On this episode of The Sydneyist podcast we’re looking at trees. Urban heat is rather the topic du jour – as is climate change. And the tree is our best defence – yet still, when push comes to shove, we chop them down. Elizabeth Farrelly is looking quite specifically at the demolition of almost 600 […]
When we sip tea, slug craft beer, or inhale tobacco, most of us don’t stop to think we are using a bit of plant power to feel better. But as Dr Monica Gagliano, our guest on Monday Drive this week explained, pretty much everywhere you look on earth, “there is an undercurrent story of human’s […]
We wanted to ask Mike Baird if he could imagine Australia without koalas? But he made a tactical retreat from politics this week by resigning – some would say NSW just got too hot for the Premier whose popularity has been severely dinted in the past 12 months by community opposition to his government’s controversial […]
A pretty ballsy show this week! as we decided NOT to dodge the C word. It just kept raising its pretty head. First up – apparently the Sydney business community decided to put its money on the big C over the weekend. Clover Moore’s detractors must have been cursing to find themselves in the minority. […]
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Next Monday’s show is a combustible blend of multicultural surprises from Richard Cornish talking up his memoir of the year he gave up meat, to quick chats with the geniuses behind Stingray Sisters, an innovative indigenous doco series, and Ghost Girls, a new contemporary novel set in the Sydney we never see on TV, amidst […]
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Sadly, Monday Drive was forced to report on the demise of Randwick’s revered Tree Of Knowledge, located at the intersection of Wansey Road and High Street, this week. Local tree lover and fresh-minted activist John Bellamy phoned in to tell us about the horror of watching it come down. Clearly resident action to stop any more […]
Since December last year when local resident Adnil Ramos came into the studio to talk about the impending loss of 700 significant trees in the Randwick area, Monday Drive has been following the drama surrounding these vintage arboreal guardians of our ecosystems. Unfortunately in January we lost 20 heritage trees along Maiden’s Row in Alison […]