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
Calls to stop Seismic blasting in the Otway Basin
Calls to stop seismic surveys in the Otway Basin First Nations peoples, environmental groups and fishers were alarmed at the news that international oilfield services company Schlumberger and energy …
Sun 02 Oct 2022
Origin Divests from the Beetaloo Basin
Breaking this week, Origin announced it is divesting 100% of its interests in the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory and we dip into the history books to remember the story of Land Rights in th…
Sat 24 Sep 2022
Cultural Burning on Kangaroo Island
Cultural Burning on Kangaroo IslandGuest presenter Nicky Page speaks with Tagalaka man Victor Steffenson from Firesticks Alliance, and Kangaroo Island resident Lara Tilbrook about the cultural burn p…
Sun 18 Sep 2022
Benny Zable on maintaining activism and Arcology
Benny Zable is a radical performance and visual artist. Benny wears a gas mask and white gloves. Have you seen him? He has been present at many camps to defend nature: Save The Franklin, Stop Roxby…
Sun 11 Sep 2022
Information & politicisation of the Great Barrier Reef
Since colonisation the Great Barrier Reef has been the subject of national interest and identity. It’s also been subject to misinformation and politicisation. In 2019 The Great Barrier Reef Marine Pa…
Sun 04 Sep 2022
Elizabeth Russell-Arnot on the environmental focus of her arts practice
Elizabeth Russell-Arnot on the environmental focus of her arts practiceGuided soundscape with Tasmanian artist and academic Elizabeth Russell-Arnot about the environmental focus of her arts practice …
Sun 28 Aug 2022
Vic Youth Parliament e-waste bill & eco-anarchist Greek update
Vic Youth Parliament e-waste bill & eco-anarchist Greek updateGuest Producer Jacob Gamble in conversation with high school students who developed a bill on effective e-waste management as part of the…
Sun 21 Aug 2022
Floodplain Harvesting Disallowance Denied
“Disallowance denied”Floodplain Harvesting Regulations Stand in NSW Parliament After years of contentious debate, regulations to licence floodplain harvesting in NSW were released on July 1 and faced…
Sun 14 Aug 2022
Uncle Micky Ryan tells the cultural significance of Sleeping Lizard Mountain NAIDOC Crabbe’s Crk sends love. Mebbingarri says her mind about greedy developers. .
Micky Ryan has been fighting in court for eleven years to stop residential development on his traditional land: Sleeping Lizard Mountain also known as North Lismore Plateau. Micky descries the stro…
Sun 31 Jul 2022
The Lismore floods showed Dee "We cant rely on the government to come and help us. "
Dee Mould tells how she clambered into a boat and rescued people through windows and from rooftops during the dark night the Lismore floodwater kept rising . She lost almost all her things to the fi…
Sun 24 Jul 2022
Wild Deer in Victoria
Wild deer pose a growing threat to Victoria's biodiversity, cultural heritage, and state infrastructure. With an estimated population of one million deer, the Victorian government has published a new…
Sun 17 Jul 2022
“An Act of Bad Faith”
Draft Water Sharing Plans in NSW are on public exhibition until early July, but the NSW Minister for Water Kevin Anderson has asked the Minister for Environment to sign off on the plans before public…
Sun 03 Jul 2022
Tiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill & Blockade Australia update
Tiwi Islands v Santos, Vic anti forest protest bill & Blockade Australia updateJacob Gamble touches base with Jason Fowler from the Northern Territory Environment Centre about Santos drilling for oil…
Sun 26 Jun 2022
"The urgent plan to restore our catchment is the only way to reduce flood heights in Lismore."
"The urgent plan to restore our catchment is the only way to reduce flood heights in Lismore." …
Sun 19 Jun 2022
Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 3
Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 3: Indigenous ActionPart 3 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Lickers …
Sun 12 Jun 2022
Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 2
Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 2: Indigenous ActionPart 2 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Lickers …
Sun 05 Jun 2022
Unsettling Climate Colonialism: Part 1
Unsettling Climate Colonialism Pt 1: Indigenous ActionPart 1 of a three part show with Indigenous Action hosts Bearcat and Klee in conversation with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Lickers …
Sun 29 May 2022
Who’s shouting the black box?
On this week’s Earth Matters we get an update on the lower Darling/Baaka and thier floodplain that haven't got the water we'd expect despite the exceedingly wet conditions, but thats about to change.…
Sun 22 May 2022
The Forest Fairy - Leadbeater Possum
The Leadbeater Possum was named Victoria’s state fauna in 1971. Yet despite this status the Leadbeater possum exists in a state of extinction. This episode Earth Matters investigates the combination…
Sun 15 May 2022
Trees not Bombs Cafe in flood devastated Lismore.
When forest activist, Susie Russell heard that friends in flood devastated Lismore had lost everything they owned and were hungry, she swung into action to help. The North East Forest Alliance used…
Sat 07 May 2022
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