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Episode 102: Goodbye for now
It’s been a wonderful journey for Dan and Megan over the past 3 years and 100 programs. We’ve loved every minute, but today we have some sad news. This is going to be our last program of Water Watch in its current weekly format. To bid us goodbye, we want to invite you on one last special, takin…
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Episode 101: Belubula Headwaters Protection
Imagine buying 11 acres in the countyside only to find out 9 months in that a new mine is proposed just down the road. Thats's the story of Dan Sutton from the Belubula Headwaters Protection Group who you'll hear from this week.
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Episode 100: Red Tide | Faith Coleman on SA's algae crisis
South Australia's coast has been inundated with a toxic algae bloom, killing aquatic wildlife, closing down industry and leading to calls for a national disaster status. In the past four months a toxic marine algae bloom has spread north through Gulf St Vincent, across Kangaroo Island, into Spenc…
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Episode 99: Ngamaka with BARKAA
For NAIDOC week we have a very special interview with Barkindji Malyangapa rapper who takes her name from the river, BARKAA! Barkaa recently released a powerful new collaboration with Barkindji Malyangapa muscian from Wilcannia Leroy Johnson. Their song Ngamaka is an ode, to mother earth, river a…
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Encore: 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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Encore: Ngaratya (together, us group, all in it together)
This week on water watch we speak with Zena Cumpston, artist and co-curator of the contemporary art exhibition Ngaratya (together, us group, all in it together). The exhibition brings together six Barkandji/Barkindji artists including Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston, David Doyle, Kent Morris, Adriann…
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Encore: 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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Episode 98: How does a fish tube work, exactly?
Today on Water Watch we are revisiting the Menindee fishway trial to listen to the full interview with Anthony Townsend from NSW DPIRD Fisheries. What does it feel to be a fish slurped up a tube? Tune in, and you might just find out. Watch Watch is produced by Broken Hill Community radio 2DRY.
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Encore: Sold Down The River with Scott Hamilton
Australia's water market is heralded as the best in the world, but it’s often a sore point for people who work the land, driving up costs and uncertainty when water is scarce. It’s the invisible hand, designed to move our precious blue gold, it’s highest and most productive use. But decades on …
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Episode 97: Songs for River Country for Reconciliation Week
For Reconciliation week, we have some special conversations with First Nations Musicians about water and country, with: Leroy Johnson Nancy Bates and Kaleena Briggs from Stiff Gins Watch Watch is produced by Broken Hill Community radio 2DRY.
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