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Rosie interviews Gaye, spokesperson for the Zelda 8 women who protested outside Trades Hall on International Women's Day in March this year. Rosie and Gaye also speak to Alva Geikie, a fellow activist and friend of Zelda D'Aprano.  Shae speaks to People for Nature co-founder and CEO Audrey Barucchi about Citizen COP and its events occurring across the country this week (included below). https://www.peoplefornature.org.au/blog/citizen-cop-events-australiahttps://collections.humanitix.com/citizen-cop-australia-2026 19 OCT 2026Growing Place – interactive public art experience (Melbourne, VIC) — A city-wide augmented-reality art trail revealing Indigenous plants and ecosystems across Melbourne. — Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/growing-place-interactive-public-art-experience-melbourne-citizen-cop-2026  21 OCT 2026Nature Studio: Connect and Create (Parkville, VIC) — A relaxed drop-in session exploring biodiversity through drawing, journalling and other simple creative activities. — Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/nature-studio-connect-and-create-melbourne-citizen-cop-2026  28 OCT 2026Gardens for Wildlife Speaker Series (Melbourne (online), VIC) — An online speaker session on habitat gardening and caring for wildlife in backyards, with a network of habitat gardeners. — Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/gardens-for-wildlife-speaker-series-online-citizen-cop-2026  Biodiversity: The Next Frontier for Finance (Melbourne, VIC) — A webinar with Australian and international experts on including biodiversity in sustainable finance and markets.— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/biodiversity-the-next-frontier-for-finance-online-citizen-cop-2026  10 NOV 2026 Nature Play and Discovery at Royal Park – Park Ranger Pop-Up (Melbourne, VIC) — A free family event with an educational Park Ranger pop-up showcasing Melbourne's local wildlife and habitats. — Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/nature-play-and-discovery-at-royal-park-park-ranger-educational-pop-up-melbourne-citizen-cop-2026 The Plastic Country: Community Screening and Conversation (Melbourne, VIC) — A documentary screening on plastic pollution's impact on communities and ecosystems, followed by a panel discussion.— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/the-plastic-country-community-screening-and-conversation-melbourne-citizen-cop-2026 12 NOV 2026City Resilience and the Built Environment: Learn About How City of Melbourne is Navigating Climate Change (Melbourne, VIC) — A bird’s-eye view of Melbourne with our City DNA 3D model and a short walking tour to see climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives in action.— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/city-resilience-and-the-built-environment-learn-about-how-city-of-melbourne-is-navigating-climate-change-citizen-cop-2026 15 NOV 2026Heat Preparedness Workshop (St Kilda, VIC) — A practical community workshop on identifying heat risk, cool refuges and building a personal heat Care Plan.— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/heat-preparedness-workshop-melbourne-citizen-cop-2026 Giant Climate Fresk (Melbourne, VIC) — A community Climate Fresk workshop exploring the causes and solutions to climate change.— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/giant-climate-fresk-melbourne-citizen-cop-2026 18 NOV 2026Construction, Sustainability and Biodiversity (Melbourne, VIC) — A hybrid discussion on integrating biodiversity considerations into construction and sustainability practice.— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/construction-sustainability-and-biodiversity-online-citizen-cop-2026 The Adaptation Game @ Fawkner Park (South Yarra, VIC) — A social games night playing a board game that helps residents prepare for flooding, heatwaves and storms.— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/the-adaptation-game-fawkner-park-melbourne-citizen-cop-2026-hy4mpqe6 Grow Together: Native Food Forest Workshop (repeat) (Carlton, VIC) — A second session of hands-on planting for a First Nations-inspired Native Food Forest garden. — Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/grow-together-native-food-forest-workshop-melbourne-november-citizen-cop-2026 20 NOV 2026The Adaptation Game @ Play With Purpose (ALIA Program) (Melbourne, VIC) — A session playing The Adaptation Game, exploring possible climate futures and resilience strategies for Melbourne. — Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/the-adaptation-game-play-with-purpose-alia-program-melbourne-morning-session-citizen-cop-2026 Something for everyone: Give Nature a Seat at the Table - Citizen COP 2026 (no matter where you are and when you join):— Book your ticket:https://events.humanitix.com/give-nature-a-seat-at-the-table-citizen-cop-2026

