Thursday Breakfast: Recent Episodes
Priya Kunjan, Mallika Murthy and Inez Winters
Media Messaging Guide, which you can read here. If you wish to make your own complaint to the Australian Press Council about derogatory representations of homelessness by commercial mastheads, you can do so here.//
s case, featuring interviews with her family members, here.// We were joined by Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) Secretary Adu Hani and Branch Delegate Harry Millward to go over some of the most recent changes in Victorian rental policy. Last week the state government announced their Portable Bond Scheme, which allows renters to transfer an existing bond payment to their next rental property bond when moving houses. Some of the changes we are seeing in rental rights are long awaited but slow policy changes have proven inadequate in providing safe and equitable housing.//
s interview this week with fellow Pacific Peace Pilgrimage delegate Reverend James Bhagwan of the Pacific Council of Churches. Join Samuel and Frances Namoumou of the Pacific Conference of Churches this Friday 3 July at Balam Balam Place, Brunswick, for the public event ‘Commemorating the legacy of nuclear detonations in the Pacific: 30 years on.’// Events on Saturday 4 July:3CR’s 50th Birthday Celebration, 11AM-4PM, Collingwood Town Hall//Counter Protest: Smash Transphobia!, 11:30AM, Parliament House Steps//Anti-Imperialist Rally (LASNET), 12PM, State Library of Victoria//Protest - Close Pine Gap, 1:30PM, Defence Plaza (661 Bourke St, Melbourne)//Football is For All World Cup Screenings, Egypt vs Australia 4AM, Argentina vs Cabo Verde 8AM, Colombia vs Ghana 11:30AM, IPCS (78-80 Curzon St, North Melbourne)// Photo by NOAA on Unsplash.
s expansion of facial surveillance acts as a disproportionate and terrifying over-reach of police infrastructure that could result in innocent Australians being surveilled and criminalised.// We heard from Chadley Camp, owner of Little Homey Cafe, on why the space is so special for community, their screenings of World Cup games, and upcoming events at the cafe. The cafe has a screening of the Ghana vs. Croatia game coming up, as well as a community games night.Anitra Nelson is an activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at University of Melbourne, who investigates post-capitalism and non-monetary economies and has previously worked as a programmer with 3CR on Chile Lucha. Anitra has been investigating the phenomenon of Degrowth. As our Breakfast Shows have looked back on the 2000 S11 protests held by a broad coalition against globalisation, Anitra talked us through what degrowth is, why we need it, where it stands in relation to globalisation, and how the shifting global balance of power may work to help or hinder Degrowth For anyone wanting to find out more information on Degrowth visit The Commons Social Change Library or read through the open access Routledge Handbook on Degrowth.//
Review of Cohealth General Practice and Related Services, Final Report March 2026’. The Review was provided to the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, and the Victorian Department of Health in March and released publicly in June. Christine explains what the review found and recommended, why it is so significant, reactions to the report, and what comes next. Save Community Health is a community led campaign that receives no funding and is not affiliated with any political party or group. Contact them via email at savecommunityhealth@gmail.com and find out more on their website. Christine encouraged folks to email Health Minister Harriet Shing (contact details here) to demand that cohealth is appropriately resourced and governed to continue providing vital public health services to Melbourne’s community.// Chris Ferric is a Naarm-based painter and portraitist whose artistic practice explores social change, collaboration, and developing accessible practices, as well as a member of Disabled People Against Cuts. They were of a group from Disabled People Against Cuts that addressed the public hearing for the Senate Inquiry into the NDIS Amendment Bill 2026 last week. We spoke with Chris about their experience at the public hearing, the dangers of using AI within the NDIS, and why the inquiry report has been delayed. Disabled People Against Cuts encourages people to meet with their local member and senators to ask them to insist on the withrdrawal of the bill. Disabled People Against Cuts also shared The Commons Social Change Library as a resource to assist in taking action.//
Fundraiser - Sun 14 Jun @ The ToteHomeless Persons Union Complaints Hotline - Coming Soon. Keep an eye on their Instagram! //
mparntwe_for_falastin on instagram. // Finally, Christine Carolan from Save Community Health informed us about the latest breaking news regarding Cohealth and the release/leak of the long-awaited government funded review of Cohealth report came out this week. Originally set for release in March of this year, we received this report 3 months later with more questions than answers. In the segment, we will briefly discussed the contents of the report, recommendations, and what this tells us about our next steps. Keep up to date with Save Community Health via their website or email savecommunityhealth@gmail.com //
s Advocacy in Action ConferenceMon 22 Jun - Tue 23 Jun 2026Novotel Hotel Function Centre, 215 Bell St PrestonBuy your tickets https://events.humanitix.com/advocacy-in-action-conference-2026For more info visit https://valid.org.au/event/advocacy-in-action-conference/Audio Credit: Moonlight by chillity //
s project proposal and how to make a submission - register here.// We heard part of a conversation from this Monday’s episode of Doin Time where host Marisa spoke with First Nations abolition activist Tabitha Lean about Crim Con 2026, happening next month from the 26th to the 27th of June. Crim Con is a conference for and by criminalised and formerly incarcerated people, grounded in lived and living experiences that refuse silence and challenge stigma. You can register for Crim Con (free event) by going to radfaction.com.au/events/ and clicking the link. Doin Time airs Mondays 4-5pm on 3CR 855am, catch the full episode by heading to 3cr.org.au/dointime.//
s arrangement with Nauru and the High Court decision we were joined by Human Rights Law Centre Associate Legal Director Josephine Langbien.//Shirley, co-convenor of No AUKUS Victoria and the Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition Working Group, joined us to discuss updates in the campaign against the trilateral AUKUS security partnership, including the establishment this year of an Australian Federal Police command tasked with targeting anti-AUKUS protests. Shirley will also talk about AUKUS-related expenditure in the 2026-27 federal budget, and about an upcoming webinar organised by the Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition on Wednesday the 20th of May at 6:30PM. This webinar, moderated by Kellie Tranter and featuring a range of expert speakers, unpacked the dangerous world of the AUKUS pact, US military occupation, and local suppression of dissent. Register here.//
s planned cuts to the NDIS in the May budget, including news about a national day of action to Protect Our NDIS on Saturday the 9th of May - follow @protectourndis on Instagram for updates and information about actions near you. Andrew is an advocate for disability rights and culture and is the convenor for Accessible Victorian Greens.//
s planned cuts to the NDIS in May’s federal budget, as well as the relationships between austerity, disability and inadequate recognition for people with ME/CFS. Andrew is an advocate for disability rights and culture and is the convenor for Accessible Victorian Greens.//
s next for the organisation.//Simon Tran, Better Buses Campaign spokesperson, joined us to discuss improving the broken bus network in the West as fuel prices and cost-of-living pressures increase. Simon is a young resident of the West who works as a software engineer but spends his spare time advocating for transport justice in his community. Having lived in the West for two decades, Simon knows the struggle of growing up with transport hardships and hopes future generations can instead have the transport they deserve, unlocking opportunities and freedoms.//
gathering outside the office of Andrew Giles MP in Thomastown on Friday the 17th of April from 1-2PM here.//
s most recent National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection report, Victoria is lagging behind other States and Territories in crucial areas including the public provision of pharmacotherapy services, treatment retention, and matching rates of opioid use to service delivery resourcing. If you are in Victoria and are seeking pharmacotherapy support, you can contact the following services:For statewide alcohol and other drug support and referral pathways, call DirectLine on 1800 888 236, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.For pharmacotherapy-related advocacy,contact the PAMS Pharmacotherapy Support line on 1800 443, 11AM-5PM Monday to Friday, or head the PAMS page on Harm Reduction Victoria’s website.Your local community health centre may provide alcohol and other drug services and pharmacotherapy, and may also be able to provide you with support and advice.In an emergency, you can always access urgent care or the emergency department, or call 000 for ambulance services.
s TDOA 2026 broadcast, running from 10AM-6PM on the 31st of March, features eight hours of exclusively trans, non binary and gender diverse programming, exploring the best and worst of the transgender experience in the age of reaction. Find out more about Tuesday’s line up here.//
s Climate Action Show on the 9th of March where Shae interviewed Tiahni Adamson, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Manager for Bush Heritage Australia, about green colonialism in climate activism, the need for a nuanced consideration of solutions to climate change, and what it means to better ourselves as climate activists. Listen back to the full conversation here, and catch the Climate Action Show on Mondays from 5-6PM on 3CR 855AM.//
s work here.//Sarah Blumfeld shared updates on the Don’t Fly Thai campaign, which rejects Thai Airways’ transport of F35 fighter jet parts from Australia to Israel on commercial passenger planes. Sarah discussed the campaign’s 25th February protests held at Melbourne and Sydney international airports, which prompted a global response via social media coverage. We recommend revisiting our two part interview with Peter Cronau from Declassified Australia broadcast on the 16th and 23rd of October last year for more information on the transport of F35 parts on commercial flights. You can view the known locations of weapons manufacturers in Australia here, and email Thai Airways’ bosses to tell them what you think about their involvement in weapons components transport here.//
Arts Alliance (MEAA), joined us to discuss the protracted campaign by ABC staff to win job security, fair pay, and improved conditions from the national broadcaster. ABC staff are set to vote on potential strike action after yet another failure by ABC management to table a reasonable offer last week, with staff calls for action on ethical and accountable use of AI, respect for the MEAA Journalist Code of Ethics, and an audit into racial and disability pay gaps going unheard. Cassie Derrick has worked alongside MEAA members for over five years in the positions of Media Organiser, Organising Director and Deputy Director of the Media Section, as well as organising workers at Professionals Australia, the CFMEU and Unions NSW. She was appointed Director of Media in October 2022.//
s rally against israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre. Herzog’s Naarm visit follows his presence in Sydney on Monday, where a protest by tens of thousands of people was met with what legal observers and groups describe as unchecked police brutality. Alongside direct police violence against protestors and Muslims praying at the rally, police were seen to have brought a long-range acoustic device or ‘sound cannon’, a militarised crowd control device emitting directional sound blasts of over 160 decibels, which can cause permanent hearing damage. NSW Premier Chris Minns has defended Herzog’s visit as well as actions taken by police. Join the rally today in Naarm, Thursday 12 February, from 5PM at Flinders Street Station. Victoria Police have been granted special powers today under the Terrorism (Community Protection) Act 2003 - find out more about what to expect and how to stay safe here, and follow Melbourne Activist Legal Support and Fitzroy Legal Service on Instagram for updates and legal support information.//Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong and Djap Wurrung runner Sissy Austin, founder of the Take Back the Track movement, spoke with us about the ongoing fight to ensure the safety and bodily autonomy of women and gender diverse people running in public space in the lead up to Take Back the Track Day on Sunday the 15th of February. This Sunday marks the second year of Take Back the Track, which has grown from a community-led action into a nationwide movement advocating for the right of women and gender diverse people to run without the fear of violence, with events planned in over 70 locations around the country. Find an event near you and register to run here, and follow Take Back the Track on Instagram here.//
s controversial recognition of Somaliland’s independence last year. The recognition of Somaliland by Israel, a state whose own recognition is contested, occurred late last year, and is a significant geopolitical development in the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region. Tune in to Uprise Radio every Wednesday at 5:30PM on 3CR.// Invasion Day Donation Initiatives:Dhadjowa FoundationGrandmothers Against Removals Victoria
increasingly draconian protest laws. Paul Silva’s speech was recorded by Iyngaranathan Selvaratnam.// Songs//We Have Survived - Bart Willoughby ft. Deline Briscoe and Friends
s Instagram bio.//Ongoing Mutual Aid for SudanUse chuffed link here: https://chuffed.org/project/164157-ongoing-mutual-aid-for-sudan or Donate to BSB: 067872Account: 1561 8838 Song:yayayaya (Prod. Atari) - Haykal
t affect everyone equally, practical and long overdue reforms, the limits of adaptation, but what we can do about it today.// Song:Mars - RONA
by taking his sister’s life, who has had an inter-caste marriage — he instead finds love, warmth, and conflict in the home of the woman he was meant to destroy. Sister Mine is a powerful story of cultural pressure, sibling love, and humanity winning over hate. Akshay Gouri is a Screenwriter and Director who has made 8 short films, both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to Political issues, Socio-economic realities and their consequences on people. Watch their incredible short films collection via Youtube.
First Nations people. The main Fun Run event will take place on Sunday, February 1st 2026, 9 AM, at Footscray Park along the fully paved Maribyrnong River Trail. But you can run or walk, on the day or at a time that suits you! There are so many ways to get involved. Sign up and pledge to raise $1000 for these important initiatives by asking your friends and family to sponsor you. Walk with your pram, dog, mobility scooter, or sprint away, this is your chance to make every step count. Details at bit.ly/funrun4mutualaid to find out more and follow them on Instagram instagram.com/funrun4mutualaid///
approach to remediation for unlawfully suspended payments, which the Ombudsman has described as neither fair nor reasonable. Read the full report here. If you need support navigating payment suspensions, you can contact help@welfarecopwatch.org.//
s worst harms. While experts have called for greater and targeted regulations for Big Tech, the government is opting to use existing frameworks instead. Read Digital Rights Watch’s media release on the plan here, and head to their website for further information to equip you to write to your local MP about it.//
s analysis demonstrates the alarming rates at which Victoria Police conduct searches of and use force against people they perceive to be Aboriginal, African, Pacific Islander and Middle Eastern. Join Tamar and a stellar panel of anti-racist community organisers to unpack the findings at the IPCS (Institute for Postcolonial Studies) in North Melbourne next Monday the 1st of December from 5:30-7:30PM - register here to get your ticket. The Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project is a project of the Centre Against Racial Profiling.// Poro, a member of FAMILI, a collective born at the intersection of Pasifika, Blak, queer, and trans experiences, joined us to discuss their EP BLOODFIRE released yesterday, as well as their new Short Film. FAMILI’s work connects past, present, and future into a space that refuses easy categorisation, a space where ancestral traditions met futuristic sounds. Catch FAMILI’s show tonight, Thursday the 27th of November, from 7PM at the Northcote Social Club, featuring an hour-long set of new, unreleased music that has been years in development (get your tickets here). FAMILI are joined by DJs Nicholas Currie + TIAKI + a Special Guest to be announced. Support FAMILI’s work on Bandcamp and follow them on Instagram.//We caught up with Cameron Francis, CEO of The Loop Australia, to discuss the importance of drug checking and harm reduction, particularly at mobile sites, ahead of festival season. The Loop is a national harm reduction charity delivering drug checking services in Victoria and New South Wales, and, until recently, in Queensland. Check out the latest findings and reports from running the drug checking services.//The Loop VIC (95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy) will have extended opening hours over the holidays. The Loop drug checking will also available at the following festivals:Spilt Milk, Ballarat – Saturday 6 December 2025Dangerous Goods 6XXL, Melbourne – Saturday 24 January 2026Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Mafeking – 6-10 March 2026.//
s Office. Find out more and join the campaign here.// Dr Simon Bradshaw, COP31 Lead at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, joined us live from COP30 in Belém, Brazil with updates from the conference as it reaches its close. While Australia continues to angle for the privilege of hosting COP31, serious questions about climate finance commitments and concrete action on an end to fossil fuels remain unanswered. Simon has been a researcher, writer and campaigner for climate action for over two decades, attending many rounds of international climate negotiations. He was formerly Research Director at Climate-KIc Australia, and a climate specialist with Oxfam.//
checks by NSW Police over a 20 month period, raising serious concerns about the level of police intervention in the lives of Aboriginal children and young people, including in their own homes.//
s Instagram bio.// SongIn Paradise is the Title Track of long awaited second studio album from Touch Sensitive. A vibrant groovy dance number that is not only beautifully produced, but a light, dynamic, feel-good story between told by Michael and his live band. Buy In Paradise on Bandcamp.//
s CBD to sound the alarm. Tony Birch is an activist, historian and essayist, and is currently the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.// Councillor Sophie Wade, representing Collingwood, joined to discuss the devastating cuts announced last week to cohealth services. cohealth announced two big changes that will impact community members in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington: the closure of cohealth Collingwood in June 2026 next year, and the end of GP services at all sites. cohealth services some of our most marginalised community members. The lack of bulk-billing services and cuts to hospitals and health services in the area will leave almost 12,000 people to deal with the consequences. This comes after years of underfunding and cuts to cohealth services. Community members are asked to show up for an Emergency Town Hall meeting at Fitzroy Town Hall at tomorrow, Friday 24 October, at 4PM.//
Pay-As-You-Can Gaza Fundraiser, 6:45pm, Trocadero Projects, Footscray, featuring artist talk with director Eugenia Lim//Tuesday 21 October: Speak Out Against Melbourne City Council Private Security and Surveillance, 4:30pm, Melbourne Town Hall//Saturday 15 November: Footscray Belongs To Everyone, rally against private security and community family gathering, 11am banner painting, speeches from midday, Nicholson Street Mall, Footscray
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Criticism of Labor’s October 7 statementAustralian Future Fund protest against increased investment in Elbit SystemsFreedom Flotilla Coalition updateMyanmar vigil attacked by military juntaCourt case testing limits of free speech on criticism of Israel begins Monday Affordable housing revealed to be run by private firmCity of Melbourne council expansion of CCTV network// Pukpuk Treaty and Pacific Islands Forum//On Saturday October 4th, Nic Maclellan, a researcher and journalist with Islands Business magazine joined Jiselle and James on Asia Pacific Currents to share his analysis of the 'Pukpuk' Treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea. Nic also reports on his experience at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting held in Honiara, Solomon Islands, in September 2025. Tune in to Asia Pacific Currents every Saturday from 9-9:30AM on 3CR 855AM.// Afghan Refugee Women's Football on the Global Stage//Mursal Sadat, captain of the Afghan Refugee Women's Football Team, shares the story of this group of remarkable women footballers now based in Australia. The team is preparing to travel to the United Arab Emirates for a friendly match, using football as a way to stand up for women’s rights and to show the world the strength and resilience of Afghan women. Watch the FIFA Unites: Women’s Series livestream on FIFA+ from 23 - 29 October 2025.// Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Campaign//Dave Sweeney, one of the co-founders of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and a current Nuclear Free Campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, joined us to discuss progress on the campaign to get Australia to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Also known as the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, the 2017 agreement is the first international legally binding instrument designed to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. ICAN is organising a campaign roundtable online at 3PM AEDT on October 14th - register here.// Akshay Gouri on ‘Sister Mine’ & Caste in Punjab, India//Content warning: This segment discussed themes of femicide, gender and caste based violence which might be distressing for some listeners. For 24/7 support you can call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732, you can ask for an interpreter. For culturally specific support you can contact inTouch on 1800 755 988 Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm.// Akshay Gouri, maker of the short film 'Sister Mine' - When Amarjeet is sent to Melbourne with a tragic mission — to protect family ""honor"" by taking his sister’s life, who has had an inter-caste marriage — he instead finds love, warmth, and conflict in the home of the woman he was meant to destroy. Sister Mine is a powerful story of cultural pressure, sibling love, and humanity winning over hate. Akshay Gouri is a Screenwriter and Director who has made over 15 short films, both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to political issues, socio-economic realities and their consequences on people. Watch their independent short films on youtube here and follow Akshay on instagram.//
Acknowledgement of Country HeadlinesDeclassified Australia reveals covert shipping of F-35 fighter jet parts to IsraelCritical reception of UN / US / Israel colonial ‘peace’ deal and proposed transitionary authority for GazaGlobal Sumud Flotilla intercepted by Israeli forcesBayside City Council adopts discredited definition of antisemitismVictorian Government undermines calls to raise the age of criminal responsibilityClass action commences against remote work for the dole schemeVenezuela prepares to declare state of emergency after US military aggressionDr Amy McQuire’s ‘Black Witness’ wins at Queensland literary awards WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Congratulations to Liz Shield, winner of a copy of Micaela Sahhar’s Find Me at the Jaffa Gate. Our thanks to everyone who entered, and to Tony Birch for this wonderful giveaway prize. We listen back to a talk by Ana Chã of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) on the story of MST's organising around food sovereignty, an issue that the movement has championed for over 40 years. This talk originally aired on 3CR's Earth Matters program on 18 May 2025, and was presented at the event 'Food Sovereignty Day' on the 12th of April 2025, coordinated by LASNET, Degrowth Network Australia, and Guerrilla Gardening Naarm Collective. Catch Earth Matters every Sunday from 11-11:30AM on 3CR855AM. We played the final episode of the ‘Our Stories, Our Flats’ series, produced by Ayan Shirwa. In this episode, we heard from R-coo from 44 Flats United about their campaign to defend public housing, and community advocate Barry Berih shared what motivated him to take Homes Victoria to court. If you missed an episode of ‘Our Stories, Our Flats’ or want to listen again, you can do so by visiting 3cr.org.au/ourstoriesourflats File Explorer spoke with Inez about their latest club night, Phantasy Break, which he started in early 2025 to champion the sounds of Footwork from Chicago and Jungle from London.File Explorer took this opportunity to further showcase alternative dance music in Naarm with queer, trans, and femme selectors, creating a safer space away from some of the ''bro-culture'' of mainstream club scenes, and a place to truly let loose. File Explorer spoke about how the first club night went, their music influences, the nuances of curating an event where people feel free to actually dance with each other, and what they hope to bring into their club night tomorrow, Friday the 3rd of October at QQQ St Park 2 Peel St Collingwood, from 7pm - 1am. Get your tickets at Resident Advisor or via the Phantasy Break Instagram page.3CR Thursday Breakfast listeners get an exclusive 50% off tickets - click on this link for the discount, or use the code ‘HEART’ at purchase. Vicki McNamara, Senior Research Associate at UNSW’s Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession, joined us to discuss concerns about the use of generative AI in the Australian legal system, including by an increasing number of self-representing litigants. Vicki has extensive professional experience across private legal practice and with in-house legal teams, and joined the Centre in early-2024. Her current research focuses on how technology, particularly GenAI, is impacting the legal profession and reshaping how legal services are delivered. T4T: Trick 4 TreatThis Friday the 3rd of October, Racerage is hosting “T4T: Trick 4 Treat” a Halloween themed night to kick off the Spooky Season @ Cafe Gummo!Expect DIY Halloween props, a monstrously stacked lineup of trans and nonbinary music and a mini mutual aid market. Come Dressed to Distress and you might win our secret cursed prize!FEATURING:LION- Ethiopian Australian electro-pop starRACERAGE- Queer Blak rapbratHETEROPHOBES- grunge/punk 3 pieceTHE CROP TOPS- trans folk punk Tix online here: https://events.humanitix.com/t4t-trick4treat $10 general entry. Free for Mob (nobody turned away for lack of funds) 8pm til midnight.
Acknowledgement of Country Headlines:Updates from Gaza and the West BankMelbourne City Council review aimed at stifling protestMelbourne City Council pushes to criminalise homelessness with ‘community safety’ teamKumanjayi White death in custody investigation completedLabor’s 2035 greenhouse targets criticised as greenwashing GIVEAWAY 3CR Thursday Breakfast is giving away a copy of acclaimed Australian-Palestinian author and educator Micaela Sahhar’s Find Me at the Jaffa Gate, thanks to Tony Birch! To enter the draw, send us a message with your contact details and “giveaway” on Instagram @3crthursdaybreakfast by midnight next Tuesday the 30th of September. We will announce the winner during our next show on Thursday the 2nd of October. The winner will need to collect their prize from 3CR at 21 Smith Street, Fitzroy during business hours. AFL Grand Final Day and Domestic Violence Part 1Content warning: This discussion will be centred around domestic and family violence, which some listeners may find distressing. For support you can always call 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800, and if you are in immediate danger call 000. With the AFL Grand Final on this weekend, Inez is joined by Meg, Rachel, and Christine who work at the intersections of alcohol and other drug use, domestic and family violence, and gambling in sports spectatorship, and explore strategies for change - at all levels. In this part of the interview we cover what domestic/family violence is, the social and gendered drivers of violence, and how Grand Final Day can intensify risk and harm. Meg Bagnall is the Statewide Coordinator of the Specialist Family Violence Advisor Program in the AOD sector, known for embedding gender-responsive approaches to substance use and family violence reform across Victoria. Rachel Daniels is a Specialist Family Violence Advisor with Ballarat Community Health, known for her expertise in substance use exploitation and parenting in the context of family violence, bringing a regional lens to systems change. Christine du Toit is the U-Turn Program Leader and is a Specialist Family Violence Advisor at Windana, with deep expertise at the intersection of substance use and family violence, and redevelopment of Victoria’s AOD assessment tools. ‘Our Stories, Our Flats’ Episode 3We listen to episode 3 of the podcast 'Our Stories, Our Flats', produced by Ayan Shirwa, where residents discuss accessibility and safety in the flats. For more information about 'Our Stories, Our Flats' and to listen back to the first two episodes of the series, visit 3cr.org.au/ourstoriesourflats. We'll be playing the final episode on our show next week, so make sure to tune in! AFL Grand Final Day and Domestic Violence Part 2Content warning: as aboveIn the second part of Inez’s interview with Meg Bagnall, Rachel Daniels and Christine du Toit, they discuss what safety planning looks like at all levels, from the person perpetrating the violence, the people experiencing the violence, friends and family, to the wider community. They speak on a range of intervention strategies and importantly, not placing the sole responsibility on the victims of violence to deal with this alone. ‘Pictures of You’ with Tony BirchMulti-award winning author Tony Birch joined us in the studio to discuss the upcoming launch of Pictures of You, a selection of the best of his short fiction works over the past two decades. The collection brings together some of Birch's most poignant stories, taking readers through the humour, heartbreak, and rich complexity of everyday human experience. Pictures of You is published by the University of Queensland Press and hits bookstores on the 30th of September - pre-order your copy here. Tony Birch is an activist, historian and essayist, and is currently the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne. Crisis Housing Reform Part 2Content warning: The following segment contains discussions of child and adolescent mortality, domestic violence and suicide. If anything covered causes distress or raises questions, you can contact the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467. First Nations listeners can also call 13 YARN (13 92 76).We play the second part of an interview with Tyler and Dani from Crisis Housing Reform, a grassroots advocacy campaign focusing on change within Victorian crisis accommodation, discussing two special reports released in late August this year from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Part one of the interview was played on last week's episode - listen back here. You can find out more about the work of Crisis Housing Reform, and get involved, by following them on Instagram.
Acknowledgement of Country HeadlinesGaza and West Bank updatesUnited Nations inquiry finds Israel has committed genocideProtest news around so-called Australia: Webb dock picket, Occupy ALP, Mask Off Maersk Race Discrimination Commissioner urges action against IslamophobiaAustralia's first national climate risk assessment released We heard the first part of an interview with Tyler and Dani from Crisis Housing Reform, a grassroots advocacy campaign focusing on change within Victorian crisis accommodation. Tyler and Dani discuss two special reports released in late August this year by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare concerning youth experiencing homelessness. Follow Crisis Housing Reform here on Instagram. On episode 2 of Our Stories Our Flats, youth practitioner Sabrina Adem challenges the myth of ethnic enclaves, and the girls from Underground Women share their experiences of living in Carlton and what they’d like to see change. Listen back to episode 1 here, and for show notes, visit 3cr.org.au/ourstoriesourflats. Last week, Priya caught up with Munanjahli and South Sea Islander scholar and author Chelsea Watego to discuss the upcoming launch of 'Black thoughts matter', a selection of some of the most significant essays she has published over the past decade. Out with Common Room Editions later this year, 'Black thoughts matter' provides critical context to Watego's public scholarship, honouring the Black thinkers that have shaped her intellectual and political formation to date. It is a testament to the love, power and joy that is at the heart of Black thinking and writing in the fight against racial violence in so-called ‘Australia’. Pre-order a copy of 'Black thoughts matter' here. Jade, a member of ARC UP, joined us to speak about the importance of building migrant worker power in the liberatory struggle against colonialism, racism, class exploitation and fascism on stolen land. ARC UP is an Anarchist Communist organisation seeking to build migrant and Indigenous class power through rebuilding a militant workers' movement, and is based on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation. Find out more about ARC UP and the Migrants Building Power program here.
Acknowledgement of Country Headlines:Gaza and West bank updates: high rise bombings, Qatar bombings, attack on Sumud flotillaASU strike for GazaAnti-corruption protests in NepalVictorian Treaty bill introducedRobodebt class action settlement Leo Patterson Ross, CEO of the Tenants' Union of New South Wales, joined us to discuss the challenge being mounted against the New South Wales government's June decision to significantly weaken rules surrounding evictions for renovations or repairs. While rental reforms bringing an end to no-ground evictions in the state were introduced on the 19th of May 2025, the NSW government has drastically reduced the evidence requirements for landlords seeking to evict a tenant to conduct renovations or major repairs. You can learn more about 'renovictions' here on the Tenants' Union of NSW's website. We launched the first episode of the podcast, 'Our Stories, Our Flats', produced by 3CR broadcaster Ayan Shirwa and supported by 3CR and the City of Melbourne, to document the lives of residents in all their colourfulness. Our Stories, Our Flats is narrated by Raven, a former resident of the flats. In this episode, Uncle Robbie Thorpe reflects on the changes to the high-rise flats and Adrianna, a Carlton resident, gives us a glimpse into her life. RMIT Researcher Priya Kunjan discusses the Victorian government’s decision to demolish 44 high-rise towers.Tune in weekly on Thursdays at 7.30 am to hear all four episodes. For show notes, visit 3cr.org.au/ourstoriesourflats. Pilar Aguilera, a social justice activist and 3CR veteran, joined us to discuss the upcoming premiere of “Mother, Country”, tonight/11 September at the Greek Democritus Workers’ League. The documentary follows film-maker and journalist Pablo Navarrete as he travels to Chile with his parents, who were forced to leave the country after the military coup on 11 September 1973. Get your tickets for tonight's premiere here. Drue Slatter, Pacific Communications Manager at 350Pacific, spoke with us about how the climate action priorities of Pacific Island nations have featured during this week's Pacific Islands Forum in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The Forum, running from 8-12 September, sees Pacific Island nations gathering to negotiate sovereign and shared interests and to demand action on climate change and environmental harm, while international partners including Australia, China and the United States vie for geopolitical and security influence in the region.
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Joint Statement from Black People's Union and Camp Sovereignty//Leila read out a excerpt from the joint statement from Black People's Union and Camp Sovereignty, published 2nd of September. Donate and show up for a shift at Camp Sovereignty.//Join the Sovereign Day Out Event this Saturday 6th of September from 12pm - 10:30pm September at Kings Domain. Cash donations always welcome.// Nerita Waight - VALS//We welcome back Yorta Yorta and Narrandjeri woman Nerita Waight…today we’ll be discussing the racist double standards in community safety law that enable attacks like the one we saw at Camp Sovereignty over the weekend. Nerita is a mother to two boys, and the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service a.k.a VALS. VALS provides support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people navigating the legal system, you can get in touch with them by calling 1800 064 865… A warning to listeners that this conversation will touch on racism, police violence and may contain mention of people who have died. For support call 13 YARN (13 92 76), Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563, Lifeline 13 11 14, Suicide Callback Service 1300 659 467// Jay Coonan - Anti-Poverty Centre//Jay Coonan who conducts Research & Policy for the Antipoverty Centre joined us for the second part of our interview on Centrelink debt waivers, that were announced 27 August. Kristin joined Tuesday Breakfast this week to talk about the impact of Centrelink debt through a F/DV and gendered lens and Jay joined us to follow up with how we can go about building new systems on how to resolve debt issues in the social security system and how this could be an important first step towards that. So-called debts are generally due to errors in the system or unfair, confusing rules. These include partner and parental income tests, complex eligibility for study payments, cuts to Centrelink payments when a small amount is earned from wages and access barriers for people experiencing homelessness and family violence. A lawful “debt” is rarely a fair debt.// Scobie McKay - Whatsdoingmedia//Scobie Mckay is a journalist, filmmaker and youthworker known for his work under the only handle whatsdoinmedia. His work focuses on the political extreme, far-right groups, youth justice and police accountability. Scobie joined Inez to reflect on Sunday's right-wing ''march for australia'' rally lead by promonent self-proclaimed Neo Nazi group - NSN, which also attacked a sacred First Nations place of gathering, Camp Sovereignty. A warning to listeners that this conversation will touch on racism, and police violence. For support call 13 YARN (13 92 76), Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563, Lifeline 13 11 14, Suicide Callback Service 1300 659 467// Mursal Sadat - former Captain Afghan Womens' Football Team//Today we’re checking back in on a story that inspired so many Australians — the Afghan women’s football team. After escaping Afghanistan, the players rebuilt their lives here in Australia. But football has always stayed close to their hearts. Now, the team isn’t together in one place. Instead, the players are scattered, joining different clubs across the country. So, what does this mean for their journey as a team, and their hopes for the future? To talk about this, Zakia spoke to Mursal Sadat, the former captain of the Afghan women’s football team, who tells the story of their evacuation, relocation and joining National Premier Leagues Vic.// Songs: Let Your Love Rule - Archie Roach//Move - Baker Boy//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Gaza and West Bank updateIn Aus - weekend protests, Albanese expulsion of Iranian ambassador, Israeli intervention claims Fed gov plan to change Centrelink debt policies Use of force at Canberra’s Bimberi Youth Justice CentreVictorian Government’s move to open the Otway coastline for further gas explorationToll - Stop Driving Genocide Campaign goes National//Content Warning: This program is centred around overdose awareness and alcohol and other drug use. Some segments will discuss themes of mental health, trauma, grief, and suicide, which some listeners may find distressing.//We have linked some support services at the end of the page should you wish to use them. But you are never alone, there is always support available for yourself or someone you care about ❤️ // Chris Christoforou - VAADA//Firstly, Chris Christoforou, CEO of The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association or ‘VAADA’, joined us to unpack a new report from the Victorian Coroner’s Court which recorded 2024 as having the highest number of fatal overdoses in a decade. Chris will helps us understand strategies, advocacy and what's next from Victoria’s AOD peak body following the report. Chris has broad community sector experience as former Director of Operations at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, current Director of the Victorian Council of Social Service and the Australian Council of Social Service.// A/Prof Dr Shalini Arunogiri - Hamilton Centre, Turning Point, Monash//We spoke to A/Prof Dr Shalini Arunogiri, an addiction specialist psychiatrist and researcher with a focus on the management of co-occurring mental health substance use disorders as well as novel treatment for substance use disorders. She is the clinical director of the Hamilton Centre, Turning Point and NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow. In our discussion, we learned more about Professor Shalini’s research into dual-diagnosis care, AOD supports for vulnerable groups of people, and mentoring the next generation of mental health practitioners.// A/Prof Dr Nico Clark - Royal Melbourne Hospital, First Step & formerly at North Richmond MSIR//A/Prof Dr Nico Clark, has worked in the field of addiction medicine for over 25 years, including 10 years with the World Health Organisation in the Substance Use Team, as Medical Director of the North Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR), and is currently Head of Addiction Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Clinical Director at First Step St Kilda. Nico spoke to Inez yesterday about the differences in prescription drugs vs non-prescription drugs, why people often use multiple drugs at the same time, how does the coroner categorise fatal overdoses, how to impove patient care, and what we can all do to look out for each other.// Sarah Hiley - The Victorian Pill Testing Service Sarah Hiley, Director of The Loop's new fixed Pill Testing Service in Fitzroy, joined Inez this week to discuss all the questions people have about the service. We discuss what can be tested, how much should I bring, what about the police, what if I need extra support, drug alerts and so much more. Find out how to access the confidential service and what to expect. Visit them at 95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy via the purple door, just ring the green buzzer.//Thursday: 12pm – 4pm Friday: 3pm – 7pm Saturday: 1pm – 7pm//For more information visit their FAQs page or call them at 1800 762 844. Sign up to their mailing list for local drug alerts info@vicpilltesting.org.au// International Overdose Awareness Day Events//HRVic Training 'Recognise & Respond' Fri 29th Aug at 4pm 299-305 Victoria St Brunswick. Learn how to respond to any overdose & adminsiter naloxone for opioids. No need to book, just turn up! Free naloxone kit provided for everyone.Find your local IOAD events this Sunday 31st of Aug, online or in-person.//Support Lines - 24/7//Directline (VIC) - 1800 888 236National Alcohol & other Drug Hotline - 1800 250 015Suicide Callback Service - 1300 659 467Lifeline - 13 11 1413 Yarn (National & Mob only) - 13 92 76//Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm//Youth Drugs and Alcohol Advice (YoDAA) - 1800 458 685An overdose is a medical emergency, call triple zero immediately (000) and ask for an ambulance. Phone operators will guide you until the ambulance arrives. Carry your Naloxone, get the training.//Many support lines can help you find your local support services, if you would prefer to look online yourself for food, housing, money, counselling, domestic/family violence, legal support visit Ask Izzy askizzy.org.au/ //
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Footscray Safety Forum//CW: Police violenceWe heard a statement from three trans queer disabled people with a lived experience of homelessness in response to the footscray safety forum held last week on Thursday. Learn more by visiting crisis housing reform and footscray hospo on instagram.// Tiaki Teremoana - Stranger, Brother//Tiaka Teremoana spoke to Inez about starring in the moving and tender short film, Stranger, Brother. Currently premiering at MIFF, the 2025 short film drama showcases millennial manchild Adam who leads a self-absorbed life of partying and casual hookups – until his little half-brother is dropped at his doorstep. In our interview, we discuss trust exercise the director made them play, what it means to find community amongst the avoidance, and find a way back to yourself, and how Tiaki landed the role! // Freya Dinshaw - Human Rights Law Centre//CW: Modern slaveryWe spoke to Freya Dinshaw, the Associate Legal Director for Human Rights Law Centre following a report released by the UN Special Rapporteur for Contemporary Forms of Slavery published last week. Human Rights Law Centre has amplified longstanding calls on the Australian Government to take action on inadequate anti-slavery laws and increase safeguards for migrant workers. The report from the Special Rapporteur outlined previously known supply chain concerns flagged by the The Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association in their case brought against Kmart this month, read more about this here // Jacinta Masters - Fair Agenda//CW: Sexual Assault, and Court System Violence. For support you can call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732 - 24 hour, 7 days a week. Jacinta Masters from Fair Agenda spoke to us about the campaign to allow sexual assault survivors to pre-record their testimony for trials. Pre-recorded testimony is already an option in QLD and NT and right now there's growing momentum for the standing council of attorneys-general to make this law across all states and territories, supporting survivor agency and reducing the trauma of testifying again and again in open court. To sign the petition and support the campaign, click here.// Maiy Azize - Everybody’s Home//Lastly, we were joined by Maiy Azize, the National Spokesperson from Everybody’s Home - a campaign to fix Australia’s housing crisis made up of 500 housing, homeless and welfare organisations. On August 18, prior to the kickoff of the Albanese Government's Economic Reform Round Table, housing sector advocates, economists, and union leaders submitted an open letter urging for an end to unfair tax concessions. Maiy Azize helped us understand the social consequences of tax cuts for the rich and what needs to change.// Song:Thinking About You - Desert Mulga
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Responses to Labor gov’s plans to recognise the state of PalestineGaza and West Bank updateVictoria’s proposed anti-protest laws to be scaled backEnvironment groups condemn Vic gov’s decision to invite applications for two new petroleum exploration licences in Gippsland and the OtwaysVictoria recorded its highest number of fatal drug overdoses in a decade in 2024Inez read martyred Gazan Journalist Anas Al-Sharif final message, translated into English. Read the full message here.//Take action to support Gaza today via Gaza Mutual Aid Collective & The Sameer Project.// Shorna Moore - Melbourne City Mission//Please note that the following segement briefly discusses themes such as family violence, suicide, and systemic violence for young people. If this is distressing, you can get support through Kids Helpline 24/7 on 1800 55 1800 and Suicide Call Back Service 24/7 on 1300 659 467.//Shorna Moore, Head of Policy, Advocacy and Government Relations at Melbourne City Mission (MCM) joined Inez yesterday to discuss MCM's and Social Ventures Australia 2025 Victorian Youth Homelessness Snapshot which paints a stark picture of the deep and intersecting challenges faced by young people experiencing homelessness in Victoria. The snapshots reveal that most young Victorians are losing their homes due to family violence (83%), and many before the age of 16 (31%), with many marginalised demographics overrepresented. We discuss the importance of the snapshot, the Home Time Coalition, and where to from here. If you're looking for support, check out Ask Izzy for local service providers. // Hank - Public Housing Resident//On Monday 4th of August, Hank, a public housing tenant, locked himself to a drill taking samples for demolition at Flemington public housing estate. Hank successfully delayed works for over two hours, and was supported by a community picket to save the 44 housing towers scheduled for demolition. Flemington residents have been told that they must leave their homes by the end of September. Public housing tenants and advocates are urgently calling on the Victorian Government to halt demolition immediately. Find out more about how to get involved in one of the most important local fights by visiting https://linktr.ee/savepublichousing. You can show your support and sign the petition to save public housing by going to https://chuffed.org/project/save-public-housing.// Tom Studans - Unlawful Welfare Debt Recalculations//We replayed Monday Breakfast's segment where Rob spoke to welfare rights activist Tom Studans about the Federal Court case Chaplin V Secretary. The court ruled that the Federal Government will need to recalculate over four-billion dollars worth of debts issued using a method known as ‘income apportionment’ which was in use from the early 90’s until 2020. In this conversation, Tom Studans unpacks the history of ‘income apportionment’ debt calculations, and its legislative overlaps with Robodebt. Catch the rest of the interview and more from 3cr.org.au/monday-breakfast, tune in live Mondays from 7am - 8:30am on 3CR 855AM.// Elijah McDonald & Rosie Kalina - Blaktasia Game//Lastly, Elijah McDonald (Noongar, Pitta Pitta, Yamatji) Tech Artist, Junior Programmer and Rosie Kalina (Wemba Wemba, Gundjitmara) Art and Culture Producer from Blaktasia, this continent's first ever Aboriginal mobile game, joined us in the studio to discuss the making of the game, art, inspiration, and the everyday work it takes make a game by Mob for Mob, where you restore the bush & defeat the corrupting force of The Murk.//Elijah is a multi-award winning, highly creative multi-disciplinary creative technologist with specialisations in programming, human-computer interaction, digital 3D animation and technical art (SFX). Rosie is a multidisciplinary Artist and Producer, specialising in Visual Art and Curating, Rosie has been involved in several Community Led Art Projects, such as the Blak to the Future & YIRRAMBOI Festival.//Free to play, releasing at the end of 2025. Catch Blaktasia at PAX 10-12 October 2025 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)// Footscray Safety Forum Tonight 6pm//Thu 14 Aug 6pmSt John's 30A Pickett St FootscrayAccessible & Child Friendly EventPlease consider COVID SafetyIn response to Maribyrnong Council's recent decision to use security and law officers for foot patrol, to respond to social, health and community issues in Footscray. More info here//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Pro-Palestine protests Gaza and West Bank updateReport reveals widespread unlawful Centrelink payment suspensionsPublic housing towers protests and state Labor party votes re public housing UN requests halts of deportations to Nauru while it investigates human rights abuses Australian Uyghurs take legal action against KmartMutual aid, forced starvation, and cholera outbreak in Darfur Sudan Conspiracy Nation New Book//Journalists Ariel Bogle & Cam Wilson spoke with Yeah Nah Pasaran about their new book 'Conspiracy Nation' and discuss some notable conspiracy theories emerging from the colonial legacies of settler culture on stolen land. 3CR's Yeah Nah Pasaran is a show examining ethno-nationalism, white supremacy and neo-fascism in so-called Australia, hosted by Andy Fleming & Cam Smith. You can catch the newest episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran Thursdays from 4:30 to 5pm, and to hear the full interview with the authors head to 3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran/episode/cam-wilson-ariel-bogle-conspiracy-nation.// Ombudsman Report on Income Support Cancellations - Antipoverty Centre//Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre unpacked the Commonwealth Ombudsman's report into maladministration of Centrelink’s Targeted Compliance Framework, also known as ‘mutual obligations’. The first report from the Ombudsman investigation found that failures within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, or DEWR, are responsible for the unlawful reduction and cancellation of Centrelink payments for thousands of people receiving income support. Jay Coonan works with the Antipoverty Centre to advocate for systemic change, ending conditional welfare such as Centrelink’s mutual obligations program.// Toll 'Stop Driving Genocide' Campaign Heats Up//Direct action campaign against Toll Holdings heating up with multiple statewide actions demanding Toll stop driving genocide. From the 15th - 22nd of July Toll Holdings has been targetted in Melbourne, Westmeadows and Campbellfield. Toll provides the transport equipment needed to supply Israel with lethal weapons used to kill Palestinians in Gaza. Toll has been named a ‘key transport partner’ by major weapons manufacturer Thales. Additionally, Toll has partnerships with NIOA the major ammunitians provider for ''australian'' police force, unauthorised mining that violates First Nations soveriengty, and the most trusted contract for offshore immigation detention camps.Described as a loose network of people committed to anticolonial and antiimperialist struggle, not a formal organisation. You can read more about the direct action campaign here, via their website tolldeath.noblogs.org, or watch the footage instagram.com/forautonomydestroyaustralia/// Footscray Community Response Campaign//Inner-West local Monty Green, a disability pensioner, community organiser, musician and former hospitality worker, joins us to discuss the grassroots Footscray Community Response campaign, which is fighting against a recent Council decision to use bylaws to harass and displace homeless people in the City of Maribyrnong. On July 22, Council members voted in favour of employing private security in response to local social and health concerns, despite widespread concern from local residents, workers, health and legal professionals about about the detrimental impacts that this punitive approach will have on rough sleepers and other vulnerable community members.//Monty and fellow organisers are convening a public meeting, the Footscray Community Forum, to explore safer and supportive responses for the local comunity next Thursday the 14th of August at 6PM at St John's Hall, Picket Street, Footscray and via Borderland Cooperative's Instagram.//Trans Inclusion in Sport - Mt Alexander Falcons//Nicole ''Tadpole" McIvor is Captain and an inaugural player for the Mount Alexander Falcons, and have been in the team's leadership group since its inception in 2022. Tadpole is passionate about AFL footy, and even more passionate about community. On Sunday July 27th the Mt Alexander Falcons football team held a Trans and Gender Diverse Celebration game in Harcourt, Regional Vic. Initially organised as a response to the Riddells District Football Netball League (RDFNL) excluding trans netballers, the day was a joyful celebration of trans and gender diverse inclusion in sport. Tadpole is also a presenter on the MainFM show On the Wing. Watch the documentary trailer about the team here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Russia Tsunami update (will check updates later tonight - Wednesday - as I’ve written it as the news is just coming in)Gaza updateVic gov bail reforms, inquiry into death in custody of Heather CalgaretSA algae bloom protests and potential inquiryUnions say a more diverse economy is needed to boost productivityPart two of Race Matters' Kanaky Rising special, which originally aired on FBi Radio on 23 Feb 2025. Ethan and Shareeka spoke to Roscoe, a special rapporteur for Radio RATA, a decolonial media, culture and mutual aid network operating across the Pacific. Roscoe has been pivotal in establishing networks and connections with the Indigenous people of Kanaky (so-called New Caledonia) in the fight against the French occupation to reclaim their land. Through his work we learn that colonial systems are not the only thing that can duplicate and expand borders -- so can Indigenous knowledge and solidarity. A special thank you to Ethan Lyons and Shareeka Helaluddin for making this episode possible. Listen back to part 1 of Ethan and Shareeka's conversation with Roscoe at 3cr.org.au/thursday-breakfast.// We listen to part of a panel discussion accompanying last Saturday's Open House event at the Victorian Quaker Centre, which was a sonic collaboration between Homeless in Hotels and audiovisual artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth. The panel, ‘Security, Surveillance, and the Street: The recent criminalisation of homelessness,’ featured Meg Fitzgerald from Fitzroy Legal Service, Greg Denham from Cohealth, Pat ‘Spike’ Chiappalone from Homeless in Hotels, Craig, also known as ‘Turtle’, who is currently homeless and was interviewed for Homeless in Hotels, and David Boarder Giles from Deakin University. In this excerpt you’ll hear interviews between Pat and members of Melbourne's homeless community, followed by a segment of the panel discussion featuring the voices of David, Pat, Craig and Greg. Our thanks to Amy Ciara from 3CR's Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence for sharing this recording with us.// Last week, Palestine solidarity activists and human rights advocates gathered in Canberra for a three-day national protest, demanding the Australian Government end its complicity in the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Rallies were held at Parliament House as well as multiple self organised actions aimed at calling out the government's continued supply of weapons to Israeli forces. Autonomous protestors held actions at the 48th Opening of Parliament Ceremony, the US-Australia War Memorial, and shut down operations at two of Canberra’s weapons manufacturers - Electro Optical Systems and Northrop Grumman. Today we are joined by activist, furniture maker and proud CFMEU member Jas Bell, from grass roots collective ‘Stop Arming Israel’ to give us more details about the convergence, and why weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman is under scrutiny.// Palestinian advocate Nour Salman joins us to talk about this coming Sunday's rally to block the city for Gaza. Palestinian activists and supporters have committed to protesting weekly until the siege on Gaza is lifted, Israel is internationally sanctioned, and until there is a true end to the genocide. The rally will begin on Sunday the 3rd of August at 12PM outside the State Library of Victoria, and attendees are asked to bring pots and utensils to make some noise so that demands to end the genocide are impossible to ignore. Find out more on Instagram at @freepalestinecoalition.naarm.//Michael Poland, Campaign Director for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, speaks with us about the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice last week on states’ legal obligations in the face of climate change. The ICJ’s landmark ruling has provided unprecedented clarity on the binding legal duty that states have to take action on climate change, including with respect to the production, licensing and subsidy of fossil fuel production. Read the full advisory opinion here, and find out more about the case here.//
Acknowledgement of Country HeadlinesProtests against public housing redevelopmentSuburban Rail Loop East criticised on housing impactsGippsland communities demand mining companies pay for Latrobe River waterEelam Tamils rally for genocide accountabilityUpdates from GazaDeclassified Aus releases more evidence of Labor supplying weapons for genocide We listen to Inez’s live reporting as well as rally speeches and chants from the Toll Holdings - Stop Driving Genocide Rally, which occurred last week Thursday 17th of July. During the rally, a small group of protestors spoke about how the military supply chain supporting israel's genocide in Palestine includes numerous 'australian' logistics firms. Multiple ‘australian’ companies, including Toll Holdings, have been identified transporting weapons for export to the United States where they are used to drive the genocide in partnership with weapons manafacturers such as Thales. Toll has also been a key partner in supporting the Australian Federal Police, fossil fuel companies' destruction of Indigenous land, and in the logistics apparatus enabling human rights abuses in offshore detention on Manus Island and Nauru. Find out more about Toll's complicity by visiting https://tolldeath.noblogs.org/, For Autonomy Destroy Australia on Instagram, and via this post. The track you can hear in the background of the rally recordings is Tahiyati by acclaimed Palestinian lyricist Haykal. We play part one of Race Matters’ (FBI Radio) Kanaky Rising episode, which originally aired on 23 Feb 2025. In this episode, Ethan and Shareeka spoke to Roscoe, a special rapporteur for Radio RATA, a decolonial media, culture and mutual aid network operating across the Pacific. Roscoe has been pivotal in establishing networks and connections with the Indigenous people of Kanaky (so-called New Caledonia) in their fight against the French occupation to reclaim their land. Through his work we learn that colonial systems are not the only thing that can duplicate and expand borders -- so can Indigenous knowledge and solidarity. A special thank you to Ethan Lyons and Shareeka Helaluddin for sharing this audio with us. Listen to Race Matters from 10-11AM on Sundays on FBI, and follow them on Instagram.Race Matters played some of our Beyond the Bars programming last week - listen to 'Radio for Alchemy' here. Race Matters also broadcast a more personal interview with Thursday Breakfast’s Inez last year - listen to 'The Sacredness of Anger and Uprising' here. Content note: this interview includes discussion of experiences of mandatory offshore detention, which may be distressing to some listeners. For support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467. Laura John, an Associate Legal Director at Human Rights Law Centre, and Leila, who spent years detained in Nauru while seeking asylum in Australia, discuss the ongoing injustice of mandatory offshore detention upheld by the Albanese government. This regime has affected thousands of people seeking asylum, subjecting them to both the trauma of offshore processing and the violence of indefinite visa uncertainty. Leila, who fled to Australia with her mother, is using a pseudonym in this interview to protect her identity. Jorge Jorquera joined us to discuss community resistance against the punitive, anti-homeless 'Melbourne Model' that has just been adopted by the City of Maribyrnong. The 'Melbourne Model' involves the use of bylaws and local laws officers to remove people deemed "undesirable," and has been described as a "war on the poor." Jorge is Coordinator of Borderlands Cooperative, a lifelong socialist activist, and a former City of Maribyrnong Councillor. Stay up to date with the fight against the ‘Melbourne Model’ in Maribyrnong by following Jorge on Instagram. Songs All My Life - J-MILLA
Acknowledgement of Country Headlines:Gaza updatesSyria updatesSpecial Envoy’s antisemitism report rejected by anti-ZionistsHigh court rules against federal government responsibility to protect Torres Strait Islands from climate harmCommunity and Public Sector Union election resultProtest against human rights violations of incarcerated women Maia Onyenachi, founding director of Yung Prodigy, a youth-led, grassroots organisation supporting young people impacted by parental incarceration, joined us to discuss their Freedom on the Line campaign. Yung Prodigy is calling on the NSW government to provide adjustments to phonecalls to improve availability, accessibility, and connection. In this interview, Maia discusses how important connection is for people who are incarcerated and their communities, how precious and expensive a 10 minute phone call can be, and why we need to act now. Please share the campaign, follow the Yung Prodigy instagram, and make sure to sign the petition. Bree Ahrens, Senior Climate Campaigner at Environment Centre Northern Territory (ECNT), spoke with us about how the Albanese Government’s greenwashing of the Bonaparte Carbon Capture and Storage project conceals its potential future as one of the world's largest carbon dumping sites. ECNT is an environmental advocacy organisation fighting alongside local communities to win just solutions to the environmental issues facing the Northern Territory. Alison, an organiser with the Newcastle-based group No Weapons for Genocide, caught up with Priya earlier this week to discuss the militarisation of Newcastle's economy and how this is being resisted by members of the local community. Despite the urgent need for action on a green energy transition, Newcastle, home to the world's largest coal port, has instead seen increasing government incentives redirecting workers and manufacturing capabilities from the extractive industries towards weapons manufacturing. Keep up to date with No Weapons for Genocide on Instagram. Noura Mansour from Democracy in Colour joins us to speak about the implications of the Albanese Government’s appointment of Jillian Segal as Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism. The establishment of the Special Envoy stands in stark contrast to the repeated failure by the Australian Government to address the genocide of First Nations people in so-called Australia, as well as escalating anti-Palestinian and Islamaphobic violence. Since her appointment, Jillian Segal has come under scrutiny due to her recommendation of wide-reaching draconian reforms impacting freedom of speech and political expression, as well as her husband’s company’s support of right wing group ‘Advance’ in the form of a $50,000 donation. Events TOLL - STOP DRIVING GENOCIDE - SNAP RALLYAutonomous activists have organised a snap rally today at Toll Holdings’ melbourne headquarters to demand that the company cuts ties with weapons suppliers and stops driving genocide in this colony and others. The rally begins at 4:30PM at 380 St Kilda Road.Organisers ask that attendees wear a face mask to protect our community from COVID transmission. Bring signs, banners and flags too! Further information about the rally including how to keep yourself and community safe is available here. For information about Toll’s complicity in genocide, head to tolldeath.noblogs.org.
