Pedder Unplugged

Pedder Unplugged

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Pedder Unplugged episodes

  • 06 : Pedder, protests and people power with Paul O’Halloran

    A teacher and environmental activist, Paul, or Basil as we know him, walked into Lake Pedder as a uni student, an experience which in part shaped his involvement in the Tasmanian energy and dam’s debate, before he put his hand up to run for the Tasmanian parliament and was elected in 2010 for the seat of Braddon. 

    LakePedder.org

    29 min
  • 05 : The World's First ‘Green’ Political Party with Dr Geoff Holloway

    The United Tasmania Group (UTG) is globally recognised as the first ‘green’ values political party, formed by outraged community members in 1972 to counter the environmental and social injustice that was the flooding of Lake Pedder. Dr Geoff Holloway has been an activist within the UTG for years. This episode discusses the UTG, various Lake Pedder action groups, ecocentrism, tourism and of course, Lake Pedder. 

    LakePedder.org

    32 min
  • 04 : Pedder Pub Talk 2.0

    Live recording of the Pedder Pub Talk 2.0 at the Fern Tree Tavern, September 29th 2021. 
    Christine Milne, Prof Ben Richardson and Tabatha Badger discuss politics, aesthetics and tourism - Why restore Lake Pedder? 

    LakePedder.org

    37 min
  • 03 : The bushwalking boy from the Blue Mountains with Lindsay Hope.

    Lindsay and his wife Sue, assisted the Launceston Walking Club in the 1970's attempting to save the Lake Pedder National Park. They walked into Pedder several times and today Lindsay uses his original photographs to build the growing public profile of the Restore Pedder campaign. 
    If you enjoy a good yarn about tramping around Tassie, this is an episode for you! 

    LakePedder.org

    27 min
  • 02 : Pedder 2000 with Hilary Bennell

    Convenor of the Pedder 2000 campaign, Hilary Bennell and friend, conservation legend Helen Gee, played a pivotal role in campaigning for Lake Pedder to be restored in the early 1990’s. Their efforts resulted in a Federal enquiry which concluded the restoration of Pedder was technically feasible, but a blatant greenwashing scandal brought the whole campaign undone. 

    LakePedder.org

    28 min
  • 01 : 'Up a tree, in a boat, on a lake' with Richard Friend
    Episode one is with Richard Friend, who in the company of Pedder campaign stalwart, Brenda Hean, spent a night “in a boat, up a tree, on a lake’, in the final vigil as the impoundment waters rose, flooding Pedder. 

    Brenda Hean and pilot Max Price tragically disappeared on a flight to Canberra in 1972. They'd intended to sky write 'Save Lake Pedder' over the capital but not a trace of Brenda, Max or the aircraft has been uncovered since. 

    Today, September 8th, is the 49th anniversary of their mysterious departure. We are launching the Pedder Unplugged Podcast as a nod to Brenda and Max's legacy, to ensure the remarkable stories of the Pedder people are told and heard. 
    And as Brenda said, the campaign to restore Lake Pedder will not end “until the job is done”

    LakePedder.org

    30 min

About Pedder Unplugged

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Welcome to ‘Pedder Unplugged’, the podcast about all Tasmania’s Lake Pedder, told by the legendary Pedder people themselves. Episodes explore the wild adventures, humorous mishaps and heart break…