Episodes

8 Nov 2015
The Basin Plan is slowly increasing the environmental and cultural flows of the Murray-Darling river system, but it is already under attack.
Darren Perry and Will Mooney
The 'hockey stick'.
1 Nov 2015
Inside the science of climate change with Michael Mann.
Presenter: Teishan Ahearne. Guest: Michael Mann.
'ASIO, the real security risk' ca. 1980 http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/336002
25 Oct 2015
We’re discussing the Federal government’s new data retention laws - and asking what will be it’s effects on activism, and democratic life more broadly.
Presenter: Teishan Ahearne. Guests: Scott Ludlam (Greens Senator for W.A.); Tom Sulston (Thoughtworks)
Dumping at New Chum toxic waste dump
18 Oct 2015
We talk to Jim Dodrill from Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments about the ongoing campaign to clean up the New Chum toxic waste dump in Ipswich, Queensland.
Corey Green, Kevin Healy, Jim Dodrill
11 Oct 2015
Another angle to crush dissent.
Nicola Paris, Cam Walker, Kirsty Albion, Ian Onley
4 Oct 2015
We’re discussing the fallout from the Federal Government’s Anti-Radicalisation kit, and it’s framing of environmental activism as violent extremism.
Presenter: Teishan Ahearne. Cam Walker (Friends of the Earth Australia); Lydia Shelly (lawyer, committee member of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties, co-founder of the Islamophobia register)
Anderson Road Buangor, before and after
27 Sep 2015
In the duplication of the Western Highway between Ararat and Beaufort, campaign group Western Highway Alternative Mindsets (WHAM) says that Vic Roads is grossly exceeding their Environmental Effects Statement, but Vic Roads argues that what they're doing is necessary for safety.
Corey Green, Helen Lewers from WHAM, Greg Moore from the University of Melbourne, Mick McCarthy from Vic Roads.
20 Sep 2015
Today on Earth Matters we speak to various South Australian based activists about the campaign to stop BP's plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight's pristine ocean environment. Just five years on from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP are completing their Environment Plan and are hoping to begin exploratory drilling next year but South Australians are banding together to stop them. Today we'll hear some of those voices.
Guests: Bunna Lawrie, Breony Carbines, Margaret Thiselton, Peter Owen. Presenter: Michaela Stubbs
A frog on the air can save 2 in the bush
13 Sep 2015
A look at the first 999 episodes of Earth Matters - the history, some great archival audio and a look at Earth Matter's contribution to environmental and social justice movements.
Corey Green, Juliet Fox, Indira Naryan, Gab Reade, Nicky Stott and Helen Gwilliam
6 Sep 2015
Action against the McArthur River Mine and shale gas fracking
Conrad Rory, Lauren Mellor, Tanya Hall