The Good Dirt with Byron Smith
News:Politics
In which Brooke Prentis - Waka Waka woman, Aboriginal Christian leader, Grasstree Gathering coordinator, Common Grace spokesperson - kicks Byron Smith's backside in trivia. And of course, together they explore some major contemporary issues facing those living in Australia and beyond, seeking to connect the dots and unearth the stories that matter.
Episode Outline
I. What's the big idea?
"Just world belief" is the idea that, fundamentally, the world is just, that we each get (more or less) what we deserve, that success is typically earned - and so is failure. It is a foundational conviction for many people, but has some disturbing consequences...
• Milgrim Lerner psychology experiment studying victim-blaming
II. What's going on?
Story #1: More than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991
Story #2: Yatala Prison Inquest: Guards refused to cooperate over Wayne Morrison death, court told
Story #3: No Gatton Women's Prison
Story #4: Australia relationship with Pacific on climate change 'dysfunctional' and 'abusive'
Story #5: Rising CO2 levels could push 'hundreds of millions' into malnutrition by 2050
Story #6: Capilano, Australia's biggest honey producer, and supermarkets accused of selling 'fake' honey
III. What do we do?
Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu (book)
Common Grace (website)
Common Grace (Facebook)
ADM 2019 Fellowships
11. Brooke Prentis: political vs partisan, bushfire smoke, burning rainforests, humpback recovery, cashless welfare cards, civil liberties narrowing, persecution of Uyghurs
10. Adam Wood: intergenerational injustice, bushfires and coal in NSW, electric vehicles in Australia, climate strike
9. Mick Pope: Anthropocene, 11,000 scientists, bad climate ancestors, profiting from destruction, and secondary boycotts
8. David Clough: humans and other animals, live export, Australia's extinction crisis, climate emergency, role of faith communities
7. Jason John: identity protective cognition, existential risks, election analysis, Adani update, islander rights
6. Ben Thurley: the Overton window, Coalition budget priorities, climate policies compared, how change happens
5. Miriam Pepper: the Murray-Darling river basin - a case study in ecology, history and politics
4. Josh Dowton: epistemic priority on the oppressed, 26th January, developments in the coal industry, school strike for climate, insect decline
3. Lisa Sharon Harper: Core spiritual lies, colonialism and race, Freedom Road, Pacific climate neighbourliness, nonviolent civil disobedience
1. Scott Sanders: common grace, air pollution, biodiversity loss and loneliness
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