Align in the Sound - New Economy Network / Radio BTL / CoCanberra

Mary Graham is Kombu-merri - Wakka Wakka person from South East Queensland. She is very well versed in both white and black law and culture. Mary has been addressing NENA conferences since 2017, and never fails to give an informative, thought provoking talk.

Aimee Meehan is gomerai - Irish, with a background in business innovation, governance and participation, among others.

The New Economy Network Australia (NENA) is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and primary objectives of the economic system.

The theme of NENA’s 2020 Conference is “New Economy—Work in Progress” and the intention is to share the amazing work being done by individuals and organisations across Australia, to build a new economy, focused on ecological health & social and economic justice.

NENA’s Annual Conferences offer a space for NENA members and the wider community to meet up, share experiences, ideas, research and project updates, spark connections and collaborations and work together to progress our network and shared vision for a new economy.

The New Economy Network Australia (NENA) is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and primary objectives of the economic system.

The theme of NENA’s 2020 Conference is “New Economy—Work in Progress” and the intention is to share the amazing work being done by individuals and organisations across Australia, to build a new economy, focused on ecological health & social and economic justice.

NENA’s Annual Conferences offer a space for NENA members and the wider community to meet up, share experiences, ideas, research and project updates, spark connections and collaborations and work together to progress our network and shared vision for a new economy.

This week on Behind the Lines we welcome back two former guests, Dr. Jill Woods from the Nepal Leprosy Trust and Barrister Ian Neil SC with Grameen Australia to discuss Microcredit Financing and the difference that the cost of a meal out in Australia can make for people in impoverished communities seeking to transform their lives and communities.

The leprosy trust already has an established microfinance initiative that is making enormous difference to the lives of women and their families impacted by leprosy in poverty stricken communities in Nepal. Many entrepreneurial enterprises have sprung from the initiative and are thriving. Jill will be sharing some stories of these successes, and personal insights garnered from her active involvement and time spent volunteering in Nepal treating Leprosy patients.

Joining us later today via phone, we are fortunate to have leading Australian Barrister, employment and Industrial law expert, and chair of Grameen Australia, Ian Neil SC back with us. We previously hosted Ian last December to discuss the ins and outs of the Jobkeeper scheme and the employment contract. This morning Ian will be chatting to us about Grameen Australia’s Microfinance Initiative, working with Nobel Laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus, to build ‘a world of 3 zeros’: zero poverty, zero unemployment, zero emissions.

Canberra Seed Savers Co-operative is a network of urban food growers and local farmers working cooperatively to protect our abundant, common heritage of open-pollinated food seeds.

Members swap and share seeds, learn and teach about seed growing and saving, and together build a resilient community seed sharing network – a ‘living seed bank’.

Keith Colls has been in the organic growing scene for many years, with Canberra Organic Growers Society he helped set up many of Canberras community gardens.

In 2011 he cofounded the Canberra City Farm, now a thriving organisation.

He is about to begin teaching a 15 month organic market gardening course, for those who reckon they would like to grow veg for a living, but would like to try it out and learn more about it before taking the plunge.

Keith is also involved in the startup of a community owned farming cooperative in the Canberra region alongside Scotty Foster, our regular presenter.

Have a listen to learn more about both of these subjects!

David Holmgren is one of the founders of Permaculture, a design movement devoted to both a permanent culture, and a permanent agriculture.

We caught up for chat about imagination and its importance in these times which require such comprehensive and massive change.

Joining us today on Radio Behind the Lines, we are fortunate to have leading Australian Barrister, employment and Industrial law expert, Ian Neil SC, an expert on employment, and the ins and outs of Jobkeeper, who will be discussing the concept of employment itself, then moving on to the employment and industrial law issues that lie scattered at the bottom of the Jobkeeper cliff.

Ian, along with David Chin SC and Christopher Parkin, developed the 'Guide to the JobKeeper Scheme'.and also co-authored with David Chin, The Modern Contract of Employment, the leading Australian text on the common law of employment.

Since its formation at 2016's Building the New Economy conference, put on by AELA and the UNSW law school, the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) has been building itself.

The second NENA conference was held in 2018 in Melbourne.

Behind the Lines Radio, broadcasting through Community Radio 2XXFM in Canberra, frantically ran around for 3 days trying to capture as much of it as possible.

If you like hearing about the positive side of life, please support us at www.2xxfm.org.au/ - donate, subscribe, volunteer!

Find out more about NENA at neweconomy.org.au/

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

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Since its formation at 2016's Building the New Economy conference, put on by AELA and the UNSW law school, the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) has been building itself.

The second NENA conference was held in 2018 in Melbourne.

Behind the Lines Radio, broadcasting through Community Radio 2XXFM in Canberra, frantically ran around for 3 days trying to capture as much of it as possible.

If you like hearing about the positive side of life, please support us at www.2xxfm.org.au/ - donate, subscribe, volunteer!

Find out more about NENA at neweconomy.org.au/

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

To give attribution for this work, include the URL of this page.

Since its formation at 2016's Building the New Economy conference, put on by AELA and the UNSW law school, the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) has been building itself.

The second NENA conference was held in 2018 in Melbourne.

Behind the Lines Radio, broadcasting through Community Radio 2XXFM in Canberra, frantically ran around for 3 days trying to capture as much of it as possible.

If you like hearing about the positive side of life, please support us at www.2xxfm.org.au/ - donate, subscribe, volunteer!

Find out more about NENA at neweconomy.org.au/

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

To give attribution for this work, include the URL of this page.