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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.

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

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 Pacific. Michael has been awarded Outstanding Business Leader for the Yass Valley and was a Local Hero state finalist in the Australian of the Year Awards. Michael will be chatting with us about all things cooperative, the cooperative model and why it could be the answer to so many of the social challenges we face today.

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.

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 recordings were found in the Behind the Lines vaults, and this is the result. CERES is still a world leading example of a community of social enterprises committed to the common good – it must have been improving even more since these interviews were made. We spoke mostly with Sieta Beckwith, who holds the role of “Narrative”, and Lucy Snedden showed us through the Grocery store. We apologise to the other speakers, whose names are lost in the BTL vaults… Let us know if you recognise someone and we will credit them. For the past decade, Sieta has worked in strategic communications roles in Social Enterprise, for profit and non–profit organisations, assisting to discover values, vision and mission through collaborative processes. With a background and studies in literature, philosophy, psychology and communications, Sieta helps to weave the different stories of CERES into a strategically aligned narrative. Apologies for the wind noise throughout the recording, we have done our best to keep things easy to understand.

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-Morris. Learn about the benefits of kitchen co-ops, community kitchens and retaining food sovereignty within our communities.

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 arena. and the precarious line women often walk when they dare to be visible and outspoken in a culture that would prefer their compliance and silence.

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 with Biff Ward, a founder, early teacher and co-ordinator of the school.

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 with Lizanne Emery, a founder and early student at the school.

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 shares encounters with glowing ghost fungi and unearths the enigma of the lobster mushroom. Melding science and personal reflection, she explores the fungi that appear after fire, how fungi and climate change interact, the role of fungi in our ecosystems. Joining Alison via phone, we also welcome back Peter Wenzel, Mushroom Designer and Grower, and co-Founder of Fungi Co, who has been fascinated by the form and function of funky fungi since the last millennium, exploring science, art, food, myco-design, education and novel growing techniques.

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 activities and Forestry NSW and Victoria admitting to losing millions of dollars supplying pulplogs to the woodchip mills.

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.

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 Library includes educational resources on campaign strategy, community organising, digital campaigning, communications and media, working effectively in groups, fundraising, diversity and inclusion and much more. Resources are available in a range of formats including videos, podcasts, manuals, case studies, articles, practical how-to guides, and training materials.

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!

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!

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 permaculture education have seen her teach in communities and universities around the globe - most recently at Schumacher College in England - and leading a Food Politics course at Griffith University. Morag lives amidst an award-winning permaculture education garden in a UN recognised permaculture village, and works with city farmers, school farmers, community gardeners, and educators. She sees the direct social and ecological impact of industrial farming on marginalised farming communities around the world - in Indonesia, India and most recently in East Africa. Today we heard an episode of the NENA Podcast. NENA 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. NENA is a Co-operative, organised through geographic hubs and through sectoral hubs. The NENA Podcast talks to hub convenors and individuals throughout the NENA network, so you can find out what is happening in all of our places and conversations. You can also find our webinars and presentations from our annual national conferences here on Align in the Sound. NENA is volunteer run, so if you like what you heard on this episode, join us, and BECOME the new economy! To connect with the New Economy Network of Australia, or to help our editing team bring a mountain of great NENA content to the podcast (which includes editing training), sign up at neweconomy.org.au

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 Autonomous Administrations of North and East Syria (AANES) democracy, women’s freedom and ecology. Birthing co-operatives, and a strong communal and women’s economy. This morning, we are priviledged to welcome, live via phone, Salih Muslim, calling in from in Kobani, Syria, to chat with us about what’s been happening in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. Salih Muslim Muhammad (Kurmanji Kurdish: Salih Muslim Mihemed, is the former co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main party of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. As the deputy coordinator of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change, he was the most prominent Kurdish representative for much of the Syrian Civil War. He was born in a Syrian village close to Kobani in 1951. After an education in Syria, he studied at the Chemical Engineering faculty of Istanbul Technical University from 1970 until graduating in 1977. After a brief stint in London, he worked in Saudi Arabia between 1978 and 1990, and opened an engineering office in 1993 in Aleppo

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://synergiainstitute.org/ Exploring the problems and the solutions, working Behind The Lines. Long format interviews, lectures, talks, protest speeches, conferences and more – covering people and organisations from Canberra, from Australia and from the rest of the world. To help out with BTL, or to help our editing team finish off a mountain of great shows (which includes editing training), contact us at behindthelines98.3 @ gmail.com, and see 2xxfm.org.au where you can subscribe, donate, and volunteer to Australia’s only alternative voice – Community Radio If you’re not in Canberra, there’s definitely one near you!

