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Post-Growth Australia PodcastWorld Population Day 2025 with Valorie AllenIn the lead up to World Population Day (WPD) 2025, we welcome back Val Allen, who was previously a panel guest for the PGAP episode “3 Women 2 Countries 1 Message: World Population Day 2022.”
Three years later, Val has a new book out – “HOW MANY IS ENOUGH?” -just in time for World Population Day 25. She is also in the process of finalising a new documentary “TICK TOCK BOOM BANG” due later this month, which she has produced along with Nick Bohle of HatChap productions.
In this mini episode, Val shares her recent very busy journey in creating content across multiple media...
2025-07-1015 min
Spoken WordNandi Chinna on wild rivers, listening and reciprocity‘sink beneath the surface into myriad voices speaking in stone’- from On Danggu by Nandi Chinna In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 20 March 2025, you will hear poet Nandi Chinna talk about the eco-poetics of wild rivers, listening and reciprocal relationships. Nandi Chinna works as a research consultant, educator, and poet. She is based on unceded Aboriginal land in Boorloo (Perth) and Bunuba lands in Fitzroy Crossing, WA. Her poetry has its genesis in a strong determination to craft creative works and poetry as a response to the ecologies and layers of history attached to par...
2025-04-1700 min
Climate Action ShowKUMI NAIDOO and PEOPLE'S CLIMATE SUMMITCLIMATE ACTION SHOWMARCH 24th 2025Produced by Vivien LangfordKUMI NAIDOO and PEOPLE'S CLIMATE COP at UTShttps://www.philanthropy.org.au/news-and-stories/an-australian-cop31-should-be-a-peoples-cop-with-community-at-its-core/ Guests Kumi Naidoo - Head of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treatyhttps://fossilfueltreaty.org/australia-report-pr Professor Anne Poelina - Traditional custodian of the Martuwarra/Fitzroy River. Film Maker and Academichttps://www.100climateconversations.com/anne-poelina Tui Shortland - Director of Te Kopu- Pacific Indigenous and Local Knowledge Centrehttps://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/protecting-worlds-biodiversity-tui-shortland Greg Mullins AO - Founder of the Eergency Leaders of Climate Action - Fire fighter and Member of the Climate Councilhttps://www.climatecouncil.org.au/2025-critica...
2025-03-2400 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastPGAP Presents: UNSW Centre of Ideas –DegrowthIn 2024, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) held a panel discussion on Degrowth as part of their Centre for Ideas series. The panellists were Tommy Wiedmann (Professor of Sustainability Research), Bronwen Morgan (Professor of Law and member of NENA), and Sabrina Chakori (CSIRO researcher). The discussion was hosted by former Deputy Lord Mayor and author of Glimpses of Utopia, Jess Scully. The panel explored sustainability and the urgent challenge of ensuring human needs are met without compromising a sustainable and inclusive future. With the kind permission of UNSW Centre for Ideas, the recording of this panel discussion is...
2025-02-271h 13
Post-Growth Australia PodcastPGAP Welcomes Back Anne Poelina New Patron of SPAIn late 2024, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) proudly welcomed Professor Anne Poelina as its newest Patron. This mini-episode features the audio recording from a video interview that co-host Michael Bayliss conducted with Anne as part of SPA's Meet the Patrons series.
An abridged version of this interview is available on YouTube.
As a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Professor Poelina brings a profound commitment to integrating Indigenous First Australian wisdom into discussions on degrowth, population, and immigration policies. At PGAP, we strongly believe that First Nations perspectives are...
2025-01-1626 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastPGAP Welcomes Back Anne Poelina New Patron of SPAIn late 2024, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) proudly welcomed Professor Anne Poelina as its newest Patron. This mini-episode features the audio recording from a video interview that co-host Michael Bayliss conducted with Anne as part of SPA's Meet the Patrons series.
An abridged version of this interview is available on YouTube.
As a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Professor Poelina brings a profound commitment to integrating Indigenous First Australian wisdom into discussions on degrowth, population, and immigration policies. At PGAP, we strongly believe that First Nations perspectives are...
