Scott "Sooty" Daines on the legal battle to save our gliders in Styxx River State Forest and across NSW Al Oshlack discusses the result of the case to protect Cherry Tree State Forest and a recent case in NSW Land & Environment Court which looks likely to remove barriers to community groups taking legaql action for our forests. He also discusses the latest news for the North Lismore Plateau mega development threatening ecological and cultural values left on Wijabul Wiabl country

Everyone in Bundjalung country has a story to tell of the devastating effects of the climate emergency and the incompetence and corruption of the official responses to the disatsers they have created. Very few are as poignant and powerful as the tale told by Susan Anderson of how her community has been excluded from their homes to make way for developers. Bec Horridge and Sean O'Shannessy went to visit the site and hear and see the story for themselves.

At the end of the hottest year in human history, a Rising Tide of everyday people shut down the world’s largest coal port for 32 hours. This is a report from the Lismore launch of the  film about how we did it. Revisit the epic People’s Blockade with footage from the beach, the water, and the sky - and hear from Rising Tide organisers and blockaders about how this historic event came together. https://www.risingtide.org.au/

Northern Rivers man, Surya McEwen, is setting sail with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to bring desperately needed food and medicine to Palestinians in Gaza. Spokesperson for the Northern Rivers Friends of Palestine, Subhi Awad, spoke to us on this dangerous humanitarian mission of hope.  https://www.suryasailsforgaza.org.au/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

Professor david Lindenmayer is one of the worlds leading experts on forest ecology. He has spent the past 40 years researching and writing about the intricacies of how our forests function as sanctuaries for wildlife and plants as well as water, fire and cllimate. He has just written a myth busting tour de force of a book called "The Forest Wars - The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests" He talked Sean O'Shannessy through a few of those myths for Environemntal as Anything. Please share this informative interview as widely as possible -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

Over half a million Victorians went without power and at least 60 homes were reported destroyed in extreme storms, heat and fires but somehow the capitalist media managed to report all this without mentioning the "C" word once. Bravo! Courageous effort (NOT!) For those first responders and aghast observers in the midst of the #climateEmergency what they want is a government response that addresses the best science and gives timely and forceful warnings of the scale of the climate emergency we are in the midst of. Sam Galvin is a volunteer firefighter who has spent much of the past week battling to protect the people of his home district around the Dandenong Ranges. He shares his first hand experience of the climate disaster wracking his communty. Freja Leonard is a campaigner for the Friends of the Earth, she brings a broader perspective to bear on the political and economic issues that are driving the disasterous events in her home state. -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

The NSW community is increasingly impatient to #endNativeForestLogging and Australians are becoming increasingly frustrated with the failure of the Albanese government to answer the tough questions on #climate action This week in Ballina Court forest defendants Kashmir Miller and Valerie Thompson had justice delayed until at least 31st July when they will appear again and hope to have the charges against them for protecting our life support system dismissed. Meanwhile the NSW EPA keeps fiddling while our endangered greater gliders are being exterminated by loggers. Naomi Hodgson (with her ex coal worker dad) managed to ask Aussie Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a few real questions on an end to fossil fool exploitation last week. Tune in to this podcast episode for the full story from Eddie Lloyd, Kashmir Miller, Valerie Thompson and Susie Russell all calling for justice and reason to prevail in our forests and Naomi telling the story of her action to keep the big questions of a just transition to renewable prosperity on the national agenda. -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

The gorgeous coastal village of Brunswick Heads in Arawkwal Country in the Shire of Byron Bay is home not only to the archetypal "Sea Change" community but also to some extraordanarilay rare and endangered ecologies. Right now it is also home to a David and Goliath struggle between megabucks corporate developers and a local community campaign determined to protect their precious wallum heathland from rapacious profiteers. In this episode of Environmental as Anything local environmental scientist, Svea Pittman speaks to Sean O'Shannessy about the values her community is defending. We also hear from "Zoe" who has just completed a tree climbing training to help prepare her for the non violent direct action campaign that has now started on the site.https://www.savewallum.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

Peter Dutton has threatened to reduce access to independent legal representation for community groups attempting to enforce the law against the climate crimes of  the fossil fuel industry. Dutton was speaking to an event organised by the Council for Minerals Energy in Perth to an audience including some of the Liberal Party's biggest donors. Independent Federal MP Zali Steggall (OAM) spoke to Environmental as Anything on the politics of Duddo's threats and Dr Chris McGrath (Barrister specialising in environmental law and researcher and University of Queensland) spoke to Sean O'Shannessy regarding some of the legal implications of these threats. -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

On Environmantal as Anything this week Action for Climate in our Courts, Forests, Streets and Boardrooms: COP28 & Geo Engineering - George Pick Knitting Nannas Constitutional Challenge to Anti Protest Laws - Helen Kevelde & Sue Higginson Climate Energy Finance Year's Round up - Tim Buckley Tarkine Forest Action - Scott Jordan from Bob Brown Foundation Disrupt Burrup Hub NOPSEMA Blockade in Perth - Veterinarian "Maz" -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

On this weeks show: Action in Myrtle State Forest & Styxx River State Forest for koalas and gliders this week - Luca Lamont, Dailan Pugh, Sue Higginson and Fridays4Forests Faith based communities rising up for the creation - Thea Ormerod and Anne Lanyon COP28 speed bumps and the real transition to renewable prosperity - George Pick Aussies call for a ceasefire in Palestine -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

A special report from The Rising Tide People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coalport, including: Bob Brown Adam Bandt MP Sue Higginson (MLC) Grant Howard - Coal miner for #NoNewCoal Riff Raff Radical Marchinig Band -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

On this week's show: Forest Pledge Launch - Sophie Scamps MP https://www.sophiescamps.com.au/pledge_to_end_native_forest_logging Forest Protest Charges Dismissed - Susie Russell  School Strike 4 Climate - Voices from across Australia at the frontlines for climate justice https://www.schoolstrike4climate.com/ Australian Climate Case - Isabelle Reinecke https://www.gratafund.org.au/australian_climate_case_melbourne_hearings Tuvalu/Australia Climate Migration Treaty - Dr Tamara Wood (Kaldor Centre) https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/introducing-kaldor-centre-principles-climate-mobility The CoCo Report - Violet CoCo  -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

On this weeks show: Sail4Sanity - Two Illawarra grandfathers are sailing and paddling a kayak between two of Australia’s key coal ports, Port Kembla and Newcastle, to draw attention to the need to halt the burning of fossil fuels, while hopefully demonstrating that a great deal of fun can be had in water craft that don’t burn up the planet. Calling for more immediate and effective action by our government to reduce fossil fuel mining and effectively address climate change. They hope to connect with politicians and climate action groups at events along the way and to encourage people to get involved in the Rising Tide Protest. Tom Hunt spoke to Environmental as Anything on his epic voyage.- https://sail4sanity.au/ Prof Bill Mitchell is one of Australia's most emminent economists. Last week the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised interest rates for the 13th time. He spoke to Sean O'Shannessy and said the RBA's broken policies are transferring income and wealth from poor to rich at rates not seen before in this country. The inflationary episode is  a supply-side phenomenon and the major drivers will not fall as a result of interest rate increases, in fact they are actually causing inflation.The RBA is systematically wiping out wealth at the bottom end and transferring to the top end.  - RBA monetary policy decision represents a terminally broken policy model in Australia Violet Coco - The Coco Report - Across Australia people are rising up against the madness of ecological destruction and for a safer more just society. The front lines of that struggle are held by courageous humans like Violet Coco. She joins us again to keep us all up to date on the events we can all become part of to strengthen our case for a viable future for us all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Support the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

Our fire seasons keep getting hotter and longer. The world has been burning all year, North America is ablaze, and Queensland has suffered tragic losses to the out of control fires burning there. Here in NSW we are yet to see the worst of it but our courageous fireies are breathing a sigh of relief as rains fall to dampen the dozens of fires threatening a Black Spring. Daniel Ainsworth from the Northern Rivers Regional Fire Service (RFS) joins Environmental as Anything to report on the progress of their ceaseless vigil over our fire safety. Meanwhile across Australia the legitimacy of democracy is under threat as citizens are charged with speaking the truth while the climate criminals walk away scott free. We have reports from canberra and Grafton where The APPEA5 and Ellis Forest Protectors faced court for peacefully resisting extinction. Denialists continue to badger the adults in the room with their ignorance. Every now and then they actually get a chance to have their delusions comprehensively put to bed by a truly emmminent scientist. This week in the NSW Parlliamentary Inquiry into the ALP's Zero Futures Bill which proposes to weaken our climate targets, MP for the LDP John Ruddick, dusted off his Phd in Non Seqiturs from Dunning Kurger University and challenged former cheif scientist of Australia Prof Penny Sackett to explain why he didn't understand the climate emergency. She knocked his mischevious questions out of the park with grace and dignity. We have an illuminating extract from that exchange and more from the bipartisan committee looking into that legislation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media, subscribe to this podcast, Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Help us keep producing high quality environmental current affairs by supporting the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

