Regrette Etcetera, Sydney-based DJ, writer and artist speaks about transliberalism: a political framework that seeks to assimilate trans people into the existing social hierarchies of the capitalist state.Transliberalism privileges representation over redistribution; trans people in successful positions, e.g. CEO, celebrity, police officer, are celebrated as the modern success stories.Regrette Etcetera speaks to us from an anti-capitalist framework, and seeks justice for all.This show contains segments of a talk delivered at the Rad Queer Fest, in Sydney during January 2017.Image: protest at the 2016 Trans Day of Remembrance event at Surry Hills police station, Sydney. Credit: Cec Busby.Earth Matters #1073 was produced by Gem Romuld.

While the 26th of January is officially known as Australia Day, marking the day in 1788 when First Fleet made their unwelcome arrival to these shores. For many First nations peoples it is know as Invasion Day, or Survival Day.On today’s show, we hear from Celeste Liddle at the Invasion Day rally in Naarm/Melbourne. We also hear from Murrawah Burragubba and Naomi Murphy recorded at the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance rally in October 2016.We’ll hear about the connections between First Nations struggles and the most pressing environmental issues of our time.Guests: Celeste Liddle; Murrawah Burragubba; Naomi Murphy.Featuring the song January 26 by A.B. Original.Earth Matters #1072 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.

This week we're talking to Henrietta Marrie who's a Gimuy Walubara Yidinji woman, an associate professor at Central Queensland University and who formerly served with the United Nations environment program. We're discussing the patenting of genetic resources and who benefits from Indigenous knowledge.

Audio recorded by the scar tree at the MCG of the official ceremony on Boxing Day 2016 and paying tribute and recognising Australia’s very first sporting team to tour Nationally which was the All Aboriginal Cricket team from 1866 recognised for the very first time at the Boxing Day Test of 2016.Guests: Stephen Smith – President Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC)Jane Nathan - Chair Mullagh Wills FoundationRichard Kennedy – Wotjabalik Ruth – Community MemberAndrew – Young Cricket Player - Sunshine United Cricket ClubRyan - Young Cricket Player - Sunshine United Cricket Club Jane Nathan - Chair Mullagh Wills Foundation.

This week we feature a discussion of Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Treaty process that is currently underway in what is now known as Victoria.  The forum was organised by the Moondani Balluk Academic Unit on Friday 4th November 2016.  The talks explore concepts of First Peoples' Sovereignty, what a Treaty could look like and who has the right to negotiate it.Featuring: Lydia Thorpe, Robbie Thorpe, Nayuka Gorrie, Gary Murray.Links: www.treatyrepublic.net

Today we’re hearing from a campaigner with Rethink the Link, travelling West to the country of the Noongar people in Western Australia, to get the down low about the contested Roe 8 mega highway. Later in the show we'll turn to the global stage and hear from Tim Wright of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons about the recent UN resolution to begin negotiating a treaty for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

In 2016 we celebrated 20 years of Earth Matters on the air, and 40 years for 3CR Community Radio.This week we’re delving into 3CR’s rich archive to bring you an interview with trade unionist Jack Mundey.Jack talks about the tumultuous era of the Green Bans, and how rank-and-file unionists in the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) took control of their union and forged links with the broader community.Guest: Jack Mundey (archival interview from 3CR’s City Limits program in 1999)Links:Green bans, red union : environmental activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation by Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann.Rocking the Foundations - a history of the Green Bans Movement (video)Earth Matters #1067 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.

Exarcheia is an urban community of resistance created by anarchists and anti-authoritarians in the heart of Athens, Greece. Just 10km from Parliament House, residents of Exarcheia implement their politics every day with prisoner and refugee support, anti-austerity protest, squatting, food banks, skill-sharing, mutual aid and “supermarket expropriations”.We discuss community, state repression and militant ethnography with the author of the newly-published ‘Anarchy in Athens: an ethnography of militancy, emotions and violence’, Dr Nicholas Apoifis. The book is available at your nearest radical bookstore or can be ordered online from Manchester University Press.

Today we’re travelling to the Galilee basin in Central Qld, to the country of the Wangan and Jagalingou peoples, where Adani Mining is proposing to mine coal in what would be the southern hemisphere’s biggest coal mine. Adani has just been promised 1bn of Federal infrastructure funding. Hear from Murrawah Johnson, a young spokesperson of the Wangan and Jagalingu Family Council. As well as Kumar Sundaram, of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament in Delhi, India, regarding Adani’s corrupt and irresponsible behaviour in its home country.

As part of the conversations happening for the 16 days of action on gender based violence,  Earth Matters speaks with Murri artist and writer Teila Watson, otherwise known as Ancestress. We discuss the links between domestic violence, the violent relationship that aboriginal people are trapped in with the 'Australia' established by the colonisers in 1788, and the violence against the earth that is putting all life at risk.Includes an excerpt from  Behind Enemy Lines by Provocalz feat Ancestress.and Sovereign by Kotic 1, Darah, Felon, Teila, and Triks K from the Idle No More 2013 Invasion Day Mixtape.