2025-01-1526 min
SciPodThe Key to Solving Climate Change May Lay in Indigenous WisdomIn the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Indigenous First Australians are partnering with researchers and together they are pioneering a revolutionary approach to environmental planning and management, called ‘Caring for the River Country’. By blending ancient wisdom, Indigenous First Law and science with Western science, they're reimagining our relationship with nature and offering a blueprint for global climate action. Professor Anne Poelina at the University of Notre Dame Australia argues that the key to our planet's future may lie in Indigenous knowledge and wisdom, and ways of conceiving of our natural environment as kin.
2024-10-1009 min
SciPodThe Key to Solving Climate Change May Lay in Indigenous WisdomIn the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Indigenous First Australians are partnering with researchers and together they are pioneering a revolutionary approach to environmental planning and management, called ‘Caring for the River Country’. By blending ancient wisdom, Indigenous First Law and science with Western science, they're reimagining our relationship with nature and offering a blueprint for global climate action. Professor Anne Poelina at the University of Notre Dame Australia argues that the key to our planet's future may lie in Indigenous knowledge and wisdom, and ways of conceiving of our natural environment as kin.
2024-09-2609 min
Crazy TownEscaping Humanocentrism: Why a Slime Mold Will Be President in 2028The myth of human dominion and exceptionalism is as old as the Bible and as unquestioned as gravity, at least in "modern" society. Rob, Asher, and Jason explore the ways that humanocentrism has come to dominate the planet and our minds, while pointing to ancient and newly emerging ways that the more-than-human world is respected and protected, even the dung beetle.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.Sources/Links/Notes:Eileen Crist defines (and critiques) anthropocentrism.Global biomass of wild mammalsGlobal human-made mass exceeds all living biomass.Decline of pollinatorsDecline of...
2024-05-291h 10
Our Water Connection11 | Unlocking Martuwarra's collective wisdom | Professor Anne PoelinaSend us a message!Join us in this episode with Professor Anne Poelina, a Nyikina Warrwa woman, active community leader, respected academic researcher and Associate Commissioner with the Productivity Commission working on the National Water Reform 2024. Professor Anne enlightened our conversation with her wisdom and her powerful views of the past, present and future. She challenged our views around our current interaction with our environment and our surroundings and invited us to wake up and activate our collective wisdom. Anne has led a battle to safeguard Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) from threats posed by...
2024-05-2741 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastConversation with Noongar Menang Educator and Storyteller Larry BlightHappy new 2024! For this very special episode of Post-Growth Australia Podcast, we interview Menang Noongar educator Larry Blight on site at the Yakamia forest, one of the few remnant pieces of bushland in Albany, which is currently under threat from overdevelopment (of course!) Larry discusses the environmental and cultural significance of the Yakamia forest. We then delve into a broader conversation across many issues such as overdevelopment, colonisation, the perils of neoliberalism and population policy. Larry incorporates his local knowledge and his connection to Boodja (Land) in what is a very deep and insightful conversation.
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2024-01-0749 min
The Sustainability AgendaEpisode 187: Interview with indigenous Australian academic and human and earth rights activist, Dr. Anne Poelina.In this episode, we speak to Dr. Anne Poelina an indigenous Australian academic and human and earth rights activist. Dr. Poelina explains her role as a “Yimardoowarra marnin,” which, translated from the Nyikina language, means “a woman who belongs to the Martuwarra River,” in Western Australia. Dr. Poelina discusses what she calls “first law,” the Aboriginal peoples’ customary law covering the rules for living in coexistence with nature, the rules of conduct that hold together and bond a civil society, the principles of an ethics of care. She talks about the indigenous cultural approach to collaborative water governance underlying the legal work...
2024-01-0257 min
Holding the Fire: Indigenous Voices on the Great UnravelingAncient Wisdom with Anne PoelinaDahr Jamail speaks with Anne Poelina about the root cause of the cascading environmental and social crises of the 21st century: the Western industrialized, extractivist mindset. Anne also presents ideas for changing our perspectives and perceptions to be in community with nature, and the importance of listening to Indigenous voices.Anne Poelina is a professor and chair of Indigenous Knowledge at the University of Notre Dame Australia, as well as the chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council.
