Water Watch Radio
Water Watch Radio
Water Watch is a weekly deep dive into news and current events from policy, ecology, art and climate. With a diversity of voices from our river communities as well as experts in the field, Water Watch celebrates the life and culture of Australia’s waterways, investigates the big issues facing the future of our rivers, and tells important stories about the human connection to land and water. Water …Social links:
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***Bonus EXTENDED Interview with Uncle Badger Bates***
This week we’re excited to share a special interview we’ve been working on for a while with one of the country’s renowned artists and water activists. Born on the banks of the Baaka river in 1947, Uncle Badger Bates is a proud Barkindji man and an inspiration to both artists and water activists al…
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Episode 86: Uncle Badger Bates
This week we’re excited to share a special interview we’ve been working on for a while with one of the country’s renowned artists and water activists. Born on the banks of the Baaka river in 1947, Uncle Badger Bates is a proud Barkindji man and an inspiration to both artists and water activists al…
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***Bonus EXTENDED The Wonderful World of Eels***
This week we are traversing from the depths of the world's oceans to the mud and silt of freshwater rivers and lakes, ponds, dams and backwaters of the world. This episode we're talking about the extraordinary lives of eels. Few people know about the vast journey that every eel makes from the bot…
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Episode 85: The Wonderful World of Eels
This week we are traversing from the depths of the world's oceans to the mud and silt of freshwater rivers and lakes, ponds, dams and backwaters of the world. This episode we're talking about the extraordinary lives of eels. Few people know about the vast journey that every eel makes from the bot…
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Episode 84: Nyah goes to court
This week, we’re heading back to the mid Murray River, where a small community group has been caring for their local forest for decades. Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park are embarking upon a legal challenge in the Federal Court over the Federal Government's decision to approve the Nyah SDLAM or “flo…
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Episode 83: Fighting for a voice in the NT
This week, we're taking you back to the Northern Territory with an interview with one of the Traditional Owners who made the 4,000 KM trek from Darwin to Canberra in September. The delegation of Traditional Owners and environmentalists went to the capital to call on the Federal government to step i…
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Episode 82: Retelling Australia's Water Story w/ Professor Quentin Grafton
Today you’re going to hear from a well read, and well written academic on water issues. Professor Quentin Grafton recently published a book, and the launch of the book was accompanied with an address to the National Press Club and an article in the Conversation. The description of the book proclaim…
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Encore: Water Rights the New Land Rights
This week Water Watch looks back to a presentation by Dr Josie Douglas, the General Manager of the Central Land Council speaking at the Fresh Water Futures Panel at the Environment Centre NT State of Environment Conference in September 2023. With thanks to the PEW Charitable Trust for accessing c…
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ENCORE: DOBBY - Warrangu, River Story
This week we have a bit of arts and culture respite, but that's not to say its not going to get political! It was our great privilege this week to interview an artist we've been following for a very long time, Murrawarri, Philipino rapper and drummer, Rhyan Claphem, who calls himself DOBBY. DOBBY …
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ENCORE: "A Total Fraud on the Environment" with Richard Beasley SC
With things heating up in the Murray-Darling Basin regarding the Basin Plan, we’re continuing to cover Basin politics with a fascinating interview with Richard Beasley who was Senior Counsel assisting to the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Back in 2018. In a thoroug…
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