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//50 years of NAIDOC Week Special: The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy// Chelsea Watego on Justice for Kumanjayi White//Content note: This segment includes discussion of a First Nations person who has died in custody. For dedicated support, First Nations listeners can call 13 YARN (13 92 76) or Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563.//We play a speech by Mununjahli and South Sea Islander health worker and researcher Chelsea Watego at the Magan-djin rally on June 9th demanding justice for Kumanjayi White, a young Warlpiri man who was killed by off duty police at a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in late May this year. Chelsea is introduced by Wangeriburra and Birrigubba man Sam Watson. Our thanks to Anna Carlson and the Radio Reversal crew at 4ZZZ Community Radio for sharing this recording with us!// Beyond the Bars 2025 at Middleton Prison//In this recording from yesterday's Beyond the Bars special at Middleton Prison, Tye Hammersly, Brent Watkins, Freddie Norris and Amos Roach honour 24 years of NAIDOC broadcasting with guests Zack and Brad. They spoke on the importance of lifting up the younger generation and the realities of accessing cultural needs while incarcerated. Every year since 2001, Beyond the Bars brings you the voices of First Nations people across the Victorian prison system, you can hear the full broadcast by going to 3cr.org.au/beyondthebars2025.// Kimberely Benjamin on Blak Filmaking: 'Our Medicine' & 'Warm Props'//Kimberely Benjamin is a Yawuru, Bardi and Kija woman from Rubibi/Broome, and proudly living and working on Country. Kimba joined Inez yesterday to discuss the directing and making of SBS & NITV show Our Medicine, as well as directing episodes of Warm Props. Our Medicine is a 6-part series behind-the-scenes look showcasing Blak excellence from across the Country, following First Nations medical trailblazers and traditional healers, who, through their work, care and knowledge are making change and having positive impacts on community. Warm Props is a drama caught between set life and home life, with characters forced to deal with a chaotic film shoot and face the one person she vowed never to see again. Kimba spoke on the importance of mentorship, directing a love letter to medical trailblazers, and advice for the next generation of Blak filmakers.// Senator Lidia Thorpe on Genocide in 'australia' & Palestine and NAIDOC week reflections.//Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung Senator Lidia Thorpe joins us to discuss implications of the Yoorrook Justice Commission's final reports, as well as Australia's international human rights obligations in relation to Palestine, with a focus on Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's new report 'From economy of occupation to economy of genocide'. Senator Thorpe also shares her reflections on NAIDOC Week 2025.// Song:Blak Nation by Emma Donovan (03m12s)//Mentioned:25 years of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement//Blak Pearl Studio’s Annual Exhibition Launch at Bodriggy today. Thursday 10th of July 6pm - 8pm at 245 Johnston St, Abbotsford VIC 3067. Come see the collected works of incredible artists on until 31st of July 2025. //
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Gaza aid distribution centresCT court verdictPolice protest violence in VIC & NSWBomb Cyclone brings extreme weather and havocFederal & State financial year changes from 1st of JulyPublic reporting for billionaire corporations// Dr Palmyra De Banks - RACGP//Dr Palmyra De Banks, the Deputy Victorian Chair of the Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP), spoke to us about calling on the Victorian Government to allow GPs to diagnose and prescribe for ADHD. GPs already manage ADHD in their primary care practice and are often the first point of contact. Dr De Banks & Inez discussed current regulations, nation-wide improvements, recomendations from the 2023 National Senate Enquiry into ADHD, and how GPs can help significantly reduce barriers to the health inquity in ADHD diagnosis and care.//Dr De Banks mentioned further resources such as the ADHD Clinical Guidelines, ADHD Australia, & Healthdirect. You can also talk to your GP about ADHD and write to your local MP about the allowing GPs to assess and manage ADHD. // Shiralee Hood - Beyond the Bars 2025 Production//Shiralee Hood is a Noongar, Kurnai, Gunditjmara woman who works as a comedian, educator, and a long-time 3CR broadcaster. She joined Leila yesterday to talk about Beyond the Bars 2025 (7-11 July), the importance of connection, and what it's like being on the production side of this year's broadcast. This year marks 24 years of Beyond the Bars live broadcast, and we were honored to be joined by Shiralee who shared her reflections of 19 years of experience with this special program.//Each year throughout NAIDOC week, 3CR's First Nations broadcasters share the mic with incarcerated people across six Victorian prisons. Tune in next week for the 2025 broadcast, and listen back to previous years.// Emma Bacon - Sweltering Cities //Emma Bacon is the Founder and Executive Director of Sweltering Cities, the national community voice for heat safety. Sweltering Cities has recently supported the 'Home safe: National leadership in adapting to a changing climate report' from the Climate Change Authority published on 19 June 25. It is a timely and sobering reminder of the urgent need to prepare our communities for the worsening impacts of climate change. Emma discussed how climate hazards don't affect everyone equally, practical and long overdue reforms, the limits of adaptation, but what we can do about it today.// People with Disability Deputy CEO, Megan Spindler-Smith//Lastly, we spoke with Megan Spindler-Smith, Deputy CEO of People with Disability Australia. Megan is a proud disabled person, passionate about developing and implementing intersectionally-focused strategic change for people with disability at a national level. Today, they help us unpack the 2024/25 NDIS Annual Price Review, which came into effect on Monday. The changes, announced in June, have been met with widespread concerns, particularly from workers and participants in regional and rural areas.// Song: Self Love by Lady Lash. Support Lady Lash on Bandcamp.//
It's Radiothon time at 3CR, and this year's theme is 'Your Station, Your Voice'! Help us raise $275,000 to keep your favourite community radio station on the air amplifying your voices and the issues that matter to you for another year. How to donate: Call the station 03 9419 8377SMS 0488 809 855Online via our Givenow, at https://givenow.com.au/cr/3crbreakfast2025(link is external), or at 3cr.org.au/donate Drop into the station 21 Smith St, Fitzroy during business hoursAny amount makes a big difference, and all donations over $2 are tax deductible. Our amazing Radiothon 2025 artwork is by Sofia Sabbagh(link is external).// ------------------------------ Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Former diplomat and academic Dr Alison Broinowski joined us to talk about the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network’s (IPAN) urgent call for the Australian Government to stay out of military action and respect international law, following the recent illegal bombings in Iran by the United States. Dr Broinowski has written 14 books about Australia’s role and relationships in the world. From 2020 to 2022, she was a panel member for the People’s Inquiry by IPAN, a grassroots network of organisations across Australia that works to create public discussion and push for independent foreign policies.// Kristin O'Connell from Antipoverty Centre speaks with us about last weekend's People Against Poverty summit in Magan-djin/brisbane, which brought together people, movements and communities to learn skills, share ideas, build relationships, form networks of solidarity, and imagine an alternative to the poverty crisis. The summit was held across the 21st and 22nd of June, and was collaboratively organised by Anti-Poverty Network Queensland, Anti-Poverty Network South Australia, Antipoverty Centre, Australian Unemployed Workers' Union and Community Union Defence League. Disclosure: Priya is a member of the Antipoverty Centre Committee.// As part of our special 3CR coverage of Elbit Out of Victoria’s week-long EOFY campaign to cut all economic ties to genocide, Djuran Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe and Nat from Elbit Out Of Victoria join us to speak about the importance of organising to bring about an end to genocide on these stolen lands and in Palestine. They discuss Elbit Out Of Victoria’s upcoming rally to demand that so-called Australia’s Future Fund divests from weapons companies complicit in genocide, including Elbit Systems. The rally, ‘No! To a Future Soaked in Blood’, begins at 5PM today, Thursday 26 June, at the Future Fund Head Office on 447 Collins Street in the CBD.// Jinghua Qian, Senior Media Adviser at Economic Media Centre and member of MEAA 4 Palestine, speaks with us about Antoinette Lattouf's victory yesterday in her wrongful termination case against the ABC. The public broadcaster fired Lattouf on the 20th of December 2023 after receiving complaints that she had shared facts about Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza on social media. You can read the full judgement here.//
You can still donate to 3CR's Radiothon - 'Your Station, Your Voice' !Help us raise $275,000 to keep your favourite community radio station on the air, amplifying the voices that you don't hear in mainstream media, on the issues that matter the most to you. How to donate:Call the station 03 9419 8377SMS 0488 809 855Online via our Givenow, at givenow.com.au/cr/3crbreakfast2025 or at 3cr.org.au/donate Drop into the station 21 Smith St, Fitzroy during business hoursAny amount makes a big difference, and all donations over $2 are tax deductible.You can listen back to our radiothon special from last week here.//-----Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Naarm Palestinian solidarity newsGlobal March to GazaGaza + West Bank update Mental health worker stop work and rallies, Victoria Fixed pill testing site announced and trial extendedSupreme court appeal launched on behalf of public housing residents// Health and Community Services Union (HACSU)//Content warning: The following segment discusses the suicide rate for Victorians and the challenges mental health workers experience, while it does not go into graphic detail, listeners may find this distressing. You can forward 18mins as well as calling Suicide Call Back Service for support on 1300 659 467 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.//Paul Healey, State Secretary for Health & Community Services Union, joined Inez to discuss the Mental Health Workforce across Victorian public hospitals (inc. Forensicare) that walked off the job this Tuesday 17th of June. Workers carried a large banner with broken hearts which read '772 too many', highlighting the statewide suicide rate and honor those who have lost their lives last year. This comes after 11 months of sustained industrial action, and receiving an offer that doesn't represent the little members are asking for, as well as offerring funds and resources to some disciplines and denying them to others.// Myall Creek Memorial Site 25th Anniverssary//Content warning: Please note that the following clip includes mention of First Nations people who have died and colonial violence. For First Nations-only support, call 13 YARN (13 92 76) or Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563. You can also call Lifeline on 13 11 14.//Then we heard part of a conversation with co-chair of the Myall Creek committee Keith Monro and Marisa from 3CR’s Doin Time. June 10th marked the 25th anniversary of the Myall Creek memorial site, which was built in 2000 to commemorate the 1938 Myall Creek Massacre using truth telling and living culture. In the following segment, Keith gives context to this premeditated act of colonial violence and shares more about the history and meaning of the memorials anniversary. You can hear Doin Time every Monday from 4pm to 5pm, and you can listen back to the full episode by going to 3cr.org.au/dointime.// Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG)//Content warning: This interview includes discussion of elder abuse. For support, listeners can call Seniors Rights Victoria on 1300 368 821, and 1800RESPECT, the national domestic, family and sexual violence counselling, information and support service, on 1800 737 732. To be put in contact with non-emergency support in your state, call 1800 ELDERHelp (1800 353 374).//Fiona York, Executive Officer of Housing for the Aged Action Group, joined us to discuss HAAG's report 'Housing and elder abuse: HAAG clients’ experiences 2020-24', which explores the experiences of older people facing housing insecurity to better understand the relationship between precarious housing and elder abuse. The report was released to coincide with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, which falls on the 15th of June. If you need assistance with housing, are 50 years or older, live in Victoria and have a low income and low assets, contact HAAG's Home at Last line for support on 1300 765 178. HAAG is also on 3CR, broadcasting twice a month on the Raise the Roof show. Tune in to Raise the Roof from 5:30-6PM every second Wednesday on 3CR 855AM.// Sydney Rd Accessible Tram Stops Campaign//Darren Saffin is a local activist and member of organising team for the Sydney Rd Accessible Trams Stops Campaign. Saturday 28th of June will commemorate two years of Government inaction regarding accessible tram stops along Sydney Road, with residents not knowing how they will be able to live their lives when the Upfield train line is closed before the construction of Sky Rail works. It is not just people who use wheelchairs that will be affected, but many people who need accessible tram stops AND accessible trams. Darren joins us to speak about the Saturday 28th of June rally at 11am outside Coburg Library and how to show up and support!
It's Radiothon time at 3CR, and this year's theme is 'Your Station, Your Voice'! Help us raise $275,000 to keep your favourite community radio station on the air amplifying your voices and the issues that matter to you for another year. How to donate:Call the station 03 9419 8377SMS 0488 809 855Online via our Givenow, at https://givenow.com.au/cr/3crbreakfast2025, or at 3cr.org.au/donate Drop into the station 21 Smith St, Fitzroy during business hoursAny amount makes a big difference, and all donations over $2 are tax deductible. Our amazing Radiothon 2025 artwork is by Sofia Sabbagh.// ------------------------------ Acknowledgement of Country Headlines:Gaza updates: genocide, Madleen deportations, and Maghreb caravan convoyProtests for Palestine in so-called Australia: 58th Anniversary of the Naksa, sanctionsUniversities called out for suppression of pro-Palestinian activismClosing submissions in excessive force and capsicum spray class actionVictorian public school teachers campaign against Labor on school funding delaysPalestine's world cup qualification journey Guests:Jamal NabulsiPhuong - Tuesday BreakfastDavid KellyScott Drummond - Victorian Alcohol and Drug AssociationNina - FIGJAMHeath PledgerJalees HyderNoura Mansour - Democracy in ColourShevAlex Gruenewald - Renters and Housing UnionJess
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Masafer Yatta//We heared updates from an 'australian' activist currently in Palestine on recent developments in the area of Masafer Yatta, a collection of herding communties in the West Bank. This week's dispatch covers settler violence in Khalet a Daba, deportation of solidarity activists, bombing in Gaza, and reminders about how to support Palestinian resistance from so-called australia.// VIC Fixed Drug Testing//We heared from ''Oliver'' on the upcoming launch of the fixed drug testing facility, due to be announced next week, on what makes a service accessible, adaptable, and safe for people who use drugs. We spoke about how to reach populations that are left out from the mobile testing at music festivals, the role stigma plays, what wraparound healthcare look like, and a walk through on the ideal service experience.// Kelly Flanagan - FIGJAM//CW: discussion of suicide/suicidal ideation (general - not graphic). If you need to speak with someone for support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN (13 92 76) and Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563. Kelly Flanagan, a formerly incarcerated Indigenous woman, spoke to Priya this week about the appalling conditions prisoners at Melbourne's Dame Phyllis Frost Centre have been forced to endure under rolling lockdowns since July 2024. This crisis was revealed in a story broken by ABC News earlier this week, where 7:30 obtained data showing that the centre had been locked down at least 106 times since July 2024. Aunty Lisa Briggs - Walk for Truth//Lastly, we heard from Aunty Lisa Briggs, a proud Gunditjmara women and Member of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, with over 40 years of experience working in public policy for Aboriginal Affairs at all levels. We're honored for Aunty Lisa to join us to discuss the Yoorrook Justice Commission's Walk For Truth, which has been running from 25 May, and finishing up on 18 June. This powerful journey aims to bring everyone together to walk toward truth, celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people, and be proud to have the oldest living culture in the world as ours. Join them on their journey at Colac, Footscray, Shrine of Rememberance and many more legs. Follow Yoorrook on Instagram for their latest updates.// Updates & Events:Justice for Ali Mohammad JooThe Kashmiri Martyr, father, and sole breadwinner of his family, who was killed by the indian occupation forces.// Justice for Kumanjayi White - Snap RallyTomorrow, Friday 6 June - 5:30PMVictorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, MelbourneLast week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Join us to demand justice, accountability and action from the federal government. Stand with the Warlpiri people, the Yuendumu community, and all families fighting for truth, self-determination and justice.// Song:Listen to Bawuypawuy the lastest single by Drifting Clouds, described as the most chill band from Arnhem Land. You definetely don't want to miss these infectious sounds and hynotic melodies coming from Terry Guyula. Take a listen - follow them on Instagram and buy their music on Bandcamp.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Gaza update, condemning of Albanese government inaction West Papuan attacksWhistleblower protections Dja Dja Wurrung treaty Woodside North West Shelf gas project approvalPolice brutality & death in custody Mparntwe. Arif Hussein: Senior Lawyer at Human Rights Law Centre//We listened to Marisa's interview with Arif Hussein, Senior Lawyer at Human Rights Law Centre, on Monday 19 May for 3CR's Doin' Time Show. They discussed the parliamentary inquiry and grassroots push for a comprehensive Human Rights Act in South ''australia'', and the momentum needed to enshrine these protections in federal legislation. Currently in so-called ''australia'', the only jurisdictions with Human Rights Acts are Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, and Queensland. Catch Doin' Time every Monday from 4-5PM on 3CR 855AM.// Professor Glenn Savage: Professor of Education Futures at the University of Melbourne//Professor Glenn Savage, Professor of Education Futures at the University of Melbourne, joined Priya earlier this week to discuss deepening inequities in public school funding and how responsibility is split between the federal and Victorian governments. The conversation follows last week’s Victorian state budget, where the Allan Government delayed meeting its responsibilities to adequately resource state schools. Glenn discusses the impacts of these funding gaps on public school students, staff, and leaders, and explains how intergovernmental politics are shaping access to well resourced schools, opportunities, and quality education. As a policy sociologist, Glenn brings expertise in education reform, federalism, and global policy mobility.// Jalees Hyder: Kashmiri writer, poet, teacher, survivor//In our final segement of our special 3 part series on Kashmir, Jalees Hyder and Inez detail what actionable solidarity looks like and the icons and faces of Kashmiri resistance. Listen back to part 1 & part 2 of this series where they unpack Kashmir's history, interconnected resistance and solidarity with Palestine, centering Kashmiri voices, and much more. From personal stories of solidarity, to what life is like under occupation, Jalees paints a picture on why Kashmiri's have had enough and what we can do about it. Jalees Hyder is a fiery Kashmiri writer, teacher, poet, freedom fighter, and survivor living as a guest on Chinook Land in 'portland’.//Follow Jalees on instagram to amplify supressed Kashmiri voices, and check out the links at the end of the page for more indepth learning on Kashmir.// Jesse Noakes: Writer, campaigner, & housing advocate//Writer, campaigner, and housing advocate Jesse Noakes joined us to talk about the impact of 'no-grounds evictions' on First Nations tenants in Western ''australia''. This conversation focused on a case that is currently before the Perth Magistrate's Court where an elderly and disabled Noongar Man, Mr Harvey Coyne, is facing eviction under 'no-grounds' provisions by community housing provider Housing Choices Australia.The next hearing for Mr Coyne's case will be held today 29 May 2025, more information on the case is available here. Write in solidarity to Housing Choices Australia's Board, and find out more about 'no-grounds evictions' by visiting stopevictingfamilies.org.// Jalees Hyder's Kashmiri Learning List: Ather Zia, poet and writerHafsa Kanjwal, author of Colonizing KashmirMohamad Junaid, academicDisorientalizing, instagramKashmirarchive, instagramJalees Hyder, poet, writer, teach-insParveena Ahanger 'Iron Lady of Kashmir', founder of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) // Additional quotes during headlines attributed to:Police brutality & death in custody Mparntwe. Dr Amy McGuire's Substack articleSenior Warlpiri Elder & Grandfather Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves' statementKarrinjarla Muwajarri Yuendumu Community Statement of Demands May 2022//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Gaza update Flooding in NSW mid-north coastLegal experts and advocates raise concerns about NSW police’s use of firearm prohibition ordersState Library of Queensland withdraws fellowship from First Nations writer over Palestine solidaritySurges in refusals of Freedom of Information requests Updates from an 'australian' activist in Palestine on recent developments in Masafer Yatta, a collection of herding communties in the West Bank. We hear about the everyday violence of settlers encroaching on Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley, as well as our correspondent's reflections on being involved in international solidarity work providing a presence to deter these incursions.// Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, joined us to unpack funding implications for the Aboriginal legal sector in Victoria's 2025-26 budget, which was handed down by Treasurer Jaclyn Symes this Tuesday 19 May. Nerita discussed the impacts of the Allan Government's massive funding boost for the prison system and police in the wake of this year's regressive bail reform, as well as its decision to stick to time-limited funding for Aboriginal legal services in regional Victoria. Nerita Waight is a Yorta Yorta and Narrandjeri woman with Taungurung connections.// Jalees Hyder is a fiery Kashmiri writer, teacher, poet, freedom fighter, and survivor living as a guest on Chinook Land in 'portland’. In this special 3 part series, Jalees and Inez unpack Kashmir's history, interconnected resistance and solidarity with Palestine, the importance of centering Kashmiri voices, tourism as a tool of normalising the occupation and much more. From personal stories of solidarity to what life is like under occupation, Jalees paints a picture on why Kashmiris have had enough and what actionable solidarity looks like. Today, we play part 2, we talk about how media manafacture consent for violence, supression of Kashmiri voices, tourism as normalising occupation, and india x israels relationship.Follow Jalees on Instagram, where he shares his writing and poetry as well as resources about Kashmir - support and amplify Kashmiri voices!//Song: Sahal Kar from Ali Saffudin, a singer-songwriter from Srinagar, Kashmir. Known throughout the valley for his magnetic and captivating voice, take a listen.// Thursday 15th of May marked the 77th anniversary of Nakba Day, commemorating the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in the fight for Palistinian liberation since 1947. This Day reminds us that Nakba, meaning catastrophe or disaster in Arabic, never ended. Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land is ongoing in the form of genocide, ecocide and epistemicide - which means to 'destroy and erase sovereign knowledge'. The following audio was recorded by 3CR's Karina Aguilera at the Naarm Nakba Day Rally on Sunday last week. You will hear the voices of Noura Mansour, Nasser Mashni, Uncle Gary Foley and Uncle Robbie Thorpe.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Updates from GazaNationwide action for Nakba Day 2025University of Sydney students vote on controversial antisemitism definitionVictorian Government commits $727 million to prison expansion An 'australian' activist currently in Palestine shares updates from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank and an interview with Palestinian activist Hamoudi about his family's experiences of the ongoing Nakba and exercising steadfastness in the face of occupation. We also hear a short clip of some school girls in Susiya singing the song 'Aytuna Tafola' ('Give Us Our Childhood').// Dr Jamal Nabulsi is a Palestinian writer, researcher, rapper, organiser, educator on unceded Jagera and Turrbal land ''brisbane.'' Jamal joins Inez to discuss Palestinian and First Nations solidarity, resisting fragmentation, the importance of self-determined Indigenous spaces, and shared music, art, and solidarity practices. Jamal is a founding collective member of the Institute of Collaborative Race Research, and his PHD thesis ‘Affective Resistance: Feeling through everyday Palestinian struggle’, which explores Palestinian hip-hop music and graffiti, was awarded the prize for best doctoral thesis on emotions in politics and international relations by the British International Studies Association. Check out Brisblackpal for resources on Blackfulla - Palestinian Solidarity. Get your tickets for the Activism for Palestine Conference 2025, running 30 May-1 June in Fortitude Valley, Magan-djin/brisbane, on Humanitix.// Jalees Hyder is a fiery Kashmiri writer, teacher, poet, freedom fighter, and survivor living as a guest on Chinook Land in 'portland’. In this special three-part series, Jalees and Inez unpack Kashmir's history, interconnected resistance and solidarity with Palestine, the importance of centering Kashmiri voices, tourism as a tool of normalising the occupation and much more. From personal stories of solidarity to what life is like under occupation, Jalees paints a picture on why Kashmiris have had enough and what actionable solidarity looks like. Today, we play part 1 of the conversation, where Jalees and Inez talk about community solidarity, the history of Kashmir, and what often gets left out of mainstream narratives on the region. Follow Jalees on Instagram, where he shares his writing and poetry as well as resources about Kashmir - support and amplify Kashmiri voices!// Lorna Munro, Wiradjuri and Gomeroi woman and multi-disciplinary artist extraordinaire, caught up with Priya to speak about anti-colonial solidarities between First Nations Peoples and Palestinians, and to situate the role of poetry in the struggle for liberation against colonial violence and occupation. Lorna also shared a beautiful poem about surviving genocide. Keep up to date with Lorna's work on Instagram.// Songs//yayayaya (prod. Atari) - Haykal// Mawtini/My Homeland - Gaza Youth Choir//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Updates from GazaQueensland Government’s decision to freeze access to hormone treatments for transgender children faces court challengeNew South Wales Department of Justice forced to release footage of officer assault on a teenage girl in custodyTasmanian Government plans to delay closure of Ashley Youth Detention CentreUpdates from Kashmir We heard updates from an 'australian' activist currently in Palestine, who shared recent developments in the area of Masafer Yatta, a collection of herding communities in the West Bank. This dispatch includes reporting on settler intimidation and land-grab attempts and the steadfastness of Palestinian herders' efforts to stay on their land.// James Godfrey from Free Gaza Australia joined us to discuss the May 2nd drone attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s ship the Conscience, which occurred just off the coast of Malta. The vessel was carrying humanitarian aid to thousands of starving people in Gaza facing famine after a total blockade on aid imposed by the state of Israel since March 2nd. Free Gaza Australia is a member of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a people-to-people solidarity movement of initiatives from all over the world, working to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza by the state of Israel using non-violent direct action.// Katrina Kiernan-Walker, one of two vice-president candidates for the Community and Public Sector Union or CPSU Victoria's A Voice for Members ticket, talked with us about the rank and file demand for a fighting union representing public sector workers. Katrina has been in the Victorian public service for five years, and has spent four of those as a CPSU Victoria delegate and health and safety representative. There are still a few tickets left for tonight's CPSU A Voice for Members Trivia Night with Tom Ballard - grab one here.// Dr Chris Taylor, Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, unpacked the state of native forest regeneration in Victoria after the end of native forest logging at scale with the closure of Vic Forests in July 2024. Chris is an environmental researcher with expertise in landscape analysis and spatial ecology, working on modelling forest conditions, disturbance regimes, and biodiversity priorities. Chris has led and co-authored studies examining forest regeneration failure, fire severity, and habitat fragmentation across Victoria. At the Fenner School, Chris is currently contributing to interdisciplinary research on forest dynamics, conservation prioritisation, and environmental policy. Chris acknowledges the First Peoples of the Countries he works on, the People of the Bunurong, Gunaikurnai, Taungurong and Wurundjeri nations and their Elders.// Kate Allingham, CEO of Economic Justice Australia, discussed a newly-released report by EJA analysing barriers to service delivery for women attempting to access and maintain social security entitlements in regional, rural, remote and very remote australia. The report is the first release in a series of three pieces of work by EJA spanning key service delivery, law and policy issues related to social security access, and making substantial recommendations for reform.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines:Protest action ahead of the electionAustralian-made weapons components reaching Israel via third countriesExperts urge an overhaul of Victoria Police oversight systemNew report reveals evictions of Victorian renters due to unpaid rent have increased to five times the 2021 rateMohammed Aruri, a member of the executive of the General Union of Palestinian Workers, joins us from Ramallah to speak about Palestinian workers' struggle across the West Bank and Gaza, conditions since October 2023, and connections with the international labour movement. You can read Palestinian trade unions' May Day 2025 statement - 'No Labor For Genocide - No Complicity With Apartheid', to which GUPW is a signatory - on the BDS Movement's website.//We hear Pauline Vetuna and Leilani Fuimaono's segment for 3CR's Disability Day 2022 ''F**K Work''. They speak on centering disabled REST in labour rights and movements for liberation. In this clip, they speak on the joys of Indigneous anti-capitalist futures, and rest being central to Disability Justice. You can listen back to the whole segment on https://www.3cr.org.au/disabilityday2022//Teresa Hetherington is a community-based aged care worker, a union activist and United Workers Union Aged Care Delegate. Today, Teresa joins us to talk about rights in feminised workforces such as care and support work for May Day. The care sector, such as aged care, home care, disability support and child care, is a women dominated industry and includes a high number of workers with migrant backgrounds. Despite the importance of this work that provides critical support to our communities, it is work that remains systematically undervalued. In our discussion this morning, Teresa will bring us up to date on current working conditions, the fight for fair pay and more.//Jeanine Hourani, an organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement and member of the Mask Off Maersk committee, discusses the role of international worker solidarity in the Mask Off Maersk campaign. This campaign is enforcing a people's arms embargo on Israel as it continues its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, with solidarity actions including significant trade union participation underway at logistics chokepoints worldwide. Find out more about the campaign, including how to take action from wherever you are, here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// HeadlinesRally for Abdifatah AhmedGaza and West Bank updatesAustralia’s exports to Israel since October 7, 2023 revealedThousands of young people in Australia paid below legal minimum wageCivil society groups issue united statement opposing domestic nuclear power Dr Mohammad Mustafa on Gaza Medical AidWe listen to a speech by Dr Mohammad Mustafa recorded at last Sunday's rally for Palestine outside the State Library of Victoria by Emily. Dr Mustafa, who is training as an emergency physician in Australia, shared harrowing experiences from his recent trip to provide medical relief in Gaza with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association.// Settler Colonialism and Archaeology in PalestineWe play a segment of a lecture delivered by Palestinian archaeologist and academic Dr Mahmoud Hawari for the Beyond Inhabitation Lab in Turin on the 15th of April 2025. In this fascinating lecture, titled 'Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Archeology, and the Appropriation of Cultural Heritage,' Dr Hawari unpacks the long-standing relationship between settler colonialism and archaeology in Palestine. Dr Hawari's full talk is published here on the Beyond Inhabitation Lab YouTube channel.// Speeches from Rally for Abdifatah AhmedWe play speeches from Tuesday's rally calling for justice for Abdifatah Ahmed, a member of the Somali community who was shot and killed by two Victoria Police officers in Footscray last Thursday the 17th of April. The rally, called by members of the Somali and broader African community, was held at Footscray's Nicholson Street Mall and included a march to the Footscray Police Station to demand truth, justice and an independent investigation into Abdifatah Ahmed's killing. On today's show, we feature the voices of local community leader and CEO of Africause Dr Berhan Ahmed, and local mental health worker Barani, who is also a member of the Somali community.// Trans Liberation Counter-ProtestRose joins us to speak about an autonomous action countering yet another TERFascist rally planned for this Saturday the 26th of April on the steps of Parliament House. We also discussed the rippling international effects of anti-trans crackdowns in the United States and the recent ruling by the United Kingdom Supreme Court on the legal definition of a woman, harmfully and erroneously conflating biological sex with gender. To find out more about Saturday's protest, follow @transqueersolidarity, @queerkilljoys and @tdoa.2025 on Instagram.// Koorie Youth Summit 2025Yorta Yorta man Jye Charles speaks about the Koorie Youth Summit coming up in May this year, which for the first time will be hosted on Yorta Yorta country in Shepparton. The Koorie Youth Summit has been running since 2014, and is the largest gathering in Victoria created for and by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people aged 18-28 years. Jye is the Community Engagement Officer at the Koorie Youth Council, and is passionate about youth leadership and community engagement, centred in truth-telling and self-determination.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Human rights groups condemn University of Melbourne surveillance policiesAttack on Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur regionGaza and West Bank updatesCalls for review of AUKUS dealMedical groups urge federal candidates to prioritise climate change-induced health crisesConcerns about City of Melbourne’s greening strategy Witt Gorrie at Trans Day of Action 2025//We listened to a speech recorded at the Trans Day of Action rally held on the 31st of March by Witt Gorrie, who described the ties between First Nations justice, trans liberation and decarceration. If you want to hear more about Witt’s collaborative, abolition focused work, you can revisit our show from the 28th of February featuring Witt Gorrie and Beyond Bricks and Bars steering committee members Kate and Gia in conversation with Priya.Keep up this important work and show your support by coming down to Parliament House next Saturday the 26th April at 11:30am for the Trans Liberation Counter Protest. Bring along your p2/n95 face masks, friends, family and noisemakers!// The Nightmare Sequence//Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed spoke with Priya about their new collaborative work The Nightmare Sequence, which is out now with the University of Queensland Press (all author royalties donated to Palestinian charities). The Nightmare Sequence, featuring poetry by Omar and illustrations by Safdar, is a searing response to the atrocities committed by Israel and its allies in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Born of collective suffering and despair, the book interrogates the position of witness: the terrible and helpless distance of vision, the impact of being exposed to violence of this scale on a daily basis, and what it means to live in a society that is actively participating in the catastrophic destruction of Arabs and Muslims overseas. Omar is a poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the acclaimed author of the novel Son of Sin and three poetry collections, including The Lost Arabs, which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Safdar Ahmed is an award-winning artist, writer, musician and cultural worker. His graphic novel Still Alive won the Multicultural NSW Award and was named Book of the Year in the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Safdar is a founding member of the Refugee Art Project and a member of eleven, a collective of contemporary Muslim Australian artists, curators and writers.// Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection//Prof Deborah Lupton joins us to discuss the new autistic-led project, Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection with the Project Lead, Dr Megan Rose and illustrator Sarah Firth. The project reveals the everyday and creative ways autistic adults use objects, services, and creatures to support their wellbeing. Published by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society at UNSW, the project provides beautiful illustrations and rich inner worlds of Autistic adults about the supports that help them, special interests that fill them up, and challenges they face. The illustration published with this week's episode has been used with permission from the project team.// Renters’ Federal Election Priorities//Bernie Barrett, Acting CEO of Better Renting, unpacks what's on the table for renters in the major parties' housing policy platforms announced last weekend. Bernie also speaks about Better Renting's Renter's Election pledge, and what it means to think about renters in so-called australia as a voting bloc. Head to renters-election.au to find out more about and sign up to the pledge.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Supreme court ruling on public housing class actionGaza updatesUniversity of Melbourne updates wi-fi terms of use, surveils protestorsGeelong Council plans to close in-home aged care serviceMyanmar earthquake updates We hear a speech by Palestinian activist Mai Saif from the Sunday 23rd March Rally for a Free Palestine, where Mai condemned the Australian government's double-standards that suppress Palestinian voices and prioritise Jewish feelings over Muslim lives. Weekly rallies for Palestine are back every Sunday from 12PM outside the State Library of Victoria.// We listen to part 2 of Priya's conversation with staff and students from The Pavilion School, a State School based in Naarm's northern suburbs that focuses on flexible education and a supportive environment for students who have been disengaged or excluded from mainstream schooling. Participating in this conversation are students Sarah, Nathaniel and Jannaya, student support worker and former student Stephanie, and Mes, who is also a student support worker and is doing their PhD in education at La Trobe. In the second half of this conversation, we hear about Mes' doctoral research, which has been co-designed with staff and students at The Pavilion School and aims to evaluate the impact of the school's alternative education model. Listen back to part 1 of our conversation here.// We hear a conversation between Inez and Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba about his exhibition We Outside, which captures event spaces created by and for young African-Australians in Melbourne. Video and images bring to life the resilience, diversity and richness of the African-Australian community. Ayooluwatomiwa is an analogue photographer based in Melbourne. With an MD/PhD in AI and dermatology from Monash University, his medical interest in the human condition informs his passion for documentary photography, capturing people, events, and cultural narratives. We Outside is running from Friday the 14th of March until Thursday the 17th of August, 10AM-5PM at the Grand Foyer, Community Gallery at Melbourne's Immigration Museum.//Giulio Ponte, Research Engineer at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the University of Adelaide, joins us to discuss the risk to cyclists of selective attention by motorists, and what can be done to improve cyclist safety. Giulio has a degree in mechanical engineering and a graduate diploma in transport and traffic engineering, and has considerable experience in at-scene crash investigation, and vehicle-pedestrian safety assessment. Giulio also has an ongoing involvement in the pedestrian testing program undertaken for the Australasian New Car Assessment Program. Read Giulio and Jamie McKenzie’s article ‘‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road,’ published by The Conversation on April 2nd, here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Junta stalls Myanmar earthquake reliefBodies of murdered Palestinian emergency workers discovered in GazaAustralian human rights groups lodge UN claim on youth justice policies The Pavilion School Part 1//We played part 1 of a conversation with staff and students from The Pavilion School, a State School based in Naarm's northern suburbs that focuses on flexible education and a supportive environment for students who have been disengaged or excluded from mainstream schooling. Participating in this conversation are students Sarah, Nathaniel and Jannaya, student support worker and former student Stephanie, and Mes, who is also a student support worker and is doing their PhD in education at La Trobe with a focus on impact in alternative schooling. In this part of the conversation, we hear about the history and approach of The Pavilion School, and about Jannaya, Sarah and Nathaniel's experiences joining and attending the school.// The Economic Case for Community Land Trusts//Housing economist Karl Fitzgerald joined us to discuss Community Land Trusts (CLTs) following the release on 2 April of a report by Grounded - "Grounded in Affordability: The Economic Case for Community Land Trusts". Grounded is a not-for-profit organisation established to advocate, incubate and accelerate the development of CLTs in so-called Australia. Karl unpacks how CLTs could reshape housing affordability, and how these changes could impact those who need housing most. We also break down the CLT model, its costs, long-term benefits, and the policy shifts needed to increase housing access.// Pleasure and Consent for Women and Gender Diverse People with Disabilities//Dr Brigid Evans, Senior Policy and Research Officer at Women with Disabilities Victoria, spoke with us about a co-authored discussion paper published by WDV last week that focuses on issues of access to pleasure and consent for women and gender diverse people with disabilities. The paper opens a conversation about barriers faced by women and gender diverse people with disabilities to accessing sexual and reproductive health care and to freely exercising affirmative consent. In her role at WDV, Brigid provides advice to governments and service providers on primary prevention of disability and gender-based violence, as well as disability inclusive sexual and reproductive health promotion. Read 'Pleasure and Consent for Women and Gender Diverse People with Disabilities: Discussion Paper' here.// Racism Out of Politics Campaign//Noura Mansour, National Director of Democracy in Colour, joined us to discuss the persistence of racism in electoral politics as we head towards this year's federal election in May. Democracy In Colour is currently running the 'Racism Out of Politics' campaign pushing for an end to racist and discriminatory rhetoric and policy promises in the election race, which includes a pledge that candidates can sign to commit to combating racism in australian politics. Find out more and support the campaign here./
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Gaza updatesInquest into Clinton Austin death in Loddon Prison delayedFederal budget anti-poverty critiqueUrges for the Australian government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons We play a speech by Themme Fatale at the Defend Dissent Coalition rally on Victoria's Parliament Steps last Wednesday the 19th of March. Themme Fatale drove home the powerful message that preventing the criminalisation of mask-wearing at protests is first and foremost a disability justice issue. Read and sign the open letter "Protect the Right to Protest" from Defend Dissent Coalition here.// Ruth Nyaruot Ruach and Geskeva Komba, Creative Producers and Co-Founders of Next In Colour, joined us to discuss the Future Reset: Diasporic Dreaming project, a creative collaboration between Footscray Community Arts and Next In Colour which aims to support young people from African Diaspora communities. The project, funded by Vic Health, began in 2022 and culminates in this Saturday’s launch of the research zine 'Re-imagining Utopias'. Ruth is a South-Sudanese multidisciplinary artist, who uses art to heal, explore her surroundings and create comfort within her blackness. Geskeva Komba is a trans-disciplinary creative of Comorian and Tanzanian heritage. Raised in the Western suburbs of Melbourne she has experience combined in community development, theatre, film, spoken word, as well as music.// Yusra and Khadija, students at River Nile School (RNS), share what independent senior secondary education at the school is all about. RNS provides specialised support for young people from refugee and asylum seeker communities, and has a commitment to trauma-informed teaching and learning strategies, with a goal to reduce the barriers to education faced by young women in particular. In our conversation today, Yusra and Khadija also spoke about River Nile School’s block party happening next Thursday 3 April from 2-6pm in North Melbourne. You can RSVP or show your support by donating to the school here.//Gamilaroi man and IndigenousX founder Luke Pearson joined us for a critical conversation about 'Harmony Day', which australia celebrates on March 21st while the rest of the world is commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Luke speaks about the difference between successive australian governments' attempts to creatively re-branding the colonial status quo and the work required to engage in actual anti-racist practice. You can read an excellent piece by Luke on 'Harmony Day' here on IndigenousX.//
Acknowledgement of Country//News Headlines//Avery Howard, Vice President of the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union (AUWU) and JobSeeker recipient, speaks with us on the 5th anniversary of the COVID-19 supplement about the drastic and immediate impact that it had to alleviate poverty for nearly a million people across so-called Australia. The Morrison Government’s subsequent decision to end the supplement plunged welfare recipients back into poverty, sparking widespread condemnation by anti-poverty activists. The AUWU, Anti-Poverty Network South Australia, Antipoverty Centre, Anti-Poverty Network Queensland, and Nobody Deserves Poverty are commemorating the anniversary with a press conference today at Parliament House, as well as an online event on Monday the 24th of March reflecting on the impacts of the COVID-19 supplement and its significance for welfare recipients.//Last Saturday the 15th of March, a vigil was held outside the State Library of Victoria on the anniversary of the Christchurch mosque massacre in 2019, honouring the 51 lives lost in this tragedy. We hear singing and words of cross-community solidarity shared at the rally by Jasmine, Zari, and other members of the local Māori community, with speakers introduced by MC Sara Baarini.//We hear a speech by Nina, a member of Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne (FIGJAM), at the snap action for Poccum’s Law held on Parliament steps this past Tuesday the 18th of March to condemn the Victorian Labor Government’s new ‘tough on crime’ bail bill. Nina was introduced by Maggie Munn, proud Gungarri advocate, who is the First Nations Justice advocate at Human Rights Law Centre. During the rally, attendees learned that the Bail Amendment (Tough Bail) Bill 2025 passed the Legislative Assembly with only three votes against. The bill inserts significant restrictions to bail access and has been widely condemned by Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, the community legal sector, family violence prevention organisations and youth support organisations for its regressive approach that will increase rates of incarceration for both children and adults in Victoria. Read the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Services' 'Bail Saves Lives: Poccum’s Law is the Way Forward' statement here, and Flat Out's media statement on the bail laws here.//Dr James Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Bachelor of Criminology at Deakin University. He's a leading researcher in the field of black markets, cybercrime, and the dark web illicit drug trade, as well as a Tobacco Harm Reduction Advisor for Harm Reduction Australia. In this interview, Dr Martin breaks down where law enforcement clashes with proven harm reduction approaches, how the dark web functions, and lays out australia's approach to vaping. He also discusses what's going on with vaping regulations, enforcing this law, changing societal perceptions of nicotine, and moral panics.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Please note that the following clip may touch on themes including domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, organised abuse, colonial violence, suicide, mental illness, self harm and drug use. If you need immediate support, you can call Lifeline 13 11 14, Suicide Callback Service 1300 659 467, 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) or LGBTQ peer support QLife 1800 184 527 (3pm - midnight). If you’re a First Nations person who’d prefer mob only support, you can call 13 YARN (13 92 76) or Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563.//We replay conversation between Amy Ciara, Jasmine McLennan and president of the Blue Knot Foundation, Dr Cathy Kezelman, during last Wednesday's special broadcast marking Dissociative Identity Disorder Awareness Day and supported by 3CR's Brainwaves. In the following interview, Amy, Jasmine and Cathy explore the nuances of living with complex trauma and dissociative identity disorders, also known as DID.// Lebanese-Australian lawyer and first-time filmmaker Nicholas Hanna speaks with us about his recently-released documentary, 'The Last Sky', which provides critical insight into Israel's war on Gaza within a broader context of its aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people. The film, which was produced by Palestinian media producer and filmmaker Rihab Charida, focuses unique attention on the perspectives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon during the genocide, bringing together footage recorded in the region by Hanna and Charida in both 2004 and 2024.// We listened to part 2 of Priya's conversation with Jinsella Kennaway, Co-Founder and Executive Director of UK-based Demilitarise Education, who joined us to unpack the organisation's work to equip organisers with tools in the fight to break the links in the military-industrial-academic complex. In today's segment, Jinsella continues our discussion about the Demilitarise Education Treaty, a foundational framework that provides a pathway for action for universities to publicly commit to and implement full demilitarisation across investments, research and teaching activities. Head to 3cr.org.au/thursday-breakfast to listen back to part 1, which aired last week.// Professor Alex Collie is an applied public health and social policy scholar at Monash University. His research and teaching focus on work injury rehabilitation, occupational health and social protection schemes for personal injury. He joins us to discuss the latest study published 06 Mar 25 "Early High-Risk Opioid Prescribing and Persistent Opioid Use in Australian Workers with Workers’ Compensation Claims for Back and Neck Musculoskeletal Disorders or Injuries: A Retrospective Cohort Study" which raises concern about opioid prescribing to injured Australian workers.// SongsBetter Things - Kee'ahnCaged Bird - Miiesha//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay an interview recorded by Danielle from 3CR's Breadline program at a picnic organised by the Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU), where Danielle spoke with attendee Alex about their experiences on the disability pension. Alex also shared some advice for those seeking support from Centrelink. This interview was aired on Breadline on Monday 3rd March - tune in every Monday at 6PM to hear directly from members of the AUWU.// Jinsella Kennaway, Co-Founder and Executive Director of UK-based Demilitarise Education, speaks with us about the organisation's work to equip organisers with tools in the fight to break the links in the military-industrial-academic complex. Our conversation focuses on the Demilitarise Education Treaty, a foundational framework that provides a pathway for action for universities to publicly commit to and implement full demilitarisation across investments, research and teaching activities. Today we listen to part 1 of Jinsella's conversation with Priya - tune in next week to catch part 2.// Camilla Rowland, CEO of Palliative Care Australia, speaks with us about palliative care resourcing and access in Australia and the urgent need for increased government support for this type of health care. Palliative Care Australia has published its 2025 federal election platform outlining key reforms to improve palliative care provision through both specialist and primary care pathways. Sign the petition to support Palliative Care Australia's election asks here.// Nirmal Joy, Multicultural Social Justice Coordinator at the Sydney Community Forum and lead of the Voices for Power advocacy project, joins us to discuss the campaign for a just and equitable clean energy transition in Australia. Through the Renew Australia for All movement, Voices for Power is advocating for community-based approaches to understand and respond to the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse communities navigating energy plans, sustainability, and the cost of living crisis.// Songs Out The Door - IZY//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Beyond Bricks and BarsWitt Gorrie and two members of the steering committee of Beyond Bricks and Bars, Kate and Gia, spoke with Priya about the importance of this vital trans and gender diverse decarceration project on its 6th birthday.//Beyond Bricks and Bars' birthday fundraiser is coming up this Saturday 1 March from 5-10PM at Kines, 11 Hope Street, Brunswick - get your tickets here. Funds raised will be split between Beyond Bricks and Bars and the Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Fund.// Migrant Worker's CentreMatt Kunkel, CEO of the Migrant Worker's Centre, returns to the show to speak about their latest campaign for migrant workers 'Expanding the Fair Entitlements Guarantee' - a scheme that provides workers who lose their job due to employer insolvency or bankruptcy with financial assistance to recover some unpaid entitlements. This includes unpaid wages, accrued leave, and redundancy pay. It provides a critical safety net for workers during what can be a financially difficult time. Sign the petition here.//You can contact the Migrant Worker's Centre if you're looking for support as a worker on 03 7009 6710, www.migrantworkers.org.au, or 54 Victoria St Carlton.// Public Housing Class ActionRMIT housing academic Dr David Kelly speaks with us about a joint research project with Priya and Professor Libby Porter that includes an analysis of the forced displacement of public housing tenants in Naarm through estate renewal.//David will also provided updates on the public housing class action case, which resumes in Victoria's Supreme Court today, Thursday 27 February, from 10:30AM.// RAFFWU & BangladeshJosh Cullinan from the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), joined the Asia Pacific Currents team this Saturday with a report on his recent solidarity visit to Bangladesh. They discussed the role of workers in the Bangladesh garment industry, as well as recent political events in Bangladesh, the importance of International Solidarity for Australian Unions, and more. Asia Pacific Currents can be heard every Saturday on 3CR from 9-9:30AM, or on our website: 3cr.org.au/asiapac//
Acknowledgment//3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nation – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.//News headlines//Doin Time replay//Content warning: The following segment contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody. For mob only support you can call 13YARN on 13 92 76 or Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563, for general support call Lifeline on 13 11 14. We hear a eplay from 3CRs Doin Time for their special memorial show marking 21 years since the death of Aboriginal Teenager TJ Hickey, who died at the hands of police on 14 February, 2004. Aunty Di has an in-depth discussion of aboriginal deaths in custody, and finding justice for our first nations communities as well as effects to get a class action together, to hold police and prison staff accountable. Show your support by donating to Justice for Tj Hickey here.//Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman - Part 1//Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman established the Infectious Diseases Unit at the University of Malaya Medical Centre and the Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS at the same institution, currently hold the title of Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Pro Vice Chancellor and President of Monash University, Malaysia. Prior to this appointment, she served as Dean of Medicine at the University of Malaya. She spoke at the VAADA conference February 13-14 2025, about lessons from HIV harm reduction in Malaysia, mandatory treatment, prison injustice, and lessons for Australia in AOD policy reform. In part 1 of the interview, we speak about what it was like to build the HIV harm reduction movement in Malaysia.//Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman - Part 2//In part 2 of the interview, we will speak about what crossover HIV harm reduction and AOD have and what global solidarity in health can look like. Daney Faddoul HRLC//Daney Faddoul is Campaign Manager for Human Rights Law Centre and joins us to share findings from their most recent report ‘The Right To Housing In Australia’, developed in conjunction with the University of Technology Sydney. The report released on Monday this week validates urgent calls from community and experts alike that the right to safe and secure housing in so-called Australia should be enshrined in law. Including a right to housing in the Australian Human Rights Act is a step towards creating fairer, safer and more affordable people-centred policies. Read the full report here.//
3CR’s Subscriber Drive is on now! Subscribe to become a part of the 3CR community, get more involved in the governance of the station, and have your say at our AGM.How to subscribe:Head to 3cr.org.au/subscribe, where you can choose to pay for a single year’s subscription or set up a recurring payment online,Phone (03) 9419 8377 during business hours (Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm), orSubscribe in person during business hours at 21 Smith Street, Fitzroy, where you can pay by cash, EFTPOS, cheque or money order.// Acknowledgment of Country// Headlines// Defend Dissent Coalition//Catherine from the Defend Dissent Coalition joined us to talk about the coalition's emergence in the face of the Victorian Labor Government's proposed anti-protest and social cohesion laws. The Coalition is a diverse group of activist organisations and individuals fighting to ensure the right to protest, which has been increasingly threatened in Victoria. In the face of mass protest in solidarity with Palestinians subjected to Israel's 15+ month genocidal assault on Gaza, the Allan Government has already introduced several bills into Parliament which encroach on freedom of expression and assembly, though the proposed legislation represents one of the harshest anti-protest crackdowns in recent years. The Defend Dissent Coalition is organising a rally against the anti-protest laws on March 19th at 5:30PM outside the Parliament of Victoria - follow them on Instagram at @defenddissentcoalition for updates.// Amin Abbas at Palestine Rally//We listen back to a speech by Palestinian activist Amin G Abbas from the Free Palestine Rally on Sunday 9 February in Naarm, where Amin condemned Donald Trump's announcement of his intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and praised the strength of the people of Gaza as they return to their shattered homes.// Slingshot Books on Tabkha//Tess Cullity, founder of Slingshot Books, spoke with us about the process of publishing Tabkha: Recipes From Under the Rubble, a cook book written by Palestinian chef Mona Zahed while under genocidal siege in Gaza and illustrated by artists from Coffees For Gaza. We also play a clip of Mona talking about the book which she recorded last year before the announcement of the ceasefire agreement (our thanks to Mell Chun for editing and sharing this audio). Mona has always loved cooking, artfully presenting food, and helping her friends prepare for their special occasions. Prior to October 2023 she ran a successful catering business, putting her skills and passions to practice. Tabkha is Mona’s debut title, filled with twenty of her most beloved recipes. Slingshot books is a tiny radical publishing house creating playful and politically potent books for kids and their grown-ups. Tess aims to serve a revolutionary readership, providing people with print objects that ignite their imagination and passion for change. Preorder Tabkha by heading to tabkhabook.com - all proceeds from book sales (apart from printing and postage costs) will go to Mona and her community in Gaza.// PALM Scheme Worker Exploitation//RMIT PhD researcher Ema Moolchand joined us to discuss the co-authored report, Meat the Reality, which exposes the exploitation of workers under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme in Australia. People from Timor-Leste and Pacific Island regions working under the PALM scheme form the backbone of the Australian meat industry, but despite their crucial labour, PALM scheme workers commonly face "sub-minimum wages, sham contracts, and punitive deductions." Ema’s doctoral research focuses on the ways that modern slavery shows up in local and global production networks, with a particular focus on the cleaning and meat industries. Learn more about the conditions faced by PALM workers and what needs to change by reading the full report here. You can support the Australian Workers Union’s campaign for fair conditions for PALM workers by signing this petition. Ema mentioned an exhibition of photographs taken by PALM workers which will be held at the Australian National University in March 2025 - find out more here.// Queensland Trans Youth Healthcare Access//Content warning: this interview includes discussion of transphobia, suicide and self harm. If you need to speak with someone for free and confidential support, you can call:Lifeline (national, 24/7): 13 11 14Suicide Callback Service (national, 24/7): 1300 659 467QLife (national, 3PM-midnight): 1800 184 527Rainbow Door (Victoria, 10AM-5PM): 1800 729 36713YARN (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only, national, 24/7): 13 92 76 Necho Brocchi, proud trans woman and service manager at Open Doors Youth Service in Magan-djin/Brisbane, discussed the impact of the Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls decision on the 28th of January to pause the provision of puberty blockers and gender affirming hormone therapy to new patients under 18 years old in the state. This decision, which was met with national outrage and protests around the country this past Saturday the 8th of February, forces 491 young people to wait for life-saving care until an inquiry into gender-affirming healthcare and hormone therapies takes place. Further information about the changes, state and federal inquiries, and their impacts are available in this resource developed by Transcend Australia, AusPATH, and LGBTIQ+ Health Australia. Necho shared several calls to action to support trans and gender diverse young people in Queensland:Write to Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls to express your concern about the government’s decision to suspend access to gender affirming care for new patients under the age of 18. Contact details for Minister Nicholls are available here.Trans young people and their families can write to Open Doors Youth Service to share their stories about the importance of gender affirming health care here.Donate to Project 491, an initiative led by AusPATH in response to the Queensland Government’s decision to restrict gender affirming care for trans and gender diverse children. AusPATH will these funds in collaboration with care providers in Queensland and across Australia (including Open Doors Youth Service) to establish multi-disciplinary pathways to ensure affected young people receive timely, evidence-based care.// Image credit: Ember L, 2025. Follow and support Ember's work here.//
Acknowledgement of Country Headlines Today's program included several interviews with distressing themes. If you need to speak with someone for free and confidential support, you can call:Lifeline (national, 24/7): 13 11 14Suicide Callback Service (national, 24/7): 1300 659 467QLife (national, 3PM-midnight): 1800 184 527Rainbow Door (Victoria, 10AM-5PM): 1800 729 367 1800RESPECT, the National Domestic Family and Sexual Violence Counselling Service (national, 24/7): 1800 737 732 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call:13YARN (national, 24/7): 13 92 76Yarning SafeNStrong (Victoria, 24/7): 1800 959 563 Content warning: this interview covers topics including forcible child removal, racism and sexual violence. Bev Burns, a spokesperson for the Land Back for Stolen Generations campaign, caught up with Priya earlier this week to unpack the fight to restore the site of Sister Kate’s in Boorloo/Perth on Whadjuk Noongar land to Noongar community control. Bev took us through the history of Sister Kate’s, a site of significant abuse and lasting trauma for Stolen Generations who were impacted by its operation under the Uniting Church, its transformation into the Aboriginal community-run Beananing Kwuurt Institute, and the Uniting Church’s announcement last year that it planned to close the site and evict the BKI, bringing an end to the vital community and cultural connection, healing and services that it has provided to the local Aboriginal community. The campaign, led by Noongar women, is calling for the land to be handed back to Noongar people for the benefit of all Aboriginal people, including Stolen Generations survivors. Their occupation of the site which began on December 13th 2024 is still going strong. Support the Land Back for Stolen Generations campaign by signing the petition here, and donating to cover essential costs via the details below. Name: Return Sister KatesBSB: 062 948Account Number: 3917 9786 Keep up to date with the campaign by following @landbackforstolengenerations on Instagram. We replay an excerpt of an interview from this week’s Tuesday Hometime program where Jan Bartlett spoke to one of the three organisers of the Merchants of Death war crimes tribunal, Brad Wolf. Brad speaks about the years of work to bring the tribunal, which investigated US weapons manufacturers in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, to fruition and its recommendations. To find out more about the tribunal’s work and verdict, head to merchantsofdeath.org. Don’t forget to tune in to Tuesday Hometime, 4-6PM every Tuesday on 3CR 855AM. Content warning: this conversation touches on themes of police violence, sexual violence, racism, queerphobia, and whorephobia. Damien Nguyen, a first-generation Vietnamese migrant sex worker and member of the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group and Pride in Protest, joined us to talk about the impact of racial and gender profiling by so-called Australia’s carceral border regime on migrants working in the sex industry. This conversation also included a discussion about the recent statement released by Pride in Protest in solidarity with trans women incarcerated at the Villawood detention centre, where detention centre workers are currently undertaking industrial action over a contract dispute - read it here. Scarlet Alliance have published translated resources on their site for Asian migrant sex workers who have experienced Border Force profiling and visa exploitation - you can find this information here. Content warning: this conversation includes discussion of transphobia. Dr Damien Riggs, a Professor in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work at Flinders University, speaks with us about the recently announced federal review into the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents in Australia. Auspath, Transcend and LGBTIQ+ Australia have created a factsheet addressing both the federal review and the Queensland government's decision to block access to puberty blockers for trans youth in the state, which you can find here. Support the national day of action to protect trans youth by joining a rally this Saturday the 8th of February. In Naarm/Melbourne, the rally will be held at 10AM at the State Library on Swanston Street. Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2024. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.
