEM at the Festival of Sydney 2021Kerrie Leishman - Painter on her exhibition "The New Beauty" featuring wind turbines at Waubra VicMusic : Montaigne with the song that launched the School Strike for Climate in Sydney 2019-  "Ready to Go!"and "Mother earth" composed by Aunty Ruby Sims to launch the Beyond Zero Emissions "Million Jobs Plan" sent to us by Dominque Hes The theme of international Women's day this year is Women in leadership.Victoria McKenzie-McHarg launches the show. Her IWD hero is Julie Lyford who, with Groundswell Gloucester fended off a gas company in their valley and then won a court case to stop the Rocky Hill Coal mine going ahead. Julie is a graduate of the Women's environmental leadership course. Victoria says it's obvious that the present political, societal and corporate leadership is failing on climate action. a more collaborative, diverse and supportive form of leadership is needed. She speaks about  Nicola Rivers who with young children could not see herself as a CEO but through mentoring came to the idea of sharing a CEO position which she now has as CoCEO of Environmental Justice Australia.WELA is there to open doors for women. They have established a giving circle to fund women led projects and initiatives for our envoronment.Women's Environmental Leadership Australia | The Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) program is designed by and for women environmentalists to support women taking environmental leadership in Australia.  sign up for our monthly e-newsletter and join us on Facebook. To celebrate IWD we talk to two artists who lead us towards a change of heart around our connection to the land and  landscape.  They are Janet Laurence and Kerrie Leishman. Janet Laurence curated REQUIEM, a week of art events in an old Reservoir near Paddington Town Hall. As we descend into the sunken cathedral she invites us to lament and reflect on the black summer bush fires. It is a place of reckoning and the audience response in Qand A was all about "what can we do?"Art helps us to see what's invisible and Janet says blindness to nature breeds indifference. In front of her installation of waters made turbid by charcoal and dead matter left by the bushfires, many speakers such as Bruce Shillingsworth, urged us to think differently about mother earth and her lifeblood rivers. In an interview later Janet told me that the Art World did not easily accept her focus on climate change. But she does not want to plunge them into a defensive reaction and the sheer tenderness, the scale and the science behind her work is opening many minds.'I want you to linger': how Janet Laurence's art compels you to save the earth | Art and design | The Guardian Kerrie Leishman says that wind turbines create a new aesthetic. This challenges our usual idea of landscape. But like Janet Laurence she does not want to put us on the defensive. Her paintings are a subtle form of climate leadership taking us along as she comes to see the turbines as gentle giants. Her exhibition called "The New Beauty" was inspired by the wind farms at Waubra in Victoria.blog - Kerrie Leishman Paintings and Illustration Lucy Manne started the fossil Fuel Watch project during COVID. They report  on such things as  the media coverage of COVID recovery funds going  towards gas projects rather than the jobs rich care economy. They also report on the national conversation around citizens' rights to protest. One example recently is when the mining lobby portrayed community groups as "vexatious" Graeme Samuels found that such legal challenges are the "foundation of our democracy". She recommended that we watch the Greenpeace film "Dirty Money" and join 350.org in their campaign to "Fund our Future not Gas".She talks about the shift in energy resulting from the Biden Administration's climate policy in the USA.Will this help us turn a distant 2050 target to a manageable 2030 target for reducing carbon emissions to zero?Her women's day hero is Milly Telford founder of SeedMob. The campaign she wants us to support is the Torres Strait Islanders' landmark human rights complaint against the Australian Government. They say the government has not adequately reduced Greenhouse gas emissions or helped them adapt to changing climate conditions. Lucy herself is a shining example of women's leadership coming up from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and now as CEO.Australia – 350.org’s Fossil Fuel Watch project

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 Action Plans for Victoria and New South Wales. Calling on State governments to immediately act on the worst sources of toxic air pollution. Namely, coal-fired power stations, vehicle emissions and wood heaters.  Guests: Bob Vickers (GP in Singleton, NSW); Bronya Lipski (Lawyer EJA).   Links:  The People's Clean Air Action Plans (EJA)  Coal power's toxic health toll (Earth Matters #1102 August 2017)  Workers responding collectively to bushfire pollution (Earth Matters #1128 January 2020)    Earth Matters #1285 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.   

