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s a transport fund to bring First Nations peopletogether from communities impacted by nuclear developments. Please support if you can.
, held on Arrernte Country in Alice Springs from 17-20 July. Kuyunba is the Arrernte name for the sacred ancestral land occupied by the joint Australian-US military intelligence facility of Pine Gap near Alice Springs. The Hayes family are the custodians for the site that was taken without consent 60 years ago. Following a weekend of talks and workshops the gathering culminated in the 600 strong convergence supporting the Hayes family to hand over a letter demanding the closure of Pine Gap, land back and compensation for 60 years of loss of access and damages to their sacred site, culture and community.You can sign the petition supporting the Hayes family demands here.
s family letter here and sign their petition: https://closepinegap.org.au/familyletter/Thank you to Scheherazade Bloul, Jesse Boylan, Georgie Stubbs and Micaela Stubbs whose voices appear in this episode.
, hear some powerful clips from that decade which really resonate with current struggles.
ohi Nui, beginning three decades of atmospheric and underground testing. The impacts live on in memories and in radiation that continues to harm and pose future threats for countless generations.Today we’ll hear Luisa Tuilau reading her poem Bravo, The Brunswick Rogues Choir and friends, Dimity Hawkins from the Nuclear Truth Project, Nic Maclellan - Independent Journalist who has worked in the Pacific region for many decades, and special guests Samuel Barton - President of the Marshall Islands Student Association and Frances Namoumou from the Pacific Conference of Churches.
Ngambri Country / CanberraJuly 3: Public Event, Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, Gadigal Country / SydneyJuly 3: Public Event, Balam Balam Place, Wurundjeri Country / Melbourne
the to the sacred mound springs on Arabunna country where BHP draws up to 42 million litres of water a day from the Great Artesian Basin. We interview Annie McGovern, a participant in the early Roxby Blockades in 80s, who reflects on her experiences and shares her insights and concerns on these recent legislative changes.
s Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Kuantan, Malaysia that is being fed by rare earths mined at Mt.Weld in WA. LAMP was constructed in 2013 without a waste management plan and as of early 2026, over 1 million metric tonnes of the innocuous sounding Water Leach Purification (WLP) has accumulated on site. This radioactive waste contains uranium-238 and long-lived thorium-232, that requires isolation for billions of years.Liz Downes is a campaigner, researcher, writer and currently a Director of the Rainforest Information Centre and member of the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group (MRAG). Liz is leading Aid/Watch research to map Australia’s ‘green’ extractivism footprint domestically and internationally.Lee Tan is a statistician and a social researcher with decades of health, environmental and social justice campaigning experiences. She worked as the Asia-Pacific Campaign Coordinator for the Australian Conservation Foundation and has extensive links with Indigenous communities, local organisations and national organisations in the Region. Lee leads the Aid/Watch campaign Stop Lynas.Links:Australia’s Mining Rush for Green Energy By Liz Downes and Natalie Lowrey Rare Earth Elements Impacts and Conflicts MapMusic: bensound.com Artist: Theatre Of Delays. License code: ZS40ATOWLMEU9ETV
Loughlin, Dave Sweeney and Kirsten Blair. The songs featured in this episode are from the Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World, performed by Ensemble Hilka.
t be fast trackedIn late October Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese signed the US-AU Critical Minerals Framework: a deal where mining companies can apply for billions of US dollars to finance projects to produce minerals used to make weapons, electronics and renewable energy.You can sign the Friends of the Earth petition calling for Anthony Albanese to clarify how major projects will be impacted by the US-AU Critical Minerals deal and demanding a guarantee that they will all be subject to regular environmental and social assessment processes.
This conversation with Dr Scheherazade Bloul traces the pathways into AUKUS Pillar II, examining how universities are increasingly entangled in military research and defence infrastructure. We explore the implications of this alignment and what it means for knowledge production, power, and the futures being shaped across our region. Part one of a two part series.
Help sink AUKUS before it sinks us!from 1-3pm today at the Maritime Union of Australia 46 Ireland st, West Melbourneorganised by No AUKUS Coalition Vic, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network and Spirit of Eureka. Info here.And on Sunday 15th March come to the State Library of Victoria.At 12pm Free Palestine Coalition Naarm are holding a commemoration of 7 years since the Christchurch massacre at that saw 51 Muslims killed by an Australian Islamophobic, anti-immigration fascist.Followed at 1pm by a MASS ANTI-WAR PROTEST AGAINST THE US-ISRAELI IMPERIALIST WAR ON IRAN.Join millions around the world calling for an immediate end to the US-Israeli war on the Middle East/West Asia region. Stand with Palestine and the people of Lebanon and Iran. Stand for the freedom of land and people from the boots of Zionist colonialism, US imperialism and capitalist dictatorship.
towards $30b Adelaide submarine shipyard” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-15/down-payment-for-30b-adelaide-submarine-shipyard/106346484 An overview of British nuclear weapons testing in Australia https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/sources-radiation/more-radiation-sources/british-nuclear-weapons-testing A zine about AUKUS was handed out at the workshop, and you can access it too: https://renegadeactivists.org/resources-and-legislation/ (“Leaving AUKUS? An anti-militarist review of AUKUS: it was never really about submarines” Produced by Renegade Activists, July 2025)
Sharing audio from an online forum organised by no nuclear subs SA, ‘Stop the AUKUS nuclear submarines’, held on February 11. Firstly we’ll hear from Dr Margie Beavis, from the Medical Association for Prevention of War, and ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Margie will provide some of the broader context of defence policy and AUKUS nuclear submarines. Later in the show we’ll hear from Professor Al Rainnie from Adelaide University, on the opportunity costs of AUKUS, as in what we’re missing out on when 368 billion is funnelled into AUKUS.Adjunct Prof. Al Rainnie (Adelaide University) on AUKUS costs, opportunity costs and jobs claims.Medical Association for Prevention of WarInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Today we speak with Dr.Tilman Ruff about the end of the New START Treaty, that removes a significant nuclear restraint between Russia and the United States, which together possess 87% of the world’s nuclear weapons. Under New START, the United States and Russia were limited to deploy each a maximum of 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads and 700 nuclear weapon delivery systems. They also complied with verification, notification, and on-site inspection mechanisms that reduced uncertainty and helped prevent miscalculation. We discuss what the end of New START means for the world, the immediate impacts on this continent and the vital role of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at this time.To support the work of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons pushing for Australia to sign on the the TPNW visit the campaign page.
s show is about running for country, community and life. We celebrate the efforts of the mutual aid fun run and share reflections on the legacy, learnings and ongoing relevance of The Sacred Runs. A series of ceremonial and political runs led by Dennis Banks in solidarity with many others - including long-time anti-nuclear organiser, Marcus Atkinson. Part One of a three part interview series. To donate to the fun run please go to funrun4mutualaid.grassrootz.com/fun-run-4-mutual-aid
Johan, Sam, Manju and Michaela are joined by anti-nuclear legends Dr.Jim Green - National Nuclear-Free Campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia and Aunty Sue Haseldine - Googatha elder and President of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance to reflect on some of the events of 2025 and look ahead to some of the campaigns we will be covering in 2026. Topics include: AUKUS; nuclear power plants in times of war; greater militarisation and nuclear expansion on this continent; Olympic Dam uranium mine; water issues; rocket testing on Googatha land; and the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.Supported by the Nuclear-Free Collective at Friends of the Earth, Melbourne. Sign up for updates.
and we bring you excerpts of a book launch event hosted on 5 May, 2021 by the Elliott School of International Affairs.Support First nations people working to protect people and planet from nuclear risks go to the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance website.
Alison from Demilitarise Newcastle speaks with us about the military expansion in their region and their week of mobilisation for #earthcarenotwarfare coming up from December 1-9. Followed by Adam from Mparntwe for Falastin, a community group protesting the role of the Pine Gap joint US-Australian facility in attacks on Palestine and Sudan.
Today we bring you some interviews from the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance Meeting 2025, held on Nukunu country at Pichi Richi park over the 29-31 August. Adnyamathanha woman Deidre Coulthard shared their concerns about ongoing impacts of the Leigh Creek coal mine that continues to pollute the local area despite its 70 year operations ending in 2015. And she shares excitement about efforts to protect the region from mining through a UNESCO World Heritage listing. The Gammon and Flinders Ranges contain the best fossil evidence from 350 million years ago when the first multicellular life forms emerged. Taking inspiration for a World Heritage listing for the Brewarrina fish traps is Ngambri woman Trish Frail. Then we hear from Regina McKenzie, who won the Peter Rawlinson Award 2016 and was named Human Rights Hero in 2020 for her work in stopping a nuclear waste dump at Barndioota, about new uranium mine threats and the ongoing impacts of Olympic Dam uranium mine on the ecology.
s Talk About AUKUS6pm Tuesday 25 NovemberFood Coop, Kingsley St, Acton, ACTA night of conversation, food and music with Dr.Jim Green and friends.Organised by Beyond Uranium Canberra.
s Koonibba rocket testing range is the largest overland suborbital rocket testing facility in the Southern Hemisphere and covers over 40,000 square kilometre of pristine mallee woodland that is home to Googatha sacred sites and endangered flora and fauna. They began operations at the Koonibba range in 2020 and started commercial launches in 2024.Write a letter in support of the campaign to get Southern Launch and rocket testing of sacred Googatha lands.
s formation in response to the proposal of a nuclear submarine port at Port Kembla, as well as the strong peace and anti-military history of the region.Winter of 2025 has been a hive of busyness for WAWAN, including a peace exhibition at the Wollongong library and a residency at Wollongong Gallery, alongside ongoing support and participation in the pickets at Bisalloy Steel, as organised by Wollongong Friends of Palestine. Wollongong Against War and NukesWollongong Friends of Palestine
Sam conducts an interview with former producer of the Radioactive Show: Eric Miller. Eric wrote, produced, panelled and drove the Radioactive Show for an incredible 18 year period from 1988-2006.Eric transferred his archives of the show back to the Radioactive Show team , and we discussed the collection and Eric's history with the show.
September 27 marks the anniversary of the first British atomic test at Maralinga in South Australia in 1956. Between 1952 -1957 three tests were carried out on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia followed by nine nuclear weapon tests at Emu Field and Maralinga in South Australia. The British nuclear testing program was carried out with the full support of the Australian government and permission was not sought for the tests from Aboriginal people whose lands were used as sacrifice zones.The use of atomic weapons contaminated great tracts of land, displaced and forced Aboriginal people into Government and mission-controlled enclaves. Many Aboriginal people were exposed to the fallout and died. Survivors suffered radiation sickness and long term injury or illnesses and the intergenerational impacts affect family of survivors to this day. This history informs the work of many of Australian Nuclear Free Alliance members to this day, having direct experience with nuclear weapons. We bring you some of the conversations from the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance gathering at Pichi Richi Park in South Australia over the weekend of 29th-31st of August. We'll hear from speakers in the session titled 'Nuclear weapons and survivors: international solidarity and protocols': Dimity Hawkins from the Nuclear Truth Project; Karina Lester - Yangkunytjatjara Anangu woman; Roslyn Peters Anangu women from Yalata Community, Sister Michelle Maddigan - long time nuclear free campaigner based in Adelaide And Sue Haseldine - Googatha elder based in Ceduna, Far West South Australia.Weapons testing is continuing to threaten Aboriginal country and Aunty Sue Haseldine is seeking support to protect Googatha country from Southern Launch's rocket testing range.There is a rally in Adelaide on October 10, go to @westmalleeprotection on Instagram to find out more.
On the 21 September you can join in the National Day of Action Against Miltarisation and AUKUS.We bring an update on AUKUS developments in the south west with Nuclear Free WA campaigner KA Garlick and recordings from an AUKUS session at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting held at Pichi Richi Park on Nukunu country in so called "South Australia" over the weekend of 29-31 August. We'll hear from Dave Sweeney, Nuclear-free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, Derrick from Port Adelaide Community Opposing AUKUS and independent environmental campaigner David Noonan.
We return to the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting held over the weekend of 29-31 August at Pichi Richi Park in South Australia. ANFA is an Aboriginal led grassroots alliance of people and organisations working for a nuclear free future. The annual meeting is a place for multi-generational story telling. This week we turn to uranium mining and the destruction of sacred sites, water, animals, family and community relationships that occurs wherever it's imposed. We'll hear from Mia Pepper and Vicky Abdullah in Western Australia, Kirsten Blair and Cat Beaton with updates from the Northern Territory, followed by Regina McKenzie and David Noonan on South Australia - the only state still mining uranium and as David Noonan puts it - the scene of the crime!
From 29th - 31 August the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting was held on Nukunu country, at Pitchi Richi Park in so called "South Australia". Since 1997 this Aboriginal led alliance has brought people together from across the continent to share information, strategies for defeating corporate and government plans for nuclear developments and to build solidarity for a nuclear free future. First up we'll hear from Dianne Stokes on the Muckaty waste dump campaign in Tennant Creek, NT that ran from 2007 when the site was nominated by the Northern Lands Council to late 2014 when their case in the Federal Court saw the Federal Government and the Lands Council forced to walk away from it. We then hear from Regina McKenzie who took up the fight in 2015 when the nuclear waste dump proposal moved to Barndioota on Adnymathanha country near Hawker, SA until 2020. Followed by some words from ANFA President Aunty Sue Haseldine who stood alongside the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta in the first success against the Federal Government's national radioactive waste dump plan.The next session was dedicated to celebrating the win against the Liberal Coalition's seven proposed nuclear reactors and we hear South Australia's NAIDOC Person of the Year 2025 'Stano' speak about taking a central role in the local campaign against nuclear power for Port Augusta.Please join the National Day of Action on AUKUS on the International Day For Peace Sunday 21 September. Details at antiaukuscoalition.org.
Initially announced in September 2021, the AUKUS trilateral "security" partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, involves two lines of effort referred to as pillars. Pillar 1 focuses on Australia acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines and the rotational basing of US and UK nuclear-powered attack submarines in Australia.This week we spoke with Tim Deere-Jones the author of a detailed new report released this month on the British nuclear submarine experience that has been written for Friends of the Earth Australia. Tim Deere-Jones has a B.Sc. degree in Maritime Studies and has operated a Marine Pollution Research Consultancy since the 1980s focusing on Nuclear and Radioactive Marine Pollution, causes/outcomes of hazardous cargos and shipping accidents, marine hydrocarbon, and chemical spills.Dr. Jim Green, National Nuclear Campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia, said that “The report reveals disturbing patterns of unacceptable safety risks, an appalling lack of transparency, cost-blowouts and delays". Green calls for the Australian Government to "immediately initiate a thorough, independent review of the AUKUS submarine project and this report should be an important input into that inquiry.”The report also details deadly collisions between civilian vessels and nuclear submarines; radioactive discharges to the environment from Nuclear Sub bases; and highlights the eye-watering amounts of money involved in the building, maintaining and then disposing of these vessels which have a fairly short shelf life. The estimated cost to the UK's ministry of defense to fully disposing of one submarine is £96 million or $200 million AUD.The full report, ‘The British experience with nuclear-powered submarines: lessons for Australia’, is available online at nuclear.foe.org.au/nuclear-subs.If what you have heard has concerned you, and you want to get involved, there are a number of ways to take action:IPAN has a petition on their website: Public Call to the Australian Government to cancel the AUKUS - find this at ipan.org.au.There is a National Anti-AUKUS Day of Action coming up on the September 21 on the International Day of Peace. Find or promote a local event at antiaukuscoalition.org.
Recordings from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia online event that brought together survivors, artists, campaigners and parliamentarians to reflect on Hiroshima’s legacy - and the urgent task of disarmament on the 80 th Anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday 6 August, 2025.Featuring MC Scott Ludlam - Writer, former Greens Senator and lifelong national and international campaigner for peace and climate justice; Isao Morimoto – Second-generation Hibakusha and son of the late author/illustrator Junko Morimoto, sharing personal reflections on his mother’s life and survival; and Gem Romuld – Director, ICAN Australia, leading national efforts to promote the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and challenge Australia’s support for nuclear militarism.
Today we continue to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons in war. On August 6 1945 the US army dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan with devastating effect. The intergenerational effects of the atomic bomb are ongoing and first up we'll hear from Kazuyo Yamane daughter of a Hibakusha speaking at speaking at a forum called Remembering Hiroshoma held by the Nuclear Truth Project last year.Next we delve into the Radioactive Show archives and bring you an interview with Jack Sennet who was based in Hiroshima with the Australian airforce just after the bombing. In March 1946, Australia was assigned to Hiroshima and the surrounding area as part the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). The program was first broadcast on the Radioactive Show on August 6 1994. Thanks to Eric Miller for the archives and Sam Gibbard for making those available to us.In Naarm Melbourne there is a 80 years since Hiroshima - day of commemoration: Morning vigil as part of a global week of action to commemorate the terrible atomic bombings in Japan and to collectively remember that something like this should never happen again. 8-9 am: In the morning of Wednesday August 6 there will be a silent vigil from 8-9am (8.15 am was the time of the actual bombing on the day) at St Paul's Catherdral for a time of commemoration.12-1 pm: The Peace Choir will be singing in front of the State Library Victoria.1-1.15 pm: procession to Trades hall1.15-1.30pm: Group photo in front of the huge ICAN banner at Trades Hall1.30-2 pm: Tea and snacks at Trades Hall with a speaker from the Japanese community.All the details can be found at melbournefoe.org.au/events.The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has webinar on Sunday 3rd of from 4-7pm 'Victims of Nuclear Weapons and Testing'.And from 7-8pm on Wednesday 6 August a webinar 'The Fire Still Burns, Hiroshima Disarmamanet and Resistance'. You can find all the details and links to registar for these events at icanw.org.au/action.
On the 16th of July, 1945 at 5.30am the US detonated the first atomic weapon in the Jornada del Muerto desert over the lands of the Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache peoples of what's now know as New Mexico. No one was evacuated from the area and the people living downwind are still suffering to this day due to the intergenerational impacts of exposure to radiation. And whilst their campaigning has seen some compensation delivered it is still not sufficient.The atomic bomb had been developed by the US military at the secret scientific Los Alamos laboratory under the name the Manhattan Project. Scientists had identified two fissile isotopes for potential use in bombs: uranium-235 and plutonium-239. Uranium-235 became the basis of the 'Little Boy' bomb, first used (without prior testing) in the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945; and the design used in the Trinity test, and eventually used in the 'Fat Man' bomb dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, was based on plutonium.There are now over 12,000 nuclear weapons around the world and with the doomsday clock set to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest its ever been, they threaten all our lives.For the last 80 year people around the world have been working to eliminate this terrible invention. Today we speak with Dr. Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) about their current work and events planned to commemorate these horrific events.ICAN is holding a 'Week of Action for Abolition' from August 2-8 and you can find all the details and links to registar for events at icanw.org.au/action.We also bring you part of a speech from nuclear disarmament campaigner and Hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow who was 13 year old school girl that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. This was recorded at the ICAN Nobel Peace Prize celebrations in December 2017.
Have you been thinking about AI aka Artificial intelligence, or AGI aka Artificial General Intelligence recently? It’s moving so fast and I think it’s vital that we engage critically with it. Today I’ll bring you audio thanks to Democracy Now, an interview with Karen Hao, the author of a recent book ‘Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares and Sam Altman’s Open AI.’ I found it to be a pertinent conversation, I’m sharing some excerpts of it here, but recommend checking out the full interview at democracynow.org
For this year's NAIDOC theme 'The Next Generation: Strength, Legacy & Vision' we hear two generations of Googatha (Kokatha) people discussing caring for country. Aunty Sue Haseldine is a Googatha elder that has been leading 6 monthly Rockhole Recovery trips to care for sacred waterholes, part of the Seven Sisters songline. She outlines the importance of the country and current threats from Southern Launch's rocket testing range. We hear from two grandchildren Wayne and Wana about what these trips means to them and their vision for the future as young Kokatha people.Support the Googatha Mula country by donating toward the Rockhole Recovery trips.Support the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance.Learn more about Southern Launch's rocket testing range and the documentary coming soon Native Title Rockets.
This weeks episode we gratefully share Travis Lovett's speech from the Yoorrook Walk for Truth. Songs by Barkaa and Kee'ahn. Ngā mihi nui.
This week we look at the Future Funds investment in weapons companies involved in the genocide in Palestine and producing illegal nuclear weapons. Among many unethical investments, the Australian state’s ‘sovereign’ (stolen) wealth fund invests in weaponscompanies arming Israel to murder tens of thousands of people in Gaza and the West Bank.Elbit Systems - Israel’s largest privately-owned arms company - is the fastest-growing company on the list of companies Future Fund invests in. A research report produced by the Elbit Out of Victoria campaign reveals an increase of 449.9 % within the last 15 months. The report was launched at the Future Fund Head Office, 447 Collins St, Naarm-Melbourne at an after work rally demanding Future Fund divests from Elbit Systems on Thursday 26 June.We bring you some excerpts of speeches from the rally by Krauatatungallung elder Djuran Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe (Crime Scene Australia), Nat (Elbit out of Victoria), Dr Max Kaiser (Jewish Council of Australia) and Romina Beitseen (Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament).Then we speak with Dr.Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons about investment in nuclear weapons producing companies and what you can do about it.More information about divesting from nuclear weapons can be found at quitnukes.org and dontbankonthebomb.com.
In today’s show we learn about the staunch organising, support and action for Palestine that continues to take place on Dharawhal Country, in the area around Wollongong, NSW. There have also been direct actions and 6 community pickets against the nearby company Bisalloy, which organisers found out producers armoured steel for the IDF. Now in June 2025, the devastating genocide continues, but so does the resistance, and I’ve spoken to organisers wit the local group, Wollongong Friends of Palestine, about how they have built a hive of resistance in the area.
On this weeks show we reflect on the recent election result with Kirsten Blair speaking at a Don't Nuke The Climate webinar 'Is nuclear power still a threat after the election?' about the big impact that anti nuclear power sentiment in the community had in the last election that may have cost the Liberal National Coalition as many as 11 seats. We hear from Poppy about the upcoming exhibition called 'Resisting Nuclear' that runs from 12-17 June at 6 Prowse St, Brunswick. For updates follow Old Country Calling on Facebook or Instagram.And we bring you a speech by Scheherazade Bloul from the Elbit Out of Victoria Campaign out the front of Hanwha Korean Weapons company headquarters 550 Bourke St Melbourne on Sunday 25 May. The current focus is on defunding Israels biggest weapons manafacturer Elbit with a rally to be held on Thursday 26 June 5.30pm at the Future Fund offices 447 Collins St, Melbourne CBD.Links: 'Nuclear power may have cost the Coalition 11 seats in the federal election' by Dr Jim Green published in Renew magazine.Flyers to promote the 'No to a future soaked in blood' rally on Thursday 26 June.
This week we play a recording from a conversation between earth-waking artist and musician Anohni and climate justice journalist and activist scholar, Naomi Klein. The conversation was organised and recorded by the Chan Centre for Preforming Arts on Musqueam Land.
Each year the Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute (SIPRI) releases a report on global military spending. We spoke to Xiao Liang about the extraordinary increases and trends in military spending across 2024. Additionally SIPRI reports on the top 100 military companies and ranked 27 is Israel largest military company Elbit Systems who have a wholly owned subsidiary operating out of Australia. Elbit System Australia receives around $917 million of tax payer dollars from the government. On May 15, the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, Elbit Out of Victoria called for an end to their operation with a presence at their newly located offices 290 Salmon St, Port Melbourne. We speak with Scheherazade Bloul about the Elbit Out of Victoria campaign.
On April 26, the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective held a one-day No to Nuclear Solidarity Bike Ride from Camp Sovereignty in the city via Brighton to Kooyong. We hear the voices of participants on why they are riding to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear industry and standing in solidarity with those directly impacted. Particulary by Dutton's nuclear power proposals as we lead into a Federal Election.The Solidarity Bike Ride was joined by Climate Choir Melbourne during the lunch break in Brighton and at Kooyong later in the afternoon for an event commemorating the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We hear from Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation and Dr.Tilman Ruff from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons speaking extensively about the impacts of Chernobyl catastrophe and the implications of a nuclear power industry in Australia.
This week we speak with two candidates in the upcoming Federal election that are running on a platform of nuclear free and sustainable energy.Peltherre Chris Tomlins is a candidate with the Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia in the seat of Lingiari in the Northern Territory. Uncle Chris is a custodian, a peaceful protector of his country and and a passionate activist. Among other things, he supported actions such as ‘Close Pine Gap’, Indigenous Sovereignty, and recognition of the Frontier Wars. Pine Gap is the extensive US military and intelligence base that occupies Aboriginal lands of the Arrernte people, the original custodians of country. The Arrernte were never asked for their permission to build Pine Gap on their land. Rochelle Hine is the Greens candidate for Gippsland. One of Rochelle's campaign policies is 'Keeping the region free of the threat of nuclear reactors'. She has been involved in the nuclear actions happening locally, attending Nanna's Against Nuclear, and other rally's.
As a federal election looms we catch up with Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Nuclear-free Collective Coordinator Sanne DeSwart and Friends of the Earth Australia's National Anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Jim Green. We take a look at what bearing the election outcome may have on various nuclear issues and hear about some of the activities planned in the next month. On the April 26, the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, they are organising a one-day Nuclear-free Bike Ride from from the city via Brighton to Kooyong. More information and sign up here.
The world's military industries are coming to Geelong to do business between 26 - 30 March 2025. We speak with Jaimie Jeffries from IPAN Geelong about the Avalon Air Show and the work they are doing to cut through the event promotion as a family friendly fund day out that gets families to fund one of the largest military weapons trading events in the Southern hemisphere.Picket the Avalon Airshow to stop death dealers arm trading:5.30pm Monday 24 March: Yarra Blvd, Crown Casino. Disrupt the Warmongers dinner get noisy and don't let them eat in peace.7am Wednesday 26 March: Meet at the Beach Road M1 off ramp.3-6pm Friday 28 March: Marand Engineering the old Ford factory, Melbourne Road, North Geelong.7am Saturday 29 display banners and placars and flyering at Park and Ride Sutcliffe Reserve Corio 8am at the Lara Train Station.For World Water Day (22 March) we listen to a recording by the late great land and water protector Uncle Kevin Buzzacott made by Old Country Calling in September 2023.Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine has been taking huge amounts of precious water from the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) since they began operating in 1982. Up to 42 million litres of water is drawn from Arabunna country each day without consent and has destroyed many of the incredible Mound Springs sacred sites, unique ecosystems that are fed by ancient waters the come to the surface due to pressure at the southern end of the GAB.Under the 1982 Roxby Downs Indenture Act, the original Olympic Dam owner Western Mining and now present owner BHP are afforded special privileges that exempt them from the Aboriginal Heritage Protection Act, Water Act, Natural Resources Act, Environmental Protection and Bidoversity Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
In this episode we hear about the ongoing impacts of Fukushima Diaster including the impact on land, water, human health and communities. We disucss how Fukushima serves as a sober warning to Nuclear Power in Australia. Please see the Nuclear Mapping project here: https://nuclearplume.au
We hear from Ray Acheson, who worked with ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and many other NGOs, community groups, governments, diplomats and civil society, to reach the Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons, which was signed at the UN in 2017. Ray has written a book on the process called ‘Banning the bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy.’ We also hear Mitch, Eastern Arrendte and Lurritja woman from Mpartnwe or Alice Springs, speaking about fighting a nuclear waste dump on her country and compounding injustices of the NT Intervention and other racist policies. International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Reaching Critical Will Nuclear Truth Project
This weeks episode we bring you another recording from the Nuke's Free Gathering in Naarm Melb, this week featuring Dr Jim Green and Aunty Sue.
In the lead up to the National Day of Action Against Nuclear Power on March 11, the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, we return to look at some of the major issues with Dutton's nuclear reactor proposal that would see nuclear reactors replace coal fired power stations or retired coal sites at: Tarong and Callide in Queensland; Liddell and Mount Piper in NSW; Port Augusta in SA; Muja in WA, and Loy Yang in Victoria, in the Latrobe Valley.We hear from Wendy Farmer, Gippsland organiser with Yes to Renewables - Friends of the Earth's campaign for 100% renewable energy, climate jobs, and strong communities and Dr. Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for Prevention on War speaking at the Nukes Free Gathering in Naarm-Melbourne on the February 2. Then we're joined by Stephanie Sabrinskas, organiser with the Nuclear Free Gippsland Alliance who are actively campaigning across Gunai Kurnai Country to raise awareness of the harms of nuclear energy and uranium mining.We also catch up with Annette Brownlie from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network to hear about their activities for the Global Day of Action to #CloseBases. For further questions please contact Annette Brownlie 0431 597 256.Events Listing:The following actions will take place at these sites across Australia for Global Day of Action to #CloseBases.Sydney, NSW: 2.00pm, Saturday 22 Feb. Garden Island Naval Base Sydney, Cowper Wharf Rd and Wylde St, Potts Point.Brisbane, QLD: 1.00 – 5.30pm Saturday 22 Feb. St Barnabas Church Hall (The Barney), 28 St Barnabas Pl, Red HillCairns, QLD: 2.00 – 4.00pm, Saturday 22 Feb. HMAS Cairns, 54 Draper St, PortsmithCanberra, ACT: 2:00-3:00pm, Sunday 23 Feb. Outside the US Embassy Moonah Pl, Yarralumla.Rockingham, WA: 5.30pm, Sunday 23 Feb. HMAS Stirling Naval Base Gates, HMAS Stirling Pass Office.'First Nations and nuclear power: our people, our Country, our animals'Thursday 27 Feb, 12pm - 1pm AEDT. Free event. Register here.First Nations speakers on our lived experience of the effects of the nuclear industry on their communities, and what a domestic nuclear power industry would mean.'Nuclear Weapons X Climate Collapse: Countering Humanity’s Twin Existential Threats'Thursday 27 Feb 2025, 6-7pm. Drill Hall, Multicultural Hub, 26 Therry StreetMelbourne. Free & Wheelchair Accessible Event. Register here.Presented By International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Australia. As part of this year’s National Sustainability Festival, ICAN Australia will be joined by experts from Youngsolwara, The Australia Institute, and Doctors for the Environment Australia to discuss the twin existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, and what needs to happen to avert catastrophe.'Backyard Party Fundraiser'Friday 28 Feb, 6-11pm. Come and join us for a night of dancing and connection, raising for these three incredible services and initiatives, Crime Scene Australia, Grandmothers Against Removals and Support for displaced Sudanese Peoples. Tickets here.'Remembering Fukushima: Nuclear Never Safe'Tuesday 11 March, 5.30PM. State Library of Victoria. Rally and march.'Fukushima Never Again: Radiation risk of a nuclear accident in the Australian Context' Tuesday 11 March 7-8pm AEDT. Register for this webinar.Don't Nuke the Climate for an in depth discussion on the radiation risks communities close to nuclear reactors would face in case of an accident. Speakers: Dr Tilman Ruff, Medical Association for Prevention of War, Dr Jim Green, National Nuclear Campaigner Friends of the Earth, Sakyo Noda, Japanese monitoring volunteer after Fukushima disaster. MC Nelli Stevenson. Music: Poli Pearl 'Raw'
Today we bring you another program that introduces various organisations and campaigns that provide opportunities to get informed and take action to end the destructive nuclear industry and work for peace and a world free of weapons.Today we hear from Australian Nuclear Free Alliance President Sue Haseldine, Gem Romuld from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Rocky from Native Title Rockets, Margaret Reynolds from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Sanne DeSwart Coordinator of Friends of the Earth Melbourne Nuclear Free.Links:Friends of the Earth Australia Nuclear FreeUpcoming Online Forums 'First Nations and nuclear power: our people, our Country, our animals' - Thursday 27 Feb, 12pm - 1pm AEDT. Free event. Register here.'Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy - Perspectives and Lessons from Ray Acheson' - Wednesday 18 February, 7-8am AEDT. Free event. Register here.'Fukushima Never Again: Radiation risk of a nuclear accident in the Australian Context'Join Don't Nuke the Climate for an in depth discussion on the radiation risks communities close to nuclear reactors would face in case of an accident. Tuesday 11 March 7-8pm AEDT.Speakers: Dr Tilman Ruff, Medical Association for Prevention of War, Dr Jim Green, National Nuclear Campaigner Friends of the Earth, Sakyo Noda, Japanese monitoring volunteer after Fukushima disaster. MC Nelli Stevenson. Register here.
This week we play a recording with Dimity Hawkins from the Nuclear Truth Project recorded during Nuke Free Gathering held in Naarm, Melbourne Feb 1 - 2, 2025. Support Nuclear Free WA opposing AUKUS Submarines.The Department of Defence has lodged it's environmental assessment of the proposed priority works at HMAS Stirling to the Federal Department of Environment for assessment. (aka Submarine Rotational Force -West Priority Infrastructure Works (EPBC Act 2024/10031). These developments at HMAS Stirling on Garden Island Meeandip would facilitate SRF - West the rotation of 4 US Virginia Class nuclear powered submarines and a UK Astute Class SSNs from 2027 onwards. The works at the site pose an immediate threat to many endangered species that live in Cockburn Sound Derbal Nara.The proposed works include:- upgrade and install new maritime infrastructure including, pier and wharf improvements, mooring dolphin, new small vessel pontoons and berthing, and associated dredging works and piling.- construct and operate a Controlled Industrial Facility to manage and temporarily store low- level radioactive material and waste. Have your say today, and email your submission by Friday 14 February ~srf-west.infrastructureproject@defence.gov.au
On 28 January, 2025, the Bulletin of Atomic scientists moved the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight signalling that we are the closest we have ever been to the destruction of life on this planet. As the old the saying goes "Better active today than Radioactive tomorrow" and it's never been a more important message.Today we bring you the first in a series of programs that introduces organisations working for an end to the nuclear industry, peace and nuclear disarmament. We hear from KA Garlick from Nuclear Free WA, Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Romina Beitsen from the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament, Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation, Dimity Hawkins from the Nuclear Truth Project, Kirsten Blair from Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, Jaimie Jeffrey from the Anti-AUKUS Coalition, Independent and Peaceful Australia Network and Elbit Out of Victoria, Jacob Grech from Renegade Activists and Renegade Solidarity Audio Force Manju Lahrech from Old Country Calling.