3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nation – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.//News headlines//Tamala Shelton// Next up is a recording from a fundraiser held in December 2024 which was organised by the wonderful Ibi. The event raised money for Sisters Inside as well as mutual aid initiatives for people in Sudan and Palestine. In the following outtake you will hear the voice of proud Bundjalung and Lama-lama woman Tamala Shelton. Tamala is an actor, singer and author of the two spoken word pieces we are about to play. The first piece was written by Tamala to commemorate NAIDOC week last year, answering the call to keep the fire burning.The second piece is personal confrontation with the atrocities of genocide on social media as well as a call to action, in the name of justice for the Palestinian people. You can donate directly to Sisters Inside here, Bakri’s (@bakri2) fundraiser for Sudan here, and Ibrahim’s (@ibrahim_palestine20) fundraiser for Gaza here.//Yousef Alreemawi//Yousef Alreemawi is a musician, translator, educator and the founder of 3CRs much loved show ‘Palestine Remembered’. He is also the current director of Averroes Centre, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to promote knowledge about Arab culture in Australia. On Tuesday, Yousef joined me to talk about his exciting new project - a 12 week Arabic language course, hosted at Black Spark cultural centre. Instead of creating a standard course and then seeking out participants, Yousef will host a public gathering aimed at understanding the communities unique needs and interests for learning the Arabic language. You can register to attend the public meeting...which will be held at Black Spark on February 11th at 6pm...by emailing Yousef Alreemawi at “y.reemawi@gmail.com” to express your interest.//Sophie - Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS)// Joins us to unpack the service's Legal Observer Team Report on the policing of the Disrupt Land Forces protests, which was published on Monday this week. The report covers legal and human rights concerns about police conduct at and media reporting on protest actions undertaken to disrupt the Land Forces Exposition, so-called Australia's largest defence industry event, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 11-13 September 2024. You can read the full report here. If you are interested in participating in legal observer training or otherwise supporting MALS' vital work, you can visit their website here.//Invasion Day Rally Speeches// We'll listen back to speeches from Invasion Day rallies around the country, including by Guyala Bayles and Ruby Wharton in Magan-djin/brisbane, and Roxy Moore in Boorloo/perth. Roxy's speech focuses on the Land Back for Stolen Generations campaign being waged by Noongar women calling for the Uniting Church to hand back Whadjuk Noongar land that was stolen to establish Sister Kate's mission (support their campaign by signing the petition here). Our thanks to Anna Carlson at 4ZZZ for sharing the recordings of Guyala and Ruby's speeches, and to the Land Back for Stolen Generations crew for sharing Roxy's speech//.
Acknowledgement of Country// Highlights from 2024: First Nations Stories & JusticeToday's show features a selection of interviews from First Nations interviews centering story-telling and fighting for justice. From challenging colonial copaganda, to uplifting storytelling, fighting for the protection of sacred Country, and so much more! Stay tuned to 3CR 855AM, 3CR Digital and streaming at 3cr.org.au or via the Community Radio App.//For First Nations listeners please be advised that the episode covers topics such as colonial violence, genocide, Stolen Generations, and land occupation. For 24/7 mob only support you can always contact 13 YARN 13 92 76, Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563.//Challenging Colonial Copaganda - 1 Aug 2024//First, we listen back to an excerpt from Brisbane Free University and Radio Reversal's 'Challenging Colonial Copaganda' webinar, which brought together Professor Chelsea Watego, Dr Amy McQuire, Ronnie Gorrie and Associate Professor Amanda Porter to speak about the laundering and normalisation of policing in so-called Australia. In this segment, we hear Chelsea and Amanda critically discussing the normalisation of police presence at First Nations community events, and the machinations of police image-management through ties with other institutions//Frontier Wars and March on ANZAC - 25 Apr 2024//Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the original Aboriginal Tent Embassy's founding four, and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic joins us to discuss the importance of commemorating the Frontier Wars on this date of colonial military remembrance. The March on ANZAC, which has been held on April 25th in Canberra for over a decade now, highlights the vital resistance of Aboriginal people who lost their lives in the Frontier Wars fighting against colonial invasion.// Maya Hodge - 18 Jul 2024//These Arms Hold Maya Hodge is a proud Lardil emerging curator and writer based on the lands of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne). Her practise explores the power of disrupting colonial narratives to uplift First Nations storytelling, healing and artistic autonomy. In 2022, she co-curated Collective Movements at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) which toured across Victoria and this year curated These Arms Hold, which showed at Incinerator Gallery from 6 July 2024 - 8 September 2024. Beyond the Bars LIVE from Barwon Prison - 11 July 2024//We listen to an excerpt from this week's 2024 Beyond the Bars LIVE Broadcast, Tues 9th July from Barwon Prison in Lara near Geelong. 3CR Presenters Chris Austin and Keiran Stewart-Assheton speak with some of the First Nations men incarcerated at Barwon Prison. They discuss child removals, DHS & Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations, and offer some advice and thoughts on supports and solutions for Mob inside. Listen back to the full broadcasts from each prison here//Laniyuk - 02 May 2024//We listen back to an excerpt from a conversation with Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French writer and performer Laniyuk. Thursday Breakky co-host and Women on the Line presenter Priya spoke to Laniyuk in February 2024 about the ongoing campaign to return Lee Point to Larrakia Care, as well as the history of the Australian and US defence forces' militarised occupation of Larrakia Country. You’ll also hear from several Larrakia women - Jamilah Mills, Arbei Talbot, Hayley Mcadam, Aunty Aly Mills, and Arbei Adjrun - who have lent their voices and stories to the fight, using audiovisual storytelling as a medium to convey the significance of Larrakia people’s relationship with Country as a foundation for community and cultural strength, and to ensure Larrakia futures. To hear the full interview, go to www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline. And if you're living on or around Larrakia Country, we encourage you help protect sacred land and to get down to Lee Point today!// Song: Homeland by Tjaka// Invasion Day Rally : Naarm/melbourneSunday 26 January 202510 am sharpParliament House, Melbourne/Naarm on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Lands//
Highlights from 2024: Harm ReductionYou're listening to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming on 3CR Community Radio. Today's show features a selection of interviews from the voices of those fighting for harm reduction. You will first hear from Martin Hodgson about the colonial crisis of domestic and family violence in so-called Australia, as well as important conversations about alcohol and other drugs harm reduction. Stay tuned to 3CR 855AM, 3CR Digital and streaming at 3cr.org.au or via the Community Radio App.// Acknowledgement of Country// Martin Hodgson - Thursday, 27 June 2024Martin Hodgson, senior advocate at the Foreign Prisoner Support Service and co-host of Curtain the Podcast, speaks with us about the colonial crisis of domestic and family violence in so-called Australia. This conversation occurs in the context of Martin's recent appearance at a Parliamentary hearing held as part of the ongoing inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children. While the Senate referred an inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee on 4 August 2022, the inquiry process continues, with the reporting date extended to 15 August 2024.//Content warning: this interview will include discussion of domestic and family violence, femicide and racism. If you are feeling distressed, you can always call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also contact 13 YARN (13 92 76), or Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563. If you need support or advice, please call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732.// Dr James Petty - Thursday, 11 July 2024We were joined by Dr James Petty Senior Policy and Research Officer from VAADA, the peak for Victorian alcohol and other drug treatment services. We discussed the recent health alerts indicating that illicit drugs such as cocaine have been adulterated with a range of substances, including nitazenes. In acknowledgement of this risk, Harm Reduction Victoria (HRVic) and VAADA have developed a paper calling for the sector and the Victorian Government to work together on developing and delivering a Potent Synthetic Opioids Plan.// Dr Chris Gill - Thursday, 29 August & 5 September 2024Dr Chris Gill, Professor of Chemistry has co-lead the the team that has created revolutionary drug checking technology through spray mass spectrometry used around the world, and originating in ''british columbia, canada.'' In Part 1 of this interview, we speak about the importance of small sample sizes in drug checking, the nuances of sensitivity, and what we here in Naarm/melbourne can learn from innovative drug checking technology and the management of opioid overdose crisises. In part 2, we speak about translating this technology into supportive drug checking practices for the community, and check out Substance Drug Checking Service.// Dr. George (Kev) Dertadian - Thursday, 14 March 2024Social researcher Dr George (Kev) Dertadian spoke with us about settler colonialism, criminalisation and drug prohibition as explored in his recent paper, ‘The Coloniality of Drug Prohibition’ (open access). Kev works on unceded Bedagal land and does field-based research with people who use drugs, including both marginalised and structurally advantaged groups. As a member of the Center for Criminology, Law and Justice Kev advocates for non-carceral responses to drug use, with a particular focus on harm reduction.// Alcohol and other Drug Harm Reduction Resources:National Alcohol and other Drug Hotline on 1800 250 015.Harm Reduction Victoria's Naloxone Training. No need to register, and you recieve a free Naloxone kit. How to get free Naloxone aka Narcan®HRVic's Naloxone Nasal Spray Instructions FlyerHarm reduction tipsSigns of an an opioid overdose //
Highlights from 2024: Disability Justice//You're listening to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming on 3CR Community Radio. Today's show features a selection of interviews featuring the voices of Autistic and disabled folks, as well as those fighting for disability rights. Stay tuned to 3CR 855AM, 3CR Digital and streaming at 3cr.org.au or via the Community Radio App.// Acknowledgement of Country// Shaun Bickley - Thursday, 3 October & 10 October 2024 //Autistic disability activist Shaun Bickley caught up with Priya in October 2024 to discuss the labour exploitation of disabled people in so-called Australia with a focus on the issue of wage theft by Australian Disability Enterprises or ADEs. Today, you'll hear part one and two of that conversation. Shaun is campaigning for an end to subminimum wage for disabled people in Australia, and has created an open letter, which you can sign onto as an individual or endorse on behalf of an organisation [Plain English version linked at top of letter].// Leon Wingard - Thursday, 7 November 2024 //Leon Wiegard, Assistant Branch Secretary of the Australian Services Union, joined us in November 2024 to discuss how employers are attempting to make it lawful for community and disability support workers to be at work for up to 28 hours without overtime pay - a move the Australian Services Union has condemned as reckless, arrogant and unjust.// Melanie Hawkes - Thursday, 18 July 2024 //In early July 2024, NDIS minister Bill Shorten announced that users of the scheme would be denied access to sex workers and sexual services under planned reforms. The NDIS Amendment Bill has been met with criticism across the board for its heavy focus on budget cuts and a failure to centre the experiences of people living with a disability. Today we will hear from Melanie Hawkes - a member of the management committee of Touching Base and NDIS participant with a physical disability, who joined me to share her experience of sex and disability. Touching Base is a charitable organization developed to assist people with disability and sex workers connect with each other, focusing on access, human rights, legal issues and attitudinal barriers. In response to Minister Shorten’s announcement last week, they have released a joint statement alongside nine other organizations, calling for the right to protect access to NDIS funded sexuality services.Please note that the next segment details sexual experiences and sex work. If you would prefer not to hear this type of content, or have children around, we advise you to tune out for the next 20 minutes.// Kate aka Perno - Thursday, 16 May 2024 //Kate is a queer, disabled activist who joined us in May 2024 to speak about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) during ME/CFS Awareness Week (12 -19 May). We will discuss international and evidence based guidelines and how australia has lagged in this area, how to reconnect with who you are while living with ME/CFS, and how we can learn more. Kate has also worked as a former nurse, a peer worker in drug harm reduction, been a fierce advocate for dancefloor safety through Cool Room and Safety Mates.//
Highlights from 2024: Solidarity and Resistance3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nation – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.//Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh//Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh speaks about ecocide, resistance and the links between Palestine and so-called Australia. Professor Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian environmental scientist and author who has written several books including Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine. He is also the founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History(PMNH), as well as the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS), founded in partnership with his wife Jessie Chang in 2014. This is a conversation from May 2024.//Michelle Fahy//We revisit the work of Independant journalist Michelle Fahy, who spoke to Thursday breakfast host Priya Kunjan about Australia's place in the global supply chain of Lockheed Martin's F-35 combat aircraft, which the Israeli military has been using to wreak widespread destruction across Gaza. Michelle has been investigating militarism and the arms trade since 2009, and recently reported that Lockheed Martin has deleted website details about its operations in Australia. You can read and support Michelle's work by subscribing to her substack, Undue Influence.//Teachers for Palestine: Bill Abrahams//We hear an interview from Thursday breakfast host inez winters and Bill Abrahams who discuses the resource Teaching for Palestine: Challenging Anzac Day and australia's historical and ongoing repression of Palestinians, how offical remembrance obscures the realities of war and promotes imperialism and militarisation, and the role of teachers and school staff in dismantling the myths set up by offical remembrance.//Prison to deportation pipeline: Sanmati Verma//Legal Director at Human Rights Law Centre Sanmati Verma who joined Priya earlier in 2024 to break down the violence of mandatory visa cancellation and the different experiences of non-citizens incarcerated in so-called Australia.Sanmati Verma and Dr Claire Loughnan from the University of Melbourne explored these issues in a recent report on the Prison to Deportation Pipeline, which found that there has been a tenfold increase in visa cancellations on 'character' grounds since 2014, leading to a significant rise in people held in immigration detention for this reason. You can read the report at Human Rights Law Centre's website.//Yoorrook: Professor Maggie Walter//Yoorrook for Justice is a truth telling commission that documents past and present injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria. The commission has seen thousands of people speak truth in court and on Country. The final interview features Palawa woman and Yoorrook Commissioner and Professor Maggie Walter. Maggie Walter has authored six books and over 100 journal articles in the fields of Indigenous sociology and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Today, Maggie speaks to us about the importance of data sovereignty for First Nations justice and gives insight into Closing the Gap data released last week, along with updates on Yoorrook for Justice during the last week of submissions in 2024.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane - Stop LAPD Spying CoalitionPriya caught up with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane in July 2024 to talk about organising with unhoused community in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row and beyond against militarised policing and surveillance by the Los Angeles Police Department. In this wide-ranging conversation about the group's work, broadcast in three parts across August 2024, Hamid and Matyos also discuss Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's abolitionist ethos, the importance of a structural analysis of police violence, and emphasise why it is crucial to resist liberal reformism and academic and non-profit complicity in state violence.// Tamar Hopkins and Ilo Diaz - Centre Against Racial ProfilingWe replay a conversation from October 2024 with Tamar Hopkins and Ilo Diaz of the Centre Against Racial Profiling, who joined us to speak about the launch of the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project. The project's website, racialprofilingresearch.org, hosts important data showing the extent of racial profiling in Victoria Police during street searches obtained via Freedom of Information requests covering four years worth of police search records. Tamar has been working in the area of police accountability and racism since 2005. She was the founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project at Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre in Melbourne Australia in 2009. She has a PhD from UNSW on racial profiling, and has appeared as an expert witness at inquests and commissions investigating police accountability and racial profiling. Ilo has worked directly with communities experiencing human rights abuses in Melbourne, South America and Palestine. His background is in Human Rights observing in areas of conflict. Ilo also volunteers with Melbourne Activist Legal Support, providing his expertise to Legal Observer teams that observe police actions in protests.// Justice for Sonya Massey Oakland RallyThe Anti Police Terror Project joined organisations around the United States to coordinate a rally calling for Justice for Sonya Massey on the 29th of July 2024 in Oakland, California. Sonya Massey was a 36-year-old Black mother who was shot and killed by Deputy Sean Grayson of the Illinois Police Department on 6 July, 2024, after she called the police with concerns about an intruder entering her home. The rally was MC'd by APTP's Cat Brooks, and the recording we played in today’s show (originally broadcast in August 2024) features poetry by Oakland's first Poet Laureate Dr Ayodele 'WordSlanger' Nzinga, as well as reflections from Uncle Bobby and Big Oscar, the uncle and father of Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Belgium’s Colonial Crimes with Geneviève Kaninda, Part 2Content warning: This interview covers distressing topics including forcible child removal, racism and sexual violence.If you need to speak with someone for support, you can call 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), Lifeline on 13 11 14, Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN (13 92 76) and Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563.We'll hear the rest of a two-part interview with Geneviève Kaninda, Brussels-based Policy and Advocacy Officer at the African Futures Lab, on the Brussels Court of Appeal's landmark decision earlier this month to recognise the Belgian State's responsibility in abducting and racially segregating biracial Métis children under its colonial rule of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC was subjected to brutal colonisation by Belgium from 1908 until it gained independence in 1960, and the struggle for justice and reparations by Mètis children of Congolese mothers and Belgian fathers has been waged across several decades both in Belgium and in the Great Lakes countries of the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda. Listen back to part one of our conversation with Geneviève here. African Futures Lab is an independent research and advocacy institute that aims to raise global awareness of racial injustice across Africa and Europe and to empower civil society actors and public and private entities to demand justice and achieve reform.// Queensland’s Carceral Crackdown on KidsThis week on 3CR's Doin' Time, Marisa spoke with Maggie Munn, a proud Gunggari advocate from southwest Queensland and Director of the First Nations Justice team at the Human Rights Law Centre. Maggie discussed the Liberal-National Crisafulli Government's rush to pass the Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024, through Parliament last Thursday 12th December, and the dire consequences that this new law will have on children in the state. The law will result in even more children being locked up in Queensland's overcrowded and unsafe police watchhouses and youth prisons, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are already alarmingly disproportionately incarcerated. You can read Human Rights Law Centre’s statement about the Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024 here.// Contextualising Diagnoses of Mental IllnessRMIT PhD researcher Tom Short joins us for a critical conversation about mental health, the carcerality of psychiatry and mental health facilities, and the politics of mental illness diagnoses. Tom's doctoral research focuses on on youth mental health from a critical/sociological perspective. During this interview, we briefly discuss the Australian Medical Association’s Position Statement on Mental Health and Wellbeing, published on the 6th of December 2024 - you can read it here. We also shout out the excellent work of mad survivor, artist, activist and academic Indigo Daya - Indigo’s website is linked here.// Fundraising for SudanJournalist, photographer, event organiser and passionate community advocate Bakri Mahmoud speaks with us about the fundraising he's been coordinating to support internally and externally displaced Sudanese people impacted by the ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Since April 2023, the conflict has caused mass humanitarian crisis in the country manifesting in famine, forced displacement and brutality against civilians. Bakri has published numerous works for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in News, Music and Arts. Bakri is currently completing a two year photography residency at Footscray Community Arts where he is platforming stories of resistance and survival from the communities he has access to. In his spare time, Bakri loves to play futsal, cook large meals in abundance and maintains an ongoing Mutual Aid campaign to support survivors of war back home in Sudan.Details for the fundraising account Bakri mentioned are below.BSB: 067872Account Number: 1561 8838//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Belgium’s Colonial Crimes with Geneviève Kaninda, Part 1Content warning: This interview covers distressing topics including forcible child removal, racism and sexual violence. If you to need to speak with someone for support you can call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, Lifeline on 13 11 14, and the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN on 13 92 76 and Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563.We hear part 1 of a two-part interview with Geneviève Kaninda, Brussels-based Policy and Advocacy Officer at the African Futures Lab, on the Brussels Court of Appeal's landmark decision earlier this month to recognise the Belgian State's responsibility in abducting and racially segregating biracial Métis children under its colonial rule of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC was subjected to brutal colonisation by Belgium from 1908 until it gained independence in 1960, and the struggle for justice and reparations by Mètis children of Congolese mothers and Belgian fathers has been waged across several decades both in Belgium and in the Great Lakes countries of the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda. African Futures Lab is an independent research and advocacy institute that aims to raise global awareness of racial injustice across Africa and Europe and to empower civil society actors and public and private entities to demand justice and achieve reform.// Femicide in Australia with Sherele MoodyContent warning: This interview covers distressing topics including sexual and gender based violence, violence against First Nations women and children, and racism. If you to need to speak with someone for support you can call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, Lifeline on 13 11 14, and the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467 (all 24-hour hotlines). LGBTQIA+ listeners can also call QLife on 1800 184 527 between 3PM and midnight, and people under the age of 25 can call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN on 13 92 76 and Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563 (both 24 hours).Sherele Moody joined us to discuss her work mapping femicides in so called-Australia, unpack mainstream media coverage of gender based violence and analyse the silencing of impacts of gendered violence on First Nations women and children. Sherele has over 20 years of experience reporting across a range of areas for some of Australia’s major media companies. Sherele is also the founder and operator of The RED HEART Campaign and has been documenting the killing of women and children since 2015. Please consider supporting The RED HEART Campaign by making a donation here. A vigil organised by theThe Australian Femicide Watch to remember, mourn and celebrate Victorian women lost to violence in 2024 will be held on Saturday, December 14 from 4-6PM at the Darling Gardens rotunda, Clifton Hill.// ‘The Left's Problem with Palestine’ with Abdaljawad Omar, Part 2We listened to part two of a talk given by Palestinian scholar and theorist Abdaljawad Omar during the early October 2024 teach-in 'The Left's Problem with Palestine', co-convened by CUNY for Palestine and Grad Center for Palestine. In this talk, Omar presents a critical analysis of the Western left's reflexive condemnation of Palestinian resistance both in relation to October 7th 2023 and more broadly, and the implications of this disavowal for the possibility of the West's genuine engagement with anticolonial struggle. You can watch the full talk and an extended discussion between Omar and Jodi Dean here.// Elijah Kose’s Hands with Grace Dlabik and Dan ElborneNaarm-based artists Grace Dlabik and Dan Elborne join us to talk about the upcoming debut exhibition of works by Grace's son Elijah Kose, a collection of sculpture works produced in collaboration with Dan and titled Hands. Grace is an Austrian/Hungarian and Papua New Guinean woman from Lavaipia clan of Lese Oalai, and Motuan clan Botai of Hanuabada, and she is the founder and creative director of BE. Collective and BE. ONE. a grass-roots international collective that forges artistic opportunity and pathways for underrepresented creatives. Dan is a visual artist whose primary working material is clay, which he utilizes for long-form installation-based projects and sculptural series building work on intersecting foundations for memory, time, labour and materiality. Hands opens on Elijah's birthday, Sunday 15 December, 12-3PM at Art Haus Gallery on Wurundjeri Country, 20 Old Warrandyte Road, Donvale.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listened to part one of a talk given by Palestinian scholar and theorist Abdaljawad Omar during the early October 2024 teach-in 'The Left's Problem with Palestine', co-convened by CUNY for Palestine and Grad Center for Palestine. In this talk, held in the lead up to the first anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood operation of October 7th 2023, Omar critically analyses the Western left's reflexive condemnation of Palestinian resistance both on that date and more broadly, and the implications of this hasty disavowal for a genuine engagement with anticolonial struggle. We'll play part two next week, but you can watch the full talk and subsequent extended discussion between Omar and Jodi Dean here.// Content warning: this conversation touches on themes of transphobia, sexual assault (r*pe), and suicide. If you require support, you can call QLife( (national) - 1800 184 527 (3PM - midnight), Rainbow Door(Victoria) - 1800 729 367 (10AM-5PM), Lifeline (national, 24/7) 13 11 14, and the Suicide Callback Service (national, 24/7) 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13YARN on 13 92 76 or Yarning SafeNStrong on 1800 959 563. As part of our '16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence' we revisit a piece from 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility 2024 special programming, where Priya caught up with Katie and Stacey, two trans women with lived experience of incarceration in the Victorian Prison system. Katie and Stacey speak about their experiences of transphobic violence while being incarcerated in men's prisons, their fight to access gender-affirming care, self-advocacy, and how the state tries to quash rehabilitation and second chances in the community. Listen back to the full set of conversations for our Trans Day of Audibility 2024 broadcast here.// Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O'Connell joined us to talk about the catastrophic impacts of energy poverty on low-income folks in so-called Australia. On Monday this week, Antipoverty Centre, Parents for Climate and Sweltering Cities launched their Stop The Bill Shock Campaign by delivering a $173 million energy bill to Origin Energy headquarters, with the figure representing the estimated cost to the company to wipe the slate of energy debt owed by the 98,000 Origin customers currently on a hardship program. The campaign is demanding an end to price gouging by Australian energy retailers and immediate debt forgiveness for consumers experiencing financial hardship in the face of over a decade of increasing energy poverty in the country. As Kristin mentioned during our chat, Antipoverty Centre are encouraging people to share their stories about energy poverty and difficulties with energy retailers here.//Ibi spoke with us about a fundraiser event running this Friday the 6th of December at Catalyst Social Centre raising money for Sisters Inside and mutual aid initiatives for people in Sudan and Palestine. Head to Catalyst at 144/146 Sydney Road, Coburg, tomorrow from 6:30PM to enter an art raffle, enjoy food and drinks by We Eatin' Good, listen to music and poetry by incredible BIPOC artists, and grab some second-hand clothes for a good cause. Organisers are sharing updates on the fundraiser via Black Peoples Union’s Instagram, and you can also donate directly to Sisters Inside here, Bakri’s (@bakri2) fundraiser for Sudan here, and Ibrahim’s (@ibrahim_palestine20) fundraiser for Gaza here.//
Fighting for Better Buses in the West, Inquiry into Government’s Refugee Crackdown, Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Closing the Gap, Workplace Sexual Harassment of Migrant and Refugee Women Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Adele Vosper, spokesperson of the Sustainable Cities Collective at Friends of the Earth, spoke with us about the Better Buses Campaign, which is fighting for adequate and sustainable public transit servicing in Melbourne's West. The campaign launched a petition for bus network reform in the western suburbs which, after collecting over 3,000 signatures was debated last night in Victorian Parliament by Western Metropolitan Upper House member David Ettershank MP. Prior to the debate, community members gathered on the steps of Parliament to support the campaign and stand up for transport equity. Join the Better Buses Campaign’s next action on Wednesday 11 December at 5PM at Tarneit Station - RSVP here. The Better Buses Campaign group meets weekly on a Wednesday from 6-8PM in person at Weekly meeting 312 Smith St, Collingwood, VIC 3066 and online via zoom (information here). For further information about the campaign, you can contact Elyse Cunningham at Friends of the Earth (elyse.cunningham@foe.org.au).// This Monday on 3CR's Doin' Time show, Marisa spoke with Laura John from the Human Rights Law Centre about the Senate inquiry the Migration Amendment Bill 2024, which was introduced by the government in response to the High Court of Australia’s decision in YBFZ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. The proposed measures will significantly expand the Government’s powers, enabling it to warehouse people in third countries, reverse protection findings made for refugees, and continue the domestic imposition of punitive visa conditions on non-citizens in Australia. You can read HRLC's explainer on the Migration Amendment Bill 2024 here.// Palawa woman and Yoorrook Commissioner and Professor Maggie Walter discussed the importance of data sovereignty for First Nations justice and gave insight into Closing the Gap data released last week, along with updates on Yoorrook for Justice during the last week of submissions. Professor Walter has authored six books and over 100 journal articles in the fields of Indigenous sociology and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Yoorrook for Justice is a truth telling commission that documents past and present injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria. The commission has seen thousands of people speak truth in court and on Country. Submissions close Saturday 30 September AEDT 11:59pm. Make your submission here.// CONTENT WARNING: This interview includes themes of sexual harassment and gender-based violence. If you need to speak with someone for support, you can always contact the Sexual Assault Crisis Line on 1800 806 292, 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), Lifeline on 13 11 14, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN (13 92 76). To find out more about your rights at work and reporting instances of sexual harassment in the workplace, visit https://www.respectatwork.gov.au/.Professor Marie Segrave, Dr Siru Tan and Dr Chloe Keel joined us as part of 3CR's dedicated programming across this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence to talk about their co-authored research into migrant and refugee women’s attitudes, experiences and responses to sexual harassment in Australian workplaces. The research project, a collaboration with ANROWS, was a national study that sought to investigate and document migrant and refugee women’s experiences of, understandings of and responses to sexual harassment. Professor Segrave is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political and Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. Dr Tan is also based at the University of Melbourne, and is a Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences and co-lead of the Borders, Migration and Gendered Violence Research Hub. Dr Keel is a Lecturer in Criminology at Griffith University. This project's research team also included Professor Rebecca Wickes from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, and Prabhapriya Bogoda Arachchige from the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Check out the project's final report, published in August this year.// Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get to our planned interview with Ngarrindjeri, Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara musician, dancer and director Amos Roach about this Saturday's unveiling of the Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter statues at Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy. Tune in to 3CR’s Solidarity Breakfast this Saturday morning from 7:30-9AM to catch Amos in conversation with Annie!Uncle Archie (Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung)/Bundjalung) and Aunty Ruby (Ngarrindjeri/Kokatha/Pitjantjatjara), Amos' parents, both had strong connections to Fitzroy and narrated their experiences of living, loving and building community as Stolen Generations survivors through their captivating musical talent and songwriting. The statues were commissioned by Yarra City Council in partnership with the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, with the guidance of the Archie Roach Foundation and members of Uncle Archie and Aunty Ruby’s family. This Saturday's event at Atherton Gardens will begin at 2PM, with the official unveiling at 3:30PM, and will feature live performances from musicians including Kutcha Edwards and Shane Howard.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Sanmati Verma - Legal Director at Human Rights Law CentreSanmati Verma, Legal Director at Human Rights Law Centre, breaks down the violence of mandatory visa cancellation and the different experiences of non-citizens incarcerated in so-called Australia. Sanmati and Dr Claire Loughnan from the University of Melbourne explored these issues in a recent report on the Prison to Deportation Pipeline, which found that there has been a tenfold increase in visa cancellations on 'character' grounds since 2014, leading to a significant rise in people held in immigration detention for this reason. You can read the report at Human Rights Law Centre's website here.// First Nations listeners, please be advised that the following two segments contain discussion of the ongoing impacts of colonisation and genocide, cultural erasure, Stolen Generations, and child safety. Feel free to skip forward to the last interview, and that you can also always contact 13 YARN (13 92 76) and Yarning Safe'n'Strong 1800 959 563 for 24/7 mob only support.// Clinton Hayden - Wiradjuri Blak queer artist and writerClinton Hayden is a Wiradjuri Blak queer artist and writer based in Naarm/Melbourne who’s practice spans photography, AI image creation, print, drawing, and bricolage to explore the intersections of personal and collective histories. In a recent article published in IndigenousX, Clinton addressed the homophobia and erasure that persists in cultural institutions of colonial Australia. This week, Clinton joins us to talk creative practice and resisting cultural harms.// Meena Singh - Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People in Victoria (Doin’ Time)To mark Universal Children's Day on Wednesday 20th November, we revisit Marisa's April interview with Meena Singh on 3CR's Doin' Time show. Meena is a Yorta Yorta and Indian woman, and the Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People in Victoria. With over 20 years' experience in legal and advocacy roles, in organisations such as Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and the Human Rights Law Centre, Meena discusses the holistic approach needed to advance the rights and interests of Aboriginal children and young people in Victoria, legally and beyond. You can listen back to the full interview on Mon 14 April here, and catch Doin' Time Mondays from 4-5pm on 3CR.// Amy Ciara and Tilde Joy - Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your FenceFellow 3CR legends Amy Ciara and Tilde Joy join us to chat about the launch of their new show Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence, which hits the airwaves tomorrow at 9AM. Tune in for critical conversations about the ideologies that prop up our atomised lives in cities and suburbs, and how we smash them to build a different world, every second Friday from 9-10AM on 3CR! Mentions: Covid Safety Bloc Naarm Reach out to them via their instagram to request free personal protective equipment in Naarm, kids masks are also now available.// Beyond Bricks & Bars Fundraiser Birthday PartyGet down on Sat 14 Dec 5pm to 10pm at Kines in Brunswick. All proceeds raised will be donated to Beyond Bricks & Bars and the Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Fund. You can purchase tickets here as well as donating to ITGD Community Fund and Beyond Bricks & Bars// Image credit: Philip Mallis, Flickr, 2021 [source].
