Join award-winning investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson and Climate 200 co-converor Kate Hook, as they discuss Marian’s Quarterly Essay Woodside vs. the Planet. How a Company Captured a Country.

As the world grapples with the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change, Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down: with bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give.

This is a story of power and influence, pollution and protest. In this intimate conversation, Kate and Marian will discuss how one company can capture a country, and what communities across Australia can do to fight back. 

"The gas companies and the Labor governments in WA and Canberra had refined their defence: the gas industry was helping the world decarbonise, curbing its emissions and providing energy security. It sounded like the planet could hardly have a better friend than Australia's LNG industry and companies like Woodside." — Marian Wilkinson,