Environmental as Anything Interviews

On 19/8/23 the Australian Labor Party (ALP) held its once a term National Conference in Meanjin Brisbane. Bob Brown and Felicity Wade have been fighting for our native forests for many decades and each of them turned up to make their voices heard in their own ways. Bob outside with a large vociferous crowd of people energised for an end to Native forest logging and Fellicity inside with the Labor...

Native forest logging has lost its last vestiges of social license in Australia as thousands of Australians have rallied nationwide to finally protect our carbon sinks, biodiversity refuges, water catchments and tourist attractions from industrial logging. On Saturday 12/8/23 hundreds of Northern Rivers locals joined the rally in Lismore to express their impatience with the NSW and Australian Gove...

Sean O'Shannessy and Violet Cocoa interview Gurridyula: Gurridyula's Bandcamp Profile ( https://gurridyula.bandcamp.com/ ) "I am Wangan and Jagalingou from Central Queensland Australia. I have been living in a tent performing ceremony at Waddananggu across the road from the Adani Carmichael mine for over 400 days. Recording my music in a small trailer to get the message of our fight to the world."...

For over a decade Felicity Wade led the Wilderness Society in NSW, working to protect forests and end land clearing. Now she is National Co-convenor of the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) . Felicity spoke to Environmental as Anything's Sean O'Shannessy about the upcoming Labor National Conference and the high hopes of Labor membership for an end to native forest logging across Australia. D...

Tim Buckley founder and director of Climate Energy Finance public interest think tank, has 30 years of financial market experience covering the Australian, Asian and global equity markets and is a highly influential energy finance commentator. He talks Environmental as Anything's Sean O'Shannessy through this months headlines for the transition to renewable prosperity. PRODUCTIVITY OMISSION: PC’S...

The NSW Government is so determined to carry out its plans to exterminate our koalas that it has established a regime of logging under marshal law. When 80 NSW citizens gather in their forest to confront the criminal damage being done there they are greeted by a 5 police cars and a police rescue truck. when asked why the police on site can't answer. This report from Sean O'Shannessy who was on sit...

This year is the 20th anniversary of the US/Australian invasion of Iraq. It is also the 10th anniversary of the confinement of Julian Assange. To commemorate these two important related events Lismore people gathered at the War Memorial to speak out against the suppression of free speech that is flourishing in the world today and to call for Assange to be released and anti public protest laws to b...

Tessa Campesi has been seeking answers on what is going on in our forests so she went to Bulga Plateau where one of the most effective community campaigns to end native forest logging in Australia is located. She interviewed a wide range of community members and seasoned campaigners about why they are standing up to the might of the NSW government and the corporate logging industry.

Our Federal government has finally decided to take some moderately effective action to reign in fossil fool price gouging. Tim Buckley, Director of the Climate Energy Finance think tank ( https://climateenergyfinance.org/ ) tells us how this will really affect the coal and gas cartels and Aussie energy consumers.

President of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, Jo Dodds, has a unique perspective to offer on the experience of having her home engulfed in the climate emergency. Her response to that crisis has been outstanding. Far from being shattered by the experience she has been forged into an extraordinarily effective activist for climate justice. She explores her heroic journey in this conversation wi...

NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says he is proud to have made the EPA into a "tough cop on the beat" with "teeth" but when they are called out to investigate dozens well documented breeches of the logging rules they behave like a paper tiger. Ecologist Mark Graham says this is "existential stuff" and that the NSW LNP Government are "an outfit of koala killers" Listen in to him speaking to Peter Nielsen an...

A peaceful and lawful walk-on by about 40 local community members into illegal Forestry Corporation (FCNSW) old growth forest industrial logging operations was held on Wednesday 10th August 2022 to measure recently destroyed giant trees and to bear witness to the crimes currently being committed in Ellis State Forest by FCNSW and its contractors. Local ecologist and private conservation reserve op...