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER  5th 2026Produced by Vivien LangfordGREAT SOUTHERN  NATIONAL PARK - TALLAGANDASpeakers:Dr Bob BrownSenator David ShoebridgeMP Sue HigginsonSenators:  Larissa Waters, David Pocock, Murray Watt and Nick McKim courtesy of the Australian Parliament Recordings  All over  the world the battle to save forests is CLIMATE ACTION. In  Northern NSW at last the logging has stopped in the  Great Koals National Park, but there's still an argument over offsets.Meanwhile, in the south of the state, down around Edenand the border with Victoria there is a corridor right up to the Illawarra which could become the Great Southern National Park. It's a big vision joining up protected areas with state forests which are still being cleared for woodchips.  "We're nearly there" according to Sue Higginson , Bob Brown and David Shoebridge at Pitt St Uniting Church in Sydney.(5/9/2026)YOU CAN TAKE ACTIONhttps://npansw.org.au/support-gsf/https://www.forestalliancensw.org.au/host-a-gsf-sign We saw an exquisite film by Dave Gallan featuring the Gliders and Quolls and Bandicoots that live in these moist southern forests.The film is Tallaganda - https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/local-land-services/events/gliding-through-night-a-community-conservation-story Above the audience flew three huge lanterns made by Lismore people after the last greta flood. They are the angels of Joy, Compassion and Courage.The conversation was introduced by Senator David Shoebridge and is followed by a dramatic event in parliament later in the month when three Greens senators crossed the floor over carbon offsets.

Antimony has a chat with DCAN, YCAN, ECAN and Parents for Climate Geelong.We have a little introduction to each group, talk about what they've been doing and what they're planning, and then get on to have a brag about their recent achievements and a bitch about their current challenges.Why not join them all?DCANYCANECAM (check out their the video about electric vehicles here)Parents for Climate

This week's episode features speeches from Khyl Ramos and Yong Feng at the Climate Debt, Ecosocialism and the Global South panel, during the 2026 Ecosocialism conference, run by Green Left, Socialist Alliance, Resistance Books and Links Journal. Khyl Ramos is a community development practitioner working on climate justice, labor rights, and grassroots capacity building in the Philippines.He is the Deputy Project Manager at Transform Asia Gender and Labor Institute, Inc. and Youth Coordinator for Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM - Party of the Labouring Masses).He is also active in local and international environmental movements, drawing on Marxist political ecology, human geography, and Global South realities to confront capitalist-induced metabolic rifts.Yong Feng previously worked as an architect and returned to Singapore last year after completing a Master in political ecology, environmental justice and degrowth in Barcelona. He currently works in book publishing and organises with Singapore Climate Rally as well as the independent media network NIMBUS.

Shae looks into the research about whether recycling and other small household environmental actions mean that people are diverted from larger political actions.We hear from presenters around 3CR about the latest climate news - the tragedy in Nepal, the expansion of gas mining and datacentres in the Northern Territory, and a chat with climate researcher David Spratt.

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWSEPTEMBER  7th 2026Produced by Vivien LangfordCOAL WE EXPORT RETURNS AS DROUGHT, FIRE AND FLOOD This concerns the HVO proposal to mine coal into 2040's. It's the biggest coal project in NSW. Guests :InterviewNic Clyde - Lock the Gate NSW Co ordinatorhttps://www.lockthegate.org.au/hvo-refusalRally outside NSW parliamentNic Seton - Parents for Climate-A petition to sign :https://www.parentsforclimate.org/a_fair_deal Scott Franks - Hunter Valley Elder -Plains Clans of the Wonnarua Peoplehttps://hunterlivinghistories.com/2021/09/01/ravensworth-wonnarua/singletonargus.com.au/story/9343904/scott-franks-hvo-coal-mine-expansion-ignores-wonnarua-traditional-knowledge/ Groups at the Rally: Knitting Nanas with Bernie Hobbs as MC, ARRCC, AYCC, and many others Julia Grix - Climate Defenders Officehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/07/police-drop-charges-against-125-rising-tide-protesters-two-years-after-newcastle-port-blockadeIn my interview with Nic Clyde we cover some of the heroes of the great battle to stop coal exports coming back to us as drought, heatwave, flood and fire. It's been going on for years and the end is in sight as Nic describes all the big employment opportunities which will absorb the transitioning coal mine workers.We talk about Wendy Bowman and Ramesh Agrawal both of whom won the International prize for audacious environmental protrection The Goldman Prize. In both cases a coal mine threatening farm land or an aquifer was stopped. We pass by the Bylong Valley and the Battle for Bentley to stirr up that citizen courage which is needed to disallow the biggest coal mine extension ever proposed in NSW. In the words of Lock the Gate's National Director  Georgina Woods- “Glencore and Yancoal are digging in their heels and pushing the HVO workforce and the planning system to the brink by refusing to even consider a compromise option that would retain mining jobs but limit the project's environmental harm.Glencore’s refusal to compromise is an insult to the communities across NSW that reported to the Net Zero Commission that ‘climate impacts are becoming more frequent, more intense and increasingly difficult to manage.’”Meanwhile Paul Scully, the NSW Planning MInister estimated that global demand for coal is changing and by 2035 "over half of NSW coal mines are expected to close." There is a stalled Bill before parliament called The Future Jobs and Investment Bill.If they pass this bill, companies must have a detailed workforce transition plan approved by the government before a mine closes. It provides a dedicated agency to handle retraining and regional investment. It's called The future jobs and Investment AuthorityThe context: 2026, the Insurance Council of Australia issued a new report, which found that since 2019, there have been at least 29 extreme weather events costing $20.7 billion and damaging more than 760,720 homes and buildings.Video about Wendy Bowman 4minshttps://www.google.com/search?q=wendy+bowman+goldman+prize&rlz=1C1ZKTG_enAU895AU895&oq=wendy+bowman+goldman+prize&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgcIARAhGI8CMgcIAhAhGI8C0gEINjg1OWowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:31502a70,vid:CHXjbqwArGE,st:0Ramesh Agrawal Indian anti Coal Campaoigner and Goldman Prize winner 4minshttps://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ramesh-agrawal/

We hear it a lot, the idea that humans are bad at long-term thinking, that we’re not good at planning, that it’s hard for people to think beyond their own immediate problems. We've heard that people don’t really think about the future until they have children, that they seek immediate gratification, and will always prioritise short-term profit over long-term gains. This idea pops up everywhere, particularly with the subtext ‘climate action was always doomed because it's impossible for humans to act think sensibly about the future’. But is this true? In this episode we talk about fictional futures - fantastic, terrifying, and inspiring - that humans have imagined for the future of our species, and talk to authors about how to expand our own imaginations. Media mentioned:Borne by Jeff VandermeerWoman on the Edge of Time by Marge PiercySalvage by Jennifer MillsStar Trek: TNGWarhammerAuthors interviewed:Mantle by Romy AshFrom the publisher:Ursula is a self-possessed geologist. In her life on the mainland, she’s a guardian of the timescale, dividing history into segments and reading the Earth’s depths. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s simply science.When her ailing mother is struck with a mystery illness she is called to the coastline of lutruwita/Tasmania. What begins as an incurable rash evolves into something more dangerous.With the sickness spreading across the island, and beyond, Ursula finds herself stranded, stuck in her mother’s house and increasingly entangled with a younger man who she met at the pub. She is grieving, beginning to unhinge – and now she too has the rash.  The wild places of the island are solace, even as the world around her begins to shift. As she faces this eruption of new life, and grapples with death and decay, Ursula realises that this change may not signal an end, but a beginning. Deeply moving and utterly original, Mantle is a powerful novel that shows us our fate is intertwined with the people around us, and the fate of our world.Killionaires by Scott LeckieFrom the publisher:A provocative and imaginative story, Killionaire asks what might happen if humanity decided that extreme wealth had limits and began building something radically different in its place.‘The world has never had more billionaires - 3,300 of them. Between them they hold more than 20 trillion US dollars. Anyone who bothers to look can see that they are undermining the very foundations on which democracy is based. My book asks 'What if no one was allowed to become a billionaire?' Leckie says.Blending satire, social commentary, political imagination and sharp humour, Killionaire introduces readers to ‘Pacifica’, an ambitious social experiment that challenges conventional ideas about wealth, power and community.Conceived as a response to growing inequality, climate disruption and political division, Pacifica becomes the vehicle through which Leckie imagines an alternative future.With a cast of larger-than-life billionaire characters, including arms dealers, technology moguls and corporate powerbrokers, Killionaire examines the consequences of concentrated wealth and influence, asking what happens when money and power accumulate without limits.

Shae speaks to Gavan, the Climate and Energy Program Manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation, who gives an update on the ACF's current campaigns, specifically Woodside Energy's proposed Browse gas development off the coast of WA, the planned fracking in the Beetaloo Basin and data centres expanding across Australia.  With the State Election less than three months away, astroturf groups are popping up fast and furious, (not so) covertly initiated by neo-liberal junk tanks backed by big fossil fuel companies, as the nefarious spread of disinformation is ramped up in an effort to swing voter support away from renewable energy projects. Rosie interviews Tim Lamacraft – former journalist, now head of media and communications at the Smart Energy Council, Australia's peak industry body for renewable energy, energy storage and clean technology. Decades spent in farming communities and regional fossil fuel hubs have given him a deep understanding of the harm astroturf groups do to the very communities they claim to represent. Tim discusses the shadowy origins and effects of astroturfing, and introduces us to the "vomit principle"! Take a look at these related links: Dayne Pratzky (aka Frackman) is a tradie-come-anti-fracking activist. He is also the subject of the 2015 documentary of the same name. His recent post on the astroturf group "Coalition for Conservation": https://www.facebook.com/FrackmanProject/posts/pfbid022xjqGgCV1mVNs423iPpqPy1t5Gre8toQQXFR9kzvDn9ySTAoGC5pYsKj22MkGKKcl?rdid=CEuc32dZnOG5O3nRRelated article:https://frackmanproject.substack.com/p/they-reckon-theyre-saving-a-forest Consumer Energy Solutions Index – provides a comprehensive picture of Australians' support for specific clean energy solutions, including barriers to their support: https://cleanenergysolutionsindex.com.au/key-findings/ TrueNorth weekly independent news updates – curated articles and commentary on the news of the day from Australia's independent news media publishers: https://truenorthnews.substack.com/aboutSLICK: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil, by Royce Kurmelovs – a powerful exposé of the global oil industry's decades-long capture of Australian governments: https://www.slickthebook.com.au

In June of this year, Comms Declare published a report titled From Cradle to Career, which looked into the influence and sponsorship of major coal, oil and gas corporations in childhood settings such as schools, museums, sporting clubs, scholarships and career pathway programs. It identified approximately 260 publicly documented programs, partnerships, sponsorships and other initiatives through which major fossil fuel companies, including Woodside, Shell, Chevron, Santos, BHP and Glencore, engage with Australian children and young people.  It's the first national report to expose the marketing by these companies in these kinds of settings, and it found that policy loopholes are allowing private companies to reach our kids in these places. Shae speaks to Belinda Noble, the President and Founder of Comms Declare, and Nic Seton, the CEO of Parents for Climate, about the report.  Head to https://www.parentsforclimate.org/not_for_sale to sign the petition calling for a Senate Inquiry into fossil fuel sponsorship in childhood education settings. parentsforclimate.orghttps://commsdeclare.org/http://commsdeclare.org/cradle-to-career/ Image: Sectional School Building (2015), by Heritage Branch Staff, CC-BY-4.0

Rosie interviews Dr Jeremy Walker following the recent Australian Senate Select Committee Inquiry on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy (2025), to which he presented both written and in person evidence. Dr Walker is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. He’s a member and past director of the Climate Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC) at UTS, and a research fellow of the Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University, and the International Climate Social Science Network based at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. With two decades of research into the Atlas Network informing his submission, Dr. Walker sheds light on the secretive world of climate misinformation and disinformation. During the show we also discuss the rise of racism and Pauline Hanson; the extended disinformation and astroturfing against the Victoria to NSW Interconnecter (VNI) West and the Victorian ALP government; and the relationship of fossil fuel money and local Atlas Network linked groups to both. The links below are well worth a look: Link to Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy, with access to submissions, documents, Hansard and video: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Information_Integrity_on_Climate_Change_and_Energy/ClimateIntegrityDr Jeremy Walker’s submission is no. 243. Note that the “additional information” is archival evidence regarding the origin and early sponsorship of Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies (CIS). The full report of the Senate Select Committee: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Information_Integrity_on_Climate_Change_and_Energy/ClimateIntegrity/Report Video from the Senate committee’s hearings on 16/02/2026Note that Jeremy Walker appears at 10.37 am (in between evidence from Meta and Coal Australia - well worth watching as well!):https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Read_Listen/ParlView/video/4334923Hansard transcript of Jeremy Walker's testimony at the hearing is here:https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=COMMITTEES;id=committees%2Fcommsen%2F29259%2F0002;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fcommsen%2F29259%2F0000%22 The Senate inquiry gets great context and writeups by the ABC’s Gareth Hutchens: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/atlas-network-mont-pelerin-society-neoliberal-think-tanks/105700628https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-19/climate-disinformation-senate-committee-dr-karl-atlas-network/106350002https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-29/senate-report-misinformation-climate-change-recommendations/106497978 Jeremy also spoke about the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG) and their report, The Climate Disinformation War: How to fight back for Australia's democracy and security.

