Episode 73: Regenerating Australia with Damon Gameau and Morag Gamble

In this episode, Morag Gamble talks with Damon Gameau about his latest film, Regenerating Australia. The Permaculture Education Institute's Film Club is hosting a free livestreaming on May 20th. BOOK HERE.Damon Gameau is an award-winning filmmaker, author, father and activist. His 2015 movie, That Sugar Film, broke Australian box office records, and his other feature-length film, 2040, was one of the highest-grossing Australian documentaries of all time.His latest offering, Regenerating Australia, is a short film that explores what Australia could look like in 2030 if we listened to the needs of its people. Based on interviews with a diverse group of Australians about their hopes for the future, the film features well-known voices like Kerry O’Brien, Sandra Sully, Gorgi Coghlan, Tim Flannery, Larissa Behrend and David Pocock.Morag and Damon discuss:Creating a safe space for young people to talk about climate change and take action;The power of storytelling for creating change;The upcoming Australian Federal election;There is no saviour coming to combat climate change – it requires action from the network of changemakers within Australia and the world – our very own mycelial network;What the Northern Rivers flooding in NSW taught us about the importance of localisation and self-governance;How we measure success now and how we might measure it in the future;Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics;The problem with apocalyptic storylines;How do we put climate change solutions front and centre so they’re funded;What drives change;Regenerating Songlines Australia, a continent-wide network that connects regenerative projects and practitioners led by First Nations peoples and inclusive of all Australians;The rise of regenerative farming in Australia, contributed partly by Southern Cross University’s Regenerative Agriculture Course;How we can incentivise regeneration of our land;Gregory Landau’s recently formed Regen Network;Australia's reliance on fossil fuels and reluctance to give them up;The power of Indigenous knowledge and the role it can play in healing our planet.This podcast is bought to you by The Permaculture Education Institute.Please rate and review this podcast in the Apple Podcast app, Spotify, or wherever you listen. By giving this podcast a five-star review, we can help bring Permaculture into other people’s lives.I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show_____MORAG GAMBLEFounder, Permaculture Education InstituteMorag's CoursesPodcast BlogPodcast YouTube: Podcast InstagramLinkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/moraggamble/I am a possibilitarian and I believe in HumanKINDness.In this podcast my guests and I explore How are we to live? Really live, as nature ourselves, tending the conditions where life can thrive. We ask How do we become the kind of humans this moment is asking us to be?This podcast is one of my acts of myceliation. Each conversation is a thread in a vast network of people speaking up for life with love and care. This podcast beams out from my hand-built solar-powered studio in the midst of a permaculture food forest in a permaculture ecovillage on Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi country.If this episode lights something in you, pass it to one person who needs it. That is how myceliation works.