2023-10-0956 min
The RegenNarration Podcast156 Excerpt. Daniel Christian Wahl: ‘It’s the change of being that ultimately makes a difference’A very special episode from flood-ravaged Fitzroy Crossing, with Traditional Custodian of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River, Natalie Davey, has been weeks in the making and is almost finished. Stay tuned for that next week!Today is an excerpt of episode 156 featuring the last 25 minutes or so with globally renowned writer, educator and consultant, Daniel Christian Wahl, at a very sensitive time in his life. Our conversation was ostensibly winding up, but some deep personal reflections on life, language and place, learning, schooling and parenting, and the power of transformation, gathered their own momentum. We pick...
2023-09-2031 min
Story Made PodcastElaine McMillion SheldonOur conversation this week is with Elaine McMillion Sheldon: Academy Award-nominated, Peabody-winning, and two-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and daughter of West Virginia. She premiered her latest feature-length documentary, KING COAL, at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She is the director of two Netflix Original Documentaries - "Heroin(e)" and "Recovery Boys" - that explore America's opioid crisis. In 2013, she released "Hollow," an interactive documentary that examines the future of rural America through the eyes and voices of West Virginians. Listen to us talk all about KING C...
2023-08-281h 47
100 Climate Conversations071 | 100 Anne Poelina: Water, memory and the MartuwarraProfessor Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa woman leading a battle to safeguard Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) from threats posed by mining, fracking and water extraction in Western Australia's Kimberley region. As chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, Poelina wants to ensure the global treasuer is protected for generations to come, providing water security and benefits to surrounding communities. Anne Poelina is recorded live in conversation with Rachael Hocking at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information go to http://100climateconversations.com/anne-poelina
2023-07-0659 min
WOMADelaideNatural Rights - The Planet Talks - WOMADelaide 2023People assign themselves rights over nature all the time. The right to extract, or the right to protect. But what happens when you give nature its own rights? What happens when we extend human rights to the earth?
When policy fails, can the legal system step in? What if rivers had human rights? Join Community leader, advocate and scholar Anne Poelina, legal scholars Erinn O’Donnell and Peter Burdon on recognising personhood in the ecology around us.
SPEAKERS
Erin O’Donnell, Anne Poelina, Peter Burdon
HOST
Tanya Ha
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2023-06-011h 02
The Love Theorist11 | Love of Country, Anne PoelinaIn this week’s From my bookshelf, I am talking about the writings of Anne Poelina. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelovetheorist.substack.com
2023-01-2645 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastWomen for Conservation with Isabella Cortes LaraOn November 15 2022 the global population hit 8 billion. Despite the fact that half of all the world’s pregnancies are unplanned, any talk of global approach to family planning and reproductive health care in the global south remains controversial. So often, this is debated across the global north without including stakeholders who live in the global south and work with the issues first hand. PGAP aims to make amends for this oversight by inviting Isabella Cortes Lara to the podcast, Vice President of ‘Women for Conservation’, who work alongside rural communities in Colombia and Nepal. An incredible artist and storyteller, Isabel...
2023-01-221h 03
Earth MattersFrom the Martuwarra to the Baaka - Communities in FloodFrom the Martuwarra Fitzroy River in North West WA to the Darling Baaka River in Far West NSW.Remote communities are seeking control over disaster information and flood management as questions are raised about government handling of flooding on major rivers. Guests:Dr. Anne Poelina – Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River CouncilGraeme McCrabb – Menindee Resident Support the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council's Fundraising efforts at www.martuwarra.org/donate Earth Matters Episode #1384 produced by Megan Williams
2023-01-2200 min
Earth MattersRivers' Rights as Ancestral BeingsThis week Earth Matters explores how uniting Indigenous world views with emerging legal concepts offers a strengthened calls for rights for nature. It’s a republication of 2DRY FMs Water Watch episode from World Water week in 2022, featureing Prof. Anne Poelina, a Kimberley, Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous scholar and chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council and Dr Erin O'Donnell from the Melbourne University School of Law speaking at a webinar by Resources, Environment and Development Group at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. With thanks to the Crawford School of Public Policy for permission to redistribute their webi...
