School Without Walls (SWOW) was a fully democratic school that ran from 1974 to 1997, when it was forced to shut down by Kate Carnell’s Liberal Party local government. Many of those (including myself) who had the opportunity to learn at SWOW remain embittered that something quite that good - many would say life-changing – no longer exists. There are scant records available from SWOW, and this series of oral histories aims to fill that gap as fully as possible. In this interview, we talk with Cli...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast On 15 October 2023 we will mark the 70th anniversary of the first mainland British nuclear test in Australia, at Emu Field in South Australia, on the country of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara peoples. This week, parliamentarians have the opportunity to hear from Yankunytjatjara, Antikarinya, and Pitjantjatjara woman and nuclear test survivor, June Lennon, who was four months old, in October 1953, when the Totem 1 nuclear bomb was detonated at Emu Field. We should never forget that Ms Len...
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast At thie Feb 2021 CoCanberra / NENA Canberra Regional Hub we welcomed Katherine Cunningham, who explains the Earthworker Co-operative system, a residual outgrowth of the Builders Laborers Federation, (famous for its Green Bans - so effective that the union was made illegal) and a coalition of unionists and greenies based in Melbourne.
Oct 19, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast At the August 2022 CoCanberra / NENA Canberra Regional Hub meetup we welcomed our very own Scotty Foster and Keith Colls, to explain our project the Soil City Co-operative Farms. CoCanberra is building the new economy on the ground, using the concept of “[Climate Co-operatives]” to provide for our needs in ways which are compatible with a thriving community and natural world. As a key part of the design, communities obtain ownership and control of the organisations which meet their needs. This C...
Oct 19, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Independents for Canberra is the Community Independendent's Movement's focus in Canberra. We welcome candidates Vanessa Picker and Riley Fernandez from the electorate of Brindabella to the show to have a yarn about the upcoming Local elections.
Oct 15, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Independents for Canberra is the Community Independendent's Movement's focus in Canberra. We welcome candidates Thomas Emerson, Ben Johnston and Tenzin Mayne from the electorate of Kurrajong to the show to have a yarn about the upcoming Local elections.
Oct 15, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast The ACT Greens have been in a power sharing coalition with ACT Labor, with 6 current Members of the Legislative Assembly holding several ministries. We chat with Rebecca Vassarotti, the encumbent Minister for the Environment, Heritage, Homelessness and Housing Services; and Sustainable Building and Construction.
Oct 15, 2024•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Animal Justice Party is running candidates in Brindabella, Murrumbidgee, Ginninderra and Kurrajong. We have a chat with Robyn Soxsmith and Gwenda Griffiths to find out what they are all about.
Oct 15, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In our local 2024 ACT elections series, this week we welcome back Dr. Peter Tait from the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy to get us on track for the upcoming Election. Peter will give us a detailed rundown, with an introduction to ACT style democracy and how to make your vote count at the polls.
Oct 15, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast In our local 2024 ACT elections series, this week we welcome back Dr. Peter Tait and Gilles Rohan from the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy to get us on track for the upcoming Election. They will give us a detailed rundown, with an introduction to ACT style democracy and how to make your vote count at the polls.
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast In our local 2024 ACT elections series, this week we welcome back Dr. Peter Tait and Barbara Odwyer from the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy to get us on track for the upcoming Election. They will give us a detailed rundown, with an introduction to ACT style democracy and how to make your vote count at the polls.
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast In our local 2024 ACT elections series, this week we welcome back Dr. Peter Tait from the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy to get us on track for the upcoming Election. Peter will give us a detailed rundown, with an introduction to ACT style democracy and how to make your vote count at the polls.
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In our 2024 local ACT elections candidate series, today we will be speaking with Craig Blakely from Vote Easy, a non-biased, independent online platform, making elections easy by connecting voters and candidates. We chat about how it could help to get the approx. 40% of undecided voters to connect with the candidates that align with their values, leading to more informed decision making at the polls.
Sep 27, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simon Copland - the incoming CEO of the Conservation Council of the ACT has a chat with us about their activities n the lead up to the 2024 ACT elections
Sep 27, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast School Without Walls (SWOW) was a fully democratic school that ran from 1974 to 1997, when it was forced to shut down by Kate Carnell’s Liberal Party local government. Many of those (including myself) who had the opportunity to learn at SWOW remain embittered that something quite that good - many would say life-changing – no longer exists. There are scant records available from SWOW, and this series of oral histories aims to fill that gap as fully as possible. In the third interview we talk with...
Sep 27, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Independents for Canberra is the Community Independendents Movement's focus in Canberra. We welcome candidates Leanne Foresti and Mark Richardson from the electorate of Ginninderra to the show to have a yarn about the upcoming Local elections.