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 cost due to reglaur, thick "stench bombs" floating through the area. Now Tarago is ground zero for a gigantic rubbish incinerator to burn more of Sydneys rubbish, operated by VEolia, the same company responsible for unleashing the stench bombs for many years. The toxic plume of this incinerator will also reach many other communities, including Bungendore, Canberra, Goulburn, Braidwood and more. Anybody drinking rainwater in the region should be very concerned about this proposal. Tune in and learn how you can take action against this polluter - and pass this on to anyone you know who drinks from a rain tank! You can find CATTI here: https://www.notaragoincinerator.com/ Exploring the problems and the solutions, working Behind The Lines. Long format interviews, lectures, talks, protest speeches, conferences and more – covering people and organisations from Canberra, from Australia and from the rest of the world. To help out with BTL, or to help our editing team finish off a mountain of great shows (which includes editing training), contact us at behindthelines98.3 @ gmail.com, and see 2xxfm.org.au where you can subscribe, donate, and volunteer to Australia’s only alternative voice – Community Radio If you’re not in Canberra, there’s definitely one near you!

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 community-driven housing developments in Australia; on housing innovation in practice and policy; on complex adaptive systems theory in urban contexts; and on property rights, institutional design and democracy. In 2013, Louise wrote "the book" on Community Land Trusts in Australia - The Australian Community Land Trust Manual. She is currently the lead investigator on an Australian Research Council grant on Australia’s affordable rental housing co-operatives with a team across Western Sydney University, University of Newcastle, and Swinburne University of Technology. The project has received funding from, and is partnering with, Common Equity Housing Ltd, Common Equity Housing South Australia, Common Equity New South Wales, Co-operation Housing, and United Housing Co-operative. NENA is a Co-operative, organised through geographic and through sectoral hubs. The NENA Podcast talks to hub convenors and individuals throughout the NENA network, so you can find out what is happening in all of our places and conversations. To connect with the new economy network of Australia, or to help our editing team bring a mountain of great Aussie new economy shows to the podcast (which includes editing training), sign up at neweconomy.org.au

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 Embassy on the front lawns of Australia's parliament house in 1972. He is now Coordinator of the interim National Unity Government of the Sovereign Union. He was taught Euahlayi customs and traditions through his people's sacred ceremonies, and is a senior lawman. In 1979 he was appointed to the Office of the Public Prosecutions in criminal law as an instructing officer (the equivalent of a solicitor) in the state of New South Wales. Ghillar has lectured in Aboriginal studies and Aboriginal politics at several Australian universities, writing and teaching units in Aboriginal studies, and has also played professional Rugby League. He lives on and runs a sheep and cattle property on his ancestral lands on both sides of the New South Wales and Queensland border in the lower Ballone river system.

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 climate chaos, expanding an industry with no future. Coedie will talk with us from Waddananggu, a cultural ceremony taking place across the road from Adani-Bravus’s Carmichael Mine - the biggest coal mine in this continent’s history.

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 their fossil fuelled mates to kill the world with impunity.

NP7 - Universal Basic Income - Jane Goodall - Oct 20 2022 NP by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams

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 proposed uses of genetic manipulation (GM) technologies and their products. Gene Ethics generates and distributes accurate information and analysis on the ethical, environmental, social and economic impacts of GM. Our education programs critically assess GM for the public, policy-makers and interest groups.

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 Intelligence Unit at the University of Technology Sydney. In this role Monique is working with a dynamic team to pilot and prototype new approaches to teaching, learning, research and industry engagement across UTS. Monique is leading and shaping key strategic initiatives for UTS including the Hatchery and Hatchery+ pre-incubator program and the Innovation and Creative Intelligence Labs. Monique has been involved in forming and driving a 4 year Innovation and Creative Intelligence Strategy across UTS. NENA is a Co-operative, organised through geographic and through sectoral hubs. The NENA Podcast talks to hub convenors and individuals throughout the NENA network, so you can find out what is happening in all of our places and conversations. To connect with the new economy network of Australia, or to help our editing team bring a mountain of great Aussie new economy shows to the podcast (which includes editing training), sign up at neweconomy.org.au

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 Management and a PhD in Political Ecology. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Inland in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, and a leading member of the La Trobe Academic Climate Network.

