TRASH TORQUE

Balcony brews and a dinkum yarn with the greatest barista you’ll ever meet, and his old mate rols.

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Are weddings bullshit to you? Do you tolerate people snoring? Are fob and rols the answer to all your esoteric australian wonderings?

The answer to all of this - probably. Torch one up and sit back.

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“No one cares.”

Is that a good thing or a bad thing to you?

I feel like the tonal ambiguity of those three words are an appropriate symbol for the simply infinite complexity of mental health.

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"Harriet might be the most true blue, fair dinkum Aussie environmentalist that you will ever listen to."

Harriet’s love for nature took her into the ocean as a diver. When she saw the amount of plastic straws washing up in Manly Cove, she realised the need to educate more people about conservation and inspire the same love she has for nature in others.

And so STRAWkling was born, a "many hands make light work" inspired movement that combines environmentalism, communication and snorkelling.

This is the last conversation in Season One of The Ripple Effect. Please help us spread these conversations far and wide by giving us five stars, hitting 'subscribe' and sharing with your mates on social media or in "real life"!

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"That's the power of privilege. And that's the importance of power itself. Is that you need very little, to create a huge amount of change." - Nidala Barker.

Join Roland as he chats with Djugun woman from the Kimberley, Nidala Barker. Nidala has a Masters in sustainability, is a bush woman and an academic committed to empowering Indigenous women to reinstate their voice of authority as protectors of the land.

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Aren’t vehicles basically time traveling devices? Like, by getting from A to B in some fraction of the time it should have taken you with legs - potentially with a tonne of cargo - you are effectively gifting yourself with hours, days or even YEARS that you weren’t biologically intended to have at your disposal? To then do whatever it is you now want to do instead?

Anyway look that’s only the first minute or so of this podcast. My friend Pete legit makes me feel like my brain is a honda civic next to his porsche 911. The way this man’s energy rumbles is always such a treat to behold so hopefully you enjoy this chat in the park that we had the other day.

PS. Pete also makes one of the most functionally perfect products I’ve ever used - @repe for easy separation and carriage of waste in the wilderness. My cleanups don’t happen without them!

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This chat with Madii was a blast. We moseyed down to Clifton Gardens for a chat about a plethora of topics, from marine biology, to climate change, to food psychology, to movies, to indigenous culture... the main takeaway I’m left with (still) is trying to reconcile what I was doing when I was 21, because it definitely wasn’t starting up a non-profit conservation organisation. This lady is leGIT!

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Straight up - this chat with Kirilly from earlier this year about her organisation Indigenous Doulas was one of the most impactful conversations I’ve ever had.

As a white bloke in Australia, I know that I’ve got the easiest go of it out of everyone on the entire planet. I don’t know what it’s like to suffer discrimination based on my gender or race, so talking to Kirilly - a fiercely driven Indigenous Australian woman - about childbirth and racism was quite frankly an intimidating prospect.

But as politically loaded as these subjects can be, I reckon there‘s only one way to bridge gaps in understanding between socially disparate groups, and it’s by talking! Honestly and respectfully, with no agenda but to learn.

Luckily for me, Kirilly was patient, eloquent and passionate, and it didn’t take me long to realise that I was communicating with a soul who has been around the traps for a hell of a lot longer than most.

I still feel really privileged for the opportunity to have had this discussion on the banks of the river in Brunswick Heads earlier this year - the divide in knowledge and sensitivity of indigenous culture is enormous in colonial Australia, so I hope you learn as much from this as I did.

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Fob and I parked up on a secret harbour beach with stunning views of Sydney for a long overdue catch-up. From long-distance dating to behavioural psychology surrounding garbage, we covered a LOT this chat!!! Bloody hell I love this bloke.

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