Environmental law has existed since around the 1960s, however only recently have litigations pivoted to address the concerns of growing emission levels and a warming climate. In this episode Tessa speaks with David Barnden, the founder and principal lawyer of Equity Generation Lawyers - a law firm that specialises in Australian climate change law. They discuss the history of environmental regulation in australia, the recent EPBC Act review, how covid is affecting the legal system, the economic impact of climate change inaction on investments and our global reputation, and of course the three high profile and progressive cases he's currently working on. Before starting up Equity Generation David was also a principal lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia, and an associate at social justice law firm Maurice Blackburn. Beyond this David also has a background in applied sciences and coastal management, plus we heard he was a fellow surfer....so knew he'd be good egg! Stay up to date by subscribing, and following on TNBU socials @thenaturebetweenuspodcast

Decades of legal protection for the living world haven't stopped it being progressively destroyed. So what do we need to do, and what's currently being done, to regenerate the law of the land and better protect and restore the living world? Thinking about all this again in recent weeks, prompted me to go back to a recording of a live panel event I produced on the topic at Melbourne's Federation Square back in 2015 (billed Preventing Crimes Against Nature at the time). I was moved all over again by the conversation that night, featuring some of the major system changes at play, and the cultural changes so intertwined with them. You'll hear: - Nicola Rivers, co-CEO of Environmental Justice Australia, who came to this event directly from the first national conference of the Panel of Experts on Environmental Law deliberating on the 'next generation' of legislative frameworks for the protection of nature; - Dr Alessandro Pelizzon is now Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, one of the founding members of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and supported the drafting of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; - Professor Kate Auty, brilliant community figurehead, former Victorian and ACT Commissioner of Sustainability and Environment, and now Chair of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria; and - Michael Leunig, National Living Treasure, cartoonist and esteemed elder of the Understandascope, generating a wellspring of commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spanning more than forty years. This event was organised a little on the fly, so while we tried to have a First Nations voice directly on this panel, it didn't happen on this occasion (though my conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta for the previous episode 70 speaks straight into this one in many ways, as does an earlier conversation with Anne Poelina for episode 21). Join us for a series of 10 minute presentations from each speaker (in the sequence above), before our all-in conversation. Note: Ellen Sandell, MP for the seat of Melbourne where this event was held, sent a brief message in to the event, which is why you'll hear her referred to in the conversation. Title slide pic: Gantheaume Point, near Broome in the Kimberley region of WA (Anthony James). With thanks to Carly, James and the Understandascope team for co-creating this event, Chris Grose from Scout Films, and the National Sustainable Living Festival. Music: Faraway Castle, by Rae Howell & Sunwrae - see a wonderful film clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAyUK8WWC4&feature=youtu.be Get more: You can hear the rest of our conversation with audience Q&A in an extra to this episode - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/071-extra-the-coolamon-trees Australian Story - https://www.abc.net.au/austory/breaking-new-ground/12697330 Aussies can take vital action ahead of the federal government's current bill reaching the Senate shortly - https://www.wwf.org.au/get-involved/end-animal-extinction#gs.h26qat With the growing movement asserting ‘First Law', you can support this petition from the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council - https://www.change.org/t/first-law-en-gb Dr Alessandro Pelizzon - https://www.scu.edu.au/about/contacts/staff-directory/staff/30709.php Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law - http://www.placesyoulove.org/expertpanel/ Environmental Justice Australia - https://www.envirojustice.org.au/ David Mowaljarlai - https://www.magabala.com/products/yorro-yorro The Understandascope, building on the legacy of my old mate and mentor Frank Fisher - https://www.regennarration.com/understandascope Thanks to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making it possible. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them by heading to our website at https://www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! And thanks for listening.

British writer Robert Macfarlane joins Amy for a special long-form conversation about the connections between landscape, language, people, and place. They delve into Robert’s latest book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, and also draw on ideas from his past works including, Mountains of the Mind, The Old Ways, and Landmarks. Robert is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. Danya Jacobs, senior lawyer from Environmental Justice Australia tells Amy about the federal court case she co-led and won on behalf of Friends of Leadbeater's Possum Inc. against VicForests to protect our old growth native forests and endangered species. What do the final court orders mean for the protection of native forests in Victoria? Plus Ben Eltham discusses the latest in federal politics.

***WARNING*** some expletives included in this show [0:00:00] Acknowledgement of Country.[0:33:00] We speak to Chris Breen from the Refugee Council of Australia about the detention of medi-evacuated asylum seekers at the Mantra Hotel in Collingwood. We discuss the event held on the 29th February for refugees currently detained in the Mantra and the breach of human rights occurring from the Mantra to the Manus all across Australia. Upcoming Refugee Events:April 5th - Palm Sunday Rally Melbourne April 25th - From Manus To Mantra - Let Them Out Let Them Stay Follow the link for more info: https://www.rac-vic.org [0:50:00] On Tram Thoughts, we discuss Feminist Policy in our cities and how we can think and look into new ideas for including women in the community. We touch on topics of apps to report sexual harassment, safe spaces at clubs and gigs, free sanitary items in schools, centres and pharmacies and an idea from Finland with giving men and women equal maternity leave. [1:06:00] Chris Schuringa joins us to talk about her organisation’s fight to protect the Victorian Greater Gliders, after the threat of the recent bushfires and continual logging in the Gliders natural habitats. We get an update on the injunction for the protection of the Central Highlands from logging and Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) working with Environmental Justice Australia to cease logging in Victoria. Head to the link to help the cause https://www.geco.org.au/email_the_premier_no_more_native_forest_logging [1:16:00] Performer Candy Bowers comes on to talk about her new show ‘King Shit & Lady Muck for Hollywood’. We chat all things about the inspiration behind the show and the very satirical ode towards colonialism.  The show premieres on Saturday 14th March 2020 7:00 PM and Saturday 14th March 2020 9:00 PM at Hares and Hyenas in Fitzroy. For tickets head to https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=613957 

This week on the program we look at coal and coal fired power stations. We hear from Bronya Lipski, Environmental Justice Australia lawyer and author of recent report “Unearthing Australia’s toxic coal ash legacy” about the coal ash waste dumps that come with generating coal fired power and their impact on the community and environment. In the second part of the program we speak with Amy from Front Line Action on Coal for a report from the blockade camp against Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine on Wangan and Jagalingou land in the north of the Galilee Basin in central Queensland.

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 human health. And our governments - both state and federal - are failing to protect us.This is revealed in a report by Environmental Justice Australia. It's called Toxic and Terminal and it highlights how governments and their regulators are failing the public, by allowing coal-fired power stations to emit pollutants at levels much higher than over industrialized countries - such as the United States, China and the EU.Guests: Bronya Lipski (Environmental Justice Australia); Dr. Ben Ewald (Newcastle GP); Mike Campbell (Community campaigner, central coast NSW).Earth Matters #1175 (#1102) was produced by Teishan Ahearne.

Dr Bruce Lindsay (Environmental Justice Australia, Member of Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law) Bruce works as a law reform and project officer at Environmental Justice Australia - a public-interest community legal centre specialising in environmental and planning law. Bruce has written on biodiversity law, water law, access to justice issues, and planning law for EJA. He has previously worked with Trust for Nature, undertaking leading research on law in private land conservation and environmental markets. He has had a long association with local environmental groups and issues in Geelong, Victoria. This is the third event of Victorian Fabians' Spring Series for 2018, co-hosted by the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN), at which we'll discuss environmental sustainability and equality, with talks by Dr Bruce Lindsay and Ged Kearney MP. The 2018 IPCC report on climate change says we have about 12 years to act to keep climate change to 1.5 degrees. The action required to prevent increasing CO2 will be both rapid and dislocating but not anywhere near as dislocating as the effects of higher than 1.5 degrees of warming. Many of the impacts from climate risks and remedies will disproportionately affect the more disadvantaged in our society. This represents a threat to our progressive social democracy. How do we act on climate change and sustain a thriving diverse environment, human well-being and equality all at the same time?