2023-01-1500 min
RSA ConversationsReGeneration Rising S1E2: Future DreamingIn this special series, we explore how regenerative practice is helping people in place collectively re-design their communities, cities and economies and create a thriving home for all on our planet. In this second episode, Josie and Daniel are joined by Dr Anne Poelina, Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous woman from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Regeneration is often positioned as a recent development in sustainable practice, but the principles that underpin this approach – connecting with place and living in harmony with natural systems – have been woven...
2022-11-2238 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastGreenprints with Dr Michelle MaloneyIn this episode of Post-Growth Australia, we welcome back Dr Michelle Maloney, National Convenor of Australia Earth Law Alliance (AELA), to discuss the exciting new Greenprints initiative.
Quoting from the AELA Website, Greenprints “provides a practical, step-by-step approach to help people understand both the big picture and the small details, of how to transform our societies and thrive within our ecological limit”. Greenprints “offers a process to help us find and use the very best sustainability & regenerative approaches, so we can redesign societies to thrive within our local, regional & global ecological limits.”
This episode...
2022-08-2344 min
Who Cares Wins with Lily ColeBONUS: Reasons to Be optimistic …with Indigenous Wisdom (from Rooted Messages)We hear from a very special collective of voices today. Presented by Rooted Messages, we listen to Indigenous Wisdom from around the world. ContributorsVandria Borari Kuu KaliaiAngaangaq AngakkorsuaqAnne Poelina Te Ngaehe Wanikau CreditsWith thanks to Rooted Messages : Indigenous wisdom in time of Change.https://rootedmessages.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKkW_cvSlI
2022-06-2402 min
Creative Language TechnologiesIndigenous Perspectives in Planetary Health and the Preservation of Traditional MedicinesThis is episode #13 of the podcast and it’s Thursday, the 10th of March, 2022.My invited speaker today is Dr. Nicole Redvers, a member of the Deninu K’ue (“Deneh-noo-kweh”) First Nation in Denendeh. She has worked with Indigenous patients, scholars, and communities around the globe her entire career. Dr. Redvers is an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Department of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota where she helped develop and launch the first Indigenous health PhD program. Dr. Redvers is co-founder and current board chair of Canadian charity...
2022-03-1148 min
Truth Telling with Lidia ThorpeFighting for Country with Jason BriggsIn this episode Lidia yarns with Boonwurrung and Wemba Wemba lawyer, Jason Briggs about the complexities and flaws of Native Title laws and highlights the importance of support for First Nations legal defence.Jason Briggs is of Boonwurrung and Wemba Wemba Ancestry and he Chairs the Boonwurrung Land & Sea Council in Melbourne. Jason is a practising lawyer with over 20 years experience in legal practice and business. Jason has recently launched the Boonwurrung Native Title Claim in the Federal Court and convenes the Victorian Pan Nationalist group known as the Black Friday Resurgence; to raise public awareness and...
2022-02-2832 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastPGAP Christmas Special with Michael's Seasonal ManifestoThe festive season is upon us as we wrap close to another year in the decade of consequence. To ‘celebrate’, PGAP host Michael Bayliss shares his own personal vision for a post-growth future. He looks back nostalgically on his Melbourne years, reflecting on the many successes and challenges from ten years in many various grassroots community initiatives. He also plays a selection of songs, penned by himself or by friends that espouse the Degrowth values of this podcast even if they may not inspire complete festive cheer. Enjoy!
During our break between seasons, PGAP has been...
2021-12-2451 min
The RegenNarration Podcast104. 2021 RegenNarration Soundtrack: Highlights from our guests this yearThis is our customary sign-off episode for the year – a package of highlights from our brilliant array of guests throughout 2021, accompanied by some of the music and sounds of Country you heard along the way. Here's the 'track list':To the podcast theme song The System, by The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra - Damon Gameau (ep 77), Jeff Pow & Michelle McManus (ep 78)To the sounds of Country at one of the magnificent restoration sites at Twin Creeks - Keith Bradby (ep 79) To River Feeling by Kalaji - Nicol Ragland (ep 80), Tim Winton (ep 81), Geoff Bastyan (ep 82), Peter Veth...
