This Friday we have Coedie McAvoy, Wangan / Jagalingu man joining us live via phone from the Waddananggu camp in central Queensland.

The frontiers of climate crisis and First Nations dispossession are being pushed beyond their limits by the centuries old coalition of party political government and big business - once again.

The Adani-Bravus mega coal mine at Carmichael is just the first of many planned for the galilee basin, laying down the infrastructure which can only lead to more intense climate chaos, expanding an industry with no future.

Coedie will talk with us from Waddananggu, a cultural ceremony taking place across the road from Adani-Bravus’s Carmichael Mine - the biggest coal mine in this continent’s history.

Violet Coco, featured in this interview from August 2021, has just been imprisoned for 15 months with a no parole period of 8 months,

Violet's crime was to block one lane of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for about 25 minutes.

Our country is becoming an authoritarian state quicker than we can recognise it.

Stay tuned for more on this ridiculous court decision, which was directed by the new(ish) NSW laws, crafted (in my opinion) by a savage bunch of politicians, fighting desperately for the rights of their fossil fuelled mates to kill the world with impunity.

Today we hosted Tahli Mullins and Jamie Rogers, two local School Strike activists.

We had a chat about the movement, and their upcoming livestream event.

NP7 - Universal Basic Income - Jane Goodall - Oct 20 2022 NP by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams

Bob Phelps has been working in the GMO watchdog scene for many years. He founded Gene Ethics in 1988 to work for a GM-free future.

Bob is an educator and campaigner in peace and environment movements, with forty years experience. In 2003 he was awarded a Federation Medal for his services to the Australian community.

Gene Ethics is a non-profit educational network of citizens and kindred groups. We want the precautionary principle, scientific evidence and the law rigorously applied to all proposed uses of genetic manipulation (GM) technologies and their products.

Gene Ethics generates and distributes accurate information and analysis on the ethical, environmental, social and economic impacts of GM. Our education programs critically assess GM for the public, policy-makers and interest groups.

In the 6th New Economy Network of Australia (NENA) Podcast, Anna Garnock talks with Monique Potts.

The New Economy Network of Australia 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 the primary objectives of the economic system.

Monique Potts is holding the space for the NENA Sydney Hub.

Monique is the Deputy Director of the Innovation and Creative Intelligence Unit at the University of Technology Sydney. In this role Monique is working with a dynamic team to pilot and prototype new approaches to teaching, learning, research and industry engagement across UTS. Monique is leading and shaping key strategic initiatives for UTS including the Hatchery and Hatchery+ pre-incubator program and the Innovation and Creative Intelligence Labs. Monique has been involved in forming and driving a 4 year Innovation and Creative Intelligence Strategy across UTS.

NENA is a Co-operative, organised through geographic and through sectoral hubs. The NENA Podcast talks to hub convenors and individuals throughout the NENA network, so you can find out what is happening in all of our places and conversations.

To connect with the new economy network of Australia, or to help our editing team bring a mountain of great Aussie new economy shows to the podcast (which includes editing training), sign up at neweconomy.org.au

Simon Kerr is cocreator of the music / multi-media project Music for a Warming World, using music and visuals to tell the new stories needed to help create a safer future. This project includes songwriting, video making and essay writing. We have performed our work in many places from Tasmania to Queensland, from Universities to music festivals such as Woodford.

Simon is a current director of NENA.

Simon has a BA in Sociology and Philosophy, a Masters of Applied Science in Natural Resource Management and a PhD in Political Ecology.

He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Inland in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, and a leading member of the La Trobe Academic Climate Network.

From the archives.

We are school students of all ages, races, genders, backgrounds and sexualities from every part of Australia. United by our concern for the future of the planet that we live in, we have bridged the thousands of kilometres that separates us to create one of the biggest movements in Australian history.

We are striking from school to demand that our politicians take our future seriously & treat climate change as what it is: a crisis.​

Join Tahli Mullins and Jamie Rogers as we explore this amazing movement.

From the archives.

Our guest this week will be Jo Clay, environmentalist, author and project developer who has extensively explored ways to reduce her carbon impacts, including through looking at what she and her family eat. This is sure to be a fascinating conversation - who isn't interested in food and reducing climate impacts? And Jo may challenge many of our closely held assumptions!

Food generates a lot of carbon dioxide and equivalent emissions. There's the agricultural impact to grow it (think fertiliser, feed and farting cows). Then there's transport, processing, packaging, disposal and food waste. What we eat matters. But which area has the biggest impact? What's the best way to cut back?

In The Carbon Diet, Jo Clay tries to cut her carbon footprint by 75%, testing out a different method each week. She uses carbon accounting to get her results and compares the changes against her lifestyle and that of the 'average' Australian. Jo road tested several ways to cut her food carbon footprint, including intermittent fasting, veganism, vegetarianism, food packaging, food miles, reducing food waste and making simple swaps at the supermarket.

From the archives.

Retaining our focus on Community Response to COVID-19 Social Isolation Restrictions, our second guest will be Renaire Druery, Human Rights Director at GETUp! who will be speaking to us about the #ViralKindness phenomenon as well as other GETUp! campaigns current at the time.