Ocean Protect Podcast

Peter Whish-Wilson has been senator for Tasmania since 2012, representing the Australian Greens political party. In this chat, we discuss the fight to protect Australia’s oceans and coastlines from new offshore oil and gas projects, climate change, making plastic producers accountable, a billionaires tax and corruption in politics.  

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Paul Dubowski is an Environmental Scientist with over 20 years’ experience looking after our catchments and waterways. In this chat, we reflect on the inaugural Queensland Water Summit, held just two days earlier in Brisbane – including insights from the wide range of presenters, along with key recommended actions to help better manage water resources and better protect waterways and oceans across Queensland and beyond.

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Shannon Mead is the Founder of and Chief Butt Officer of "No More Butts" - returning for his fourth appearance on the pod. We discuss vapes, what the latest is with the global Plastics Treaty, and how No More Butts is progressing towards their vision of a world without tobacco waste.

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In our Season 6 finale, the microphones are turned - with Daniel Rider (Ocean Protect's WSUD Specialist) interviewing the host, Brad Dalrymple (Ocean Protect Principal Environmental Engineer). We chat about, we get a bit of Brad's back-story, the 'why' and what of some of Ocean Protect's advocacy initiatives, and plans for 2025.

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Dr Tom Remenyi is a climate scientist, and an expert at translating complex climate science into useful, accessible products, tools and/ or advice. In this chat, we talk climate change scenarios past and future, and what are the likely impacts in relation to rainfall, temperatures, droughts, and ultimately ‘us’ – and what key actions we can (and should) all do.  

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