Sep 21, 2024•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Independents for Canberra is the Community Independendents Movement's focus in Canberra. We welcome candidates Paula McGrady and Anne-Louise Dawes to the show to have a yarn about the upcoming Local elections.
Sep 21, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Independents for Canberra is the Community Independendents Movement's focus in Canberra. We welcome candidates Sneha KC and David Pollard from the electorate of Yerrabi to the show to have a yarn about the upcoming Local elections.
Sep 21, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Independents for Canberra is the Community Independendent's Movement's focus in Canberra. We welcome candidates Thomas Emerson and Sara Pouget from the electorate of Kurrajong to the show to have a yarn about the upcoming Local elections.
Sep 21, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rising Tide successfully blockaded the worlds largest coal port for 32 hours in Newcastle, Australia in November 2023, with 102 arrests at the finale. The Australien Government continues to approve new coal and gas projects across the continent, providing over 14 Billion dollars in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry this year, actively sponsoring the climate crisis. In November 2024 Rising Tides ambitions are to have 10,000 blockaders stop coal exports for 50 hours, then bring the Wave to Can...
Jul 08, 2024•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Independents for Canberra is the Community Independendents Movement's focus in Canberra. We welcome candidates Anne-Louise Dawes, Sneha KC and Vanessa Picker to the show to have a yarn about the upcoming Local elections.
Jun 12, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, to help us process the election results and how they may impact the ACT, we welcome Glenn Cummings, co-founder of Proact, an independent ‘Voices For’ community group. proACT is committed to having the voices of people in the ACT heard by holding community discussions and identifying and supporting community-backed Independent candidates. proACT endorsed David Pocock for the 2022 Senate. Glenn became Secretary of the David Pocock party when it was formed and volunteered for the campaig...
Feb 11, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Robert Pekin lost his family’s fourth generation farm twenty years ago, he went into exile. The grief and shame led him on a journey to explore positive ways forward for farming in Australia. That feeling triggered a passion for creating a fairer food system for all farmers and for exploring ways to help people connect to those who grew and processed their food. He believed that this disconnection and the increasing impact of climate change meant a solution was urgently needed. Enter Food C...
Feb 11, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andre Le Riviere visited Australia for the Footprints for Peace walk in Western Australia in 2011. BTL caught up with Andre at a friends kitchen table and we had a good chat about the nuclear industry in France.
Feb 11, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rising Tide held a speaking tour at the Polish Club on Sunday 3rd September to promote their planned November action to shut down the Newcastle coal export terminal - the world's largest - for 2 days! Speakers at the Polo included: Amy Blain (Peoples Climate Assembly); Anjali Sharma (19 yo, Duty of Care campaigner); David Pocock (Independent Senator) Alexa Stuart (19 yo, Rising Tide Newcastle); Shaun Murray from Rising Tide Newcastle; John Wurcker from Rising Tide Canberra
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast this week, we have Michael Pilbrow, a co-founder of Canberra's late National Health Co-operative - amongst many other things. Throughout his business career, Michael has used his strategy and community engagement skills to work on complex challenges like affordable housing, sustainable health and education services, and employment in regional areas. Internationally, Michael has contributed to Australia’s responses to the Asian Financial Crisis, HIV/AIDS and disaster recovery in Asia and the Paci...
Aug 23, 2023•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Canberra Environment Centre Director Fiona Veikannen and sustainability professional Julie Boulton have bought some microphones and are on a mission to interview their local environmental heroes. This is the official launch of season 2 of the podcast at the canberra food cooperative.
Jul 31, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 2018 Behind the Lines made a road trip to Victoria, Australia to attend the New Economy Network of Australia’s national conference in Melbourne. You can find recordings of that conference through our Align in the Sound playlists on Soundcloud. Along the way we stopped off at a few interesting places, including CERES, a remarkable urban farm in the centre of Melbourne with more tentacles than an octopus, 160 full time (equivalent) staff, and thousands of volunteers! Recently, these 5 year old ...
Jun 26, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast From 2020. It seems only natural that with our recent shows focusing on the nurturing of food producing gardens and green spaces, that we do a show about how to prepare and cook that delicious fare in a manner which supports our food sovereignty, all the way from the organic green earth to our kitchens and plates. Joining us this morning to chat about an exciting new project, The Container Kitchen Coop, is ex-farmer come foodie advocate, and owner of The Scrumpers Garden catering, Ruth Gaha-Morr...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we are excited to welcome, live in studio, multi award-winning social justice radio and print journalist, mentor and best selling author of Troll Hunting, Ginger Gorman. Ginger is also the host of the Seriously Social Podcast and has interviewed everyone from eminent scientists and artists, to hardened criminals and vicious Internet trolls. Join us as we delve into the world of online bullying, cyberhate, women in media, including the recent focus on sexual harassment in the political ...
Jun 03, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
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