On this show, we present an interview between Uncle Robbie Thorpe (Bunjil's Fire) and nuclear-free superstar Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine.Aunty Sue is well known to Radioactive Show listeners because of her tireless work fighting the nuclear industry and her involvement with ICAN, the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and ANFA, the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance.The struggle to protect country from exploitation from mining companies is compounded by so many other struggles aboriginal people faceThe interview covers just some of the battles Aunty Sue faces, why her work is so important and why she’ll never give up.To learn more about ICAN the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, go to www.icanw.org. To learn more about ANFA, the australian nuclear free alliance, go to www.anfa.org.au.Join the Nukes Free Gathering at Catalyst Social Centre, 140 Sydney Rd, Coburg on 1-2 February.Check out Djuran Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe's work go to www.crimesceneaustralia.com.
We speak with Rosie Grech about the upcoming Nukes Free Gathering over the weekend of 31 January - 2 February at Catalyst, 144 Sydney Rd, Coburg. The emphasis for this big weekend-long agenda is movement building. It’s designed to give background or ‘Nuclear 101’ sessions for committed activists who are wanting to get a greater grasp of the nuclear realities, and become more active at this crucial time. Bringing together those deeply immersed in this work with those keen to engage more is a great chance for making connections and strengthening networks. Register here: events.humanitix.com/nukes-free-gathering-2025. Find all the information at Old Country Calling on social media.Then we are joined by Laniyuk, a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji, and French writer and performer of poetry and short memoir, to talk about the Return Lee Point to the Care of Larrakia People campaign. There are solidarity actions in major cities on Monday 20 January. In Naarm Melbourne come to Defence Housing Australia, 120 Bay St, Port Melbourne from 4.30-5.30pm.
On Thursday, 5 December, Mr Seishi Morikawa, a second-generation nuclear survivor from Hiroshima, on tour with the Nuclear Truth Project, visited Friends of the Earth Melbourne to discuss a survey on the health impacts of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago. Mr Morikawa is the Deputy Director of the Kanagawa Atomic Bomb Sufferers Association, a member group of Nihon Hidankyo, and led the Health Study Questionnaire by the Kyoto Association of Second and Third Generation Atomic Bomb Survivors that was released in February 2024.Read 'To Protect the Health of the Second and Third Generation Atomic Bomb Survivors and Future Generations - Report on the Results of the Health Study Questionnaire for the Second and Third Generation Atomic Bomb Survivors'.Seishi invites you to sign this petition in support of second generation survivors.
As the House of Representatives Inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia enters its final week of hearings the Dutton Coalition finally announced the costings for its nuclear plans. We hear recordings from the Melbourne hearing of the Inquiry and speak with Dr. Jim Green National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia. We also speak with Anna Chapman from the Conservation Council of Western Australia about the decision by WA Environment Minister to approve Woodside's massive North West Shelf gas expansion project.
On Thursday 28 November Senator Lidia Thorpe's Genocide Bill was due to be debated in the final sitting of parliament for 2024. Activists from across the continent gathered on the steps of parliament for the "End the Genocide" rally, to bring their powerful testimonies to the ongoing genocide of Aboriginal people perpetrated by the illegal occupation "Australia". Today we bring you recordings from that gathering featuring Gwenda Stanley, Nioka Coe, Djuran Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe, Senator Lidia Thorpe adn Adolf Mora. Song by Gurridyula.
In this week's episode Johan interviews Diné anti-uranium and land protector Leona Morgan. Leona organizes with Haul No! An indigenous-led group collaborating with Indigenous communities and leaders, environmental orgs and community based advocates to stop nuclear colonialism in the SouthWest. Over the next few weeks, Leona will share with us about her people’s continued struggle against the colonial project of the United States, uranium extraction and the intergenerational legacies of harm and ill-health as well as resistance. Leona will also share dreaming for indigenous futurity and a world beyond radioactive racism. Today we will hear Leona talking about the divide and conquer tactics of the colonial project specific to Turtle Island including the 1887 Dawes Act. To support the work of Haul No! or to find out more we encourage our listeners to visit https://haulno.com/ or follow them on instagram @haul_no.
Earlier this year it was revealed that the Federal Government will use taxpayers’ money to fund a $917 million contract with Elbit Systems – Israel’s largest privately-owned arms company. Today we're joined by organiser with the Elbit Out of Victoria campaign Nat to take a close look at just one of the military partnerships the Australian Government is using our money to fund, the various ways that these relationships are enabled and the influence they have on our community locally and globally.We open the program with an excerpt of independent political analyst Hashmat Moslih, speaking at the ‘Your Taxes Fund Weapons’ Community Forum held at the Coburg Town Hall on 29 October and you can watch the full presentation on the Renegade Activists you tube channel.Elbit produces numerous weapons, is a key research and development partner to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and Elbit surveillance technology and military equipment is used to maintain Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip. Elbit markets its weapons systems, including drones, as “battle-proven”, meaning that they have been used against Palestinians living under Israel’s deadly military occupation. The company has been involved in many controversial arms deals, and has been previously banned for producing illegal weapons such as cluster munitions and white phosphorous. Elbit systems also supplies weapons to the Myanmar Junta to attack the Rohingya and the Indonesian military to oppress the West Papuan population, among others. In 2021 the Australian Defence force began stripping Elbit systems out of their equipment due to serious security risks they believed the systems posed. There have been many successful Boycott Divestment and Sanction campaigns against Elbit: the Royal Flying Doctor Service rejected Elbit’s tender for flight training equipment following a campaign by Palestinian supporters, including BDS Australia in 2017; HSBC and AXA Investment Managers divested from Elbit in 2018 due to its involvement in the production of cluster munitions and white phosphorus shells; the City of Liverpool in the UK cancelled the 2020 Elbit-sponsored Electronic Warfare Europe arms fair after a campaign of 40,000 emails protesting at the city’s involvement; and the 2021 arms fair in Seville, Spain, was cancelled by the City Council, also on ethical grounds. Japanese trading giant Itochu Corp’s aviation arm announced in February that it was suspending all work with Elbit “Taking into consideration the International Court of Justice’s order on January 26, and that the Japanese government supports the role of the court".Links & Events:Music on the show is 'First Casualty' by Pataphysics from his 2017 album Tip of the Spear. Pataphysics will be joining an epic line up of guests to play at the 'Stop Genocide' humanitarian fundraiser to raise funds for Sovereign grassroots activists so they can keep up the fight to stop genocide here and globally, at Miscellania, 401 Swanston St on Sunday 3 November from 2pm - 1am.Sunday 3 November at 10.30am there’s the 'Rally for Native Forests' organised by the Bob Brown foundation and in Naarm it starts at Princes Park.The weekly Rally for Palestine is at midday at the State Library.There’s a fire ceremony at Camp Sovereignty at 2pm with Djuran Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe.Don't Nuke the Climate invites you to attend our online session on 'Defeating Dutton’s Nuclear Power Plans / Federal Parliamentary Inquiry' this coming Wednesday November 6.To learn more about the inquiry and to make a submission: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Select_Committee_on_Nuclear_Energy/NuclearpowerThese notes might be helpful in making your submission: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/friendsofearthmelbourne/pages/9246/attachments/original/1730077881/2024_federal__nuclear_power_inquiry_notes.pdf?1730077881If you don’t have time to make your own submission, please take a minute to sign this pro-forma submission: https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/nuclear_power_submission_2024
To discuss the latest governmental inquiry into nuclear power for Australia, first up we'll hear from Dr.Jim Green Friends of the Earth's Anti-nuclear campaigner. Followed by Wendy Farmer, President of Voices of the Valley, a community advocacy group that formed during the catastrophic 2014 Hazelwood brown coal mine fire in Victoria with the aim of dealing with the impacts of the coal industry on their community and planning what the community would look like as they transition away from coal. She is also Gippsland organiser with Yes to Renewables - Friends of the Earth's campaign for 100% renewable energy, climate jobs, and strong communities.On 19th June Opposition Leader Peter Dutton revealed the details of his pledge to build nuclear reactors in Australia with public funding under a government-owned business model. The Coalition plans would see seven nuclear plants be built at the sites of former coal power plants: Lithgow and the Hunter Valley in NSW, Loy Yang in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, Tarong and Callide in Queensland, Collie in Western Australia and Port Augusta in South Australia.In response Prime Minister Anthony Albanese established The House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy on 10 October 2024 to inquire into and report on the consideration of nuclear power generation, including deployment of small modular reactors, in Australia.The House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy is seeking submissions by Friday, 15 November 2024. The Committee will consider late submissions. If you are unable to submit by the above date, please advise the secretariat of your intention to submit and the date on which you plan to provide your submission.Friends of the Earth Melbourne have prepared information to support you making a submission.The International Energy Agency's renewables market report.
Today we continue looking at the AUKUS military pact and in particular the tightening of the relationship between Australia and US military operations.As Vince Scappatura points out in his article 'Australia’s evolving nuclear posture: avoiding a fait accompli' published in Pearls and Irritations on the 12 October "AUKUS epitomises Australia’s geostrategic transformation and evolving nuclear posture within the US alliance. The significance of this transformation is reflected in the fact that Australia will soon become ‘the only ally in the world to host and support military operations by forward-deployed US strategic bombers and SSN attack submarines’. This comes in addition to hosting mature US expeditionary Marine capabilities and a more recent rotational presence of US Army personnel and permanent associated support infrastructure. Perhaps more significant than providing a ‘vast military launchpad’ for multiple forms of US power projection is the developing role of the ADF to seamlessly integrate with American military forces and to provide what is approaching full-spectrum support operations, including for nuclear missions."Countering this was a focus of the recent Independent and Peaceful Australia Network 2024 Conference 'Sleepwalking into war?' We hear Dr Lisa Natividad from Guam where the US has both airforce and naval bases speaking at a public meeting to open the conference at the Perth Library on Friday 4 October. Lisa Natividad is a professor of social work and Chamoru Studies at the University of Guam. She is a founding member of the Pacific Indigenous Women’s Network and I Hagan Famalao’an Guahan. She has been affiliated with the International Peace Bureau and the International Network of Women Against Militarism. We then catch up with long-time peace and anti-nuclear campaigner and former Independent Senator for Nuclear Disarmament Jo Vallentine to discuss the outcomes of the conference.You can read the conference decalaration here.
Today we hear from Whadjak Nyungar man Reverend Mitch Garlett and Senator Jordan Steele-John speaking at a Public Meeting at the Perth Library on October 4 that opened the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network's 2024 Conference called 'Sleeping Walking into War?"On Thursday 10th October the controversial Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bills were rushed through parliament without debate after the Labour government secured last minute support from the Coalition to pass the legislation, sidelining crossbenchers they had been in negotiations with. The Bills establish a nuclear safety framework for the AUKUS nuclear submarines, including a new Naval Nuclear Safety Regulator and transitional arrangements. A Senate Inquiry into the Bills recommended amendments to prevent high level nuclear waste from other countries from being stored in Australia. But while amendments to the bill partially addressed this by preventing storage of spent nuclear fuel, the reprocessed fuel from submarines, as well as any irradiated reactor parts, are still allowed to be stored here under the legislation that passed on Thursday.
Today we speak with Dr. Margie Beavis about the newly released report from the Quit Nukes campaign 'Risky Business: An Update on Super Funds and Nuclear Weapons'. The campaign is a collaboration between the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The report shows that in 2023 fourteen major Australian superannuation funds invested $3.4 billion in the companies that produce the worst weapons of mass destruction. We also speak with the QLD Convenor of the Independant and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) Annette Brownlie about the IPAN 2024 Conference 'Sleepwalking into war?'. And we bring you a message from Kokatha representatives Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine and grandson Alex on the anniversary of the first Maralinga atomic tests on 27 September.
We reflect on a week of activities, presented by the Disrupt Land Forces 2024 coalition of organisations, in protest to the biggest weapons expo in the southern hemisphere that was held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 11-14 September. We hear a speech given by Walpiri elder Ned Hargraves Jampijinpa at the 'Vigil for Gaza: Shared Voices in Solidarity' held in Batman Park on 12 September. And Marisol Salinas, Mapuche organiser with the Latin American Solidarity Network, lets us know about the 'Tejiendo Rebeldias: Grassroots Movements and First Nations Solidarity Gathering' coming up from 17-20 October.
We're joined by Wage Peace organiser Margie Pestorius, long-time peace activist Lee Rhiannon and Walpiri elder Ned Hargraves Jampijinpa to talk about the Disrupt Land Forces Festival of Resistance. We discuss the impacts of the military industrial complex on communities here and around the world, and the importance of coming together to work in solidarity to build a future of peace and justice for the world!
Today we speak with Dr. Vince Scappatura about the NUCLEAR-CAPABLE B-52H STRATOFORTRESS BOMBERS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO IDENTIFICATION that he has prepared alongside his colleague Richard Tanter. You can learn more at the Nautilus Institute's website. Dr Vince Scappatura teaches Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. His latest book is The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy and he was a Panel Member for the Independent and Peaceful Australia Networks People's Inquiry (2020-2022).We also play a part of a presentation by long time Anti-nuclear campaigner David Noonan at an IPAN webinar on August 13 2024, entitled "Suboptimal: Understanding and contesting AUKUS and the domestic nuclear power push”.You can put in a submission to an inquiry underway by the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) into AUKUS. Submissions to the inquiry by the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) into AUKUS are being accepted until September 2, 2024.The Independent and Peaceful Australia network have created a submission template with key points for consideration, that should lessen the workload for anyone who can make a submission.Treaty Title: Agreement among the Government of Australia, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Government of the United States of America for Cooperation Related to Naval Nuclear PropulsionMore details available here: https://www.aph.gov.au/jsct'Tips on making a submission' by IPAN.Final Submissions are to be lodged online Lodge my submission – Parliament of Australia (aph.gov.au)If this is your first time submitting online to an inquiry you will need to create a My Parliament log in.For any queries: Email jsct@aph.gov.auSee also Making a submission to a committee inquiry – Parliament of Australia.See also Making a submission Summary of Guidelines.Here are some suggested concerns and matters to raise in your submission – use your own words as much as possible. And do not feel you have to comment on all of the 7 points listed in the ‘Points for Submission’ doc.For more info: Jonathan Pilbrow, Executive Officer 0403 611 815 ipan.alicesprings@gmail.com
Today we are joined by Disrupt Wars organiser, Nathalie Farah, to talk about the Disrupt Land Forces 2024 Festival of Resistance. Running from September 8 - 14 in Melbourne, Disrupt Land Forces seeks to disrupt the largest arms fair in the southern hemisphere at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Later in the program we bring you some archival audio of the AIDEX arms fair protests on Remembrance Day 11 November, 1991 featuring Robbie Thorpe, Anthony Kelly and Sue Casey. From the Radioactive Show archives with thanks to Eric Miller and Sam Gibbard.Music on the show is Planet Love by Mitch Tambo.
This week's show hosted by Johan on Musqueam lands shares recordings from Don't Nuke the Climate's webinar on 3.08.24. We hear from the voices of Scott Ludlam and Trish Frail. We also share an archival recording of John Trudell speaking on Liberation at the Black Hills' Survival Gathering 1980.
On this program we celebrate the fantastic news that the Jabiluka mine lease will not be renewed! On July 26 Minister Monaghan refused Energy Resources of Australia's application for an extension of the Jabiluka lease which means that when the current lease expires on August 11 the site will be protected and arrangements for inclusion back into Kakadu can begin.This is a testament to four decades of incredible grassroots campaigning led by the Mirarr people, whose land Ranger uranium mine was imposed on and who negotiated an agreement with the owners of the Jabiluka mine lease not to develop the site without their consent.Senior Mirarr Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula said of the win "We have always said no to the mine, government and mining companies told us they would mine it but we stayed strong and said no. Today I feel very happy that Jabiluka will be safe forever. Protecting country is very important for my family and for me". Corben Mujandi who grew up in the campaign and has continued on to this day "This day will go down in history as the day the Mirarr finally stopped Jabiluka, now my aunties can rest easy knowing it is done. It is a great day for the Mirarr people, for Kakadu, the Northern Territory and for Australia. This proves that people standing strong for country can win".As we approach the 79th anniversaries of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9 we delve into our archive and bring you recordings from a Hiroshima Day Rally in 1999 under the banner of 'Stop Jabiluka Mine'. There are speeches by Loretta O'Brien and the late Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and a song by Carl Panuzzo.Thanks to Eric Miller for the recordings and Sam Gibbard for organising the archive and making these recordings available.
On the show today we feature part 3 of audio from an online forum held on Tuesday 18th June by the Nuclear Truth Project, entitled, "AUKUS Beyond Borders: global and regional ramifications of the unfolding AUKUS nuclear and military alliance."We'll hear from Ray Acheson, who is living in New York on Turtle Island, and was interviewed for the Radioactive Show recently while visiting here. Ray is the director of Reaching Critical Will and have written extensively on the military industrial complex and organising. Ray is being interviewed by Dimity Hawkins of the Nuclear Truth Project. Following Ray, we’ll hear a summing up of the forum by Dave Sweeney, long term nuclear free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation.
On today's show we're looking at the anti military protest movement on this continent with Mercedes Zanker from the Renegade Activists, Tasnim Sammak a Palestinian organiser and Jasper Coen-Hunter from the Blak Peoples Union. First up on the show we bring you Mercedes Zanker and Tasnim Sammak speaking at a protest against the deepening militarisation of Australian capitalisation outside the conference 'Mission Critical: the business of AUKUS' held by the American Chamber of Commerce at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Collins St on Thrusday 20 June.Land Forces is the biggest weapons expo in the southern hemisphere and is coming to Melbourne from 8-14 September. You may remember our coverage from the Disrupt Land Forces actions when Land Forces was held in Meanjin (Brisbane) across its last two iterations:Keep Space For Peace: Saturday, 8 October 2022Disrupt Land Forces: Saturday, 1 October 2022Andy Paine and Uncle Kevin from Disrupt Land Forces in Meanjin: Saturday, 29 May 2021Disrupt Land Forces: Saturday, 8 May 2021Land Forces have decided to move their expo to Melbourne this year and organising for a mass mobiisation is underway. Disrupt Wars hosted a panel at Black Spark on Friday 21 June and we bring you a recording of Jasper Coen-Hunter, member of the Black Peoples Union speaking there. The Black Peoples Union is a revolutionary organisation that aims to empower Indigenous people in Australia through the pursuit of full self-determination and sovereignty. Please consider supportin them by becoming a monthy donor.Music: 'Until We're All Free' Ceasfire Now!
On the show today we feature audio from a forum held on Tuesday 18th June by the Nuclear Truth Project. The online forum, entitled, AUKUS Beyond Borders: global and regional ramifications of the unfolding AUKUS nuclear and military alliance, was hosted by Dimity Hawkins, Pam Fisher and Rico Robertson.In this show we’ll hear from Teanau Tuiono, a Greens member of Parliament in Aotearoa/ NZ who is introduced by Pam Fisher of the nuclear truth project. Then Sam Fairbrother will bring us a perspective from the Mersey River Basin, the most highly nuclearised area of the UK, situated in North West England. nucleartruthproject.org
On the show today we feature audio from a forum held on Tuesday 18th June by the Nuclear Truth Project. The online forum, entitled, AUKUS Beyond Borders: global and regional ramifications of the unfolding AUKUS nuclear and military alliance, hosted by Dimity Hawkins, Pam Fisher and Rico Robertson.The forum eatured Dave Sweeney (Australia), Teanau Tuiono (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ray Acheson (the USA), and Sam Fairbrother (the UK). Hear from the first speaker, Dave Sweeney, of the Australian Conservation Foundation, who analyses the many tentacled 'octopus' that is AUKUS.Nuclear Truth ProjectInternational Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons AustraliaAustralian Conservation Foundation
On today’s show I speak to two teachers involved with Teachers and School Staff for Palestine (TSS4P), Victoria. Teachers and School Staff for Palestine formed last year, building on existing connections forged through Union activism and teachers working for Social Justice, as well as drawing in teachers and school staff who wanted to speak out against the genocide in Palestine. As we will hear, Teachers and School Staff for Palestine has expanded rapidly, showing up as a weekly contingent to the Naarm Sunday rallies, holding a Week of Action and vigil, and more recently creating resources that challenge mythologies around ANZAC day and the silence that surrounds historic and present injustice in Palestine. They have attracted the attention of the Education Minister in Victoria, Ben Carrol and shock jock Journalists, like Andrew Bolt. Even Barnaby Joyce has weighed in recently. Tune into hear about their inspiring work in the classroom and beyond. Teachers and School Staff for Palestine Vic Find them on Instagram: teachers4Palestine_vicFind resources at: https://linktr.ee/teachers4palestinevic
This week we speak with Old Country Calling organiser Manju about the upcoming 'Big Boss Fire Tour - Tribute to Uncle Kev' that will take place on Arabunna country from 22 June - 5 July before travelling to Kokatha country for 7-21 July. We bring you a recording from the late great warrior for peace and justice Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin that was recorded by Julian at Alberrie Creek late last year. To find more beautiful recordings from Uncle Kevin's final months on his country visit Decolonize Mob on Facebook.
Today's we bring you nuclear news with Friends fo the Earth Australia's National Anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Jim Green. We discuss Dutton's push for nuclear power in Australia; the UK nuclear power construction project at Hinkley Point; the growing threat of nuclear war and the latest nuclear waste threat under AUKUS - the Australia, UK and US military pact.The Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2023 establishes a new regulatory framework to promote and regulate the nuclear safety of activities relating to AUKUS submarines. The framework would apply to Australian submarines and to activities related to UK/US submarines. We’ve learnt that it could make Australia a dumping ground of high-level military nuclear waste from the United Kingdom and United States – if laws proposed by Defence Minister Richard Marles are rushed through Parliament in the coming weeks. An Inquiry into the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill reported on Monday 13th May and Recommendation 3 is as follows:'The Committee recommends that the Government consider amending the Bill so that a distinction is made between Australia’s acceptance of low-level nuclear waste from AUKUS partners, but non-acceptance of high-level nuclear waste.' Take action now and contact your local parliamentarian to call on them to close this dangerous loophole in the legislationThe nuclear free collective have a proforma letter that you can send to your local representative: www.melbournefoe.org.au/no_aukus_intl_wasteFriends of the Earth Melbourne has a petition to sign opposing Peter Duttons plan to build large scale nuclear power plants in Victoria: www.melbournefoe.org.au/nonuclearvic_petitionThe Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency are considering application No A0346 by the Australian Submarine Agency to prepare a site for a prescribed radiation facility (namely a low level waste management and maintenance facility) to be known as the 'Controlled Industrial Facility' at the existing HMAS Stirling site, at Garden Island, Rockingham in Western Australia.To have your say go to https://consult.arpansa.gov.au. Submissions close at 11:59pm on 7 June.If you want all these actions and updates sent straight to your email sign up the Friends of the Earth Melbourne Nuclear Free news.We featured the song 'Enough is Enough' recorded by Jampijinpa Ned Hargraves at Resident Frequency studios in Collingwood. THe song will have it's live premiere at an event on Friday 24th of May at Catalyst Social Centre to raise much needed funds to support the Walker family during the coronial inquest into Kumanjayi Walkers death.Karrinjarla Muwajarri Fundraiser4pm at Catalyst , 144 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.An evening of music and conversations about keeping community safe from racist police.Come share a meal and get cozy around the fire. There will be t-shirts, hoodies and art for sale, dinner by donation and a raffle with GREAT prizes!!!
This week we hear about two campaigns at the forefront of opposition to the military expansion on this continent. ‘Native Title Rockets’ Campaign Coordinator and documentary Director Rocky speaks with Priya Kunjan (Thursday Breakfast) about Southern Launch’s Koonibba rocket testing range that has begun commercial operation with its first rocket launch this week on Kokatha lands near Ceduna, South Australia. Kokatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine brings us a call out for supporters to protect country from damage by the rocket testing operations. Then we hear an interview from Phuong Tran (Tuesday Breakfast) with Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French political creative Laniyuk about the sacred lands of the Larrakia people, which are currently under threat of being destroyed by Defence Housing Australia. Binybara 'Lee Point' near Darwin is an area of deep cultural significance to the Larrakia Peoples and is also an internationally-significant site for migratory shorebirds and home to the rare and endangered Gouldian Finch. Larrakia people are being supported by community groups to have Lee Point protected and returned to traditional custodianship, after the Federal government gave Defence Housing Australia permission to develop the site 800 homes in 2018. Last week Environmental Justice Australia made an application to the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (AAPA) to recognise sacred sites in the Lee Point development zone, including the Danggalaba Dreaming track, a sacred waterway and traditional camping places and ceremonial grounds on behalf of Larrakia Danggalaba Traditional Owner Tibby Quall.Support the campaign by signing the petition to Return Lee Point to the Care of Larrakia People.
This week's show shares recordings from the Nuclear Truth Project panel hosted at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance Meeting, 2024. It includes stories of First Nation survival and solidarity from this continent and abroad. Voices include Dimity Hawkins (ICAN Australia), Petuuche Gilbert (Elder of Acoma Puebla), Yalata community in conversation including Roslyn Peters and senior Kothaka elder Aunty Sue Haseldine (West Mallee Protection).
Part two of the Community Speak out for Peace held at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting 2024.Strong words from Mitch, Eastern Arrernte and Luritja woman, and a 20 year nuclear free activist who fought a nuclear waste dump proposal for her Country by starting a direct action beside the road. Followed by MUA vice-president Garry Keane, speaking about safety for wharfies and unionists. Finally, we’ll hear from Dave Sweeney of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Nat Wasley, long term Nuclear Free organiser and Maritime Union Australia worker and member, facilitates the forum.
An in studio conversation with Ray Acheson, a writer and activist, visiting from their current home of New York. Ray is the director of Reaching Critical Will, a member of the ICAN, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons steering committee, which is the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. We discuss the strength of First Nations' organising on all things nuclear in 'Australia', the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, AUKUS, police repressiong, organisin against 'cop cities' in the US, and the hope of mutual aid and solidarity. They are the author of ‘Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy’ published in 2021 and ‘Abolishing State Violence: a world beyond bombs, borders and cages’. Ray has returned to so called ‘Australia’ to attend the 2024 Australian Nuclear Free Alliance conference, as well as reconnect with struggles and community here.ANFAReaching Critical WillICAN AustraliaAbolishing State Violence by Ray Acheson Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray AchesonArticle about Australia-Israel FOI request mentioned in interview
In today’s show we share with you audio recorded at the Community Speak out at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting, March 15-17th.ANFA is a grassroots alliance that has brought together Aboriginal people and civil society groups concerned about existing or proposed nuclear developments in ‘so called’ Australia since 1997. The was the first East Coast meeting of ANFA and was called to come to the East Coast due to the nearby proposed stationing of nuclear submarines at Port Kembla, a key part of the AUKUS deal, just 15km from the coastal city of Wollongong. At the Sunday Community speak out delegates from across many different Aboriginal Countries, who had travelled thousands of kms to be at ANFA, shared stories and heard from local unionists and organisers. From the desert to the sea, links were made between nuclear projects, their impacts and struggles against them. Speakers are, Natalise Wasley (MC) of the Maritime Union of Australia, ANFA president and chairperson- Sue Coleman Haseldine and Trish Frail, Henry Rajendra- President of the Teachers Federation NSW, and Arthur Rorris, Secretary of South Coast Labour Council.Australian Nuclear Free AllianceWollongong Against War and Nukes
This week we bring you more presentations from the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting in Wollongong, 16-18 March. We hear from Mirarr representative Corben Mujandi about the long struggle of the Mirrar to end uranium mining in Kakadu and the pressure from mining companies and the Government that continue today. Kirsten Blair who works with the Mirarr's Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation shares some of the history of the campaign. Then Walpiri woman Valerie Martin and Barbara Shaw, fourth generation town camper in Mpartnwe-Alice Springs discuss the Nolans rare earth mine that will leave a legacy of radioactive waste 135km north of Alice Springs.
It’s been a year since the Australian government unveiled its AUKUS military pact with the US and the UK that will see it acquire nuclear-powered submarines, forecast to cost up to AU$368 billion. It's a deal that poses serious threat to regional and global health and security, runs counter to our commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and brings us closer to nuclear weapons capability. The 14th March saw the start of a week of actions against AUKUS all across the continent and the Radioactive Show travelled to Mt. Keira on Wadi Wadi Lands in Wollongong to the meeting of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) a grassroots alliance that has brought together Aboriginal people and civil society groups concerned about existing or proposed nuclear developments in 'so called' Australia Since 1997. This was the first East Coast meeting of ANFA and was initiated due to the potential for stationing of nuclear submarines at Port Kembla.Today we hear from Greens Senator David Shoebridge addressing the meeting on some of the serious threats from AUKUS. Currently the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee is conducting an Inquiry into Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2023 [Provisions] and Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023 that will report on April 26. We also share recordings from the launch of the Peace Walk Against AUKUS that had a send off at the ANFA meeting on Sunday 17 March and set off from Port Kembla on Monday 18 March. Local elder Uncle Peter Button held a smoking ceremony to begin the walk. The walk will continue on to arrive in Canberra on 17 April and you can follow along on the social media (Beyond Uranium Canberra or via the website www.beyonduraniumcanberra.net.Finally we'll hear long time anti-nuclear activist and former Radioactive Show presenter Bilbo speaking about the Keepers of Lake Eyre anniversary that will meet up on 26 March to talk about the next steps in the protection of Arabana country and in particular the sacred mound springs.
This week we discuss a Federal Government's public consultation for the “Northern Water Desalination and Pipeline Infrastructure Project” in South Australia that could be critical to the campaign to attain protection for the Mound Springs of the Great Artesian Basin – sacred sites to the Arabunna people who's land BHP draws water from for their Roxby Downs uranium mine. Submissions are open till close of business on Thursday 21 March. You can find a copy of Independent Environmental Campaigner David Noonan's Briefing Paper here and Submission here. We encourage you to make a submission using the EPBC Act public portal.We also bring you a speech from Djuran Bunjileenee - Robbie Thorpe, Gunai Kurnai elder from the Camp Sovereignty 18th Anniversary concert and tribute to the late Uncle Kevin Buzzacott that was held on Tuesday 12 March. And some words from Uncle Wayne Thorpe from the closing ceremony fire. Check out the Black People's Union or Old Country Calling social media sites for details of worskhops, film screenings and other events at Camp Sovereignty. All are welcome to come down anytime for a chat, daily shared dinner at 7pm and sunset smoking ceremony.
Today’s show features audio and discussion about the Teachers and School Staff for Palestine (Vic) March 3rd launch of a Teaching for Palestine resource, and a campaign to boycott STEM programs in Victorian schools sponsored by Weapons companies. We hear an interview by Phuong Tran of 3CR with Elise West, Director of Teachers for Peace and Medical Association for the Prevention of War, and Elspeth Blunt, a teacher and member of the Teacher’s and School Staff for Palestine organising committee. Later in the show are recordings from the launch event, featuring a speech by Nader, a year 6 Palestinian student from a public primary school, and Isaak Bovell, Australian Education Union Sub Branch Representative, and a Teachers and School Staff for Palestine Organising Committee member. Teachers and School Staff for PalestineTeachers for Peace Medical Association for Prevention of War, Minors and Missiles report
This week we speak to Margaret Wiliamson from No AUKUS Coalition - Victoria about the upcoming weekend of Australia-wide actions opposing the AUKUS deal starting on March 14. We also speak with Dave Sweeney Nuclear-free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation about what's happening with nuclear power being pushed as a climate solution post Cop28. On 21 March 2024, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Prime Minister of Belgium will invite world leaders for the "first ever nuclear energy summit" in Brussels. The nuclear industry and its political supporters will be looking for some cash under the pretext of the climate crisis. You can sign on to the civil society statement against nuclear power that is to be used at the IAEA promotion in Brussels later in March.
We speak with Winiata & Karina from Beyond Uranium Canberra about the upcoming Peace Walk Against AUKUS - a month long walk from Port Kembla to Canberra that starts on March 17. They are raising funds to support the walk so please donate if you can! We are also joned by Maeve Larkins from Students Against War to hear about their protest at the opening of the Nuclear Innovation Hub by Minister for Defence Insutry Pat Conroy at the University of New South Wales on Thursday 22 February.
This show features two interviews concerning people's solidarity actions with Palestine. The first interview is between Inez Winters, from the Thursday Breakfast show on 3CR, and Hume For Palestine member, Waseem Razvi, he speaks about the organising of Hume for Palestine, the rallies they have been holding at HTA (Heat Treatment Australia) In Campbellfield in Melbourne’s north and how HTA is tied up with weaponry going to Israel. The second interview is between Jan Bartlett, of 3CR’s Tuesday Hometime show, and Nic Maclellan, a Journalist who focuses on defence, security and justice issues in the Pacific, and speaks about the growing support in Pacific nations for Palestine.
