170. Australia is Back!
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism.
As always, we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue on building a sustainable future.
In this episode, co-hosts Christiana Figueres and Paul Dickinson are joined by guest co-host and friend, Dean Bialek. Dean has worked on climate change for years in his native Australia, which is especially relevant to today’s episode.
The team spends some time Down Under一well, proverbially speaking一conversing with Aussies-extraordinaire Zali Steggall, Australia’s most renown international alpine skier, Teal Movement founder, and current independent member of the Australian Parliament for Warringah; and Mike Cannon-Brookes, climate activist and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of software juggernaut Atlassian Corporation Plc.
Our guests weigh in on Australia’s new government, its audacious climate bill, and how a nation chock-full of renewable resources (but historically low political will) could be about to pivot to climate superpower status.
We also have an update on the Environmental Music Prize from Edwina Floch, Founder of The Environmental Music Prize as well as a music track from the Winner of the Prize, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard.
You won’t want to miss this inspiring podcast episode一It’s definitely ace!
NOTES AND RESOURCES
To learn more about our planet’s climate emergency and how you can transform outrage into optimistic action subscribe to the podcast here.
Thank you to our guest co-host, Dean Bialek!
Dean Bialek
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Thank you to our guests this week!
Zali Steggall | Member Australian Parliament for Warringah
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Mike Cannon-Brookes | Co-founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian
Atlassian
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Congratulations to our musical guest and winner of the 1st Environmental Music Prize, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard!
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
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Go watch their Prize-Winning Music Video “If Not Now, Then When” on YouTube
**Note from Clay** - It’s f***ing awesome
Listen more from the Environmental Music Prize and sign up for their newsletter to stay tuned for next year's prize!
Edwina Floch
Environmental Music Prize
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Check out Tom’s appearance on the Coliving Conversations podcast.
Learn more about Australia’s Climate Change Bill 2022
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Cristiana Fiegettis and today we have a guest co-host. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Dean B. L.A. from Australia, great to join you. |
| 0:23.9 | Oh huge thank you Dean for joining us as a co-host replacing Tom who is finishing |
| 0:28.9 | his application to lead the world bank. |
| 0:31.5 | Wonderful to have you with us Dean. Joining us again after was June I think you were with us |
| 0:36.0 | last time and we're going deep diving in Australia and this time with some fantastic interviews |
| 0:42.0 | with Mike Cannon Brooks and a mother of the Teal Revolution Zalista Gal and we have music |
| 0:48.1 | from the winner of the Australian Environmental Music Prize. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:05.2 | So welcome to our listeners and welcome Dean. |
| 1:07.6 | Thank you very much. So listeners will remember that Dean joined us several months ago |
| 1:14.2 | before the Australian election and his voice was quite deep and concerned but today I'm |
| 1:20.8 | sure he's actually going to delight us with a singing voice because we have fantastic results |
| 1:27.2 | from the Australian election but listeners will also remember that we have been working with Dean |
| 1:32.8 | for more years than I can possibly remember and Dean it is so delightful to have you on the episode |
| 1:40.1 | it's so good that Tom is off as Paul has explained finishing his application to lead the |
| 1:47.1 | world bank. Strong content. And that means that we can have you today to actually walk us through |
| 1:55.0 | deep dive on not necessarily on the Australian election per se because one of our |
| 2:02.4 | one of our interviewees will be doing that but to give us a context of what that actually means. |
| 2:09.1 | What does the new government have in store for Australia? What does that mean for policy in Australia |
| 2:16.4 | both domestic and international? So Dean so wonderful to have you with us again. |
| 2:22.4 | Thanks Chris Janna and just to correct something that you said earlier we actually spoke just a few |
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