How far do super fund trustees need to consider climate change when investing our money? Tonight on Done By Law we chatted with Mark McVeigh, member of Rest super fund, and David Barnden, Principal Lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia, who are putting this to the test in the first court action of its kind!https://www.envirojustice.org.au/projects/a-23-year-old-is-taking-a-50bn-super-fund-to-court-over-climate-change/

Dr Bruce Lindsay (Environmental Justice Australia, Member of Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law) Bruce works as a law reform and project officer at Environmental Justice Australia - a public-interest community legal centre specialising in environmental and planning law. Bruce has written on biodiversity law, water law, access to justice issues, and planning law for EJA. He has previously worked with Trust for Nature, undertaking leading research on law in private land conservation and environmental markets. He has had a long association with local environmental groups and issues in Geelong, Victoria. This is the third event of Victorian Fabians' Spring Series for 2018, co-hosted by the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN), at which we'll discuss environmental sustainability and equality, with talks by Dr Bruce Lindsay and Ged Kearney MP. The 2018 IPCC report on climate change says we have about 12 years to act to keep climate change to 1.5 degrees. The action required to prevent increasing CO2 will be both rapid and dislocating but not anywhere near as dislocating as the effects of higher than 1.5 degrees of warming. Many of the impacts from climate risks and remedies will disproportionately affect the more disadvantaged in our society. This represents a threat to our progressive social democracy. How do we act on climate change and sustain a thriving diverse environment, human well-being and equality all at the same time?  

Wednesday Breakfast May 23, 20187:00am     Acknowledgement of Country7:05am     Hannah Morphy-Walsh, one of the co-curators of the exhibition Blak to the Future, speaks with us about the Wominjeka Festival, on at Footscray Community Arts Centre this weekend7:15am     Maylene Slater-Burns from SNAICC on the work of her organisation and Reconciliation on the Rooftop, at Fitzroy Library, Monday, May 28th.7:30am     Dr James Whelan researcher with Environmental Justice Australia on the risks to health of coal fired power stations and the need for improvements or closure of existing stations.7:45am     A Community Forum on the report of the Inquiry into Drug Law Reform is on next Wednesday, @ 4pm May 30th. Greg Denham CEO of Yarra Drug and Health Forum stresses the need for public discussion of the report.8:00am     Father Rod Bower (Gosford Anglican Church) describes the invasion of the Gosford Anglican Church community's Saturday night evening mass service by Nationalists from Melbourne, and the need for government leadership on this issue.8:15am     Prime Minister Turnbull received the report of the Review of Religious Freedom last week but the contents are yet to have been made public. Lee Carnie from the Human Rights Law Centre discusses the background and their submission to the Review.

Free public transport, road space rationing, banning diesel cars; there are plenty of efforts to control levels of air pollution, but with more than 3.5 million premature deaths each year because of it, we’re failing to act quickly enough. This episode we unpick how the framework regulating air pollution in Australia is doing little to reduce toxic emissions, and how a small town in the Hunter region has been devastated at the hands of the coal industry.Featuring:Nic Surawksi - Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney.Bev Smiles - Secretary of the Wollar Progress Association.James Whelan - Researcher and Networker from Environmental Justice Australia.Producer: Jake Morcom.

This week, after a debrief of the best news from the Herald Sun, we chat with Rosa McKenna from the Spotswood and South Kingsville Residents Group about the Westagate Tunnel. Then we speak with Friends of Steele Creek Inc activist Helen Vandenberg. For more info about the waterways workshop, check out Environmental Justice Australia. 