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 explore this amazing movement.

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 (think fertiliser, feed and farting cows). Then there's transport, processing, packaging, disposal and food waste. What we eat matters. But which area has the biggest impact? What's the best way to cut back? In The Carbon Diet, Jo Clay tries to cut her carbon footprint by 75%, testing out a different method each week. She uses carbon accounting to get her results and compares the changes against her lifestyle and that of the 'average' Australian. Jo road tested several ways to cut her food carbon footprint, including intermittent fasting, veganism, vegetarianism, food packaging, food miles, reducing food waste and making simple swaps at the supermarket.

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.

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!

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 the Australian National University Emeritus Faculty. His published work includes over 9000 articles, 3000 science media releases and 12 books. He has received 32 awards for journalism. He was nominated for ACT Senior Australian of the Year in 2019. He is a co-founder of the Council for the Human Future. He was appointed a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2021. For the past two decades his main literary focus has been the self-inflicted existential emergency faced by humanity. As a grandfather, Julian is deeply concerned about the future our descendants will face unless humanity as a whole acts with urgency to overcome all the megarisks. https://www.juliancribb.net/

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 Director of Sustain since its establishment in January 2016. With a background In law and community development, Nick brings more than a decade of working at the grassroots and institutional level in several Australian states in food sovereignty and sustainable food systems. He is the editor of "Fair Food: Stories From a Movement Changing The World (2015)" and the co-editor of "Reclaiming The Urban Commons: The Past, Present and Future of Food Growing in Australian Towns And Cities (2018)." Nick is also a lecturer in food systems, food policy and governance and food movements for William Angliss Institute in their Bachelor of Food Studies and Master of Food Systems and Gastronomy. Some links the Nick mentions in this episode: - Pandemic Gardening Survey - https://sustain.org.au/projects/pandemic-gardening-survey-report/ - Urban Agriculture Month - https://uaf.org.au/uam - Oakhill Food Justice Farm - https://oakhillfarm.org.au - Sustain membership - https://sustain.org.au/membership/ - Cancer Stage of Capitalism article - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4024.html

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.

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.

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 conversations.

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.

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 are myriad, if we want to build a better tomorrow.

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.

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 swathe of North Canberra!

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 Podcast

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 integrated with build-to-rent housing and co-working hubs. The Circular Economy Village development model is applicable primarily in rural and regional areas seeking to attract post-COVID escapees from the major cities with high-tech, regenerative villages that strive towards self-sufficiency and zero waste within their bioregion. Each village will house a diverse community of up to 200 people and will integrate affordable co-working and co-living spaces with water and energy micro-grids and a regenerative agricultural system modelling a new paradigm for regenerative, shared-equity land development.

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 and director in the co-operative sector for more than 25 years. He became a director of the Federation in 2013 and secretary in 2016. He is also a former Mayor, and a director of Local Government Super. Sam holds a Masters of Management from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is passionate about the co-operative enterprise model that delivers benefits to members and their communities rather than simply profit to often distant shareholders. Richard has more than 50 years of experience in all forms of co-operative enterprise and apart from Chairing the Co-operative Federation, he is Deputy Chair of Regional Development Mid North Coast, a member of the Executive Council of NSW Farmers, and a Fellow of both the Institute of Public Accountants and the National Tax Agent's Association. He has had extensive involvement in local community organisations, where he has a commitment to provide an independent voice and good governance.

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.

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. Joining us in conversation this morning to discuss how the pandemic has severely impacted young workers and the importance of unions in their future, we would like to welcome to the show, Bella Himmelreich, and Rachel Burgess from the Young Workers Centre with Unions ACT Bella Himmelreich is an organiser and Administration Officer at the Young Workers Centre in Canberra, and a student at the ANU. She is passionate about getting young people active in their local communities and fighting collectively for a better future. Rachel Burgess is the Outreach Coordinator and organiser at the Young Workers Centre in Canberra, and is also a student at the ANU. She is studying economics and policy studies and is interested in working alongside others to organise better outcomes for young people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.