This week we chat to the people who have been protesting the controversial Western Highway upgrade near Ararat. The Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy has been existing amongst the contested trees for three years and this week one of the significant trees was cut down and others were at great risk. Protesters scrambled into action – some scaled trees and tied themselves in and others supported from the ground and started legal processes. In this episode we speak with the leader of the protest movement Zellanach Djab Mara and others who have been involved in the protest.
This episode of Saltgrass was recorded on Djab Wurrung country and produced in Castlemaine, on Djaara country, home of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Links:
The Djab Wurrung Facebook group
Go to this facebook group to join in on the benefit gig on the 7th of November.
News related to this weeks action:
ABC coverage
SMH coverage
Alternate perspective from Ruben Berg
Illustration for this episode by Trace Balla
A (cautious) 2021 New Years message
S3 E13 Ecology and the Economy with Warwick Smith
S3 E12 Talking About Climate with Rebecca Huntley
S3 E11 Djab Wurrung Allies and Supporters
S3E9 Solar Bulk Buys
S3 E8 Zero Waste Food with Madeline Hudson
S3 E7 Student Strikers and Gas
S3 E6 Making Change with Natalie Moxham
S3 E5 Caring for Country
S3 E4 Ethical Apparel with Ilka White
S3 E3 Pandemics and permaculture
S3 E2 E-bikes with Sue Tomkinson
S3 E1 Aunty Julie McHale
S2 E31 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Gold Rush times with Vic Say
S2 E30 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Meet the locals
S2 E29 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Precolonial life with Bill Davies
S2 E28 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - colonisation and its aftermath
S2 E27 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Ulumbarra
S2 E26 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Meeting Place
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