Presenters: Dean Shingange, Grace Bigby, Scheherazade Bloul.  Producer: Bernadette Jurik.  Guests: Elaine Pearson, Chris Atmore,Jenny Smith & Jessica MorrisonRoger Waters speaking in Melbourne! - TICKET GIVEAWAY WhenFebruary 9th, 2018 7:45 PM   through   9:30 PMLocation: Athenaeum Theatre - 188 Collinst St, Melbourne Event Fee - $20.00Congratulations to the two winners of double passes to The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network's event this Friday.  Elaine Pearson (@pearsonElaine) - Director of Human Rights Watch - Human Rights Watch about a new report into experiences of people with disabilities in prisonChris Atmore -(@chrisPolicy) - Lawyer with Environmental Justice Australia - Western suburbs residents will take the expansion of the Werribee landfill to VCAT after the tribunal refused to uphold Wyndham City Council’s attempt to have residents’ application dismissed. She will update us on the situationJenny Smith - CEO, Council to Homeless Persons - Victoria’s peak body for homelessness has welcomed the Victorian Government’s plans to revitalise the Markham public housing estate in Ashburton, turning vacant land into 200 units, two-thirds of which would be social and affordable housing. The most recent DHHS rent report showed that just 6% of all private rentals in metro Melbourne are affordable to someone on a low income. --- ALSO: Has warned that a flood of people will be turning to homelessness services for help, if a controversial Welfare Reform Bill passes through Parliament this week. Welfare Reform package includes a raft of measures designed to strip Centrelink payments from many people who are already on the brink of homelessness. The package includes proposals that will blow out the length of time people wait before receiving payments, and remove income protection measures for women trying to flee family violenceJessica Morrison - Executive Officer - Australia Palestine Advocacy Network - TICKET GIVEAWAY- The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network is a civil society coalition advocating for peace and justice in Palestine/Israel based on UN resolutions and international/humanitarian law - Jessica will promote event on Friday Roger Waters in discussion with Palestinian-Australian author and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah and Jewish-Australian author and activist Antony Loewenstein.  

This week Dylan speaks with associate professor at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, Tilman Ruff returns to the show to talk about a nuclear weapons treatyThen, Liz Mitchell from Totally Mild comes on the show to talk about performing for Girls Rock! MelbourneFinally, Dr. Bruce Lindsay from Environmental Justice Australia comes on the show to talk about the new legislation to protect the Yarra River

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 in a new report by Environmental Justice Australia. It's called Toxic and Terminal and it highlights how governments and their regulators are failing the public by allowing coal-fired power stations to emit pollutants at levels much higher than over industrialized countries - such as the United States, China and the EU. Guests: Bronya Lipski (Environmental Justice Australia); Dr. Ben Ewald (Newcastle GP); Mike Campbell (Community campaigner, central coast NSW).Links:'Toxic and Terminal' Environmental Justice Australia. ​Earth Matters #1102 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.​Image by 'Mira' on Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0.

The government’s been sending letters to environment groups registered as eligible for tax deductible donations. That includes Friends of the Earth. They do this every year, but this time around the letters are different, in a disturbing way. First up, Brendan Sydes from Environmental Justice Australia explains the background to latest orchestrated attempt to roll back the tax deductible status of Australia's ENGOs and the current federal treasury inquiry.Then, research co-ordinator at Market Forces, Jack Bertolus, talks about their survey of Australia’s the big four banks' lending practices to the coal industry and the recently published 'Adani list'.

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 Valley and Brian Snowden from Toxic Free Fawkner, about their experiences with the EPA and what they would change about it. Then we're going to talk to Dr Chris Atmore from Environmental Justice Australia, who describe themselves as "nature's legal team", about what they hope for and expect to see from the overhaul.

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 Central Qld. Hear a conversation with lawyer from Environmental Justice Australia, Ariane Wilkinson, who discusses EJA's research into Adani's international corporate behaviour. Also featured are some excerpts from the Stop Adani Roadshow outlining how people can get active at this crucial time.

This week on Uncommon Sense our host Amy Mullins speaks about politics, history and environmentalism, with some very interesting guests. Regular guest Ben Eltham joins us to discuss the latest in federal politics and the WA election. Sarah Brugler, lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia, comes in to talk about the proposed reforms to Victoria's Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act. We meet the women behind the Invisible Farmer Project; Museums Victoria curator Catherine Forge and Fish Creek farmer Amelia Bright. We then had a chat with film director Eoin Hahessy on his documentary, Michael, They've Shot Them, which details the impact of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising in Australia.