Sue Higginson is our representative in the NSW Parliament Upper House. She spoke to Sean O'Shannessy about the recently released report from the Parliamentary Inquiry into NSW floods and the upcoming parliamentary debate on ending public native forest logging on Environmental as Anything on Saturday 13/8/22

Lismore City Councilor Adam Guise was rescued from his North Lismore home in February during the cataclysmic floods that engulfed the region surrounding it. He has been calling on the Local, State and Governments to act effectively to secure the homes of every flood affected resident. There is an alarming prospect that the homes of many of those people will just be left in harms way or worse bulld...

End Native Forest Logging Petitioner Takesa Frank has started something important with her parliamentary e-Petition. NSW Parliament will now debate the protection of our State Forests. Hear her tell Environmental as Anything what got her started and where to next. She says "We saw the bushfires destroy 80 per cent of South Coast forests and less than a month later Forestry NSW came into these and...

With a federal election in progress our airwaves are being swamped with voodoonomics. Fortunately a growing group of economists is exposing the absurdity of the neoliberalist ideology that dominates the what passes for economics discussion among the capitalist commentariat and offering a cool analysis of how modern economies actually work. Our guest on today's show is Professor Steven Hail of Torr...

When flood ravaged Lismore got wind of Scott Morrison's plans to visit 9 days after the climate emergency had devastated their city they felt obliged to welcome him and share some of their experiences and hopes for the future with him. Unfortunately he wasn't in a listening mood and so the concerned citizens were locked out of the event.  Unperturbed the notoriously resilient and creative communit...

The people of LIsmore rallied again today against the half baked ideas of a new councilor who has put forward a motion to resurrect the unfeasible Dunoon Dam on Wednesday 16th February at the first Rous meeting since he was voted in. Speakers at the rally detailed the importance of protecting cultural heritage & burial sites, the big scrub rainforest remnant (6.7% of the 1% that is left), and koal...

Tim Buckley is a financial analyst covering the global electricity markets. His analysis highlights the technology and finance driven inevitability of a global transition towards a lower emissions system. Meg Nielsen asks him to tell us why he is so upbeat about the transition to renewable prosperity in the face of the climate emergency. Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreon https:...

Our first Aussies have had over 200 years of theft of their land to contend with. Last year the Lismore City Council made a nationally significant gesture of returning some of the Bundjalung Nation back to its owners. This year an ideologically driven rookie councilor tried to break that promise by proposing to stop the hand back but he didn't reckon with the strength of the Wijabul Wiabul mob. He...

Byron Shire Councillor Cate Coorey speaks to Sean O'Shannessy on the motion she just had passed demanding reforms of the recent NSW Koala SEPP Margie Pestorius & Miriam Torzillo from Wage Peace talk Sean through the Disrupt Land Forces actions planned for Lismore and Brisbane Julie Beesley interviewing Jo Immig from National Toxics Network re. Aus regulations on glyphosate Dione Green interviewing...

Zianna Fuad speaks to Sean O'Shannessy on the frontlines against Adani and for our koalas Damien Cole from the Surf Rider Foundation talks to Catherine Coxal and Michelle Michels from Eco Futures The Shine Report with Naomi from the Lismore Environment Centre illuminating the week ahead. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Jeff Johnson - Ballina Shire Council Divestment Jo Evans - SANTOS PIlliga plans & obstacles The Shine Report - Naomi Shine from LIsmore Environment Centre illuminates the week ahead. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Thanks for tuning in to Environmental as Anything. This week on the show we have: Eco News Cate Faehrmann - Koala SEPP 21 Dailan Pugh - Koala action Michelle Michels - Circular Economy interview Naomi Shine - Events and actions for this week --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Rob Garbutt transports us through the beautiful and surprising sounds of the rivers of NE NSW with his contribution to the Speaking With the River – NRCG Exhibition David Shoebridge is the chair of the NSW Parliamentary Committee on Public Accountability. He has been working hard to expose the Berejiklian Government's shameless pork barrelling and he uncovered the recent scandalous corruption of t...