In this weeks show: A report on the Brisbane Magistrates Court appearance by the "Parliament 14" climate activists charged under the criminal code with “disturbing the legislature”, which carries a maximum sentence of 3 years in jail. Activist, educator, academic & writer, Aidan Ricketts shares his analysis of the current state of anti-protest laws in Australia. Sue Higginson explains how the NSW ALP government's climate targets are actually weaker than the former LNP government's regulations Violet Coco joins us with an update from the fornt lines of the climate rebellion  -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media and subscribe to this podcast Please make it possible to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs by supporting the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything and Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.    

Aussie's freedom of speech, assembly and association are under a nationwide concerted attack. Dr. Colette Harmsen, released on Friday 13/10/23 from her three months sentence in Tasmania and prison for having stood up for the protection of our precious native forests spoke to Sean O'Shannessy on the day of her release about her reasons for taking the actions that got her locked up, her experience of prison and her intentions for future actions for our environment.  In this episode of Environmental as Anything we also speak to a couple of other people who are facing down the threat of some fairly stiff penalties for their courageous and peaceful actions to try to highlight the climate emergency and to persuade governments, in both in Brisbane and in the ACT to do something effective about it. John Wurker from Extinction Rebellion ACT brings us his story as one of the 'APPEA 5', who stood up against the fossil fuel industry headquarters there in Canberra, blocking several of their entrances for a couple of hours and are now charged with "unreasonable obstruction" Sasha Seindl from XR Brisbane, who was part of the 'Parliament 14', the group of citizens who spent three minutes in the gallery of the Queensland Parliament calling for an end to new coal gas and oil exploration and and development and are now facing the possibility of three years in prison for being charged with "Disturbing the Legislature". We also have Lismore as leading legal expert on the defense of the protectors of our climate and forests. Eddie Lloyd criminal lawyer who has been defending environment protectors through the courts and has got a unique perspective on the legal issues not only here but around the country and she joins us to wrap up the show with an analysis of the bigger picture. -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media and subscribe to this podcast Please make it possible to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs by supporting the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything and Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

The fundamental freedoms of all Aussies are under attack from dark forces that would silence us and shackle and oppress us. On this week's show we shine a light on three courageous campaigns to stand up and be heard against the will of the corporate capitalist state John Shipton - Free Assange https://www.assangecampaign.org.au/ Tahlia Stolarski - Disrupt Burup Hub  https://www.disruptburruphub.com/ Rachel Perkins on the Indigenous Voice https://www.yes23.com.au/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media and subscribe to this podcast Please make it possible to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs by supporting the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything and Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.

Dr Steve Sutton has nearly two decades of experience working in and researching bushfires . As Chief Fire Control Officer in the Northern Territory, Steve was responsible for Territory-wide bushfire control, hazard reduction and bushfire mitigation, and oversaw the operations of the Territory’s volunteer bushfire brigades. He is an advocate for grass-roots initiatives to weave networks of belonging that foster resilience to climate change and disasters. He spoke to Sean O'Shannessy on Environmental as Anything in his capacity as a member of the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, about the state of preparedness of our governments and agencies for the oncoming fire season Kerry O'Brien is a living legend of Australian journalism. He has been tirelessly touring the the nation trying to cut through the clouds of disinformation around the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum with his typically sharp factual analysis. Param Berg caught his speech at the Rally for a Voice in Lismore on Sat 30 Sept '23 -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Please support community based independent media and make it possible for us to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs: Share this episode on social media and subscribe to this podcast Please make it possible to keep producing high quality environmental current affairs by supporting the Environmental as Anything show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything and Like us on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything Email story suggestions to us on: Environmental.As.Anythin@gmail.com (Environmental As Anything is produced on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung Nation) ©COPYLEFT: Environmental as Anything may be reshared and or rebroadcast by any not for profit community media for the purpose of informing and inspiring effective action for peace, justice and ecological sustainability.