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Organic printed solar technology heralds a new era of energy-production. The solar panels are lightweight, portable and can be attached to any surface. Ruth Hessey speaks with Professor Paul Dastoor from the University of Newcastle about his innovation.

Financial journalist Michael West talks to Drive Tuesday about the need for a federal ICAC. michaelwest.com.au

David Barr talks to Emma Dawson the executive director of Per Capita a progressive think tank. https://percapita.org.au

An interview with Heidi Lee, Lead Project Officer at Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Heidi outlines BZE’s Million Jobs Plan. She explains how we can avoid a recession by shifting to zero carbon emissions.

The Boomerang Alliance gives an update on the Monday Drive Show with Ruth Hessey

What’s in the name? David Barr from Drive Tuesday talks to Associate Prof Brendon O’Connor from the US Studies Centre about the far right group who call themselves the Boogaloo Bois.  

Ruth Hessey speaks with James Hitchcock about the threat microplastics pose to our health and aquatic life. James is an aquatic ecologist and post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Applied Water Science, Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra.

Interview with Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University about Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge 1 and 2 – Aboriginal rock shelters dating back 46,000 years. 

Drive Tuesday talks to David Lyons from the Australian Tea Cultural Society about the pleasures of tea drinking.  

Ruth Hessey speaks with Professor Mark Howden, Director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University, about the ten existential threats to humanity

Mary Kostakidis has visited Julian Assange several times. She talks to David Barr about her most recent visit at Belmarsh prison.  

Zali Steggall,  the federal MP for Warringah,  talks to David Barr about the recently created National Covid-19 Coordination Commission. Most of the members have strong ties to the gas industry. The MP also speaks about her proposed climate change legislation that she wishes to put before parliament.

Michael Bayliss from Sustainable Population Australia talks with David Barr from Drive Tuesday about the unsustainable trajectory of population and economic growth.

Bob Carr talks to David Barr from Drive Tuesday about our China policy, US politics and Carriageworks.  

Dr Andrew Dimitri works with Medécins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and is at the frontline of addressing COVID-19 in Australia and overseas, in particular working with the developing world. As always please contact us anytime via fortheduration@eastsidefm.org.

David Barr From Drive Tuesday talks to Renata Field from Domestic Violence New South Wales about domestic violence during the lockdown.

Whitlam biographer Jenny Hocking has been trying to access letters between Sir John Kerr and the Palace held in the National Archives. She has been blocked on the grounds that the letters are private as opposed to public. The matter has gone all the way to the High Court and a decision is imminent. David […]

David Barr from Drive Tuesday talks to microbiologist Margaret Jennings about safety protocol in the era of Coronavirus.

Drive Tuesday talks to professor John Dwyer, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales about the Coronavirus. He places strong emphasis on social distancing.

Back in Feb 25th, David Barr from Drive Tuesday interviewed professor John Kaldor about Corona Virus. Fast forward one month, it is interesting to compare how the disease has evolved and spread. John is the professor and program head of Public Health interventions research at the University of New South Wales.

Content Warning: Contains discussion of mental health and suicide.   Six Time Ironman Champion, Ali Day, has launched a pilot program aimed at tackling the Indigenous youth suicide crisis effecting men. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are six times more likely to die by suicide than their non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander counterparts, with young […]

David Barr interviews Steve Hogan from Van The Man. The band has its roots in the highly successful Sydney wine bar circuit of the 1970s. Since the ’90s, Hogan has made exclusive appearances and played in acclaimed venues across the country and internationally with his Van Morrison’s jazzy vocal phrasing and gruff Irish burr down […]

Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst has teamed up with his daughter Jay O’Shea to make a new album – ‘The Lost and the Found’. Rob talks to David Barr about the project, his daughter and about the Oils and the Backsliders.

Mike Galvin from Surry Hills Creative Precinct caught up with Luke Dobrovic on Wednesday Drive and talks with us about the picnic happening this Sunday at Ward Park in Surry Hills. Galvin talks about the food, music, and different booths that will be setup around the are. He also speaks on the light rail system […]

The Guild Theatre opens their dynamic 2020 Season with the Australian Premiere of ‘Looped’ by Matthew Lombardo. For The Guild Theatre’s Australian Premiere, Sydney community theatre stalwart Glenda Kenyon brings the complex star to life. She joins Gemma Purves on Thursday Drive to discuss the original bad girl of the golden age of Hollywood, Tallulah […]