2021-12-2044 min
The RegenNarration Podcast98. Even Today There is an Ancient Law for the River, a live conversation with Dr Anne PoelinaThis is a very special episode, a live conversation event with Nyikina Warrwa elder, Dr Anne Poelina. We last spoke on the podcast for episode 84 back in May, on the launch of Regenerative Songlines Australia, and resolved to catch up on her Country here in the Kimberley later in the year. We ended up doing that at this live event I was honoured to host the Q&A for - a screening of the film we also talked about in May, The Serpent’s Tale. The film features the story of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River, its ancient Co...
2021-10-211h 05
The RegenNarration Podcast97. The Rapid Rise of Earth Laws & Breakthrough in First Law Recognition, with Alessandro PelizzonThere has been a rush this year of landmark court decisions on climate change, ruling on duties of care, emissions reductions, and other actions for corporations and governments, in Australia and around the world. It’s another sign this generation is changing things, and fast. And some of the broader change afoot is even more powerful than what’s hitting the headlines. This is one of those rapid systemic developments we can easily take for granted. In just over a decade we have witnessed the incredible rise in ecological jurisprudence and the rights of nature. The notion of e...
2021-10-1833 min
The RegenNarration Podcast94. Stories in Stone: What the ancients are telling us, with award-winning film-maker Mark JonesMark Jones is a crocodile handling, campaign building, award-winning Australian film-maker. He has been living and working extensively in the Kimberley for nearly 30 years, since unexpectedly becoming a novice camera operator with revered adventure film maker Malcolm Douglas. Mark develops stories and films with deep underlying messages that reflect this very special part of the world, and its increasingly important part in where we go from here as a society and civilisation. And all that is coming out in both his films and activism to profound effect.Mark has helped lead one of the most formative and...
2021-09-201h 03
Earth Matters2021 Radiothon Live Show: PLUS Via Campesina bonusPlease give what you can during our annual Radiothon fundraiser—You can donate now online and pledge your donation to Earth Matters
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Radiothon 2021 Live Show: PLUS CRN edition of La Via Campesina Then & Now
Check out our once a year "live in the studio" 3CR Radiothon Show with all the Earth Matters crew together—Bec Horridge, Megan Williams and Nicky Stott.
Highlighting the voices of Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott & Kamilaroi Elder Polly Cutmore at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. Also Wiradjuri Elder Ray Woods and Nyikina Warrwa woman Dr Anne Poelina.
As well as an update wi...
2021-06-2000 min
The RegenNarration Podcast84 Excerpt. Is the Snake Waking? With Dr Anne PoelinaThis is an excerpt from episode 84 featuring the last 20 minutes or so of my conversation with Dr Anne Poelina. We pick up the conversation with Anne’s powerful articulation of a way to proceed with planning in the Kimberley, on the back of an existing federal government bioregional framework. We go on to talk more about the incredible new film The Serpent’s Tale, leading to Anne’s heart-rending plea for more of us to correspond with the West Australian government. She goes on to suggest how. And Anne's story of the blind Aboriginal elder who sang his wa...
2021-05-2724 min
The RegenNarration Podcast84. Regenerative Songlines: Film, First Law & the Martuwarra Fitzroy River, with Dr Anne PoelinaThis episode departs from the usual schedule, as there’s a particularly pressing aspect to this one. Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa (Indigenous Australian) woman who belongs to the Mardoowarra, the lower Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is also Chair of the esteemed Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. When Anne and I last spoke for the podcast, in Broome a few years ago, I said this:“If anywhere epitomizes the critical time we’re in, it’s in the spectacular cultural and natural landscapes of her homeland. Almost incredibly, there ar...
2021-05-241h 12
Kimberley She'roDr Anne Poelina - Part 3Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Custodian from the Marrtuwarra, lower Fitzroy River, West Kimberley WADr Anne has worked on issues of environmental and cultural protection in the Kimberley of Western Australia, and is Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. An active Indigenous community leader, human and earth rights advocate, filmmaker, and a respected academic researcher, with a Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy) recently submitted a Doctor of Philosophy (Health Science) thesis titled "Martuwarra First Law: Multispecies Justice - D...
