Earth Matters
Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 507
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Forests are for life
There is a long history of resistance to old growth forest logging in Western Australia's South West. In this week's show I speak with Jess Beckerling, Convener for Western Australia Forests Alliance…
Sun 26 Aug 2018
Aboriginals were the first Bread Makers.
Who were the first bread makers? Bruce Pascoe; Author of “Dark Emu “ has found ample evidence of Aboriginal bread making disputing the myth that aboriginal people were unsophisticated hunter gathere…
Sun 19 Aug 2018
Farmers fight new coal mines to protect the Great Artesian Basin
Annette and Bruce Currie are a farming couple in Central Queensland who found that their farm water is threatened by multiple proposed coal mines. Their lives were turned upside down when they took o…
Sun 12 Aug 2018
Fracking disrupting the web of life
Today we hear from American biologist and author Sandra Steingraber, giving the keynote address to the Permanent People’s Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change.Sandra takes a …
Sun 05 Aug 2018
Organising for the future
This show features Zac Romagnoli-Townsend, coordinator with SEED, Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network. He is talking about organising for the future in the climate justice movement, an…
Sun 29 Jul 2018
How to Win against fossil fuels
How to win against fossil fuelsBuild our movement; Make political change, Divest MoneySam La Rocca, Deputy Director of The Sunrise Project talks on courage, organising and building a movement to beat…
Sun 22 Jul 2018
Juru traditional owners call for Adani to stop work
In June 2018 a federal court found that Adani has been negotiating with the wrong traditional owner group and that the Juru people not The Kyburra Munda Yalga Aboriginal Corporation are the corre…
Sun 15 Jul 2018
Green ban, red union [encore broadcast]
Green bans, red union.An archival interview with Jack Mundey [encore broadcast] This week we’re delving into 3CR’s rich archive to bring you an interview with trade unionist Jack Mundey.Jack talks ab…
Sun 08 Jul 2018
No Trees, No treaty
This week's show is about the Djapwurrung Embassy, established to protect sacred trees threatened with destruction, north of Ballarat in Victoria. The state government want to cut down over 3000 tree…
Sun 01 Jul 2018
Criminalising dissent in Australia and Indonesia
Dissent and protest are being criminalised and suppressed around the world.The Australian government is seeking to introduce new foreign interference and espionage laws that threaten our democracy. W…
Sun 24 Jun 2018
Earth Matters - "Dont Push Our Bush"
The moratorium on fracking in the Northern Territory has been lifted. Join experts who describe the impacts this will have on the ecology, sacred sites, clean water and methane emissions. Stand besid…
Sun 17 Jun 2018
La ZAD
La ZAD "Against the airport and its world."This week we’re hearing about the ZAD. An autonomous zone of resistance in rural France. It is the site of a 40 year struggle against a proposed airport.But…
Sun 10 Jun 2018
"Direct action gets the goods"
Changing the world is difficult, especially when you’re up against institutions that enjoy major political and financial power.Direct tactics of protest have played a major role in catalyzing change …
Sun 03 Jun 2018
Saving the Murray Darling PART 2
This week on Earth Matters - Saving the Murray Darling Part 2 and Kerri-Lee is joined by guests Nicole McKay a passionate environmentalist from Nyah and Elder William Brian Bates (also known as Badge…
Sun 27 May 2018
Artificial Light at Night
For many centuries the nightscape was the moon and stars. Now we have many sources of artificial light such as street lighting, roadway lighting, stadiums, parking lots, landscaping, residential, bu…
Sun 20 May 2018
A history of the world in seven cheap things
A history of the world in seven cheap things "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" - Mark Fisher Imagining the end of capitalism, that's our task on this 200th anni…
Sun 13 May 2018
Illawarra mining blues: locals defending water and climate
Earth Matters looks at contemporary issues with coal mining in the Illawarra region, south of Sydney on Dharawal land. Long-wall mining, subsidence, slag heaps and polluted creeks are some of the loc…
Sun 06 May 2018
Climate Change in Australia - A Sunburnt Country
This week on Earth Matters a conversation on climate change and the environment; A Sunburnt Country a new book release on climate change in Australia with program guest Joelle Gergis an award winning…
Sun 29 Apr 2018
The Desert Pea and The Frontier Wars March on Anzac
The Australian frontier wars were a series of conflicts fought between Indigenous Australians and white settlers during the Brittish colonisation of Australia.Hear from two activists who decided eigh…
Sun 22 Apr 2018
Roadtrip to Nuclear Australia
The Radioactive Exposure Tour is a road trip exploring nuclear Australia, past and present, and forging connections for the ongoing campaigns to keep uranium in the ground, to stop unwanted and unnec…
Sun 15 Apr 2018
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