Climate Action ShowAugust 3rd 2026Produced by Vivien LangfordPHILIPPINES - COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS Guests:Krishna Ariola -  a prominent Climate Justice activist in the Philippines. She has represented her country at the U.N and had a key role in preventing fossil fuel projects in Negros Province. Yeb Sanyo -  Speaking to Democracy Now is 2013. He told the Warsaw Climate conference during Cyclone Hayan " What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness. The climate crisis is madness. We can stop this madness. Right here in Warsaw." Bill McKibben on "Oil as Achilles heel" read by Meg Clancyhttps://billmckibben.substack.com/p/oil-as-achilles-heel

Gavan, the Climate and Energy Program Manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation, gives an update on the ACF's current campaigns, specifically Woodside Energy's proposed Browse gas development off the coast of WA. Mary from Climate for Change discusses effective climate communication and shares tips on how to have more meaningful conversations about climate change. They also touch on recent research regarding fossil fuel companies funding children's activity programs across Australia.

Antimony and Shae chat about the parts of activism that have made them drop out and halve helped them keep going.They talk to Linda, head of the outreach team at Darebin Climate Action Now, about how she keeps motivated and what DCAN do to help people level up their activism.Then it's a quick chat with Mary from Climate for Change about the events they have coming up for newies and oldies.Check out:www.darebincan.org.auhttps://www.climateforchange.org.au/to meet up with some lovely people doing cool things.

This episode addresses saviorism complexes within activism, particularly when it is organised or oriented towards middle-class standpoints.When middle-class people engage in activism, it often stems from a revelation or realisation about how the world works, followed by a desire to change it, rather than from collective action born of an issue affecting a community. In this way, activists can see themselves as both separate from the issue at hand and tasked with "saving the world" from the problem by protesting and convincing others to come on board.Many parts of climate activism have been dominated by and oriented towards the middle class, in the same way that environmental choices such as buying an EV, switching to solar power or shopping at an organic, refill shop are tailored towards those with the means, money and privilege to do so. While caring for the environment and nature transcends class, race and cultural boundaries, much of how climate activism presents itself today is dominated by the middle class, which is why it is important to interrogate how that influences the movement and our own capacity to build collective momentum.Shae's guest, Anthea Lawson, has done a lot of thinking in this regard, examining her own and others' standpoints and the effects of those standpoints on their respective activism.Anthea Lawson (she/her) is an author and campaigner. Her books How Not To Save The World and The Entangled Activist help people who want to change the world think about the psychological, spiritual and philosophical foundations of what they’re doing, what’s getting in the way, and how they can be more effective. After training as a journalist at The Times, she worked for campaign groups including Global Witness and Amnesty International. She has fought for many issues over three decades, including controls on the arms trade and an end to the financial secrecy offered by tax havens.https://www.anthealawson.uk/https://anthealawson.substack.com/ https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/

On this show, we talk to a lot of experts. People who use big words, people who have written some book or spoken at some conference. And we also talk to local groups, people who are doing activisms, people who are heavily invested in this space, people who already know a lot. But that's not really most of Australia. I think for a lot of people, climate change is this kind of vague, bad future thing that is kind of in the back of their minds. I really wanted to get the perspective of normal people. People who are as invested in climate change as the experts and the activists, because climate change is gonna affect us all in the future. And whose opinions are just as important because feeling kind of bad, not knowing what to do, is a climate action. And it's probably the most popular climate action that everyone in the world is doing right now. The whole point of 3CR is that we present viewpoints that are underrepresented in other media, that we talk to people that don't usually have a voice, that we present opinions that other media places won't. Children are one of the groups in societies that have the least power, and their words are taken least seriously. And maybe that’s true, maybe kids just have bad opinions, but something that really struck me while I was talking to these people was just how their ideas were really similar to adults' ideas - it’s just that adults use bigger words. So I interview some normal children about their ideas about climate change.  ALSO What happens when your workplace burns down and then you don't have a job anymore? What happens when you are in a flood, and then your legs dissolve off, and then you have to go on the disability pension? What happens if you’re already doing it tough, and then the whole world around you starts getting even tougher one degree at a time? What if escalating natural disasters starts costing the government a lot of money and then they don’t increase jobseeker for another 1000 years? What if you’re poor but the only real solution to climate change being offered is the individual consumption of electric cars and solar panels and you just don’t have $50,000 lying around? What happens if you're an unemployed, divorced, depressed middle-aged men and everyone assumes that you and people like you are going to vote for one nation, but actually, you're really cool? I don't know the answers to these question, but Jennifer from the unemployed workers union does!