2021-05-1737 minKimberley She'roDr Anne Poelina - Part 2Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Custodian from the Marrtuwarra, lower Fitzroy River, West Kimberley WADr Anne has worked on issues of environmental and cultural protection in the Kimberley of Western Australia, and is Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. An active Indigenous community leader, human and earth rights advocate, filmmaker, and a respected academic researcher, with a Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy) recently submitted a Doctor of Philosophy (Health Science) thesis titled "Martuwarra First Law: Multispecies Justice - D...
2021-05-1736 minKimberley She'roDr Anne Poelina - Part 1Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Custodian from the Marrtuwarra, lower Fitzroy River, West Kimberley WADr Anne has worked on issues of environmental and cultural protection in the Kimberley of Western Australia, and is Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. An active Indigenous community leader, human and earth rights advocate, filmmaker, and a respected academic researcher, with a Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy) recently submitted a Doctor of Philosophy (Health Science) thesis titled "Martuwarra First Law: Multispecies Justice - D...
2021-05-1730 min
The Other OthersFirst Law and SonglinesAustralian Indigenous Elders Anne Poelina and Mary Graham share with Megan Kelleher (my spouse) and I, about the Law of the land and First Peoples, as well as Songlines. Megs had to leave half way through for family biz, so we didn't get to some of the big stuff she was bringing about spatial relation and cognition, but we will come back to that yarn later. This is a good example of how messy and vibrant yarns can be - these Aunties hit the ground running and left no space for the niceties of introductions or explanations! Just try and...
2021-04-221h 23
Post-Growth Australia PodcastSeason 2 - Episode 3: Saving the Martuwarra-Fitzroy river with Professor Anne PoelinaMartuwarra, the Fitzroy River, is located in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia – renowned and cherished for being one of the last of the world’s isolated, vast and by global standards – relatively untouched by Western development. Of course, like all places that haven’t yet been concreted over by a dominant culture that demands to grow infinitely on a finite planet, Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River, is under threat to be next on the chopping block. But not without a fight! PGAP talks to Professor Anne Poelina, Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council and a Nyikina Warrwa Traditio...
2021-03-0659 min
Your World UncensoredIndigenous leaders fight to protect the Fitzroy River in northern AustraliaDr. and Professor Anne Poelina is Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, and is working to protect the Fitzroy River from large-scale development. Big agricultural businesses are looking to create a 'food bowl' in the Kimberley Region of West Australia and want to extract massive quantities of water from the Fitzroy River to do so. I talk to Poelina about the concerns Indigenous traditional owners have with industry potentially taking hundreds of gigalitres a year from one of the last strongholds for the endangered saw fish. We eventually dig into how the hung...
2020-11-0915 min
Earth MattersPlans to Pump the FitzroyThe Martuwarra or Fitzroy River in the Kimberely, WA, is one of the last pristine rivers on Earth, but farming magnates are seeking to open up this unique ecosystem to irrigation and undermine decades of community action to protect this river system. Guests: Dr Anne Poelina, Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner and Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River CouncilMartin Pritchard, Director of Environs KimberleyMonique Barker, Campaign Coordinator of Kimberley - Like Nowhere Else Sign the petition to protect the Martuwarra - Fitzroy Riverhttps://www.environskimberley.org.au/protect_fitzroy This week's show is #1267 and was produced by Megan Williams
2020-10-2500 min
The Sustainability AgendaEpisode 100: Interview with Dr. Anne Poelina, Indigenous Australian and Nyikina Traditional CustodianIn this, the 100th episode of the Sustainability Agenda, we speak to Dr. Anne Poelina an indigenous Australian academic and human and earth rights activist. Dr. Poelina explains her role as a “Yimardoowarra marnin,” which, translated from the Nyikina language, means “a woman who belongs to the Martuwarra River,” in Western Australia. Dr. Poelina discusses what she calls “first law,” the Aboriginal peoples’ customary law covering the rules for living in coexistence with nature, the rules of conduct that hold together and bond a civil society, the principles of an ethics of care. She talks about the indigenous cultural approach to co...
