Owen Holmwood has qualifications in electrical engineering (avionics), physics and science and has worked in related roles in Australia, Canada and Antarctica. Owen taught and led the Electrical Engineering department at Ultimo TAFE. He is a also passionate bush walker including in the greater Blue Mountains wilderness area. In these interviews (broadcast on Rights Rorts & Rants on March 24 2023) Owen chats with presenter Ann-Maree McEwan about how radio works and practical applications for radio physics.

In this episode Owen's chats about his radio research and work in Antarctica at Casey Station.

Many Australians are still trying to rebuild their lives after fires and floods in recent years, further complicated by COVID. It takes government support to both mitigate the potential impact of these disasters and to help communities recover afterwards.In the mountains we've seen an explosive increase in plant growth - fuel - and are expecting a dry winter, creating a dangerous risk in the upcoming fire season. This is further exacerbated by lengthening fire seasons caused by climate change.

How well prepared are we for future fire seasons?

And what was the effect when the Blue Mountains and other non-Coalition electorates missed out on grants from the state government's Bushfire Local Economic Recovery funds?

Politics in the Pub - Money to Burn was recorded at the Family Hotel, 15 Parke St, Katoomba on 18th March 2023.

Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council/Blue Mountains Unions & Community, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW, 2786.

There will be a rally in support of safe patient:staff ratios outside Blue Mountains District Hospital in Katoomba on MONDAY 20th March 2023 at 3:30pm. Speaker: Nick Tribbia NSWNMA Delegate at BMDH, addressing a Politics in the Pub audience a couple of days before.

Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc, 52-52a Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria 2786.

After initially refusing to confirm or deny whether a re-elected Liberal NSW government would privatise Sydney Water, Premier Perrottet later denied there were plans to do so. But, after that denial, 2GB's Chris O'Keefe broke the news that confidential documents prepared by Clayton Utz and KPMG indicated the NSW Liberal government actively considered the privatisation of a key water plant at Kemps Creek in Western Sydney.

Deb Smith asked Angus McFarland, Secretary of the NSW branch of the Australian Services Union which represents Sydney Water workers, what can we believe?

If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.

This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM and published as a podcast on 17th March 2023.

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Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au.

Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc.

Trish Doyle, currently Blue Mountains MP and ALP candidate in the March 25th 2023 NSW state election answers questions from Nick Franklin and Debra Smith about the policies of the Australian Labor Party.

If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.

This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 10th March 2023.

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Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au.

Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc.

Kim de Govrik, an Organiser for the Public Service Association, formerly a Manager for NSW National Parks with remote fire fighting experience, talks to Nick Franklin and Debra Smith about the challenges we face in past, present and future bushfire seasons.

Kim will also be speaking at Politics in the Pub "Money to Burn" at the Family Hotel, 15 Parke St, Katoomba, from 3pm, along with Blue Mountains Mayor, Mark Greenhill and retired lawyer and academic, Mike Holland. Admission is free.

The podcast of Kim's 2020 interview with us remains our most popular yet.

If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.

This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 10th March 2023.

Apply to be a guest on our show.  Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.  Join BMUC.

Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au.

Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc.

Richard Marschall, Sustainable Australia Party candidate for the Blue Mountains electorate in the March 25th 2023 NSW state election talks to Merran MacLaren and Peter Lammiman about the policies of the Sustainable Australia Party.

If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.

This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 3rd March 2023.

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Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au.

Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc.

Greg Keightley, Animal Justice Party candidate for the Blue Mountains electorate in the March 25th 2023 NSW state election talks to Ann-Maree McEwan and Jeanie Baxter about the policies of the Animal Justice Party.

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This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 24th February 2023.

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Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au.

Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc.

Greens candidate for the Blue Mountains electorate in the March 25th 2023 NSW state election talks to Fran Dyson, Jeanie Baxter and Peter Lammiman about Greens policies.

If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.

This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 10th February 2023.

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Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au.

Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc.

The NSW leader of the Australian Labor Party, Chris Minns, recently outlined the ALP's policy on poker machines in response to the Liberal Party's announcements. It included an immediate ban on the ALP accepting donations related to pokies.

We asked Michael Cooke, a BMUC member who has worked with poker machines in the hospitality industry for his views on poker machine policies.

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This episode is from our Politics in the Pub archives. It was recorded at the Family Hotel in Katoomba on 4th July 2015 and broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 30th December 2022.

Apply to be a guest on our show.  Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.  Join BMUC.

Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au.

Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc.