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Chris Schuringa from GECO spoke to us in April 2020 about the 10-year logging exemptions that had been rolled over at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions while the area was recovering from this season's devastating bushfires. These logging exemptions means that native forests will continue to be destroyed.

We cross live to Isaac Carné who is currently occupying a tree in an area of the lands of the Gunaikurnai, Bidewell and Monero people, also known as East Gippsland, which is earmarked for logging by VicForrests despite government recommendations released in October last year.

We are joined by Carly Findlay and C.B. Mako joins us to discuss Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Carly Findlay OAM is a writer, speaker and appearance activist. She is the author of memoir 'Say Hello' and the editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia C.B. Mako is a non-fiction, fiction, and fanfiction writer, member of Disabled QBIPOC Collective and a contributor to Growing Up Disabled in Australia. 

Tameeka Tighe, Gomeroi, Dunghutti and Biripi woman and member of Gamilaraay Next Generation and Fighting in Solidarity Towards Treaties (FISTT), joins us to talk about tomorrow's day of action organised by Gamilaraay next Generation to protest Santos' Narrabri Gas Project and the Santos Festival of Rugby.

Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. She joins us to discuss the digital launch of Voiceworks issue 121, Root where you will find knitted boyfriends, flooded apartments and regret-filled werewolves. Voiceworks is a national literary journal that features exciting new writing and art by young Australians. Their purpose is to create a space for people under twenty-five to develop their creative and editorial skills and to publish, and be paid for, their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and comics.

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No Further Than you - Izy