2020-08-1757 min
Earth MattersKimberley Calling: The Frack is BackKimberley Calling: The Frack is BackThe WA moratorium on fracking is to be lifted in the Kimberley next month, with an estimated 40,000 wells set to be drilled across the region. Meanwhile big agribusiness is making moves to put a developmental squeeze on the iconic Fitzroy River. Once again, Tradional Owners & local environment groups are putting the call out for grass roots supporters around the country to get ready to mobilise for another gigantic battle to protect the unique ecological & cultural diversity of this vast and stunningly pristine landscape. With guests: Dr Anne Poelina, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council; Martin Pritchard, Environs Kimbe...
2019-07-2100 min
Wednesday BreakfastNo War with Iran; Heading up to the Galilee Basin; Protecting the Fitzroy River; Is Feminism for Us?This week with Eiddwen and Will [segment times in brackets] || 3CR is proud to acknowledge the Kulin Nations as true owners and custodians of the lands from which we broadcast. We pay respect to their elders past and present and acknowledge that their sovereignty was never ceded and a treaty has yet to be signed || [22:15] Munanjahli and South Sea Islander academic Dr Chelsea Bond speaks to the Hey Aunty! podcast about her experiences of White Feminism and the shortfalls of mainstream feminism in adressing intersections of race and class || [36:11] On this week's episode of The Black Block, Robbie and Nick spoke with...
2019-07-0200 min
The RegenNarration Podcast#033 Regenerating Society Soundtrack 2018: Highlights from our guests in 2018We’re signing off for the year with an episode of highlights from our wonderful array of guests throughout 2018. With sincere thanks for tuning in, continuing to share and rate the podcast, and of course for donating and supporting its production. It couldn’t happen without you. Thanks also for getting in touch throughout the year to tell us how much you’ve valued the podcast, and what you’d like to hear in future. It’s been great to see our listener numbers spike this year, and even more fulfilling to hear how the stories are landing and...
2018-12-1311 min
The RegenNarration Podcast#021 Waking Up The Snake: New economy, country & consciousness, with Indigenous leader Anne PoelinaThis is a very special episode celebrating NAIDOC Week in Australia. Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Traditional Custodian from the Mardoowarra, Lower Fitzroy River, in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. And if anywhere epitomizes the critical time we’re in, it’s in the spectacular cultural and natural landscapes of her homeland. Almost incredibly, there are 40,000+ fracking wells slated for this area, along with the damming of the Fitzroy River, and more ‘old-model’ industrial agriculture. Yet the next economy is also in tow here, and this is where Anne is currently focusing her extraordinary breadth...
2018-07-1146 min
Radio GoolarriDr Anne Poelina Fitzroy Declaration & moreDr Anne Poelina chats with Sandy Dann on the first anniversary of the Fitzroy River Declaration. 'Water is life!' as our old people say.
Keep an eye out for details of the 2019 gathering in Melbourne of Indigenous and First Nations people to share living water stories.
2017-11-2015 min
Align in the Sound - New Economy Network / Radio BTL / CoCanberraNature and The Economy - Anne Poelina - Madjulla Inc And Walalakoo Body Corp - NENA16-2.2Australian Earth Laws Alliance and the Uni of NSW held: "Building the New Economy - activism, enterprise, and social change", in August, 2016. It was a 2 day conference aimed at getting a diverse lot of people together to have a serious look at what an economy based on the needs of planet and people might look like, and how to go about creating one.
Behind the Lines was there and recorded all we could. Apologies to those we missed.
The conference spawned the New Economy Network of Australia – visit https://neweconomy.org.au/ to find out about the next conference.
This wo...
2016-09-0714 min
Renegade EconomistsBioprospectingBioprospecting our future: Prof Natalie Stoianoff (UTS, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, and the Director of the Intellectual Property Program) discusses the legal side to pharmaceutical efforts to privatise nature. Then Anne Poelina, indigenous elder from the Kimberly discusses bioprospecting amidst the need for earth rights and geoparks.Show Notes
2015-10-1400 min
The SEI Podcast SeriesAnne PoelinaDefence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. 'Success Stories' Session with Dr Anne Poelina, Nyikina Mangala, WA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-09-0833 min