On today's program, we will be hearing from Mia Pepper from Nuclear Free WA speaking outside the Deep Yellow AGM in Perth on Friday 24 November. Deep Yellow are the owners of the Mulga Rock uranium project and the proposal would involve the clearing of almost 4,000 hectares of native vegetation that is home to many species including the endangered Sandhill Dunnart, the establishment of 4 open pits strip mined and back filled, usage of around 15 million litres of water a day and would produce around 32,000 tonnes of radioactive waste. We also bring you an interview by Thursday Breakfast's Priya Kunjan with Carmen - a member of Mpartnwe for Palestine who blockaded Pine Gap on Monday 27 November in protest against the military facilities participation in the war on Palestine. It is with heavy hearts that we bring news of the passing of Arabunna Elder, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott – Great First Nations warrior, peacemaker, educator, artist, firekeeper, protector of culture and country, friend and inspiration to so many, and tireless campaigner and mischief maker in the struggle against colonisation and the destruction of land by mining companies and other developments.Uncle Kevin travelled from his homelands at Kati Thunda - Lake Eyre and the sacred mound springs at the southern end of the Great Artesian Basin, to the world bringing the message of peace and healing and a vision of a safe and nuclear free future for the young ones coming through. He made the world a better place for us to be in always reminded us to remember the wisdom of the old people and work for the children of the future. And he made sure this serious work was fun and full of heart and optimism. He will be greatly missed and celebrated. His family invites you to send love and support, stories and images through to memoriesforuncledadpop@outlook.com. His family will be establishing a place to share stories of his life.On December 1 every year, the West Papuans raise the morning star flag in their ongoing struggle for freedom from colonial rule and the genocide of their people. The West Papuans have been subject to state violence from Indonesia for the last 60 years, supported by foreign states and weapons corporations. One of the corporations that is profiting from is Thales and you are invited ot join Wage Peace in blockading Thales factory in Bendigo. Bring a picnic to Finn st North Bendigo 11am Tuesday 5 December. We will hear the words of Uncle Kevin Buzzacott speaking at a Free West Papua event some years ago. He speaks about the Freedom Flotilla to West Papua.Thanks to the Nuclear Free Collective at Friends of the Earth Melbourne for their ongoing support fo the show.We hope to see you at the Latin America, Australia & Asia Pacific Solidarity Gathering – Multinationals Out! conference from 8-10 December organised by LASNET.Music on the show was Biak Meos Karu by The Black Sistaz
On today's program, we hear from 3 fantastic community organisers about the work of demilitarisation, countering extractivism and building for peace, justice and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. Zelda Grimshaw from Wage Peace brings us report backs from recent actions at Defence Minister Richard Marles office in Geelong and Thales Australia's headquarters in Melbourne and an invitation to join the upcoming event Blockade Thales, Finn St. North Bendigo at 11am Tuesday 5 December. Marisol Salinas fills us in on the Latin American Solidarity Network's upcoming conference Multinationals Out! from 8-10 December that will bring grassroots campaigns across Latin America, Australia & Asia Pacific Region to counter extractivism. Gem Romuld Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia will set the scene for the next chapter in the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as they prepare for teh Second Meeting of State Parties in New York this coming week.We finish the show with the worlds of the great peacemaker Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott.Music featured is 'Tell the World' by Combat Wombat from their Just Across The Border album.
As we approach the CoP 28, United Nations Climate Change Conference that starts in Dubai on November 30, the nuclear industry continues to promote itself as climate friendly in a massive and well-funded distraction from effective action to address the climate catastrophe.Don’t Nuke the Climate, a global civil society initiative with members and supporters from environment, First Nation, trade union, faith, public health and other sectors, has produced two new videos calling on national governments and the global community to embrace and adopt safer, cheaper, faster and more deployable renewable power technologies.Today we’ll bring you some of the speeches from Don’t Nuke the Climate’s launch event of two short videos on Nuclear and Climate change and Small Modular Reactors.We’ll hear coordinator of the Friends of the Earth Melbourne Nuclear Free Collective Sanne de Swart, Tim Judson from Nuclear Information and Research Service - a US non-profit organization devoted to a nuclear-free, carbon-free world, Mia Pepper from Don’t Nuke the Climate and Ryoko Kose from Fukushima, Japan.
The 2023 AGM of BHP Group Limited was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, on Wednesday 1 November 2023. Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott prepared a statement and today we hear from Donna Abdulla who attended the AGM to present the statement. The wide ranging conversation shows many intersecting issues at play where these extractive industries operate and situates them in the ongoing project of colonisation.ARABUNNA ELDER KEVIN BUZZACOTT’s STATEMENT TO THE BHP AGM ON THE 1st NOV 2023, ADELAIDE CONVENTION CENTREThis is Kevin Buzzacott speaking from Alberrie Creek, SA.Western Mining started off Olympic Dam in the 80s and made big trouble for our people. They were fully supported by the South Australia and the Australian Governments. Despite the arguments back then, the Government should have moved in and shut it down, but instead, they supported Western Mining to move in and establish Olympic Dam at Roxby Downs. And they allowed shonky deals to continue WITHOUT PROPER CONSULTATION with Arabunna people and others. Since Native Title began, we have Native Title Corporations running the affairs of Finniss Springs, Stuarts creek and other places.Our old people set up these places and homelands for our people to live on, NOT for mining, and that’s how it should be. All our black people from Finniss Springs are suffering because of the Government allowing mining developments.I believe there is wheeling and dealing happening as we speak.I would like the Government to hand back these places to the full Arabunna Common Law holders.And I would like upfront meetings ASAP to discuss any inconveniences that it might cause.The old Finniss Springs and surrounding areas are too valuable, too precious, to be destroyed for mining. If necessary, we will call a full meeting with all people from all walks of life who care about the land.I have seen and witnessed my old people go to their graves worried and stressed out about their old country. I have seen the damage to the mound springs since mining began. The trees that have died. We can see the changes, the effects of mining on our sacred lands. It is still happening now, and it has to stop.Please take this as urgent.There are new families, new generations of our people who want Finniss Springs as their homeland. Some have never been there before. It is their right, and their heritage which cannot be denied.Contact me at Finniss Springs.Kevin Buzzacott
Arabunna Elder, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, has returned to be on Country, by the sacred Mound Springs and Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre). In today’s show we feature current recordings of Uncle Kevin, speaking from Country, about the ongoing struggle to protect Country. We also cast back to audio from the 2016 Lizard Bites Back, a protestival at the gates of the Olympic Dam uranium mine, which continues to be fiercely opposed, including at the recent AGM of mining giant BHP Biliton. Uncle Kevin Buzzacott 2023 audio is from videos by 'Decolonise Mob'
This week we bring you recordings from two public events on Collins Street Melbourne that are calling for justice and reparations for those directly impacted by industrial disasters. On 15 September a delegation of First Nations people representing communities experiencing the ongoing consequences of the Mariana tailings dam collapse at BHP's Samarco mine in Brazil visited BHP's global headquarters seeking justice. Eight years have passed since the disaster that saw 60 million tonnes of highly toxic mining waste obliterate the Doce River for 700 kilometers and the communities living alongside it suffer still today. On 27 October Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons visited the British Consulate and the offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade calling for an apology to First Nations impacted by the British atomic tests 70 years ago, a clean-up of the Emu Field and Maralinga test sites and to sign on to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Today we speak with Zelda Grimshaw from Wage Peace about the upcoming ‘Disrupt Sea Forces’ mobilisation that aims to disrupt the naval version of Land Forces, ‘Indo Pacific 2023’ at the Sydney Harbour Convention Centre from 5-9 November. They are welcoming peace and climate justice allies to gather in opposition to the weapons manufacture and to work towards #EarthcareNotWarfare. Wage Peace won World Beyond War’s ‘War Abolisher of the Year award’ this year. We also hear about the Peace Pod listening parties that you can join online for their recently released podcast series ‘Get your armies off our bodies’ and bring you an excerpt from the episode ‘Always was, Always will be’ featuring Googatha Mula elder Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine.
On the 15th of October 1953, the first British Atomic test on mainland Australia was undertaken on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands, in the north west of South Australia. 70 years on, the legacy of contamination of the land and the intergenerational health impacts remain unaddressed. First Nations people did not consent to the tests and weren’t warned. They were heavily impacted by the radioactive fallout, the ‘Black Smoke’, and have still not received an apology. Rather they face further nuclear colonialism and the question of where high level radioactive waste from the AUKUS nuclear submarines will end up looms large. We bring you part of a conversation between Anangu-Yankunytjatjara woman Karina Lester and Gunai-Kurnai broadcaster Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe from his program Bunjil’s Fire on Wednesday 10th of October. Listen to the full interview here.
Today on the program we will connect with co-convenors of the newly formed organisation 'Nuclear Free WA', Mia Pepper and KA Garlick, who bring us updates on all things nuclear in Western Australia. They also announce the Nuclear Free West Australia Peace Walk - 2023 on 29 October, that will begin at the WA base of one of the world's largest weapons corporations and builder of nuclear submarines - BAE System to the HMAS Stirling 2023, calling for No AUKUS and No Nuclear Subs.We then bring you a powerful song and speech from Daniel Garlett, a Noongar man from Whadjuk Yued Ballardong cultural groups, that KA recorded at a Hiroshima Day rally in Boorloo ‘Perth’ on Sunday 6 August.
We're out on the streets again - this time at the Aerospace summit in Ōtautahi Christchurch where attendees were greeted with an unwelcome party. Protesters say the summit is a weapons expo by another name. Learn more about the aerospace industry in Aoteraoa New Zealand, resistence to military rocket launches from Māori land and how AUKUS pillar two has increased the research and development of weapons in Australia.Featuring:Puti Moa, of Rongomaiwahine, local to Māhia Peninsula and member of Rocket Lab Monitor.Edwina Hughes, Coordinator, Peace Movement Aotearoa.Audio of speakers originally from this webinar: https://youtu.be/Us3heMvVXro?si=WHYaaHbgWKkoVldy
Dr. Jim Green, National Anti-nuclear Campaigner at Friends of the Earth, joins us to discuss the recent visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics & Human Rights. 'Where the Australian Government sees efforts towards stronger regulations to address the risks of chemicals and pollution, communities and civil society denounce the capture of the State for the benefit of mining, oil, gas, agrochemical and other corporate interests', said Marcos Orellana. Dr. Marcos Orellana has released his end-of-mission statement and the final report will be delivered in September 2024. You can read the end-of-mission statement here.Dr.Jim Green will be speaking alongside Barngarla Traditional Owner Linda Dare at the Friends of the Earth Melbourne Nuclear-free Collective's Nuclear Waste Info night 6-8pm, Wednesday 20 September at Friends if the Earth, 312 Smith Street, Collingwood.We also bring you an interview with Michael Joon from the Korean Candlelight Vigil from Green Left Weekly Radio on Friday 15 September. Michael is a Korean living in Melbourne and their next vigil protesting the release of 1.34 million tonnes of radioactive waste water into the ocean by the Japanese Government will be 6pm, Saturday 23 September in Federation Square. We featured the song 'Poisoned Planet' by Coloured Stone from their album Poisoned Planet released in 2022.
Millions will take to the streets in a global mobilisation to #EndFossilFuels from September 15-17 as political leaders meet in New York City for the UN Secretary General's 'Climate Ambition Summit'. In Melbourne a rally for Whales not Gas is being organised by Extinction Rebellion and Allies of the Victorian Coast to bring the song of the whale to the city and drown out the proposals for Seismic Blasting in the the Otway Basin off the Victorian Coast. The rally will meet at Enterprize Park, Flinders St, CBD 4.30 - 6.30pm on Friday 15 September. Schlumberger-SLB and TGS have lodged plans with the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) to seismic blast over a record 5.5 million hectares of sea between Victoria and Tasmania. This project would see marine life will be subjected to 220-250 decibel explosions of sound, louder than a bomb blast, every 10-12 seconds for several months. This blasting is deadly for all marine life and can impact all levels of the food chain from its very foundations, killing zooplankton more than a kilometre away, to deafening whales that come to these water to calve every year.Australia’s south-east seas are full of marine treasures, from southern right and blue whales, seals and bluefin tuna, to kelp forests and unique deep-sea corals. The majority of the species are not found anywhere else and are already under threat from climate changes that have seen the water warming 3-4 times the average.Calling for protection for Gunditjmara sea country from seismic blasting for oil and gas is an alliance of groups led by the Southern Ocean Protection Embassy Collective (SOPEC). Today we bring you excerpts of conversation from Bunjil's Fire radio show on Wednesday 8 August between Gunai Kurnai broadcaster Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe and Yaraan Couzens Bundle - First Nations artist and dancer of Kirrae Wurrong/Gunditjmara heritage who is a spokesperson for the Southern Ocean Protection Embassy Collective.
First up we are joined by Margaret Pestorius from Wage Peace Australia to talk about their work, that has seen them be recognised internationally as winner of World Beyond War's Organizational War Abolisher of 2023.We previouw their fantastic new podcast series Get Your Armies Off Our Bodies, that shares stories against the war machine, from peace campaigns in Australia and around the world.Then we are joined by Hamish McPherson, primary school teacher in regional Victoria and delegate of the Australian Education Union (AEU) and Frances, a secondary school teacher and member of Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective to speak about the work they are doing organising against the military agenda in the school curriculum such as the recently launched Defence Department's Nuclear Propelled Submarine Challenge.AEU members have been passing motions at their branches and are linking up across the country. To find out more and get a list of simple actions you can take go to the Teachers say NO to defence in schools page on the Friends of the Earth Melbourne website.
On Thursday 24th August, 2023, Japan's TEPCO electric company began discharging radioactive waste water into the Pacific. The waste water comes from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which went into meltdown following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. There is 1.3 million tonnes of water is currently held in tanks at the power plant, which TEPCO plans to release over the next 30-40 years. In response, protests have erupted across the Pacific Asia region and the world. I attended one protest outside the Japanese embassy in Te Whanganui a Tara / Wellington in Aotearoa, and includes speeches from the protest, alongside a statement read by Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Punu, from a webinar earlier this year, and an interview with Friends of the Earth Japan's Aymui Fukakusa from 2021.Image used under Creative Commons licence (CC BY)
On today’s Radioactive Show we travel to Meanjin, Brisbane, to hear direct from the nuclear free movement at the Australian Labor Party National Conference. We hear from Gem Romuld, national director for ICAN Australia, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Gem takes us through ICAN’s position coming into the ALP national conference, and assesses whether the ALP are standing up to their commitment to sign onto the Treaty to Ban the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Later in the show we hear from activist Jaimie Jeffries, she organises with the No Aukus coalition Victoria. Jaimie takes us to the scene of the rally outside the ALP National Conference and the coalition of strong voices speaking up for an alternative future. Find out more about ICAN at: https://icanw.org.au/Find out more about the Anti-Aukus Coalition: https://antiaukuscoalition.org/
On Thursday 10 August, Resources Minister Madeleine King announced that the Federal Government will not be appealing the Federal Court's decision that quashed the declaration of the Napandee nuclear waste dump site in Kimba on July 18. This is the result of the strong resistance of Barngarla Traditional Owners. Today we speak with Aunty Dawn Taylor, Barngarla elder woman about this fantastic win.
As the Talisman Sabre military war games held on this continent draw to close and we mark the 78th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we take a look at the corporate greed and colonisation that see the ongoing manufacture of these weapons and create the conditions for their use.Today we’ll hear from Monaeka Flores from Guahan and Shinako Oyakawa from Okinawa who are touring some of the continent with the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network’s current initiative the Pacific Peace Tour and Conference.Monaeka Flores is a Guahan representative – indigenous people of Guam whose land has been occupied by US military since World War II. They have desecrated sacred sites, poisoned the environment and an aquifer that supplies their water as well as committing crimes against her people. She is motivated to stand up against United States militarism and the expanding bases on her Pacific island nation because of the love of her people, peace, decolonisation and anti-racism.Shinako Oyakawa is an indigenous Pacific peace activist from Okinawa. Roughly 70 percent of the land area in Japan used for U.S. bases is in Okinawa, the stolen lands of the Ryukyans who had their homelands annexed by Japan since 1879. With the Japanese and U.S. governments violently pushing through construction of new military bases at Henoko and Takae Shinako visited the UN in April this year to highlight Okinawan issues in the context of a broader struggle for the rights of indigenous people around the world.Thanks to Kathryn Kelly for assisting in lining up the interview during a busy schedule.We also bring you a conversation between Uprise Radio's James Brennan and Mercedes Zanker with Jacob Grech (A Friday Rave) about the lesser known aspects of the building of the nuclear bomb.
In one blinding moment in July 1945 on the white sand desert of New Mexico, humanity entered the nuclear age. Project Trinity was the first nuclear explosion, paving the way for the nuclear incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later, and the ensuing arms race that plagues us still. The communities living near the Trinity site are known as the Downwinders. They continue to experience high levels of cancer and other illnesses attributable to radioactive contamination since 1945. They are calling for recognition and compensation for their unwilling and unknowing participation as bystanders to the Trinity test.This show originally aired in 2019.Produced by Gem Romuld and Andrea StevesMusic by Paul Pino and the Tone DaddiesFurther information: www.trinitydownwinders.com
A special 2021 NAIDOC week Heal Country edition of the Radioactive Show that we have chosen to re-play. Features Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Vicky Abdullah, all speaking strong on Country.
On 12 June, 2023 the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons released the report "Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending" show that global spending on nuclear weapons increased in 2022 to $82.9 billion! We spoke with Alicia Sanders-Zakre, report co-author and Policy and Research Coordinator at ICAN.We also bring you an interview by Phuong from 3CR's Tuesday Breakfast Show with Sanne Deswart, Coordinator of the Nuclear Free Collective at Friends of the Earth Melbourne, about the work of the collective and their upcoming fundraiser event: '25 years since Jabiluka Blockade - No to AUKUS Art Auction'.Find the event of Facebook here.We also played the track 'Keep On Pushing Back' by Mat Ward from his newly released album called 'Climate Wars – an album for the end of times', available on bandcamp.Thanks to everyone that supported 3CR and The Radioactive Show Radiothon fundraiser. If you would like to donate please go to the crowdraiser.
On today’s show we’ll be looking a nuclear, peace and energy issues related to the oceans for World Oceans Day - 8 June.We speak with Dr. Jim Green Friends of the Earth Australia’s National Anti-nuclear campaigner about plans for dumping of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant disaster at sea.We bring you an interview from 3CR’s Thursday Breakfast about how the impact of rising ocean levels on Torres Strait islands has seen two First Nations Leaders Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai bring the Australian Climate Case against the Commonwealth Government of Australia over it’s failure to prevent climate change. Merri-Bek Councillor Sue Bolton talks to us about Merri-Bek Nuclear Free Zone declaration and the Community Rally: No Nuclear Submarines: Fund essential services and climate action on Saturday 15 July calling to end the AUKUS pact and to address the climate crisis and housing crisis.The Radioactive Show is created with the support of Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective. Sign up for regular email updates.Come to the Art Auction fundraiser on Friday 30 June @ Catslyst Social Centre.
On May 6 thousands gathered on the streets of Port Kembla, on Dharawal Country in Wollongong, to say no to a proposal that Port Kembla harbours the future Australian nuclear submarines. I speak to Cath Blakey, a Wollongong Councilor about local politics regarding the issue. A new group has formed, Wollongong Against War and Nukes, I speak with organiser Mel Barnes, about their growing campaign against the subs and AUKUS more broadly.
In March this year the Australian Government 'Defence' department announced that Western Australia will be at the forefront of Australia’s 'AUKUS Pathway', with more frequent port visits by nuclear-powered submarines from the United States beginning this year and from the United Kingdom starting in 2026.Today our discussion of the AUKUS military pact has a focus on Western Australia where the campaign is really shaping up. We’ll speak to long time peace and anti-nuclear campaigner and former WA Senator, Jo Vallentine and Sam Wainwright a councillor at the City of Fremantle and founding member of Stop AUKUS - WA .Stop AUKUS - WA have joined with Walyalup Climate Action to organise an action in Pioneer Park, Freemantle on Saturday 27 May 'Fight Climate Change Not War - Nuke Free Cockburn Sound'.Take actionMake a submission by the 26th May 2023 to the Senate Committee inquiry reviewing the Defence Legislation Amendment (Naval Nuclear Propulsion) Bill 2023 - a Bill to change our environmental and radiation protection laws to allow nuclear submarines!To contact Stop AUKUS - WA email: stopAUKUSWA@gmail.comAudiobed is Selfish Ambition by AUKUS.
This week we bring you recordings from a visit that the Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective made to the Napandee proposed nuclear waste dump site at Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia on 27 March. We hear from Barngarla elder Harry Dare, Kimba farmer Peter Woolford and concerned local citizen Veronica Skipworth. The Federal Governments nomination of the site is being contested in the Supreme Court by the Barngarla people.Take ActionSign the petition 'No Nuclear Waste Dump on Our Country Barngarla'Donate to Barngarla Traditional Custodians to support their court battle.Go to the Barngarla v Nukes page for campaign timeline and links to more informtion.
It’s been 18 months since the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, announced the AUKUS deal, which includes an agreement that the US and the UK will assist Australia in acquiring nuclear-powered submarines. You may be familiar with the persistent and determined advocacy of Western Australian Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John against the deal. I interviewed Senator Jordon so we could have a more in depth discussion on AUKUS and the ramifications of the nuclear submarines deal for Australia.
The McKenzie sisters led the successful fight to stop a nuclear waste dump at Wallerberdina Station on Adnyamathanha lands in South Australia. At the national Australia Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) meeting, two of the sisters (Vivienne McKenzie and Heather Stuart) and their niece (Lavene Ngatokorua) reflect on the fight to keep their homelands free of nuclear waste.Learn more about ANFA here: https://anfa.org.au/
A conversation with Ray Acheson in the 3CR studios, visiting from New York. We discuss cultures of militarism, patriarchy and militarism, nuclear submarines and AUKUS, and how to build an alternative to the 'inevitability' argument around war between the US and China. Ray is an organiser with Reaching Critical Will, author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders and Cages (2022). Ray has written extensively on disarmament issues through a feminist and abolitionist lens. Reaching Critical WillInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsJeff Sparrow, The Aukus deal is a crime against the world’s climate future. It didn’t have to be like this, Guardian Australia, 20 March 2023Stop cop city
This week, to further discuss the AUKUS submarine deal, we are joined by Vince Scappatura who teaches Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. He is an active member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) and author of a book 'The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy'. You can read or order a copy of IPAN's 'A People’s Inquiry' that explores the questions: What are the costs and consequences of Australia’s involvement in US-led wars and the US-Alliance? And what are the alternatives? We also bring you a speech from Alexia Fuentes, Chairperson of Anakbayan Melbourne Filipino youth group, at the ‘A Call for Peace: Truth not War' rally that was held on Saturday 18 March in Melbourne, with an introduction by MC for the day Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation.Thanks to Annie McLoughlin for the recording and you can hear more from the rally on Solidarity Breakfast.The Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition is holding a National Zoom Meeting 'We’re on the path to war. How can we stop it?' that will discuss the implications of the government reports on Aukus, nuclear submarines, war powers reform & the Defence Strategic Review on Sunday 26th March, 6.30pm AEDT. REGISTER HERE.
On March 8 details of the AUKUS agreement revealed the Federal Governement's plans to spend a shocking $368 billion on nuclear submarines as the centrepiece of the AUKUS deal that was signed by Australia, Britain and the US in September 2021.On today's show we hear Vince Scappatura outlining some of the details of the project. Then Emma Crunch speaks with Michele Fahy independent journalist who has been researching the links between the arms industry and the Australian government since 2009.LINKS:You can subscribe for free to Michele Fahy's Substack.Declassified AustraliaThe Independent and Peaceful Australia NetworkThe Medical Association for Prevention of WarReports by the globally respected SIPRI organisation that tracks military expenditure and arms sales regarding Military expenditure passing $2.1 trillion dollars in 2021 and Global Arms sales.Register for the Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition National Zoom Meeting ‘We’re on the path to war. How can we stop it?’ on Sunday 26th March,6.30pm AEDT.
March 11 2023 marks the 12th anniversary of the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year, Tokyo Electric Power (or Tepco) is pushing forward with plans to release 1.3 million tons of radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean.This show features independent scientific experts who are assisting Pacific Island Forum members regarding Japan's plans to discharge radioactive waste water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. Part two of a two part series (see part one here: https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode/scientists-fukushima-waste-water-issue-part-1)Dr. Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist and Oceanographer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution PanelistDr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Panelist.Dr. Robert H. Richmond, Research Professor and Director at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory in the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The audio was recorded on January 18th, 2023 as part of a seminar hosted by the Pacific Island Forum and moderated by Rhea Moss-Christian, Former Chair of the RMI National Nuclear Commission (NNC), and Incoming Executive Director of the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).Much appreciation to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat office for giving permission for us to share this important information with you.Full seminar available to watch here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jzTjCgWlFRU
Featuring a conversation with three organisers from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Gem Romuld, Jemila Rushton and Jessie Boylan. We speak about the importance of listening to survivors of nuclear incidents, ICAN’s position on Australia’s recent nuclear submarines purchase, and how this acquisition seems to clash with the Albanese government’s stated intention to sign the Nuclear Ban treaty. https://icanw.org.au/
This show features two independent scientific experts who are assisting Pacific Island Forum members regarding Japan's plans to discharge radioactive waste water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean.Dr. Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist and Oceanographer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution PanelistDr. Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, Scientist-in-Residence & Adjunct Professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at MontereyThe audio was recorded on January 18th, 2023 as part of a seminar hosted by the Pacific Island Forum.Much appreciation to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat office for giving permission for us to share this important information with you.Full seminar available to watch here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jzTjCgWlFRU
This week we take a further look at proposed gas projects for Western Australia and repression faced by activists working to stop them. The McGowan state government have announced a move to legislate for net zero by 2050. We speak with Martin Pritchard from Environs Kimberley about how this sits with the State Governments support for currently proposed projects such as Fracking in the Kimberley and Woodside's Scarborough and Browse Basin offshore gas projects. We bring you more of our conversation from last week with Raelene Cooper Murajuga Custodian about police initmidation and how to support the Save Our Songlines campaign.
In this show, we are doing a deep dive into the AUKUS deal from the perspective of peace and anti nuclear activists from each of the AUKUS states - Australia, the UK and the US. Speakers include Bruce Haigh, a retired diplomat, political commentator and author from Australia, Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and Bruce Gagnon from the US, who is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. This audio is from a webinar chaired by Keith Suter that was part of the Raising Peace festival in Naarm Melbourne in September 2022. You can watch the full webinar here and there is more information on the speakers here.
For Human Rights Day we're joined by Gurridyula Gaba Wunggu, Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owner about Waddananggu. Translated as 'The Talking', Waddananggu is a stone Bora ring and ceremonial ground opposite Adani’s Carmichael coal mine where Wangan & Jagalingou people are asserting their human rights to practice culture.This ceremonial reoccupation that began on 26 August 2021 is using the Queensland Human Rights Act 2019, Section 28 to stand up against the destruction of Wangan & Jagalingou Country. Gurridyula discusses the history of the fight against Adani and the government, how they are using Human Rights to protect country, some of the sacred sites that are under threat of destruction and how he is using music created on site at Waddananggu to spread the word in solidarity with other First Nations.Featuring the song Gee'd Up by Gurridyula.https://standing-our-ground.org
This show includes interviews with Indigneous leaders attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties or COP27 which happened from Nov 6 to the 18th, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. These interviews, conducted by Cultural Survival for their Indigenous Rights Radio program, were recorded at preparatory meetings, the traditional knowledge holders meeting, and the Indigneous peoples pavilion which was part of the COP27 conference.These recordings are covered by creative commons license 3.0.
A conversation with three Iranian women - Dr Negar Partow, Dr Hoda Afshar and Dr Forough Amin - about the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran and what this uprising means for the future of the country and the Middle East region.The panel was hosted by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Aotearoa (MEISA) group and is moderated by Dr Pooneh Torabian from the University of Otago. You can watch the full recording here.The image is by Taymaz Valley (https://www.flickr.com/photos/taymazvalley/52463477889) and used under Creative commons license.
Today’s show is our second featuring audio from a panel discussion marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was held on September 26th. The online panel was organised by Reverse the Trend Pacific, a chapter of Reverse the Trend, save our people, save the planet. We’ll hear from the facilitator, Jeshua Hope, as well as panel guests, Kasha Sequoia Slavner a young filmmaker from the Global Sunrise Project, and H.E. Ambassador Teburoro Tito of Kiribati. Kiribati has been pushing the world to do more in both the international climate and nuclear spheres. https://thesunrisestoryteller.com/https://rttreversingthetrend.org/
Today’s show features audio from a panel discussion marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was on September 26th. The online panel was organised by Reverse the Trend Pacific, which is a chapter of Reverse the Trend, save our people, save the planet.We’ll hear from the facilitators, Jeshua Hope and Christian Ciobanu, both organisers with Reverse the Trend who introduce the panel and speakers- Dimity Hawkins of ICAN Australian, Vaela Sulfite- who’s family has suffered the intergenerational effects of nuclear testing in the pacific and Mere Tuilau, a young organiser, with yPacific. https://rttreversingthetrend.org/https://icanw.org.au/
Land Forces is the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere. Wage Peace is organising, for the second year, a festival of resistance from October 1-7 in Meanjin-Brisbane. We speak with Walpiri elder Ned Tjampijinpa Hargraves about the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign that is a calling for a ceasefire and no police guns. The campaign started after 19 year old Kumanjayi Walker was shot dead by a Police Constable Zacharly Rolfe in Yuendumu in 2019. Rolfe was charged with murder and the case went to the supreme court but in March 2022 Rolfe was aquitted. The community is still seeking justice. Uncle Ned has taken the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campign to Meanjin-Brisbane for Disrupt Land Forces because the main manufacturer of police bullets is the company NIOA, a major sponsor for Land Forces 2022. NIOA formed a partnership with Winchester in 2021 and together the two companies dominate the law enforcement market. In 2021 they successfully tender for the bulk of armaments supply to the NT police worth a total of $1.8 billion.We also speak with peace & anti-military campaigner and event organiser Andy Paine about what's planned for the Disrupt Land Forces 2022 festival of resistance.
In this show, I take you onto the streets of Ōtautahi Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand, to join in a protest against white supremacy and the far right. Christchurch, of course, has became a name synonymous with the terrorist attacks on two mosques where a far right white supremist murdered 51 muslim people who were gathered for Friday prayers on March 15, 2019.Three and a half years later and the far right movement has morphed to incorporate covid conspiracy theories and embrace protests against vaccinations and public health mandates.Two prominent proponents of far right conspiracy theories were in court on Wednesday 21 September, after they were arrested for sharing footage of the March 15 massacres on their media platform “Counterspin media”, claiming that the terrorist attacks were a hoax. A group of protesters were outside the courts to support the counterspin defendants, and so a vigil in support of the Muslim community was organised to oppose the far right, called “Ka Tū Kotahi Tātou”.
With the war in Ukraine threatening nuclear power plants, on this week’s show, we talk to Friends of the Earths Dr Jim Green about threats, safeguards and what it means for the nuclear industry in Australia. Then we speak to Aunty Sue Haseldine and Susie Thisleton about rocket testing in SA and why caring for Country is so important.
This show features a talk by Lorraine Rekmans, member of the Serpent River First Nation and president of the Green Party of Canada. She speaks about working conditions in the uranium mining industry in Canada and the rights of first nations whose lands are being mined. She is speaking from personal experience of her family and there are striking similarities to the uranium mining industry in Australia, where radioactive racism means First Nations communities are disproportionately impacted.This talk was part of a webinar called Nuclear power: Insecure, Unsafe, Unsustainable, hosted by the Trade Union Advisory group of UK’s CND. It took place in June 2022. The podcast image is a screenshot from the webinar and shows the miners' memorial that is mentioned in the show.
A discussion with Lil Barto and Margie Pestorius from Wage Peace. We discuss with Lil Barto an action on August 15, when around 20 people from Meanjin disrupted a STEM Education and Defence conference. Wage Peace oppose the 'militarisation of STEM education' and are calling for weapons companies to be banned from schools. Margie Pestorius outlines the upcoming Disrupt Land Forces event, which is a counter event to Land Forces, the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere. https://disruptlandforces.org/https://www.wagepeaceau.org/
On this show we present some of the speakers from the recent Hiroshima Day Peace Rally held in Naarm, or Melbourne.In the past, these events focussed on remembering the bombing of hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945, and on fighting for a nuclear free future. This year included more about a nuclear free present, with current threats such as the AUKUS submarine deal, the trilateral security pact between the US, UK and Australia risking war with China and the war in Ukraine.Organised by No AUKUS Coalition Victoria and supporting peace and community organisations and unions, Speakers included:Margie Beavis (Medical Association for Prevention of War)Fiona McCandless - Organiser, Health and Community Sector Union, and peace activist. John Shipton - Julian Assange’s fatherNic Maclellan - journalist and researcher on the Pacific, andJohn Lander - retired Australian diplomat
On the 77th Anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima, we take time to think of all of those around the world that have died due to nuclear weapons. We keep carrying on the stories and messages from those survivors of atomic bomb explosions, the hibukasha across the world and their descendants suffering to this day due to their exposure. Whether at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Maralinga and Emu Field, the Marshall Islands or Turtle Island.Let us not forget that nuclear weapon exist due to the mining of uranium and the destructive impacts of the nuclear chain begin from the very first moment that uranium is dug up.Firstly, we pay tribute to a very special artist and activist that passed last week, Archie Roach. We send out our deepest condolences to his family friends the local community here in Kulin Lands of Fitzroy that he was such a special part of, and to all those moved by his powerful message of peace justice and human understanding.‘No No No’ from the album Charcoal Lane released in 1990.We hear from Hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow, with her powerful survivors account of the firsthand experience of nuclear weapons.Then we're joined by Margaret Williamson, a member of the Unitarian Peace Memorial Church and the Anti AUKUS Coalition who’s one of the organisers of the ‘No More Hiroshima’s - Peace Not War’ rally at the State Library of Victoria in Naarm Melbourne on Saturday 6 August at 12.30pm.
BHP has been sucking up to 42 million litres of water per day out of the Great Artesian Basin for its giant Olympic Dam underground copper and uranium mine since 1988. There is increasing awareness that pumping so much water from the great artesian basin is unsustainable. But BHP is a very thirsty beast, and is looking to find an alternative water source through the Water Supply Project, a partnership between the South Australian Government, OZ Minerals, BHP and SA Water.
This week we discuss nuclear power (again), as it seems to be an issue that—despite everything that is stacked against it—keeps on returning. The CSIRO have published their annual GenCost report, which states that: “Renewables remain the cheapest new-build electricity generation option in Australia” and the case for nuclear power generation in Australia still doesn’t add up. To discuss this issue in depth we are joined by National nuclear-free campaigner with Friends of the Earth, Dr. Jim Green, who speaks to Chief Economist at CSIRO’s Energy business unit, Paul Graham, who is one of the lead authors of the GenCost report. We also speak to Dr. Margaret Beavis, Co-Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Australia) and Co-Director of QuitNukes, who lays for us out the many other reasons why nuclear power shouldn’t be an option on the menu of energy sources.
It’s NAIDOC week and the theme is Get Up Stand Up Show Up!We hear from three incredible activists doing just that: Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman Karina Lester and Kokatha Mula women Sue Coleman-Haseldine and Mia Haseldine presenting at the event ‘From Port Augusta to Vienna with love’. This Nuclear Ban Hub organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons streamed live to Vienna on the 19th June during the first meeting of state parties to the United Nations treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The treaty was adopted by the United Nations in 2017 and achieved the number of ratifications to bring it into force in January 2021.
A discussion from one of ICAN’s Nuclear Ban hubs, an event featuring experts from on the ground at the landmark first meeting of states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.This one was hosted by Womens International League for peace and freedom or WILPF, in Meanjin / Brisbane on June 22nd. The event was facilitated by ICAN Australia Director Gem Romuld, Campaigner Jemila Rushton and ICAN Founder Dimity Hawkins, who spoke with Ray Acheson, the director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Rico Ishii Robertson, a third generation hibakusha, or nuclear bomb survivor, from Peace Boat Japan.A recording of the full event can be watched here: https://youtu.be/wwGcERbyuKY
On this show, we present an interview between Uncle Robbie Thorpe and nuclear-free superstar Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine.Aunty Sue is well known to radioactive show listeners because of her tireless work fighting the nuclear industry and her involvement with ICAN, the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and ANFA, the australian nuclear free alliance.The struggle to protect country from exploitation from mining companies is compounded by so many other struggles aboriginal people faceThe interview covers just some of the battles Aunty Sue faces, why her work is so important and why she’ll never give up.To learn more about ICAN the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, go to www.icanw.org. To learn more about ANFA, the australian nuclear free alliance, go to www.anfa.org.au.
In this show, I interview Jess Urwin, a phd student from ANU, who is researching South Australia’s nuclear history. Jess’s work highlights a nuclear history that started before 1945, and what we think of the beginning of the nuclear age, and puts this nuclear story in the context of settler colonialism in South Australia.
Today’s show contains all nuclear themed songs, hosted by AC and Micheala. Originally recorded live in September last year for the Rotations show, we've picked the highlights for you to enjoy.Song list: - Kev Carmody "Thou shalt not steal"- Three little birds "Uranium mining"- Desert Stars "Running"- Blekbala Mujik "Nyukliya Fiya Nyukliya war"- Time Zone "World destruction"
Update from Mia Pepper from the Conservation Council of WA about the proposed uranium mine in Western Australia at Mulga Rock, and the proposed merger between Vimy Resources and Deep Yellow. After that, we’ll get Dr Jim Green’s perspective on what the election result means for the nuclear free campaign in Australia.
Interviews and speeches from May Day 2022 in Naarm (Melbourne). Shirley Winton from the Spirit of Eureka sets the context for the day, explaining the history and importance of the struggle against imperialism. At the 2022 May Day rally in Naarm, she explained how AUKUS is a manifestation of imperialism and why it's about so much more than just submarines. Lastly, we hear from Anisa Rogers from Blockade IMARC, who explains how extractivism, workers solidarity and environmental protection are linked.
There's a lot to hear about from ICAN- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons organisers, Gem Romuld and Jemila Rushton. We hear the latest about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, including the upcoming first meeting of State Parties in Vienna. How ICAN, and the public, are working towards getting more MPs signing a pledge to work towards Australia signing onto this Treaty. Also, hear about local action at Port Kembla, against the proposal that it may be one of the sites to host the slated nuclear submarines. https://icanw.org.au/
While Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has excluded Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, from its investment portfolio because of allegations of its involvement in the production of cluster munitions, hte Victorian government seems to be swimming against the tide, establishing a partnership with Elbit Systems Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems, to establish a research ‘Centre of Excellence’. Australia’s public funds should not be involved in furthering grave human rights abuses.This show features interviews wth Rawan Arraf from the Australian Centre for International Justice and Jake Lynch, Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and member of the Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions Australia campaign.TAKE ACTION TO CALL ON THE VICTORIAN PREMIER TO END VICTORIA’S ASSOCIATION WITH ELBIT SYSTEMS
This weeks show we take to the streets to hear voices and sounds from two rallies in Narrm-Melbourne this week. We'll hear voices from a rally for a nuclear free future on the steps of Victorian parliament on April 26 - the 36th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster. Then we join Wage Peace at the University of Melbourne-Lockheed Martin ‘STELarLab' research facility at 766 Elizabeth St, Carlton on April 28 - the final day in a week of global #StopLockheed Martin actions.
Today on the show we speak with Yohanis Mambrasar, lawyer and resident of Tambrauw, West Papua about the community campaign against the construction of a new military base, the 1810 Tambrauw Kodim, along with several smaller military posts that the Indonesian National Army (TNI) and the Government of Indonesia are planning to build without consultation or consent from the Indigenous landowners.The TNI has already mobilized hundreds of troops to Tambrauw and this incresed military presence is suspected to be connected with recent mineral explorations in the area.Determined to avoid the conflict and violence that occur when militarism and extractivism join forces, a grassroots movement of indigenous peoples, women’s groups, students and youth has risen up to oppose this militarization.Yohanis Mambrasar was appointed as legal counsel by the people of Tambrauw when they began protesting and he joins us on the show with the support of Zelda Grimshaw from Make West Papua Safe who translates for us.For more information on how to support the campaign go to the Make West Papua Safe.World Beyond War has a letter writing campaign and are fundraising for a Tambrauw Indigenous Community Conference.
An interview between 3CR’s Jan Bartlett and Lee Tan from Aid/Watch. Lee updates us on the impacts of Australian miner Lynas Rare Earth’s, both in Australia and Malaysia.Malaysians should not be left to deal with the health and environmental risks or the long-term inconvenience and costs of housing a mega radioactive waste dump of toxic materials brought in by Australian Rare Earth miner Lynas.Malaysians are taking Lynas and its Government to the court to enforce its law on Lynas. Aid/Watch is working alongside Malaysian civil society to compel Lynas to remove its radioactive waste from Malaysia and to dispose of it in accordance with Australian regulation and standards.
An update on the campaign to stop a nuclear waste dump on Barngarla land near Kimba, South Australia. It begins with Barngarla people who are staunchly protecting their country from the proposed radioactive and toxic waste dump. This audio was recorded by MAV media for this video: https://vimeo.com/659125887Secondly we share an interview with Dr Jim Green on where the campaign is up to today, recorded with 3CR Tuesday Hometime host Jan Bartlett. You can support the campaign to stop the nuclear waste dump on Barngarla land by contributing here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nbp8f8-barngarla-help-us-have-a-say-on-radioactive-waste
Today, we hear from Upurli Upurli Nguratja Traditional Owner woman Maria Barton and Nuclear-free campaigner Mia Pepper speaking about the VIMY Resources Mulga Rock uranium proposal for an online forum 'Keeping WA Nuclear Free in 2022' on Wednesday 16 March.We also hear from a School Strike 4 Climate organiser speaking at the Climate Strike rally on Friday 25 March. The Naarm-Melbourne rally joined hundreds of thousands of students across the world in the Global #ClimateStrike, putting forward the demand of #PeopleNotProfit and sending politicians a clear message demanding Climate Action!
Today we are turning to the war in Ukraine and in particular the manifold nuclear threats arising from this conflict. To explore these issues are two experts in their fields, Dr Jim Green, national nuclear free campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia, and Tilman Ruff, Co-founder of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Jim Green, 3 March 2022, RenewEconomyhttps://reneweconomy.com.au/could-the-ukraine-conflict-lead-to-one-of-the-worlds-worst-nuclear-disasters/Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free campaign: https://nuclear.foe.org.au/International Physicians for the prevention of nuclear war: https://www.ippnw.org/International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: https://icanw.org.au/
In this show, we hear from Dr Jim Green, nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth Australia and a speaker at the recent Sustainable living festival webinar - Nuclear power for Australia? He spoke about why nuclear power is not a solution to climate change in detail, and also gives a brief update on the campaign to stop a nuclear waste dump on Barngarla land near Kimba, South Australia. Link to 'Help Barngarla Stop the Kimba Waste Dump in Court' gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nbp8f8-barngarla-help-us-have-a-say-on-radioactive-waste
For this International Women’s Day 2022 special we bring you the powerful voices of three First Nations women that have been featured on the Radioactive Show across the last year and recognise the huge amount of work they undertake to protect their homelands from destruction and maintain their culture and country. This work is mostly unpaid, and also comes at enormous personal cost.We hear Mara Bonacci speaking with Kuyani woman Regina McKenzie on May Day 2021, Larrakia woman June Mills speaking at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference organised by Blockade IMARC and Sue Coleman Haseldine, Kokatha Mula representative interviewed by Lavanya Pant.Songs are Nadeena Dixon with the song 'Aboriginal Land' from the album Songbird Calling and Lady Lash with 'Black Woman in the Flames' from her album Spiritual Misfit.
A webinar, entitled ‘Resisting AUKUS and War on China’ and hosted by Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition (SAAC), was held on February 12, 2022. Facilitated by David Brophy from SAAC, the webinar featured:Noam Chomsky – Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, social critic and political activistLisa Natividad – Professor of Social Work at the University of Guam, convenor of Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice and a founding member of I Hagan Famalao’an GuahanSteven Murphy – National Secretary at Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)Nat Wasley – EnvironmentalistNick Deane – Convenor of Marrickville Peace Group and SAAC member.Link to webinarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7LLuyCsdes&ab_channel=SocialJusticeandSocialismThe video and transcript can also be found here.
In this show, we go out on the streets to protest the QUAD meeting - where the US secreaty of state and foreign ministers from Japan, India and Australia met in Naarm/ Melbourne to further develop their plans for war, and posturing against China. Speakers from the protest that took place on February 10th included Dave Ball, Deputy Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, Dave Sweeney, anti-nuclear campaigner from the Australian Conservation Foundation, Shirley Winton from the international and peaceful australia network (or IPAN) and the spirit of Eureka, Romina Beitseen from Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament or CICD and Dave Glanz from Solidarity. For further information, check out one of these webinar:RESISTING AUKUS AND WAR ON CHINA with Noam Chomsky https://fb.watch/b6HWQEh4im/ (Saturday Feb 12, 11am AEST).QUAD-AUKUS will cost the earth - What does AUKUS mean for Australia, Thursday 24 Feb, 7pm - email noaukusvic@gmail.com to register
Today’s show features an interview with Elise West, the Executive Officer of the Medical Association for Prevention of War. The interview was conducted by Phuong Tran, for 3CR’s Tuesday breakfast show on 17 Jan 2022. It’s a really interesting conversation that covers many current Radioactive Show topics of interest, including partnerships between weapons companies and charities providing STEM education in schools, the increasing civil use of the military in Australia particularly in the govt’s covid response, updates on the campaign towards abolishing nuclear weapons, and a recent multi-billion dollar purchase of tanks from the US. Thank you to Tuesday Breakfast for sharing the audio. https://www.mapw.org.au/
Nuclear issues have long been the source of inspiration for many songs. Today, we’ll listen to some of them, as well as have a bit of an update on the federal government's push for a radioactive waste facility in Kimba in SA.Please support the Barngarla traditional owners by contributing to their crowdfunder for lobbying for appropriate legislation, advocacy, and any future challenge against a government decision to establish an NRWMF at Kimba. Track List/CreditsSheldon Allman - Crawl Out Through the Fallout (1960)Ira and Charlie Louvin - The Great Atomic Power (1962)David Bowie - Bombers (1971)OMD - Enola Gay (1980) Cramps - Uranium Rock (1981)Anne Waldman - Uh-Oh Plutonium! (1982)Bad Religion, - Atomic Garden (1992)Combat Wombat - Alternative Energy (2005)
The 5th and last session of ICAN’s Ban School is called Road to a nuclear free future, and includes speakers taking action to create a world free from nuclear weapons - Joey Tau from Youngsolwara and the Pacific Network on Globalisation, Margaret Peril speaking on the Quit Nukes campaign, Daryl Le Cornu speaking on peace education, and Gem Romuld, ICAN Australia Director with a campaign update. You can catch up on all of ICAN Ban School here: https://icanw.org.au/banschool/Video of this Ban School Session is here:
Sometimes licence conditions for project approvals can cause damage. On this radioactive show, we look at the damage Vimy Resources is causing in their attempt to get approval to mine uranium at Mulga Rock, and how conditions set by the Malaysian Government have got Lynas in a rush to process Rare Earths in WA. We hear from Nuclear Free Campaigner at the Conservation Council of WA, Mia Pepper, about the Vimy Resources plan to establish WA’s first ever uranium mine at Mulga Rock, and how the community is determined to stop it. Vimy are destroying the habitat of the endangered Sandill Dunnart. You can read the CCWA media release about it here. The Vimy Resources AGM will be held on Friday 26th Nov 1.30 AEST. Go to Nuclear Free WA on FB for the event link for the livestream of the AGM.We also hear from Lee Tan, Policy Coordinator at Aid/Watch, about the current status of the proposal from Australian rare earth miner Lynas to establish a processing facility and waste dump near Kalgoorlie and the impacts these operators have overseas.photo credit: www.bushheritage.org.au
On today’s show, we hear from two of the speakers at the Nuclear: No Climate Solution forum coordinated by the Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free collective in conjunction with Blockade IMARC in October 2021. The event aimed to counter the nuclear propaganda campaign by explaining the real effects of the whole nuclear chain on our First Nations people, uranium mine workers and future generations. Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and anti-nuclear and climate activist and former senator Scott Ludlam explain the risks, economic viability and realistic timelines for the so called 'solutions' that the nuclear industry proposes and why nuclear is a political dead cat.Nuclear power is not the 'green' solution to climate change it's presented to be. For more information, check out Don't Nuke the Climate and Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective.
This Radioactive Show explores the 'partnerships' between defence companies and schools. Featuring interviews with Elise West, Executive officer of Medical Association for Prevention of War, who will discuss key issues in their recent report- Minors and Missiles. Dr Bev Hall, who became alarmed at the influence of defence in education when in 2013 she discovered the local high schools her grandchildren attended were ‘defence schools’, and set out to work in an alliance against this. Later in the show we hear from Miriam Torzillo, about a new network opposing defence in schools as well as promoting peace and climate justice education.
For the United Nations Disarmament Week 24-30 October we bring you discussions about the AUKUS military pact between Australia, the US and UK announced on 16 September, the threats posed to the region and the nuclear submarines that are the centrepiece of this deal. Thanks to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for sharing these recordings from an open forum 'Lets talk about subs' held on 12 October featuring speakers Dimity Hawkins AM - Co-founder of ICAN, Professor Marianne Hanson - Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland and Co-chair of ICAN, Professor Steven Ratuva - Director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa & Reverend James Bhagwan - General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches. There are two upcoming meetings that we encourage you to join.Broad national coalition campaigning against Nuclear Submarines and AUKUS: Sunday 7 November 2-4 pmThe Independent and Peaceful Australia Network invites you to a meeting of interested organisations and individuals to discuss the potential formation of a broad national coalition campaigning against Nuclear Submarines and AUKUS. You can register here to attend.Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus II: Thursday 4 November 7pmJoin Renegade Activists for the next Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus action gathering - with Emma Shortis, David Brophy, Jacob Grech, featuring campaign reports and action planning. Register here.
Ahead of the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland from November 1-12 we speak with Mike Smith from the Australians For War Powers Reform campaign about the importance of including military pollution in climate agreements. World Beyond War have a petition that you and your organisation can sign 'Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements.' Mia Pepper and Uncle Kevin Buzzacott talk to us about the upcoming online forum 'Nuclear:No climate solution'.In this online forum, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder who has been working over 30 years to highlight the impacts of uranium mining, Scott Ludlam, former Australian Greens Senator, anti-nuclear and climate activist and Mia Pepper, nuclear researcher and expert will discuss the reasons why nuclear power is not the 'green' solution to climate change. The event is brought to you by Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective in collaboration with Blockade IMARC and starts at 7 pm Melbourne time. Please join us! Register here: www.melbournefoe.org.au/nuclear_no_climate_solution Share the event via FB.
On today’s show, we share the 4th session of ICAN’s Ban School. This time featuring Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of Women’s International League for peace and freedom (or WILPF) and Scott Ludlum, former Greeen senator. They will both be speaking about their recently published books - Ray’s book is called "Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy", and Scott’s book is called "Full Circle".You can watch the full Ban School session here: https://youtu.be/LfKMvm5j-cQ
On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we hear from Liz Downes from the Rainforest Action Group and PhD student and Aid/Watch committee member Claire Burgess about the problems with so called green extractivism, the issues surrounding lithium production for the transition to renewable energy and whether it is the answer to zero emissions.More information:The Australian Lithium statement 'Is Australian Lithium the Answer to Zero Emissions?' https://aidwatch.org.au/alternatives-to-green-extractivism/Case studies can be viewed here:https://aidwatch.org.au/alternatives-to-green-extractivism/#case-studiesThe Australian lithium statement is in support of the Yes to Life No to Mining global network Lithium Communique #1: On the Frontlines of Lithium Mining Image: Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta, ChileSource: www.aidwatch.org.au Lithium projects in this salt flat are run by SQM (Chile, China) and Albemarle (USA) making use mostly (but not only) of brine, while copper projects Minera Zaldívar (Antofagasta Minerals, Barrick) and Minera Escondida (BHP, Rio Tinto) have made use of the largest amounts of fresh water since their operations started. SQM and Escondida are formally accused of environmental damage and excessive water extraction in several Salt Flats such as Atacama, Punta Negra and Llamará.
September 27 marks the anniversary of the first of the British atomic tests on the mainland that began at Maralinga in 1955. On this show we look at the cultural, environmental and toxic legacy left by Britain's atomic bomb tests at Maralinga and across the country. First up we hear from Dr.Jim Green National Anti-nuclear campaginer with Friends of the Earth Australia who talks us through some details of the atomic tests and trails, the numerous botched clean-ups that have left the lands of the Maralinga Tjarutja in particular heavily contaminated. He explains the findings of a report released by the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University in May 'The nature of Pu‑bearing particles from the Maralinga nuclear testing site, Australia' that warns that degrading particles remaining from the tests are still releasing plutonium into the environment and further clean-ups are required.Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Kokatha Mula Elder and President of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, joins us from Ceduna, South Australia to talk about the ongoing impacts that the atomic testing has had on her country, health, family and culture. She touches on some of the current threats posed by the Federal Government's proposed national nuclear waste dump at nearby Kimba and Southern Launch's rocket testing trails.Music is 'Maralinga (Rainy land)' by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls.
In the lead up to International Peace Day on the 21st September we’ll be looking at the latest threat to peace and nuclear non-proliferation in the region with the Morrison-led conservative government's announcement on Thursday 16th September that a deal with the US to build nuclear powered submarines will be a central feature of the AUKUS pact that they have developed with the US and the UK.We speak with Margaret Reynolds the President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Australia who are calling for urgent public scrutiny into the deal. Friends of the Earth Australia’s National Anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Jim Green joins us to talk through some of the potential ramifications for nuclear proliferation and radioactive waste management issues that the deal threatens.If you’d like to connect with grassroots organisations working for peace the Raising Peace festival is happening online between the 16-26 September. It’s coordinated by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Australia, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network and International Peace Volunteers and they have many events including speakers, workshops, films, exhibitions that you can participate in.The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons final Ban School session is coming up on Monday 20th September from 5-6.30pm AEST. THE ROAD TO A NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE features a fantastic line up of speakers that will talk political advocacy, local government, superannuation funds, education, direct action, Pacific solidarity and look ahead to map the movement that wins.
In this show, Rad show producer Micheala Stubbs interviews Greg Bannon, member of FLAG, the Flinders Local Action Group, who were part of the successful campaign to stop a nuclear waste dump proposal on Adnyamathanha country in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
The latest report by the Mineral Policy Institute and CCWA is a blueprint for managing the risks associated with uranium mining while providing new hope and real opportunities to protect Western Australia from the threat of uranium mining in a lasting and meaningful way.KA Garlick from CCWA, Mia Pepper from MPI and Steve McCartney from the AMWU, speaking at the launch of the new report from CCWA and MPI - The Road to a Nuclear Free Future, update us about current approvals, rehabilitation requirements for the existing uranium exploration sites, and the move to legislate a ban on all uranium mining.
On today’s Radioactive Show we turn our focus to QLD where we speak with Miree LeRoy about some recent activities in the campaign to stop Adani’s Carmichael mine. Currently under construction on Wangan and Jagalingou country in the Galilee Basin, the mine will become Austalia’s largest coal mine if allowed to continue. We discuss various ways to get involved with the campaign: Divestment information can be found at Market Forces, Stop Adani is a central coordinating point for the many groups taking action, Frontline Action on Coal have been stopping work on Adani's railway corridorduring the last week also. The Wangan and Jagalingou are not being listened to, stand in solidarity with the Traditional Custodians and please join us at the Online Rally: Respect Wangan & Jagalingou Human Rights, 6.30pm Monday 30th August. We also hear from Annette Brownlie chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network speaking with Jacob Andrewartha (Green Left Weekly Radio) about the Talisman Sabre joint military exercises that saw 17,000 soldiers conduct war manoeuvres in the Great Barrier Reef reserve from July 18-31 and the consequences for the environment, public health and relationships in the Pacific region.
Marisa interviewed Dr.Jim Green National Anti-nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth about keeping the pressure on, to protect the Kimba from a nuclear waste dump.Marisa then Interviewed David Sweeney one of the co-founders of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and Campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. The interview focused on the Government's response on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Treaty.
Today we have highlights from the second of ICAN’s Ban School series, which is titled Resistence is forever. This session dives into this rich and living history of resistance of First Nations people in Australia and the pacific. The show featurtes Talei Mangioni, Fijian-Italian PhD candidate at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, Wayne Kijiner from the Marshall Islands Students Association (MISA) and Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Kokatha elder and nuclear test survivor from Ceduna, South Australia.The Ban School session also included Debbie Carmody, Anangu Spinifex Pilki and Western Nullarbor person. Unfortunately the sound quality meant I couldn't include her story in the show - but please check out these earlier Rad Shows that include it in two parts here: https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode-202102201000/maralinga-mulga-rock-part-one https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode-202102271000/maralinga-mulga-rock-part-twoLeanr more about ICAN's Ban School here: https://icanw.org.au/banschool/
On this episode KA Garlick from Conservation Council WA gives an update on uranium mining, the lack of available finance for the industry and talks about the importance of shareholder activism.
Class is in session for ICAN's Ban School, a series of classes covering everything you need to know about United Nations' Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In class 1, you'll hear Tim Wright, ICAN's Treaty Coordinator, give a detailed explanation of the Treaty's articles and learn about Pacific nations' role in shaping the Treaty with Dr Vanessa Griffen, long time activist and founding member of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement.Learn more about Ban School here: https://icanw.org.au/banschool/
On Today’s show we celebrate with Mirarr Traditional owners about the returning of their land after a four-decades long fight for traditional ownership at Jabiru, within the World-Heritage listed Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. In late June this year, Mirrar Traditional owners were granted freehold title over the town of Jabiru, under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, the first of its kind in Australia. This fight for land rights, has been led by senior traditional owner Yvonne Margarula, and begun in 1978 when the town was built on what was then Crown land without the involvement or permission of Traditional Owners. The native title claim was lodged by Yvonne Margarula in 1998, which was finally decided by the Federal Court in 2016 after one of Australia’s longest-running native title matters.This week we hear from Corben Mudjandi, a Mirarr Traditional Owner and nephew of Yvonne, who tells us about the response of the community and the plans for Jabiru now that it’s been handed back. We also speak to Kirsten Blair from the Gundjehmi Aboriginal Coorporation about the history of the land rights struggle, the impacts of the Ranger Uranium mine, and what it means for the future of Jabiru. And, although this is a celebration, we also hear about the problems associated with the Ranger Uranium Mine rehabilitation plan from long-time anti-nuclear campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, Dave Sweeney.
It’s Naidoc week, and the theme of ‘Heal Country’ resonates strongly through our radioactive Shows. For todays show I’ve looked back into our archives and found some powerful interview clips to share. We’ll hear from three incredible protectors of Country, Kokatha Mula woman Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine, Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah and Arabunna man Uncle Kevin Buzzacott.The recordings of Aunty Sue and Aunty Vicki were both taken at the 2019 Camp for Country at Yeelerie, in Western Australia. The discussion with Uncle Kevin took place in July 2020.
In this episode, Anthony Amis, land use researcher at Friends of the Earth, takes us through the findings of the WA Auditor Report which found unacceptable levels of uranium in drinking water in several remote aboriginal communities. Anthony’s further research has found high levels of uranium in other parts of Australia as well, but a lack of data means the full scale of the problem is unknown. The lack of political will to treat the drinking water is yet another form of environmental racism. To learn more about this research and check out the interactive map of contamination sites, read his snapshot here.
An interview between Joi Iti, Sean Bonner and Pieter Franken, the co-founders of Safecast, a citizen science organisation that formed in response to Fukushima nuclear disaster. At the time of the disaster, information on local radiation level was scarce, but their organisation combined a crowd-sourcing approach with cutting edge and easily sourced technology to quickly begin monitoring, collecting, and openly sharing information on environmental radiation.This interview was originally recorded for Joi's conversations podcast (https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/12/24/safecast-conver.html) and is used here under Creative Commons licence 4.0Image is screenshot of Safecast.org's map of Eastern Japan, that shows heightened radiation levels around Fukushima (the red and yellow areas).
A conversation with Barbara O’Dwyer and Ludmilla Kwitko. two long term organisers involved with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (or WILPF). We explore a report released in May 2021 by WILPF Australia, called Militarisation in Australia: Normalisation and Mythology.Read Militarisation in Australia: Normalisation and Mythology.Check out the work of WILPF Australia.Check out the work of WILPF International.
We speak to Andy Paine and Uncle Kevin Buzzacott about the Disrupt Land Forces festival currently taking place in Meanjin, Brisbane. https://disruptlandforces.org/
This week we take a look at the Federal Budget allocation for Defence and Military spending with renegade activist and presenter of A Friday Rave Jacob Grech.To read more about the Victorian Government partnership with the major Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems announced in February and the Australian federal government’s ongoing contracts with Elbit visit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Australia.Stop Elbit - Stop crimes against Palestinians.
Today is a special Nakba Day show, highlighting the recent struggle of Palestinians in Jerusalem against displacement and the settler colonial violence of the Israeli state. I’ll share with you a talk given by Badour Hassan and Aseel Albajeh, who talk about the resistance of Sheikh Jarrah families to forced eviction from their homes in East Jerusalem and the broader Palestinian resistance to colonisation. These talks were part of a webinar held by the Foundation for Middle East Peace called “Jerusalem on the Verge: Dispossession & Violence in Sheikh Jarrah”, which was hosted by the Foundation’s president Lara Friedman on May 6th. You can watch the full webinar here: https://fmep.org/event/jerusalem-on-the-verge-dispossession-violence-in-sheikh-jarrah/Note this show was completed before Israel re-commenced bombing of Gaza, with many deaths including children. For up to date news and current affairs from Palestine, listen to 3CR's Palestine Remembered show - https://www.3cr.org.au/palestineImage by Victor Grigas, from the Wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nablus_Graffiti_Resistance_Victor_Grigas_2011-01-76.jpg
Today we speal with Zelda and Porobibi from the Make West Papua Safe campaign about Disrupt Land Forces. A festival of resistance to the Land Forces Defence Exposition that runs from May 28-June 3 in Meanjin, Brisbane on the lands of the Jagera people. #disruptlandforces
On this radioactive show, we take a look at the work done by aboriginal people around Australia caring for Country. This work is not only mostly unpaid, but also comes at enormous personal cost. While on May Day people around the world stand in solidarity with workers, it is important that unpaid workers are also remembered and acknowledged. We hear from Kuyani woman Regina McKenzie about her work and why Aboriginal knowledge should be respected.
Features audio from series of Inependent and Peaceful Australia Network webinars on Australia and US alliance.We’ll hear an introduction by Kelly Tranter followed by a speech from Vince Scappatura, Politics and International Relations Professor at Macquarie Unitersity.To find out more about the IPAN Inquiry: https://ipan.org.au/the-ipan-inquiry/https://independentpeacefulaustralia.com.au/
Today we hear from Lee Tan, who is working with Aid/Watch to stop the radioactive activities of Australian company Lynas Rare Earths in both Western Australia and Malaysia. Lynas seem to be getting special treatment in both Malaysia and Australia for geopolitical reasons, yet the potential impacts on human and environmental health are enormous. While rare earths are important for many renewable energy technologies, we cant let the transition to renewables replicate the negative impacts of extractive industries.www.aidwatch.org.auhttp://savemalaysia-stoplynas.blogspot.com/
On this Radioactive Show, to coincide with World Water Day, Ayumi Fukakusa, the Climate Change and Energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Japan talks about the proposal to release radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. Sign the PetitionWatch Video by the Fukushima Mieruka Project called Fishermen from Fukushima "Don't dump 'contaminated water'!" Music creditRankin & Dub Ainu Band "You can't see it, and you can't smell it either"
On this show, we hear a detailed description of how the disaster unfolded by Dr Philip White, who is an expert in Japanese nuclear power policy and was living in Tokyo at the time of the disaster. In the second part of the show we hear from Kirsten Blair, a non-Indigenous woman who works as media officer for the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, which represents the rights of Mirrar people. She speaks about the MIrrar connection to the disaster in Fukushima, which was fuelled by uranium mined in Australia, including from Mirrar land. These recordings are from a webinar hosted by the ACE Nuclear Free Collective on March 9th, which you can watch in full here: https://youtu.be/bdpX7pO0ESE
We hear from Aunty June Mills - Larrakia elder speaking about the community campaign against gas fracking proposed for the Beetaloo Basin in the Nothern Territory. This speech is from an online forum ‘Protecting Country from Gas & Fracking in so called "Australia" that was part of the Beyond Mining Counter Conference organised by Blockade IMARC on Friday 27 November, 2020.The project led by Origin Energy, that holds the gas exploration permits over most of the area would see around 500 gas wells in the Beetaloo Basin 400km south of Darwin where an enormous shale gas resource that has been named as one of five "strategic" gas basins that the Federal Government wants to help fund as part of its COVID 19 gas led recovery. Recent studies by the Australia Institute reveal that initial predictions of greenhouse gas emissions from the project were vastly underestimated and that emissions from just one field in the Beetaloo Basin would cause up to 117 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent- larger than all offset credits ever issued by the Australian Government.In the second half of the show we’ll hear from Jack Bertolus, Research Coordinator at Market Forces speaking about tax breaks afforded to the resource extraction industry and recent disclosures of fossil fuel company donations to major political parties. This interview first aired on Tuesday Breakfast on February 11, 2021.Join ACE Nuclear Free Collective Tuesday 9 March for: 10 Years On: Australian uranium fuelled Fukushima Please join us to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, with a webinar discussion about the social, environmental and economic impacts of the March 2011 Fukushima reactor meltdown, and the role the Australian uranium industry played in fuelling the disaster. Speakers include Ayumi Fukakusa from Friends of the Earth Japan, Kirsten Blair from Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation and Dr. Philip White from Friends of the Earth Adelaide.
Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody, shares the story of the her people’s displacement after the nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga in South Australia. Debbie is a Traditional Owner of Mulga Rock, east of Kalgoorlie, which is currently under threat from a uranium mine proposed by mining company Vimy resources.This recording is one of two taken from the Yellow Cake country webinar “Maralinga to Mulga Rock”, recorded in November 2020. The first part of the story was broadcast on our last Rad Show. The full webinar can be veiwed here: https://vimeo.com/482901226Featured on the show is music by The Mission Songs Project and Archie Roach, a song called "Hopkins River".
Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody, shares the story of the her people’s displacement after the nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga in South Australia. Debbie is a Traditional Owner of Mulga Rock, east of Kalgoorlie, which is currently under threat from a uranium mine proposed by mining company Vimy resources.This recording is one of two taken from the Yellow Cake country webinar “Maralinga to Mulga Rock”, recorded in November 2020. The second part of the story will be broadcast on our next Rad Show. The full webinar can be veiwed here: https://vimeo.com/482901226Music by The Desert Stars. Hear more of their music here: https://desertstars1.bandcamp.com
On December 30, 2020, in a joint police and military operation, Tumandok indigenous leaders were tortured and shot in their homes. 16 others were arrested. Some were over 70 years old. These Tumandok people were branded terrorists because they were opposed to the construction of the Jalaur Mega Dam. On today’s show, we hear from May Kotsakis from the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association and Berlin Guerrero from Bayan Australia about the impacts of Australian Military Aid to the Philippines.To support PASA, Bayan Australia and many others in their work and to oppose this appalling use of our aid budget, please contact Australian foreign Minister Marise Payne and demand that she condemn the Tumandok massacre. You can email her at foreign.minister@dfat.gov.au.You can contact PASA on facebook www.facebook.com/philaustsolassocand Bayan Australia on facebook at www.facebook.com/BAYANAUSTRALIA/
On this episode of the Radioactive show, we bring you recordings from some speeches and interviews from Invasion Day. We hear from Celeste Liddle and Tish King in Naarm, or so-called melbourne, Regina Mckenzie in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, and Tameeka Tighe in Sydney.
This episode of the Radioactive Show is a repeat of a show that originally went to air in August 2020. It was produced by Emma Crunch and features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), and Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW). Annette speaks about RIMPAC 2020, which is the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, currently being held in Hawaiian waters. She also introduces us to the IPAN inquiry. Margie critiques Australia’s increased defence spending, exploring why it remains unchallenged.
Independent and Peaceful Australia, or IPAN, advocate for an Australia free of foreign military bases and free of interventions by other foreign governments, corporations or vested interests that seek to exert undue influence in shaping Australia’s foreign and defence policies in a manner that diminishes Australia's sovereignty.They have recently launched A People’s Inquiry - Exploring the case for an Independent and Peaceful Australia. The inquiry will explore the questions What are the costs and consequences of Australia’s involvement in US-led wars and the US-Alliance? and What are the alternatives?The inquiry has pillars - first nations, economic, social and community, environment and climate, military and defence, foreign policy, political and democratic rights and unions and workers rights.The inquiry provides an opportunity and a voice to individuals and organisations whose views and concerns about Australia’s involvement in US wars and the USA-Australia alliance have not been heard in the public debate.Organisations and individuals are invited to make a submission. To find out how, go tohttps://independentpeacefulaustralia.com.au/ or you can email IPAN at ipan.inquiry@gmail.com
As part of 3CR’s 16 Days of Action against Gender-Based Violence we're joined by Dimity Hawkins and Marianne Hanson to discuss nuclear weapons, gender and the feminist ‘Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons’ that was introduced by the UN in 2017 and that will finally see nuclear weapons made illegal under international law on 22 January 2021.Marianne Hanson who has been teaching at Uni QLD for over 25 years in the area of International Politics. She has been specialising in Weapons control and is also a board member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Dimity Hawkins is completing her PHD at Swinburne University and her project focuses on the response of Fiji to nuclear testing around the time of independence and decolonisation. She is one of the co-founders of the International Campain to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - the grassroots movement that began here in Melbourne and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for their work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.
In this show, I speak with Del Cuddihy and Valerie Joy from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Brisbane, who travelled over 3000 kms via plane, train and bus across regional Queensland, promoting the ICAN Cities Appeal and encouraging remote towns and shires to sign on in support of the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty.https://icanw.org.au/cities/https://www.wilpf.org.au/
On this week’s program we speak to Smriti Keshari, who is an Indian-American director and artist whose work covers a spectrum of the moving image from traditional, linear filmmaking to art installations. We discuss her acclaimed multi-media installation, the bomb, which was heralded as “a stunning avant-garde approach to a plea for nuclear disarmament.” the bomb is an immersive film, music and art installation that puts viewers in the center of the story of nuclear weapons. the bomb explores the immense power of nuclear weapons, the perverse appeal they have, and the profound death wish at the very heart of them. the film takes viewers through the strange, compelling, and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons today.
Repeat show: Hear from Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah who was one of the recipients of this years Australian Conservation Foundation's 2019 Rawlinson award winner with her two aunties, Shirley and Lizzie Wonyabong. You will also hear from Mia Pepper who travelled with Aunty Shirley and Vicki to receive the award at ACF’s annual general meeting. KA also gives campaign wrap and where each of the four proposed uranium projects in WA are at and the staunch resistance from First Nations and WA activists. To check out the film ~ click here (link is external)For the ACF for country and culture blog ~ click hereFor further updates on the WA nuclear free campaign, click here.
This week we hear an interview about the Sentencing of 2 of the 7 Plow Shares activists in the United States. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 performed an action as part of their campaign for nuclear disarmament two years ago inside the Kings Bay Trident Submarine base in southern Georgia. 3CRs Jan Barlett spoke to Brian Terrell, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non Violence.Read an article about jailed activist, Jesuit Priest Steve Kelly here
The Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020 has had little media coverage despite concerns the bill will erode human rights and vastly expand government powers to use the military domestically. Activist and Lawyer Kellie Trantor has been an outspoken critic of the proposed legislation - she says “This bill fails to properly define ‘other emergencies’, delegates too much responsibility for the call out to a single minister, permits foreign armies and police forces to be called in, does not restrict the use of force for defence forces and extends an unreasonable level of immunity for the defence force from criminal and civil penalties.” (Read her full briefing paper on the Bill here: http://kellietranter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KTupload.pdf)I spoke with academic Dr Binoy Kampmark from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University and Burt Blackburne from the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament about the Bill and why it must be opposed.
On this weeks episode listen to highlights from the recent Yellowcake Country webinar - Don't Nuke the Climate. An excellent panel of speakers to hear about why nuclear power is not the answer to climate change, the solutions and an update on the Federal environment legislation - EPBC Act that is currently under review includes, Fremantle MP, Josh Wilson speaks on the findings and outcomes from the “Parliamentary inquiry into the pre-requisites for nuclear energy in Australia”, Tim Buckley from the Institute Energy Economics and Financial Analysis present on the energy solutions to the climate crisis we face, the outlook for renewables in the context of the renewed push for nuclear power and Mia Pepper gives a snapshot of the Don't Nuke the Climate campaign the energy debate and the link to Australia’s waning uranium sector.Don't Nuke the Climate website - click here Dr Jim Green's, Friends of the Earth excellent information on all things nuclear - click here
RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. There is a strong movement to stop RIMPAC, even in lockdown. On today’s show, we hear from some speakers from the Koa Futures: A Demilitarized Pacific Future. The webinar was organised by the cancel RIMPAc coalitionGet in touch with the Cancel RIMPAC crew via facebook To show your support for their work and to stand up for a demilitarised pacific, there’s a petition you can sign here.
We catch up with stalwart legends of the nuclear free movement, honorary presidents of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, Arabana man Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Kokatha Mula woman, Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine. You’ll hear strong words in these troubled times as we get updates about their struggles on Country and some advice on staying the distance. Australian Nuclear Free Alliance
Barry Wakelin shares his story about how the government’s attempt to put a radioactive waste dump in his community made him a de-liberalised Liberal and how the site selection process “makes the sports rorts look like petty cash”. From politician in Canberra to the frontline of the campaign to stop a waste dump being sited on agricultural land in his community of Kimba.
Today’s focus is on the role of various art and media practices on engaging with nuclear legacies and nuclear stories. We hear from Merilyn Fairskye, Sydney based photomedia artist about her new film ‘Birds’, a tale about Radioactive pigeons, two pairs of twins and a massacre that brings chaos to a sleepy seaside village. A story, which is based on true events related to the Sellafield nuclear power plant in the UK. We also hear from Gordon Murray, from Winchester in the UK, about the Fallout Project, a collaboration with British Nuclear Veterans using verbatim theatre as a campaigning tool in relation to British Nuclear testing and their descendants.
Today’s show features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), and Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW). Annette speaks about RIMPAC 2020, which is the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, currently being held in Hawaiian waters. She also introduces us to the IPAN inquiry. Margie critiques Australia’s increased defence spending, exploring why it remains unchallenged. Independent and Peacful Australia Network: https://ipan.org.au/Quit Nukes: https://quitnukes.org/
On the 10th of July 1985, Greenpeace flagship protest vessel - the Rainbow Warrior - was bombed by French government agents in Auckland. Fernando Pereira, a Greenpeace photographer on board at the time, was killed in the blast. The bombing was a major diplomatic incident, and helped shape the nuclear free identity of Aotearoa New Zealand. But it was part of a much bigger and more deadly story of French colonialism in the Pacific, where nuclear testing at Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls has left a legacy of disease and death for the Ma’ohi people of the so called French Polynesia. Today we hear from Oscar Temaru, Independence leader and five times president of French Polynesia and Ena Manuireva, an Auckland University of Technology academic and PhD candidate who is from Mangareva, one of the French Polynesian islands most affected by the nuclear testing. Later on in the show, you’ll also hear from Stephanie Mills, a former Greenpeace Pacific nuclear test ban campaigner and previous chair of Greenpeace NZ Board, on the impacts of the bombing on her organisation and the international nuclear free movement. These three speakers were part of a six person panel discussion recorded by the Pacific Media Centre titled: “The Rainbow Warrior Incident - 35 Years Later”, which organised and hosted by Roxanne Panchasi of Simon Fraser University and co-sponsored by the Europe Institute and The University of Auckland. This webinar was part of the “France and Beyond conference” that took place online on July 29th 2020.Audio recorded by the Pacific Media Centre with thanks to the editor Professor David Robie. Read this article about the full panel discussion here: https://asiapacificreport.nz/2020/07/30/french-nuclear-tests-i-bury-people-nearly-every-day-what-was-our-sin/ Image of Mururoa by Georges Martin (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mururoa_lagon.jpg)
Listen to the highlights from the excellent Yellowcake Country webinar - uranium and nuclear weapons. Listen to the update on the nuclear free WA campaign by KA Garlick and then tune into International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Australia's excellent co-founders Dave Sweeney and Dimity Hawkins AM. Listen to ambassador and former Federal MP, Melissa Parke as they share powerful and important stories of the work to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The podcast is a great portrait of the effectiveness and brilliance of the ICAN campaign and the treaty to ban nuclear weapons. They remind us of how ordinary people when working collectively, creatively and consistently have the ability to make a difference. Video from the webinar can be watched here CCWA nuclear free WA campaign hereInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) here
August 6th, 2020 marks 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima. On this Rad Show, we are sharing a talk by Koko Kondo, a hibakusha from Hiroshima, speaking here about her experience as a nuclear survivor. This audio is from ‘Beyond Trinity’ a special panel discussion that the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) hosted to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion in New Mexico, code-named Trinity. You can see the full video of the panel discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/icanw.au/videos/296239014762853/A Rad Show with the other speakers from that discussion is available here: https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode-202007251000/beyond-trinity-75-years
On this Radioactive Show, we hear an interview recorded by KA Garlick with Ralph Hutchinson. Ralph is the coordinator of OREPA, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. He tells us about the Y12 bomb plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and about the US government’s plans for the modernisation of their nuclear industry.For more information check out:https://orepa.org/https://www.facebook.com/stopthebombs/
This Rad Show includes speakers from a panel discussion organised by ICAN commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion, code-named “Trinity”, honouring the lives and struggles of nuclear survivors. It features two incredible women:Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, New Mexico, US.Karina Lester, Yankunytjatjara-Anangu second-generation survivor of nuclear testing in Australia.Link to video of full presentation here: https://www.facebook.com/icanw.au/videos/296239014762853/Music credit: Canada by Pictures of the Floating World
On this weeks show, listen to the highlights from the recent webinar, SA: Too Good to Waste. You'll hear from Jason Bilney, Barngarla Aboriginal Determination Corporation, Vivianne McKenzie, Adnyamathanha Traditional Owner and Peter Woolford, No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land, as they share their concerns from the town of Kimba, South Australia on the site to host Australia's national dumping and long term storage site for radioactive waste.To see the webinar short film, click here. And for more information click here https://nuclear.foe.org.au/waste/Inspired to support the campaign to stop the waste dump in Kimba, join the No Dump Alliance, https://www.nodumpalliance.org.au/join_the_alliance
On this Radioactive Show we hear an interview that originally went to air on 3CR’s Doin’ Time show. Marisa interviews Aunty Helen, Aboriginal academic and Elder, about her personal story around land, nuclear testing and her extensive work around international law and transitional justice in the context of colonisation and genocide.
So what are killers robots? And what work is being done to challenge their use? To find out, Rad Show host AC spoke with Professor Michael Winikoff, AI expert from Aotearoa New Zealand and Matilda Byrne, Australian National Coordinator for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and a specialist in international security and disarmament. We discuss LAWS - Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, the ethical, legal and technological issues with their development and the campaign to ban these killer robots.The video Professor Winikoff mentions can be found here: https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIAMusic credit - 'Once' by Ngaiire
On this week's Radioactive Show, you will hear from Taiwan activist Shi Ting and Tomohiro Matsuoka from Japan, on the challenges and long term impacts their countries face from Australian uranium. The Yellowcake Country webinar is a five part series, that will explore the local, national and international impacts of Australia’s uranium industry. In this first webinar, we explore where does Australian uranium go? Taiwan imports 100% of their uranium use from Australia. India is about too, and Australian uranium was being used at the time of the Fukushima disaster. The full video of the webinar can be viewed here.
BHP is once again proposing to expand its operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia. If approved, the expansion would increase BHP’s already significant impacts on land, water, culture and wildlife. On this week’s show, we hear from independent environmental campaigner David Noonan, who outlines the numerous flaws and potential impacts of the proposal.Further information is available at the Friends of the Earth website here Transcript of the interview is available here Check out David Noonan's recent briefing papers about the impacts of the proposed expansion of Olympic Dam:1. “BHP Extreme consequence tailings dams with potential to cause fatality of 100 employees”Briefing Paper & Chronology of Events by David Noonan, update 22 May 2020BHP has Questions to answer on Worker Safety, Transparency and Accountability at Olympic Dam 2. “BHP Olympic Dam EIS Assessment Guidelines – Impacts on Aboriginal People”Comments on EIS Guidelines by David NoonanIndependent Environment Campaigner, 25 May 2020 3. “BHP Olympic Dam operates underoutdated1991 era Radiation Exposure Standards”Briefing Paper prepared by David Noonan, Independent Environment Campaigner, 18 May 2020
In today's show highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement, I'm sharing interviews and statements from family members of First Nations people who have died in custody. Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report was released in 1987, 432 Aboriginal people in so-called Australia have been killed while in police custody. There is an interview with Latoya Aroha Rule whose brother Wayne Fella Morrison died in 2016 and one with Chante Walker whose sister Veronica Nelson Walker died in custody on January 2nd, 2020. Lastly, I share a recording of speakers from a rally in solidarity with the Yuendumu community following the death of Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot in November, 2019.Photo credit: Kate Ausburn - https://www.flickr.com/photos/treslola/6368127913
On this weeks episode of the Radioactive Show, listen to Annette Brownlie, chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Australian Network and Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War discuss the recently released statement calling for healthcare not warfare. The show will take you through the statement and the steps Australia could take to cease our involvement in wars of choice and invest in healthcare. The statement calls on the Australian Government to stop funnelling billions of dollars into offensive weapons for unjust U.S. led wars, and invest instead in the health and safety of people and the environment.IPAN website - https://ipan.org.au/ To read and endorse the Healthcare not Warfare statement - https://ipan.org.au/healthcare_not_warfare/MAPW - https://www.mapw.org.au/
On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we hear from Indian social activist Dr Vaishaili Patel about resistance to compulsory land acquisition for developments such as nuclear power reactors and the fight for a people-centric development model in India.For more information about the nuclear relationship between Australia and India go to www.nuclear.foe.org.au/uranium-customers.To learn more about Dr Vaishali Patil's work, check out her facebook page here.
Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the Disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. In the show we dive into her recent article ‘COVID-19: Divest, Demilitarise and Disarm.’ We explore how now is the time to expose the grave injustice of military spending, while health care systems around the world are ill-equipped to cope with a pandemic, military spending continues unabated. Yet a ‘culture of militarism’ is embedded in our political and economic systems, Ray highlights Amazon as an example of a corporation eyeing ‘defence’ dollars. Read 'COVID-19: Divest, Demilitarise and Disarm' by Ray Acheson Explore the work of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
As we come to the end of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) the magnitude and importance of work needed to redirect national budgets to 'Healthcare not Warfare' is clear. This week we bring you some speeches from the World Conference 2020: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis, For Social & Economic Justice, a global online conference held on Saturday 25th April. Speakers are Wada Masako (Japan Confederation of A & H Bomb Survivors Organisations), Dr. Carlos Umana (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) and Xiye Bastida (Climate Justice Organiser NYC).Watch the entire 'Online World Conference - Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis; For Social Justice'.Global Campaign on Military Spending: http://demilitarize.org/
The storage capacity at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is reaching its limit, and a japanese government committee has come out with a report stating that “the most realistic option is to release treated water into the ocean.” Alternatives for long-term storage on land, including large tank storage and mortar solidification are being ignored. On this week’s radioactive show, we hear from Philip White, a Friends of the Earth member who lived in Japan for many years and has been involved in the campaign to deal with the ongoing disaster at Fukushima. Please sign the petition hereFor more information, check out Friends of the Earth Japan’s website here and here.Image sourced from the petition started by the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, No Nukes Asia Forum, Friends of the Earth Japan.The music on this episode is "Under Radioactive Water" by Miromiro.
In this episode we hear from long term anti-nukes activist Sister Michele Madigan to discuss her recent article in Eureka street 'Fight against nuclear waste no over yet' and developments on the Barngala anti-nuclear waste dump campaign.We are also joined by Gem Romuld from ICAN with latest update on their divestment campaign and campaigning in the times of Covid-19.Music: Milky Way - Lady Lash
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and speaks with the Radioactive Show about growing up on land that became a designated nuclear sacrifice zone, the work of exposing cultural and environmental destruction and promoting peace with earth. Tiokasin presents First Voices Indigenous Radio on Turtle Island (US).Music is 'Rises from the Depths' from Ghosthorse album From the Continuum.
On this weeks show you will hear the highlights from the recent webinar ~ Yeelirrie, a case for environmental law reform. You'll hear from Ruby Hamilton a solicitor from the Environmental Defenders Office of WA You will hear from Australian Conservation Foundation, Environmental Investigator and Mia Pepper from the Mineral Policy Institute.The story of the Yeelirrie uranium mine approvals process at a State and Federal level is shocking. The Western Australian EPA rejected the mining application because of an unacceptable risk of causing the extinction of unique species. Yet the WA Government approved the mine immediately before calling an election - and the Federal Government did the same thing. Under recently obtained, Freedom of Information, alarming documents demonstrate a lack of transparency and an urgent need for environmental law reform to protect species from becoming extinct.The nuclear industry is pushing for the nuclear power ban and the uranium trigger to be lifted from the current review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.The Yeelirrie uranium mine assessment process is a very clear indication of how environmental laws are failing in fair transparent processes. We urgently need improved environmental laws that prevent political influence and improves the agility in the Federal environmental department to protect species from becoming extinct.Please write a submission today! For more information https://dont-nuke-the-climate.org.au/nuclear-ban/A video of the webinar can be view at https://vimeo.com/404839013
On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we speak to Mark Parnell, the parliamentary leader of the SA Greens in the South Australian Legislative Council. We discuss the federal bill currently before the federal senate that aims to amend the already inadequate National Waste Management Act.We urge our listeners to send in a submission opposing the passing of the bill. To find out how, go to www.melbournefoe.org.au/nuclear_free and have your say. Submissions are due by 9th AprilTo learn more about how bad the existing National Radioactive waste management act is, check out https://nuclear.foe.org.au/nrwma/
On this week's Rad show, Retired UK navy commander turned antinuclear campaigner Robert Green discusses a push to convince the Australian government to invest in nuclear submarines.
Filipino antinuclear activists Roland G. Simbulan and DJ Janier discuss the struggle against nuclear power in the Philippines.Recorded at the No Nukes Asia Forum in Taiwan in September 2019. A recent update from Nuclear Free Bataan Movement (Philippines) below:
On the 9th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, we speak with Dr.Jim Green (Friends of the Earth Australia) about 'Forgetting Fukushima' - the ways in which the environmental and social impacts of the nuclear disaster are being covered up as Japan prepares to host the 2020 Olympic games. Special guest, Mayu Seto, musician and Peace Boat activist from Hiroshima, Japan, discusses the ways she is keeping strong the connections she made with Traditional Owners in Kakadu. We chat about anti-nuclear and peace movement activities she's involved with and the importance of creating spaces for Hibakusha - survivors of the US atomic bombings 75 years ago, to keep sharing their stories with younger generations.Features song by Mayu Seto 'Colourful World'.
Earlier this year, the Japanese Peace Boat made its 103rd voyage to this country, visiting Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody on her recent time on the Peace Boat. Debbie was invited as a guest educator on the Peace Boat as part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) workshops series, All Aboard.Debbie gave a powerful history lesson, speaking of her families terrible suffering from the nuclear fallout from the Maralinga atomic bomb tests from the 1960’s and how her people became some of the first environmental refugees from their country, Ooldea. Moving from this country to now what is called Mulga Rock in the Great Victoria Desert, 240 kilometres east-north-east of Kalgoorlie, her people are fighting against the proposed Vimy Resources, Mulga Rock uranium project. Ending the speech, you will hear from Peace Boat organiser and translator, Rika Watanabe, who was moved to tears, along with many others in the room from Debbie's speech. This episode recognises and celebrates International Women's Day on Sunday 8 March 2020, acknowledging the resistance, talents, strengths and power of women working against the global nuclear industrial complex.
We speak with Gem Romuld, the Australian Director for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons about their plans for the year and how you can help build pressure for Australia to sign on the Global Nuclear Weapons ban. We then get an update from Western Australian reporter KA Garlik on where things are at for the four uranium mining projects that are approved but not yet operational.
On January 23, 2020, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hand of the Doomsday clock to 100 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been. The reasons: a worsening nuclear threat, lack of action on climate change & the rise of 'Cyber-Enabled Disinformation Campaigns'. Covering all this and more, we bring you excerpts of speeches from the 'No War with Iran' rally held on the steps of the State Library of Victoria on January 25, as part of a global day of action.Featuring Kevin Bracken (Maritime Union of Australia), Shirley Winton (Independent and Peaceful Network Australia Network), Margie Beavis (Medical Association for Prevention of War), Gurpreet Singh (Worker Student Alliance), Jacob Grech (Melbourne for Wikileaks & A Friday Rave) and Romina Beitseen (Campaign for International Cooperation & Disarmament & Alternative News).
In this episode we hear from Pinar Demircan - a Turkish anti nukes activist on issues and challenges the Turkish anti-nukes movement faces in the current political climate.
On this weeks show we speak with Friends of the Earth’s National Nuclear Campaigner Dr Jim Green about the latest developments on the federal government’s push for a radioactive waste facility in South Australia as well hearing the speech given by Kimba farmer James Sheperdson at the rally held recently in Kimba.
In the midst of devastating fires across the land and as we lead up to Invasion Day we bring you a calls to action from First Nations activists. First up is a conversation between Arabunna elder and president of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance Kevin Buzzacott and Gunai Kurnai activist Robbie Thorpe. We then bring you speeches from Gambangari woman Aretha Brown and Gunai Kurnai Yamaji Noongah man Brent Watkins at a protest held by Uni Students for Climate Justice on January 10 at the State Library of Victoria calling for Sack Scomo - Fund the Firies - Climate Action Now !
We bring you some highlights of our 2019 shows. Featuring a clip from a show of all the Radioactive Show producers. Crunch interviews Katherine Peat of Network Waitangi Otautahi, Lavanya recording Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine at the Yeelirrie camp, Michaela’s IMARC show featuring Uncle Ned Hargraves, Mara’s interview with Regina McKenzie after finding out her Country is off the list of nuclear waste dump sites and KA’s interview with Vicki Abdullah, following her win of the ACF Rawlinson Award alongside her two aunties. Thank you to everyone who has trusted us to share their voice and story this year. Go Rad Show team, what an amazing year of getting the word out!
On this radioactive show, we hear the presentation that Dr Ann-Elise Lewallen -Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, at the University of California in Santa Barbara - gave at the No Nukes Asia Forum in Taiwan in September 2019. Then, we’ll hear an update on the Australian situation, as the federal government’s consultation period has just closed. Minister Canavan has ruled out the Flinders Ranges as a site for a radioactive waste facility. Regina McKenzie talks about the relief she feels that it’s no longer a threat to her Country, but she is still deeply concerned for the Kimba community.
On this weeks show you will hear from Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah who was one of the recipients of this years Australian Conservation Foundation's 2019 Rawlinson award winner with her two aunties, Shirley and Lizzie Wonyabong. You will also hear from Mia Pepper who travelled with Aunty Shirley and Vicki to receive the award at last Friday's ACF’s annual general meeting. I will also be giving an end of year campaign wrap and where each of the four proposed uranium projects in WA are currently at and the staunch resistance from First Nations and WA activists. To check out the film ~ click hereFor the ACF for country and culture blog ~ click hereFor further updates on the WA nuclear free campaign, click here.
We hear from Maria Rost Rublee (Monash University) and Dimity Hawkins (ICAN) on the history and power of nuclear activism and resistance in Australia and beyond.Music: Rise - Solange
Young Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker, was shot at his family home and died while in police custody on Saturday November 10th, 2019, in Yuendumu a community 300km north west of Alice Springs. A Northern Territory Police Officer has since been charged with the murder of Kumanjayi Walker.Today’s show brings voices from the Melbourne solidarity rally, hosted by the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance, and held on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri land on Wednesday November 13th. Messages from Yuendumu are relayed through Warlpiri Community members in Melbourne. Speeches and messages include Harry Jakamarra Nelson, Marley Wells Ngapa Ngarri, Justin Djungerai, Fred Leonie and Robbie Thorpe. Rally MC is Paul Gorrie. Track is 'I'm from Yuendumu' by Jerome Jurrah and Vanetta White.
Voices, songs, poems from SA recorded at the 2019 Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting in the Flinders Ranges. We hear from Adnyamathanha women Enice Marsh, Vivianne McKenzie and Heather Stewart.Music: Thou Shalt Not Steal - Kev Carmody
Today we hear from from First Nations front-line communities on their struggles against mining & resource extraction. Uncle Ned Hargreaves, from Yuendemu in the Northern Territory, Wiradjuri activist Tim Buchanan, and Aunty Vicki Abdullah from Leonora in Western Australia joined allies in Melbourne to speak out on extractive industries on their land and blockade the annual International Mining and Resources Conference.Music: Live performance of Solid Rock by Yothu Yindi & The Treaty Project with Shane Howard, Emma Donovan, Yirrmal & Deline Briscoe.
The exhibition, ‘Bladerunner was set in November 2019’, was inspired by a group trip in August 2019, of seven activists/artists/friends, to Kokatha, Anangu and Maralinga Tjuratja lands in South Australia. We made recordings along the way, which became part of the soundscape for the exhibition. Recordings made from our camp on Country near Yalata include the voices of Rita Bryant, Mima Smart, and Russell Bryant. Tune into hear from artists in ‘Bladerunner was set in November 2019’.On the beginnings of the Anthropocene and the blurring of nuclear pasts/presents/futures.On wind and dispersal. On being hosted on Country, surrounded by fires (waru) and sharing stories, laughs and songs. Bladerunner was set in November 2019 is being held in Melbourne from 25 October - 16 November.Featuring artists Tessa Rex, Yul Scarf, Jessie Boylan, Andrea Steves, Alex Moulis, Gem Romuld and Crunch.
Earlier this month the Radioactive team travelled to Yeelirrie in WA to hear from people and communities affected by Cameco’s proposed uranium mine. I interviewed locals Marilyn and Colin - owners of a nearby cattle station which will be affected by the proposed mining.Also a special fireside talk by Tjirwal traditional owner Vicky on her country in Yeelirie. Vicky talked to us about her involvement in the movement and Walking for Country, dealings with mining companies, building solidarity with other affected communities throughout Australia through ANFA and WANFA.Music: Arurarian Dance - Nujabes
Interviews taken at Yeelirrie Solidarity Camp facilitated by Ban Uranium Mining Permanently collective on Tjirwal country.Sue Coleman Haseldine speaks of her lived experience and why solidarity across anti-nukes campaigns is important to her.Mara Bonacci gives us an in depth background on the SA anti-waste dump campaign and what people outside affected communities can do. Submissions to DIIS here. Music: Muckaty - Kylie Sambo, Pukulpa - Electric Fields
On today’s show we speak to Dr Jillian Marsh, Adnyamathanha woman and lecturer in Aboriginal studies at Latrobe University. Jillian has recently written an article with Dr Jim Green that explores some of the tensions between Traditional Owners, Industry and government in the context of the nuclear industry. We’ll hear about some of the legislative and systemic issues that make it difficult to protect country and difficult to say no.Read 'First nations rights and colonising practices by the nuclear industry: An Australian battleground for environmental justice'.
Last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s AUSMIN visit and hints at Australia hosting US missiles in Northern Territory raised many concerns about provoking and even blindly following the US into war with our greatest economic partner China. In this episode, Vince Scappatura to discuss these developments. He speaks in detail about the US and Russian withdrawal from the cold-war era Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty plus its implications for allies like Australia. He also talks The increasing US-Australia military interdependence that makes it complicated for Australia to untangle itself from any future wars with China. However, there are potential pathways and grassroots movements that can move Australia towards adopting a more neutral, diplomatic role in this situationVince is a teacher of Political and International Studies at Macquarie University with a research background in Australian-American foreign policy and International relations of the Asia-Pacific.
On this weeks Radioactive Show, you will hear the recordings taken over last weekend at the 2019 WA State Labor Conference in which the WA nuclear free campaign held a seminar hosted by the State Secretary Steve McCartney of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.The Nuclear Free Australia seminar speakers included Tjiwarl women Vicki Abdullah who is co-chair of ANFA, the Austraian nuclear free alliance, part of the WA version – WANFA, and who is one of the Tjiwarl women applicants on the Yeelirrie legal challenge and Dave Sweeny, Australian Conservation Foundation - National Nuclear Campaigner and Piers Verstegen from the Conservation Council of WA. The nuclear free Australia seminar was a snapshot of nuclear issues of recent Australian developments and policy discussions on nuclear weapons, waste, power and uranium mining.In WA the following motions were adopted on Sunday 25/8:WA Labor is committed to implementing a best process and practise approach to uranium assessment and regulation. We urge federal Labor – and the federal government – to reflect this on a national level and retain the long standing and prudent nuclear action trigger for uranium mining and the clear prohibition on nuclear power in the federal EPBC Act (1999) during the current EPBC review process.WA Labor commits to rigorous scrutiny of any further approvals or applications by any of the four WA uranium mine proposals approved under the previous government. WA Labor will apply the highest regulatory standards to any project and will work with affected communities and key stakeholders including trade unions and workers in order to reduce risks.WA Labor welcomes the resolution passed unanimously by the 2018 National LaborConference committing Labor in government to sign and ratify the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and calls on the Australian Government to sign and ratify the Treaty as an urgent humanitarian imperative.On July 31st the two year legal challenge over the controversial Yeelirrie uranium project State environmental approval was handed down.The Yeelirrie legal challenge is one of the most historic and significant actions taken for the WA environment and for Traditional Owners. The case highlighted the urgent need for environmental law reform in WA, to establish effective legal protection for all creatures and to prevent wildlife extinction.The controversial Cameco uranium mine proposal was rejected by the WA Environmental Protection Authority based on overwhelming evidence on the grounds that it would likely cause extinction to up to 12 unique species. There was an appeals process which upheld the WA EPA’s findings and which the former State Environment Minister agreed however approved the mine despite all of this.It was this inconsistency between the findings and the outcome that was taken to the Supreme Court of WA by the three Tjiwarl women Shirley and Lizzie Wonyabong and Vicki Ab-dul- A and the Conservation Council of WA.For more information about the show notes, conact KA ~ ka.garlick@ccwa.org.au
On this edition of the Radioactive Show we speak with Dr.Jim Green, national Anti-nuclear Campaigner with Friends of the Earth about the recently announced nuclear inquiries in Victoria, NSW and federally. Shirley Winton, Victorian Convenor of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), shares their response to the announcement on Wednesday 21 August by the Morrison Government that Australia would be sending a warship, surveillance aircraft and Australian Defence Force personnel to the Strait of Hormuz in Iran. Upcoming events: Wednesday 28 August: Is Nuclear Power the solution to Climate Change? 6.30pm Upstairs, Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith St, Collingwood.Thursday 29 August: IPAN Conference Debrief and planning for September 21 International Day of Peace activities: 6pm Level 4, Victorian Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets, CarltonSeptember 20-27: Global Climate Strike. To find your local event on September 20 visit the SS4C website: www.schoolstrike4climate.com/sept20.
I catch up with Annette Brownlie, chair of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, about their recent IPAN conference held in Darwin. Followed by a discussion with Lina Koleilat, a Lebanese-Australian PHD student at Australian National University who specialises in historical and ethnographic approaches to study of protests, social movements and religion in contemporary South Korea.
In this show we commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day by listening speeches by nuclear survivors Setsuko Thurlow and Sue Coleman Haseldine. We also bring you a Hiroshima Day speech by Dimity Hawkins, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon founder, honouring survivors and launching the ICAN's new report "Choosing Humanity: Why Australia Must Join The Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons".
In the show we share with you an interview with Katherine Peet, a Pākehā resident of Ōtautahi (Christchurch) and organiser with Network Waitangi Ōtautahi. Our discussion is based around the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi, its promise of more just relationships between Māori and settlers, and the failure of successive Colonial governments to honour the Treaty. Katherine has hopes for a future in Aotearoa framed by the Treaty of Waitangi.Network Waitangi Ōtautahi: https://nwo.org.nz/
On Friday 12 July 2019 Justice White handed down his ruling that the exclusion of Barngarla Native Title holders who do not live in the Kimba District from participating in a ballot to gauge community support for the radioactive waste facility was not a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. On this radioactive show, Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation, Dave Sweeney, explains this legal challenge, the outcome and where to from here.This legal challenge was initiated by the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation (BDAC) the Native Title holders for the Kimba area. BDAC released a statement after the ruling. You can read it at: www.nodumpalliance.org.au/barngarla_statement To keep up to date with the campaign for responsible management of Australia's radioactove waste, go to www.foe.org.au/nuclear_free_sa and www.nodumpalliance.org.au
In one blinding moment in July 1945 on the white sand desert of New Mexico, humanity entered the nuclear age. Project Trinity was the first nuclear explosion, paving the way for the nuclear incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later, and the ensuing arms race that plagues us still. The communities living near the Trinity site are known as the Downwinders. They continue to experience high levels of cancer and other illnesses attributable to radioactive contamination since 1945. They are calling for recognition and compensation for their unwilling and unknowing participation as bystanders to the Trinity test.Produced by Gem Romuld and Andrea StevesMusic by Paul Pino and the Tone DaddiesFurther information: www.trinitydownwinders.com
In this episode we bring you an interrview with Maaike Beenes, The Senior Programme Officer for Humanitarian Disarmament at PAX in Netherlands who talks to us about the Don't Bank on The Bomb report.Don’t Bank on The Bomb is the only regularly published source of information on the private companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons and their financiers. But it also profiles those institutions that limit or prohibit any financial engagement with these companies PAX first published this report for ICAN in 2012 and updates it annually with current developments in nuclear financing.Song: World Destruction Time Zone 1996 Album: Bio Dome
Rosa Moiwend, a West Papuan researcher, activist and educator speaks at a forum called, 'West Papua: The Pacific Crisis we can no longer ignore', held in Christchurch, New Zealand. She speaks of the history of her home land and some of the current challenges they are facing, including the Trans-Papua road project.
Mining giant BHP wants to expand its operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia. Again. On this week’s show we speak to independent environmental campaigner and a person with a deep understanding of nuclear issues in Australia, David Noonan. David tells us about the current proposal and why we can’t let it go ahead.JOINT ENVIRONMENT GROUPS PUBLIC SUBMISSION TO THE BHP OLYMPIC DAM EPBC REFERRAL 2019/8465 TSF 6: JUNE 2019ACF NUCLEAR FREE 26 JUNE 2019on BHP Olympic Dam EPBC referralDownload publicationPublic Submission by ACF, FoEA and Conservation SA is available here.BHP Olympic Dam Key Issues Briefing Papers available at: Nuclear-Free Campaign Friends of the Earth Australiahttps://nuclear.foe.org.au/olympic-dam/Olympic Dam mine – proposed expansionShort briefing papers written by David Noonan in June 2019 regarding the proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam mine:BHP Legal Privileges in the Olympic Dam Indenture Act 1982 Override SA LawsBHP Seek a Toxic Tailings Expansion Without a Full Safety Risk AssessmentPreconditions to Protect Mound Springs in Olympic Dam Expansion EIS GuidelinesBHP Uranium Mining Triggers “Protection Of The Environment” Under the EPBC ActBHP Must Lodge a Bond to Cover 100% of Rehabilitation Liabilities at Olympic DamMigratory Birds at Risk of Mortality if BHP Continues Use of Evaporation PondsThe Need to Assess a Feasible Alternative: No-Uranium Sales from Olympic Dam
In this episode we speak to Shirley WInton and Annette Brownlie from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN).Shirley speaks about the Genoa dock strike, where unions and workers are refusing to load arms into ships and effectively preventing shipment to Saudi Arabia where they fear they will be used on civil populations in Yemen. This interview was originally aired on 3CR's Monday Breakfast Show and brought to you by Judith Peppard and Alice Goulds from the Breakfast Team.Annette Brownlie speaks about IPAN's campaign to get US troop out of Darwin and their upcoming national conference.
A second Radioactive Show reflecting on the March 15th Terror attack on two mosques in Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Featuring a discussion with Adel Salman, Vice President of the Islamic Council of Victoria. He speaks about his experience of the massacre, the public and political response in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa, and the important work ahead. Later in the show we share two powerful spoken word pieces by poet, performer and author, Tusiata Avia, as first performed at the Together Against Racism Rally held on May 18 in Ōtautahi.Credits:Tusiata Avia: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/pasifika/avia1.aspOllie MC: https://olliemc.bandcamp.com/
On this week’s show we take a look at the Yes to Life No to Mining Movement, and hear from one of their regional co-ordinators, Natalie Lowrey.Those communities who wish to say No to mining should be able to. The yes to life no to mining movement is of and for them, in recognition that when we say no to mining, we stand in solidarity with the planet, with precious ecosystems and with the future generations of all species.The music in this episode of the Radioactive Show is The Bushwackers "Leave it in the Ground".
The announcement of the Federal environmental approval was not what many were expecting, especially for the First Nations people of Yeelirrie. This week, we speak to the Ban Uranium Mining Permanently (BUMP) spokesperson, Bilbo Taylor about the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining. Music played on the show was Red Dirt, Blue Skies by Mark Gleeson from the Northern Goldfields. Please support the #stopyeelirrie campaign by sending a short letter or card of solidarity to the Traditional Owners. To help energise and support Traditional Owners that have opposed the Yeelirrie uranium mine for over 40 years send via email or mail and we will make sure they receive your message! email: ka.garlick@ccwa.org.au : mail: C/O KA Garlick; CCWA 20/2 Delhi St, West Perth WA 6005. Please donate to the Radioactive Show! We need your help to power our radical radio so that our team of committed volunteers can keep bringing voices and information from the frontlines of nuclear, peace and energy campaigns to the airwaves! Any donation big or small is gratefully received. Click here to donate today! Thanks!
The result of the federal election was not what many had hoped for. This week, we speak to the Australian conservation Foundation’s Nuclear free campaigner Dave sweeney about what the results of the recent federal election mean for the anti-nuclear movement in Australia.
We hear from members of the Muslim community in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, in the wake of the March 15 terror attacks in two mosques. Asha Abdi, is a young person who has grown up attending the Al Noor Mosque. Asma Azara, explains her research with those affected after the attacks. Hisham Eldai, shares his views about the mantra ‘you are us’. Audio is from the Plains FM Community Radio station in Christchurch. Thank you to producer Lana Hart for sharing the audio.
The highly contested Adani Carmichael mine proposal received approval for their groundwater management plan on the eve of the federal election being called. Today on the Radioactive Show we bring you recordings of the speeches at the final event in the Stop Adani Convoy as they arrived at Parliament House on Sunday 5th May. We’ll hear speeches given by spokesperson for the Wangan and Jagalingou Family Council Adrian Burragubba, school climate strikers Tali Mullins and Tess Carlton and writer Richard Flanagan recorded by Earth Matters presenter Rebecca Horridge. We'll also hear Dave Sweeney and Kirsten Blair speaking at the Fight For Country documentary screening in Melbourne late last year to celebrate the Jabiluka Blockade that stopped a proposed uranium mine on Mirrar country in Kakadu 20 years ago.
On this weeks show, we hear from Mia Pepper, from the Conservation Council of WA on the recent shocking and highly political Federal approval of Yeelirrie uranium mine. We also hear from Debbie Carmody an Anangu, Sphinifex woman about what this approval means for her and the community in Kalgoorlie along the transport route. Ways to support the campaign; Write a solidarity letter to the Yeelirrie First Nations people to energise their resistance. Please send all letters to ka.garlick@ccwa.org.auSend an Email to Labor to urge them to review the Approval here. http://ccwa.good.do/stopyeelirrie/reviewyeelirrie/ Donate to Yeelirrie court challenge; https://yeelirrie.raisely.com/
On this Radioactive Show we hear from Kirsten Blair from The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation about the efforts to rehabilitate Ranger uranium mine and the plan for a post-uranium mining future in the Kakadu region.The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation's website is: www.mirarr.netThe music on this show is by West Arnhem Land's Nabarkek band with their song Little journey to Manmoyi. https://nabarlek.bandcamp.com/
On Tuesday 16th April, the Darebin Council launched a mural at the Preston Library to honour two Preston-based co-founders of the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Dimity Hawkins and Dave Sweeney.The mural was created as ‘an enduring inspiration for active citizenship on local and global issues’. It features a portrait of the late Yami Lester, and continues the important work of sharing the stories of survivors of atomic testing and their central role in the global movement for nuclear disarmament.As you’ll hear from the excerpts of speeches and interviews with those attending the mural launch, it was a wonderful local event that wove together many interconnected stories of radioactive resistance. To call on your local council to support the nuclear weapon ban treaty go to www.icanw.org/au/cities.
On this show we look at the legacy of atomic testing and pay tribute to Polynesian trade unionist Roland Oldham who passed away last month. Roland was the President of Moruroa eTatou, a trade unionist, anti-nuclear campaigner, guitarist with the band Atomic Blues, and a true Pacific warrior. Like other staunch campaigners of his generation, they have left a strong legacy that the younger generation continue to build on. Featuring and interview by Jan Bartlett from Tuesday Hometime with Nic Maclellan, journalist and long time campaigner with Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific.Music: Pacific Must be Free - Black Brothers.
On this weeks Radioactive Show we hear from the recent Western Australia Public Forum on the Yeelirrie legal challenge. The proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine is subject to a current legal challange in the Western Australia Supreme Court of Appeals, and we hear all about the legal aspects of the case in this episode! Dave Sweeney MC'd the event, followed by an excellent update from Declan Doherty, Principle Solicitor from the Environmental Defenders WA and Ruby Hamilton. For more information on the Yeelirrie click here.
On this show we hear recordings from the Keep Western Australia Uranium Free public meeting held at Friends of the Earth on 13 March 2019. We hear an overview of the campaign to keep uranium in the ground at four sites in WA and an obituary for Small Modular ReactorsThere’s lots you can do to support the campaign to keep WA uranium free. You can Sign the Uranium Free Charter, Donate to the Yeelirrie Legal Action and more. You can find all the relevant links and information as well as a fabulous short animation explaining the issue at www.ccwa.org.au/nuclearfreewa.If you’d like to learn more about Small Modular Reactors, or SMRs, there is an article in the March edition of The ecologist written by Dr Jim Green entitled “An obituary for small modular reactors”. You can find it here.Listen to a radio interview on Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 03.15.19Small modular reactors - Jim Green, Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps explain how a dying reactor industry is clamping on to bought legislatures for gargantuan handouts. Jim reports from Australia that renewables are digging deep into the sick dependence on coal down there and that small reactors are all but dead. Kevin reports on a wind power revolution in Iowa. Paul tells of the nuke bailouts in New Hampshire.
A special edition Radioactive Show this week for International Women's Day, honoring the women at the forefront of many campaigns to stop the nuclear industry here in this country but also globally. We dedicate this show to the staunch and solid women around the country and globally who fight hard every day, often some for decades, often Traditional Owners to stop this toxic nuclear industry. We'll head over to Western Australia and hear from Tjiwarl traditional owner, Vicky Abdullah, a staunch activist, an applicant on the Yeelirrie legal challenge and the co-chair for the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) who tirelessly works for environmental justice for her people and community. Together with her aunties, Shirley and Elizabeth Wonyabong, she is tireless in her work to stop the proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine, a great teacher and protector of her country. Aunty Shirley, Lizzie and Vicky are on the Yeelirrie legal challenge, and Vicky speaks about the women in her life that inspire her.Event: Wednesday, 13 March, 6.30‒8pm. Friends of the Earth, Melbourne Smith St Collingwood Speakers include KA Garlick, CCWA, Dave Sweeney Australian Conservation Foundation and Dr Jim Green, Friends of the Earth who will speak and answer questions on the Yeelirrie legal challenge and the broader WA and national nuclear free campaigns! Yeelirrie Legal Challenge Information here. To donate click here. Environmental Defenders Office of WA.
On this weeks show we speak with Lyn Hovey - activist, artist and curator of the Arabunna gallery in Marree about the upcoming launch of her friend and Arabunna man, Reg Dodd’s, book 'Talking Sideways'.We also hear from Mara Bonacci - community organiser for Friends of the Earth’s SA No waste dump campaign gives for an insight on future directions and how to get involved.
On this Radioactive Show we look at the ongoing role and important contributions of the Maritime Union of Australia in the nuclear and peace campaigns in this country. We’ll hear from Jamie Newlyn, the state secretary of the MUA’s South Australian Branch as well as from Nat Wasley, who has been active in the nuclear free movement in Australia for many years and is now also an active rank and file member of the MUA in Sydney.https://www.facebook.com/MaritimeUnionAustralia/https://www.facebook.com/muasabranch/song credithttp://www.mua.org.au/the_warrains_our_muaSouth Australian ALP PolicyAdopted at the SA ALP State Conference Saturday 13 October 2018Motion 148: MUA/CEPU/NUW/RTBU/CFMEU/AMIEU/HSUNo Nuclear Waste Dump in South AustraliaState Convention acknowledges that radioactive waste management is a complex policy challenge that requires the highest level of transparency and evidence and that the current federal approach to site a national waste facility in regional South Australia is strongly contested.Supports Traditional Owners and community members in the Flinders Ranges and Kimba regions of South Australia in their current struggle to prevent a nuclear waste facility being constructed in their region.Calls for full transparency, broad public input and best practice technical and consultative standards during the current site nomination and selection process.Expresses concern at the federal government's continuing focus on finding a single remote site for radioactive waste to be disposed (low level) and stored (intermediate level) to the exclusion of all other waste management options.Reaffirms its support for the civil society call for the extended interim storage of federal wastes at federal sites pending a broad independent inquiry that examines all options for future responsible radioactive waste, transport and storage and management.Commits to support communities opposing the nomination of their lands or region for a dump site, and any workers who refuse to facilitate the construction and operation or transport and handling of radioactive waste material destined for any contested facility or sites including South Australian Port communities.Federal ALP policyAdopted at National Conference, December 2018 154. Labor will: Vigorously and totally oppose the ocean dumping of radioactive waste; · Prohibit the establishment of nuclear power plants and all other stages of the nuclear fuel cycle in Australia; Remain strongly opposed to the importation and storage of nuclear waste that is sourced from overseas in Australia.155. Labor acknowledges that radioactive waste management is a complex policy challenge that requires the highest levels of transparency and evidence, while balancing the need of the community to benefit from treatments for diseases like cancer. Accordingly, Labor will act in accordance with scientific evidence, and with full transparency, broad public input and best practice technical and consultative standards, taking into account the views of traditional owners, to progress responsible radioactive waste management
In 1987, the signing of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty between US and Russia, was pivotal in ending the Cold War and the arms race that had seen a massive build up of nuclear weapons with the superpowers subscribing to a doctrine of mutually assured destruction. With Trump and Putin announcing their withdrawal from the treaty this month and fears of another cold war or global arms race growing, we speak with Dimity Hawkins about rising nuclear weapons tensions and the global disarmament movement.Dimity Hawkins is a long-term nuclear free campaigner, co-founder, former Board member and an on-going campaigner for the Nobel Peace Prize winning, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). She has worked with a wide range of non-government organisations on nuclear disarmament and broader social, environmental and human rights issues since 1991 and is currently a PhD candidate at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Her current project is focused on the response of the Pacific island state of Fiji to nuclear testing around the time of independence and decolonisation. Links: www.dontbankonthebomb.com www.melbournefoe.org.au/nuclear_free
Young Mirrar Traditional Owners talk about the future of Jabiru and Kakadu beyond uranium mining, 20 years on from the Jabiluka mine win and with uranium ore processing coming to an end at Ranger uranium mine in 2021. Today we hear Simon and Jimmy Mujandi speaking alongside some activists deeply involved in the Jabiluka campaign Dave Sweeney, Sarojini Krishnapillai and Kirsten Blair at a film screening of Pip Stars documentary 'Fight For Country' at ACMI at the end of 2018.Music 'Come and Dance' and 'Kakadu' by Blekbala Mujik.
Today we are joined by Dr.Jim Green - National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth for an update on the state of play for the nuclear industry internationally and a look ahead to nuclear free campaigning in Australia for the coming year. Jim is the editor of the World Information Service on Energy's Nuclear Monitor. Read online or subscribe www.wiseinternational.org. To sign up for local updates and get involved in Friends of the Earth's Anti-nuclear campaign go to www.melbournefoe.org.au/nuclear_free. Sue Coleman-Hasseldine who has travelled the world working for a nuclear weapons ban, brings us up to date on whats happening locally on Kokatha-Mula country in SA, especially the current major threat from oil drilling in the Bight. BP pulled out of their plans to drill for oil in the Bight in October 2016, after releasing worst-case oil spill modelling, that showed the impact of an oil spill could impact coastline from Western Australia through to Victoria, and Tasmania. Their two exploration permits were taken over by Norwegian company Statoil last year and they are now seeking approval to conduct exploratory drilling for oil in the Bight. If their plan is approved, they could start exploratory drilling about 200 kilometres off the South Australian coast as early as the end of next year. An alliance of groups is working to stop these plans: www.fightforthebight.org.au.
A show exploring the ALP's adoption of a new policy platform, commiting them to Australia's signing and ratification of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, if elected in 2019. Featuring audio from the ALP National Conference which was held in Adelaide, in December 2018. Speeches and interviews with Karina Lester, a Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman from APY lands, Gem Romuld, Australian director of ICAN and Anthony Albanese MP.
On this show we hear recordings from the press conference ATLA, the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association, held on Tuesday 18th December 2018 about the formal complaint they lodged with the Human Rights Commission about the way that Adnyamathanha people have been treated as part of the federal government’s push to site a radioactive waste facility near a sacred women’s site on their country. Thanks to Kim Mavromatis from Mav Media
Cedar is a young person scared for the future of their climate. So Cedar decided to put their body on the line to slow down coal exports. Here's their story.
This radioactive show features some of the speakers from the Don’t Dump on SA rally held on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide on 3rd November. Over 1000 people from all over South Australia and beyond came together to say no, to tell the federal government to take all the sites in SA off the table and to hold a full independent inquiry into the best way to manage our most dangerous waste. The government must stop targeting remote and regional areas and give first nations people a right of veto for proposals that threaten their country and culture.There’s a short video of the rally here. PLEASE SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING IN SA!!HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DOPlease send in a submission to the federal Department to register your opposition to the plan to dump on SA. This submission process is important ‒ the government will use it to claim 'broad community support' for the dump if it does not receive lots of opposing submissions. Please write your own submission or simply add your name to the submission drafted by the SA Conservation Council ‒ it will only take a minute of your time! Please visit: www.conservationsa.org.au/ballotSign the petition to federal Minister Matt Canavan and encourage everyone you know to do the same.www.conservationsa.org.au/petition_to_minister_canavanPlease donate to raise funds to stop the nuclear dump: www.gofundme.com/dontdumponsaContact your federal ALP MP and Senators.The Labor Party have their national conference in Adelaide in mid December. With a federal election just around the corner, we want as many people as possible to contact them to urge them to adopt a strong policy on radioactive waste management. Conservation SA has set up an online lobbying tool here. Just enter your postcode and it will automatically send an email to your ALP members. You can use the existing text, or edit to suit. Alternatively, you can call your ALP members.
Over in Western Australia, the nucelar free campaign are celebrating 10 years since former Premier Colin Barnett lifted the ban on uranium mining in the State. 10 years ago, uranium was promoted as being a new mining sector that would be like 'iron ore on steroids' but with collective efforts of resistance, solidarity and tireless campaigning the uranium sector has been halted in WA. On this weeks show you will hear from some of WA's most solid activists that have been campaigning for over 10 years! Mr Glen Cooke, Jo Valentine and Marcus Atkinson. Ngaanyatjarra elder Mr Glen Cooke for over 10 years has played a crucial role in both the national nuclear free alliance- ANFA and the Western Australian nuclear free alliance - WANFA to defend his country, culture and community to stop uranium mining in the Goldfields area of WA.For more information on the WA nuclear free campaign go to www.wanfa.org.au &/or www.ccwa.org.au/nuclearfreewa For more information and photos from the Walkatjurra Walkabout go to https://walkingforcountry.com/
Why is there so much opposition from queer people and their communities to the nuclear industry? A show inspired by artist Jessie Boylan's recent essay, 'This Is Not Nowhere', about Queer resistance to the nuclear industry. Jessie Boylan’s essay featured photos and quotes from 5 queer identifying nuclear free activists, including Jessie herself. The show features an interview with Jessie followed by Gem Romuld, another of the activists photographed, who is also the Australian Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Today we head out onto the streets to hear voices from the community rally at the opening of the International Mining and Resources Conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Tuesday 30th October. We hear from Lucho Riquelme from the Latin American Solidarity Network, Rebecca Hayden and Anthony Amis from the Rainforest Action Group and AC Hunter from Friends of the Earth's Nuclear-free campaign.
Over the weekend of 19-21 October 2018, members of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) met on Kaurna and Peramangk country in the Adelaide Hills. Dozens of Aboriginal Nations and civil society organisations were represented; people came together to share stories, strategy and solidarity at ANFA’s 21st annual gathering. On this radioactive show we hear a snapshot of the uranium industry in Australia and stories from some of ANFA's strong women.
Twenty years ago the Mirarr traditional owners of parts of Kakadu and Western Arnhem land invited protestors to stand with them on country against the Jabiluka mine at the peak of a 10 year long campaign that saw the mine stopped.20 years on, with the Ranger uranium mine coming to a close, the Mirarr are planning to transition the township of Jabiru to a future beyond mining that supports Binnij country and culture.For more information: mirarr.netClick here to make a submission to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science on the Federal Radioactive Waste Dump.
On this Radioactive Show we hear from the Leonora Public Meeting held on Wongatha country, that was held after this years Walkatjurra Walkabout in the Goldfields of Western Australia. The public meeting was held on Saturday 1st September in Leonora, Goldfields, Western Australia. It shed light on WA's nuclear free campaign and the proposed Yeelirrie and Wiluna uranium mines and the radioactive waste dump. The public meeting gave a voice to affected communities and an opporunity for the public to ask questions on each of the proposals. Kado Muir, leader of the Nalia tribe and an applicant on the Mantjintjarra Nalia peoples native title claim from Leonora was a brilliant MC, and speakers included Vicky Abdullah (Tjiwarl), Delsan Stokes (Wongatha elder), Senator Rachel Siewert (Australian Greens), Piers Verstegen, Director Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) and Robin Chapple (WA Greens). I’d like to acknowledge and give a massive thanks to Tjulma Pulka Aboriginal Radio Station, to Debbie and Libby Carmody who recorded this important meeting and gave me permission to use.
This show is about the history of African American resistance to nuclear weapons. Professor Vincent Intondi isDirector of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement in Maryland in the US, and Author of the book 'African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement'. He is speaking here about that book connecting racial injustice, nuclear injustice, and imperial injustice. His talk was recorded at Boston Public Library in February 2017 by Truth & Justice Radio.Original recording found here: https://archive.org/details/Intondi-170216
On this Radioactive Show we hear about the Black Mist Burnt Country art exhibition and symposium which was organised by Burrinja Cultural Centre. The symposium was held on Saturday 9th September in Adelaide. It shed light on South Australia’s nuclear history and related environmental and social effects: ranging from the British atomic tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s, to the effects of uranium mining and recent proposals to store nuclear waste in South Australia near Hawker and Kimba. The symposium explored how artists have reflected on nuclear issues through their practice and gave a voice to affected communities. Artists Nuclear campaigners and community members presented on current developments in regard to the proposed nuclear waste dump in SA. Among the speakers were: Jessie Boylan (artist), Merilyn Fairskye (artist), Paul Brown (producer), David Noonan (nuclear campaigner), Gavin Mudd, Jim Green (Friends of the Earth), Karina Lester (anti-nuclear activist), Tilman Ruff (Nobel Peace Prize laureate), Greg Bannon from the Flinders Local Action Group and Mara Bonacci (Conservation SA).The exhibition Black Mist Burnt Country is on display at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT from 24 August – 18 November 2018.The briefing paper about shippping nuclear waste through SA's ports mentioned by David Noonan in this show can be found here.
On this show I speak with Candyce Paul. Candyce is a mother, a grandmother, an educator, and a protector - not an environmentalist nor activist - responding to a serious threat to ALL future generations. She and her family are members of English River First Nation, Denesuline, and are still gleaning their sustenance from the lands and waters of LaPlonge Reserve in northwestern Saskatchewan. She is Outreach Coordinator for the Committee for Future Generations, a group of volunteers who united against the nuclear industry’s proposal to store high-level nuclear waste in northern Saskatchewan. They hold the uranium mining corporations and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission accountable for long term health problems created by radiation and environmental damage, as it is impacting the mainly Dene, Cree, and Metis people who live and work closest to the uranium mines. CFFG is dedicated to ensuring that the health of the land, waters, and life systems will be protected, so the people can thrive as they always have. As such they work in close solidarity with those around the globe affected by the nuclear industry, both power generating and military. It is seen as a DUTY, to uphold the highest possible standards to protect the DNA of our future grandchildren. Committee for Future Generations was awarded the 2012-2013 Saskatchewan Eco-Network Environmental Activist Award and Council of Canadians Activists of the Year in 2013 for their work against nuclear waste storage in Saskatchewan.
Activists have gathered in Newcastle to push for an end to coal and calling for the Governments to radically tackle this dire problem. They're willing to risk arrest and doing lots of dishes....
On Sunday 2nd September about 100 people gathered at Victorian parliament to send off a group of cyclists travelling to Canberra as a part of the ICAN Nobel Peace ride. ICAN is of course the international Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an organisation that began in Melbourne just over 10 years ago and who, less than a year ago, won the Nobel Peace prize for their work towards a nuclear weapon free world. The timing and destination of the ride is deliberate. It is just over a year since ICAN, NGOs and hundreds of countries created a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, yet Australia has still not signed on. Hear from speakers at the event- ALP MP Andrew Giles, Greens Senator Janet Rice, Jeannie Rae of the NTEU, Lucy Turton of Disarm Unis, Marcus Yip of ICAN, and MC Dave Sweeney. Songs featured are the peace choir.
Today we bring you an interview with Tilman Ruff from International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) about the Nobel Peace Ride. The Nobel Peace Ride will take the Nobel Peace Prize medal won by ICAN all the way from the birthplace of ICAN in Naarm Melbourne departing Sunday 2nd September, to Canberra arriving 20th September . ICAN is working hard to gather signatures for the UN weapons ban treaty that they initiated. One significant missing ratification and signature is that of Australia, and ICAN hopes to remedy that.We then speak with Toni Scott from Kimba, one of the towns being considered for the federal radioactive waste dump to get an important insight into the experience of those who have been thrust unwilling into a deeply flawed process.
Recordings form the 'Walk The Walk - Dump the Dump' Rally and March in Port Augusta on Sunday 19th August.Featuring Vivienne, Regina and Heather McKenzie - Adnyamathanha, Linda and Harry Dare - Barnagala, and Dr Susan Andersson - Flinders Local Action Group.Recordings by Mara Bonacci.https://www.foe.org.au/waste
I’m Michaela and one todays program we’ll be getting an update on the proposed nuclear waste dump in south Australia as the campaign continues to heat up with legal action by the Barngala traditional owner group putting on hold a community ballot that was set to start on Monday.First up I spoke with Friends of the Earth's ACE Nuclear-free Collective coordinator AC Hunter, who has just returned from campaign visits to South Austrlaia and WesternAustralia the two current nuclear hotspots.To send a letter to Minister Matt Canavan and Shadow Minister Kim Carr calling for an end to the SA dump plans, and for the government to initiate a comprehensive, independent inquiry to address all options for the responsible long-term management of Australia's nuclear waste go to www.for.org.au/waste.If you would like to contribute to the WA courtcase from Traditional Owners protecting Yeelirrie from uranium mining go to: chuffed.org/project/yeelirrie-court-case.With the heatwaves raising temperatures across Europe we’ll be hearing about the most recent wave of nuclear power plant shutdowns due to the extreme weather, the likes of which we will see occur more frequently with escalating human induced climate change. Thanks to City Limits Kevin Healy and Meg Kimber for this interview with Australian Conservation Foundation's Nuclear-free Campaigner Dave Sweeney.
A brief analysis of the Australian anti-war movement and what might need to happen to build a movement to curb war and promote environmental sustainability.
This radioactive show we commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by sharing Seksuko Thurlow's story of survival from that devastating event. This is from a recording of an event heldin March 2017, at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, part of SOAS University of London. The original video recording can be found here: https://www.soas.ac.uk/cisd/events/21mar2017-a-voice-from-hiroshima---setsuko-thurlow-.html
Public hearings were held in early july in Kimba and Hawker as part of the senate inquiry giving communities an opportunity to have their say about flawed site selection process for the waste dump. A Canberra hearing will be held in early August before the senate committee report their findings on 14 August. From 20 August, the communities are being asked to participate in a ballot to gauge community sentiment. Neither the findings of the senate report nor the results of the ballot are binding on the Minister, who continues to avoid defining what constitutes the broad community support needed to select a site.Today we’ll hear extracts from the regional hearings. Transcripts of the hearings can be found here:www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics/Wastemanagementfacility/Public_Hearings Here is a link to an article announcing the tripling of the "benefit" package to communties:www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/31-million-incentives-offered-to-sa-community-that-hosts-national-radioactive-waste-repository/news-story/52181a19634c51b5ad2176917fc4d40aPlease sign and share the petition and join the call to stop this process.
6 members of the Strong Grandmothers of the Central Desert Region travelled to Naarm (Melbourne) from Mparntwe on Arrente Country (Alice Springs and the central desert region), to share their stories and wisdom at the Students of Sustainability conference 2018. Making the journey were Nungurla Doreen Carroll McCormack, Sabella Kngwarraye Ross Turner, Christine Kngwarraye Palmer, Pamela Kngwarraye Lynch, Elaine Kngwarraye Peckham and Veronica Kngwarraye Lynch. The panel covered many overlapping and cross-generational issues of the Central Desert region, including the Intervention, racist policing, and the removal of children from families by welfare.
On this show, I'd like to give you a taste of some of the talks from the Students of Sustainability conference held in Narrm Melbourne that started in the first weekend of July.Includes a talk by Uncle Bill Nicholson, Wurundjeri elder, about Traditional Owners experience on the land where SOS was held and a talk by Aunty Hazel Collins from Grandmothers against removals NSW.
This week we speak with Dr Sue Wareham, president of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, MAPW and board member of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN, Australia on the one year anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Dr Sue Wareham also talks about her visits to Perth to speak with medical students about nuclear weapons and the global health threat. She gives us ways in which we can help ban the bomb here in Australia and the work that is needed to preven harm from nuclear and other weapons. The music on today's show was from Monkey Marc, As the Market Crashed. For more information on the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty go to: http://www.icanw.org/status-of-the-treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/
On this show, we hear about nuclear medicine and the recent shutdown of ANSTO’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor. We speak to Dr Margaret Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War and get her perspective on the shutdown and ways to avoid such incidents.The music in this show is from www.bensound.comRead articles about the shut down here:https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/second-radioactive-spill-in-10-months-at-ansto-s-lucas-heights-facility-20180608-p4zkdb.htmlhttp://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-28/lucas-heights-reactor-breakdown-to-affect-patients-across-nsw/9920208?pfmredir=smhttp://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-27/lucas-heights-nuclear-reactor-breakdown-medical-supply-shortage/9915242https://www.portlincolntimes.com.au/story/5450842/letters-to-the-editor/https://www.portlincolntimes.com.au/story/5489877/letters-to-the-editor/
On this weeks show, listen to the campaign to stop uranium mining in Western Australia, updates on recent news of the national radioactive waste dump PLAN B and wher the Supreme Court of Appeals to stop Yeelirrie uranium mine is at. You will hear from Dr Jim Green, the national nuclear free campaigner for Friends of the Earth talking about his latest smashing report that he has released this week with Latrobe University honors student Morgan Somerville calling on Perth based uranium company, Paladin Energy to clean up its mess in Malawi, Africa. And finally an interview with Dr Christine Jefferies-Stokes, paedetrician in Kalgoorlie who has been sounding the alarm about health problems caused by contaminants in water, including uranium in the Goldfields area of Western Australia. Dr Jim Green full report https://nuclear.foe.org.au/paladin-energy-uranium-africa/ Dr Christine Jefferies-Stokes phd http://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/the-western-desert-kidney-health-project(9ab5a769-a1a6-4bd2-94c6-58b465f28940).html?uwaCustom=thesisFor more information on the WA nuclear free campaign go to http://www.ccwa.org.au/nuclearfreewa
On this week’s radioactive show we hear Adnyamathanha concerns about the radioactive waste dump threatening their Country.We hear an interview with Vince Coulthard, the CEO of ATLA, the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association. This interview was recorded by Dray at Umeewarra Aboriginal Media Association in Port Augusta. We are grateful for their permission to share it with our listeners.www.conservationsa.org.au/petition_to_minister_canavanwww.umeewarramedia.com
21 years since the Bringing Them Home report was tabled in parliament, we mark Sorry Day by featuring Aunty Hazel Collins who initiated the group Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR) in 2014. The GMAR movement is fighting against the systematic removal of Aboriginal children from their families and calling out what Aunty Hazel calls the mispractice of child welfare officials. Thanks to Tegan Hughes from CAAMA.
Melbourne University along with RMIT are trying to build Australia's largest arms manufacturer on the site of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne.Radioactive talks to Lucy Turton and Callum Simpson from Melbourne University about activism and the campaign to kick Lockheed Martin off of their university.https://www.facebook.com/lockoutlockheed/
On this week’s radioactive show we hear from Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder and staunch fighter against the uranium industry on his land. We also hear from Cat Beaton from Conservation SA who’ll give us an update on what’s been happening there.There’s a postcard campaign and online petition to Minister Canavan urging him to lift his game on radioactive waste management. Please get online at www.conservationsa.org.au/nuclear to sign this petition. The petition is listed as an event on the Say No to Nuclear facebook page. Please share this widely.The video message from the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association CEO Vince Coulthard to Minister Canavan can be watched at www.nodumpalliance.org.au/news Buy the ANFA Book: 20 Years of Radioactive ResistanceSupport the Aboriginal led Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) and grab a commemorative book that celebrates the 20 staunch years of ANFA. For only $20 grab your book that is full of beautiful pictures and words from the awesome network of Traditional Owners, community members and wider civil society representatives who share a common concern about the impacts of nuclear projects and support each other's works to end nuclear threats. http://shop.foe.org.au/20-years-of-radioactive-resistance/.
On this weeks show, you will hear part two of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour 2018 where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the four proposed uranium mine sites : mulga rock, yeelirrie, wiluna and kintyre to hear and support Traditional Owners at the forefront of the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining. The last proposed uranium mine site we visited on the WA Rad Tour was Kintyre and the Parnngurr Aboriginal Community, home to a group of Martu people of the Western Desert. Parngurr is 370km west of Newman in the Pilbara. We visited the proposed Kintyre uranium mine site with the Taylor family, and spent the days listening, exploring and seeing this incredibly beautiful country. Listen to the stories from Nancy, Muuki and Curtis Taylor and BUMP spokesperson, Bilbo Taylor. A massive thanks to Curtis Taylor for the translation for this show.
No Bunda Bunda on Ngemba LandWe learn about the fight to stop the nomination for the radioactive waste dump at Brewarrina being approved. Brewarrina is a small town in north west NSW. It is home to the largest fish traps in the world, and are thought to be the world’s oldest man made structure. They are estimated to be over 40,000 years old. Despite the presence of this astonishing local feature, the Brewarrina council is trying to progress a nomination for a radioactive waste dump on the land. Loud and strong, the community is saying Keep Bre Nuke free.https://www.facebook.com/nimnw/
Come along for a taste of the 2018 Radioactive Exposure Tour of South Australia, which happened over Easter and in the first week of April. On the show, which is part one of two, you'll hear from Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Vivienne McKenzie from Flinders Ranges, Cat Beaton from CCSA, Jim Green from Friends of the Earth, Nuclear whistle blower Avon Hudson, and ICAN's Dimity Hawkins.
Hear Tim Wright, from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Ray Acheson, of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and ICAN, speaking to the Radioactive Exposure Tour 2018. Features stories and analysis of the recent International Treaty ban on nuclear weapons and ICAN’s subsequent winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. Recording were taken on unceded Adnyamathanha Country in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
On this weeks show, you will hear part one of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the four proposed uranium mine sites : mulga rock, yeelirrie, wiluna and kintyre to hear and support Traditional Owners at the forefront of the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining. Listen to Wongatha Elder, Geoffrey Stokes about Mulga Rock and the proposed uranium mine on his country. Hear from Mia Pepper and Marcus Atkinson as they share their impressive knowledge of Vimy Resources, the company behind the proposed uranium mine project at Mulga Rock and what the company proposes. Hear about whats happening at Yeelirrie from Vicky Abdhulla, traditional owner who is part of the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) and other Traditional Owners taking Cameco and the State to the Court of Appeals We also caught up with Marilyn Burnheart who is a pastoralist from the Yeelirrie area. The music in todays show was from the Black Rock Band, from West Arnhem land, song Bininj Kunborrk.For more stories and pictures of the WA Rad Tour go to road trip blog, at ccwa.org.au/nuclear_free_roadtrip_blog. For more information or to support the WA campaign to leave it in the ground go to nuclearfree.wordpress.com/ or http://www.ccwa.org.au/nuclearfreewa
On 6 February 2018, the federal Senate referred an inquiry into the selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia for inquiry and report by 14 August 2018. Submissions are due by Tuesday 3rd April.On this week’s show we hear from the Nick Xenophon Team’s Rex Patrick, the senator who initiated this inquiry.With a new liberal government in South Australia, this senate inquiry is more important than ever.Find out about the senate inquiry and read the terms of reference here.Please write your own submission, or alternatively, submit a quick and easy online submission hereTo find out more information, check out these useful websites:www.conservationsa.org.au/nuclear https://nuclear.foe.org.au/waste/Stay up to date on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saynotonuclearSA/
Peter recalls the Waihopai Plowshare action that successfully disrupted US war making in Iraq- from central Aotearoa.
3 speakers about different eras and wars that Australia has been involved in. We hear from Jenny Grounds about the culture of war in our modern day society, Bob Muntz reflects on being a draft resister in the Vietnam war and Joy Damousi addresses the link between women’s leadership and the fight against conscription in WW1
Serenading Adela: A Sreet Opera was a performance held on 7 January 2018 at the old Pentridge prison, in Coburg Melbourne. It tells a history of the anti WW1-conscription campaigns held nationally, but in particular the story of Adela Pankhurst, one of the key campaigners who was imprisoned briefly at Pentridge for her protests. The performance was a cooperation of many. A conglomeration of local choirs coming together as the Unruly mob, a band especially formed for the show and Lisa Marie Parker as Adela. Listen to recordings from the show and an interview with organiser, Nancy Atkin.
On this show we delve deep into the rad show archives to learn more about the history of the Radioactive Exposure Tour. The first Radioactive Exposure tour happened in 1983, as part of Rox Stop, which was a massive year long protest against the construction o Roxby Downs Uranium Mine in South Australia. Thirty five years later, it's is still going, with this year's tour leaving on the 30th March and travelling through nuclear sites across South Australia. http://www.melbournefoe.org.au/radtour2018
Connection to Country : Fukushima to KintyreOn this weeks show we hear the strong testimony from Kenichi Hasegawa, a Fukushima dairy farmer who’s land, farm, life and community has been destroyed following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster that occurred in March 2011. Hasegawa’s story was shared at the recent Making Waves event held nationally as part of the Peace Boat visit. Thanks to co-producer, Mara and the Adelaide Making Waves Forum for this recording of Kenichi Hasegawa’s moving testimony. We will hear the powerful stories from Curtis Taylor, a young Martu leader, filmmaker and screen artist and Desmond Taylor, Martu man who’s connection to country is Kintyre and both share their stories on the threat of uranium mining on their country. Kintyre is on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert and the Little Sandy Desert. It is on the boundary of (and should still be included) in the Karlamilyi National Park. Kintyre was excised from the Karlamilyi National Park (Rudall River) in 1994 - to allow for future mining. The proposed Kintyre uranium mine project is jointly owned by Canadian company, Cameco (70%) and Japanese company, Mitsubishi Development (30%). Cameco, Australia is proposing to construct and operate the Kintyre open-cut uranium mine, 270 kms north east of Newman. The project would include an airstrip, processing plant, waste rock dump, tailings storage facility, offices, accomodation and haul road.Today, they don’t have any final approvals, is not operating, needs further assessment and conditions to be met and the current uranium mine proposal is on hold because of the low uranium price. This proposal is still a long way off but as you will hear still causes significant stress and dissapointment as the Martu are still forced to negotiate over their lands, instead of this beautiful country being protected. The stories on this week’s show are powerful reminders of the damage that Australian uranium can do to the environment and communities both here in Australia and overseas. We have a chance to learn from Fukushima and to ensure the same mistakes never happen again. The only way we can sure that Western Australia uranium does not end up in nuclear weapons or radioactive waste is to keep it in the ground, and that is our responsibility. Thank you Kenichi Hasegawa, Curtis Taylor and Desmond Taylor. Presented by K-AFor more information on stories covered this week go to: Peace Boat www.peaceboat.org/englishWestern Australia Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA) https://nuclearfree.wordpress.comWA 2018 Rad Tour https://walkingforcountry.com/radtour/Kalyu Print : WANFA https://nuclearfree.wordpress.com/art/Kintyre : http://www.ccwa.org.au/kintyre
Peace Boat Nuclear Survivors in AdelaidePeace Boat, a Japanese based global NGO, visited Adelaide on 29th January for the first time as part of a speaking tour featuring nuclear survivors from Japan and Australia on its 93rd global voyage.The Australian tour started in fremantle, sailed to Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, ending in Sydney.The visit was hosted by ICAN in conjunction with local groups in each city. The Adelaide events were supported by Conservation SA, The Maritime Union of Australia and the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation.The Peace Boat trip aimed to put pressure on the Japanese and Australian Governments who have not yet signed the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.This week we’ll hear some of the stories shared at the Making Waves event in Adelaide. We heard from Akira Kawasaki from peace boat, Nagasaki survivor Terumi Tanaka, Maralinga survivor Mima Smart and ICAN Ambassador Scott Ludlam.If you’d like to learn more about Peace Boat, go to www.peaceboat.org/english.To learn more about the UN weapons ban treaty, go to www.icanw.org/au.Music on this show is from a performance by Tal-kin-jeri dance group: www.tal-kin-jeri.org
ANTI NUCLEAR ACTIVITY IN 2017 CAMPAIGN WRAP UP : LOOKING INTO THE NEXT YEAROn this weeks Radioactive Show we will hear from some of Australia’s most dedicated and long time nuclear free campaigners who will give us a 2017 wrap up from both national and international perspectives and an insight into what to expect in 2018 from the nuclear free campaign. We will also be taking a look into the year ahead and some of the projects and areas that will be a focus for the anti nuclear movement in Australia in 2018. We’ll touch on some fo the nuclear free movement events that are coming up and what you can expect to hear about in more detail on the Radioactive Show in the coming months. We’ll be hearing some very familiar voices to the Rad Show, including Rad Show presenter, Mara Bonacci. We’ll hear from incredibly dedicated and long time anti nuclear campaigners Dave Sweeney, Jim Green, Mara Bonacci and Winiata Peru. Guests: Dave Sweeney, ACF, Jim Green Friends of the Earth, Mara Bonacci and Winiata Peru. Presenter: KA Garlick
On this week’s show, we listen to some of the speakers at the Don’t Dump on SA Rally, held on 2 December 2017 on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide. The rally brought together people from Kimba and the Flinders Ranges, the communities affected by the federal government’s waste dump proposal, as well as supporters from South Australia and beyond. Over 1500 people attended the rally calling on politicians to defend the legislation that makes waste dumps illegal in SA in the lead up to the state election next March.Useful websitesdontdumponsa.netconservationsa.org.au/nuclearnodumpalliance.org.auFB @no radioactive waste facility for kimba district FB Flinders Local Action Group: FLAGFB Don't dump on SAFB Say No to NuclearFull Speakers List:Welcome to CountryBonny BrodieMCs Dave Sweeney and Vivianne McKenzie Full Speaker list (not all featured in this episodeVince CoulthardSusi Andersson – Hawker GP and Rob Webb from Flinders Local Action Group (FLAG)Regina McKenzie, Heather Stuart and kids.Dr Deidre Palmer – ex moderator Uniting ChurchTom Harris, Kimba Farmer and Kate Freeth from KimbaBarry Wakelin, former Federal politicianJamie Newlyn, MUAJack Crawford, youth and student environment repMark Parnell MLC, The GreensMessage from Eddie Giles, ALP member for GilesSenator Rex Patrick, Nick Xenophon TeamWith entertainment from: Rise Up SingersDusty Feet Mob dancers
Recordings from two meetings:Scott Ludlam, former federal senator and anti nuclear activist, meet up with Andy Paine, peace activist and sometimes journalist, to discuss Scott's experience of being a senator and his views on politics. Meanwhile in Melbourne, students visited from the Fukushima support project. The project organises recreational trips out of Fukushima, to support children who have experienced the trauma and ongoing effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
This weeks show is recorded on Whadjuk Noongar land, better known as Perth, WA about the Supreme Court action and Mulga Rock. Piers Verstegen, Director from Conservation Council of WA talks about the environment perspective of the Supreme Court Action to stop Yeelirrie uranium project and Vicky Abdullah, Tjiwarl native title holder gives Traditional Owner perspective of why Yeelirrie uranium mine should not proceed. Included in this weeks show is the very powerful words from Dave Sweeny, nuclear free campaigner with Australian Conservation Foundation, recorded live talking about Mulga Rock proposed uranium project on a panel discussion with government and industry.
In 2016, six peace pilgrims trespassed onto Pine Gap in Central Australia. The United States uses Pine Gap to help kill people in illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and many others. The Peace Pilgrims will put Pine Gap on trial from the 13th of November. You can follow the trial's progress at https://closepinegap.org/
This week we pay tribute to Dennis Banks, Ojibwa from Leech Lake, who dies on the 29th October at age 80. He was an activist, educator and writer and co-founded the American Indian Movement in 1968. He was involved in and organised many sacred walks and runs, enacting an ancient Native American tradition of bringing a message of "Land, Life and Peace" from village to village on foot.Today we’ll hear excerpts from recordings by and interviews with nuclear-free campaigners who have run or walked alongside Banks. Recordings by Gem, Crunch and AC.
Do we need a dump to have nuclear medicine?On this week’s radioactive show we speak to Dr Margaret Beavis from MAPW, the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, who dispels some of the misinformation that the government is spreading in their attempt to persuade remote communities to accept a dump in their region.The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) works for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction and the prevention of armed conflict. www.mapw.org.auMusic from this show was “Start Thinking” by Adelaide heartland rock band Moss who write about political and social issues of concern and this song is about the dumping of nuclear waste. www.mossmusic.com.au
This week’s show features recordings from the Ute Mountain Ute Native American protest against the White Mesa Uranium Mill on their land. Interviews with White Mesa Community Leaders Priscellna Rabbit and Ephraim Dutchie, an attorney Marie Ann Tapp and Dinah women Leona Morgan. Rad show co-producer K-A met them in April this year while participating in the protest walk from the White Mesa Community to the White Mesa Uranium Mill only 3 miles down the road. Priscellna Rabbit, from the White Mesa nation, speaks to the officer at the gates of the Uranium Mill about contamination. Euphraim Dutchie spoke to me after the protest about his concerns and the struggles of his people to have authentic participation in decisions about their land. Anne Mariah Tapp is an Attorney for the Grand Canyon Trust and provides law and policy advice. She provides an incredible overview to the situation on White Mesa land and the people's struggle. In the final part of the show, an amazing activist Leona Morgan, a Dine women, from Dine No Nukes, talks about her organisation and the extraordinary work they are carrying out on the dangers of uranium mining and the impacts that uranium mining has had on the Dine lands. From the Southwest region of the US she has worked as a community organizer and educator on uranium issues since 2007. She has worked primarily to help prevent water contamination from a proposed ISL facility. In 2014, Morgan co-founded Diné No Nukes (DNN). DNN is an initiative focused on education about the entire Nuclear Fuel Chain with a special interest in the lands with the Diné Four Sacred Mountains.
Over the weekend of September 15-17, 2017, the 20th meeting of ANFA, the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, was held. This is the second show of recordings from that special gathering. Today's show is from one of the closing sessions of ANFA 2017, called Celebrating the Wins and specifically 7 year fight and 2014 win to save the country around Muckaty, near Tennant Creek NT, from a Federal Radioactive Waste dump. Long time nuclear free organiser Adam Sharah hosts the discussion with two leaders from the country around Muckaty, young rap artist and activist Kylie Sambo and Aunty Isobel. Later in the show we hear Nat Wasley of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative. Features the track 'Muckaty' by Kylie Sambo.
On this week's show, I share two interviews with peace activists who are out there charging the world.Like Gem Romuld, Outreach Coordinator with ICAN, the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, who I speak to about winning the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.And Laura Drew and Emma Cullen from Peace Action Wellington, in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Laura and Emma have been involved in a successful blockade of Weapons Conference in Wellington that occurred in the second week of October.Music credit: Song by Combat Wombat - "Shoot to kill" from album "Just across the border"
On this week’s radioactive show, we hear the session at the recent Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting about the clean up of ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory. The discussion then acknowledges the wisdom of the indigenous peoples of Australia, the longest living culture in the world. What happens when you close down a uranium mine in a world heritage listed area?Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (GAC) http://www.mirarr.netMovie: Dirt Cheap: 30 years on https://vimeo.com/73373709
On September 15-17th 2017 the 20th Australian Nuclear Free Alliance was held on Kaurna country in Adelaide, South Australia. 20 years of standing strong for country, working together and fighting uranium mines, waste dumps and nuclear power.Listen to recordings from the first session of the 2017 conference, reflecting on 20 years of ANFA and nuclear free solidarity, with humour and love. Features Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Enice Marsh, Dave Sweeney, Margaret Gilchrist, Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Bilbo Taylor and Scott Ludlam.
On this show, we present a talk by Alex Edney-Browne on the social and psychological effects of drone warfare. The talk was part of the IPAN conference held in Naarm Melbourne in second week of September. For more information on the conference, go to www.ipan.org.auAlex refers to illustrations in her talk that were created based on her research interviews. They can be found here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-18/perspectives-from-the-front-line-of-the-drone-war/8793400
Today we present excerpts from speeches delivered at ‘War, Peace and Independence' a public forum held in Naarm/Melbourne on Friday the 7th of September. We hear from Meriki Onus (Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance), Lidia Thorpe (Gunnai-Gunditjmara), Sung Hee Choi (activist from South Korea), David Vine (Assoc. Prof. Anthropology American University) & Scott Ludlum (Nuclear-free activist and former Greens Senator).The forum was the opening event for the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Conference - a national gathering of organisations and individuals concerned with the growing threat of a major, global war and the lack of independent foreign policies (www.ipan.org.au).
On this show, I want to take you all out bush, onto Wangkatja Country, in the Northern Goldfields of Western Australia. It’s here that traditional owners have been fighting for over 40 years to protect country and keep uranium in the ground. Every year for the last 7 years, the Walkatjurra Walkabout have taken supporters from across Australia and the world to walk on country with traditional owners on their land, and the talk about the threat of uranium mining to their cultural heritage and sacred sites, water, plants, creatures and the land.The Walk takes about a month, and we were out on country for the whole of August this year. It covers over 270km between Wiluna and Leonora, and over 30 supporters joined the walk. On this show, we’ll join the walk in its first week, to find out more about the proposed uranium mines at Wiluna and Yeelirrie, two of four potential uranium mines companies are trying to get started in WA.
On Saturday 19th August, a special event was held bringing together people from the Irati Wanti, Muckaty and current campaigns against a National radioactive waste dump. On this week’s radioactive show, we hear some of the speakers’ courageous and inspiring stories of people on the frontline, learn the history of community resistance and how together we can win.The new short film We Say NO was launched at the event. It brings together voices from South Australia and beyond presenting clear and united opposition to the Federal government’s proposal for a Radioactive Waste Management Facility in the State. Please share widely through facebook or youtube. “South Australia has spoken. We say NO, and we mean NO.” Regina McKenzie“Many voices bring promises of wealth, but one State, with a cohesive strong voice, says We Say NO.” Lavene NgatokoruaFor more information see: http://www.nodumpalliance.org.au/Sign the petition, join the No Dump AllianceTo buy a copy of the book "Talking Straight Out - Stories from the Irati Wanti Campaign" please email brownboo@gmail.com or visit the Conservation Council SA, 111 Franklin St Adelaide. $20 + postage
Today we speak with walk organiser Marcus Atkinson midway through the sixth annual Walkatjurra Walkabout, a one month walk from Wiluna to Leonora from August 4th – September 2nd. Visit Nuclear Free WA for videos.No Dump Alliance member Dash Taylor Johnson from the Australian Education Union talks to us about the current work of the alliance: focussing on opposition to the Federal Governments' proposal for a National Radioactive Waste dump, the launch of a new petition and the importance of unions to be involved in the struggle.
This week’s radioactive show features a discussion between ACF’s Dave Sweeney and Czech energy consultant Olga Kalisova who works with non-governmental organization Calla - Association for Preservation of the Environment, which is active on energy and environmental topics. Calla played a leading role in the recent cessation of uranium mining in Czech Republic.For more information about Calla - Association for Preservation of the Environment, have a look at their website.More information can be found here:http://temelin.cz/images/PDF/Kalisova_Bepper2016.pdfhttp://www.temelin.cz/images/PDF/kalisova%20uranium%20mining%20in%20the%20czech%20republic.pdfhttp://temelin.cz/images/PDF/Prezentace_Olga_180717_En.pdf
We commemorate the anniversary of the nuclear bombs falling on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. KA speaks to Hibakusha survivor Sou Horie. Closer to home, Marcus Atkinson and Vicky Abdullah give updates on nuclear free campaigning in WA and the launch of another Walkutjirra Walkabout.
A tribute show to Yankunytjatjara elder and atomic test survivor, Yami Lester, who sadly passed away recently. We reflect on his ongoing fight for justice, for a nuclear free world and Aboriginal land rights.Please note that, with family permission, this episode includes recordings of Yami Lester’s voice.We also hear from Tim Wright, Campaign Director of ICAN (International Campaign Against Nuclear weapons) about the recent creation of an international treaty which bans nuclear weapons.Paul Kelly's song 'Maralinga' features on the show - which was written about Yami's experience as a survivor of Emu Fields nuclear weapon testing.
This week we share an interview with Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance from Knoxville, Tennessee. Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance or OREPA works to oppose the Y12 nuclear weapons facility at Oak Ridge, through the use of non-violent direct action and grass roots organising. We also catch up with Jim Green, nuclear free campaigner from Friends of the Earth, who shares some good news about the downfall of the nuclear industry. Music by Combat Wombat, visit their website here: combatwombat.com.au
This week we speak to an Australian activist and hear her first hand account of the campaign to stop a radioactive waste dump in France. We learn that that are quite a few radioactive parallels between our countries.Links mentioned during the interview are:en.vmc.camp (in english, updates on the occupation)sortirdunucleaire.org (in french, legal process)burezonelibre.noblogs.org (in french, website for the house project)https://archive.org/details/poubelle-la-viea"poubelle la vie" a film made in 2015, with english subtitlesLetter to Australian delegation from French Activists:Dear distinguished Australian visitors,The Nuclear industry is a ticking time bomb, whether radioactive waste is dumped in Bure, Wallerberdina, or anywhere else. There is no known way to permanently neutralize it. All claims to the contrary are unfounded (visit nirs.org for details). By accepting to dump nuclear waste in Australia you are not only endangering the lives of aboriginal people and Australians in the region, but of wildlife and of the lives of those who will suffer the consequences nuclear production from extraction to waste everywhere. Here in Bure, Andra’s project has already cost the lives of two workers, most recently last January, showing the company’s incompetence and disrespect for human life. Undemocratically and illegally imposed on us, the costs of the Cigeo waste project rise as resistance to it is burgeoning, manifesting in absurd military and police presence in the area.As nuclear power proves to be obsolete and dangerous the world over, and as sustainable alternatives are increasingly available, resistance materializes in Australia as well. You can choose to fight for a just, ecologically balanced world now, and leave Andra’s profit-driven propagandists to listen to what we have to say, or meet us from the other side of the barricades. We are fighting for our lives and for the lives of our children. We are a growing contingent of local and international activists occupying Bure to stop nuclear catastrophe. In our collective way of organizing and living we present an alternative to nuclear waste and to the sick world which produces it."
On Saturday the 17th of June, a women led, all-inclusive rally was held in Melbourne in solidarity with the Women's March to Ban the Bomb! and as part of a National Day of Action in anticipation of the Global Nuclear Weapons ban. Today we feature recordings from the rally and march featuring excerpts from speeches by Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Kokatha survivor of nuclear testing, Greens Senator Janet Rice and Caroline Lambert from the International Women’s Development Agency. Also interviews with attendees and music from the Riff Raff Radical Marching band.
We hear from a few of the many people who travelled to the Frontier Wars March. The march took place on April 25th, 2017.
Many listeners will have heard about Clinton Pryor, a Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and Yulparitja man from Western Australia who has been on a very long Walk For Justice since leaving Perth in September 2016.This Radioactive Show features strong words and sounds from Clinton's walk through the city of Naarm Melbourne, on the evening of June 6, an event organised by the Warriors for Aboriginal Resistance. Speeches by Clinton Pryor, Areka Waulu and Gabawarul. Features music by Lady Lash.
This June marks the 30th Anniversary of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Disarmament and Arms Control Act. Today's show features an interview originally recorded at Plains FM in Christchurch, in it we'll hear Sally Carlton from Speak up Korerotia who is talking to nuclear disarmament experts Kate Dewes, Ken Graham & Natasha Burns.
WA’s new premier, the ALP’s Mark McGowan, stated before the election that he wouldn’t overturn any final approvals that had been made, but what is final approval? What does the change of government mean for the 4 proposed uranium mines in WA and what does it mean for affected communities?On today’s show, we speak to Mia Pepper, Nuclear Free Campaigner at the Conservation Council of WA; Mr Glen Cooke, an Ngaanyatjarra elder from the Ngaanyatjarra Nation in the Western Desert and Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation.Related Linkshttp://www.ccwa.org.au/nuclearfreewahttp://www.ccwa.org.au/uraniumfreecharterhttps://walkingforcountry.com/https://nuclearfree.wordpress.com/http://www.anawa.org.au/http://www.icanw.org/au/Lobby Labor to stop the four proposed uranium minesSign the Uranium Free CharterTake a selfie - with the Ban Uranium Mining Permanently sign and post to social media #walabor #uraniumfreewaqGet in touch with Labor:Minister.Dawson@dpc.wa.gov.au - (08) 6552 5800Minister.Johnston@dpc.wa.gov.au - (08) 6552 6700wa-government@dpc.wa.gov.au - (08) 6552 5000 For your local member https://walabor.org.au/MPs
Mara Bonacci speaks with Geoff Williams from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency to get an his perspective from on-the-ground at the Australian Government clean up of Maralinga atomic test sites prior to a handback to the Maraling Tjarutja Traditional Owners. Dr. Jim Green, national Nuclear-free campaigner with Friends of the Earth, gives an environmental and social justice perspective.
The Frontier Wars March in Canberra has become an important event. The push to have the Australian War Memorial recognise the first and largest war on Australian soil as part of official Anzac Day Commemerations strikes at the heart of Australia's historical narrative. We hear from two Aboriginal leaders about why the Frontier Wars march is so important to them....
This Radioactive Show hear a Chernobyl Commemorative Show shared with us by Understorey, a Perth-based Radio show.We mark 31 years since the disaster occurred and reflect on the secrecy, devastation and pain that remains. A poignant reminder of why we must become a nuclear free world.
Saturday 29th April marked the one year anniversary of the nomination of Barndioota, or Wallerberdina, in the Flinders Ranges as the Federal government’s preferred site for a national radioactive waste facility. It was chosen from a shortlist of 6 sites. This week we hear from the local doctor Susi Andersson, get messages of support from people from the previously shortlisted sites - Robyn Rayner from Hill End in NSW and Tom Harris from Kimba - and also Nat Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative, a long time campaigner against the dump.The media release announcing the site selection is here:http://www.joshfrydenberg.com.au/guest/mediaReleasesDetails.aspx?id=210The Wallerbidina site is of great cultural, historical and spiritual significance to Adnyamathanha Traditional Owners, who are calling this decision a desecration of their culture. Regina McKenzie, who lives at Yappala Station near the dump site, says: "The area is Adnyamathanha land. It is Arngurla Yarta (spiritual land). The proposed dump site has countless thousands of Aboriginal artifacts. Our ancestors are buried there. The nominated site is a significant women’s site. Throughout the area are registered cultural heritage sites and places of huge importance to our people."Contact current Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan and ask him to halt this flawed, stressful and divisive process and take a fair and responsible approach to the management of Australia’s radioactive waste.To contact Minister Canavan:Call his Rockhampton office: (07) 4927 2003Send an email: senator.canavan@aph.gov.auWrite a letter: Office of Senator Matt Canavan, PO Box 737, Rockhampton QLD 4700www.facebook.com/SenatorCanavan/twitter.com/mattjcan / @mattjcanWe need your support to protect this region from nuclear waste.
A recording from ANZAC Day eve event put on by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War called "The real story of why we go to war". A diverse and thought provoking night including music, poetry, talks and a comedy act.Michael Hamel-Green, Vietnam War resisterRod Quantock who gives a concise and humourous history of warBrunswick Rogues choirAnd Alice Melike Ülgezer, poet and author.
This week, Australians will mark Anzac Day, a day to remember Australians who have died in all wars. Today on the Radioactive Show, we hear from Queensland historian Libby Connors talking about Aboriginal Warrior Dundalee, executed during the Frontier Wars in Queensland. This was recorded by Bec Horridge in April 2016.
We share a conversation with Tanganekald, Meintangk, and Boandik woman, Irene Watson. Irene is a pro vice-chancellor at the University of South Australia, a First Nations representative to the UN and has been published widely in law, Indigenous and feminist journals. She speaks from her position as a First Nations' person to critique and examine the colonial legal system, particularly by questioning its attempts at recognition of Aboriginal relationships to land and laws.Features music by Edi Donald and the Transients
UN negotiations for a nuclear weapon ban treaty started with a one week session at the UN at the end of March. The aim of the ban is to de-legimatise nuclear bombs and put them on the same legal footing as other weapons of mass destruction, working much like the prohibitions on the use of chemical and biological weapons. This show includes a speech at the UN by Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a Kokatha elder and nuclear bomb survivor from South Australia, and Tilman Ruff, one of the founder of International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons or ICAN and co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.Music by Combat Wombat (Go to combatwombat.com.au to hear their new album)
The Federal Government has recently accepted two new nominations for a site for the National radioactive waste dump at Kimba in South Australia.On this week’s show, we speak to peter woolford from Kimba about their fight to stop the dump as well as to Dave Sweeney, Nuclear free campaigner at the Australian Conservation Foundation.More information can be found here:https://www.facebook.com/No-Radioactive-Waste-Facility-for-Kimba-District-643522385787637/https://www.facebook.com/No-Radioactive-Waste-Facility-for-Kimba-District-643522385787637/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/new-properties-nominated-as-nuclear-dump-sites/8236894?pfmredir=smhttp://www.eyretribune.com.au/story/4442963/two-nuclear-sites-nominated-at-kimba/http://www.mattcanavan.com.au/consultation_to_begin_on_two_new_kimba_nominations_for_national_radioactive_waste_facilityhttps://radio.adelaide.edu.au/the-haste-with-nuclear-waste-the-waste-of-nuclear-weapons-dave-sweeney-acf/
On this week’s show, we talk to activists from the Disarm Avalon, protesting the bi-annual arms fair. We also talk to Jim Dowling about his recent plough shares action in Brisbane.
The Radioactive Show this week is brought to you by AC and KA and includes two interviews. The first one marks the 6th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It's with Maki-San from Smile with Kids, an organisation based in Cairns that brings children from Fukushima for a holiday away from their contaminated home towns. The second is with Sanne de Swaart, from Peace Brigade International (PBI), which provides protection to human rights defenders.
On this week’s show, we look at the role of ARPANSA, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, Australia’s nuclear regulator. We speak to the organisation’s CEO Carl Magnus Larsson and Dr Rick Tinker, their Section Manager of Assessment and Advice about ARPANSA’s role in Australia’s radiation safety.www.arpansa.gov.au
We hear first hand from Candyce Paul of the English River Nation about the devastating impacts of Cameco's uranium mines in Saskatchewan, Canada. Marcus Atkinson gives an update on Cameco's financial woes in its uranium mining ambitions in Western Australia and also failing deals worldwide. Finally a discussion with Kristian Laemmie-Ruff about his art exhibition- Mind the Gap.
Today we hear Australian Nuclear Free Alliance co-chair Vicky McCabe speaking at an action calling on Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg to reject proposals to mine uranium in Western Australia. Friends of the Earth's Nuclear-free campaigner Dr. Jim Green updates us on nuclear industry developments globally and the newly approved deal to sell Australian uranium to the Ukraine. Gem Romuld from the the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons tell's us about Australia's withdrawal from the UN negotiation on a nuclear weapons ban.
On this week’s show we speak to 3 people from the Hawker community and get their views on the $2 million community development fund that the Federal government has allocated to them, ostensibly regardless of whether the proposed radioactive waste dump goes ahead in their region. We speak to Robert Webb, Greg Bannon and Regina MacKenzie.Details of the fund can be found here:https://www.business.gov.au/assistance/national-radioactive-waste-management-facility-community-benefit-programme/successful-applicationsTo read the Federal Minister for Resources' press release about the fund, go here:http://www.mattcanavan.com.au/community_group_next_phase_in_radioactive_waste_consultation
The State Environment Minister of WA, Albert Jacob, has given state approval to the Yeelirrie uranium mine proposal despite opposition from Traditional Owners and his own government's Environment Protection Agency's findings. The EPA recommended against approval due to the fact that if the mine went ahead, it would almost certainly cause the extinction of a number of Subterrean Stygofauna, tiny underground creatures unique to that area. The proposal now sits awaiting Federal approval, along with two other mines from the Goldfields region in WA - Mulga Rocks and Wiluna.I spoke with Richard Evan, Koara tribal leader and co-founder of WANFA, who is a traditional owner at Yeelirrie and Mia Pepper, from the Conservation Council of WA. I also spoke with Jim Green, from Friends of the Earth, who talked about the global situation of the Nuclear industry and how that impacts on proposed projects like the one at Yeelirrie.
On this week's Radioactive Show, we hear an interview with Kumar Sundaram, of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace in India, on the current push by the Modi Govt to force through new nuclear plants and severe repression of any dissent. Also, Dave Sweeney on dodgy laws that remove safeguards and legal culpability of Australian companies selling uranium to India.
Yami Lester is a Yankunytjatjara man of northern South Australia who was blinded by a "black mist" - fallout from in the 1950’s. As a young man, he joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide. However, he wanted to take more direct action. He began as a welfare worker and interpreter for the courts in Alice Springs and went on to work extensively in the areas of Aboriginal education and language and land rights. A significant contribution has been gaining recognition for the survivors of the atomic tests at Maralinga and Emu Field. He is now the Ambassador of the No Dump Alliance that has been successfully opposing the imposition of a nuclear waste dump in SA.
On this week's Radioactive Show we look at the recent extraordinary developments in the South Australian government's push for a high level international waste dump. We speak to Friends of the Earth's national anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Jim Green, Adnyamantha traditional owner Vivianne McKenzie and Cat Beaton from the Conservation Council of South Australia.www.nodumpalliance.org.auwww.foe.org.au/import-wastewww.conservationsa.org.au
We hear about the exciting work of Auckland Peace Action, taking a stance against the New Zealand Government's week of pro-war events. The links between militarisation, colonialism and capitalism are explored, and the parallels of working for peace in the colonised nations of Australia and Aotearoa (NZ). Later in the show hear a clip from Senator Scott Ludlam's address to the IPAN conference, held in October in Alice Springs, to mark 50 years of the Pine Gap facility. He discusses the US alliance and where to next with the peace movement.
The verdicts out and 70% of the South Australian citizens' jury, a group of 350 members of the South Australian public, have said no to an international radioactive waste dump in SA under any circumstances.In today's show we explore the process and the result with Jim Green of Friends of the Earth, Tauto Sansbury a member of the No Dump Alliance, citizens' juror Trisha Drioli, and Karina Lester, chairperson of the Yankunytjatjara native title holders. It's a fascinating insight into the flawed process and, to what was to many, an unexpected outcome.
Greg talks with long time anti-war activist Jacob Grech about how the military industrial complex is taking global warming seriously and why those who care about the future of the planet need to as well.
Features recordings from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network conference 2016, held in Alice Springs. In its 50th year, Professor Richard Tanter discusses the functions of the Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility, located just 20km from Alice Springs. Joined by Professor Kosuzu Abe, who discusses the impact of the US military activities in Okinawa, a small Japanese island. Finally we turn to nuclear free alternatives and hear from Madeline Hudson of the Zucchini Clan, who discusses their latest release and crowdfunder.
63 years since the first mainland atomic test at Emu Field in South Australia, we speak with Nuclear Futures director Paul Brown, and Yalata Anangu artist Steve Harrison. 'Nuclear' is an exhibition showing at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute exposing the ongoing legacy of the British atomic tests and informing current debates around nuclear developments. These same communities are facing new radioactive threats in the form of nuclear waste dump proposals.
Radioactive chats with Dr. Marty Branagan about the relationship between climate change and militarism - we cannot hope to fix the climate crisis without creating a more just, peaceful and disarmed world.
60 years on from the British atomic tests at Maralinga, a series of touring exhibitions keep the stories alive through powerful artwork. 'Black Mist Burnt Country', 'Nuclear' and 'Collisions' are creating spaces for discussion about our nuclear future as communities are faced with debates about uranium mining, nuclear waste and a global nuclear weapons ban. Joining us today are artists Jessie Boylan and Curtis Taylor and nuclear veteran Avon Hudson.
Fully autonomous weapons, or killer robots, are currently under development, representing a new level of morally repugnant violence.Ray Acheson is the director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She tells us why these weapons are highly controversial, after outlining the current inspiring momentum for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.Recent breakthroughs in disarmament diplomacy are likely to see negotiations begin in 2017 on a new legal instrument to finally outlaw the nuclear bomb.Image: finding a dumpster for the bomb in Melbourne, with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Regina McKenzie, Lucy Lester and Enice Marsh are three proud Aboriginal women speaking out against state and federal plans for radioactive waste dumps in South Australia; recorded at Exposure: a community expo in Port Augusta. The people of SA have had decades of experience with the nuclear industry and are fed up that governments keep coming back with more poison promises. Senator Ludlam delivers a beautiful farewell speech in the Senate after the passing of nuclear disarmament champion Dr Bill Williams, one of the founders of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Image: group photo at Exposure in Port Augusta, 3rd September 2016.
On this week's radioactive show, we look at the nuclear waste dump double whammy that South Australia is currently facing. We speak to Dr Jim Green from Friends of the Earth who puts radioactive waste management in context and Cat Beaton from the Conservation Council of South Australia who untangles the confusion surrounding the two very different, but both very alarming proposals and tells us about the campaign to stop the dumps. For more information and to support the campaign, have a look at these websites!http://dontdumponsaoct15.org/http://www.nodumpalliance.org.au/http://nuclear.yoursay.sa.gov.au/get-involved/statewide-surveywww.conservationsa.org.auwww.foe.org.au/waste
On this week’s show we speak to Tim Wright from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. We discuss the recent developments at the UN Conference on Disarmament bringing us closer to a global weapons ban treaty, despite Australia’s efforts to derail the process. We also speak to Dimity Hawkins, a long time disarmament activist and PhD Candidate about Australia’s dependence on America’s nuclear arsenal as a nuclear deterrent.
Recordings from the Protecting Country Today Forum on the final day of the Gurindji Festival celebrating 50 years since the Wave hill walk-off.Young countrymen from Borroloola speak out about fracking on their country. We also hear from SEED, an Indigenous Youth Climate Organisation about the work they do in solidarity with communities in the NT.
A round up of peace and conflict news around the world you often don't hear on mainstream media. We also talk to Dr. jim Green from Friends of the Earth about the State of the nuclear waste issues in Australia and the growing gap between renewable and nuclear energy production around the world. We also play Star Wars by Combat Wombat....
This week we bring you some good news from Western Australia where the Environmental Protection Agency's decided not to approve Cameco's proposal to mine uranium at Yeelirrie due to threats to subterranean fauna. Mia Pepper, nuclear-free campaigner with the Conservation Council of Western Australia (ccwa.org.au) and Koara elder Richard Evans, co-founder of the Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (nuclearfree.wordpress.com) speak to us about over 40 years of struggle, the win and what is needed now.
Is the international community poised to outlaw the most destructive weapons ever created? In this episode, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons reports on the progress made at the May session of a special UN working group on nuclear disarmament in Geneva. There the vast majority of nations declared a readiness to start work on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and the Philippines were among those proposing that the first negotiating conference be convened 2017. While few expect that the nine nuclear-armed nations will embrace this new law, proponents are convinced that it will be a powerful catalyst for change.
Another big protest festival at the world’s biggest uranium mine, Olympic Dam, located on Kokatha Country in South Australia has recently taken place. Tune into hear the words of Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder, speaking to police while blockading the main road into the Olympic Dam mine on the final day of the protest. Plus wise words and sounds from protesters who’ve been involved for decades or just joined the fight.
The first of a series of shows featuring recordings from the Karlamilyi Walk to protect Martu country from Cameco's plan to mine uranium at Kintyre. Featuring Karnu Nancy Taylor, Muuki, Mia Pepper, Piers Verstegen, Dave Sweeney, Bindy and Marcus Atkinson, Curtis Taylor & Winiata.
I get to talk to Meg who went to lizards revenge. There's also news headlines from around the world in the areas of nuclear, sustainabilty and peace. Mentioned:www.closepinegap.org
On Election Day, we talk to the Greens Spokesperson on Foreign policy, climate change and nuclear issues, Senator Scott Ludlam. Senator Ludlam's Speech:http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/speeches-parliament/disarming-lifeboat-australias-place-world
Conversations with Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder, and long-term nuclear-free activist Bilbo Taylor, reflecting on over 30 years of fighting the Olympic Dam uranium mine.
The British/Australian nuclear testing program of the 1950s and 60s has left lasting impacts on the land and bodies of Aboriginal people and nuclear veterans. Nuclear weapons are not clearly outlawed by international law, but a movement for a ban treaty is growing. The Black Mist White Rain Tour explored the history and future of the bomb.Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Kokatha-MulaRose Lester, Yankunytjatjara-AnanguDaryl le Cornu, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsThankyou to Beyond Nuclear Initiative for the recording of the Sydney talks, and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons for organising the tour. Episode #1 is available here, featuring Abacca Anjain-Maddison from the Marshall Islands.Image: Sue Coleman-Haseldine and Rose Lester in Sydney during the Black Mist White Rain tour in April 2016.
This week we continue looking at the campaign to stop a radioactive waste dump on Adnymathanha land in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. We hear from Enice Marsh, Linda Coulthard, Regina McKenzie and Vivianne McKenzie - Traditional Owners speaking out strongly to protect the land and culture. Thanks to Gem Romuld and Jemila Rushton for the recordings at Yappala Station.
This is the extended interview with longtime journalist, activist and friend of the Iraqi people Donna Mulhearn. As I type this, Fallujah is in the grip of brutal warfare. Again. For the 5th time in 13 years, the people of Fallujah are surrounded by warfare, including Australian warplanes. Donna takes us through her journey with Iraq and gives us insight into what is happenning in Fallujah as we go to air. Donna's twitter handle is @donnamulhearn.
In Part 2 of this 2 part look at Swan Island, we go to the gates of the secretive military training base.On the 25th of February 2016, activists from around Australia did a surprise blockade of Swan Island. We travelled with them and recorded their stories. Sharing why ordinary people risk breaking the law to disrupt warfare. We also share some of the stories of successful peace convergences past.
Two announcements regarding nuclear waste dump proposals for South Australia are featured. Dr. Jillian Marsh (Adnyamathanha) and Cat Beaton (Conservation Council of SA), two long time nuclear free campaigners, bring us an update on the processes with both the national and international nuclear dump proposals and the community response so far. We also hear from supporters in Melbourne who visited Josh Frydenbergs' office in Camberwell on Friday 6th May to protest the proposal.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the US Government tested 67 nuclear bombs on the stunning Marshall Islands during the 40s and 50s. The testing program lead to land dispossession, permanent contamination of the land and poisoning from the radioactive fallout. Abacca Anjain-Maddison, a former Senator of Rongelap, tells the story of the “Castle Bravo” detonation and why the Marshallese are still fighting for justice. This talk was recorded on the “Black Mist White Rain” Speaking Tour, exploring the humanitarian impacts of nuclear testing in Australia and the Pacific, and calling for a ban on nuclear weapons. The show also features a spoken word piece by Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, called “History Project”. Image: Abacca speaking in Melbourne during April 2016. Credit: Kristian Laemmle-Ruff.Produced by Gem Romuld.
This week we look at a top secret military base located just one hour out of Melbourne.We speak to peace activists, Jess, Simon Moyle and Sam Quinlan from the Swan Island Peace Convergence about the importance of challenging Australia's secret role in the US Dirty Wars.
The show features an interview with Murray Horton, long-term peace organiser from Aotearoa, otherwise known as New Zealand. Murray covers a varied mix of topics including his early inspiration attending the long march in Western Australia to start organising against US bases at home, the strong peace movement successes in Aotearoa in the 80s, and the differences and similarities between the Australian and New Zealand governments' relationships with the United States.
On April 26th 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine ruptured. It sent radiation into the atmosphere that spread across Europe, leaving an ongoing legacy of contamination, illness, death and displacement.Dr.Bill Williams (Medical Association for the Prevention of War) speaks on health impacts, Dave Sweeney (Australian Conservation Foundation) about the deal to sell uranium to Ukraine in light of conflict in the region and atomic photographer Jessie Boylan (Atomic Photographers Guild) asks Merilyn Fairskye how sites of nuclear disaster became a feature in her work.
We continue exploring the landmark discussions in the UN working group, laying the groundwork to negotiate a new instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons. This process is challenging the nuclear weapons possessors and their faithful allies, like Australia. Listen in to what happens behind the UN's doors.This is part 2 in a 2-part report, featuring an interview with Richard Lennane, Chief Inflammatory Officer with Wildfire.Produced by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
We delve a little deeper into the world of disarmament diplomacy, examining landmark United Nations talks that began in Geneva, Switzerland, in February. The new working group is gathering for three sessions this year to discuss how to take forward disarmament negotiations, and a ban treaty is front and centre. This is Part 1 in a two-part report, featuring an interview with Ray Acheson from Reaching Critical Will. Produced by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
The third in a 3 part series investigating the Pine Gap 'Facility', a joint US- Aust base, just 20 Km From Alice Springs. I speak to Jacob Grech about the brewing plans for a big protest camp to be held for Pine Gap's 50th anniversary this year. To find out more check out www.closepinegap.org. Also featured is a discussion with Russell Goldflam, long term Alice Springs resident and lawyer for the Pine Gap 4, he dissects the legal ins and outs about the Pine Gap 4 overturning their convictions after their 2005 action.
Six sites across Australia are on the federal government's shortlist for a national radioactive waste dump and all 6 communities are fired up. They don't want to become famous as the host with the most poisonous and long-lived waste this country produces, especially if it's feels like a foot in the door for an international high-level dump.Listen in to the "Grand Tour" podcast produced by Hilary and Meret, who travelled to all six sites and interviewed local people, as well as some musings from Regina McKenzie, Adnyamathanha woman from next door to one of the proposed sites, near Hawker, SA.Image: delegates from all six proposed radioactive dump sites converge on Parliament House in Canberra, 1 March 2016. Credit: Beyond Nuclear Initiative.
The show features three women who have been involved in investigating and protesting Pine Gap's operations, as well as Australia's unquestioning military alliance with the US, since the 1970s and 80s. Interviewed are Senator Lee Rhiannon, Jo Valentine, a former Senator for Western Australia, and Sue Wareham, a physician who is the vice president of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War.
The show explores the operations and history of the Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility, a US-Aust run base 20km out of Alice Springs, which has its 50th anniversary this year. This episode is part 1 of 2 and features a conversation with Richard Tanter, an academic and activist, who has studied, taught and authored many pieces about Pine Gap and Australia's defence policy over the decades. A fascinating insight into a little known facility.
Six nominated sites for a National Radioactive Waste Dump are undergoing further assessment with a public comment period closing on March 11th. As we've been hearing, there are serious concerns at each site and all are strongly contested. This episode we speak with Jodie Carter from the No Central West Nuclear Waste Dump group in Bathurst, where the community campaign is continuing to gain momentum. We then speak with Dr.Hilary Tyler from Alice Springs who has just completed a journey visiting all six sites.
This is the second in a two-part series on the “humanitarian initiative”: a groundbreaking effort by governments, the Red Cross and civil society organizations to re-awaken the global public to the unparallelled danger of nuclear weapons, and to establish a treaty that outlaws them once and for all. In last week’s episode, we heard about two major diplomatic conferences on the horrific effects of nuclear weapons, held in Oslo, Norway, in 2013 and Nayarit, Mexico, in 2014. This week, we continue the journey towards a ban. Written and spoken by Tim Wright from ICAN -- the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Produced by Gem Romuld and Mat Kelly, and recorded in the studios of 3CR Radio.Image: campaigners celebrate at the conclusion of the First Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons.
Fifteen thousand, eight hundred nuclear weapons spread across 14 nations. One thousand, eight hundred ready to be launched within minutes of a warning. This is not the cold war, but the present reality – the daily existential threat with which we have learned to live.This podcast describes what has become known as the “humanitarian initiative”: an effort by governments, the Red Cross and civil society organizations to re-awaken the global public to this unparallelled danger, and to establish a treaty that outlaws nuclear weapons once and for all.Part 1 of 2, produced for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Image: ICAN campaigners gather in Nayarit, Mexico, for the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons during February 2014.
Today we'll be taking a look to the year ahead and some of the developments that will be a focus of anti-nuclear activity in 2016. We'll touch on some of the nuclear free movement events that are coming up and that you can expect to hear about in more detail on the Radioactive Show in months to come. We'll be hearing from several familiar voices to the Radioactive Show the incredibly dedicated & long-time anti nuclear campaigners Jim Green, Dave Sweeney and Mia Pepper.
Part two of a two part special on the Movement Towards a Nuclear Free Future that happened in April 2015 from Tennessee to NY, in the US.After crossing 8 state borders, we hear from more walk participants on the personal and political aspects of this epic undertaking for peace. We connect the dots between struggles on the nuclear frontlines in Australia and the US. What lies behind the tradition of walking, and what is it's significance today? Image: walkers observe the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, by Crunchy Bean.
Part one of a two part special on the Movement Towards a Nuclear Free Future that happened in April 2015 from Tenessee to NY, in the US. Radioactive Show Producers joined a contingent from various parts of Australia to participate in the journey which started at the Y12 nuclear weapons facility at Oakridge Tenessee, and travelled by walking, riding and running to the UN in New York. Part one features sounds and interviews from the 800 mile trip.
This week we tune into the radioactive waste dump debate in Hill End, near Sally's Flat, an area that is suddenly in the spotlight for being one of six potential sites for the national radioactive waste dump. We speak with Jodie Carter from the No Central West Nuclear Waste Dump Committee and Nat Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative. Further afield, we speak with Yankunytjatjara woman Karina Lester, in Japan for the World Nuclear Victims Forum.
On Friday 13th November the Federal Governemnt release their shortlist of nominated sites to be investigated for a national nuclear waste dump. Following the incredible success of Traditional Owners in halting the imposition of a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Staion in the NT the Government began a new process where land holders across Australia had the opportunity to nominate a site for consideration. Of the 28 sites nominated, a shortlist of six have been chosen for further assessment. They are 'Sally's Flat' at the Hill End historic gold mining town near Bathurst in New South Wales, Aridgold Date Farm at Hale in Northern Territory, Oman Ama in an agricultural and mining area near Inglewood in Queensland, Cortlinye and Pinkawillinie both near Kimba in South Australia's foodbowl and Wallabadinna in the flinders ranges in South Australia. Today we'll speak with Dr.Jim Green national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth who has been involved through the 20 year long campaign for responsible management of radioactive waste, Regina McKenzie from Yapala Station an Indigenous Protected Area which neighbours a site nominated in the Flinders ranges and Tracey Carpenter from the Bathurst Climate Action Network.
Featuring recordings taken at the 'Renewables not Radioactive ' forum held in the Port Augusta, South Australia, on 19th October 2015. Listen to an eloquent summary of communities' history of struggle against remote radioactive waste dumping, up to the present push, as outlined by Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation. Hear Gillian and Enice Marsh, both Adnyamathanha women, dissect misleading 'community engagment' approaches taken by corporations and government when consulting with Indigenous peoples. Plus passionate comments made from audience members at the forum.
The Australian Government is doing its best dinosaur impression and trying hard to have a nuclear light-bulb moment, while the rest of the world is backing out of nuclear energy and buckling under the volumes of radioactive waste that need a permanent home. The South Australian Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle drags on irreverently and the hunt for a nuclear dumping ground is on. The nuclear free movement has seen it all and is standing tall. One vital piece of the puzzle is the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, which met this October in Quorn, SA. Tune in to hear the determined and inspiring voices of ANFA, talking up and defending country from the radioactive poison.Photo: ANFA 2015. Credit: Paddy Gibson
On the show this week we hear about a major national touring art exhibition titled 'Black Mist Burnt Country' which commemorates the 60th anniversary of the British atomic test series at Maralinga in South Australia. It revisits the events and its location through the artworks by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contemporary artists across the mediums of painting, print-making, sculpture, installation, photography and new media. The works in the exhibition collectively span a period of seven decades, from the first use of the atomic bomb on civilians in Hiroshima and into the post-WW II era, through the times of anti-nuclear protest in the 1980s to the present day. The exhibition is planned to commence in September 2016 at the SH Ervin Gallery in Sydney, and tour nationally to public galleries and museums across five states in 2017 and 2018.We speak with curator of this exhibition, JD Mittmann, from Burrinja Gallery in Upwey, who takes us through the ideas around the exhibition and some of the works included. We also talk with Paul Ogier, an New Zealand & Australian photographer who has photographed Maraling and Emufield, as well as Warren Tantja Paul, an Anangu artist from Yalata community in far west south Australia. Warren is a line-drawing artist and sculptor who has most recently began a new series of drawings and sculptures in reference to the Maralinga atomic tests, as a result of a mentorship with Ceduna Art Centre’s Pam Diment.
Walkatjurra Walkabout 2015It's been 5 years of the Walkatjurra Walkabout, a walk from Wiluna to Leonora in Western Australia, led by Traditional Owners and focusing on preventing the expansion of the nuclear industry on country. In this show we hear excerpts from Kado Muir, a Yeelirie Traditional Owner, on his thoughts about the impacts of the mining industry, native title and Aboriginal sovereignty. We'll also hear from 3 first-time walkers, Opal, Mils and Reuben, abuot their experience on the walk. They reflect on learning first hand from Traditional Owners as well as how remote struggles connect to activism across the country.
Pine Gap is a Joint US-Australia signals intelligence facility located near Alice Springs in the arid heart of Australia. It is vitally important to the US war-fighting machine, and often referred to as America's eyes and ears on this side of the globe. We delve into it's relationship to and implication in the morality of drone warfare. We also hear a story of resistance, when a dedicated group of people braved the razor wire fences to conduct a citizen's inspection of the base in 2005. Guests:Richard Tanter Nautilus Institute, Melbourne UniversityScott Burchill Deakin UniversitySean O'Reilly Brisbane peace activistImage: Mitch, Hannah and Sakyo protesting at Pine Gap in April 2014. Credit: Jessie Boylan.
Exploring nuclear themes in pop culture (REPEAT show from 2014 due to popular demand!) Radioactivity... it's awe-inspiring and terrible power seems to be an addictive plot device for countless comic, film and TV producers. This week we're looking at some examples, how they've mutated throughout history (excuse the pun) and what they're trying to tell us. We speak to anti-nuclear afficionados Lucy Hancock and AC Hunter, Michael Broderick, associate professor of Media Analysis at Murdoch University and Zach, who is in Grade 6 and knows all the superheroes.The mystery and unpredictable power of nuclear radiation has been capturing creative imaginations since the Manhattan Project and probably will continue to do so for a long time to come.
This is part two of a two-part Radioactive Show special. We've got an ear in Saskatchewan, a Canadian province dominated by one company, Cameco, and its uranium mines that riddle the north. We'll hear more about the impacts of uranium mining on Indigenous communities and the environment, and the condescending and insidious ways in which the company tries to buy social license. Our guests finish with a message to the movement at home, as Cameco attempts to carve its empire in Western Australia.Guests:Candyce Paul, Committee for Future Generations, English River First Nation, Saskatchewan Marius Paul, Committee for Future Generations, English River First Nation, SaskatchewanJim Harding, author of “Canada's Deadly Secret”, retired Professor of Environmental Studies, Saskatchewan residentDebbie Mihalicz, Beauval resident and member of the Committee for Future Generations.
Cameco's Saskatchewan Secrets Part 1This is part one of a two-part Radioactive Show special, looking at the uranium mining industry in the north of the Canadian province, Saskatchewan. The industry is dominated by one company, Cameco, and it is omnipresent. The people of Saskatchewan have been dealing with Cameco for more than 30 years, and their story is a painful one of community divisions, illness, censorship and radioactive contamination of their lands and traditional food sources. Do these voices foreshadow the experience of the Kintyre Traditional Owners, who are challenging Cameco's plans to open Western Australia's first uranium mine?Guests:Candyce Paul, Committee for Future Generations, English River First Nation, Saskatchewan Marius Paul, Committee for Future Generations, English River First Nation, SaskatchewanJim Harding, author of “Canada's Deadly Secret”, retired Professor of Environmental Studies, Saskatchewan residentKirsten Scansen, Cree activist from La Ronge, SaskatchewanPhoto: Community pot-luck to share nuclear free strategies and stories in Beauval, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2015.
This show was recorded outside the US Bangor-Kitsap Navy Base, home to the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, and the location of a planned Peace Pagoda. The former Pagoda was burnt down by Navy personnel 33 years ago. We speak to Senji Kanaida, a Nipponzan-Myōhōji monk originally from Japan, about protests at the base and the broader peace movements in both Japan and the US. He reflects on the role of religion in both the Japanese and US peace movements as well as the complicated relationship between the 2 nations since World War Two.
This week’s show features interviews with two Native American activist warriors- Dennis Banks and Ammon Russell. Rad show co-producers Gem and Crunch met them while participating in the Movement Towards a Nuclear Free Future in the US in April-May 2015. Amon Russil, from the Nahavo nation, speaks about the struggles of his people to have authentic participation in decisions about their land and also the impacts of early uranium mines on the 1940s and 50s. Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, addresses the harm perpetrated by US govt and institutions since invasion. He also shares with us a personal story about the efforts of his people to gain control over water levels in their local lakes, vital for wild rice production.
For the last two decades Aboriginal communities have experienced the radioactive racism that has been the hallmark of the Federal Government's approach in pursuing a remote dump site. Powerful grassroots campaigns successfully stopped plans for a dump first in SA in 2004 and then in the NT last year.There are two debates considering the storage of nuclear waste in Australia that we'll be looking at today, the Federal Government's search for a national dump site for Australia's waste and South Australia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission that is considering the importation of international high level waste.One year ago Muckaty traditional owners won a federal court case against the Government's proposal to dump nuclear waste at Muckaty station in the NT sparking a new process whereby the Commonwealth has invited site nominations Australia wide. Clayton Lewis founder of the Aboriginal Heritage Action Alliance from Western Australia will talk to us about his experience finding out that a site on his country had been nominated. Nat Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative will reflect on the dump campaigns so far and talk about where the process is at currently and Sue Coleman Hasseldine, representative from the Kokatha Mula Nation and the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance will join us from SA where they are challenging proposals for both the national and international dumps. National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Dr. Jim Green outlines the two processes.
For the last two decades Aboriginal communities have experienced the radioactive racism that has been the hallmark of the Federal Government's approach in pursuing a remote dump site. Powerful grassroots campaigns successfully stopped plans for a dump first in SA in 2004 and then in the NT last year.There are two debates considering the storage of nuclear waste in Australia that we'll be looking at today, the Federal Government's search for a national dump site for Australia's waste and South Australia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission that is considering the importation of international high level waste.One year ago Muckaty traditional owners won a federal court case against the Government's proposal to dump nuclear waste at Muckaty station in the NT sparking a new process whereby the Commonwealth has invited site nominations Australia wide. Clayton Lewis founder of the Aboriginal Heritage Action Alliance from Western Australia will talk to us about his experience finding out that a site on his country had been nominated. Nat Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative will reflect on the dump campaigns so far and talk about where the process is at currently and Sue Coleman Hasseldine, representative from the Kokatha Mula Nation and the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance will join us from SA where they are challenging proposals for both the national and international dumps. National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Dr. Jim Green outlines the two processes.
This week Anitra Nelson will introduce the Environmental Justice Atlas – an online tool which maps ecological conflicts and spaces of resistance, and identify ways that people can both utilise and contribute to this mapping project. We'll also be taking a closer look at one particular case of an Australian company who are effectively exporting their toxic and radioactive wastes overseas. Nat Lowrey, from the Stop LYNAS campaign, will bring us up to speed on where things are at with the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant in Malaysia and talk about the types of activism that have been employed in that campaign.
This week on the show we'll be looking to the Northern Territory as they edge one step closer to being nuclear free! On June 11th Energy Resources Australia announced that they would no longer be pursuing a feasibility study for the Ranger 3 Deeps project which they had hoped would extend the life of the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park. Dave Sweeney and Lauren Mellor join us with that story.This announcement comes one year after the incredible win by Muckaty Traditional Owners and their supporters who campaigned for 9 years to stop the imposition of a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. June 19th marked one year since the Commonwealth Government and Northern Lands Council withdrew the proposal mid way through a Federal Court Case that challenged the nomination of Muckaty Station as a site for a National radioactive Waste Dump. We hear some reflections from Muckaty Traditional Owner Dianne Stokes and a poem by Isobel Phillips titled 'Our Land'. The poem was recorded at the time of the initial celebrations.
Two activists in the Catholic Worker movement share with us how they live lives of simplicity, perform works of mercy and resist war in a country where the military is the number 1 employer. Sister Mary Denis Lentsch and Steve Baggarly tell us stories of direct action and their inspiration for not just talking about peace, but literally getting in the way of the war machine and the nuclear-industrial-complex. We also get a brief update on the release from prison of the three "Transform Now Plowshares" activists, who were serving time for their brave action at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. "The Pentagon in reality is covered in blood, so to throw blood on it is more of an accurate depiction of what is really there"- Steve Baggarly.Produced by Em and Gem.
A dual focus this week.Barbara Shaw, Co-chair of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, represented ANFA one month ago speaking up for country at the World Uranium Symposium in Quebec, Canada. The Symposium explored all aspects of the nuclear fuel chain and their impacts on all peoples and environments across the world. For videos of speeches and info on ANFA's tour in Canada, go to: http://anfa.org.au/tour2015-2/Also on the show, some reflections on 40 years of Friends of the Earth campaigns against the nuclear industry. FoE recently turned 40, so we hear from Jim Green, FoE's national nuclear campaigner being interview by 3CR’s Dirt Radio presenter John Langer. Cat Beaton and Mia Pepper also share some memories from past nuclear-free campaigns.
Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero, an indigenous peace activist & award-winning journalist from Guam, a Pacific Island colony, speaks about the ever expanding US military base on her island home. An inspiring and eloquent speech about this isle of hope in the Pacific. Music Featured: Island on Fire by Monster Rally, and Mana Ma'Ohi by Matatoa.
This week on the Radioactive Show we return to hear the second half of an interview with Don Hancock (Southwest Research and Information Centre, New Mexico). He speaks about the ongoing dangers from a radioactive release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the US, and the problems faced trying to isolate nuclear wastes.Next, Anica Niepraschk (Friends of the Earth’s Anti-nuclear and Clean Energy Collective) brings us up to date on the Federal Government’s push for a remote national nuclear waste dump in Australia as a nomination period is just about to come to the end.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. It’s also time again for the NPT (The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) review at the UN. Throughout April 2015, Footprints for Peace are walking, cycling and running from Oak ridge, Tennessee, the site of the manufacture of the first atomic bomb, to New York City for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review, an event which occurs only once every five years. Jim Toren, one of the organisers of Footprint for Peace speaks about the walk, cycle and run, as well as some of the nuclear history in the USA, such as the disastrous Three Mile Island accident. Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oakridge Environmental Peace Alliance, speaks about the history of activism in Oak ridge and the importance of the Non Proliferation Treaty Review. A short recording of Dr Farhang Jahanpour, expert in peacebuilding efforts, also features in this edition of the Radioactive Show.
Dwell among these thoughts on the nuclear industry, sacred land and the movements that inspire us from poets both fresh and seasoned.Put down the news for half an hour and take heart from these creative outpourings of sadness, reflection, rage and inspiration.Readings from Dave Sweeney, Isobel Phillips, Adam Sharah, Beth Hill, Greg, Alex McInnes, Livinthefinite and Taeko. Music from Combat Wombat, Madeline Hudson, Kylie Sambo, Attacco Decente and more.Picture: Pascal, Flickr CC.
"Since nuclear weapons entered our world, everything has changed, whether we like it or not, ready or not." - Tilman RuffIn this beautifully sad and compelling essay 'Stumbling in the Dark, Reaching for the Light,' which is written and read by Tilman Ruff, we hear about the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons, which is our greatest existential challenge of all time. Weaved throughout a dark and emotive soundscape, Ruff tells us how our basic and most fundamental human rights are at risk while roughly 16,000 nuclear weapons still exist in the world.