This week, to kick off our Federal election series of candidate interviews, joining us live in studio this morning we welcome former Wallaby and ACT Brumby, passionate climate action advocate and conservationist, David Pocock, who is making his bid for the Senate, as an Independent in the 2022 Australian Federal Election. David will be chatting with us about his vision of building a policy platform in partnership with the community and dealing with the important issues we face today, and they ar...
Apr 21, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the lead up to our federal 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.
Apr 21, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we will be speaking with Cid Riley and Paige Davis from CATTI, Communities Against The Tarago Incinerator. CATTI is a community-led organisation opposing Veolia's proposal to build a waste-to-energy (WTE) garbage incinerator near Tarago, in the NSW Southern Tablelands, close to Lake George. The predicted range of the incinerator's toxic plume would cover a large area of NSW east of Canberra, and areas in the ACT including the entirety of Gungahlin, Belconnen, Molonglo Valley and a huge...
Mar 12, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we are reaching out to our listeners to support flood victims and the relief efforts driven by civilian mobilised response teams. With things on the ground changing daily, it can be unclear how best to help those in need. Joining us at 9am, Dotti Janssen from Aussie Helping Hands will be giving us an update on the reality of the situation, what is needed most right now and how we can help. For more info on communities self-mobilising in the face of disaster, check out The Response Podc...
Mar 12, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we will be speaking with Steven Liaros and Nilmini de Silva about Circular Economy Villages, one of several global megatrends that are changing the way we live and work. The convergence of these trends, taken to their logical conclusion, suggests that future cities should be planned as a network of community-scale precincts. These would incorporate precinct-scale circular economy infrastructure, renewable energy micro-grids, shared electric vehicles and regenerative agriculture integra...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast At this month's CoCanberra / NENA Canberra Regional Hub we welcomed Sam Byrne, secretary of the Co-op Federation, and Richard O'Leary, Chair of the Co-op Federation. The Co-op Federation is a peak body co-operative representing and servicing co-operative enterprise in Australia. They do a great job of providing on the ground, practical support for their members, including extensive training for board members. Find out more about co-op federation at https://fed.coop/ Sam has been an active member...
Feb 25, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast we welcome playwright, producer and activist Michael Gray Griffith from Cafe Locked Out along with former veteran QUANTAS airline pilot and Captain, Graham Hood. Michael has to leave the interview early due to a police raid on the camp.` Graham gives us some history and connects that to what's been happening with the Convoy to Canberra and the Freedom Protest currently taking place on Patrick White Terrace near the National Library in Canberra.
Feb 04, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please note this interview is from July 2020. Young people have suffered the largest increases in unemployment, and the biggest falls in jobs, since the start of the pandemic. COVID has the potential to leave a whole generation of people behind, creating an entire generation who will be battling to rise above poverty. Throughout this pandemic unions have been fighting to protect worker’s rights and safety at work. Worker solidarity is essential to sustainable post COVID economic recovery. Joinin...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.
Dec 13, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.
Dec 13, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.
Dec 13, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.
Dec 13, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.
Dec 13, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.
Dec 09, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast The ACT Council of Social Service Inc. (ACTCOSS) represents not-for-profit community organisations and advocates for social justice in the ACT. They are a not-for-profit peak body working collaboratively with organisations and individuals who support their vision and goals for positive social change. Dr. Emma Campbell recently joined ACTCOSS as Chief Executive Officer in January 2020 and is the former CEO of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA), Australia’s peak re...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we will be chatting with Maddie Diamond, Executive Officer of SEE-Change, a Canberra-based community, not-for-profit group that informs, inspires and supports people to join together and take sustainable actions. Maddie will be introducing us to SEE-change, and the org's local grass roots action in Canberra to educate and encourage sustainability practices within our communities. CoCanberra is a SEEchange group, which also presents Behind the Lines.
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast As suburban backyards shrink and green space becomes a premium, even as we are encouraged to grow, to compost and to reduce waste, it makes no sense to keep nature strips as no- go zones, and to insist on watering hungry strips of lawn with much of the run off ending up in the storm water system. The response has been a verge and community garden revolution! Especially since COVID with a surge of renewed interest in gardening, It’s one of those ideas that is now capturing the public’s imaginatio...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast interview with Bronwen Morgan, Co-founder of NENA and Professor of Law at the UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice.
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast interview with Garry Claridge, the Co-op Secretary of NENA, an extremely experienced business systems analyst and software developer, and long-time volunteer with cooperatives.
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Conversation with Dr Michelle Maloney, the Co-founder and Director of the New Economy Network Australia (NENA). Michelle is also the Co-Founder & National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, promoting the understanding and practical implementation of Earth centred law and governance.
Nov 10, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Introductory episode of the NENA Podcast. Host Anna Garnock outlines what the podcast is all about and gives a little taste tester of what’s to come!
Nov 10, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joining us this Friday morning to talk about the current and future impact of nuclear and uranium issues, we have three stellar guests, well actually two stellar guests and one stellar activist group! First up, from 9-9:30am, we will have Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Nuclear Free Campaigner, Dave Sweeney, from the Australian Conservation Foundation joining us via phone. Then in studio from 9:30-10am, we will welcome, Beyond Uranium Canberra, a group which focuses on the impacts of uranium min...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are privileged to have live in studio with us this morning, Federal GREENS candidates Tim Hollo and Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng. Tim is the executive director of the Green Institute and the founder of Greens Music Australia, who will once again run in the seat of Canberra, alongside Wakka Wakka woman Dr. Tjnara Goreng Goreng, academic at ACU and secretary of the Australian Greens First Nations Network, who will seek to secure Canberra’s second Senate seat. Tim and Tjanara, who bring a wealth of...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This month: Jason Richards joins us from the Resource Work Co-op in Hobart, Tasmania, believed to be the largest worker owned coop in Australia. The Resource Co-op is a worker owned coop with 33 worker / owners, and has been running since 1993. What began as a tip face recycling effort is now flourishing, despite many setbacks that may have folded a different type of enterprise. Amongst other things, they currently: - run a tip shop, including 2nd hand arts supplies - pull large buildings apart ...
Oct 16, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cohousing - J Esdaile live simply - M Spain sun villages - F Game cohousing canberra 2020-05-22 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast A recording from our archives from 2006. Christine Jones is a renowned soil scientist, she is still focused today on the importance of soil carbon, which has so many benefits in so many ways.
Sep 21, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Blue Tongue Coop is a Co-operative development agency, specialising in business successions which transform existing businesses to worker owned cooperatives. Mark Huston and Rob McMaster joined us to have a yarn about the worker owned Co-op format, how they have been going about helping the transformations, creating a cooperative culture in the workplace, and how workers can adjust to a truly democratic workplace - not an easy thing! A recording of the CoCanberra / NENA Canberra region meetu...
Sep 06, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we speak with Anna Garnock, Project Officer with Parliament of Youth on Sustainability, an annual SEE-Change program. Students research and develop proposals on how we can make Canberra and the region more sustainable, and the program finishes off with a Parliament Presentation Day, where they act as Parliamentarians and present, discuss and debate each others proposal in committee groups, then pitch their proposal to Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly, before all students vote o...
Sep 05, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast A release from our archives from 2012, about the fight against logging in Tasmania.
Aug 27, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast A release from our archives from 2012, about the fight against logging in Tasmania.
Aug 27, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast