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 second interview we talk wit...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 2 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 first interview, we talk wit...
May 09, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we are excited to welcome back Mycologist, Natural Historian and Photographer, Alison Pouliot, to chat about her new book Underground Lovers, a gorgeous journey that reaches down to earth, and deeper, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain. Told through first-hand stories from the Australian desert to Iceland’s glaciers to America’s Cascade Mountains Alison share...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week in a continuation of our coverage of the logging of vulnerable NSW south coast forests post the 2019-2020 bushfire devastation, we welcome forest activists, Harriet swift, Deputy Convener of the South East Region Conservation Alliance Inc who will be joining us via phone from the South Coast and in studio, Sean Burke, Committee Member South East Region Conservation Alliance Inc, to discuss the ongoing logging of state forests despite the majority of South Coast residents opposing the a...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast This morning we are fortunate to have Mark Chenery, Co-Founder & Director of Common Cause Australia, joining us live in studio. Common Cause Australia is a growing network of people working to engage cultural values to create a more equitable, sustainable and democratic society.
Mar 28, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we talked with Iain Mcintyre. Iain is a radical historian, community radio broadcaster and author, with books ranging from science fiction to blockading to the industrial workers of the world. Iain will be discussing The Commons Social Change Library, which exists to make activism smarter and stronger. The library gathers the collective wisdom of people engaged in social change in one accessible online place. All of their materials are free, digital, and directly available. The Commons...
Mar 28, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we meet Charlie McGee and Brenna Quinlan, a very dynamic duo in the emerging field of permaculture arts. Charlie heads up the Formidable Vegetable Sound System, so far as we know, the worlds first "permaculture band". Brenna is a well renowned illustrator, having contributed to several key permaculture texts, and prolifically publishing her works through social media. Brenna is also the most recent recruit to the Formidable Veg!
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Rovics continues a long line of travelling musical storytellers. Woody Guthrie, Ewan MacColl, Peggy and Pete Seeger, Utah Phllips come to mind, and David would not be out of place in that company. Enjoy a bunch of Davids songs as we play telephone tag to continue our conversation!
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the 9th New Economy Network of Australia (NENA) Podcast, Anna Garnock talks with Morag Gamble. The New Economy Network of Australia is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and the primary objectives of the economic system. For the past 25 years, as a Global Permaculture Ambassador, Morag Gamble has led programs in 22 countries. Local food systems and pe...
Jan 21, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Assad family ruled Syria under dictatorship for 40 years, formally denouncing the existence of Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Turkmen and many other minorities, despite the rich tapestry of cultures and languages that have always inhabited these lands. In 2012, in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, the rule of the Assad Regime weakened in the Kurdish majority northern regions. Out of this conflict, and the Rojava Revolution in 2012, three pillars formed in the regions today governed by the Aut...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Synergia is running its 5th Massive Online Open Course (or MOOC) on Towards a Co-operative Commonwealth - Transition in a Perilous Century. We talk today with founder and author Michael Lewis, and participant and study group organiser Ken Ross from New Zealand. The course goes in depth into many areas of need, developing a wide understanding of both problems and solutions, and bringing the diverse modules into a synthesis through various systems frameworks. Contact our guests here https://synerg...
Jan 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Radio Behind the Lines (BTL) talks with people and organisations trying to make the world a better place. In this episode of Radio BTL from 11th November 2022, we talk with Cid Riley from Citizens Against The Tarago Incinerator, or CATTI. Cid will give us an update on the Tarago Incinerator and CATTI’s fight to keep the toxic fumes out of their community and many surrounding communities. Tarago is a small community which has been taking trainloads of Sydneys rubbish for years, at a significant c...
Jan 08, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the 8th New Economy Network of Australia (NENA) Podcast, Anna Garnock talks with Louise Crabtree-Hayes. The New Economy Network of Australia is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and the primary objectives of the economic system. Louise Crabtree-Hayes is a social scientist whose research focuses on the social, ecological and economic sustainability of...
Dec 21, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on Behind the Lines we welcome back Ghillar (Michael Anderson), last survivng member of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy founding four. Ghillar is an Aboriginal rights activist, and leader of the Euahlayi tribe in north-western New South Wales and southern Queensland. He was a leader in the Australian Black Power movement and was appointed by his peers as the first Aboriginal ambassador to white Australia after he and three comrades established what was later called the Aboriginal Tent Emba...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast This Friday we have Coedie McAvoy, Wangan / Jagalingu man joining us live via phone from the Waddananggu camp in central Queensland. The frontiers of climate crisis and First Nations dispossession are being pushed beyond their limits by the centuries old coalition of party political government and big business - once again. The Adani-Bravus mega coal mine at Carmichael is just the first of many planned for the galilee basin, laying down the infrastructure which can only lead to more intense clim...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Violet Coco, featured in this interview from August 2021, has just been imprisoned for 15 months with a no parole period of 8 months, Violet's crime was to block one lane of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for about 25 minutes. Our country is becoming an authoritarian state quicker than we can recognise it. Stay tuned for more on this ridiculous court decision, which was directed by the new(ish) NSW laws, crafted (in my opinion) by a savage bunch of politicians, fighting desperately for the rights of ...
Dec 05, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast NP7 - Universal Basic Income - Jane Goodall - Oct 20 2022 NP by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bob Phelps has been working in the GMO watchdog scene for many years. He founded Gene Ethics in 1988 to work for a GM-free future. Bob is an educator and campaigner in peace and environment movements, with forty years experience. In 2003 he was awarded a Federation Medal for his services to the Australian community. Gene Ethics is a non-profit educational network of citizens and kindred groups. We want the precautionary principle, scientific evidence and the law rigorously applied to all propose...
Oct 28, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the 6th New Economy Network of Australia (NENA) Podcast, Anna Garnock talks with Monique Potts. The New Economy Network of Australia is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and the primary objectives of the economic system. Monique Potts is holding the space for the NENA Sydney Hub. Monique is the Deputy Director of the Innovation and Creative Intellige...
Oct 28, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simon Kerr is cocreator of the music / multi-media project Music for a Warming World, using music and visuals to tell the new stories needed to help create a safer future. This project includes songwriting, video making and essay writing. We have performed our work in many places from Tasmania to Queensland, from Universities to music festivals such as Woodford. Simon is a current director of NENA. Simon has a BA in Sociology and Philosophy, a Masters of Applied Science in Natural Resource Manag...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast From the archives. We are school students of all ages, races, genders, backgrounds and sexualities from every part of Australia. United by our concern for the future of the planet that we live in, we have bridged the thousands of kilometres that separates us to create one of the biggest movements in Australian history. We are striking from school to demand that our politicians take our future seriously & treat climate change as what it is: a crisis. Join Tahli Mullins and Jamie Rogers as we exp...
Sep 10, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast From the archives. Our guest this week will be Jo Clay, environmentalist, author and project developer who has extensively explored ways to reduce her carbon impacts, including through looking at what she and her family eat. This is sure to be a fascinating conversation - who isn't interested in food and reducing climate impacts? And Jo may challenge many of our closely held assumptions! Food generates a lot of carbon dioxide and equivalent emissions. There's the agricultural impact to grow it (...
Sep 10, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast From the archives. Retaining our focus on Community Response to COVID-19 Social Isolation Restrictions, our second guest will be Renaire Druery, Human Rights Director at GETUp! who will be speaking to us about the #ViralKindness phenomenon as well as other GETUp! campaigns current at the time.
Sep 10, 2022•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Hollo, director of the Green Institute has recently published Living Democracy - An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World as we Know It. This is a fantastic book, giving a thorpugh and realistic analysis of where we are at right now, and telling the story of many solutions already in place and working. This is a corker!
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we will be speaking with food, farming and science author Julian Cribb AM FRSA FTSE about his collected work: A Matter of Survival - The Human Existential Emergency: the challenge and its possible solutions. His books include Food or War; Earth Detox; Surviving the 21st Century; and The Coming Famine. Julian is an Australian author and science communicator. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society for the Arts, the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE) and th...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Rose is co-coordintor of NENA's Food Hub. He works with communities, institutions, enterprises and organisations around Australia to co-create a vision and a practice of fair food systems. These are systems that are democratically and collaboratively developed, and that prioritise human health and well-being, and eco-system integrity. These are systems in which the economy is consciously designed to serve people and the environment, not the other way round. Nick has been the Executive Direc...
Aug 02, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, as part of our ongoing Federal Election series, we welcome live in studio, environmental scientist and engineer Natasa Sojic - Greens Candidate for Fenner, who is hoping to unseat Labor MP Andrew Leigh, and Dr Kim Huynh, ANU politics and philosophy lecturer, published author, local ABC Radio presenter, and Kim Rubenstein’s recently announced running mate with Independent Kim For Canberra.
May 01, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, continuing with our Federal Election series, we welcome live via phone, Federal Member for Canberra, Alicia Payne MP, and live in studio, ACT Greens candidate, Tim Hollo for Canberra, joining us in conversation to discuss their respective platforms and policies, motivations, visions and passions for the future of Canberra and our Nation.
Apr 30, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, continuing with our Federal Election series, we welcome live in studio, Independent Candidate for the Senate, Law Professor Kim Rubenstein, a law professor, author, human rights advocate, mum and proud Canberran running as an Independent for the Senate with her. Kim For Canberra campaign. You may also recognise Kim from previous successful appearances on Q&A, Insiders, SkyNews and TED Talks, lending her extensive experience as a legal expert and human rights defender to the conversati...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the lead up to our federal elections candidate series, this week we welcome back Dr. Peter Tait from the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy and Active Democracy Australia to get us on track for the upcoming Federal Election. Peter will give us a detailed rundown, with an introduction to Australian style democracy and how to make your vote count at the polls.
Apr 21, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
.jpg){kind=link}