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Researcher and urbanist Guadalupe Granero Realini joined us to discuss the recent launch of the Global Observatory on Short-Term Rentals, an initiative led by a coalition of Latin American organisations working on housing and urban issues to track governance patterns, private sector pushes and activist action on short-term rentals and their impact on housing markets worldwide. Guadalupe works on territorial justice, and her research is currently focused on extractivist processes in Latin America which dispossess communities in cities as well as in rural and wild environments. Whenever she can, she teaches, collaborates with social organisations and participates in the media. She developed part of her research in Rio de Janeiro, as well as at Ryerson University and the University of Montreal as an ELAP fellow. In 2017 she published Territories of Inequality. Urban Policy and Spatial Justice (Territorios de la Desigualdad. Política Urbana y Justicia Espacial).// Sanmati Verma, Legal Director at Human Rights Law Centre, spoke about some recent updates in the legal landscape governing so-called Australia's carceral border regime, including in relation to the imposition of punitive visa conditions onto asylum seekers released from detention centres into the community, and the question of 'voluntary' cooperation with deportation orders. The former issue relates to the case of YBFZ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024], where last week the High Court determined by majority that the Albanese Government’s imposition of curfew and ankle bracelet monitoring conditions are contrary to Chapter III of the Constitution and invalid - a decision that the Minister, Tony Burke, has immediately sought to overturn by introducing new legislation into Parliament. The latter issue of cooperation with deportation orders relates to whether indefinite detention was unlawful in circumstances where a person - in this case, an asylum seeker referred to by the pseudonym ASF17 - is not cooperating with their deportation because they fear harm in their home country. You can read HRLC's explainers on the cases of YBFZ here, ASF17 here, and NZYQ from November 2023 here.// We listen back to a conversation from last month between Wednesday Breakfast’s Nita Okoko and artist Niki Koutouzi. Niki is an exhibiting artist at Incinerator Gallery’s 2024 annual award show, ‘Art for Social Change’. This award provides recognition for artists addressing critical topics shaping our social-cultural worlds today, such as first nations justice, climate crisis, disability justice, queer histories and more. This year, Niki is one of 27 shortlisted artists showing alongside highly acclaimed artist and winner of this year's award, Sam Peterson. The exhibition is open until Saturday the 24th of November.// Chris Christoforou, CEO of VAADA, the peak body for Victoria's alcohol and other drug treatment services, joined us to talk about the long awaited news of Victoria's pill testing/drug checking trial, as well as the latest 2024 overdose statistics. Victoria’s pill testing trial aims to reduce harm and save lives, and a mobile service will begin during this summer’s music festival season, attending up to 10 festivals and events throughout the trial. A fixed site, due to open in mid-2025 will be co-located at a health service and operate from inner Melbourne, close to nightlife and transport.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Vikki John on Tuesday Hometime//Jan Bartlett from Tuesday Hometime, spoke with longtime activist Vikki John with updates from Bougainville. Including, the Class Action against Rio Tinto (and subsidiary: Bougainville Copper Ltd.), as well as the 'Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment' by Melbourne's Human Rights Law Centre. This November marks 5 years since Bougainvilleans cast their ballots in a non-binding referendum vote on independence. The referendum was a key part of the 2001 Peace Agreement that ended the war between Papua New Guinea and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army, which killed up to 20 000 people or 8-10% of the population, and in which Australia played a negative role supporting PNG. Tune into Tuesday Hometime every Tuesday from 4-6pm on 3CR,and listen back to past episodes of the program here.// Professor Mark Howden and Emma Bacon//Last Thursday 31 October, CSIRO and the Bureau of Meterology released the State of the Climate 2024 report, which shows Australians are already living through the severe consequences of climate change and pollution caused by fossil fuel emissions, including a rise in extreme fire seasons, extreme heat events, intense heavy rainfall and sea level rise. To discuss the report's findings and contextualise them within Australia's climate change mitigation and adaptation obligations both at the domestic level and internationally, we were joined by Professor Mark Howden, Director of the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions at The Australian National University, and Emma Bacon, Executive Director and Founder of Sweltering Cities.// Leon Wiegard, ASU Assistant Branch Secretary//Leon Wiegard, Assistant Branch Secretary of the Australian Services Union, joined us to discuss how employers are attempting to make it lawful for community and disability support workers to be at work for up to 28 hours without overtime pay, and seeks to classify sleepovers at as ‘breaks’ between shifts, rather than as part of a continuous shift with the ordinary hours - a move the Australian Services Union has condemned as reckless, arrogant and unjust.// Dario Mujkic, UWU Executive Director//Dario Mujkic, Executive Director of the United Workers' Union, joins us to unpack Woolworths' controversial Coaching and Productivity Framework, currently the subject of complaint to the Fair Work Commission. The Framework, introduced in late 2023, sits within a broader field of workforce management strategies employed in warehousing to drive up worker productivity rates and increase companies' profit margins, initiatives which come at a significant cost to workers' health, safety and wellbeing.// Event: Murnong Gathering This Saturday 9 Nov 11am - 4pmCome along for a beautiful afternoon along the Merri Creek in Coburg for a celebration of Wurundjeri culture.With performances from the Djirri Djirri and Allara.Please BYO picnic to share with friends and family. Care for Country and please take your rubbish home with you.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Language warning!We listen to Krautungalung Elder Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe's speech at last Sunday's Free Palestine Rally on the 27th of October. Uncle Robbie, introduced by Nour Salman, updated the crowd on his legal battles against those complicit in genocide, both in Palestine and here in Australia. Our thanks to 3CR volunteer Tom for recording!Uncle Robbie has two upcoming court hearings in the Federal and Melbourne Magistrate's Courts, where he's continuing to fight the illegal occupation of Aboriginal land here and israel's genocide of Palestinians. On Monday 11 November 2024, join Uncle Robbie at 9:30AM at the Federal Court, 305 William Street, Melbourne, where Attorney General Mark Dreyfus will be added as a respondant to the question: is the fire at Camp Sovereignty protected by Australia's Constitution? On Tuesday 10 December 2024, join Uncle Robbie at 9:30AM at Room 4 of the Melbourne Magistrate's Court, 233 William Street, Melbourne, to pursue the genocide prosecution of Mark Regev, former adviser to israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Stay up to date with these cases by following @blackpeoplesunion and @campsovereignty on Instagram.// We replay Michelle Fahy's presentation at the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) 2024 Conference, which was held earlier this month in Perth. In this speech, Michelle talks about the importance of a strong and fearless National Anti Corruption Commission for a peaceful democracy. The theme of IPAN's 2024 conference was Sleepwalking into War?, and you can find out more and watch the keynotes here. You can read and support Michelle's excellent independent investigative reporting on links between the weapons industry and the Australian government by subscribing to her substack, Undue Influence.// Jacquie Kelly and Nicole McKay from the community environmental justice group Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park join us to discuss the legal challenge that they're mounting with support from Environmental Justice Australia against the Victorian Government's planned environmental engineering works on the Murray River floodplain in northwest Victoria. Justified under the Murray Darling Basin Plan, the Victorian Government is seeking to embark on a multi-million dollar project creating levee banks and installing large pumps, weirs and water regulators at several locations along the Murray River to divert water onto floodplains and provide a reduced amount of water for these floodplain ecosystems. You can find out more about the legal challenge here, and support Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park's campaign fundraising here.// Palestinian filmmaker Reema joins us to talk about an upcoming film fundraiser on Tuesday November 12th for RISE Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees and Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity. The event will showcase two documentaries made this year about Palestinian and Yemeni resistance: From Inside the Mind of Sinwar and We Shall Prevail, and starts at 6PM on the 12th at Kathleen Syme Library in Carlton. Stickers and zines will be available for free and t-shirts will be sold by donation. The venue is fully accessible and masks will be provided. Find out more here.// Songs// Find My Way Back - Samuel Gaskin and Kee’ahn// The Bridge - Yirrmal// Eternity - Mi-kaisha//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Samoan climate justice activist Suluafi Brianna Fruean speaks with us about centring Pacific climate priorities during this year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is being held this week in Apia, Samoa, the first time that the gathering has been hosted by a Pacific Island Nation. Brianna also talks about presenting The Coconet's documentary series 'The Forgotten Pacific', which travels across five Pacific Islands to discover how communities are weaving Indigenous knowledges into their ongoing fight to save their homes from climate change impacts. Later today, Brianna will be speaking as part of a press conference and report launch for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative, hosted by government leaders leading the initiative from Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Fiji. The event will be livestreamed and begins at 11AM Samoa/1PM Naarm - you can register here to attend.// Freelance journalist, writer and researcher Ann Louise Deslandes spoke with Priya earlier last week about the 10th anniversary of the Ayotzinapa student disappearances from the city of Iguala in Mexico's state of Guerrero. On the night of September 26, 2014, and into the next day, municipal, state, and federal police officers, alongside soldiers from the Mexican Army and members of the criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos attacked six buses in the city of Iguala, five of which had been had been temporarily commandeered by students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College to travel to Mexico City in order to commemorate the October 2 anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. Today, you'll hear part 2 of this interview, where Ann continues our conversation to expand on how the AMLO government decided to kill the high-level investigation into the Ayotzinapa case as higher level state and military involvement came into clearer view, and how parents and families of the students marked the 10th anniversary of the disappareance of their children last month. Ann is based in Mexico City, and covers politics and culture in Mexico for international English-language media. She also writes, reports and consults on human rights (especially regarding gender and sexuality), social movements, and community development. Ann has most recently written about the Ayotzinapa student disappearances for The Nation on October 9. You can read her newsletter, The Troubled Region, here, and listen back to part 1 of our interview here.// Tallulah Waterson, PhD student at Swinburne University's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, joins us in the studio to talk about man-made space debris in the wake of this month's unplanned break-up of the Intelsat 33e communications satellite in geostationary orbit. Tallulah is currently studying resident space objects - including satellites and space debris - with the aim of improving sustainability in the space environment, and earlier this week co-authored an article in The Conversation with colleagues Sara Webb and Christopher Fluke unpacking the scale and potential impacts of increasing orbital space debris.// We hear voices from the Flemington Public Housing Rally held on Saturday 19 October, which was co-hosted by various progressive left political parties and grassroots organisations advocating for public housing. The rally was called in opposition to the Labor Government's plans to demolish and privatise all 44 public housing towers in Victoria, starting with towers on the Flemington and North Melbourne estates.This segment included reflections from current and former public housing residents Beza, Jeannie and Barry, finishing up with a powerful speech from Karen Fletcher from Flat Out Inc about links between housing, incarceration and ongoing colonialism in so-called Australia. Our thanks to Danielle from 3CR's Breadline program for the audio!On Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 October, the public housing class action trial will begin at the Supreme Court of Victoria. Lead plaintiff Barry Berih, represented by Inner Melbourne Community Legal, will be arguing that the human rights of residents were not properly considered by the Victorian Government in its unilateral decision to demolish and redevelop the towers, beginning with 33 Alfred Street, 120 Racecourse Road, and 12 Holland Court. Find out more here.// Songs//Friend - Emily Wurramara// Blak Nation - Emma Donovan// Winter in Gaza//Palestinians in Gaza are approaching winter with very little to survive the season. With the increasing cost of commercial goods, families can’t afford to feed or clothe themselves or their children making them vulnerable to illness or fatality. They need support to survive! A group of folks campaigning for different families in Gaza have decided to combine our campaigns to reach a total goal of $45,000 AUD by 25th October.//DONATE HERE:ACC NAME: Metals 4 Mutual AidBSB: 313-140ACC NUMBER: 1250 7209 Reference: Winter Fundraiser for Sudan//Donate to the $1,000,000 AUD appeal for Sudan coordinated by Project Blackseed.From the fundraising page:“The crisis in Sudan is demanding our immediate attention. This is a neglected emergency where for more than 500 days, millions of lives are hanging in the balance. Unlike other crises, aid can reach those in desperate need, making our collective action more crucial than ever as the conflict escalates. Your participation could mean the difference between life and death for millions.Our goalsRaise $1,000,000 for SudanProvide immediate relief to those facing acute malnutrition and food insecurityRaise awareness about Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisisHighlight global fundraisers on our page to unite people and bring attention to this overlooked humanitarian crisisTo have as many people post about this as possibleFollow Project Blackseed on Instagram for more details.”//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Freelance journalist, writer and researcher Ann Louise Deslandes spoke with Priya earlier this week about the recent 10th anniversary of the Ayotzinapa student disappearances from the city of Iguala in Mexico's state of Guerrero. On the night of September 26, 2014, and into the next day, municipal, state, and federal police officers, alongside soldiers from the Mexican Army and members of the criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos attacked six buses in the city of Iguala, five of which had been temporarily commandeered by students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College to travel to Mexico City in order to commemorate the October 2 anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. Today, you'll hear part 1 of this interview, where Ann speaks about the nexus of state and paramilitary violence that the students were unwillingly caught in on that night in September 2014, the attempt by then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's government to establish a falsified "historical truth" to put inquiries to rest, and the promise of recently retired Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to support the students' families in their fight for justice. Ann is based in Mexico City, and covers politics and culture in Mexico for international English-language media. She also writes, reports and consults on human rights (especially regarding gender and sexuality), social movements, and community development. Ann has most recently written about the Ayotzinapa student disappearances for The Nation on October 9. You can read her newsletter, The Troubled Region, here.// Bec Pring, Magan-djin-based lead organiser of the Community Union Defence League Queensland, joins us today on the United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty (during Antipoverty Week, 13-19 October 2024) to talk about the role of organising, mutual aid and community kitchens in the fight against a bipartisan political choice to keep people living below the poverty line in so-called Australia. Bec is a community organiser and activist who has spent a significant part of the past two years working out of Musgrave Park alongside comrades providing community meals and building relationships of solidarity and mutual support. They're an advocate for community connection and breaking down barriers created by fear, isolation and capitalism to bring people together. During our conversation, Bec spoke about the 2025 People Against Poverty Summit being organised in Magan-djin/brisbane - donate to this effort here.// Scott Drummond, Head of Policy and Practice at VAADA, joins us to speak on a new report released 3rd of Oct by the Coroners Court of Victoria, showing that 547 Victorians died from overdose in 2023. The figures are very close to the 550 overdose deaths recorded in 2022 — which was the highest annual number of overdoses deaths recorded in the past decade.// Troy Williams, CEO of ITECA, joins us to speak on deep concern within segments of the tertiary education sector over the lack of clear direction in the Senate’s review of the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity) Bill 2024. The Bill, if passed in its present form, will pave the way for introducing international student caps that most damage independent Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and higher education institutions.// Songs//Stick of Gum - Nemahsis//Listen to the story behind the music video here and find out why Nemahsis’ label made the decision to drop this promising young Palestinian artist.// Rally for Public Housing//Saturday 19 October, 11:30AM-1PM126 Racecourse Road, FlemingtonThis rally has been called in opposition to the Labor Government's plans to demolish and privatise all 44 public housing towers in Victoria, starting with towers on the Flemington and North Melbourne estates. The rally is supported by the Victorian Greens, RAHU, BPU, SPHC, Friends of Public Housing Vic, Vic Socialists, Socialist Alliance, and 100% Public (formerly Save Barak Beacon).// Winter in Gaza//Palestinians in Gaza are approaching winter with very little to survive the season. With the increasing cost of commercial goods, families can’t afford to feed or clothe themselves or their children making them vulnerable to illness or fatality. They need support to survive! A group of folks campaigning for different families in Gaza have decided to combine our campaigns to reach a total goal of $12,000 AUD by 18th Oct.//DONATE HERE:ACC NAME: Metals 4 Mutual AidBSB: 313-140ACC NUMBER: 1250 7209 Reference: Winter Fundraiser for Sudan//Donate to the $1,000,000 AUD appeal during the global week of action for Sudan coordinated by Project Blackseed.From the fundraising page:“The crisis in Sudan is demanding our immediate attention. This is a neglected emergency where for more than 500 days, millions of lives are hanging in the balance. Unlike other crises, aid can reach those in desperate need, making our collective action more crucial than ever as the conflict escalates. Your participation could mean the difference between life and death for millions.Our goalsRaise $1,000,000 for SudanProvide immediate relief to those facing acute malnutrition and food insecurityRaise awareness about Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisisHighlight global fundraisers on our page to unite people and bring attention to this overlooked humanitarian crisisTo have as many people post about this as possibleFollow Project Blackseed on Instagram for more details.”// Image credit: Sapdiel Gómez Gutiérrez, 2014.
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replayed the opening speech from this Monday's Vigil for Gaza, 7th Oct 2024, at the Marquis of Linlithgow Monument, by Evelyn Araluen. Evelyn is a Bundjalung Nation descendant born and raised on Dharug Country. She is a poet, researcher, co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. You'll hear Evelyn deliver an emotional speech from an Aboriginal perspective on the psychological toll of genocide and settler colonialism, followed by a poem called "The Power of Prayer, the Promise of Peace."// Autistic disability activist Shaun Bickley caught up with Priya last week to discuss the labour exploitation of disabled people in so-called Australia with a focus on the issue of wage theft by Australian Disability Enterprises or ADEs. Shaun has educated on disability and access issues on 3 continents and organised the first successful city-level campaign to ban subminimum wage anywhere in the world, in Seattle in 2018. Today, you heard part two of that conversation (part one here). Shaun is campaigning for an end to subminimum wage for disabled people in Australia, and has created an open letter, which you can sign onto as an individual or endorse on behalf of an organisation [Plain English version linked at top of letter].// Tamar Hopkins and Ilo Diaz of the Centre Against Racial Profiling joined us to speak about this week's launch of the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project. The project's website, racialprofilingresearch.org, hosts important data showing the extent of racial profiling in Victoria Police during street searches obtained via Freedom of Information requests covering four years worth of police search records. Tamar has been working in the area of police accountability and racism since 2005. She was the founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project at Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre in Melbourne Australia in 2009. She has a PhD from UNSW on racial profiling, and has appeared as an expert witness at inquests and commissions investigating police accountability and racial profiling. Ilo has worked directly with communities experiencing human rights abuses in Melbourne, South America and Palestine. His background is in Human Rights observing in areas of conflict. Ilo also volunteers with Melbourne Activist Legal Support, providing his expertise to Legal Observer teams that observe police actions in protests.// David Mejia-Canales is a senior human rights lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre. He joined us today to discuss the call from the HRLC that condemed the NSW Police Commissioner's Supreme Court application last week whichsought to stop people gathering for pro-Palestinian anti-genocidal rallies and candlelight vigils in Sydney over the weekend. This follows a history of concerning legislature across the continent on the right to protest, particularly in NSW. Earlier this year, the Human Rights Law Centre’s Protest in Peril report found that the right to protest has been under attack by governments and institutions over the last 20 years.// Rally for Public HousingSaturday 19 October, 11:30AM-1PM126 Racecourse Road, FlemingtonThis rally has been called in opposition to the Labor Government's plans to demolish and privatise all 44 public housing towers in Victoria, starting with towers on the Flemington and North Melbourne estates. The rally is supported by RAHU, BPU, SPHC, Friends of Public Housing Vic, Vic Socialists, Socialist Alliance, and 100% Public (formerly Save Barak Beacon).// Winter in GazaPalestinians in Gaza are approaching winter with very little to survive the season. With the increasing cost of commercial goods, families can’t afford to feed or clothe themselves or their children making them vulnerable to illness or fatality. They need support to survive! A group of folks campaigning for different families in Gaza have decided to combine our campaigns to reach a total goal of $12,000 AUD by 18th Oct.//DONATE HERE:ACC NAME: Metals 4 Mutual AidBSB: 313-140ACC NUMBER: 1250 7209 Reference: Winter Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2024. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Branka Marijan, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares Canada, spoke with Priya earlier last week about the regulatory landscape covering military usage of artificial intelligence, reflecting on the second Responsible AI in the Military Domain or REAIM Summit held during September in Seoul, South Korea. On today's program, we'll hear part two of this conversation (you can listen back to part one here). Branka leads Project Ploughshares' research on the military and security implications of emerging technologies. Her work examines concerns regarding the development of autonomous weapons systems and the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on security provision and trends in warfare. Her research interests include trends in warfare, civilian protection, use of drones, and civil-military relations.// Dr Jordana Silverstein, Senior Research Fellow in the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the granddaughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors and stateless refugees, joins us to speak about the upcoming launch of the Centre's new oral history podcast 'Being Stateless,' which she hosts. The podcast consists of interviews with people living in so-called Australia who have been stateless, offering a space to share stories, insights, knowledge and experiences of statelessness from people who migrated to this country in the second half of the twentieth century. Jordana is also the award-winning author of Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders (2023) and Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (2015). The launch event for 'Being Stateless' is from 5:45PM on Wednesday 9 October at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness in Arts West. Registrations are essential - you can register here.// Autistic disability activist Shaun Bickley caught up with Priya earlier this week to discuss the labour exploitation of disabled people in so-called Australia with a focus on the issue of wage theft by Australian Disability Enterprises or ADEs. Today, you'll hear part one of that conversation. Shaun is campaigning for an end to subminimum wage for disabled people in Australia, and has created an open letter, which you can sign onto as an individual or endorse on behalf of an organisation [Plain English version linked at top of letter].// Louis is a regional campaigner with Frack Free NT, a grassroots community group that has been fighting back against the destructive fracking industry in the Northern Territory for over a decade. Louis joined us in the studio all the way from Larrakia Country/Darwin to discuss urgent demand to stop Beetaloo Basin gas fracking projects, as Tamboran Resources has already started drilling for its gas project and plans to soon commence fracking, leaving precious water resources at risk.// Calls to action:Attention Brisbane Lions supporters! We may have won the flag, but we’ve got some important work to do. Write to club@lions.com.au (especially if you’re a paid member) to raise your concern about our club’s partnership with Caltex, a service station company owned by Chevron and identified as a BDS target. Find out more about Caltex’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza here, and #BoycottChevron.//Frack Free NT Urgent Actions:Contact your local MP or Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek, urging them to provide an exact date or bring forward the advice requested from the Independent Expert Scientific Committee. This ensures that the advice is in before fracking starts, giving the Minister 28 days to act and stop the damage. She has the power, let's push her to use it! //Tell UniSuper to vote in favour of APA resolution. APA Group, Australia’s largest gas pipeline operator, is pushing to construct pipelines to support fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. UniSuper, as APA’s biggest shareholder has a crucial opportunity to live up to its climate claims and must commit to voting in favour of this resolution.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// The Honourable Ralph Regenvanu, Member of the Vanuatu Parliament for Port Vila and Special Climate Envoy, joined us to unpack various pushes by Vanuatu in the international regulatory and climate governance space to fight for Pacific climate justice, including a recent proposal to the International Criminal Court to include ecocide as a crime under the Rome Statute.// Branka Marijan, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares Canada, spoke with Priya earlier this week about the patchy and shifting regulatory landscape for military usage of artificial intelligence, including a reflection on the second Responsible AI in the Military Domain or REAIM Summit held earlier this month in Seoul, South Korea. On today's program, we heard part one of this conversation - tune in for part two next week! Branka leads Project Ploughshares' research on the military and security implications of emerging technologies. Her work examines concerns regarding the development of autonomous weapons systems and the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on security provision and trends in warfare. Her research interests include trends in warfare, civilian protection, use of drones, and civil-military relations.// Louisa Casteldine and Dr Teina Rongo of Cook Islands grassroots collective Ocean Ancestors joined us from Rarotonga to discuss local concerns about and resistance to deep sea mining. On September 18 this year, Ocean Ancestors were involved in organising a sail-out rally to demonstrate community support for the fight to protect marine environments, ecosystems and kin from the threat posed by offshore extractive industries, as well as climate change, pollution and overfishing.// Emeritus Professor Alan Shiell from La Trobe University joined us today to speak on the shortfalls of public health spending, why the adequate allocation of funds matters, and what makes funding effective. Professor Shiell is an expert in health economics and is the lead author of new research published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Tuesday September 17, the Nuclear Truth Project held their final 'In Conversation’ session for 2024, meeting with intergenerational hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), Mitchie Takeuchi and Dr Kazuyo Yamane to remember Hiroshima. We heard the beginning of Dr Yamane's family's first hand account of the event, as well as some of their work in educating and remembering the atrocity. More discussion from this special presentation will be shared on 3CR’s Radioactive Show in the coming weeks, and our thanks to speakers and the Nuclear Truth Project for continuing the conversation against nuclear warfare.// CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE, SELF HARM, DISCUSSION OF ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY. Roxy Moore, Noongar lawyer, community organiser, activist and campaigner, and Stephanie McGuire, Ballardong and Whadjuk Noongar community organiser and activist, spoke with us earlier this week about the campaign to close Unit 18, a child detention wing inside the maximum-security Casuarina Prison near Perth in Western Australia. The campaign escalated in the wake of the tragic death of Yamatji child Cleveland Dodd in 2023 after he self-harmed while incarcerated in the facility. Earlier this month, it was revealed that another child detained at the Banksia Hill Detention Centre, also near Perth, had died by suicide. Stay up to date with the fight to abolish youth prisons and watch the livestream of today’s rally outside Parliament House in Boorloo at 12PM AWST/2PM AEST by following Justice for Cleveland (Instagram and Facebook) and Boorloo Justice (Instagram and Facebook).// Dr Sophie Rigney, Senior Lecturer in Law at RMIT University, joins us to unpack the series of Palestine-related decisions handed down by the International Court of Justice in 2024 and their pontetial implications for Australia, given its declared support for Israel and desire to maintain and strengthen bilateral trade relations. You can read Sophie's recent piece, 'Gaza at The Hague', on Inside Story for more detail. The article we referenced by Shahd Hammouri, 'The UK and Its Illusive Arms Embargo', was published by Al-Shabaka on September 15 2024. For a more in-depth discussion of the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel's Occupation of Palestinian Territory, check out this webinar organised by the Melbourne Law School's Institute for International Law and the Humanities from July this year featuring a line up of international law experts including Sophie and Shahd.// Fiza Zali, teacher educator at University of Melbourne, speaks with us about the experience of becoming politicised towards practising decolonial solidarity as a migrant settler based in Naarm. Her research explores the discomforts of becoming critically conscious, and the complexities of positionalities particularly as a settler of colour on stolen land who is Indigenous elsewhere.// Upcoming Events6:00PM, Friday 20 September: Latin American Solidarity Network, Chile Solidarity Campaign and Lucho Riquelme are co-hosting the ‘Lessons for Organising’ event, sharing learnings from the 2019 Chile Popular Rebellion with a short film, photo exhibition and live music. The event will be held at Catalyst Social Centre, 146 Sydney Road, Coburg.12:00-2:00PM, Saturday 21 September: Renters and Housing Union are holding a Squatting Campaign Public Forum with Husk and Purplepingers at the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre, 251 Faraday St, Carlton. There will be an online attendance option.The next 3CR Station Worker and Subscriber Committee Meeting is coming up next Wednesday 25 September from 6-7PM.Meeting link: Join the meeting nowMeeting ID: 426 306 672 141Passcode: 7eRKRkDetails on how to RSVP are in your 3CR Program Updates!
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - Free Palestine Melbourne Rally 8th SeptemberWe listened to Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton, Kooma Murri Activist visiting from Magan-djin, speaking at this Sunday's Free Palestine Rally, outside State Library, 8th September. Later that day, also Uncle Coco spoke at the official launch event for Disrupt Land Forces held at Camp Sovereignty - Lest We Forget: The Frontier Wars. 3CR will be including audio from the event and other Disrupt actions in our special coverage across the week so stay tuned and listen back at 3cr.org.au/dlf2024 // Antipoverty Centre - National Suicide Prevention StrategyKristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre joins us to discuss the relationship between poverty and suicide in the wake of World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10, when the Albanese government handed down its draft National Suicide Prevention Strategy.// Farhana Sultana - 'Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines'We heard a clip of Farhana Sultana, Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, speaking during the webinar 'Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines' organised by the Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium. This virtual event was held on 29 August 2024, bringing together scholars in New York and activists in Bangladesh to share personal nuance and academic analysis to headlines from the beginning of the student-led quota reform movement on June 6th to the creation of an interim government upon the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5th. Our thanks to the South Asia Program at Cornell for sharing this audio with us - you can watch the full webinar here and keep up to date with the South Asia Program on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @SAPCornell.// Live Broadcast to Disrupt Land Forces - 12th SeptemberWe crossed live to 3CR reporters on the ground at this morning's actions for Disrupt Land Forces. Land Forces event is the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2024 it will be held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and a coalition of community groups working for a world free of war is organising a festival of resistance running from 8-14 September. Check out the Disrupt Calendar of Events, and watch the 3CR coverage here at https://www.3cr.org.au/dlf2024 - in the lead up and during the week! Be sure to check out Melbourne Activist Legal before attending events, be prepared, attend with a buddy and/or affinity group, and look out for each other in the next coming days with check-ins, meals, support of all kinds.// Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah - Anti-Palestinian racism in australian mainstream mediaDr Randa Abdel-Fattah spoke with us about anti-Palestinian racism in Australian mainstream media and concerns about media oversight by the Australian Press Council in the wake of a decision on her complaints to the APC regarding inaccuracies and misinformation shared in an article by The Age's Chief Reporter Chip Le Grand earlier this year. Dr Abdel-Fattah is a Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also a lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books for children and young adults. Read her piece about the APC's decision on Le Grand's article here on Pearls and Irritations.//Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2024. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//
Acknowledgement//Headlines// Dr Marco de Jong - Pacific Historian & Lecturer at Auckland UniversityPacific Historian Dr Marco de Jong joins us to unpack last week's 53rd Pacific Islands Forum summit. We will be discussing climate change mitigation/adaptation concerns for Pacific Island nations, the imposition of western military strategic interests on regional priorities, and how this relates to the ongoing liberation struggle unfolding in Kanaky. Dr de Jong is a lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology Law School, and was raised in Tāmaki Makaurau with ties to Papa Puleia in Sāmoa where he holds the chiefly title Faumuinā. His work details the history of regional politics and environmental governance in the Pacific Islands with a particular focus on Indigenous knowledge, nature conservation, anti-nuclearism, and climate change. Find out more about the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent here.// Harry Millward - Renters and Housing UnionHarry Millward, secretary of the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU interviews Clare Hanson from Save Public Housing Collective about her experiences of living in public housing. This interview was recorded and edited by Danielle Hassall with 3CR's Breadline program, a show by the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union. Catch Breadline on Mondays from 6-6:30PM on 3CR 855AM.// Dr Chris Gill - Professor of Chemistry at Vancouver Island UniversityDr Chris Gill, Professor of Chemistry has co-lead the the team that has created revolutionary drug checking technology through spray mass spectrometry used around the world, and originating in ''British Columbia,Canada.'' In Part 1 of this interview, we speak about the importance of small sample sizes in drug checking, the nuances of sensitivity, and what we here in Naarm/melbourne can learn from innovative drug checking technology and the management of opioid overdose crisises. In part 2 this week, we speak about translating this technology into supportive drug checking practices for the community, and check out Substance Drug Checking Service.// Dr Nico Clark - Clinical Director of First StepDr Nico Clark is the inaugural Clinical Director of First Step, an addiction, mental health and legal services hub supporting over 1,800 people each year. He has worked in the field of addiction medicine for over 25 years, including 10 years with the World Health Organisation in the Substance Use Team, Medical Director of the North Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR), and currently also Head of Addiction Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He joins us in the studio to talk about what organisations and systems can do to help end overdose, and we reflect on International Overdose Awarness Day 24 which was 31st of Aug last week.//Important: Information on how to access PREP during shortage via pan.org.au8-14 September: mobilise to disrupt land forces. Find out more via disruptlandforces.orgInformation on CFMEU latest and events via vic.cfmeu.org/news
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Slater and Gordon Class Actions Principal Lawyer Gemma Leigh-Dodds speaks about a recently-filed action on behalf of remote Aboriginal Western Australia Housing Authority tenants who have been forced to endure shockingly substandard public housing conditions. Find out more about the case here, and read about the Northern Territory High Court’s decision from last year regarding the substandard provision of public housing in remote Aboriginal communities here.// Tom Orsag joined us to talk about the federal government's decision to put the CFMEU into forced administration, and the concerns this raises for organised labour in so-called Australia. Tom worked in the construction industry from 2004-2023, and is a retired member. Join the community solidarity meeting tonight at 46 Ireland Street, Docklands, to get involved in the fight against Labor’s anti-union laws.// We hear part 1 of a conversation with Dr Chris Gill, Professor of Chemistry at Vancouver Island University, who co-led the team that has created revolutionary drug checking technology through spray mass spectrometry used around the world. In this segment, Dr Gill speaks about the importance of small sample sizes in drug checking, the nuances of sensitivity, and what we here in Naarm/melbourne can learn from innovative drug checking technology and the management of opioid overdose crises. Tune in for part 2 next week where we speak about translating innovative tech into supportive drug checking practices for the community, and check out Substance Drug Checking Service. // Sanne from Friends of the Earth’s Nuclear Free Collective tells us about the upcoming annual Art Auction at Catalyst Social Centre raising funds to support the Collective’s vital anti-nuclear campaigning. The event will start at 5PM, with music from 7:30 by Uncle Winiata Puru, and the live auction commencing at 8PM. Find out more about the event, including about how to bid remotely here. Learn about the broader Don’t Nuke the Climate campaign for a clean, anti-nuclear energy transition here, and follow on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.// Alexia from the A30 for West Papua Canberra crew joined us to speak about the globally coordinated wave of action in solidarity with West Papua scheduled for Friday August 30, and what it has been like to become politicised in support of West Papua as an Indonesian student in so-called Australia. Find out more about the campaign and associated actions by following A30 on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.// Upcoming EventsVigil for Mano Yogalingham, 12:30PM Thursday 29 August, 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.//Hands Off the CFMEU: Community Solidarity Meeting, 6PM Thursday 29 August, 46 Ireland Street, West Melbourne.//Denial in a time of genocide, 6PM Thursday 29 August, Building 80 Level 4 Room 11, RMIT University, 445 Swanston Street, Melbourne.//Talking About Trees: Film Screening Fundraiser for Sudan, 4:30PM Friday 30 August, David P. Derham theatre (GM15), Law Building, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton.//Justice for Refugees: Permanent Visas Now, 5:30PM Friday 30 August, 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.//Friends of the Earth Nuclear-Free Art Auction: Make Art Not War, 5:00PM Saturday 31 August, Catalyst Social Centre, 146 Sydney Road, Coburg.// Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2023. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listened back to sounds and speeches from the "Unite to Support the Refugee encampment" rally, a solidarity event held by the Refugee Action Coalition last Friday 16th August in support of refugees camping out in front of the Home Affairs office on Bourke Street in Docklands. The collective of refugees who initiated the encampment are demanding permanent protection from the government and have vowed to stay put until their permanent visas are granted, despite hostilities from police and local council and harassment and intimidation from neo-nazis. You’ll hear organisers responding to confrontation by a small group of neo-nazis and speeches that resumed after the disruption by two refugee women from the encampment, Nagez and Rati. The Tamil Refugee Council, Unionists for Palestine and Campaign Against Racism and Fascism are organising another rally in solidarity with the encampment and against nazi attacks this Friday 23rd August from 5:30PM at 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.// Ishtar Hope, a North Branch delegate with the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), joined us to recap the Housing Crisis Survival Expo protest which ran during National Homeless Week earlier this month and to discuss the importance of collective action as well as mutual aid in the struggle for housing justice, particularly for queer and trans people. Get your tickets for RAHU's Evict the Evictors fundraiser event this Saturday 24th August from 7PM at the Thornbury Bowls Club here, and check out Ishtar's political artworks by heading to @artfuldolebludger.// Shoshana and GG are members of Sicko Liberation Organism or S.L.O, a recently formed disabled/sick/mad led social and political group based in Naarm and working towards a future vision of liberation from all oppression and domination. On today’s show, they speak about the Labor Hates Crips community picket organised by S.L.O. for 11AM today outside Bill Shorten's office at Suite 1A, 12 Hall Street Moonee Ponds to protest the federal government's rejection of the Disability Royal Commission recommendations and the ongoing exploitation and abuse of disabled people in so-called Australia.// Dr Alistair Sisson, Macquarie University Research Fellow in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, speaks with us about his current research into the calculation of housing stress in Australia. His current project, ‘The politics of housing data,' is a critical analysis of the ways that contemporary housing problems are quantified and how data is used to frame the housing crisis. Alistair is an early career researcher whose work focuses on housing, gentrification, and urban development and planning.// Songs// Still No Justice - Dem Mob// Push Up - Miss Kaninna//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Cindy Baxter, Senior Communications Advisor with Climate Analytics, joined us to discuss the organisation's recently released 'Australia's global fossil fuel carbon footprint' report, which reveals the massive scale of Australia's domestic and international carbon impact via both local consumption and export-associated emissions. Cindy has been with Climate Analytics for 12 years, and has been working on global climate change issues for the past 33 years. Check out Climate Analytics’ Bill Hare’s recent Conversation article summarising key takeaways from the report here.// We heard part 3 of an interview Priya did last month with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane. This week's excerpt is the final part of our conversation, and touches on the importance of resisting liberal reformism and academic and non-profit complicity in state violence and what it means to build a culture of resistance centering the experiences of unhoused community members. Listen back to part one of our conversation here and part two here. We replayed a conversation between Kenyan feminist and activist Nita Okoko and host Jiselle on Accent of Women’s August 6 show, where Nita shares an analysis of the current protests in Kenya, the effect of state repression on the population, and where the country and its government sit in a wider global landscape. Listen back to the full interview here.// Matt Landolfo, Victorian Campaigns Manager for the Wilderness Society, spoke with us about the afterlife of Vic Forests and about the potential and pitfalls of pushes for improved federal environmental protection oversight. While Vic Forests ceased to exist on 30 June 2024 after years of campaigning by environmental justice advocates fighting its destruction of Victorian native forests, the emergence of a new organisation called The Healthy Forests Foundation has left many in the environmental justice space asking questions (check out ABC’s investigative report on the organisation here). At the same time, a current senate inquiry into a suite of bills proposing to establish a federal Environmental Protection Agency may provide an opportunity to bolster native forest stewardship efforts.// Community member Amber joined us to talk about the upcoming autonomous rally for trans liberation scheduled for this coming Saturday August 17 from 12-2PM outside Parliament House. The rally will counter an event being held at the same time and location by a trans-exclusionary radical feminist group. You can find more details about the counter-protest by heading to @transqueersolidarity on Instagram.// Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2023. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Amelia Leavesley, University of MelbourneAmelia Leavesley is a Research Fellow in Urban Sustainability at the Melbourne Centre for Cities. Her research focuses on urban climate policy and governance, sustainability transitions and local implementation of global sustainability frameworks. She's here to talk about her last article which unpacked how understanding ‘tobacco tactics’ can help fight the global plastic waste crisis, because the reality is plastic production is growing faster than we can recycle it.//Ariel Slamet Ries, Alison Evans, and Jinghua Qian We play a speech from this past Sunday's Free Palestine Rally, from outside the State Library Vic. Ariel Slamet Ries (Illustrator and Author), Alison Evans (Author), and Jinghua Qian (Writer and Critic), three writers who, along with Omar Sakr, had their Teen Bootcamp writing workshops terminated earlier this year by SLV. They speak about the hypocrisy of 'cultural safety', precarious employment and political censorship of artists and writers, and taking back our public institutions and our voices!// Stop LAPD Spying Coalition - Part 2We will hear Part 2 of an interview Priya did last month with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane. This week's excerpt includes a dicussion of the group's abolitionist ethos and structural analysis of violence, as well as the importance of demystifying predictive and data-driven policing techniques. Listen back to the first part of our conversation and all our past shows at 3cr.org.au/thursday-breakfast. // Abdullah Al Zubaer EvanAbdullah Al Zubaer Evan joins us to talk the recent student-led mass protests in Bangladesh, which while met with violent state repression have led to the overthrow of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The situation continues to develop with tensions over the establishment of a genuinely democratic successor government. Evan is a PhD student at RMIT University investigating the implication of citizenship rights for ethnic minority Biharis in Bangladesh. // LIVE - RAHU's 2024 Homelessness Week protest Housing Crisis Survival Expo, coordinated by the Renters and Housing Union's North branch and established on the nature strip in the middle of St Georges Road in Preston early this week.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We played a recording of two speakers at the small but powerful Kanaky Libre Solidarity Rally, which was held on Parliament steps on the night of Friday 26th July, discussing the history of Kanaky (so-called 'New Caledonia'). This excerpt also includes a discussion about boycotting the Olympic games in Paris, as the opening ceremony was held on the same day.// We listened back to an excerpt from Brisbane Free University and Radio Reversal's 'Challenging Colonial Copaganda' webinar, which brought together Professor Chelsea Watego, Dr Amy McQuire, Ronnie Gorrie and Associate Professor Amanda Porter to speak about the laundering and normalisation of policing in so-called Australia. In this segment, we hear Chelsea and Amanda critically discussing the normalisation of police presence at First Nations community events, and the machinations of police image-management through ties with other institutions.// Last week, Priya caught up with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane to talk about organising with unhoused community in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row and beyond against militarised policing and surveillance by the Los Angeles Police Department. We played part one of this interview today.// The Anti Police Terror Project joined organisations around the United States to coordinate a rally calling for Justice for Sonya Massey on the 29th of July in Oakland, California. Sonya Massey was a 36-year-old Black mother who was shot and killed by Deputy Sean Grayson of the Illinois Police Department on 6 July, 2024, after she called the police with concerns about an intruder entering her home. The rally was MC'd by APTP's Cat Brooks, and the recording we played in today’s show features poetry by Oakland's first Poet Laureate Dr Ayodele 'WordSlanger' Nzinga, as well as reflections from Uncle Bobby and Big Oscar, the uncle and father of Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Lloyd Riman - Electromold Community PicketYesterday, there was another community picket to stop work at the Electromold factory in Thomastown led by Whittlesea for Palestine. Electromold is owned by Lovitt Technologies and provides specialised surface coatings, platings, and finishings for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets. Electromold is the only NADCAP, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin approved processing facility of its kind in ''australia''. Lloyd Riman, Electromold Picket Community Activist, spoke at this Sunday's Free Palestine Rally (21st July), about the importance of direct activism in organising against local weapons manufacturers, and encouraging participation from all rallygoers.// Danah Ibrahim - Free Palestine Rally Danah Ibrahim, Palestinian Australian Environmental Researcher, spoke at this Sunday's Free Palestine Rally (21st July) running for 42 consecutive weeks, relaying the experience of a trauma therapy doctor in Gaza.//Refugee Action Collective - SpeakOut: Permanent Visas Now The 'SpeakOut: Permanent Visas Now!' Rally organised by the Refugee Action Collective Vic, held on Friday 19th July in the CBD (Naarm). This event was a commemoration of the 11-year anniversary, Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared that that asylum-seekers arriving by boat would be sent to Nauru or Manus Island, and none would ever be settled in Australia, which is particularly pertinanent at the moment given the current Labor rush to implement Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024, which seeks to expand ministerial powers to unprecedented levels. You can listen to our previous interview on the Migration Bill with Democracy in Colour on 4th of April here.// Asian migrant sex workers against border force, racism, and deportation - Women on the LineNext we heard a replay of Xen's Women on the Line episode, which included Excerpts from 'Pride in Protest' panel 'Asian migrant sex workers against border force, racism, and deportation', held as part of their 'Provocations' conference, held on Gadigal Land in June. We hear from migrant SWers and activists Bee and NaMon speaking about anti-immigration and anti-SW operation called Project Inglenook, and also pros n cons of decriminalisation, and the harms of anti-trafficking laws on the migrant worker community in so-called aus. Check out the full episode that aired on 24th of June here, and listen to Women on the Line on 3CR Mondays 8:30am - 9:00am.Content warning: description of police raids and violence against sex workers.If any of the content has been distressing, you can also call QLife, on 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au// Mentioned During the Show:Justice for Cleveland Coronial InquestFollow the Justice for Cleveland instagram, and Dhadjowa Foundation for updates.Content warning for suicide, self-harm, and Black Deaths in Custody. We pay respects and send all of our love to Cleveland's family and loved ones. Please read with care and reach out for supports if you need, 13YARN (13 92 76), Yarning SafenStrong (1800 959 563), and Suicide Callback Service (1300 659 467).// Justice for Sonya MasseyWe pay respects to the life of Sonya Massey who was tragically killed by the police in illinois in so called ''usa''.Content warning: coverage of Sonya Massey's death has included distressing footage of police violence, please read with care and reach out for support if you need on Suicide Callback Service (1300 659 467).// 'These Arms Hold' Exhibition at Incinerator Gallery (180 Holmes Road Aberfeldie) until 8 September.// Songs: Lonely Love Affair - YARAUntil We're All Free - Produced by DOBBY & Sereen, featuring over 20 artistsHomeland - Tjaka//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Peter Murphy - Assembly of the International League For Peoples StrugglesWe listen back to human rights activist Peter Murphy discussing his recent visit to Penang, Malaysia, for the Assembly of the International League For Peoples Struggles (ILPS) with Jan Bartlett on Tuesday Hometime on the 2nd of July.- Catch Tuesday Hometime on 3CR every Tuesday from 4-6PM.// Beyond the Bars LIVE from Barwon Prison - Tues 9th of JulyWe listen to an excerpt from this week's 2024 Beyond the Bars LIVE Broadcast, Tues 9th July from Barwon Prison in Lara near Geelong. 3CR Presenters Chris Austin and Keiran Stewart-Assheton speak with some of the First Nations men incarcerated at Barwon Prison. They discuss child removals, DHS & Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations, and offer some advice and thoughts on supports and solutions for Mob inside.- Listen back to the full broadcasts from each prison here (ahead of our highlights CD launch later in the year)// Fionn Skiotis - Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals with Disability (VALID)We were joined by Fionn Skiotis, CEO of VALID to unpack the impacts of rapidly dimishing supports for disability advocates and community members. Peak bodies such as Disability Advocacy Victoria (DAV) and Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) have called on the Victorian Minister for Disability, the Hon Lizzie Blandthorn MP, to provide urgent gap funding to the disability advocacy sector.//- Contact your local MP's and Minister for Disability, stating we need urgent funding for the disability advocacy sector.- Donate to your local disability advocacy service and/or send a message of thank you for their work.// Dr James Petty - Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA)We were joined by Dr James Petty Senior Policy and Research Officer from VAADA, the peak for Victorian alcohol and other drug treatment services. We discussed the recent health alerts indicating that illicit drugs such as cocaine have been adulterated with a range of substances, including nitazenes. In acknowledgement of this risk, Harm Reduction Victoria (HRVic) and VAADA have developed a paper calling for the sector and the Victorian Government to work together on developing and delivering a Potent Synthetic Opioids Plan.//- Harm Reduction Victoria's Naloxone Training. Next one Thursday 1st of August free on Zoom. No need to register, and you recieve a free Naloxone kit. - How to get free Naloxone aka Narcan®- HRVic's Naloxone Nasal Spray Instructions Flyer- Harm reduction tips- Signs of an an opioid overdose // Liss Fenwick - 'The colony cares for everyone' showArtist Liss Fenwick joins us to speak about their show THE COLONY CARES FOR EVERYONE, a more-than-human collaboration with giant northern termites to deconstruct colonial knowledge systems, showing from July 10-12 at RMIT's Chancellery Building in the city. Liss is an artist using photography, video, sound and material processes, working with visual languages to explore speculative outcomes of failing human-centeredness and eurocentrism. Liss is from Larrakia Country in the Northern Territory, and works between there and Naarm.- Catch the show until tomorrow Friday 12th of July at RMIT's Chancellery Building//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Andrew Yue - Jesuit Social Services Marisa on Doin Time interviewed Andrew Yue who has worked at Jesuit Social Services for over 10+ years, regarding raising the age of criminal responsibility. They spoke about the Youth Justice Bill 2024 that seeks to raise the age all the way to 14, and most importantly for young people who carry out certain behaviour, we have to address what's driving the behaviour and address trauma, and renegagement with community, education, family to ensure that young people can flourish. However, there are concerns around how the bill is implemented, police powers, and what this means for young people. You can catch the full show on Doin Time on 3CR Mondays from 4pm - 5pm. // Harry - Renters & Housing UnionLast month, the Allan government announced a long awaited amendment to minimum rental standards in Victoria. While change is welcomed by renters and advocates, there are significant oversights - some of which we covered in our talk on July 6 with Sophie Emder from Sweltering Cities. This week, we are joined by Harry, secretary of the Renters and Housing Union to discuss their submission on the proposed minimum standards. Sweltering Cities and RAHU worked together to centre community in their submissions by running a series of workshops, and today we will be delving into the recommendations formulated as a result.// Madi - Monash Palestine Solidarity Encampment. We hear from Madi Curkovic who is a Monash Student Association Queer Officer and an organiser at Students for Palestine Monash. She is also one of the nine students at Monash being threatened with expulsion or suspension for organising the Gaza solidarity encampment at Monash. In a speech given at the Free Palestine Naarm Rally on 30 June 2024, Madi spoke about the complicity of universities and educational institutions in Israel's genocide of Palestine and the silencing of pro-Palestinian students on campus.// Deputy Chair and Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter - The Yoorrook Justice CommissionYoorrook, or ‘truth’ in the Wemba-Wemba language, is a fundamental element in the fight for First Nations justice in so-called Australia. The Yoorrook Justice Commission launched in 2022 as the first formal truth telling process investigating the ongoing impacts of colonisation on First Nations people. Last month, the Commission saw its seventh round of public hearings and today we are joined by Deputy Chair and Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter to unpack them. Sue-Anne is a proud Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung woman, who is widely recognised for developing rights-based, transformative practice responses that empower First Nations people to heal from the continuing effects and processes of colonisation. Watch Jarvis Tell's His Story mentioned in this segment.// Looking Back at Beyond the Bars Next week marks the 23rd iteration of Beyond the Bars. Running since 2002, Beyond the Bars is a live broadcast featuring songs, stories, opinions and poems from First Nations inmates in Victorian prisons. In honour of Beyond the Bars 23rd iteration which will air next week and in commemoration of NAIDOC week, we will be replaying segments from last years show. Today, you will hear some audio recorded in Dame Phyllis Frost centre. Song - Love will keep us alive - Naihana & Amos 3.24//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Last Friday 21st June, Disrupt Land Forces had its first public meeting (at Black Spark, Northcote) to plan actions in protest of 'Land Forces', a massive weapons expo and conference which will be running this year from September 11-13 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. Ongoing actions in the previous host-city Magandjin (Brisbane) forced the conference to relocate to Naarm, and Disrupt Land Forces hope this year for the same - if not greater - level of disruption of harms dealers and their investors, both at the event and in the week leading up to it. Before the planning meeting various frontline community members and activists spoke of their experiences at the hands of the global military industrial complex, and the importance of international solidarity against imperialist structures. On today’s show, we played a speech from the event by Adolf Mora, West Papuan community member and activist. Content warning: this speech includes mention of suicide in detention. If you are feeling distressed, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14 or the suicide callback service on 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also contact 13 YARN (13 92 76), or Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563.// Since the early days of Israel's genocidal onslaught in Gaza, community activists have been staging pickets outside companies involved in the weapons manufacturing supply chain across so-called Australia, including AW Bell in Dandenong. Amanda Villalobos, local activist and participant in community pickets of AW Bell, joins us this morning to speak about the upcoming picket at AW Bell this Monday the 1st of July, aiming to close operations for the day to disrupt the company's role in the global supply chain of Lockheed Martin’s F-35A Lightning II aircraft or Joint Strike Fighter. Find out more about the action and keep up to date by heading to Weapons Out Of Naarm on Instagram.// Researcher and organiser Matilda Byrne joins us to speak about Australia's place in the artificial intelligence and autonomous capabilities arms race, which she recently authored an article about for Declassified Australia. By marketing itself as a site for AI innovation and framing this issue as a key area of defence policy, Australia is deeply embedded in global networks of weapons development further integrating autonomous functions into technologies of war and genocide. Matilda is currently undertaking a PhD at RMIT’s Social and Global Studies Centre where she is a sessional lecturer in international relations, security, global governance and disarmament. She is the National Coordinator of the Australia Stop Killer Robots campaign, based at SafeGround, an Australian non-for-profit that seeks to reduce impacts of legacy and emerging weapons.// Martin Hodgson, senior advocate at the Foreign Prisoners Support Service and co-host of Curtain the Podcast, speaks with us about the colonial crisis of domestic and family violence in so-called Australia. This conversation occurs in the context of Martin's recent appearance at a Parliamentary hearing held as part of the ongoing inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children. While the Senate referred an inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee on 4th August 2022, the inquiry process continues, with the reporting date extended to 15th August 2024. Content warning: this interview includes discussion of domestic and family violence, femicide and racism. If you are feeling distressed, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14 or the suicide callback service on 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also contact 13 YARN (13 92 76), or Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563. If you need support or advice, please call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732.// We didn’t end up having time to play the opening statement made by Karla McGrady, portfolio manager of Innovation at Our Watch, during last Monday's hearing as part of the Parliamentary inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children, but you can listen to it here. Our Watch is a national leader in the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia, and Karla appeared alongside CEO Patty Kinnersly to provide evidence on the significance of primary prevention and the importance of attending to colonialism and racism in the context of the inquiry.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Independent journalist Michelle Fahy joins us to unpack Australia's place in the global supply chain of Lockheed Martin's F-35 combat aircraft, which the Israeli military has been using to wreak widespread destruction across Gaza for at least the past 8 months. Michelle has been investigating militarism and the arms trade since 2009, and recently reported that Lockheed Martin has deleted website details about its operations in Australia. You can read and support Michelle's work by subscribing to her substack, Undue Influence.// Sunday the 16th of June marked the 36th free palestine rally in Naarm. The previous march, on Sunday the 9th, saw police deploy violent force using OC spray against more than 30 protesters, as well as attempting to ban the sound system truck in an effort to silence the Free Palestine movement. At Naarm’s most recent rally on Sunday 16th, Victoria Police again attempted to deny access of the sound truck to its rightful location outside the Victorian State Library. Tasnim Sammak joined us to unpack the events of the past two rallies. Tasnim is a speaker, organiser and monash PHD candidate engaged in counter-storytelling as decolonial methodology, as well as a member of the Free Palestine rally organising team.// Architect Chris Barnett and George Avraam from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne spoke with Vivien Langford on this week's Climate Action Show about possibilities for public housing retrofit sensitive to concerns about embodied carbon and sustainable design needs. We play a segment of their conversation which touches on some of the architectural thinking showcased during last month's Public Housing Towers Reimagined exhibition at the Australian Institute of Architects. Listen back to the full episode of this week's Climate Action Show by heading to 3cr.org.au/climateaction, and tune in live every Monday from 5-6PM.//Yousef Alreemawi, (veteran Palestinian activist, founder of Averroes Centre of Arab Culture, The Aspire Project, Palestine Remembered on 3CR, & musician with the Tarab Ensemble) speaking at the Public Forum "76 Years of Nakba & The False Idol of Zionism" hosted by Green Left & Socialist Alliance at the Resistance Centre in Melbourne CBD, held on Tuesday 28th May.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// The month of June marks RADIOTHON at the station and this year’s theme is ‘Sound on for Solidarity’. 'Solidarity' has been at the heart of 3CR's work for nearly five decades across a range of issues and themes. Start saving your pennies people and we look forward to your financial solidarity during June. Any amount makes a big difference, and all donations over $2 are tax deductible. Donate online now. Artwork by Aretha Brown.// Thursday Breakfast would like to thank all our wonderful pledgers and special guests Maiy Azize, Emma Bacon, Jordana Silverstein and Scott Drummond.//
This week we celebrate a well-earnt win for the decades long Mirarr fight to end Uranium Mining at Jabiluka. We play recordings from Peter Garett and Corben Mudjandi as well as songs Organise by Asake and Why Did You Seperate Me from the Earth by Anohni. This episode was recorded on the sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We give our gratitude to Elders past and present and their enduring custodianship to lands, waters and skies.
RADIOTHON IS ALMOST HERE! Please consider donating to the Breakfast Teams' crowdraiser, where we're doing our bit to contribute towards the station's goal of $275,000 to stay on air for another year. Don't forget to nominate your favourite brekky crew, i.e. Thursday ;) when you donate. Want to make a donation another way? Head to 3cr.org.au/donate for more options. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Sound on for solidarity with 3CR Breakfast, Monday to Saturday mornings on 855AM! Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//On Monday, the Victorian Government announced proposed updates to the state’s minimum rental standards to make homes healthier, more affordable and more energy efficient. While there are some promising changes such as mandatory cooling, weather seals and better insulation, there are also some major gaps. To help us better understand these amendments to rental standards, we were joined by Sophie Emder, Senior Community Campaigner with Sweltering Cities. Sweltering Cities is a health NGO that works directly with people in hot suburbs and homes to campaign for more liveable, equitable and sustainable cities. If you’d like to have your say on minimum rental standards in Victoria, add your voice to Sweltering Cities’ submission here or write your own via the Engage Victoria portal.// Kate Fitz Gibbon is an international research leader in the area of domestic and family violence, femicide, responses to all forms of violence against women and children, perpetrator interventions, and the impacts of policy and practice reform in Australia and internationally. Today, Kate joined us to discuss new research examining the merits and limits of domestic violence disclosure schemes (DVDS) in so-called Australia and Aotearoa.// MJ, working at Sisters Inside and a member of the National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, spoke with us about unequal access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for people in custody and on remand. While it can be extremely challenging for people who have not already been granted access to funding under the scheme to complete an application in custody, MJ explained the barriers that people inside face when it comes to accessing already approved NDIS-funded supports. MJ is a formerly incarcerated Aeta woman and is committed to ending the criminalisation of women and girls.// Māori and Irish political organiser Te Raukura O'Connell Rapira joined us on the show to break down the New Zealand government’s attempt to erode Māori representation in local government via an attack on the Māori ward system. Te Raukura is a lead claimant in the urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into this significant legislative move by the NZ government to undermine Māori political voice.// Songs//Party Tricks - Alice Skye//
RADIOTHON IS ALMOST HERE! Please consider donating to the Breakfast Teams' crowdraiser, where we're doing our bit to contribute towards the station's goal of $275,000 to stay on air for another year. Don't forget to nominate your favourite brekky crew, i.e. Thursday ;) when you donate. Want to make a donation another way? Head to 3cr.org.au/donate for more options. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Sound on for solidarity with 3CR Breakfast, Monday to Saturday mornings on 855AM! Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listen back to an interview from 3CR’s Doin’ Time show with Nina Storey, a formerly incarcerated woman and member of Flat Out and the FIGJAM collective (formerly incarcerated justice advocates based in Melbourne). In this segment, Nina talks about a joint submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into legal responses to sexual violence, prepared with Karen Fletcher (Flat Out), Sohini Mehta and Monique Hurley (Human Rights Law Centre), and including contributions from formerly incarcerated people and other members of the FIGJAM collective.// Bundjalung Githabal and Worimi Saltwater woman Phoebe McIlwraith, Communications Lead for First Nations Futures, spoke with us about the Redistribution Week initiative running across this week from May 27 to June 3. The Redistribution Week campaign amplifies First Nations experts advocating for the redistribution of wealth, land, power, labour and responsibility as the next step beyond Reconciliation, encouraging non-Indigenous people to both learn and engage in material redistribution of resources obtained through colonial violence.// Last week, the NSW Government revealed a secret deal with Origin Energy to extend operation of Eraring power station, one of Australia’s oldest coal-fired power plants, for an additional two years past its agreed-on closure date in 2025. Annika Reynolds from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) joined us to discuss the impacts of this extension. Annika is the ACF’s National Climate Policy Advisor, leading the organisation’s work on federal climate and energy law reform. Previously, Annika has worked at an international climate think-tank and within the environmental and energy legal sector.// Gamilaraay and Kooma organiser Boe Spearim spoke with us about the Treaty Before Sports campaign’s planned Aboriginal solidarity delegation to meet with the Kanak community in so-called New Caledonia as part of building a broader network of anti-colonial resistance. Boe also shared a critical reflection on Reconciliation Week. Donate to the delegation's fundraiser here, and listen to Boe’s podcast ‘Frontier War Stories’ here.// Community Announcements:NO Northern Incinerator Wollert! are calling for community members to register their interest in attending a public consultation meeting being held by the Environmental Protection Authority on Thursday 20 June to discuss Cleanaway’s proposed development of a waste to energy garbage incinerator in Wollert. The facility, which would be located in close proximity to residential areas and within 1.2km of the Merri Creek, will be used to burn over 1,000 tonnes of garbage per day. RSVPs are required by 11:59PM on Sunday the 2nd of June - register here.//
RADIOTHON IS ALMOST HERE! Please consider donating to the Breakfast Teams' crowdraiser, where we're doing our bit to contribute towards the station's goal of $275,000 to stay on air for another year. Don't forget to nominate your favourite brekky crew, i.e. Thursday ;) when you donate. Want to make a donation another way? Head to 3cr.org.au/donate for more options. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Sound on for solidarity with 3CR Breakfast, Monday to Saturday mornings on 855AM! Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Maia, founding director of Yung Prodigy Org, came on the show to talk about the importance of authentic spaces centring care, truth and breaking cycles of targeted systemic dependency for young people with experiences of parental incarceration. Maia works in social justice spaces more broadly through anti-racism, advocacy and assisting community organising efforts. She has lived experience of parental incarceration for over 10 years and other forms of contact with the justice system, driving her work to curate a better aligned social ecosystem through Yung Prodigy. Everybody's Home spokesperson Maiy Azize took us through the launch of public hearings into the People's Commission into the Housing Crisis, which began today in Sydney. The People's Commission, convened by Everybody's Home, a national cross-sectoral campaign aiming to fix Australia's housing crisis, will hear from community members and frontline workers about lived experiences of housing insecurity.// Son of a Palestinian refugee, co-founder of Australians For Palestine, president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and broadcaster on 3CR’s Palestine Remembered show Nasser Mashni spoke with us about the university student encampments around so-called Australia calling for disclosure of and divestment from all institutions and companies supporting and/or profiting from the genocide of Palestinians. The conversation also touched on the newly-launched Anti-Palestine Racism in Schools Register.// Liz Downes, campaigner with Melbourne Rainforest Action Group (MRAG), joined us to discuss MRAG’s recently-released report documenting Australian mining company Hancock Prospecting's concerning activities in Ecuador since 2017. The report compiles seven years worth of front-line reporting on Hancock's 100%-owned subsidiary Hanrine, which has attracted scrutiny for alleged civil rights violations and judicial system interference during its explorations for copper and gold in eleven mining concessions in northwestern Ecuador.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// This morning we are joined by Marcelle Mogg, CEO of Mental Health Victoria, the states peak body for mental health…specialising in policy, advocacy, training and research. Today Marcelle will expand on concerns, shared across the sector, regarding the Victorian Government's failure to allocate funding to key supports recommended by Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System in 2021.// James of 3CR's Out Of The Blue, speaks with US writer and journalist Sabrina Imbler about their new book that that fuses science and memoir to compare the lives of sea creatures to their own. In this excerpt, James uncovers how queer the oceans really are. Sabrina's book is How Far The Light Reaches, published in Australia as My Life In Sea Creatures. James begins the conversation by asking Sabrina about her connection to the ocean.// Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, takes us through VALS' response to this year's federal budget. While the budget included funding for a suite of family violence-related reforms, the wellbeing of Aboriginal women and children were shamefully neglected despite a dire need for culturally safe legal support and representation. Nerita also provides insight into the relationship between a lack of consideration for Aboriginal women and families at the federal and state level and the ongoing coronial inquest into the death in custody of proud and much loved Yamatji, Noongar, Wongi and Pitjantjatjara woman Heather Calgaret.// Kate aka Perno is a queer, disabled activist who joins us today to speak about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) during ME/CFS Awareness Week (12 -19 May). We will discuss international and evidence based guidelines and how australia has lagged in this area, how to reconnect with who you are while living with ME/CFS, and how we can learn more. Kate has also worked as a former nurse, a peer worker in drug harm reduction, been a fierce advocate for dancefloor safety through Cool Room and Safety Mates.// Deanna Grant-Smith, Professor of Management in the School of Busines & Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, speaks with us about the federal Labor government's budget allocation for Commonwealth Prac Payments, intended to support students with mandatory placement requirements across the fields of teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work. Though this addition to the budget will provide some relief for students expected to undertake otherwise unpaid placements, advocates and professional bodies have raised concerns that the payments fall short of a liveable income and fail to assist students across a broad range of degrees with placement requirements.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// First up today we are joined by Scott Drummond, Head of Policy and Practice at VAADA - the peak body representing publicly-funded AOD services in Victoria. In the following interview, we will be discussing in detail the rejection of a Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) in Melbourne's CBD, as well as the newly announced $95 Million AOD 'Statewide Action Plan', and what this means for the future of AOD treatment services.// James McKenzie of 3CR's In Ya Face speaking with Just Equal's Rodney Croome last month about political moves from the Coalition and the Albanese Government over LGBTIQA+ students in religious schools, and a federal religious discrimination bill. You can hear the full conversation between James and Rodney here, and catch In Ya Face every Friday from 4-5PM on 3CR.// Native Title Rockets writer, director and producer and campaign coordinator Rochelle (Rocky) Humphrey joins us today to speak about the campaign led by Senior Kokatha Elder Aunty Suzanne Coleman Haseldine to defend Kokatha Country from Southern Launch's harmful rocket testing activities at the Koonibba Test Range. This week, Southern Launch plans to test rockets over Yellabinna Reginal Reserve and Yumburra Conservation Park, proceeding without thorough consultation with First Nations or appropriate Environmental Impact Statements and raising widespread concern about the impacts on sacred cultural sites and Mallee bushland. Donate to the West Mallee Protection campaign here, and follow along on Instagram for more information about the upcoming Rocket Wreckers fundraising rave and other events.// In our final segment today, we are going to hear an excerpt from a conversation with Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French writer and performer Laniyuk. Thursday Breakky co-host and Women on the Line presenter Priya spoke to Laniyuk in February this year about the ongoing campaign to return Lee Point to Larrakia Care, as well as the history of the Australian and US defence forces' militarised occupation of Larrakia Country. You’ll also hear from several Larrakia women - Jamilah Mills, Arbei Talbot, Hayley Mcadam, Aunty Aly Mills, and Arbei Adjrun - who have lent their voices and stories to the fight, using audiovisual storytelling as a medium to convey the significance of Larrakia people’s relationship with Country as a foundation for community and cultural strength, and to ensure Larrakia futures. To hear the full interview, go to www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline. And if you're living on or around Larrakia Country, we encourage you help protect sacred land and to get down to Lee Point today!//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Khoi Nguyen is the Community Engagement and Legal Education Officer at Q+Law, a specialist LGBTIQA+ peer-led legal service operating in Victoria in partnership with Fitzroy Legal and Queerspace. Q+Law provides a free state-wide access to legal assistance over the phone, online or in person for anyone who identifies as part of LGBTIQA+ communities. Today Khoi joined us to speak about an interactive workshop happening this Saturday, where queer folks can learn about their rights and obligations when interacting with police at protests.// We hear an excerpt from 3CR's Radioactive Show where Crunch spoke with Ray Acheson, who's a writer, activist, director of Reaching Critical Will and a steering member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Ray discussed the strength of First Nations organising against all things nuclear, police repression, organising against cop cities, mutual aid and solidarity. You can listen to the full interview that aired on Saturday 13th of April, and catch the Radioactive Show on 3CR Saturdays 10-10:30AM.// Deena is a Masters of Public Health student and member of the grassroots coalition Unimelb for Palestine. Today, Deena spoke to us about the Gaza Solidarity Encampment starting today, Thursday 25th of April at 10AM. The encampment is the latest organising effort by Unimelb for Palestine, again calling on the university to cut all ties with weapons manufacturers. Drawing on inspiration from student protests at Columbia University in the US, the action states ''Disclose, Divest, We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest!''// Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the original Aboriginal Tent Embassy's founding four, and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic joins us to discuss the importance of commemorating the Frontier Wars on this date of colonial military remembrance. The March on ANZAC, which has been held on April 25th in Canberra for over a decade now, highlights the vital resistance of Aboriginal people who lost their lives in the Frontier Wars fighting against colonial invasion.//Bill Abrahams is a primary school teacher and member of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine VIC. Today Bill discussed the coalition's recent resource Teaching for Palestine: Challenging Anzac Day, australia's historical and ongoing repression of Palestinians, how official remembrance obscures the realities of war and promotes imperialism and militarisation, and the role of teachers and school staff in dismantling these myths.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We played a speech given by Declan Furber-Gillick, Eastern Arrernte man and member of the Black Peoples Union and Unionists for Palestine, at the April 15th rally at the Victorian Parliament steps launching the campaign to Get Elbit Out of Victoria. The campaign aims to end the state government’s contracts with israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems as part of the global solidarity movement fighting for a free Palestine.// Content note: this interview contains discussion of massacres and systemic harm towards First Nations people. For support, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN on 13 92 76 or Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563. Listeners can also contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. We heard part two of a conversation with Yoorrook Justice Commisioner Travis Lovett who joined Leila last week to share updates from the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s land justice hearings. In this part of the discussion, Commissioner Lovett contextualises on-Country evidence given at the March 21st ceremonial hearings within histories of Victorian First Nations aquaculture, science and lore, long-standing strategies of resistance, and the ongoing impacts of colonisation. Listen back to part 1 here. Make a submission to the Justice Commission here.// El Gibbs, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Disability Advocacy Network Australia, spoke with us about last month's introduction of legislation aiming to amend the operation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in response to last year's NDIS review report. The legislation, put forward by Minister for the NDIS Bill Shorten, risks further undermining access to vital NDIS-funded supports for people with a disability in Australia.// Dr Stephen Townsend, Research Fellow at the University of Queensland’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, joins us to talk about the management of concussion in elite Australian sporting codes, focusing on the AFL and AFLW. Despite the progressive introduction of concussion management protocols at both elite and community levels, serious concerns remain about how to safeguard athletes' health in an inherently risky game. Stephen is an historian who seeks to reveal the hidden past of sports concussion in Australia and internationally. You can find him on Twitter(X) @historycrab and at The Conversation.// Songs//For My Tittas - Barkaa//Indigenous Land - DRMNGNOW//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Sheree Lowe, Executive Director of the Balit Durn Durn Centre at the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO), joined us to discuss the Victorian government's failure to act on the urgent need for youth justice system reform scaling back the encroachment of the criminal legal system into the lives of young Aboriginal people. Late last month Attorney General Jaclyn Symes announced a backflip by the government on reverse onus bail reforms, and the concerning introduction of an electronic monitoring system to track children on bail in Victoria. Sheree Lowe is a Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara woman with a strong connection to South West Victoria, and has lived most her life on Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat. She has been advocating within the Aboriginal Community in Victoria for over 20 years, and previously worked as a management consultant at PWC on projects related to organisational transformation through an Aboriginal lens and cultural safety program design.// Dr Rebekah Hoffman, General Practitioner at Kirrawee Family Medical Practice in Sydney and NSW/ACT chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), spoke with us about the latest Drug Checking Service pilot running out of Kings Cross' Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. This pilot builds on the life-saving history of drug checking service provision at fixed sites and festival pill testing in Australia, demonstrated in the ACT and Queensland. Dr Hoffman discussed how drug checking service provision will work based at a medically supervised injecting centre, and what the pilot seeks to achieve.// Content note: this interview contains discussion of massacres and systemic harm towards First Nations people. For support, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN on 13 92 76 or Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563. Listeners can also contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. The Allan government recently issued a widely criticised response to the 45 recommendations from the Yoorrook for Justice report, documenting the findings of the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s inquiry into child protection and the criminal justice system in Victoria. This response follows the government’s announcement of concerning proposed amendments to Victoria’s bail laws, including trials for digital monitoring of minors on bail. We listen to part one of a conversation with Yoorrook Justice Commissioner Travis Lovett who joined Leila to discuss these recent developments and provide the latest updates on this year’s Yoorrook hearings investigating land injustice, which began with on-Country evidence last month.//James Godfrey, spokesperson for Free Gaza Australia, a member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, spoke with us about the Coalition's plans to set sail in mid-April to carry 5500 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international human rights observers to Gaza. The Coalition, made up of international civilian groups fighting for freedom and human rights, will challenge the long-standing israeli siege on the Gaza Strip as israel's genocidal onslaught continues into its sixth month. James is a PhD student in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at University of Canberra. For more than 35 years, he has been active in many campaigning organisations fighting for social justice, locally and internationally, including the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London (1986-1989). In recent years, he has focused on justice for the Palestinian people and is a spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which physically challenges the illegal israeli blockade of Gaza.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay a conversation from Hong Kongology where host Katy spoke with Nazanin of Feminista Melbourne about women's rights and activism in Iran. Hong Kongology airs every Thursday on 3CR from 6-7PM.// We listen back to a conversation Inez had with AJ from Melbourne Activist Legal Support in October 2023, which covered points of concern witnessed by legal observers and attendees at the Free Palestine Rally on the 15th of October 2023. This interview also included some tips on how to keep yourself safer at events and actions, an important listen in an era of escalating heightened police surveillance and violence against autonomous activists.// Techno Park resident Lara Week joined us with updates about the campaign to save the homes of residents of Techno Park Drive in Williamstown, who were ordered to leave their homes last year after a decision by Hobsons Bay Council to enforce industrial zoning laws. Lara spoke about the upcoming march to Hobsons Bay Council this Tuesday the 9th of April to stop the mass eviction of families, pensioners and other vulnerable people from their homes at Techno Park.// Joannie from racial justice organisation Democracy in Colour spoke with us about The Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024, which seeks to grant the Minister for Immigration unprecedented new powers, including imposing a travel ban by preventing visa applications from deemed ‘removal concern countries.’ If passed into law, the legislation will confront people fleeing persecution, torture and death with a perilous choice: return to a place where they may be harmed or killed, or be detained in prison for refusing to comply with removal. It would also allow the Minister, and future governments, the discriminatory power to prohibit visa applications from entire national populations. Join the snap rally called by Tamil Refugee Council tomorrow, Friday the 5th of April at Flinders Street Steps, protesting the Bill. Follow Democracy in Colour on Instagram for details on how to demand politicians take a stand against this injustice, and to make a submission to the Parliamentary inquiry into the Bill (12th April deadline).// Simona Castricum joins us to speak about her new consultancy practice Design 4 Trans and Gender Diverse, which aims to centre trans and gender diverse placemaking and belonging in spatial design. Challenging the cisheteropatriarchal status quo of built environments, Design 4 Trans and Gender Diverse will use research-led approaches to empower queer and trans communities to actively shape public and civic spaces according to their unique needs and aspirations. Simona is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, developing transfeminist methodologies in architectural design, history, and theory.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay Spike’s conversation from November last year with Iain MacIntyre from the Commons Social Change Library. The Commons Social Change Library is a service that documents the collective wisdom of people who have engaged in social change struggles and campaigns in so-called Australia and the world, and is committed to making that information free and accessible to support the fight against social injustice. Today, we played part one of Spike’s interview with Iain, where they discussed a definition of social change and free and accessible information. They also discussed why documenting struggles helps us achieve social change, and the first steps you can take in a social justice campaign. Listen to part 2 here and part 3 here.// Yesterday, Priya caught up with RMIT NTEU Branch Committee member Liam Ward on the picket to hear about the strike action running this week from Monday 25-Thursday 28 March in the face of management's ongoing delays in negotiating a new enterprise bargaining agreement. RMIT's previous EBA agreement expired over 1000 days ago! We were also joined by rank and file RMIT NTEU member Tami to contextualise this industrial action in relation to worker solidarity with Palestine as Israel escalates its genocidal campaign of bombing and starvation in Gaza. Note: Priya is also an RMIT employee and NTEU member, and has been on strike with colleagues this week - donate to our strike fund here. Your support makes a big difference, especially for precariously employed casual workers at RMIT.// Content note: discussion of racism and torture. Support is available via Lifeline on 13 11 14, or for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Listeners on 13 YARN (13 92 76).Human rights activist and lawyer Veronica Koman spoke with Priya about the systemic dehumanisation of West Papuans by the Indonesian state and military, given the recent circulation of several horrific images and video of the torture of Mr Warinus Murib and several other young West Papuans. By maintaining ambiguity about the legal status of its military occupation of West Papuan territory, the Indonesian state continues to evade and stymie international scrutiny of its violent colonial occupation, while framing all West Papuans subjected to brutality at the hands of soldiers as potential resistance fighters. For the latest news and music from West Papua, make sure to tune into 3CR’s Voice of West Papua show every Tuesday evening from 6:30-7:30PM.// Content note: discussion of genocide and state violence. Support is available via Lifeline on 13 11 14, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN (13 92 76), and queer listeners can call QLife on 1800 184 52.We listen back to an interview from 30 November 2023 with independent queer researcher Dr Shoshana Rosenberg, who joined us to talk about disability and trans solidarity with Palestine in the face of Israel's ongoing violent occupation, exploring the connections between disability justice, trans freedom and liberation for Palestine. Shoshana speaks about genocide as a mass disabling event and what it means for disabled folks to engage in solidarity actions across colonial borders and from stolen land in so-called Australia.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Nathalie Farah of Disrupt Wars joined us live from the community picket that's been running weekly on Thursday and Friday mornings outside Heat Treatment Australia in Campbellfield. The picket has been established and maintained into its seventh week by members of the local Hume community in support of Palestine, who are protesting against HTA's role in heat-treating vital components required for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter given their use by Israel in the genocide of Palestinians. Hume community members have committed to continued action outside HTA until it ends its contracts with weapons manufacturers profiteering off war and genocide.// Dr Sue Lewis, Acting President of the Victorian Forest Alliance, spoke with us about the recent announcement of the impending end of Vic Forests, which is set to wind up in mid-2024 after years of grassroots activism, official inquiries, legal battles and Parliamentary debate about the widespread harm that the entity has caused to Victoria's native forests. With the end of Vic Forests on the near horizon, we discussed the implications of its closure and what comes next for statewide native forest management. Respond to Kinglake Friends of the Forest’s urgent call to action against Forest Fire Management Victoria’s planned burns by sending an email (details below) or using the template here.// In the spirit of World Social Work Day, which falls on 20 March, we replayed an interview from June 2023 featuring Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis talking about the importance of investing in authentic youth voices, youth participation in mental health sectors, and advocacy. Angelica Ojinnaka- Psillakis is a youth development advocate, researcher, and speaker. She served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and is involved in a number of projects and organisations.// Member of Whittlesea for Palestine Logan Balavijendran chats with us about the snap action on Saturday 23 March outside the office of Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles. The action has been prompted by Australia’s decision to cancel the visas of Palestinians escaping genocide,some of which have occurred mid air, leaving several Palestinians stranded with no where to go. Australian families have paid thousands of dollars to bring their loved ones to safety, only to be left scared and worried about where their loved ones will go now. Logan resides in Whittlesea with his Palestinian partner and sons. He has a career spanning education and IT, and is committed to community-building to hold leaders accountable.// Ashleigh Buckett, Principal Solicitor at the National Justice Project, spoke with us about the coronial inquest into the 2016 death of Faysal Ishak Ahmed, a young Sudanese refugee, while he was detained on Manus Island in Australian immigration detention. The inquest, which ran across Monday and Tuesday this week, examined Faysal's access to medical treatment over several months prior to his death, and assessed the circumstances of his delayed medical evacuation to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, where he passed away. With the United Nations Subcommittee on the prevention of torture making the significant decision to suspend its visit to Australia in late 2022, citing obstructions to its work and a lack of co-operation, the inquest into Mr Ishak Ahmed's death may provide a rare window into the draconian operations of Australia's immigration detention regime.// The image used for this episode was taken by photographer Matt Hrkac. Go support his brilliant independent photojournalism here.// --- Kinglake Friends of the Forest Urgent Call to Action: Stop Planned Burns! We need your help to prevent an imminent and terribly ill-conceived planned burn that will impact greater gliders near Kinglake.We've been surveying for endangered greater gliders and hollow-bearing trees in a beautiful, varied patch of forest in Mt Robertson Rd, Kinglake. In one evening, 13 gliders were detected. Numerous habitat trees with good hollows suggest that many more live here, as well as providing crucial habitat for all sorts of hollow-dependent species. In addition, many habitat trees with fire scarring near their base from 2009 (Black Saturday) were recorded. These scarred trees become more liable to collapse with each subsequent fire. Forest Fire Management Vic has just announced they are going to burn this very patch of forest within the next few days.Here are just some of the reasons that burn HR-MUR-TLG-0008 is a bad idea.We are appalled to think of the impact that this unnecessary fire will have on the resident gliders, other wildlife and flora and on the older trees that survived the last fire because of:the immediate effects of the fire and smokeloss of food supply for gliders as a result of canopy scorchcollapse of den treesthe increase in fire risk in years to come because of the pulse of shrubs that will grow after the burnWe need to listen to the research that tells us that forests need to be protected from fire until they reach maturity when they are least flammable – estimated to be about 4 years from now in Kinglake.We can suppress fire using rapid detection technology available now. Thermal and heat sensing cameras can pick up fires kilometers away if installed in towers at optimum sight distance locations. We need to ensure we have trained remote area firefighters.What can you do?We (and the gliders) would love you to ring or write to any or all of the following, citing burn HR-MUR-TLG-0008.If you ring you'll want to keep it pretty short. You'll probably just speak to someone from admin so make sure you ask that they pass on your message.If you write, you could just copy and paste points 1-3, if you don't want to write your own. Maybe change the wording a bit if you can.The Hon. Steve Dimopoulos, Minister for Environment tel: 03 862 43101, email: reception.dimopoulos@ecodev.vic.gov.auTom Goldstraw, Senior Forest & Fire Management Officer – Fuel Management– Murrindindi District tel: 0439 130 146 thomas.goldstraw@delwp.vic.gov.auChris Hardman Chief Fire Officer | Lead Executive, Forest and Fire Operations Division, DEECA tel: 0419 563 413 chris.hardman@delwp.vic.gov.auThe Hon Jacinta Allan Premier of Victoria tel:0396515000 jacinta.allan@parliament.vic.gov.au
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Content note: this interview includes discussion of racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN (13 92 76) or Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563. Shelley Ware, proud Yankunytjatjara and Wirangu woman and sports broadcaster, joined us this morning to discuss the structural racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian sporting codes. This conversation occured in the wake of Roosters prop Spencer Leniu being handed an 8-week ban on Monday after racially derogatory comments on field to Brisbane Broncos' Ezra Mam, at the same time as the revelation that former prominent AFL figures Kevin Sheedy and Terry Daniher are among those named in a class action case alleging racial vilification filed in Victoria's Supreme Court last year by North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer. Want to report an instance of racism or discrimination against First Nations peoples? Head to the Call It Out racism register.// Rita Jabri Marquell, a solicitor for Birchgrove Legal, caught up with guest presenter Harry earlier this week to discuss the referral of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and other senior politicians to the International Criminal Court. Birchgrove Legal submitted the 92-page referral document last Tuesday, alleging that Albanese and other named politicians bear individual criminal responsibility for aiding and abetting Israel's crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The submission has been endorsed by more than one hundred Australian lawyers and barristers.// Social researcher Kev Dertadian spoke with us about settler colonialism, criminalisation and drug prohibition as explored in his recent paper, ‘The Coloniality of Drug Prohibition’ (open access). Kev works on unceded Bedagal land and does field-based research with people who use drugs, including both marginalised and structurally advantaged groups. As a member of the Center for Criminology, Law and Justice Kev advocates for non-carceral responses to drug use, with a particular focus on harm reduction.// Megan is a horticultural/environmental educator, disability support worker and former employee of CERES, who quit in February due to concerns about the organisation’s stance on Palestine. She joined us on today’s show to discuss staff censorship of pro-Palestinian support and permaculture.// Jasper Cohen-Hunter spoke with us about the Mirring Yalingwa podcast and the role of Aboriginal cinema and audiovisual storytelling in First Nations survival and ongoing resistance. Jasper is a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung man with ancestral ties to the Ngurai-Illum people of the Kulin Nation. Listen to Mirring Yalingwa here, and follow the podcast on Instagram here.//
Acknowledgement of Country//News/Headlines//We listen back to Andy and Cam of 3CR's Yeah Nah Pasaran show speaking with Rae Jereza about guns and content moderation. Rae, who joined Andy and Cam on their February 22nd show, is a non-binary, Filipino-American anthropologist working in North America and researching social media and white supremacy. This is an excerpt of a longer segment - for the full interview, head to 3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran. Catch Yeah Nah Pasaran on 3CR every Thursday from 4:30-5:00PM.//Simon Katterl is a mental health advocate, consultant and the current Chair of Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC). Today, Simon joins us to discuss the urgency of realising a Consumer Leadership Agency as per Recommendation 29 of The Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. Mental health and AOD consumer advocates have renewed calls for the immediate implementation of Recommendation 29, with this week marking the third year since The Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System handed down its recommendations. All of Simon Katterl’s work is underpinned by an understanding that consumer leadership and co-design are critical to service transformation, and that a functioning system will be one that respects human rights. Read the open letter by SHARC and VMIAC and here.//Architect Simon Robinson, one of the managing directors of Melbourne-based not-for-profit design and research practice OFFICE, joins us to talk about resisting state neglect and demolition of public housing through their retain, repair and reinvest approach. OFFICE have previously engaged in pro bono assessment and design work for public housing residents at the Ascot Vale and Barak Beacon estates to present viable alternatives to government-initiated mass demolition, instead aiming to keep public housing communities together and in place while improving their dwelling conditions. In the wake of last year's Victorian government announcement of plans to demolish all 44 high-rise public housing towers in Melbourne over the next few decades, OFFICE have been engaged by tower communities in Flemington and North Melbourne to undertake a proper structural assessment and to research options for refurbishment. This independent work is being undertaken in the absence of government transparency about why the towers need to come down. OFFICE are holding a fundraiser tonight to raise money to cover the cost of the study, running from 6-9PM at 35 Emma Street Collingwood with an associated online auction for donated artworks.//A multi-talented creative visionary, rapper, singer and writer, MUDRAT (FKA - KVNYL) music has gained acclaim for his use of genre-bending instrumentals alongside passionate delivery, raw lyricism and high-impact production. Creating music that draws from his perspective of the world, life experience and cultural roots, he chats to us about making music in times of collective crisis.// Support13 Yarn on 13 92 76 and YarningSafenStrong on 1800 959 563 are available to mob 24/7 today and always.//SuicideLine Victoria 1300 651 251 is available to everyone 24/7 for support.//
Problems with parole in Victoria, Non-binary + women of colour caucus, Premier's Iftar boycott, Community sector workers for Palestine, Yoorrook inquiry on economic prosperity Acknowledgement of Country// News/Headlines// Karen Fletcher - Flat OutKaren Fletcher, Executive Officer of Flat Out, joins us to discuss Victoria’s parole system, unpacking issues with the opaque parole application process and the compounding impact that stringent preconditions have on successful outcomes for people who are incarcerated in the state of Victoria. This interview occurs in the wake of a decision made at the directions hearing into the death in custody of Yamatji, Noongar, Wongi and Pitjantjatjara woman Heather Calgaret's in Sunshine Hospital in November 2021 while she was incarcerated at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. The directions hearing established that Victoria’s parole system will be under scrutiny as part of the coronial inquest into Ms Calgaret’s death, which will commence on April 29, 2024. Read the media release issued by Ms Calgaret's legal team at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service here.// Huong - NBWOC CaucusHuong will chat to us about the Non-Binary + WOC caucus happening today from 6pm - 9pm. The caucus will focus on experiences of participating in activism and politics and state ''come with an intention to get cosy and, with your wildest dreams for a more just world.'' Our interview will discuss power sharing and marginilisation within social movements, and what it means to be in struggle with one another.// Mohammad Helmy - Premier's Iftar BoycottCommunity organiser Mohammad Helmy speaks with us about the development of an open letter from a wide range of individuals and organisations in Victoria's Muslim community to boycott this year's Premier's Iftar in the face of Victorian Government inaction in response to Israel's genocidal siege on Gaza. As of yesterday, there have been widespread calls within the Victorian and New South Wales Muslim communities to boycott both Labor Party Premiers' Ramadan events, and prominent organisations including the Australian National Imams Council and Islamic Council of Victoria have both publicly declined to attend.// Monica - ASU4PalestineMonica is a unionist and member of ASU4Palestine and has worked in community and social services coming up to 10 years. Monica speaks to us about how ASU members working in Social and Community Services took unprotected industrial action and walked out of work for Palestine last Thursday 22nd at 1pm. Workers walked off the job and protested outside the Victorian Council of Social Service to demand peak bodies and workplaces break their silence, many who claim to be human rights and social justice focused, but who have largely remained silent about the genocide. [open letter] // Commissioner Travis Lovett - YoorrookOn the 14th February 2024, Victoria’s truth telling commission ‘Yoorrook’ released an issues paper investigating systemic injustice experienced by First Peoples in economic life. Today we are joined by Kerrupmara Gunditjmara Traditional Owner and Yoorook Justice Commissioner Travis Lovett to discuss historic and current economic injustices experienced by First Nations people in so-called Australia, and some of the ways the Commission seeks to identify solutions. Commissioner Lovett maintains a strong connection with his Community and culture, and holds a deep knowledge of the history of First Peoples in Victoria.You can submit to the Yoorrook Justice Commission here.// Coronial Inquest #JusticeforWalker Importantly, Coronial Inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker continues today at 10:30am AEST. Where counsel for the other parties will cross examine Rolfe until Friday. We extend our love and care to Kumanjayi's families. You can show support and bear witness through the livestream, and follow Justice for Walker + twitter, and Dhadjowa will also be tweeting during the inquest.// Support13 Yarn on 13 92 76 and YarningSafenStrong on 1800 959 563 are available to mob 24/7 today and always. SuicideLine Victoria 1300 651 251 is available to everyone 24/7 for support.//
Dr Jason Wilson on Claremont Institute & eugenics, Anna Emina on The Great Book Return, Ronny Kareni on recent indonesian elections, Dr Tamar Hopkins on racial profiling training for defence lawyers.// Acknowledgement of Country//News// Dr Jason Wilson - Claremont Institute & eugenicsAndy and Cam of Yeah Nah Pasaran on 3CR speak with Portland correspondent and Investigative reporter, Dr Jason Wilson, about "think tank" Claremont Institute and eugenics. Aired 8 February 2024. You can catch Yeah Nah Pasaran on Thursdays on 3CR from 4:30-5:00pm // Anna Emina - The Great Book ReturnAnna Emina is an educator, curator and writer based in Naarm. Her practice centres on collaboration and creating accessible opportunities for people of colour to connect with contemporary art in so-called 'australia'. Anna's here to chat to about the latest instalment of the Palestinian archive ’The Great Book Return’ (TGBR), which ran from the 20 Jan - 10 Feb in Brunswick West. Volume 2 of the archive expanded to include materials from First Nations, Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian people and highlights the importance of archiving as resistance amongst stolen and destroyed books, artworks and artefacts.// Ronny Kareni - Recent indonesian elections West Papuan diplomat, activist and lecturer at the Australian National University Ronny Kareni joins us to discuss the outcome of Indonesia's recent elections, with former Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto declaring victory last Wednesday. Prabowo's election has raised significant concern amongst rights advocates, who point to allegations of serious human rights abuses overseen by the incoming president in both East Timor and Papua, as well as the potential for Prabowo's presidency to function as a conduit for incumbent Joko Widodo to continue exerting political influence once exiting office.// Dr Tamar Hopkins - Racial profiling training for defence lawyersCommunity lawyer and scholar Dr Tamar Hopkins speaks with us about training criminal defence lawyers to identify and respond to racial profiling and other forms of police misconduct in Victoria. Tamar's PhD thesis, which won the Australian Legal Research Awards PhD Award in 2023, examined the meaning of racial profiling and its application in the Australian context, in the absence of a formal system of identification and potential accountability for victims of police misconduct. Tamar, who has been working, researching and writing on police powers since 2005, will be running the well-regarded Stop, Question and Search/Racial Profiling Training for Defence Lawyers in Victoria training again on Tuesday 12 March - find out more here. // Coronial InquestToday 22nd of Feb is the final day of the coronial inquest into the death of Joshua Kerr.Please show up today to the Coroner's Court at 65 Kavanaugh St Southbank 10am - 4pm. If you're unable to attend today, please join the livestream.Today 22nd of Feb, sergeant lee bauwens is finally due to give evidence at the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker.With former constable zachary rolfe is due to give evidence from 26 February to 1 March 2024.You can show your support by attending the livestream. Donate to the Dhadjowa foundation who provide critical support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. FundraiserPlease help bring Makalie homeSupport for Aunty Vickie Roach// Support and services for mob13YARN (13 92 76) - 24/7 free national crisis support line. No shame, no judgement, safe place to yarn.Yarning SafenStrong (1800 959 563)- 24/7 free service available to people and families who need to have a yarn with someone about their wellbeing, VIC specific. Blackfulla Alternative to Suicide Group - Confidential, anti-carceral and free space to yarn about suicide with mob who get it. Online peer support group starting in April on Zoom.// For everyone elseSuicide Call Back Service (1300 659 467)- 24/7 free counselling for suicide prevention & mental health via telephone, online & video for anyone affected by suicidal thoughts.//
The Feminist on Cellblock Y, Banan and Tasnim at the Egyptian Consulate in Naarm, Students from Palestine strike Feb 29, 8.5 million in faulty claims by job agencies, Senator Lidia Thorpe. Headlines// Annelise from Irlinfoshop (Incendium Radical Library and Collective) joins us to talk about the upcoming screening on The Feminist on Cellblock Y, a documentary about a group of men inside a prison who form a reading group based on ways men are recruited into dominant culture. The group explores collective struggles towards different ways of building relationships, lives, and in movement building. You can join the screening event on Sat 24th of Feb from 2:30-4:30pm at Catalyst Social Centre.// We hear a recording of Egyptian activist Banan and Palestinian activist and member of Free Palestine Melbourne Tasnim speaking at Monday's rally for Palestine outside the Egyptian Consulate in Naarm. This rally was called to draw attention to the Egyptian state's active undermining of efforts to provide aid or safe passage out through the Rafah Crossing for Palestinians being subjected to genocidal bombardment in Gaza by 'israel'.// Then we are joined by Renee from Students for Palestine to talk about the upcoming strike on Thursday Feb 29. Students For Palestine has denounced Israel’s ground assault on the border town Rafah, and announced plans for a nationwide school and university strike on February 29. Rafah is now sheltering more than half of all Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip. Most of them have had to flee to Rafah from their homes which have been reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes. All eyes are on Rafah.// Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins us this morning to discuss why job agencies have been forced to return 8.5 million in taxpayer dollars, after a record high in faulty claims were lodged through the Workforce Australia employment services scheme during the 2022-23 financial year.// Senator Lidia Thorpe joins us to discuss the genocide bill introduced into federal Parliament last week, the abysmal lack of progress on Closing the Gap targets and the Productivity Commission's scathing review of overall progress on implementing core principles of the Council of Australian Governments' National Agreement on Closing the Gap, the ongoing fight to stop Blak deaths in custody, and to provide an update about scrutinising government expenditure in this week's round of Senate Estimates hearings.// Songs// UNTIL WE"RE ALL FREE - BVT, Jafar, Zeadala, Kid Pharaoh, ChillCheney, L-FRESH The LION, DOBBY, Sereen, Big Rigs & J Lute (Dem Mob), Maissa, MC Trey, Sara Sale7 & Zeadala, Moe Omran, Najah Haidar, Ali Samman, Dema & Wejdan Shamala, Chandler Connell, Feras Shaheen, Gabriela Quinsacara, Zain El-Roubaei & Rafiko (darbouka)//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Hume For Palestine is a community action group made up of residents of Hume Council, and is currently demanding the immediate closure of a local manufacturer in Campbellfield, Heat Treatment Australia (HTA). The 'defence' department states that HTA provides crucial heat treatment process for components of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, which are being used by the israeli occupation force (IOF) in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We were joined today by Hume For Palestine member Waseem Razvi to discuss the campaign. Waseem is the founder of Islamic Research + Education Academy and an activist at Alliance Against Islamophobia, which works to challenge Islamophobia, assisting and empowering affected individuals and communities.// Amber, a white queer trans person based in Naarm, caught up with Priya yesterday to talk about autonomous queer and trans resistance against the pinkwashing of cops, corporations and colonialism at pride in the wake of a successful but brutally policed protest against the inclusion of Victoria Police in the annual Midsumma parade last Sunday. At this event, queer and trans community members were violently assaulted by cops at the march, with footage circulating of protestors being slapped and choked by police. Since Sunday, radical queer and trans groups including Queer Killjoys and Trans Queer Solidarity have published some important reflections on exposing pinkwashing and reclaiming queer and trans self-expression from the predatory creep of diversity and inclusion approaches to interconnected forms of systemic violence. RISE have consistently called for a boycott of Midsumma given the festival's pinkwashing of policing, Australia's immigration detention system, and the images of Australia's major political parties - you can read their 2024 statement here. Trust us, our pink dollars are better spent on local initiatives that genuinely support our communities, including Beyond Bricks and Bars, fundraisers organised by Husk Housing Support and on the work that RISE does for queer and trans ex-detainees.// Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French writer and performer Laniyuk joins us to continue the conversation started with Phuong on this week's episode of Tuesday Breakfast about the campaign to return Lee Point to Larrakia care. In this interview, Laniyuk and Priya discuss the history of the Australian and US defence forces' militarised occupation of Larrakia Country and serious concerns about government claims about consultation with Larrakia people. Sign the petition to return Lee Point to Larrakia people's care here, and watch some of the storytelling by Larrakia people about their connections to Country and what makes Lee Point so significant here.// Honey joins us with updates from Camp Sovereignty, and we hear a clip of Uncle Robbie speaking during yesterday's live broadcast of Bunjil's Fire from the Camp encouraging folks to come down. Tune in to Bunjil's Fire 11AM-2PM every Wednesday on 3CR 855AM, and head down to Camp Sovereignty at any time at so-called King's Domain.// Songs//Overdrawn - Bumpy//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Armenian activist N spoke with Priya earlier this week about the material links between Azerbaijan, Turkey and Israel, and through this about the connections between the genocides of Armenian and Palestinian peoples. This conversation draws a through-line between historical and contemporary genocidal processes being waged by Israel, Azerbaijan and Turkey, as well as touching on the long-standing presence of Armenians in Jerusalem. For further resources on the Armenian struggle, head to learnforartsakh.com.// 'Sunsets', performed live by Kee'ahn at Blak Stage on 30th of January. Blak Stage is Naarms longest running premier Open Mic night , run by and for First Nations people's. Kee’ahn is a First Nations musician from North Queensland whose name derives from the Wik word meaning to dance, and to play. Effortlessly blending the sounds of soul, R&B and pop throughout their music, Kee'ahn weaves lush melodies and words reminiscent of heartbreak and healing. Blak Stage is organised by Deadly Events and happens every Tuesday at the Retreat Hotel in Brunswick.// Tess, editor of Slingshot Books, joined Priya earlier this week to discuss the importance of making space on the publishing scene for disorderly, revolutionary and liberatory conversations with young people that disrupt status quo assumptions about the necessity of shielding kids from political complexity and radical perspectives. Tess worked as an editor for chidlren's publishing companies for a number of years before launching Slingshot Books, a tiny, radical children's publishing house based on Wurundjeri land. Pre-order Slingshot's first book, the hauntingly illustrated THEN AND NOW by Datsun Tran, here.// Between Friday the 19th and Monday the 22nd of January, a community picket was put in place at Webb Dock in Naarm, Victoria. The picket was a peaceful anti-genocide action, established to prevent the transport of goods out of so-called Australia via Israeli freight company, Zim Shipping. This morning we welcome Brenna, the current Admin Coordinator for Melbourne Activist Legal Support to discuss serious concerns about policing at the peaceful protest. Brenna is a legal observer, with a background in education, organisational leadership, protest organising, and activist support. Melbourne Activist Legal Support is an all-volunteer organisation that provides training for protest movements, information & resources on the rights to protest in Victoria, and fields Legal Observer Teams that monitor and report on the policing of protest events. You can read their statement of concern here.// Eelam Tamil activist and member of Tamil Refugee Council Renuga Inpakumar joins us to talk about Tamil Oppression Day, which falls on the 4th of February. This date signifies the handover of power from the British colonial government to Sinhalese leadership in Sri Lanka, heralding the beginning of 76 years of genocide of Eelam Tamils. The Tamil Refugee Council will be holding a demonstration this Sunday the 4th of February at 9AM outside the Sri Lankan embassy in Canberra - get along if you're in town. Renuga began her activist journey at the age of 10, speaking at various public speaking competitions drawing awareness of refugee rights by expressing the need to end indefinite detention and providing permanent protection to all refugees. Renuga is currently a Bachelor of Law/Arts student at Western Sydney University, and for years now has been organising to amplify Eelam Tamil issues including Tamil Genocide Day, Do not Deport to Danger, Palm Sunday Tamil Contingent, Tamil Oppression Day, and Boycott Sri Lankan Cricket.// Songs//Ancestor - Dobby//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Declan Furber Gillick, Arrernte writer and political organiser and representative of the Black Peoples Union, spoke with Inez about last weekend’s community picket of Webb Dock in Port Melbourne. The picket, organised by activists including those from Unionists for Palestine, Free Palestine Melbourne, WACA and Black Peoples Union, successfully prevented the docking and unloading of Israeli shipping company Zim’s vessel Ganges for multiple days. This conversation touched on campaign wins and the importance of material anti-colonial solidarity in the face of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.// Nerita Waight, Yorta Yorta, Ngarrindjeri and Taungurung person and CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, joined us to discuss VALS' 2024 Invasion Day webinar, which will run today from 4PM AEDT. This year's discussion will focus on treaties and First Nations justice, with overseas First Nations legal expert Andrea Hilland KC, member of the Nuxalk Nation on the Pacific Coast of Canada, and Ngāti Kahungunu academic Dr Carwyn Jones, joining Nerita and Rueben Berg, Gunditjmara man and co-chair of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria. Registrations for today's conversation are still open at tinyurl.com/ID24webinar.// Boon Wurrung Elder Janet Galpin gave a Welcome to Country and discussed her ancestor Mannalargenna at the annual Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration held this past Saturday the 20th of January at the corner of Victoria and Franklin Streets in Melbourne's city. Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were two Tasmanian Aboriginal freedom fighters who were brought to and hanged in Victoria, the first people to be officially executed in Melbourne.// We heard an excerpt of the plenary discussion between Wayne Coco Wharton and Djuran Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe, held on day two of the Australian Student Environment Network's Victoria Training Camp last week. In this segment, Uncle Coco speaks about honouring a legacy of First Nations resistance and what it means to keep fighting for freedom against the genocidal Australian colony. Follow Treaty Before Voice for updates on how to keep supporting sovereign First Nations resistance organising guided by staunch, lifelong activists including Uncle Coco and Uncle Robbie, on both Invasion Day and year-round.// We listened back to a segment from a webinar co-convened by Hirak and Black Peoples Union on Saturday the 20th of January titled 'Towards anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism and liberation'. The event featured Keiran Stewart-Assheton and Leah House of Black Peoples Union in conversation with Amal Naser, Jamal Nabulsi and Lina Koleilat of the Palestinian collective Hirak. The excerpt we'll play today includes commentary by Keiran and Leah on decolonizing your mind, what real solidarity means, and debunking the con of reconciliation.//
Acknowledgement of Country//News/Headlines//Uncle Winiata Puru - ASEN CampEarlier this week, during the Australian Student Environment Network's Victoria Training Camp, Priya caught up with environmental justice and Indigenous rights activist Uncle Winiata Puru. Uncle Wini has a rich history of environmental activism in solidarity with Aboriginal sovereign-led movements, and brings a unique approach to resistance through an emphasis on song and dance in protest. Uncle Wini took a moment to offer his reflections about the power of dance as resistance, as well as on the ASEN Camp, which brought together over 100 activists and organisers at Camp Eureka on Wurundjeri Country to share skills and strengthen our collective work towards liberation.// Lachlan Challis - Darebin for PalestineLachie Challis, a primary school educator and long-time Darebin resident, joins us to talk about several upcoming actions being held by the Darebin 4 Palestine action group, and to share updates about the community's efforts to keep the Palestinian flag flying above the Preston City Hall. The first event is tonight's rally outside Federal Member for Cooper Ged Kearney's office, 6PM at 159 High Street, Preston, demanding that Ged takes stronger action in support of Palestine. This will be followed by another rally on Monday the 22nd of January at 5PM outside Preston City Hall encouraging Darebin residents to continue sending a strong message to Darebin Councillors that the community wants the Palestinian flag to stay flying until Palestine is free.// Dr. Awni Etaywe - Linguistic evidence in South Africa’s ICJ caseForensic linguistics expert Dr. Awni Etaywe joins us this morning to discuss ‘incitement of genocide’ and the role of linguistic evidence in South Africa’s ICJ case against the colony of israel. Dr Etaywe is a lecturer in linguistics and researcher focusing on radicalisation and genocide, incitement to hatred, and digital deviance. He is a former United Nations Expert on Mission and Observer of human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with training in international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians and children.// Nathan Van - Queer Connect's Choosing LoveNathan Van the creator of Queer Connect, a hub that looks to celebrate the richness of our local queer community and aims to provide a hub for people to see themselves represented proudly and fiercely across communities and industries. They're here to chat to us about their first campaign “CHOOSING LOVE” where they showcased 13 local creatives from a variety of backgrounds and industries and explored what love and chosen family means to them. Also with the aim to a stronger sense of community across the arts.// Assoc Prof Ntina Tzouvala - The function and limitations of the ICJAssociate Professor Ntina Tzouvala, an expert in international law based at the Australian National University's College of Law, joins us to unpack South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice against Israel regarding the application of the genocide convention in relation to Israel's assault on Palestinians in Gaza. Our conversation with Dr Tzouvala will include a discussion of differences between the provisional and measures stages of the case, details about the function of the ICJ, and an exploration of the possibilities and limitations of appealing to international legal mechanisms in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.// SongsFalasteen Flow - Big Rigs
Acknowledgement of Country// From our 12 October 2023 show: Leila interviews Debbie about Building Unity Against Fascism, a six session study circle that ran in late 2023 co-hosted by Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party in Reservoir. Immersed in the daily fight against racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-trans bigotry, and labor exploitation, Radical Women believes in multi-issue organising around the needs of the most marginalised. The Freedom Socialist Party is a feminist, working-class organisation, fighting for an end to all capitalist exploitation and oppression.// From our 14 December 2023 show: Inez interviews Ahmed Barakat, an activist, writer, and University of Melbourne PhD student. Ahmed is one of the organisers in the University of Melbourne For Palestine (UM4P) group, and has been involved with Palestinian activism on campus for years, including the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) motion. Ahmed came on the show to talk about UniMelb 4 Palestine and recent solidarity actions on campus.// From our 12 October 2023 show: We hear the first instalment of a three part conversation between Spike and "James" an activist from Blockade Australia. Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to the destruction of the ecosystems that support all human and non-human life. The network helps to build a political movement that can physically resist Australia's planet destroying operations with disruptive and targeted action that shuts down the everyday functioning of this machine. In this segment, Spike and James discuss Blockade’s mission, the reasons he got involved with the organisation, the role a commitment to social and environmental justice plays in Blockade’s work, and the importance of direct action. Listen back to the second and third segments of this interview on our page.// From our 14 December 2023 show: Have you ever wanted to contribute at a rally but just you're not sure where to start? Well, today is the day you can learn how to take that first step… Marshalling is the perfect way to get involved and support community in the ongoing fight for Palestinian liberation and to end genocide NOW! In this segment, Leila interviews Bugs, a pro-Palestine activist and artist from Naarm who has marshalled for over 12 rallies so far since October 7th. Bugs tells us what it takes to be a marshal, how you can get involved, and what to expect at your first marshalling experience. Donate to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network here, and Free Palestine Melbourne here.// From our 30 November 2023 show: Priya interviews Carmen from Mparntwe for Palestine about taking action to block access to the Pine Gap military facility. Earlier that week, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists set up their second blockade in a month across the single access road to Pine Gap, which is situated on Arrernte land outside of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Carmen is one of the activists who participated in the blockade and a member of Mparntwe for Palestine. Carmen joins us to discuss the relationship between Pine Gap and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, as well as the importance of direct action in solidarity with Palestinians struggling for liberation. Read the article about Pine Gap’s surveillance apparatus by Peter Cronau in Declassified Australia here.// Songs//Hard Thing - Yara//
Acknowledgement of Country// Spike and Priya visited the Hoddle Street public housing estate and spoke with resident Sim, who has been living in one of the towers for 7 years. In this interview, Sim reflected on last week's announcement by the Victorian State Government that all 44 public housing towers in the Greater Melbourne area have been slated for demolition and redevelopment in the coming decades. Sim spoke about how the announcement was delivered to residents and discussed the stress and uncertainty this has caused.// We spoke with Izzy Brown, a public housing walk-up resident, local community organiser and artist, to talk about the launch of the Resident Frequency Recording Studio out of the Hoddle Street public housing towers' community centre. We heard from Izzy prior to the announcement that the towers were to be redeveloped, so today we spoke with her again about what this announcement means for various communities and local culture at the estate.// Spike and Priya also caught up with Christopher Sprake, Community Development worker at The Wellington, a community organisation that services the Wellington Street public housing tower. Chris was able to briefly speak about the public housing redevelopment announcement from a community worker perspective, noting the lack of information provided to both residents and workers by the Victorian Government either before or immediately after Victoria's Housing Statement was made public.// Louisa Bassini, Acting Director of Legal Practice at Inner Melbourne Community Legal, joined us to speak about the implications of the Victorian government's public housing tower redevelopment plan from a community legal sector perspective, and shared some information about the rights of public tenants. Inner Melbourne Community Legal is the service that represents clients on the North Melbourne, Flemington, Kensington and Carlton public housing estates. Louisa previously represented clients being relocated from the Abbotsford St and Walker St estates as part of the Public Housing Renewal Program and has worked on housing and tenants’ rights issues for about 15 years.// Spike visited the public housing estate on Wellington Street in Collingwood and caught up with resident Valentina about the propose demolition of the towers, as well as the importance of drop-in health services for estate residents.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Intro// Thursday Brekky Team - Penington Overdose ReportInez is back in the studio to take us through the Penington Institute's 2023 Annual Overdose Report, discuss a recent tour of Richmond's medically supervised injecting site and the petition for a new overdose prevention centre in Melbourne's CBD, and we all have a chat about stigma.// Chris Gough - CAHMA Chris Gough, Executive Director of the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy or CAHMA, joins us again on International Overdose Awareness day to provide updates on the CanTEST program, Australia’s first fixed-site drug and pill testing facility. CAHMA is the alcohol, tobacco and other drug consumer organisation for the Australian Capital Territory.// Scott Drummond - VAADAScott Drummond program manager of Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association, peak for the Victorian AOD treatment sector is here to chat about the surge in fatal overdoses in Victoria during 2022 as detailed in the data released by the Coroners Court of Victoria. Heroin related fatal overdoses were the highest since 2000, with the City of Melbourne having the highest number of heroin related fatal overdoses 24 in 2022, which is two people every month who die from a preventable death, just in the City of Melbourne. The soaring number of fatal overdoses is indicative of a preventable crisis with harm reduction measures such as Overdose Prevention Centres and Drug Testing urgently required to save lives.// Finn & Andy - International Overdose Awareness DayStudio interview with Finn (Harm Reduction Practitioner from 24/7 Needle and Program StKilda) founder of International Overdose Awareness Day and Andy Sinclair (Harm Reduction and NSP worker ) about IOAD, it's origins, it's importance and the sharing of overdose awarness information.// Beau Newham - NAPWHA Beau Newham from NAPWHA - the National Association of People with HIV - joins us to discuss the recent launch of free nationwide HIV self-testing kits available for home delivery, an initiative in partnership with Queensland Positive People. Beau is the project lead of the national HIV self-testing project at NAPWHA. Find out more about HIV self-testing and order a kit by heading to https://self.hivtest.au/ SongsAl3ab - Idressi Ma Bijish - R3D (BLTNM) // These topics will cover alcohol and other drug-related harm and overdose. We understand that this can be distressing and if you need someone to talk to you can reach out to some of the following. The National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline (24/7) - 1800 250 015Family Drug and Gambling Helpline (24/7) - 1300 660 068 //
Acknowledgement of Country// News// Gayili Marika Yunupingu - Galupa Homeland Project Earlier this week, Priya interviewed Gumatj clan Elder Gayili Marika Yunupingu, who leads the Galupa Safety House suicide prevention and women's shelter initiative as part of the Galupa Homeland Project. The Project is located on the Gove Peninsula of Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, and is focused on keeping women and children in Galupa safe and healthy through their connections to land and culture under the guidance of Yolŋu Elders. This year, Gayili turned down a $3million offer from Rio Tinto, which has established a refinery near Galupa, to relocate the Project, emphasising the centrality of her land to the work she does for her people. Galupa remains sorely underfunded, and listeners are encouraged to chip into their Christmas Appeal to build and maintain vital infrastructure to sustain this work into the future.// Nick Chesterfield - Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance solidarity group for Palestine Nick Chesterfield is a journalist and member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance solidarity group for Palestine. This week Nick had a conversation with Spike about the open letter written to Australian newsrooms by journalists to raise awareness of the the pro Zionist coverage of the war/genocide in Gaza. Coverage that peddles the false narrative that there is "parity' between the two sides and only one side has the right to defend itself is soft on war crimes and human rights abuses. Nick also discussed the pressure exerted by editors to push a pro war machine line or what Nick has described as "Stenographers of genocide". And finally Nick also discussed what an "Insurgent" more balanced media that reported the facts would look like.// Nour Abdullatif - Unassigned Gallery Nour Abdullatif is the founder and director of Unassigned Gallery. Unassigned Gallery was born out of a desire to give a platform to artists ‘on the outside’ as so often the art world can feel impenetrable. Established in 2022, Unassigned Gallery is an artist-run space that seeks to platform new and unseen talent in Melbourne’s vibrant arts scene. Nour is here to chat about the importance of amplifying artists' voices, what being a queer Muslim means to them, and finding joy and respite in creativity. Nour also spoke about the recent gallery solidarity statement with Palestine/Falastin and Beyond the Stone Wall Advisory Collective.// Sofia Sabbagh - Palestinian-Irish artist, organiser and educator Sofia Sabbagh is a Palestian-Irish artist, organiser, and educator, who uses art as her ideal form of communication, expression, and engaging and mobolizing community. She engages with ecological and human stories to grapple with what it means to live on stolen land and resistance. Today she joins us here to talk about art as resistance and protest, the targeting and killing of arts and media workers in Falasteen, zionism in the arts and media scene, and what we can do about it.// Songs// Kokym - Ya Rayheen Al Kuds (2:52)//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Have you ever wanted to contribute at a rally but just you're not sure where to start? Well today is the day you can learn how to take that first step… Mardshaling is the perfect way to get involved and support community in the ongoing fight for Palestinian liberation and to end genocide NOW! Next up we will hear from Bugs, a Pro Palestine activist and artist from Naarm who has marshaled for over 12 rallies so far since October 7th. Bugs is going to tell us what it takes to be a marshal, how you can get involved, and what to expect at your first marshaling experience. Donate to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network here.// We replay a segment of 3CR's Tuesday Hometime, where Jan discusses The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal that exposes the four main US weapons manufacturers working hand in hand with the US government. In this segment, Jan speaks with one of the organizers - Brad Wolf - to unpack taking down the military-industrial complex. For more information about the Tribunal, head to merchantsofdeath.org. Tuesday Home time airs every Tuesday 4-6pm, more info via 3cr.org.au/hometime-tuesday/.// Made in Palestine is a non-profit project providing humanitarian and economic support to Palestinian Refugees and those living under Military Occupation. Made in Palestine advocates for freedom and justice with a commitment to celebrating Palestinian life and culture, and sharing voices of collective hope and resistance. Today we are joined by founder Georgia, who lived in the West Bank from 2017-2020 volunteering in refugee camps as well as human rights organizations. Georgia has a background in International Humanitarian Law, and created Made in Palestine in collaboration with Palestinian friends across the West Bank. Get your ticket to If the Olive Trees Knew here. // Ahmed Barakat is an activist, writer, and University of Melbourne PhD student. He’s currently involved as one of the organisers in the University of Melbourne For Palestine (UM4P) group, and has been involved with Palestinian activism on campus for years, including the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) motion. Ahmed's here to talk about UniMelb 4 Palestine and recent solidarity actions on campus.// For the past 68 days, there has been (bar a handful of water, food and medicine trucks) a total and complete centrally imposed blockade on anything going in or coming out of Gaza, including communications. This is an intensification of the long-standing israeli siege of the area amidst over 75 years of colonial occupation. This has effectively cut Gaza off from the rest of the world, and is a further example of the lengths that the colonial power will go to ensure that Palestinians cannot communicate with each other. To discuss the blockade, pummelling and isolation of Gaza and how the incessant violence impacts the distribution of material support and humanitarian aid we will be joined by Oxfam Australia's Director of Programs Anthea Spinks. Oxfam are an international aid organisation who believe that in a wealthy world, poverty is unjustifiable and preventable, that the present state of inequality and injustice must be challenged, and that with the right help, people can change their lives for the better.//
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Today we heard the third instalment of Spike’s conversation with Iain McIntyre from the Commons Social Change Library. Last week Iain talked about the resources available at the CSCL, who uses them and the importance of history in developing campaigns to address the present and future. In this the final segment, Iain and Spike talked about some of the social forces that work against acknowledging our radical heritage/history, and the importance of crafting counter narratives to communicate and raise awareness of our activist/critical culture. They also discussed how the CSCL's resources have been used by people, highlighting one of CSCL’s main aims- to ensure that all its tools and resources are available and accessible to people of all backgrounds and abilities. They also talked about social movements, and the crucial role that the CSCL performs in providing "movement infrastructure,” a place where information and tips can be safely deposited and shared to build strong movements for change. Listen back to part 1 and part 2.//Socialist Alliance Councillor for Merri-bek Sue Bolton joined us to speak about Saturday’s National Day of Action for Housing, which in Narrm/Melbourne will focus on a campaign to stop the demolition of the 44 high-rise public housing flats. Sue also talked about the Maribyrnong Council’s decision to rescind its motion for peace and justice in Palestine, and about local council decision-making and the importance of resident activism. Join the rally for public housing at 1PM this Saturday the 9th of December outside the State Library of Victoria.//Academic and activist Dr Lina Koleilat came on the show to chat about the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, which has been a cultural and educational hub in Narrm for over 25 years. Lina spoke about the importance of the space as a site of activist intellectual production and sharing. There is an open meeting happening today, Thursday the 7th of December from 7-8PM, to discuss the current status of the IPCS and its future. You can join the meeting by clicking this link and find out more on the Save Postcolonial Studies Instagram page.// We played a speech given in Parliament by Independent Senator for VictoriaLidia Thorpe on the necessity of implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or UNDRIP in Australian legislation in the wake of yesterday's majority vote against herPrivate Members' Bill to implement UNDRIP by Labor and Coalition Parliamentarians. This decision came in the wake of the Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs' publication of itsreport on the inquiry into the implementation of UNDRIP in Australia in late November. Senator Thorpe is a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung mother, grandmother, activist, and politician, and is the first Aboriginal Senator from Victoria.//Songs// Disco Dal’ona - TootArd//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Have you ever wondered how to shut down capitalism? Protect the habitat of your favourite marsupial? Write an angry letter to your member of parliament? tIf you have, then our interview with Iain MacIntyre from the Commons Social Change Library is a must listen. The Commons Social Change Library is a service that documents the collective wisdom of people who have engaged in social change struggles and campaigns in so-called Australia and the world, and is committed to making that information freely available to facilitate the challenging of social injustice. Today, you'll hear part one of Spike’s interview with Iain, where they discuss a definition of social change and why it is important that information about the struggles can be accessed freely. They also discuss why documenting struggles helps us achieve social change, and the first steps taken in a social justice campaign.// Guda Maluyligal leaders Wadhuam Pabai Pabai and Wadhuam Paul Kabai joined us to speak about the direct impact that climate change is having in the Zenadth Kes region on the lives, cultures and futures of Guda Maluyligal communities. In 2021 Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul brought a class action known as the Australian Climate Case against the Commonwealth Government of so-called Australia to challenge its failure to prevent and act on climate change. We were also joined by Ruby Mitchell, from Grata Fund, a specialist non-profit litigation fund working to support the case. You can support Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul’s fight and follow the case here.// This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first radio broadcast in Australia on the 23rd of November, 1923. Since that time radio has been seen as a source of entertainment, information and companionship to generations of people. Today we commemorated 100 years of radio in so-called Australia by welcoming 3CR chairperson Pilar Aguilera to Thursday Breakfast to talk about our station’s contribution to this history. Pilar will be participating in the discussion ‘Tuning In or Fading Out: Radio’s past, present and future’ at the Eureka Centre tonight in Ballarat.// Documentary maker, writer, and broadcaster on 3CR's Women on the Line program Xen Nhà joins us to discuss the upcoming Narrm premiere of the documentary 'Fly in Power', which weaves a story of Asian sex workers' community care, solidarity and organising for justice and labour rights. The documentary, which Xen produced, follows Charlotte, a Korean massage worker and core organizer of Red Canary Song, a social justice collective of Asian diasporic massage workers, sex workers and allies who basebuild through mutual aid. Through Charlotte's story, we learn how the incarceration system is pitted against Asian migrant women and their survival. Xen has offered two free tickets to the premiere for 3CR listeners, so make sure to send us a direct message on Instagram at @3crthursdaybreakfast to go in the running to claim them! Fly in Power premieres next Thursday the 30th of November from 6-9PM at 229 Victoria Street, Brunswick, co-hosted by Vixen and Red Canary Song and with food provided by Shop Bao Ngoc. You can buy tickets and/or donate to the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group via Humanitix.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// The Commons Social Change Library is the "go to portal" for social change resources. They gather and share resources from many different sources and organisations from all round the world in a user friendly, accessible portal. Last week we heard part 1 of our two part conversation with Iain Mcyntyre from the CSCL where we discussed social change, why it was important to be able to access information about social change struggles in common, and how documenting struggles helps us to achieve social change in the future. I also asked Iain if we can reform our to a more socially just society, and what are the first steps in planning a campaign. This week we heard about the types of resources available at the CSCL, who uses them and the central role that history plays in planning and achieving social change.// CONTENT WARNING: This segment covers some distressing content around state violence - if you need to speak to someone, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN, and queer listeners can call QLife on 1800 184 527.Independent queer researcher Dr Shoshana Rosenberg joins us to talk about disability and trans solidarity with Palestine in the face of Israel's ongoing violent occupation, exploring the connections between disability justice, trans freedom and liberation for Palestine. We discuss genocide as a mass disabling event and what it means for disabled folks to engage in solidarity actions across colonial borders and from stolen land in so-called Australia.// Ronny Kareni, West Papuan activist, 3CR broadcaster and advisor and honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong's West Papua project, joins us to share some reflections on the struggle for liberation for West Papua in the lead up to December 1st, West Papuan Independence Day. December 1st marks the anniversary of the first raising of the Morning Star flag, and this year will be commemorated in Naarm/Melbourne with the Morning Star Ceremony, which kicks off at 4PM tomorrow at Federation Square.// Earlier this week, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists set up their second blockade in a month across the single access road to the Pine Gap military facility, situated on Arrernte land outside of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Today, we are joined by Carmen, one of the activists who participated in the blockade and a member of Mparntwe for Palestine, to discuss the relationship between Pine Gap and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, as well as the importance of direct action in solidarity with Palestinians struggling for liberation. Read the article about Pine Gap’s surveillance apparatus by Peter Cronau in Declassified Australia here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Have you ever wondered how to shut down capitalism? Protect the habitat of your favourite marsupial? Write an angry letter to your member of parliament? tIf you have, then our interview with Iain MacIntyre from the Commons Social Change Library is a must listen. The Commons Social Change Library is a service that documents the collective wisdom of people who have engaged in social change struggles and campaigns in so-called Australia and the world, and is committed to making that information freely available to facilitate the challenging of social injustice. Today, you'll hear part one of Spike’s interview with Iain, where they discuss a definition of social change and why it is important that information about the struggles can be accessed freely. They also discuss why documenting struggles helps us achieve social change, and the first steps taken in a social justice campaign.// Guda Maluyligal leaders Wadhuam Pabai Pabai and Wadhuam Paul Kabai joined us to speak about the direct impact that climate change is having in the Zenadth Kes region on the lives, cultures and futures of community. In 2021 Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul brought a class action known as the Australian Climate Case against the Commonwealth Government of so-called Australia to challenge its failure to prevent and act on climate change. We were also joined by Ruby Mitchell, from Grata Fund, a specialist non-profit litigation fund working to support the case. You can support Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul’s fight and follow the case here.// This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first radio broadcast in Australia on the 23rd of November, 1923. Since that time radio has been seen as a source of entertainment, information and companionship to generations of people. Today we commemorated 100 years of radio in so-called Australia by welcoming 3CR chairperson Pilar Aguilera to Thursday Breakfast to talk about our station’s contribution to this history. Pilar will be participating in the discussion ‘Tuning In or Fading Out: Radio’s past, present and future’ at the Eureka Centre tonight in Ballarat.// Documentary maker, writer, and broadcaster on 3CR's Women on the Line program Xen Nhà joins us to discuss the upcoming Narrm premiere of the documentary 'Fly in Power', which weaves a story of Asian sex workers' community care, solidarity and organising for justice and labour rights. The documentary, which Xen produced, follows Charlotte, a Korean massage worker and core organizer of Red Canary Song, a social justice collective of Asian diasporic massage workers, sex workers and allies who basebuild through mutual aid. Through Charlotte's story, we learn how the incarceration system is pitted against Asian migrant women and their survival. Xen has offered two free tickets to the premiere for 3CR listeners, so make sure to send us a direct message on Instagram at @3crthursdaybreakfast to go in the running to claim them! Fly in Power premieres next Thursday the 30th of November from 6-9PM at 229 Victoria Street, Brunswick, co-hosted by Vixen and Red Canary Song and with food provided by Shop Bao Ngoc. You can buy tickets and/or donate to the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group via Humanitix.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Beau Newham - NAPWHA Beau Newham from NAPWHA - the National Associtation of People with HIV - joins us to discuss the recent launch of free nation-wide HIV self-testing kits available for home delivery, an initiative in partnership with Queensland Positive People. Beau is the project lead of the national HIV self-testing project at NAPWHA. Find out more about HIV self-testing and order a kit by heading to https://self.hivtest.au/. // Uncle Riyad - Block The Dock Uncle Riyad Aladassi is a Narrm/Melbourne-based Palestinan nurse who is currently on hunger strike for 7 days as of today, at Webb Dock Drive in Port Melbourne. Riyad who is leading the protests & Camp out at the dock, which successfully prevented at least one ZIM truck which was transferring Israeli weapons on Wed 8th of November, is on hunger strike in solidarity with his people in Gaza. “If my people don’t eat, I will not eat- until my demands are met or I die.” // Uncle Ihab @ the Sit-Intifada On Tuesday this week, Priya caught up with Ihab, a Palestinian activist who has staged the Sit-Intifada on the steps of Victorian Parliament calling for justice for Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza. As of today, Ihab has been conducting this peaceful protest for 32 days straight. // Rihab Charida - independent filmmaker and MEAA member Palestinian media artist, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer Rihab Charida joins us to discuss the recent publication of a statement of solidarity with Palestine developed by rank and file members of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance or MEAA. While the MEAA released its own official statement on the 'Israel and Palestine crisis' on November 6th, rank and file members have united to call for stronger action by their union on Palestine solidarity, including with regard to the protection of journalists and cultural workers, implementation of boycott, divestment and sanctions measures against Israel, and mobilisation of members in support of Palestine. The statement is published in Overland, and is still open to signatures from MEAA members wishing to express solidarity with Palestine. // Scott Drummond - VAADA Scott Drummond program manager of Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association, peak for the Victorian AOD treatment sector is here to chat about the surge in fatal overdoses in Victoria during 2022 as detailed in the data released by the Coroners Court of Victoria. Heroin related fatal overdoses were the highest since 2000, with the City of Melbourne having the highest number of heroin related fatal overdoses 24 in 2022, which is two people every month who die from a preventable death, just in the City of Melbourne. The soaring number of fatal overdoses is indicative of a preventable crisis with harm reduction measures such as Overdose Prevention Centres and Drug Testing urgently required to save lives. // Maiy Azize - Anglicare"Everybody's Home" is a national housing campaign that this week called for one in ten houses to be social housing over the next decade as a measure to end homelessness in Australia, and has recommended the 10 per cent target in it's submission on the National Housing and Homelessness Plan which is expected to be released next year. This morning we will be having a conversation with the spokesperson from the "Everybody's Home" campaign Maiy Azize about their recommendations and the federal government response to homelessness. //
Gregory Andrews and Bec Horridge replay, yarns with Leila and Poli-Pearl Green, Freedom of Species excerpt and Roukaya on their project 'Harakat'. 3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.// News headlines// Last week, Former Threatened Species Commissioner, Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of Canberra's Institute for Applied Ecology, and Dharawal man Gregory Andrews joined Earth Matters' Bec Horridge to speak about the hunger strike for climate that he began outside Parliament House on the 2nd of November. Gregory decided to strike to protest the inaction of the Albanese Government on the climate crisis. You can sign Gregory's Climate Action Petition here.// Next up, you're going to hear a chat between Thursday Breakfast host Leila and Poli-Pearl Green. Poli-Pearl's mob is linked to the Barron/Issacs mob from Noongar boodja (whadjuk/wadandi). They are a jazz musician and a beat maker DJ, who is passionate about care for land, First Nations justice and their furry life-companion Yusuf Katmaal. Poli collaborates with Naomi Robinson under the name Special Feelings to create dreamy, experimental jazz fusion sounds. You can pre order their new album or pick up a limited edition vinyl via their bandcamp: wearerhythmsection.bandcamp.com/album/special-feelings. You can hear the presentation by Tristen Harwood, an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and independent researcher, addressing settler-colonial foundations of conservation and environmentalism here.// In this next excerpt of Freedom of Species, hosts Caroline and Trevor spoke about total liberation and why it's very important to stand against colonalism and genocide whenever and wherever it appears. They discuss the connections between forms of oppression such as racism and speciesism. This is an excerpt of a longer discussion, listen to the entire conversation via 3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies.// For our final segment today, we heard from Roukaya, an organiser of the project Harakat. Harakat حركات, founded by friends Roukaya and Zainab, hosts free monthly screenings of Arabic-language Cinema on Bunurong and Wurundjeri Country. This initiative, created by and for the community, showcases Arabic-language storytelling through film, with a desire to include other languages from the SWANA region. Harakat حركات responds to the lack of nuanced perspectives from SWANA communities in the Australian media and arts landscape and offers essential representations of Arabic-speaking cultures, while challenging common assumptions about our cultures. Recently in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the silence of many artistic and cultural institutions in the country, Harakat حركات is dedicating its programming solely to Palestinian stories and resistance, amplifying Palestinian voices and narratives. Please donate to the Dalia Association via Center for Arab American Philanthropy here.// Songs// Animal Instinct - Special Feelings//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Anti-Zionist Jewish author and transgender educator Nevo Zisin spoke with us about organising amongst members of the Jewish community in so-called Australia in solidarity with Palestine against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. Groups including Loud Jew Collective, Jews Against Fascism, Jews Against the Occupation and Tzedek Collective as well as Jewish comrades in Mparntwe/Alice Springs have been engaged in solidarity actions across the country putting their bodies on the line to demand an end to colonial violence against Palestinians and to fight alongside them for liberation. Listeners, whether Jewish or not, are invited to join Jews Against Fascism and Loud Jew Collective at a gathering tonight at Parliament Gardens from 6PM calling again for an end to the genocide of Palestinians and an immediate ceasefire.// Mohamed Semra, Founder & CEO of Endeavour Youth Australia (EYA), talks about the current crisis in Sudan where over 5 million people have been displaced, and the diaspora impacts in his communities. Mohamed has campaigned and advocated on issues such as climate change, racial equality and the importance of having decision makers that represent and reflect the people that they are serving. A former local council candidate, Mohamed was able to bring many community concerns to the surface of the political debate. He is also the Vice-chair at Melbourne Sudanese Youth. Mohamed was a state finalist for the 2023 Young Australian of the Year and received Liberty Victoria's Young Voltaire Human Rights Award for his advocacy for young people and vulnerable communities.// Emma Bacon, founder and executive director of Sweltering Cities, joined us to discuss the campaign to win heatwave safe homes for renters in Australia and to tell us about tonight's panel discussion about heat stress in rental homes, which Priya will be speaking on. Sweltering Cities is a grassroots campaigning organisation working with communities in some of Australia's hottest suburbs to fight for more liveable, equitable and sustainable cities. Find out more about tonight's panel event, which will be held at Trades Hall from 6-7:30PM, here.// Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, speaks with us about the health and medical system impacts of the occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of occupied Gaza. MAPW is a professional not-for-profit organisation that works to promote peace and disarmament, aiming to reduce the physical and psychological impact, as well as environmental effects of occupation and war throughout the world.// Songs//Ramadan - R3D (Prod. Al Nather)
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listen to the final of a three part conversation between Spike and climate activist James from Blockade Australia. Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to Australia's political and economic systems, and others like it globally, who are facilitating the collapse of the ecosystems that support all human and non human life. Last week we learnt from James that Direct action is synonymous with Blockade Australia and that it is aimed directly at industrial polluters and extractors. He also shared that he believes the major obstacles to achieving a socially and environmentally just world are systemic, connected to how information (scientific data) is produced and disseminated and "catastrophe fatigue" or trauma. Spike and James agreed that primary industry corporations have succeeded in convincing the public that climate degradation is due to individual consumption. Jamess also indicated that he believes that the promotion of activism on social media is a positive and effective way to promote the efforts of the activist community. Listen back to part one here and part two here.// Scott Drummond, Program Manager at the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association, joined us to discuss a statement produced in collaboration with RMIT and supported by 77 health and community agencies highlighting the dire need for a drug checking and enhanced public alert system to be implemented in Victoria. The statement was published on Monday the 23rd of October, and you can read it here. VAADA is the peak body representing Alcohol and Other Drug services in Victoria.// This morning we will be speaking to Anne Wilson, CEO of Emerge Australia - the leading national patient organisation for ME/CFS in Australia. Emerge Australia works to drive policy change and is committed to ensuring that the needs and concerns of Australians living with ME/CFS and Long COVID are heard and addressed. Emerge Australia is currently recruiting people with post-infection diseases to join collaborative research efforts with universities to find a cure for complex illnesses. To learn more about ME/CFS, and hear people with lived experience of illness share their stories, listen to Emerge Australia’s Imagine Podcast.// Approximately a month ago the state government announced its plan to demolish all 44 public housing towers in Naarm/Melbourne, stating that the leasing of the public land to developers and proposed rebuild of "social housing" will improve housing availability. In reality, this will lead to the major dislocation of the lives of around 10,000 people from marginalised communities, who learnt about the life changing policy change only 24 hours prior to the announcement through a letter that was shoved underneath their door. To discuss the successful passing of a Merri-bek Council motion to oppose the demolition we spoke with Socialist Alliance activist and Merri-bek Councillor Sue Bolton.// Jamal Nabulsi, a diaspora Palestinian writer and scholar living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal Country, joins us to speak about his writing on Palestinian sovereignty and Indigeneity. This conversation builds on some of Jamal's published work, situating these political claims about Palestinian identity in relation to the present genocidal siege of Gaza by Israel and exploring the importance of Palestinian scholar-activism and the long history of solidarity between Palestinians and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. You can read Jamal's paper 'Reclaiming Palestinian Indigenous Sovereignty', published open access in the Journal of Palestine Studies, here. Jamal will be in conversation with a brilliant selection of scholar activists in the November Symposium on Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Sue-Anne Hunter, proud Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung woman and Deputy Chair and Commissioner of the Yoorrook Justice Commission, joined us to discuss the recent commencement of the Commission's inquiry into land, sky and waters. This phase in the process of truth-telling aims to explore the issue of land injustice in Victoria, with the Commission's findings to inform law, policy and education reform as well as the drafting of future treaties between First Peoples and the Victorian Government. You can find out more about the work of the Commission, including about making submissions to the present inquiry, by heading to yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au// We heard the second instalment of a three part interview with climate activist "James" from Blockade Australia. Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to the destruction of the ecosystems that support all human and non human life. The network is working to build a political movement that can physically resist Australia's planet destroying operations with disruptive and targeted action that shuts down the everyday functioning of this machine. In today’s segment, Spike asked James about how important direct action is to achieving an environmentally and socially just world, and what the main obstacles are to achieving this. They also discussed the general public's apparent suspicion of scientific data, the public information battle and whether the corporate world has succeeded in convincing the community that individual consumption is responsible for environmental degradation.// AJ from Melbourne Activist Legal Support joined us to talk about the recent points of concern legal observers and attendees witnessed at the Free Palestine Rally in Naarm on the 15th of October 2023. They described some of the observations MALS recorded at the event regarding heightened police surveillance, and shared advice about how to keep safe at upcoming events.// Anti-poverty advocate Robert joined us to discuss his personal experiences and analysis of social security ineligibility and poverty in Australia as part of a discussion focused on Antipoverty Week, which is running from the 15th to the 27th of October. Robert is disabled and works a casual job that is not sufficient to cover his basic expenses, but is currently ineligible for social security income because of his partner's income. Last year, he authored the blog 'Poverty 101: A Beginner's Course'. Robert will be sharing more of his story and his analysis of what needs to change in an upcoming piece for the Power to Persuade blog's special Antipoverty Week series moderated by Antipoverty Centre.// Songs// Nada - Clarissa Bitar//
Building Unity Against Fascism study circle, Palestinian solidarity with Muhib Nabulsi, Jesse Noakes on housing justice for Aboriginal families, Trasharama A-Go-Go Film Festival, Blockade Australia Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// In our first conversation, we will be learning more about Building Unity Against Fascism; a six session study circle co-hosted by Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party in Reservoir. Immersed in the daily fight against racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-trans bigotry, and labor exploitation, Radical Women believes in multi-issue organising around the needs of the most marginalised. The Freedom Socialist Party is a feminist, working-class organisation, fighting for an end to all capitalist exploitation and oppression. Register and find out more about the Building Unity Against Fascism study circle here.// Muhib Nabulsi is a Palestinian writer, editor, filmmaker and activist living in exile on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation. He joins us today to speak about the fight for Palestinian liberation and solidarity. Muhib mentioned the following in the interview with Inez, following the Black People's Union and RMIT University's partnerting with ''so called Israel'' arms company Elbit Systems, and showing up for the Palestinian Solidarity Rally this Sunday 12pm at the State Library Victoria in Naarm (so called Melbourne).// Housing justice campaigner Jesse Noakes caught up with Priya earlier this week to discuss the campaign to stop the Western Australian government's Department of Communities from evicting Aboriginal families from public housing and into homelessness. While public housing is frequently referred to as the benchmark for secure rental tenancy in Australia, the Stop Evicting Families campaign highlights how state and territory governments can choose to end public housing tenancies with no reason, process for challenge or sufficient notice to tenants. These decisions are disproportionately made about Aboriginal families in Western Australia's public housing system, and Jesse speaks about the dire consequences for families as well as their fight to end arbitrary evictions. Find out more about the campaign by heading to StopEvictingFamilies.org, and keep an eye out for news later today about one family's racial discrimination complaint about their eviction notice from public housing, which is currently under investigation by the Australian Human Rights Commission.// We will also be having a phone conversation with the founder of the Trasharama A-Go-Go Australian Short Film Festival Dick Dale. Trasharama A-Go-Go Film Festival caters to the low-budget/no-budget end of the movie market focusing on genre films (Horror/Sci Fi) under 15 minutes in length, it is being held at the Nova Cinema this weekend and Dick is in Naarm/Melbourne to host the festival and screen his feature "Ribspreader". We will be talking to Dick about the video nasty genre, the Trasharama A-Go-Go film festival and his feature "Ribspreader".// Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to the destruction of the ecosystems that support all human and non human life. The network helps to build a political movement that can physically resist Ausrtralia's planet destroying operations with disruptive and targetted action that shuts down the everyday functioning of this machine. Today we will hear the first instalment of a three part conversation with "James" an activist from Blockade where we discuss Blockades mission, the reasons he got involved with the organisation, the role a commitment to social and environmental justice plays in Blockades work and the importance of direct action.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Refugee women Geetha Ramachandran and Ghazaleh Ghaed Rahmati along with unionist and organiser Lavanya joined us to speak about their involvement in the march by a group of refugee women from Melbourne to Canberra to fight for visa equality and raise awareness about the plight of around 12,000 refugees left in limbo by the Australian Government’s failure to issue Permanent Protection Visas. Geetha Ramachandran came to Australia in 2013 with her husband and two children. She is a community childcare educator and teacher at a Tamil language community school, as well as a co-founder of Refugee Women Action for Visa Equality. Ghazaleh Ghaed Rahmati is an Iranian women who came to Australia when she was 14, and is now 26. While training as a dental assistant, she experienced the impact of visa rejection on her university education, her and her family’s wellbeing, and how the unfair and inhumane decisions of the Australian government cause grief and hurt to refugees. You can sign the petition supporting the Refugee Women’s Walk for Freedom here, and support them on their journey by donating to their fundraiser.// Earlier this week, Spike visited the public housing estate on Wellington Street in Collingwood and caught up with resident Valentina about the propose demolition of the towers, as well as the importance of drop-in health services for estate residents.// Josh Cullinan, Secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers' Union or RAFFWU, joined us to to talk about the upcoming national strike of supermarket workers at sector giants Woolworths and Coles in the face of the companies' failure to commit to providing employees with fair pay, job security and safe workplaces. The strike will take place on Saturday the 7th of October, with industrial action set to begin at 10AM. Support the RAFFWU strike fund for supermarket workers by heading to chuffed.org/project/superstrike.// Lawyer, youth worker, film maker, and comedian Will Crawford spoke with us today about his new show ‘'Rocksteady Baby', which traverses the surreal, absurd, cheeky, and the occasionally serious, exploring how to write a comedy about an invisible disability. Will has just returned to Melbourne after 15 years of living in Darwinm, and is an experienced standup and sketch comedian. ‘Rocksteady Baby’ covers a strangely optimistic journey through some dark times, and is running across October at TIC on Swanston Street. Find out more and get tickets here.//Yesterday, Spike visited the Kathleen Syme Library in Carlton and heard from Dee and Jenny about the production of a fantastic peer-produced and designed zine for people with lived or living experience of homelessness called ‘Need To Know’, which shares useful resources for people sleeping rough in Melbourne’s CBD. ‘Need to Know’ is produced in partnership between people with lived experience, local council and the Kathleen Syme Library, and community health services. The production process provides a safe, inclusive and supportive environment for people who have had traumatic or challenging experiences of homelessness to join together to produce a resource that may be of use to others, while giving them the opportunity to view their lived experience in a more positive light in the company of peers.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Earlier this week, Spike and Priya visited the Hoddle Street public housing estate and spoke with resident Sim, who has been living in one of the towers for 7 years. In this interview, Sim reflected on last week's announcement by the Victorian State Government that all 44 public housing towers in the Greater Melbourne area have been slated for demolition and redevelopment in the coming decades. Sim spoke about how the announcement was delivered to residents and discussed the stress and uncertainty this has caused.// Last week we caught up with Izzy Brown, a public housing walk-up resident, local community organiser and artist, to talk about the launch of the Resident Frequency Recording Studio out of the Hoddle Street public housing towers' community centre. We heard from Izzy prior to the announcement that the towers were to be redeveloped, so today we spoke with her again about what this announcement means for various communities and local culture at the estate.// On Tuesday, Spike and Priya also caught up with Christopher Sprake, Community Development worker at The Wellington, a community organisation that services the Wellington Street public housing tower. Chris was able to briefly speak about the public housing redevelopment announcement from a community worker perspective, noting the lack of information provided to both residents and workers by the Victorian Government either before or immediately after Victoria's Housing Statement was made public.// Louisa Bassini, Acting Director of Legal Practice at Inner Melbourne Community Legal, joined us to speak about the implications of the Victorian government's public housing tower redevelopment plan from a community legal sector perspective, and shared some information about the rights of public tenants. Inner Melbourne Community Legal is the service that represents clients on the North Melbourne, Flemington, Kensington and Carlton public housing estates. Louisa previously represented clients being relocated from the Abbotsford St and Walker St estates as part of the Public Housing Renewal Program and has worked on housing and tenants’ rights issues for about 15 years.// Professor Libby Porter and Dr David Kelly, housing researchers based at RMIT's Centre for Urban Research, joined us in the station to situate the Victorian Government's public housing tower redevelopment plan within a longer history of scholarship and independent evaluations of previous processes of public housing renewal in Melbourne, presenting a critical analysis of the process and its impact on public housing estate communities, the roll-back of government provision of housing, and the ripple effects in the broader landscape of tenancy in the state. Libby, David, Priya and colleagues Dr Iris Levin, Dr Liam Davies and Professor Kate Shaw published an explainer breaking down last week's Victoria's Housing Statement - you can read it here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Fighting for Banaba Part 3//Last week, Priya caught up with Professor Katerina Teaiwa and Itinterunga Rae Banteiti to discuss the colonial history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the fight by Banabans for reparations and an end to extraction. This conversation occurs in the context of a recent push by Australian mining company Centrex, which has sought to conduct phosphate prospecting activities on the island under the greenwashing premise of “rehabilitation.” This week, you will hear third segment a three-part interview with Katerina and Rae - listen back to parts 1 and 2 here.// Katerina is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist and award winning teacher of Banaban, I-Kiribati and African American heritage born and raised in Fiji. She is Professor of Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Rae is of Banaban and Kiribati origins and was raised and educated in Fiji. Rae’s environment and social justice work are linked to Kiribati people’s histories and the extent of environmental degradation caused by extensive mining.// You can find the petition started by the Banaban community on Rabi Island, Fiji, which demands a defence of Banaban rights and the prevention of any further mining of the island, below. There are also links to further information about the impacts of mining on Banaban people and their tireless campaigning to protect and restore Banaba.// Sign the Petition: STOP CENTREX MINING ON BANABA, DEFEND BANABAN RIGHTS, AND CHALLENGE THE RABI ADMINISTRATORArt Exhibit Brings Banaban Human Rights Struggles to Global Stage [article]Forced Displacement, Banaba, and the Right to Life with Dignity [article]Why you must see Project Banaba – an Exhibition by Katerina Teaiwa [article]We are the Fiery Canoe Foundation [video] Driving the Nazis out of Melbourne//Ellie from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism joined us to talk about an upcoming protest event that CARF is holding to drive the nazis out of so-called Melbourne! A few weeks ago, we had fellow CARF member Jasmine on to discuss this upcoming rally, but since then we've seen some successful anti-fascist resistance to attempted neo-nazi intimidation of a fundraiser event last Friday at Cafe Gummo in Thornbury. Today, Ellie will continue the discussion about the importance of broad-based anti-fascist resistance, let us know about the speak-out held this past Tuesday at Gummo, and remind listeners about details of the protest coming up this Saturday the 23rd of September, meeting at 2PM at the IGA in Sunshine West.// Dementia Action Week 2023//Maree McCabe AM, CEO and Board Member of Dementia Australia, joined us today for Dementia Action Week 2023, which runs from 18-24 September and includes World Alzheimer’s Day on Thursday 21 September, to talk about stigma, discrimination, and lack of awareness of dementia. A recognised leader in the health and aged care, Maree brings more than twenty years’ experience across the health, mental health and aged care sectors. If you live with dementia or are the family member, friend or carer of someone who does and would like further information or advice about dementia, you can call the National Dementia Helpline on 1800 100 500 for free support 24/7. // National Union of Students on the Housing Australia Future Fund//The National Union of Students supported putting pressure on the federal government to introduce a rent cap to address housing stress experienced by students. Recently, however, the Greens backflipped on withholding support for the Housing Australia Future Fund after getting a commitment for extra spending on social housing from the Labor government, reducing the pressure to introduce a rent cap. To discuss how this contributes to the housing stress faced by students, impacts federal housing policy and influences their campaigning in the future we were joined by National Union of Students’ Education Officer Xavier Dupe. During the interview, Xavier mentioned the NUS Education Office’s ‘Get A Room’ campaign to fix the rental crisis - find out more here.// Building Community with Resident Frequency Recording Studio//Earlier this week, Spike caught up with Izzy Brown to congratulate her on the launch of the latest grassroots community project she has been involved in called the Resident Frequency Recording studio. Located at the old men’s shed at 253 Hoddle St Collingwood, the Resident Frequency Recording Studio is an important local community controlled resource that should be celebrated, and Izzy spoke to us about its launch on Sunday September 17th, the importance of building free, safe and inclusive community spaces, and shared the local community's hopes to develop autonomous skillshare and mentoring programs from the Collingwood public housing estate site.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Science Owes Us An Apology Part 2Professor Glenn McLaren lectures in Philosophy, Media and Society at Swinburne University, and in Science Week 2017 wrote the article "Science Owes Us an Apology" that discussed how science has been separated from the humanities, and the impact this has had on critical thought. Spike sat down with Glenn for a two part conversation where he was asked who science owes an apology to, what it owes an apology for and what needs to happen for society to develop the wisdom required to overcome crises like climate change. We played part two of the discussion during today’s show, and you can listen back to part one here. You can find more articles from Glenn on his Substack.// Fighting for BanabaEarlier this week, Priya caught up with Professor Katerina Teaiwa and Itinterunga Rae Banteiti to discuss the colonial history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the fight by Banabans for reparations and an end to extraction. This conversation occurs in the context of a recent push by Australian mining company Centrex, which has sought to conduct phosphate prospecting activities on the island under the greenwashing premise of “rehabilitation.” This week, you will hear the first two segments of a three-part interview with Katerina and Rae - stay tuned next week to catch the final part of this conversation.// Katerina is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist and award winning teacher of Banaban, I-Kiribati and African American heritage born and raised in Fiji. She is Professor of Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Rae is of Banaban and Kiribati origins and was raised and educated in Fiji. Rae’s environment and social justice work are linked to Kiribati people’s histories and the extent of environmental degradation caused by extensive mining.// You can find the petition started by the Banaban community on Rabi Island, Fiji, which demands a defence of Banaban rights and the prevention of any further mining of the island, below. There are also links to further information about the impacts of mining on Banaban people and their tireless campaigning to protect and restore Banaba.//Sign the Petition: STOP CENTREX MINING ON BANABA, DEFEND BANABAN RIGHTS, AND CHALLENGE THE RABI ADMINISTRATORArt Exhibit Brings Banaban Human Rights Struggles to Global Stage [article]Forced Displacement, Banaba, and the Right to Life with Dignity [article]Why you must see Project Banaba – an Exhibition by Katerina Teaiwa [article]We are the Fiery Canoe Foundation [video] LGBTQA+SB Crisis Support AccessListeners, please be aware that this discussion contains mention of suicide. If you need support, you can call LifeLine on 13 11 14. For First Nations specific support, call 13Yarn on 13 92 76, and for LGBTIQA+ support you can call QLife on 1800 184 527.// Katherine Johnson joined us to discuss the recent report: “Understanding LGBTQA+SB suicidal behaviour and improving support: insight from intersectional lived experience.” This report is a collaboration between researchers Katherine Johnson, Nicholas Hill, Vanessa Lee-Ah Mat, and partners specialising in LGBTQIA+ community support and lived experience of suicide; Switchboard Australia and Roses in the Ocean.// Songs//Love Like Water - Leah Flanagan//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Yoorrook Commissioner Travis Lovett is a proud Kerrupmara/Gunditjmara man who has spent his life advocating for truth and justice for First Peoples. Commissioner Lovett has held senior leadership roles in the Victorian Public Service, including as Executive Director and Acting Deputy Secretary, First Peoples State Relations, at the Department of Premier and Cabinet, and has played a key role in supporting Victoria in Treaty and Truth telling. He joined us today to talk about 'Yoorrook for Justice: Report into Victoria’s Child Protection and Criminal Justice Systems', which was tabled in Parliament on Monday, making recommendations to the Victorian Government to transform child protection and criminal 'justice' systems to address systemic injustice against First Peoples.// Professor Glenn McLaren lectures in Philosophy, Media and Society at Swinburne University, and in Science Week 2017 wrote the article "Science Owes Us an Apology" that discussed how science has been separated from the humanities, and the impact this has had on critical thought. We sat down with Glenn for a two part conversation where he was asked who science owes an apology to , what it owes an apology for and what needs to happen for society to develop the wisdom required to overcome crises like climate change. We played part one of the discussion during today’s show. You can find more articles from Glenn on his Substack.// Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing at the University of Sydney Melissa Haswell joined us to discuss the findings of a recently-released report investigating the human health and wellbeing impacts of the fossil fuel industry. The report, co-authored by Melissa, Jacob Hegedus and Professor David Shearman, synthesises peer-reviewed academic evidence of the myriad direct and indirect risks to human health and wellbeing posed by oil and gas developments and highlights some serious concerns about the immediate health impacts of oil and gas extraction and processing for people and the environment, as well as their downstream contributions to the climate emergency. You can read a co-authored article about the report's findings and access the report here.//Dr Meg Mundell is a Naarm/Melbourne based author, social researcher and advocate whose work has explored themes of social inclusion, belonging, nature, homelessness, and spatial justice. Meg's work includes editing a collection of stories of lived experiences of homelessness called ‘We Are Here: Stories of Home, Place and Belonging’. Meg believes that hearing people's lived experiences of exclusion is key to changing social attitudes and achieving social and political change.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Today’s show was themed around content that may be distressing to some listeners. If you would like to talk to someone, you can call:Alcohol Drug Information Service on 1800 250 015Lifeline on 13 11 14For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 13 YARN (13 92 76)Beyondblue on 1300 224 636 Inez took us through the Penington Institute's 2023 Annual Overdose Report, discussed a recent tour of Richmond's medically supervised injecting site and the petition for a new overdose prevention centre in Melbourne's CBD, and spoke about the impacts of stigma.// Chris Gough, Executive Director of the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy or CAHMA, joined us to provide updates on the CanTEST program, Australia’s first fixed-site drug and pill testing facility, which has now been running for just over a year. CAHMA is the alcohol, tobacco and other drug consumer organisation for the Australian Capital Territory.// Harm Reduction Promotion Worker Brit from Harm Reduction Victoria spoke with us about the importance of harm reduction programs, challenging stigma and the work of Harm Reduction Victoria to keep people safe through the provision of health information. Harm Reduction Victoria is a community based, membership based, not-for-profit organisation that provides peer education, advocacy, outreach, advice, support, information and training to Victorians.// Finn, a Harm Reduction Practitioner from the 24/7 Needle and Syringe Program St Kilda and founder of International Overdose Awareness Day, and Andy, a Harm Reduction and Needle and Syringe Program worker, joined us for a conversation about International Overdose Awareness Day. They spoke about the day’s origins, its significance, and the importance of sharing overdose awareness information.// IOAD 2023 Events:10:30AM-4PM: International Overdose Awareness Day @ Harm Reduction Vic HQ3-5PM: International Overdose Awareness Day at North Richmond Community Health5-6:30PM: Keep Our City Alive Candlelight VigilAll events are listed on IOAD website here
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Members of the Pacific Climate Warriors Mary Maselina Harm and Guy Ritani joined us to reflect on their campaigning for Pacific climate justice and a fossil fuel free future within and outside of last week's Labor national conference, which was held in Meanjin/Brisbane. Mary is a proud Samoan/Chinese-Fijian born in Canada and raised on Turrbal country, Brisbane, Australia. Passionate about the power of storytelling in creating social change, Mary enjoys working in multidisciplinary spaces, in particular with young people, to co-design initiatives and projects that are of value to them and their communities. Mary serves as the Pacific Climate Warriors' Queensland coordinator. Guy (ia/they/them) is a proud takatāpui Māori artist, climate justice and food systems sovereignty advocate. Guy is passionate about our relationship to country/whenua and the role creativity and storytelling plays in overcoming our climate crisis. You can find out more about the Pacific-led initiative for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty here.// Naomi Hodgson, a founding member of the Rising Tide movement of civil resistance for climate defence, joined us to discuss Rising Tide's campaign - DISRUPTION TO END THE CLIMATE DESTRUCTION. Naomi will talk to us about and promote Rising Tide's climate justice forum to be held next week at Vic Trades Hall, 6pm Wednesday August 30. Naomi will also tell us how the 16 day Rising Tide speaking tour of South Eastern Australia is going and the planned action for early November. You can check out Rising Tide's events calendar here.// Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre and anti-poverty advocate Alex joined us in studio to unpack the Centre's recently-released report 'Punishment for Profit: How private providers became the only winners in Australia's cruel employment services system', which was published with support from GetUp! last week. The report, co-authored by Jay and Kristin O'Connell and incorporating the lived expertise of contributors including Alex, presents a critical analysis of the use of "mutual obligations" in Australia's social security system. Jay and Alex will be speaking about the rationale behind, impacts of and expenditure on employment services providers, as well as the structural changes required to centre the dignity, agency and wellbeing of people living below the poverty line. Head to the Punishment for Profit site to find out more and take the mutual obligations survey.//Australian Services Union member and Brotherhood of St Laurence employee Alex Kakafikas talked to 3CR about the 24-hour industrial action taken by workers against the not-for-profit on Thursday the 14th of August. BSL workers are campaigning to improve their enterprise agreement (workers are unhappy with current pay and reproductive leave entitlements), this is the first time in 93 years that workers at the not-for-profit have taken strike action. BSL have not been" charitable" with their employees who are 2 or 3 paychecks away from poverty. Support BSL workers' action today at 67 Brunswick Street from 12PM.//
//Acknowledgement of Country////Headlines////We'll hear a segment of the For the Wild podcast, where host Ayana Young is joined by artist and writer James Bridle in a conversation that considers AI and multiple forms of intelligence. Looking at research into forms of intelligence, from artificial to mycelial, James posits that it is a critical failure to use human intelligence as the benchmark for all forms of knowing. James Bridle is an artist, writer and publisher whose work deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one. For The Wild podcast is an anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth and consumerism. Listen back to the full episode with James Bridle here.////We will hear part two of a pre-recorded interview with Meghan Fitzgerald from Fitzroy Legal Service about the coronial inquest into the passing in custody of Veronica Nelson. This weeks episode reflects on the "war on drugs", intersectionality, lived experience and findings from the Muirhead Royal Commission into aboriginal deaths in custody. Please be advised that this interview contains content that you may find distressing. If you wish to speak with someone about any of the issues mentioned in the, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. First Nations listeners can call 13 YARN, that's 13 92 76, for dedicated mob-only support, 24/7.// //Jasmine Duff from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism joins us to talk about an upcoming protest event that CARF is holding to drive the nazis out of so-called Melbourne! A few weeks ago, we had fellow CARF member Amelia on to discuss CARF's planned protest against the National Socialist Network's "white power lifting meet" at the Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine West. Today, Jasmine will recap what went down on the day and talk about the importance of building a more sustained and widespread movement against anti-fascism in Melbourne, as well as tell us a bit about the protest coming up on Saturday the 23rd of September and how listeners can start getting prepared to attend.////Professor Nicholas Davis, Industry Professor of Emerging Technology at the University of Technology Sydney and co-Director of UTS' Human Technology Institute along with Professor Edward Santow, speaks with us about what it means to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in Australia, including the regulatory mechanisms we already have in place that pertain to AI. Earlier this week, Nicholas co-authored a Conversation piece with Edward Santow and Sophie Farthing, head of the Policy Lab at the Human Technology Institute, which provided further insights into the tech sector's backflip on regulation and the issue of enforcing both existing and future regulatory mechanisms in the face of increasingly widespread AI use across various sectors of Australian industry and society. The Human Technology Institute is a new initiative situated at UTS which aims to build Australia's capabilities around the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence.////JR from the Renters and Housing Union joins us to extend the conversations we had on the show during last week's Homelessness Week special, discussing RAHU's campaigns and advocacy work. We'll also get the chance to speak about what yesterday's housing announcements by national cabinet really mean, and touch on some of the negative impacts of property tech used by landlords and the real estate industry.//
Homelessness week phone discussion with community health worker from the cohealth Beau Branch . August 7 - 13 is Homelessness Week in Australia, and to discuss the work of cohealth Central City, a not for profit community health organization dedicated to providing health services to the homeless and marginalized communities we are having a phone conversation with outreach, activities, housing and health worker Beau Branch. Megan Fitzgerald (managing lawyer of strategic litigation) from Fitzroy legal Service on the coronial inquest into the passing of Veronica Nelson in custody. Examining how institutional racism and sexism, colonial systems of (in) justice and the war on drugs, brutally robbed a family, community and culture of a friend, mother and leader. Part one - how the stigma is expressed through the criminal justice system and the impacts this has on marginalized communities. HAAG Ageing in a Housing Crisis Report Launch - part 1 Fiona York, Executive Officer of Housing for the Aged Action Group, and Professor Wendy Stone of Swinburne University to discuss today's launch of the 'Ageing in a Housing Crisis' report at Parliament House in Canberra. The report, commissioned by Housing for the Aged Action Group and co-authored by Wendy along with researchers at Western Sydney University and Curtin University, analyses the housing circumstances of people in Australia aged 55 years and older, based on analysis of 2021 Census data and Homelessness Estimates. You can register to attend today's launch online here, and find out more about the work of Housing for the Aged Action Group here. Don't forget that you can also tune into Housing for the Aged Action Group's show 'Raise the Roof' on 3CR on Wednesdays from 5:30-6PM.
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Friday the 14th of July, James McKenzie from In Ya Face spoke with Jacob Thomas, who designs and makes wings with the Rainbow Community Angels. We listen back to their discussion of the wholesome joy of drag children's story time, and the role played by the Angels to keep everyone safe in the face of disrupters. Listen to In Ya Face on 3CR every Friday from 4-5PM.// We'll replay the final episode of the 'Loss, Damage, and Denial' miniseries, in which Jacob Gamble of Earth Matters spoke with Netta Maiava, a young Samoan Pacific Climate Warrior, about the need to centre First Nations perspectives in climate solutions. You can listen back to the full series at www.3cr.org.au/earthmatters, and catch Earth Matters every Sunday from 11-11:30AM.// Content warning: please be advised that this discussion includes mention of experiences of violence against people with disability through the use of restrictive practices. Dr Claire Spivakovsky, senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss the recently released report commissioned by the Disability Royal Commission titled 'Restrictive practices: A pathway to elimination'. The report, co-authored by Claire, University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Linda Steele, and University of Sydney Associate Professor Dinesh Wadiwel, emphasises the urgency of ending the use of forced restraints and restrictive practices against people with disability in the face of their continued and expanding use across multiple sectors. Claire spends much of their time drawing attention to the violent, restrictive and coercive practices that continue to segregate, control and limit the lives of people with disability in the community.If you wish to speak with someone about any of the issues mentioned in this interview, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. If you are at risk of domestic, family or sexual violence, please call 1800 RESPECT, that’s 1800 737 732. You can also contact the National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline on 1800 880 052. Further resources and support line details are available on Disability Gateway.// Lara Week, a resident of Techno Park Drive in Williamstown, joins us with an update about the campaign by Techno Park residents to stay in their homes in the wake of eviction notices issued by Hobsons Bay Council, which decided to enforce the area's long-standing industrial zoning in May of this year despite it being used for residential accommodation since the post-WWII era. Residents of Techno Park Drive are holding a rally next Tuesday the 8th of August prior to the next Hobsons Bay Council meeting, and are calling for supporters to meet at Logan Reserve, Altona at 5:30PM with plans to march to the Altona Civic Centre ahead of the Council's 7PM meeting. Find out more about the campaign and how to write to Hobsons Bay Councillors here, and sign their petition here.// Announcements:Attention all social workers! The Australian Association of Social Workers’ EGM is being held today at 4PM AEST. Social workers with lived experience of the criminal punishment system are calling for members to use their votes to remove the discriminatory criminal history clause from the AASW constitution. This clause prohibits membership to people with lived prison experience of over 12 months. Credit to Tina at Sisters Inside for leading the charge on this important motion.//Please sign the Keep Our City Alive petition in support of a medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD.// Songs// Disconnected - Kiwat Kennell// We Dat Good - Inkabee and Flewnt//Rain - JK-47, Jay Orient and Adrian Eagle//
Super Loss for Under 18s, Food Not Bombs Melbourne, CARF Counter-Rally on Saturday, Protecting Transport Gig Workers Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Bernie Dean is the chief executive officer of Industry Super Australia – a marketing and advocacy body that runs collective programs on behalf of some of Australia’s largest profit to member super funds. Industry Super Australia’s objective is to maximise the retirement outcomes of the more than 5 million members of industry super funds. They joined us today to talk about how under 18s who work, are missing out on super contributions that can cost them thousands in the long run.// Chris Rust from Food Not Bombs Melbourne joined Spike earlier this week to talk about food security under the cost of living crisis. Food Not Bombs Melbourne are a grassroots, community-based volunteer food service, with the Melbourne chapter part of the worldwide movement Food Not Bombs movement which is committed to preparing vegan meals for people doing it tough.// Amelia from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism/CARF joined us with a reminder about this coming Saturday's snap rally to protest the far right in Sunshine. This anti-fascist counter-rally has been called in resistance against the National Socialist Network organising a "White Power Lifting Meet" at Sunshine's Legacy Boxing Gym. CARF has asked rally attendees to meet at the Sunshine West IGA car park to stand in solidarity against fascist recruitment and continue to build the movement against the far right.// Michael Kaine, National Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union, spoke with us about the urgent need for labour protections for transport gig workers, including ride-share and food delivery workers. Our conversation today comes in the wake of the tragic road death of another food delivery worker in Sydney over the past weekend, the 12th food delivery driver known to have been killed in Australia since 2017, though numbers are likely underreported. An April 2023 report by the McKell Institute documenting the experiences of over 1,000 transport gig workers in Australia has outlined pressing concerns faced by these workers regarding low pay, unstable working conditions, and workplace hazards - you can read it here. If you are a transport gig worker currently working in Melbourne, you can access the Gig Worker Support Service for support with understanding your rights and resolving workplace disputes.// Songs//White Dog - C.O.F.F.I.N//
Acknowledgement of country// News// Solidarity Brekky Techno Park//First up, we'll hear a conversation from Saturday the 15th of July between Annie McLoughlin of 3CR's Solidarity Breakfast show and Lara Week, a resident at Techno Park Drive Williamstown, who talks about how the Hobson Bay Council sent eviction letters to the residents of Techno Park in May enforcing the estate's industrial zoning despite years of accepting residential use. Lara and Annie discuss this decision, and how the residents are fighting back. You can sign the residents' petition here. Tune in to Solidarity Breakfast on Saturday mornings from 7:30-9AM on 3CR.// Sarah Lord from HRVic's Pharmacotherapy Advocacy Mediation Support (PAMS)//Then we'll hear Spike's interview with Sarah Lord from Harm Reduction Victoria's Pharmacotherapy Advocacy Mediation Support (PAMS) service, where they discuss recent changes to the placement of opiate replacement therapy drugs on the medicare schedule. This is in an effort to help to reduce barriers to prescribing and access – and in the process reduce stigma.// Priya - Gertrude St Projection Festival//For ten nights from July 27 The Gertrude Street Projection Festival offers a confluence of projections from their artists-in-residence, alongside community projects, talks and screenings. This morning, we speak to artist and arts worker Priya Namana, about community, art in civic space, and the thinking behind the festival. Priya is the CEO and artistic director for The Centre for Projection Art, the proud presenter of the Gertrude Street Festival.// Daney Faddoul - Human Rights Law Centre//Daney Faddoul joined the Human Rights Law Centre in March 2020 and focuses on the campaign to create an Australian Charter of Human Rights. Daney previously worked at GetUp where he was a Senior Campaigner and then their Political Director, and before that worked as an Industrial Officer in the trade union movement. He joins us today to talk about the Centre's campaign for an Australian Charter of Human Rights.// Jaanu - DJ & e.merge Agency//Jaanu is a queer Telugu asylum seeker from South India. She currently lives in Naarm and connects to community through youth work and djing her fav Desi tracks with the spice uncompromised. She joins us today to chat about her art, music, and her next event! Gertrude Street projection festival x e.merge agency live set. Thrusday 27th July 5:30-8:30 https://www.gspf.com.au/program-2023 //
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Mere Nailatikau, AM Kanngieser and Eliki Reade, co-creators of the Listening Across Faultlines sound art series, join us to discuss their deep dive into Pacific listening cultures. Bringing the wisdom of Pacific Elders and knowledge holders together with immersive soundscapes, the series centres Pacific cultures’ understanding of the fundamental interdependence between people and ecosystems, and the importance of deep listening to these relations. Mere Nailatikau is a storyteller and independent consultant, working in research, communications and public diplomacy, as well as a current Fulbright scholar at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. AM Kanngieser is a writer, geographer and sound artist who focuses on the connections and relationships between people, places and ecologies. Eliki Reade is an Interdependent Producer and artist of kailoma-Fijian (Fijian/European) heritage with 6 years experience in creative production with a focus on the Community Art and Cultural Development sector.// We listen back to Phuong’s conversation with Daisy, a Narrm based family violence lawyer and queer parent of a newborn who has recently had to navigate the medical maternity system, on the Women on the Line episode 'Your birth, your body: Seeking continuity of care'. Daisy joined Phuong on the 26th of June to share with us her observations on the lack of continuity of care for birthing people; the learning and unlearning that was required to avoid a traumatic birthing experience; and the similarities she noticed between the maternity system and her field of work. Catch Women on the Line on Mondays from 8:30-9AM on 3CR.// We hear the second part of a conversation between Megan Krakouer, Noongar woman and project director at the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project, and Uncle Robbie Thorpe from the 8th of May about community based ways of dealing with trauma, the black excellence of elders, the need for practical opportunities and radical empathy. You can catch Uncle Robbie on Bunjil's Fire, broadcasting on Wednesdays at 11AM.// Tucker Jesse Hayes, 3CR supporter, musician and sound designer extraordinaire, tells us about his musical journey so far and debuts two new music stings!// Songs// Falling - Dean Brady//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear a conversation between team members of the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch initiative discussing the recently-released 2022 Tree Cover Loss data, and how last year's data set fits into concerning global trends in forest loss. Global Forest Watch Communications Manager Kaitlyn Thayer kindly interviewed director Mikaela Weisse and senior GIS research manager Elizabeth Goldman on my behalf, discussing how the data is obtained by the University of Maryland and analysed by experts at Global Forest Watch, and how it relates to issues of global and national governance and climate change.// Spike Chiappalone speaks about the Need To Know zine and website, a regularly updated and peer developed resource for people experiencing homelessness or doing it tough in Melbourne's CBD. Spike was a peer outreach worker Melbourne homeless health service, is a co-founder of the Homeless Persons’ Union, and until very recently facilitated the collective of folks with current or past lived experience of homelessness who put together Need To Know at Kathleen Syme library in Carlton.// Kristin O'Connell, research and policy expert at the Antipoverty Centre, discusses the convergence between Australia's cost of living and rental crises for people living below the poverty line. Kristin is in town this week for the Ecosocialism 2023 conference at Trades Hall, where she'll be speaking on the Housing as a Human Right panel on Saturday the 1st of July at 4PM. Check out the rest of the conference program and register here.//
3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.// News headlines// We hear some speeches from the Accessible Tram Stops for ALL rally held on 17th June to launch the campaign to win accessible tramstops on Sydney Road, before proposed rail upgrades remove 8 level crossings in Brunswick. First up, we'll hear Monica Harte (Merri-Bek Councillor), who spoke about the history of transport campaigns in so-called Melbourne from 1980 (including Upfield line closures) and honoured disability activists no longer with us today. We will also hear Elyse Cunningham from the FOE Sustainable Cities Campaign, who shared campaign information and the importance of putting pressure on government since “only 15% of tram network is accessible to wheelchair users.” Crossing removal is planned to for around 2 years time, resulting in closures to the Upfield line and adjoining bike path for around 18 months, leaving older people, people with disability, and many other community members with no access to the city of Merri-Bek, likely to lose work, and become further isolated from society. Currently there are no accessible tram stops between Park Street (Brunswick) and Bakers Road (North Coburg, end-of-the-line) on the Route 19 tram. Approx 200-300 people attended the rally, including music from the the Riffraff Radical Marching Band, stopping traffic and trams at the corner of Brunswick Town Hall.// Angelica Ojinnaka is a youth development advocate, researcher, and speaker. She served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, as well being involved in a number of projects and organisations. You can typically find her speaking, facilitating, or shaping change on social inequalities experienced by children and young people, mental health, youth civic and economic participation, and cultural rights on national and global forums. She joins us today to chat about the importance of investing in authentic youth voices, youth participation in mental health sectors, and advocacy.// Then we are joined by Ruth Nyaruot Ruach and Idil Ali. Ruth is the Future Reset Project Producer at Footscray Community Arts & creative producer at Next in Colour. She’s multidisciplinary artist, cultural curator and community arts worker. Nyaruot uses art to understand herself, explore elements of her surroundings, heal, liberate herself and validate her blackness. And Idil is a proud Somali woman raised by the East African community in the Carlton flats. A settler on unceded Wurundjeri land, Idil embeds her belief in freedom, sovereignty and resistance into her work as a creative, youth practitioner and community organiser. You can find out more about the event this Sat 24th of June 1pm - 3pm at NGV Ian Potter Centre Free Entry - https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/ancestral-words/// Professors Judith Bessant and Rob Watts, both based at RMIT University's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, join us to discuss the youth-led Make It 16 campaign to lower the voting age in Australia, which launched on the 13th of June at Parliament House in Canberra. Drawing on their research into young peoples' political participation, Judith and Rob will unpack why expanding voting eligibility is not just important but increasingly in line with young peoples' appetites for political engagement. Judith Bessant writes in the fields of sociology, politics, youth studies, policy, media-technology studies and history. She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for 'Significant service to education as a social scientist, advocate and academic specialising in youth studies research'. She also provides advise to government and non- government organizations. Rob Watts teaches policy studies, politics, the history of ideas, and applied human rights at RMIT University. He is a founding member of the Greens Party in Victoria, a founding editor of the journal Just Policy (1994-2006) and established the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University in 2008.// Event: This Friday June 23, Oral History Victoria is hosting a symposium themed “Oral History Across and within Communities”. The event coincides with Refugee Week and is open to all members of the community interested in hearing about the way life stories are collected, preserved and experienced.// The guest speakers are: Dr Andre Dao, from the ground-breaking Behind the Wire oral history project which recorded the first-hand experiences of people detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia. These human stories became an award-winning podcast, The Messenger. He’ll be joined by Dr Jordana Silverstein, co-author of the recently released impact report, Getting My Dignity Back. She’ll be talking about -just how meaningful and validating it can be, to share one’s story and create an oral history. Our fellow Breakfast presenter - Claudia Craig - will also be making an appearance at the Symposium! Claudia will be talking about the role of community radio in creating and sharing the oral histories of diverse communities.//The Symposium is on this Friday 23rd June, 9.45am-2pm, at Museo Italiano, 199 Faraday Street Carlton. It’s a hybrid event so you can join online if you can’t make it in person.// To register head to: humantix OR go to the events page on the Oral History Victoria website – www.oralhistoryvictoria.org.au. Bookings close TODAY at 5pm so get in quick!// Songs Leaving the Light - Genesis OwusuOcean Friends - Ellatronix
Acknowledgement of Country Headlines with Emily, the talent behind Thursday Breakfast’s weekly news round up! Special radiothon chats with:Dr Marion Muliaumaseali’I from Village Response Collective - listen back to Inez’s chat with Marion on the 8th of June 2023.Phuong Tran from 3CR’s Tuesday Breakfast and Women on the Line shows!Dr Jordana Silverstein - listen back to Jordy speaking with Priya about her new book ‘Cruel Care’ on the 11th of May 2023.Judith Peppard from 3CR’s Earth Matters show - listen back to Judith and Inez recapping the 2023 International Harm Reduction Conference held in Melbourne on our April 20th show.Naavikaran and Levi Kohler, the musical angels behind the ongoing club night Mothprocess - listen back to Naavikaran and Levi talking about Mothprocess with Inez on the 2nd of February 2023.Our wonderful co-presenter Leila!Dr David Kelly, who along with Prof Libby Porter partnered with 3CR to broadcast last year’s Forum for Dwelling Justice - listen back to audio from the forum which aired on 3CR’s Acting Up on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of September 2022. Songs180 - KYESaved By The Bell - InkabeeSour - Tia GostelowWhere Are You From? - NaavikaranSomewhere To Live - Blue Mountains community members Keep those donations coming all through the month of June to help us reach our target of $1,500 as part of 3CR’s $275,000 goal! Remember, you can donate by:Calling the station on 03 9419 8377 to donate over the phone,Texting 0488 809 855 to receive a text back with donation details,Donating online at the Breakfast programs’ crowdraiser or on 3CR’s website, orDropping into the station 21 Smith St, Fitzroy during business hours.P.S. Don’t forget to nominate your favourite 3CR program/s when you donate! Stay tuned, stay radical!
3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.// First up we heard a replay from 3CR'S very own Ayan from Diaspora Blues. Ayan spoke to Young Health Ambassador Hanienah Husna about what to expect when getting a sexual health check, what questions to ask, and took us on a trip to the doctors office. Hanienah Husna is from the sexual healthcare team at Youth Affairs Council Victoria. You can catch Diaspora Blues every Monday from 2:30pm to 3:00pm on 3CR 855AM, or by visiting https://www.3cr.org.au/diasporablues// Union and community organiser and member of the Save the Preston Market Action Group Conor Flynn joined us next to discuss recent concerning developments in the fight to Save the Preston Market. Despite Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny's April endorsement of advice from an independent advisory committee to balance protecting the market precinct alongside exploring housing development options, majority-owners Salta Properties last week issued a notice to market traders threatening the closure of the precinct in retaliation against the Minister's support for significantly amended development plans. Find out more about the campaign to Save the Preston Market here.// Then we were joined by Dr Marion Muliaumaseali’I (Muliau-mas-ealil), who is a Samoan, Pasifika Ethnographer specializing in Oceanic methodologies in Service Design, and is the Chair and Founding Director of Village Response Collective. We will also be joined by Talei Richards, a Fijian and Pasifika lawyer, founder, policy specialist and Secretary at Village Response Collective. They join us today to talk about how the Village Response Collective was born and why it is so important to support Pasifika communities.// In 2021 two First Nations Leaders - Guda Maluyligal men Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai brought the Australian Climate Case against the Commonwealth Government of Australia. The Guda Maluyligal leaders argue that the Australian Government has failed to prevent climate change and, as a result, have also breached their duty of care to protect Torres Strait Islander Peoples from the harms of the climate crisis. In our final interview, we heard from Isabelle Reinecke, founder and executive director at Grata Fund. Grata Fund is Australia’s first non-profit litigation incubator with a focus on cases and campaigns that have the potential to break systemic gridlocks across human rights, climate action and democratic freedoms. Isabelle joined us to provide progress and updates on the Australian Climate Case. Please consider supporting the Australian Climate Case or Grata Fund.// SongsDewi by KomangANDA KATAKAN by Melati ES
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Listeners, please be advised the following interview discusses transphobia and may be distressing. If you wish to speak with someone about any of the issues mentioned in this interview, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14, and for mob-only support, you can call 13 YARN 13 92 76. LGBTQIA+ listeners may also wish to contact QLIFE on 1800 184 527 between 3PM and midnight, or visit qlife.org.au.// We hear from Valerie (pseudonym), a philosophy student, trans woman and spokesperson for the Fight Transphobia UniMelb campaign. Fight Transphobia UniMelb aims to combat the problematic normalisation of transphobia at a curricular and school policy level. This interview unpacks the transphobic premises of “gender critical” theory, the lived harms experienced by trans people when this thinking is disseminated at University level, and what changes could increase trans-safety at UniMelb. To get involved, email Fight Transphobia UniMelb at fighttransphobiaunimelb@proton.me. Please consider donating to the Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Fund here.// Robbie Thorpe is a long-time activist and 3CR broadcaster. Robbie is from the Krauatungalung people of the Gunnai Nation, the traditional owners of Lake Tyers. He has been integral to the longstanding Black anti-colonial movement in Australia, including being a strong advocate for ‘Pay the Rent’, the 'Black GST' and 'StolenWealth Games' initiatives. He joins us today with Lucie Loy who is an artist, curator and writer working with Dario Vacirca and Seventh Gallery to chat about their latest show 'Divine Intervention' an exhibition celebrating the artistic contributions and cultural leadership of Robbie Thorpe.// Jackie Hallan has 15 years’ experience in program management and health promotion focused on youth health and wellbeing. As ReachOut’s Director of Service, Jackie leads a diverse team of peer workers, mental health experts, content creators and volunteer coordinators. She joins us today to chat about the impact of exam and study stress on young people.// This interview touches on themes that may be distressing to some listeners. If you need to speak to someone, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14, that's 13 11 14, or 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732, that's 1800 737 732, for confidential information and support. First Nations listeners can call 13 YARN on 13 92 76, that's 13 92 76, for mob-only support.// We are joined by Soizic Brohan and Stephanie Sayer from Women with Disabilities Victoria to discuss the upcoming launch of WDV's new set of gender and disability workforce development resources, and why it is critical to integrate the lived expertise of women with disabilities into workforce development in the violence prevention space. Soizic is the Gender and Disability Workforce Development Program Manager at WDV, while Stephanie is WDV's Prevention Resource Development Officer. The 'Action for Prevention' launch event will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday the 20th June from 11:00am to 12:00pm. Find out more about WDV's workforce development resources and RSVP to the launch here.// Songs// Talk With Me (Geryon Remix) - Kira Puru//
Anuraag - organiser, critic and recently retired DJ, Yoorrook Justice Commission Chair Eleanor Bourke, Done by Law - The End of Native Forest Logging, Mahalla's Earthquake Relief Fundraiser for Turikye and Syria. 3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty. Anuraag is an organiser, critic, and recently retired DJ living and working on unneeded Wurundjeri Country. They run digital performance space room2.fm, occasional party series Cool Room and work as a booker at experimental and club music venue Miscellania. They joined me yesterday to speak about their recent DJ hiatus, holistic safety and representation, the trappings of elitism, artists exploitation and what it means to make decisions based on creative and cultural merit. Also check out Raag's newsletter at anuraagbhatia@substack.com.Next, we were joined by Wergaia/Wamba Wamba Elder and Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission Eleanor Bourke. Yoorrook is the first formal truth telling process, aimed at addressing systemic harms and injustices experienced by First Peoples since colonisation. Today, Eleanor brought us updates from the commission, which began in May 2021. Make a submission here: https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/have-your-say/make-a-submission/ We then heard from fellow 3CR show Done By Law where Beth King was joined by Darcy from Forest Conservation Victoria (FCV) and Natalie Hogan from Environment Justice Australia (EJA) to dicsuss the end of Native Forest Logging announced in the State Budget on Tuesday and the anti protest laws that remain in place. You can catch Done By Law every Tuesday from 6pm on 3CR. Idil and Lara are committee members of the community collective Mähallä, run alongside two others, Aysu and Majed. Mähallä is a creative community hub that aims to foster ways to stay connected to our cultures through public gatherings like picnics, conversations, dance nights, film screenings and much more, we offer an inclusive space that is safe and welcoming for all. Mähallä community consists of cultures from all across the Middle East and Anatolia. They join us today to speak about Mähallä's Earthquake Relief Fundraiser for Turikye and Syria at School House Studios (Coburg) this Sunday 28th of May 1pm - 6pm. Songs:Shakaya - Sublime
Claddy: actress and icon, community organiser Tori on 'Queer Joy is for Everyone', and Dr Jordana Silverstein's new publication 'Cruel Care'. 3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty. Claddy is a jazz singer, DJ, producer, booker, events progammer, actress and icon in the Naarm creative scene. She joined us earlier this week to chat about her latest role as Tanya in M-wan-gaza Theatre Company's 'Bare: the musical' and what it feels like to work in a production that truly honors diversity and cultural safety. We also spoke about the Bare cast bonding over Alicia Keyes, racism in the music industry, creating your own safer spaces, and showing up consistently with community. You can catch Bare: The Musical by Mwangaza Theatre Company at the Wyndham Cultural Centre for a limited show run from June 1, 2, & 3. You don't wanna miss it! Queer community organiser Tori joins us to talk about tomorrow's event 'Queer Joy is for Everyone' which is being held at Warrawee Park in Oakleigh to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in the face of anti-queer and anti-trans threats to shut down public expressions of queer life. The event is being held in the wake of several councils, most recently the City of Monash, deciding to cancel their drag queen storytime event because of threats of violence from conservative campaigners and far right groups. Find out more and get involved in tomorrow's queer community celebration here, and support the Glitterific Gay Gathering Fund here. Dr Jordana Silverstein, historian and Senior Research Fellow at Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, speaks with us about her new book 'Cruel Care', an eye-opening exploration of the construction and violent governance of child refugees in Australian law and policy. Cruel Care asks provocative questions about how policymakers are shaped by, and in turn shape, their histories, communities and the nation, and draws our attention to the importance of situating these concerns within ongoing settler colonialism in so-called Australia. It is a clarion call for better treatment for all who seek asylum on this continent. Cruel Care is published by Monash University Press. Songs:Took the Children Away - Archie Roach
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Renuga Inpakumar is a young Eelam Tamil activist and Law/Arts student with a long history of organising to amplify Eelam Tamil issues. She speaks with us about this Sunday's 2PM Rally outside the State Library of Victoria 'Remembering Mullivaikkal - Eelam Tamils' organised by Tamil Refugee Council, and why it's so important to commemorate the truth of the day, the genocidal killings, and the Tamils who have had to seek protection from persecution. Renuga will be speaking at the Sydney rally to commemorate Mullivaikkal, also occurring this Sunday - you can find out more information here.// We hear a segment of Democracy Now! where Amy Goodman speaks with Matt Mahmoudi, the lead researcher for Amnesty International’s new report called “Automated Apartheid: Facial recognition entrenches the oppression of Palestinians.” This report documents how the Israeli government is using an experimental facial recognition system to track Palestinians and control their movements. Catch Democracy Now! on 3CR on Mondays from 9-10AM.// Sione Crawford, CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria, talks about Victoria's second Medically Supervised Injection Centre in the City of Melbourne. This follows the recommendation from the independent review of the MSIR in Richmond to establish a second medically supervised injecting service trial in the CBD. The survey closes Tuesday 16th of May - head to the site to have your say.// Designer, researcher, and delivery rider Andrew Copolov joins us to speak about supporting and organising gig workers in Melbourne, including through gig worker meetups running this week out of Testing Grounds at Victoria Market. Andrew is a coordinator at the Melbourne art library and a PhD student at Monash University. You can find out more about the gig worker meetups at flow-state.one, and about the Victorian Government's Gig Worker Support Service here.// Songs// If (ft. Milan Ring) - Tutara Peak//
"Stories from inside a warehouse strike", Emma Hearne from the National Justice Project, Diaspora Blues May Day Special replay, and George Kanjere from Save The Preston Market Action Group. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Today, we bring you "Stories from inside a warehouse strike”. National Union of Workers delegates and strike leaders Curtly Tuala spoke about the dramatic three-day Polar Fresh warehouse strike that crippled the Coles supply chain in July 2016 and bought workers together in a win for fair work and conditions. (From the Archives: Highlights from the Union Activism and History Conference Oct 2016) Thanks to Annie from Stick together for the audio. Note in November 2019, the National Union of Workers and United Voice merged to become the United Workers Union https://unitedworkers.org.au/ https://redflag.org.au/node/5554 https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode-201610190830/union-activism-history// Emma Hearne, Associate Legal Director of the National Justice Project, joins us to discuss the New South Wales supreme court's decision in early April to uphold the validity of fines issued against protest organisers under Covid restrictions, raising serious questions about freedom of political expression and the right to protest.// We replay a segment of this week's episode of Diaspora Blues, a May Day special with former 3CR presenter Hope Mathumbu. Hope speaks with Ayan about issues of gender, work and parenting from her perspective as a community nurse working in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization who is returning to work after parental leave. Catch Diaspora Blues on 3CR on Mondays from 2:30-3PM.// George Kanjere from the Save The Preston Market Action Group joins us to talk about a recent report from the Victorian Planning Authority recommending significant protection of the Preston Market precinct and what this means for the fight against private developers. George has been involved with the campaign since its inception in 2021, and lives in Reservoir with his partner and two daughters.// Have your say about the new Medically Supervised Injecting Room here. The survey closes 16th of May//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Jiselle Hanna from Australia Asia Worker Links joined us to talk about the 10-year anniversary commemorations of the devastating collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, which claimed the lives of over 1,000 people - largely garment factory workers - and injured several thousand more. We'll speak about commemorative events happening this week in Melbourne including tomorrow's 'Lives Not Numbers' photo exhibition launch, and the importance and potential of international worker solidarity. You can catch Jiselle on AAWL's 3CR program Asia Pacific Currents every Saturday morning from 9-9:30AM. Get involved with AAWL’s campaigning and find out more about upcoming events by heading to their Facebook page.// We played an interview between Inez and actor, writer, model, producer and all around sweetheart Matisse Laida talking about Matisse and Nisha Hunter's We Eatin' Good, a collaborative food platform dedicated to amplifying Queer, Black, Indigenous, PoC. They spoke about how queerness, culture, and food intersect and what redefining 'good' food looks like. Catch the World Premiere of We Eatin' Good film on Sat 6th of May at Footscray Community Arts Centre from 3pm - 6pm as part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. You can also rent the film online at ACMI.// Dr Jessica Hambly, Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, and Co-Director of the Law Reform and Social Justice program, joined Phuong earlier this week on 3CR's Tuesday Breakfast show to talk to us about Australia's cruel refugee policies and how they have impacted policies in other countries. Jess is a socio-legal scholar with interests in access to justice for people seeking asylum, asylum law and procedure, refugee rights, gender and migration, legal professions and radical lawyering, inclusion and participation in 'legal spaces', and court and tribunal (including online) architectures. Jess has worked with a number of grassroots migrant and refugee rights organisations including Bristol Refugee Rights, Lesvos Legal Centre, and Samos Legal Centre.//Kerry Klimm spoke with us about the everyday, lived impacts on First Nations people of mainstream conversations about a First Nations Voice to Parliament and push for Constitutional Recognition, an issue that Kerry notes has frequently been left out of mainstream media's Indigenous Affairs coverage. Kerry is a Gugu Yalanji and Koko Lamalama woman from far North Queensland and now lives in Meeanjin, lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples. She runs creative communications consultancy Flashblak and has over 25 years in mainstream and First Nations’ media.//
Wayne Wharton on Treaty Before Voice, Judith Peppard recaps Harm Reduction Intl Conference, Mara Sison on 'Sekala Niskala' at Footscray Community Arts, Ruth Jelley on Deakin industrial action, Alistair Sisson on rent control and public housing. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Wayne 'Coco' Wharton, Kooma man, seasoned activist and convenor at the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, joins us to speak about the Treaty Before Voice campaign. This grassroots First Nations campaign is being led by a network of First Nations Communities and the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy calling for an end to the war against First Nations people and questioning the current push for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. You can find out more about the Treaty Before Voice campaign at their website, and you can also follow along on Instagram and Facebook.// We are joined by Judith Peppard, fellow 3CR producer and presenter with a keen interest and history in the alcohol and other drug space, who recently attended the 2023 Harm Reduction International Conference in Narrm/Melbourne from 16-19 April. The theme for this year's conference is Strength in Solidarity and we'll have a chat about some of key themes and insights surround global harm reduction efforts.// Curator Mara Sison joins us to discuss the exhibition Sekala Niskala (the Seen and Unseen). Currently showing at Footscray Community Artsand produced in collaboration with Project 11, this exhibition is a celebration of continuing art styles based on Balinese Hindu belief, that pushes the boundaries of traditional Indonesian art practice. Sekala Niskala features artists Agus Saputra, Kuncir Sathya Viku, Ni Luh Pangestu, Satya Cipta and Septa Adi. // After that, we are joined by Ruth Jelley the Victorian Assistant Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). Ruth has worked in a range of professional staff roles in learning design across 3 universities since 2012 and has been advocating for worker's rights with the NTEU as an elected representative since 2018. She joins us today to talk about the Deakin NTEU Branch's protected Industrial Action tomorrow 21st of April at the Burwood Campus. And how the proposed 'agreement' that is really a dodgy deal. // Alistair Sisson, Macquarie University Research Fellow and organiser with Sydney-based Action for Public Housing, speaks with us about why the federal government needs to invest in public housing as one of the core solutions to Australia's housing crisis. We'll be talking about the scale of the crisis, federal and state government action (or lack thereof) on housing, and why tenure type is a key consideration in coordinating a systemic response to housing unaffordability. Alistair recently authored a piece for the Guardian arguing that plans to predominantly increase private housing supply are not sufficient to address multifaceted issues with housing affordability in Australia - you can read it here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear a replay from Wednesday Brekky where Jean and Dale from 3CR's DOGS programme discuss how affordability of uniforms and school supplies impacts children as they return to school in 2023. This excerpt first aired on 28 January and you can listen to the full discussion on 3CR's DOGS programme. The Australian Council for the Defence of Government Schools (DOGS) looks at public education and separation of church and state.// It's been almost 32 years since the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) were handed down, but the current prison healthcare system is still failing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and contributing to deaths in custody. Last week,VALS, the Victorian Legal Service, brought together a panel of experts discussing the need for a reformed prison healthcare system so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are incarcerated can access culturally-safe, trauma-informed healthcare that is of equal adequacy to what they would receive in the community. The panel featured Nerita Waight, Sarah Schwartz and Megan Williams. Megan and Sarah both gave evidence in the coronial inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson who died in custody in 2020. The inquest found among other failures of care that Veronica’s treatment was “cruel” and “inhumane”, and her death was preventable. In this excerpt, Wiradjuri healthcare advocate Megan Williams speaks about what cultural safety means in the context of Prison Health care. Listen back to the full recording here.// Crunch and Michaela from 3CR’s Radioactive Show recently caught up with Ray Acheson from Reaching Critical Will to discuss strategies to counter militarism. RCW are an organisation working towards disarmament and arms control - they are the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. You can tune into the Radioactive Show on 3CR Saturdays from 10AM.// Janelle, from Queensland-based peer sex worker organisation Respect Inc, joined us to discuss the campaign to decriminalise sex work in the state and to report on the Queensland Law Reform Commission's ongoing review of the sex industry. Sex workers in the state have long raised concerns about the circuitous legislation that currently regulates the industry, as well as its enforcement by the Queensland Police Force. Find out more about the campaign by heading to @DecrimQLD on Instagram.// Songs// Lupa - King Stingray// Get Inspired - Genesis Owusu// Don't Really Care - Djanaba// Fly - Birdz ft. Ngaiire// Closure - RONA. ft Helena//
Cat Kutay on alternatives to relocation in flood prone communities and First Nations engineering, replay of Pro-Trans, Anti Fascist Rally courtesy of Solidarity Breakfast, Priyanka Ashraf chats about Maya Cares, an online platform where users can report racism. Acknowledgement of country// Headlines// 7:30 - First Nations people were and are the first engineers on this continent, it is crucial that this knowledge is centred in all land management decision making. Today, Dr Cat Kutay is joining us to unpack why relocation is not the answer for communities in flood prone areas. Cat is descended from seafarers of Celtic and Aboriginal origin. She works with Aboriginal communities for online language learning and story sharing as a way for Aboriginal culture and knowledge to be acknowledged and integrated into Australian engineering approaches. You can read Cat's article on Indigenous engineering here.// 7:50 - We are now going to an excerpt from the Pro-Trans, Anti Fascist Rally courtesy of Annie McLoughlan from Solidarity Breakfast Saturday, recorded last Saturday 25 March. We hear from two speakers at the rally: Roz Ward, co-founder of Safe Schools Coalition Victoria, and Andy Meddick - former MP, supporter of LGBTI rights, a parent of trans children and activist. Hear more from Solidarity Breakfast here.// 8:10 - Priyanka Ashraf is a Muslim woman from Bangladesh who previously worked as a lawyer before transitioning into technology and entrepreneurship in establishing The Creative Co-Operative, or The CCO. The CCO is the first 100% Woman of Colour owned, led and operated social enterprise in Australia working to close the intersectional and intergenerational wealth gap by supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Black and Women of Colour in building shared economic power and improving access to mental health and wellbeing. She joins us today to chat about a CCO initiative Maya Cares, a online platform where users can report racism, as well as get access to an entire library of culturally-appropriate resources and services, including various lists of culturally-appropriate counsellors.// Songs//HEAVEN WITH U - Tasman Keith ft Jessica Mauboy (2:54min) Superstar - Sycco (3:34min)
Women on the Line replay with Domina Jia, Urvi Majumdar tells us a joke, Matt Kunkel on 'Insecure by Design' report and John B. Lawrence. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We started off by hearing an excerpt of the latest episode of 3CR's Women on the Line show, hosted by Xen Nhà. In this episode, Xen chats with Domina Jia, a sex worker and artist based in Honolulu, O’ahu, Hawai’i. Xen and Jia speak about Jia's zine Be Easy Stay Safe vol.2 which features around 20 contributors from all facets of the sex worker industry including strippers/dancers, cam-models, sugar babies, dominatrixes and more. Listen to the rest of the episode here, and find Jia's work on Instagram at @jinjavitus_. Remember, you can catch the Women on the Line show every Monday from 8:30-9AM on 3CR!// Having moved from India to Australia at the age of 6, Urvi Mujumdar has always juggled two worlds— living up to her parent’s expectations (or trying to!) whilst still trying to appear cool at all times. Urvi’s experiences add a unique flavour to her observational comedy. Balancing her dark wit and sarcasm with a contagious excitability, Urvi’s comedy values quality and connectedness above all. Today Urvi joins us to talk about her journey as a comedian, and the Footscray Laughs program, a series of comedy shows, each happening on one Friday in June, August and November this year. You can buy tickets to her upcomig Melbourne International Comedy Festival show 'Urvi went to an All Girls School' here.// Then we are joined by Matt Kunkel, CEO of the Migrant Workers Centre to talk about the centre's latest report 'Insecure by Design' which outlines Australia’s migration system and migrant workers’ job market experience, reveals the toll of visa discrimination on migrant workers and reiterates the indisputable link between temporary visa status and workplace exploitation // Lastly, we are joined by John B. Lawrence SC is a Darwin barrister. He was a Crown prosecutor in Darwin and later solicitor in charge of the Northern Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service. He is a past president of the Northern Bar Association and of the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory. He represented one of the Don Dale youth detainees during the Royal Commission, and joins us today to speak about his article in ARENA: What the meaning of Don Dale is. This interview may content distressing content about youth who are criminalised and detained, so feel free to skip this interview and we'll see you next time. But if you need further support please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or 13 YARN for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners. // Songs// Safety - Becca Hatch//
Dr Astha Tomar on gender-appropriate in-ward psychiatric care, Truth Not War rally, slumberkitty on Trans Queer Solidarity contingent, George Newhouse on upcoming CopWatch re-launch. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We are joined by Dr Astha Tomar to cover the report on women-only psychiatric wards from the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. Dr Astha is the current Chair of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Victorian branch (RANZCP), as well as Head of Youth Mental Health Service at Peninsula Health. She has over 20 years’ experience in psychiatry across multiple countries and jurisdictions including India, New Zealand and Australia. Please be advised that this interview contains distressing content addressing gender based violence that may be upsetting for some listeners. Please take a moment to consider tuning out now if this content is not suitable for you. If you require immediate support, you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. For LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can call 13YARN for mob only support on 13 92 76.//Then we are joined by Shirley Winton, a Co-convenor of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network's Victoria branch, member of No AUKUS Victoria Coalition and Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition, and has been involved in organising the mass rally calling for truth not war and commemorating the 20th anniversary of the US-led war on Iraq, on 13 February 2003 in Melbourne, which will be held outside the State Library 1pm Sat 18th of March. Shirley is also a long time unionist and organiser with CWU and NTEU, and member of Victorian Peace Network and Western Suburbs Peace Group.// slumberkitty, an activist involved in fighting for liberation from the western, patriarchal binary gender system and organising with Trans Queer Solidarity, speaks with us about the solidarity contingent planned to resist two anti-trans events scheduled for this coming Saturday the 18th of March at Victoria's Parliament House steps. One event features UK anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen, while the other is led by far-right networks protesting queer and trans children. Saturday's Trans Queer Solidarity contingent will be one of a string of well-attended national protests against Keen's speaking tour, so if you're in Melbourne this weekend, please show up if you can. You can find out more by heading to @transqueersolidarity on Instagram or @transqueersoli on Twitter.// George Newhouse, CEO of the National Justice Project, joins us to speak about the upcoming re-launch of Copwatch, a campaign to empower Indigenous people to protect themselves from police overreach and discrimination. Copwatch was first launched in 2017, and involves an app, website and community education program teaching Indigenous people how to legally record and document police misconduct for community safety and police accountability.// Songs// Ripple - Syco, Flume, Chrome Sparks// Sweat You Out My System - MAY-A// Spring to Life - Tia Gostelow//
Acknowledgement of country// News// Dr Ahona Guha - Reclaim//Dr Ahona Guha is a clinical and forensic psychologist, who joins us in the studio today to speak about her debut book 'Reclaim: Understanding Complex Trauma and Those who Abuse.' In Reclaim, through a series of case studies and expert analysis, Dr Guha explores complex traumas, how survivors can recover and heal, and the nature of those who abuse. She provides a unique perspective as someone who has worked with people that perpetuate harm, those who are impacted and survive harm, and her personal lived experience. By emphasising compassion above all, she calls for us to become better informed about perpetual cycles of harm, and the needs of victim/survivors, so we might reclaim a safer, healthier society for everyone.//If this discussion doesn't feel safe to listen to at the moment, feel free to come back in 15 minutes. If you need someone to talk to, you can call Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636 or Lifeline on 13 11 14, 24/7 for free and anonymously.// Sheree Lowe - VACCHO//Sheree Lowe, Executive Director of the Balit Durn Durn Centre for Excellence in Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing at the Victorian Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisation or VACCHO, joins us to speak about the devastating findings reported in the Victorian Coroner's Court's recently-released report 'Suicides of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Victoria, 2018-2022'. This report highlights the impacts of a systemic failure to centre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's social and emotional wellbeing, which the Balit Durn Durn Centre has recently been resourced to begin addressing through the development of an Aboriginal-led suicide response strategy. Sheree is a Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara woman with a strong connection to South West Victoria, she has lived most her life on Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat. She has been advocating within the Aboriginal Community in Victoria for over 20 years and previously worked as a management consultant at PwC on projects related to organisational transformation through an Aboriginal lens and culturally safe program design.// If this discussion doesn't feel safe to listen to at the moment, feel free to come back in 15 minutes. If you need someone to talk to, you can call 13YARN on 13 92 76, Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636, or Lifeline on 13 11 14 - 24/7 for free and anonymously.// Cassandra Connelly - Brimbank Writers & Readers Festival//Cassandra Connelly from Brimbank Council looks after the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival. The Brimbank Writers & Readers Festival is a yearly event that celebrates and encourages a love of reading, storytelling, creativity, diversity and learning. This year features an exciting line up including Aunty Fay Muir, Parminder Kaur, Andre Dao and more! You can attend the festival from Thursday 16 - Saturday 25 March in the Brimbank area of Naarm, and check out the program on https://www.brimbanklibraries.vic.gov.au/writersfestival// Emma Bacon - Sweltering Cities//Emma Bacon, Executive Director of Sweltering Cities, joins us to talk about the need for heatwave-safe homes for renters, in light of the ongoing climate crisis and clear power imbalance between renters and landlords leaving tenants vulnerable to heat stress. Sweltering Cities is Australia’s only national campaign and advocacy organisation working specifically on issues related to extreme heat. Sweltering Cities is holding a campaign strategy meeting to win heatwave-safe rental homes in Melbourne on the 14th of March from 7:30-8:30PM - find out more and RSVP here.// Songs//Carry Me Home - KokorokoMy Limits - Huntly Damaged - MiieshaRide or Die - Lady Blue - Emily WurramaraSort It Out - Beddy RaysChange Has Come - MO'JU
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listen back to part of a recording of the University of Melbourne's 2022 AN Smith Lecture in Journalism, 'Va o matagi: climate journalism from the frontlines', delivered by Dr Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson on the 21st of September. Lagipoiva is a Samoan journalist and host of An Impossible Choice, a podcast series on the existential nature of the climate crisis in the Pacific. In this lecture, she explores the cultural nuances of reporting on climate in the Pacific, calling for international media to reject “parachute journalism” and instead empower local voices.// Matt Kunkel, CEO of the Migrant Workers Centre, speaks with us about whistleblower protections for migrants, the need for legislative reform to establish these protections, and why it’s so vital to stamp out worker exploitation, abuse, and wage theft. The Centre has joined calls from over 40 organisations urging the Federal government to establish whistleblower protections that would enable migrant workers to report exploitation without risking their visas, outlined in the 'The Breaking Silence' proposal led by the Migrant Justice Institute and Human Rights Law Centre.// Content warning: the following segment includes distressing content involving the killing of a trans sex worker. If you need to speak with someone, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. LGBTQIA+ listeners can call QLife on 1800 184 527 from 3PM-12AM daily, and if you’re in Victoria, you can call Rainbow Door on 1800 729 367 from 10AM-5PM daily. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN any time.Charlie Murphy is a trans sex worker and one of the organisers of the International Working Girls Day rally, which will be held next Wednesday the 8th of March in Sydney. Today, Charlie joins us to discuss the fatal attack on trans sex worker Kimberley McRae in January 2020, what trans justice could look like, and the current state of queer politics and sex worker rights in Australia.// Eirene Tsolidis Noyce from the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) joined us for a quick chat about RAHU’s submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Cost of Living’s inquiry into Australia’s cost of living crisis, focusing on the increasing downward pressure on renters and the need to limit negative gearing and implement national rent control measures. RAHU gave evidence at a hearing held by the Committee this past Wednesday the 1st of March, which you can watch here.// Songs// Blessed - Becca Hatch ft. Tentendo// Feel It Too - RONA.//Do It Again - A.GIRL//
eSafety updates with Dr Rys Farthing, Frederikke Jensen on the Disability Royal Commission, Diego Vasquez AKA Slippy Mane and APAN's Palestine study tours. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7:15 AM - Dr Rys Farthing is a policy worker who focuses on children's rights around technology and disadvantage. She is the Director of Children's Policy at Reset Tech, has worked in international think tanks, and held academic posts at Oxford University and RMIT. She joins us today for an update to our December interview following the announcement that the eSafety Commissioner has rejected the online safety codes that were drafted by tech companies.// 7:30 AM - Frederikke Jensen, Advocacy Manager at VALID, the Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals with Disability, joins us to talk discuss this week's Disability Royal Commission hearing revisiting service providers, as well as serious concerns about disability accommodation raised earlier this year via the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's Own Motion Inquiry into Aspects of Supported Accommodation in the NDIS.// 7:45 AM - Diego Vasquez aka Slippy Mane is a visual artist and musician from Melbourne/ Naarm who began making music in 2016. Diego's love for writing, poetry, music, video games and friends runs deep. Visual art has always been a part of Diego's practice and stems from an early obsession with cartoons. This visual culture feeds directly into his music. Today we will be chatting music, creative process, how he made a concept album, and of course... all things love! 8:00 AM - Lisa and Cathy speak with us about the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network or APAN's Palestine study tours, which aim to increase awareness about the contemporary situation experienced by Palestinians through guided trips. Lisa coordinates these study tours, and is an aid worker with 30 years' experience n the middle east, largely working with Palestinian refugees in the region. Cathy is a long time advocate and supporter of Palestinian rights, and was a radio producer and local government councillor in New South Wales in 2012 when she visited Palestine. Together, they reflect on the tours and their impact on increasing solidarity with Palestinians in the pursuit of liberation and peace. Find out more information about APAN's Palestine study tours here. Music// Slipp Season - Slippy Mane (prod. Simo Soo)// Beat the Odds - Inkabee//
Hannah Della Bosca, Lidia Thorpe for APAN, Raina MacIntyre on mask research & Sarah Rogan on ending gas reliance in Victoria. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Geographer Hannah Della Bosca joins us to discuss the phenomenon of seeking sensory comforts to insulate against the physical effects of climate change. Hannah is currently a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney. Her work and expertise span generational coal mining communities, community resilience, and energy transitions.// We'll hear edited excerpts of Djabwurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman Senator Lidia Thorpe speaking at the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network’s inaugural Palestine Solidarity Conference from 27th to the 29th of January. Senator Thorpe participated in the opening plenary of the conference, ''Organising for Palestine on stolen land: Solidarity and Intersectionality''.// Major flaws have been flagged in an updated Cochrane Review. Published last week it is the latest review to suggest face masks don’t work in the community. The Cochrane Review’s use of meta-analysis to support the idea that masks are ineffective in reducing transmission of respiratory infections has been challenged by a number of experts. Today Raina MacIntyre joins us to shed light on some of the underlying issues within the review, and how we can make more informed decisions when it comes to safeguarding ourselves and our community against infectious disease. Raina MacIntyre is a National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellow, Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, and Professor of Global Biosecurity at UNSW. Raina is an international leader in emerging infections, and is involved in research on face mask, vaccines, influenza, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases research studies that directly inform national and international policy and practice in communicable disease control.// As Victorian homes face up to 25 per cent increase in gas prices this week, Environment Victoria has renewed calls to the Victorian government to break the state’s addiction to polluting gas. Next up, we will be joined by Sarah Rogan, Climate Campaign Manager from Environment Victoria. Sarah is a senior campaigner with a values-driven approach to human rights and social justice. She is an advocate, gender expert & respected leader who has had over 15 years experience in rights-based activism. Today we will be discussing the impacts of gas usage, what the Victorian Government is doing to move away from gas and how these strategies could be improved and accelerated to better support residents.// Songs// love like water - Leah Flanagan// Neon moon - Miiesha // Running with the hurricane - Camp Cope// Days Go By - Pirra & Dirty Vegas //
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear a talk given by Dr Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environment Research at the "Don't Contaminate the Oceans with Radioactivity!" International Forum webcast, which was held online on 17th December 2022 and organised by the Citizens’ Conference to Condemn Further Pollution of the Ocean (KOREUMI). Dr Makhijani discusses the technical details of flaws in the current treatment of waste from the Fukushima accident, institutional responses, and possible alternatives to deal with the waste.// Palestinian organiser Amal joined us to speak about the University of Melbourne’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, and its concerning implications for critiques of Israel. You can find out more about both antisemitism and the IHRA statement via the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network’s website.// Goddess Naavikaran and Levi Kohler came on the show to talk about their event Mothprocess, which is coming up on Friday the 3rd of February at Concrete Boots Bar in Richmond. Naavikaran is a DJ, theatre producer, musician and choreographer from India, based in Naarm, and Levi is a music producer, singer-songwriter, and DJ. You can buy tickets to Mothprocess on eventbrite.// Eelam Tamil activist and Law/Arts student Renuga Inpakumar joined us to discuss Tamil Oppression Day in the lead up to its 75th anniversary on the 4th of February. The Tamil Refugee Council will be holding a public demonstration outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canberra to commemorate the date and call for justice for Eelam Tamils and an end to military occupation. Find out more and support the work of the Tamil Refugee Council on their website or on Facebook.// Songs// My Witch - Jen Cloher// LIFE ON MARS - KANADA THE LOOP/
Acknowledgement// News Headlines// Sue Anne Hunter - Yoorook Justice Commission//First up, we'll hear a replay from our Dec interview with Sue-Anne Hunter who is a proud Wurundjeri and Ngurai (Nu-Ray) Illum Wurrung woman and Deputy Chair and Commissioner with the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Sue-Anne is a child and family services practitioner who has focused her career around using culture as a foundation for healing trauma and addressing the impacts of colonisation. We spoke about the The Yoorrook Justice Commission's recent investigation into the impact of the child protection and criminal justice systems on First Peoples in ''Victoria''. You can watch the public hearings that occurred from 5-16 December on the Yoorrok website. We know that this content can be distressing, so if you need someone to talk to, please contact 13YARN (13 92 76) to talk with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Crisis Supporter, available 24/7.// Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) Invasion Day Webinar//On Tuesday the 23rd of January, the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service VALS hosted a panel discussion about the child protection and youth justice systems, reversing colonisation, and ending Aboriginal deaths in custody. This is an edited excerpt of the discussion, hosted by VALS CEO Nerita Waight and featuring panelists Sissy Austin, Nayuka Gorrie and Tyson Lovett-Murray. Listen back to the full conversation and donate to support VALS' vital work for the Victorian Aboriginal community by heading to vals.org.au// Fitzroy Crossing Flood Update (Two Parts)//Earlier this week, Natalie Davey from community radio station Wangki Radio in Fitzroy Crossing, joined 3CR's Emma Hart to speak about the impact of the recent flooding in the Kimberley. This is part one of their conversation. Donate to support community led recovery by visiting https://mwrc.com.au/pages/donations http://www.wangki.org.au/ // Take a look at our Invasion Day 2023 show and Pay The Rent Songs//Hell No - Flewnt//This is Australia - Marrugeku//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Chris Gough, Executive Director of the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA), provides us with an update on Australia’s first fixed-site pill and drug testing site, which launched in Canberra in July 2022. Chris shares learnings from the CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service, and talks about the importance of harm minimisation and decriminalisation.// Award-winning journalist, author, and mental health advocate Jill Stark discusses the updated edition of her book High Sobriety, which has been longlisted for the Walkley Book award and shortlisted for the Kibble Literary Awards. She speaks about her struggle to become a moderate drinker, the crippling ‘hangxiety’ that led to her quitting alcohol for good, the pandemic, and the ever-evolving journey of self-discovery sobriety has taken her on. Jill has spent ten years on staff at The Age covering health and social affairs, and now works as a freelance journalist, speechwriter, media consultant, content creator, and public speaker.// Noura Mansour, Community Organising and Advocacy Lead with Australia Palestine Advocacy Network or APAN, joins us to talk about APAN's upcoming Palestine Solidarity Conference, which will run from the 27th to the 29th of January. Find out more and register to attend here. For more coverage on Palestine on 3CR, don't forget that you can catch the Palestine Remembered show on Saturdays from 9:30-10AM!// Songs// Hide and Seek - Bumpy// Sugar Coated Lies - Ziggy Ramo and Alice Skye//Real Love - Sleepy Tom and Ngaiire//
Acknowledgement of Country//3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty./Ella Shi//Ella is the Digital and Communications Organiser at the Migrant Workers Centre. She's previously worked as a community organiser, student union representative and is also a former ASU workplace delegate. She joins us to speak about importance of the Migrant Workers 2022 Survey, and how this impacts their work and policy recommendations.//Madeleine Thornton-Smith//Madeleine Thornton-Smith has a strong interest in labour issues, particularly in relation to the visual arts and ceramics industry. She has become passionate about the working rights of artists and artworkers since doing an internship with the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), participating in discussions with the Melbourne-based Artists’ Union research group and after experiencing years of insecure and unsafe working conditions as a practising artist, technician and tutor alongside her artworker comrades. Madeleine joins us to discuss her work on art and labour, the renewed National Cultural Policy and unioinising in the creative sector.//Sam Wallman//Comics journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman joins us to speak about his powerhouse comic 'Our Members Be Unlimited', a beautifully illustrated narrative of workers and their unions that inspires hope, solidarity and radical action. 'Our Members Be Unlimited' is published by Scribe, and is now onto a second printing after selling out since its original publication in late May this year.//Matt Kunkel//Matt Kunkel is the CEO of the Migrant Worker's Centre and joins us today to discuss visa and migration pathways. We will discuss the Centre’s recent Lives in Limbo report and the recent news that Australia will begin recognising degrees from India.//Emma Golledge//Emma Golledge is the Director of Kingsford Legal Centre at UNSW. She joins us today to speak about how leading Community Legal Centres (CLCs) have welcomed the passing of the Government’s Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022. This Bill gives legislative effect to key Respect@Work recommendations, including the creation of a positive duty on employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate unlawful sex discrimination.Songs//Earth wind and Fire - Drum song/Say It To My Face - Tia Gostelo/Gold Energy - Electric Fields/We Sing - Kutcha Edwards/Closer - Ngairre/
Acknowledgement of Country//3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty./ Martin Hodgson//Martin Hodgson is a Senior Advocate at the Foreign Prisoners' Support Service and co-hosts Curtain the Podcast along with South Sea Islander and Darumbal writer and academic Amy McQuire. Martin spoke with Priya about the shameful crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Australia and the work he has been doing with Amy and the families of these women to fight for justice and draw attention to systemic discrimination. Please be aware that this interview contains distressing content- if you need to speak with someone about this, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Bhiamie Williamson//Bhiamie Williamson, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Australian National University, speaks with us about the disporportionate vulnerability of Indigenous peoples to climate change, and the need for Indigenous-centred disaster management and climate change mitigation strategies in Australia.// Fiona Allison//Dr Fiona Allison, Senior Research Fellow at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, joins us to speak about the Call It Out racism register released this week by the National Justice Project and Jumbunna Institute, which aims to track instances of racism against First Nations people. She has worked on national and other projects related to improving justice outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including in the area of race discrimination and racism and in the criminal justice system. Find out more https://callitout.com.au/ Gary Foley//Professor Gary Foley joins us to speak about the upcoming national cinema release of the fully restored documentary NINGLA-A'NA. NINGLA-A'NA is the inside story of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, which celebrated its 50th year of continued occupation and resistance this year. The documentary is the only film shot inside the Embassy, up close and personal with the people who established it. The film will screen at Cinema Nova in Carlton this coming Friday 30th September, Saturday 1st October and Sunday 2nd October (details here). There will be special panels on Friday with Professor Gary Foley, Lidia Thorpe and Tony Birch, and on Sunday with Professor Gary Foley, Rulla Kelly Mansell and Rachel Maza. Sue-Anne Hunter//Sue-Anne Hunter is a proud Wurundjeri and Ngurai (Nu-Ray) Illum Wurrung woman and Deputy Chair and Commissioner with the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Sue-Anne is a child and family services practitioner who has focused her career around using culture as a foundation for healing trauma and addressing the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families and communities. She joins us today to speak on the The Yoorrook Justice Commission's upcoming investigation into the impact of the child protection and criminal justice systems on First Peoples in ''Victoria''. Yoorrook’s public hearings will be livestreamed on the Yoorrook website from December 5. Songs//Blak Matriachy - Barkaa/Indigenous Land - DRMNGNOW/Finesse - Pania/Black Child - Birdz and Mo'ju/
Acknowledgement of country//3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty./ Catherine McAlpine//Catherine McAlpine is the CEO of Inclusion Australia, the peak national organisation of people with intellectual disability and their families. They joined us to speak on the labour exploitation of people with a disability and The Disability Royal Commission./ Elise Almond//Elise Almond is a lawyer at Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service, a state-wide service that represents disabled people/people with a disability. This includes providing assistance with NDIS appeals to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). She joined us to speak about the large spike in NDIS participants who have had their funding slashed, often without warning, in the recent months. With many taking their cases to the AAT./ Adam Bourne//Associate Professor Adam Bourne, Acting Director of La Trobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society caught up with Priya this year to discuss a recently-released report that he co-authored for the Disability Royal Commission which explores issues of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of LGBTQA+ people with disability. Listeners, please be advised that our discussion includes mention of quite devastating findings related to experiences of abuse and violence experienced by people with disability based on their gender of sexual orientation. If you wish to speak with someone about any of the issues mentioned in this interview, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14. If you are at risk of domestic, family or sexual violence, please call 1800 RESPECT, that’s 1800 737 732. You can also contact the National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline on 1800 880 052. LGBTQIA+ listeners may also wish to contact QLIFE on 1800 184 527 between 3PM and midnight, or visit qlife.org.au. A link to Disability Gateway will also be posted with our show notes after the program, which includes many of these these numbers and links to more resources./ El Gibbs//El Gibbs, award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, speaks with us about the systemic issues with Disability Employment Services and breaks down current government approaches to disability employment at the September Jobs and Skills Summit./ Songs//Big Girls - Pricie/Ezinna - B Wise, Sampa, Milan Ring/Milkumana - King Stingray/No Peace - Citizen Kay/
Online Privacy with Dr Rhys Farthing, Robodebt Royal Commission updates, Dr Adam Fletcher on a Federal Charter of Human Rights & the Public Interest Journalism Initiative. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Dr Rhys Farthing is a policy worker who focuses on children's rights around technology and disadvantage. She is the Director of Children's Policy at Reset Tech and has worked in international think tanks and held academic posts at Oxford University in the UK and RMIT here in Naarm. She joins us today to speak about recent research by Reset Australia has shown that the current approach – where the Government allows the social media industry to self-draft their own Codes around online safety and online privacy for children – is flawed.// Welfare advocate and activist Thomas Studans speaks with us about the second set of Robodebt Royal Commission hearings, which wrapped up its first block of hearings on November 11th. The Royal Commission is investigating serious concerns about the establishment and legality of this devastating program of automated debt recovery. Thomas is a JobSeeker recipient and a member of the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union.// Dr Adam Fletcher, lecturer at RMIT's Graduate School of Business and Law, spoke with Priya earlier this week about a report he authored for the Human Rights Law Centre which reviews the improper scrutiny of human rights concerns in bills passed by Federal Parliament between 2019 and 2022. The review highlights the need for a Federal Charter of Human Rights, given Australia's lack of robust human rights safeguards at the national level.// Anna Draffin, CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Initiative, joins us to discuss the Treasury's 12-month review of the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, which was released early this month, as well as the need for additional regulatory changes to address outstanding concerns about Australia's media environment. The Code, which came into effect in March 2021, seeks to regulate the power imbalance in commercial relationships between digital platforms and Australian media organisations.//Songs// Summer Love - Kee'ahn//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// For the last month, members of the Homes Not Prisons Campaign have joined us on the 3CR airwaves to share their stories and encourage community alternatives to incarceration. Today we heard from Nina. You can catch previous episodes at Acting Up!, and a final Summer Special Episode of the series will air on Thursday December 22 at 12PM AEDT.// Dr Jon Day, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, caught up with Priya to discuss a recently-published Reactive Monitoring Mission Report by UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature based on a March 2022 investigation into the health of the Great Barrier Reef. The report included a recommendation that the Great Barrier Reef be put on the World Heritage in Danger list based on a significant decline in the reef's health over the past few decades. Jon recently authored an article in The Conversation on the current status of the Great Barrier Reef, and some of the urgent actions required to protect it: read it here.// Tim Benfatto, an organiser with the United Workers Union, joined us to speak about the strike action being taken by food manufacturing workers at Pampas in Melbourne. Workers have been rallying outside Bakers Delight to highlight the company’s unwillingness to provide fair and secure working conditions. Support striking Pampas workers here.// The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) is a newly established, independent, not-for-profit and specialist legal centre working to develop Australia’s capacity to investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes. Executive Director Fiona Nelson spoke with us today about ACIJ’s recent report ‘Assessing Australia’s response to the Afghanistan Inquiry’. The report, released on November 29, found that Australia has failed to action recommendations on redress for victims of war crimes by Australian special forces. Fiona Nelson has previously worked as a researcher in international law at the University of Potsdam. She has spent time as legal advisor in the International Crimes and Accountability Program for the Berlin-based NGO European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, taking part in legal actions concerning states’ complicity in unlawful drone strikes in Yemen, torture in Guantanamo and CIA blacksites, as well as the abuse of detainees during the Iraq War.// Songs//Do It Again - A.GIRL// Real Nice (H.C.T.F.) - Young Franco and Tkay Maidza feat. Nerve//Being Human - Jen Cloher//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Content warning: please be advised that our discussion includes mention of experiences of abuse, violence and suicidality by people with disability based on their gender identity and/or sexual orientation. Associate Professor Adam Bourne, Acting Director of La Trobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society caught up with Priya earlier this week to discuss a recently-released report that he co-authored for the Disability Royal Commission which explores issues of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of LGBTQA+ people with disability. If you wish to speak with someone about any of the issues mentioned in this interview, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14. LGBTQIA+ listeners may also wish to contact QLIFE on 1800 184 527 between 3PM and midnight, or visit qlife.org.au. You can also contact the National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline on 1800 880 052. If you are at risk of domestic, family or sexual violence, please call 1800 RESPECT, that’s 1800 737 732. Further resources and support line details are available on Disability Gateway.// Sue-Anne Hunter is a proud Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung woman and Deputy Chair and Commissioner with the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Sue-Anne is a child and family services practitioner who has focused her career around using culture as a foundation for healing trauma and addressing the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families and communities. She joined us today to speak on the Yoorrook Justice Commission's upcoming investigation into the impact of the child protection and criminal justice systems on First Peoples in Victoria. Yoorrook’s public hearings will be livestreamed on the Yoorrook website from December 5.// Emma Golledge is the Director of Kingsford Legal Centre at UNSW. She joined us today to speak about how leading Community Legal Centres (CLCs) have welcomed the passing of the Government’s Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022. This Bill gives legislative effect to key Respect@Work recommendations, including the creation of a positive duty on employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate unlawful sex discrimination. Catherine McAlpine, CEO of Inclusion Australia, joined us to talk about the Disability Royal Commission's recent hearing into guardianship, substituted and supported decision making, which was held from the 21st to the 25th of November. This hearing examined serious concerns regarding how the rights of people with disability to participate in decision making are systematically undermined through the imposition of guardianship or substituted decision making, an issue that Inclusion Australia has consistently advocated against.// Songs// That’s Not Me - Dobby ft. L-Fresh the Lion//Say It To My Face - Tia Gostelow//
Dirt Radio & Cam Walker on Environmental issues for the Victorian State Election, Critical Mass bike ride with Annie McLoughlin & Faith Hunter, Witt Gorrie with updates from Beyond Bricks & Bars, Robodebt Royal Commission, Logging of Old Growth Forest with Tuffy Morwitzer.// Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Dirt Radio brings us the latest on Environmental issues for the Victorian State Election. Sam and Jack speak to Cam Walker about gas extraction in Victoria and the protection of the Greater Glider in Victorian state forests. You can hear the full episode at www.3cr.org.au/dirtradio// Faith Hunter joined Annie to talk about the Critical Mass Bike ride to be held on Nov 18 starting at 5pm at the State Library (or join at 5.30pm at Avenue Reserve, Royal Pde leading in to Sydney Rd ride for better bike lanes and bike facilities.)// Witt Gorrie provides us with updates from the Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans Gender Diverse Decarceration Project, which is continuing to fundraise to support vital work with trans and gender diverse people impacted by the criminal punishment system, and to speak about the Project's plans for 2023 and beyond. Witt is a white trans social worker who has worked alongside communities impacted by criminalisation and incarceration for the past decade. They have been building Beyond Bricks & Bars over the past 3 years, providing direct support to trans and gender diverse people incarcerated, at risk of incarceration and those re-establishing life after prison.//Welfare advocate and activist Thomas Studans speaks with us about the Robodebt Royal Commission, which wrapped up its first block of hearings at the end of last week. The Royal Commission is investigating serious concerns about the establishment and legality of this devastating program of automated debt recovery. Thomas is a JobSeeker recipient and a member of the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union.// Tuffy Morwitzer from Goongerah Environment Centre joins us to discuss recent revelations that the Victorian state forestry agency, VicForests, has been logging areas of old-growth native forest despite a 2019 promise from Premier Daniel Andrews that such forest areas would be protected. Goongerah Environment Centre has been fighting to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993.// Songs// Flex by Komang//Roadtrain by The Pigram Brothers//
Lily Ryan on cyber security and personal protection in the digital world, Hoang Tran Nguyen & Sebastian Henry-Jones on 'House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue' and Simon Robinson from design and research practice OFFICE.// Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Lilly Ryan is a software security consultant and board member of Digital Rights Watch. Last week we heard from Lilly Ryan about cyberattacks, reform, and biometrics. Today she joins us again to speak about cybersecurity and personal protection in the digital world!//Hoang Tran Nguyen is an artist working in social practice to address overlapping cultural histories, politics of place and the role of the art-worker. Sebastian Henry-Jones is a curator and writer led by an interest in DIY thinking; whose practice is informed by striving for a personal ethics with sincerity, generosity, honest communication and learning at its core. Today, Seb and Hoang join us to explore the context that has informed the project ‘house of mother tongue, house of other tongue’, currently showing across and in-between Footscray Community Arts and West Space. You can find details for the Vietspeak Symposium here.//Simon Robinson, architect and a managing director of the not-for-profit design and research practice OFFICE, joins us today to discuss OFFICE's 'https://www.office.org.au/project/retain-repair-reinvest/' project. This ongoing project has involved developing proposals for public housing refurbishment and retention as an alternative to the Victorian Government's Big Housing Build plans to demolish and rebuild these estates.// Songs// Big Girls - Pricie//Ezinna - B wise, Sampa the Great, Milan Ring//Smile - IZY// Where are you from? - Naavikaran//By the Moon - Punko//
Dirt Radio & Jupiter McIntire on Uranium in Drinking Water in the NT, Natalie Feliks talks advocacy and Trans Fiction, Lilly Ryan on biometrics, privacy and recent cyber attacks and cartoonist Tommi Parish on their sophomore graphic novel 'MEN I TRUST'. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Jack and Sam from 3CR's Dirt Radio talked to Jupiter McIntire about her new report - Northern Waters: Uranium in Drinking Water in the Northern Territory last Tuesday the 25th of October. The report, due to be released later this week, looks at the heightened levels of Uranium in the drinking water of remote communities in the NT, the detrimental health effects and social issues that are driven by careless Uranium mining in the territory. Keep your eyes peeled for the report through to be published with FoE Melbourne and find out how you can get involved spreading the word of this very pressing issue in the NT. Catch Dirt Radio from 9:30-10AM on Tuesdays here on 3CR Community Radio.// Natalie Feliks is a writer, feminist and activist, who has published both fiction and non-fiction work. These days, Natalie has a focus on bringing empowerment to queer and disabled people through advocacy and representation. Today Natalie joins us to talk all things trans-fiction, coping with rejection, staying motivated and what inspires her writing practice. You can find Natalie's latest non-fiction article on trans women in sport here.// Lilly Ryan is a software security consultant and board member of Digital Rights Watch. She joins us today to discuss what the recent cyberattack and data breaches on Optus and Medibank mean for legislation, privacy, and the department of home affairs proposed strategy to prevent this through biometrics.//We are joined by cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor Tommi Parrish to discuss their breathtaking sophomore graphic novel MEN I TRUST. Tommi is based in Montreal. Their previous work, The Lie And How We Told It, was nominated for the Ignatz awards and won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Graphic Novel. MEN I TRUST is out this month with Scribe, available online and in all good bookstores.//Songs// Black Child - Birdz, Mo'Ju//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Saw Lwin Oo currently serves as President for the Australian Karen Organisation (AKO), which was established in 1996 and seeks to serve the social and political concerns of the Karen community in Australia. AKO held their first national conference in Sydney in 1998. Today Saw Lwin Oo joins us to discuss their work for the AKO, recent events in Myanmar and the demands of the Myanmar community in response to inaction from the Australian government following the reimposition of the military junta in February last year.// We hear a two-part conversation between Bunjilinee (Robbie Thorpe) and his nephew Alister, who caught up to discuss the Victorian treaty process and its issues on Wednesday the 26th of October during Bunjil's Fire on 3CR. You can listen back to the full 50-minute discussion here - the audio will be available on demand until next Wednesday the 2nd of November. Tune in to Bunjil's Fire at 11AM every Wednesday on 3CR. More information about the Victorian treaty process is available here, as well as on the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s website.// Steven Caruana, coordinator of the Australia OPCAT Network, joins us to discuss serious concerns about Australia's breach of its obligations as a party of the United Nations' Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. The Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture or SPT visited Australia earlier this month but was forced to suspend its visit early due to a lack of cooperation and obstructions to carrying out its mandate, noting particular difficulties with the Queensland and New South Wales state governments. Steven mentioned a range of resources listeners can access for further information, including the OPCAT section of the AHRC website, the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s OPCAT page, an article Steven co-authored with Associate Professor Laura Grenfell titled ‘Are we OPCAT ready? So far, bare bones’, and Steven’s Churchill Fellowship report on best practice inspection methodologies for bodies tasked with overseeing the implementation of OPCAT.// Songs// Black Lives Matter - Birdz// R.I.P. - JK-47 ft. JON DO£ and Jarulah// Come Back - Barkaa ft. Mi-kaisha// Diyama - Ripple Effect Band//LOVE TOO SOON - Tasman Keith//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On the 25th of September, James Whitmore from 3CR's Out Of The Blue show caught up with marine biologist Thay Barrros to discuss how megafires threaten estuarine and coastal ecosystems. You can catch Out of The Blue every Sunday on 3CR from 11:30AM-12PM.// Joshua Badge joined us to speak about the No Police at Pride: LGBTQ Community Forum, which will be held next Thursday the 27th of October at Harehole in Fitzroy. The forum aims to progress the conversation about the conflicted relationship between Victoria Police and the LGBTQ community and explore concerns about police participation in Pride. Joshua is a writer and scholar living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, working freelance in the LGBTQ health sector and pro-bono in public health policy.// Cody Smith is a Canberra based intersex educator, activist and current Senior Projects Officer at Intersex Human Rights Australia. Cody joined us to commemorate Intersex Awareness Day, which falls on this coming Wednesday the 26th of October. October 26th marks the anniversary of the first public demonstrations by intersex people in Boston USA. Today Cody spoke with us about their work for IHRA, unpacking the range of meanings within the intersex label, and why intersex awareness day is important everyday! Find out more about and affirm the Darlington Statement for intersex human rights here.// Footscray local historian Liz Crash spoke with us about urban planning and the unequal impacts of climate change on the Maribyrnong flood plain in the wake of last week's flooding events, which left homes in suburbs including Maribyrnong and Flemington inundated while the Flemington racetrack stayed conspicuously dry.// Songs//Down Under (Under One Sun) - King Stingray//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Dr Dale Tweedie and David Wild of Macquarie University join us to talk about the sinister growth of "bossware" or workplace surveillance technologies allowing your manager to keep tabs on what you're up to on the computer. They'll speak with us about the rationale behind its development and application and how bossware impacts worker performance. Dale and David recently published an article in The Conversation about bossware- you can read it here.// Miss Cairo is a cabaret and burlesque superstar, conceived in Egypt, born in the UK and blossomed on Wurundjeri country. Her career has taken her around the world exploring many avenues in creative fields. Miss Cairo mixes burlesque, live vocals, comedy and activism to smash stereotypes, while entertaining the masses. She joins us today to speak about her fantastical cabaret show for Fringe Festival called Breasts Become Her. Miss Cairo is giving away TWO FREE TICKETS to the show's premier on Saturday the 15th of October at 10:30pm to the first 3CR subscriber to call (03) 9419 8377 this morning!// Nerita Waight is a proud Yorta Yorta woman with connections to the Ngarrindjeri and Taungurung people, and the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS). She joins us today to speak on the joint letter from VALS, the Police Accountability Project, community legal centres and Aboriginal organisations that are calling on Daniel Andrews to overhaul the state’s failed police oversight system by introducing a Police Ombudsman.// Dr Michelle Blewitt is the program director of AUSMAP, the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project. She joins us today to talk about mapping levels of microplastic pollution in Australia's aquatic environments with the help of citizen scientists, and the importance of this work as part of finding solutions to address the growing problem of plastic pollution in our waterways.// Songs// Hoodie Girl - June Jones// GUAP POP - Agung Mango ft. Genesis Owusu//Flick - Pookie//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Mere Tuilau spoke about self-determination and the Pacific Global Youth Movement pursuing the full UN Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ban as part of the Reverse The Trend Pacific event hosted to mark the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Pacific youth continue to raise their voices against the twin existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change that threaten the Pacific region and the entire world.// SUWA Show's Iain McIntyre takes a look at arms fairs in Australia and the local history of community resistance against these events. Iain has written extensively on this topic in the book Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life: The AIDEX ’91 Story, which gives a detailed account of the November 1991 protest where over 1000 protesters blockaded the National Exhibition Centre in Canberra for 12 days with the aim of shutting down the Australia International Defence Exhibition.// We are joined by Matt Kunkel, CEO of the Migrant Workers Centre, who speaks on the Centre's new report ‘Waiting to Be Seen: Problems of Australia’s Visa Processing Delays’. The report shows that Australia’s migration system has denied tens of thousands of people the stability and certainty to build their lives, with unacceptably high numbers of onshore visa applicants, some of whom have waited as long as three years for the outcome of their applications.// We call in for live updates from Disrupt Land Forces 2022, an anti-militarist week of protest against Land Forces, which is the largest land-based weapons expo in the southern hemisphere. Disrupt Land Forces is running from 1-7 October, creatively disrupting the military industrial complex and fighting back against weapons manufacturers including Thales, Elbit, Rheinmetall, Electro Optic Systems Australia, Boeing and NIOA. Keep up to date by following along on Facebook, Instagram or via Disrupt Land Forces’ website. Find out more about and get involved in anti-war organising by visiting Wage Peace. During the chat, Zelda mentioned Uncle Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves’ staunch resistance at NIOA headquarters during DLF22, bringing the call for an indefinite police ceasefire to the arms manufacturers supplying Australian police. Find out more about the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign here.// Iranian-Australian photo media artist and costume designer Ramak Bamzar joins us today to share her experience of growing up in Iran, Mahsa Amini's recent death, the ensuing fight for freedom led by women and how creative practice has helped her tell the stories that need to be told. Ramak’s work explores the connection between the male gaze and beauty standards in Middle Eastern pop culture. Through staged photography, she delves into her vulnerabilities, memories, and anxieties to explore the formation and development of female identity under religious dogma and traditional values.// Songs//Better Days - Airwolf Remix - Baker Boy, Dallas Woods, Sampa the Great//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear Izzy Brown speaking at the Naarm Truth Not War rally which was held outside the State Library on Sunday the 18th of September, United Nations International Peace Day. The Truth Not War rally was organised by a coalition of peace and social justice activists including Melbourne 4 Assange, PEN Melbourne, Anti AUKUS Vic and Extinction Rebellion VIC and AUS. Our thanks to Michaela for recording this audio. Since her teens, Zelda Grimshaw has been a grassroots activist for earth rights, human rights and is now a co-organiser of Disrupt Land Forces. Disrupt Land Forces is a project forged between October 2020 and June 2021 to resist the weapons industry and ongoing militarisation in so-called Australia. As part of 3CR’s daily coverage of anti-militarisation efforts this week, Zelda joins us to speak about Disrupt Land Forces' upcoming action responding to the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere, which will be held in Meanjin-Brisbane this October. Today we will be discussing the intersectional relationships between patriarchy, colonialism and militarised harm and the ways that nonviolence and radical respect can strengthen our resistance. Links to additional resources mentioned are here: Michael West News, Declassified Australia, Wage Peace. Donate to Disrupt Land Forces here. We are joined by Dr Ruth DeSouza, a health researcher, clinician, nursing educator at RMIT university and podcast creator of Birthing & Justice. She has professional expertise in diverse areas from cultural safety, maternity, migration, tech, social inclusion and mental health and much more. She joins us today to speak on research co-authored with Dr Sukhmani Khorana and PHD candidate Bhavya Chitranshi, about the experiences of six cisgender South Asian-Australian women who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Gary Foley joins us to speak about the upcoming national cinema release of the fully restored documentary NINGLA-A'NA. NINGLA-A'NA is the inside story of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, which celebrated its 50th year of continued occupation and resistance this year. The documentary is the only film shot inside the Embassy, up close and personal with the people who established it. The film will screen at Cinema Nova in Carlton this coming Friday 30th September, Saturday 1st October and Sunday 2nd October (details here). There will be special panels on Friday with Professor Gary Foley, Lidia Thorpe and Tony Birch, and on Sunday with Professor Gary Foley, Rulla Kelly Mansell and Rachel Maza. During today’s show, we mentioned a rally that will be happening today at Federation Square from 6-7;30PM Naarm/Melbourne to show solidarity with the people of Iran in the wake of 22 year old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody. The country is currently under an internet blackout after over a week of demonstrations against Amini’s death, and the death toll at these protests continues to rise. Find out more information about today’s rally here.// Songs:You, Me & The Sky - Big Sand and Tia Gostelow// Doin it different - Arona Mane, Shantan Wantan Ichiban and Dancingwater//Sweet Disposition - Budjerah, Ngaiire and Gretta Ray//
7:00 - Acknowledgement of Country// 7:05 - News// 7:30 - Franky for Liminal//Franky joins us in the studio to speak about Liminal1312! This very special interview touches on what community dance spaces look like and what pleasure means. And to invite people to the Queen's Birthday Hallelujah this Saturday 24/09/22 from 8 pm.// 8:00 - Tarneen Onus Williams for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance//Tarneen Onus Williams is a proud Gunditjmara, Bindal, Yorta Yorta person and Torres Strait Islander from Mer and Erub islands, as well as an organiser with Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance. They join us to discuss why we need to abolish the monarchy in the lead-up to today's rally, which will begin at Birrarung Marr at 1:30PM with a planned march to Parliament House. Event details for the rally are available here. You can find details here for this morning's Ngarra Jarra Noun healing ceremony, which will be held by Djirri Djirri and begins at 11AM at Birrarung Marr (live stream available).// Music//Indigenous Land - Drmngnow, River Boy// Finesse ft Pheelz, BNXN, PANIA, Kedus// Ezinna - B Wise, Sampa the Great, Milan Ring// Milkumana - King Stingray// Susie Q - DOBBY, Jackie Brown Jr// The Shake Up - Dameeeela, Tjaka// Minimale Fatale - Salaam Radio Show Remix// Glow - Jessica Maubouy// Sista Girl - Oetha// Made for Silence - Miiesha//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7:15 - Lorraine Finlay// Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay joins us to discuss Australia’s lack of progress on its obligations as a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. This conversation follows a national symposium on OPCAT last week, which brought together human rights experts to discuss key areas of concern in the lead up to a visit from the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to Australia planned for late 2022.// 7:30 - Andy Hall//Andy Hall, Migrant Worker Rights Specialist and Journalist, on the case being brought in the US against Ansell subsidiary in relation to forced labour in Malaysia. Andy spoke with Jiselle from Asia Pacific Currents with an update of the case - APC - News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Saturdays from 9am. // 7:45 - Maree McCabe//Maree McCabe AM is the CEO of Dementia Australia and a member of the organisation’s Board. A recognised leader in the health and aged care sector Maree brings more than twenty years’ experience across the health, mental health and aged care sectors to her current role. She joins us today in the lead up to Dementia Action Week 2022 (Monday 19 September to Sunday 25 September), to speak on this year's theme ‘A little support makes a big difference’.// 8:15 - Texta Queen//Texta Queen is queer, disabled, non-binary Goan Indian second-generation settler, living on Wurundjeri land, known for using the humble fibre-tip marker to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and identity. They examine existence and empowerment in dis/connection to our own and others’ ancestral lands, investigating these themes via photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, video, performance, self-publishing, curating, music, writing and murals. Today, Texta joins us to speak about their creative practice, the monarchy, as well as their project in the works 'TheySwarm' and upcoming exhibitions. Instagram: @textaqueen. Donate to TheySwarm!// Songs: Taal Se Taal (JYOTY Remix) We Won't Cry - Archie Roach & Unlce Jack CharlesDance Ritual II - Auntie Flo featuring Anbuley//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// CONTENT WARNING: this segment includes distressing content - if you need support, you can call Lifeline any time on 13 11 14, or QLife between 3PM and midnight every day on 1800 184 527.We hear audio from the Vigil in memory of Rodri, which was held in Melbourne on September 4th at 11AM. Rodrigo Ventosilla, a Peruvian trans man, activist and Harvard student, died in Indonesian state custody in August, after travelling to Bali on a honeymoon with his husband. He was targeted based on his gender and race, and detained after state authorities found traces of cannabis under Indonesia's draconian drug laws. He later died in hospital after being abused and extorted in police custody. The vigil was part of international solidarity demanding that the Peruvian state conduct an investigation and provide an immediate autopsy. In the last week or so in response to pressure, the Peruvian state has announced an investigation, though Indonesian authorities continue to deny any wrongdoing. Note: The audio includes some passing loud tram noises and background city noise.You can help by spreading the word: stay updated by following @accionporjusticia and @diversidadestm on Instagram.// Kelly Whitworth reports from the Renters and Housing Union’s Rent Is Too High! campaign launch, which was held on September 2nd at Victorian Trades Hall in the lead up to the November state election. The campaign draws attention to the injustice of rising rents in the face of stagnant wages, exacerbating Australia’s housing crisis and putting even more pressure on renters. You can follow RAHU on Twitter and Facebook to find out more about upcoming events and how to get involved.// Tim Hogan, Principal Librarian at State Library Victoria, speaks with us about the library’s 2023 Fellowships program. The program is offering creatives and scholars a share in $190,000 to support bringing fresh perspectives to Victorian life and history. Fifteen places are open for artists, performers, writers, musicians and academics to spend one year delving into the State Collection. Applications are open for the 2023 fellowships program and close Friday the 16th of September 2022. Find out more and apply here.// Nick Rose joins us to speak about food justice, sustainability, and The Oakhill Food Justice Farm, which celebrates its first Birthday Party + Open Day this Saturday 10th September, 12pm- 3pm at 233 Tyler St, Wurundjeri Country, Preston. Nick is the Founder and Executive Director of Sustain: the Australian Food Network, and is a lecturer in sustainable food systems at William Angliss Institute.// Georgie Yovanovic joins us to discuss the importance of addressing housing insecurity for members of the LGBTIQA+ community in light of the Victorian Greens’ launch of its Northcote initiative yesterday. The initiative is a plan to establish a dedicated crisis accommodation facility with health services for trans, gender diverse and non-binary people in Northcote. Georgie is an Intersex Femm who proudly shares her story through lived experience and advocacy to campaign for the end of forced medical interventions on intersex people, and the pathologisation of transgender, gender diverse and intersex people. She is currently a board member of the Zoe Belle Gender Collective and an advocate and co-founder of the Transfemme resource, a website supporting healthier relationships between trans women and cis, straight and bi+ men. During the interview, Georgie also speaks about the Darlington Statement, a joint consensus statement by intersex organisations and independent advocates in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand setting out the priorities and calls by the intersex human rights movement in both countries. You can read and affirm the statement here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Shannon Kilmartin-Lynch, is a Vice-Chancellors Indigenous Pre-Doctoral research fellow. He joins us today to speak on how engineers at RMIT developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste.// Melissa Fisher is an anti poverty advocate on income support payments, who joins us to discuss the Albanese government's inaction on poverty and what needs to change to improve the lives of people on social security in Australia. Melissa and Priya are members of the Antipoverty Centre - follow them here on Twitter to keep up to date about the national day of action on poverty to be held on October 17th, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.// We listen back to Marisa from 3CR's Doin' Time show interviewing Kieran Pender, Senior Lawyer at Human Rights Law Centre, who gives listeners a breakdown of the anti-protest bill that passed Tasmania's Upper House on 25 August, 2022. Kieran highlights the nationwide trend, following the passing of similar bills in VIC and NSW in recent months, that erodes democracy through attacks on protest rights. Catch Doin' Time on 3CR on Mondays from 4-5PM.// Content warning: drug use, Aboriginal deaths in custody// We hear a compilation of voxpops from the International Overdose Awareness Day (August 31) 2022 event organised by Harm Reduction Victoria, which was held on the steps of Parliament House. We also hear a selection of sounds and speeches from a side demonstration by peers at the Australian Federal Police Headquarters in Naarm's CBD demanding the safe release of confiscated heroin to be incorporated and used in safe supply programs. Our thanks to Kelly Whitworth for these recordings.// Harm Reduction Victoria provide free online Overdose Response and Naloxone Training on the 1st of every month with a free Naloxone Kit provided to each participant. Find more information here.// Zara Page is a Phd candidate at the University of New South Wales. After graduating with First Class Honours and a major in Neuroscience, she is currently conducting research exploring the fairness of cognitive assessments for culturally and linguistically diverse Australians. Adults from CALD backgrounds make up about 30% of the Australian population aged 65 years and above, yet remain underrepresented in dementia research. Today Zara joins us to speak about her recent work with the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and the CogSCAN analysis that aims to improve the diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and dementia in CALD individuals. You can participate as a volunteer in the study here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay a segment of Tuesday's episode of Dirt Radio featuring Tim from Blockade Australia and Isabelle from Friends of The Earth discuss resisting Australia's climate destruction with organised disruption and the authoritarian response by NSW police. Catch Dirt Radio on Tuesdays at 9:30AM on 3CR.// On this week's Doin' Time show, Marisa interviewed Felicity, proud Ngarrindjeri woman with lived experience of incarceration, about her participation in The Torch program. Felicity speaks about how she began learning more about her mob, culture and art while participating inside, and her ongoing connection with the program from the other side of the prison walls - as an in-community participant. You can listen to Doin' Time on Mondays from 4-5PM on 3CR.// Kelly Rowe, co-host of Footy, Actually on Play on Radio joins us to talk about AFLW season 7, which kicks off today, and the push for greater inclusivity in community sports. Kelly is a graphic designer with a background in creative communications and has combined this experience with her love of footy to inform her 5-9 as a local footy journalist, photographer and podcaster.// El Gibbs, an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, speaks with us about the systemic issues with Disability Employment Services and breaks down current government approaches to disability employment in the lead up to the September Jobs and Skills Summit. You can follow El on Twitter and support their writing on Patreon. During the interview, El also recommended the work of the Antipoverty Centre on issues at the intersection of disability justice and social security reform.// Songs// FELL IN LOVE - Jesswar// Opportunity - Caution ft. P. Nona// No Peace - Citizen Kay// Of Another Kind - Winston Surfshirt ft. Milan Ring & Jerome Farah//
Acknowledgement of Country// News// Cathryn Murdoch//Cathryn Murdoch, a member of People from Public Housing, Defend and Extend Public Housing, and Victorian Socialists, joined Zeb and Kevin on 3CR's City Limits show yesterday to discuss homelessness crisis accommodation and the Coburg Motor Inn. Catch the rest of the show here, and tune in to City Limits on Wednesdays from 9-10AM// Miranda - Inside Out//Then we are joined by Miranda, a queer prison abolitionist. They co-founded the Inside Out solidarity network 7 years ago and have been one of the coordinators ever since. They have been involved in other abolitionist projects such as the International Day of Solidarity with Trans Prisoners. They join us today to speak on the the importance of the Inside Out LGBTIQA+ Prisoner Solidarity Newsletter and fundraiser https://chuffed.org/project/inside-out-lgbtiqasb-prisoner-solidarity-newsletter For a starting resource on abolition please visit: https://millionexperiments.com/// Elizabeth Strakosch - Institute for Collaborative Race Research (ICRR)//Liz Strakosch is a co-director at the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, which aims to do politically useful, community led research grounded in Indigenous sovereignty, and she joins us today to discuss the Institute's submission co-authored with Sisters Inside to the Commission of Inquiry to examine Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence calling to defund QPS. Liz is a white Jewish heritage settler and an academic at Melbourne University whose work focuses on Indigenous policy, bureaucratic violence and comparative colonialism.// Sam Wallman - Our Members Be Unlimited//Comics journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman joins us to speak about his powerhouse comic 'Our Members Be Unlimited', a beautifully illustrated narrative of workers and their unions that inspires hope, solidarity and radical action. 'Our Members Be Unlimited' is published by Scribe, and is now onto a second printing after selling out since its original publication in late May this year.// Songs// Twisting Words - Miiesha//RĀIN - The Merindas Samuel Gaskin//Waitin' On Ya Remix - Genesis Owusu//
Acknowledgement of country// 7:05 - News Headlines// 7:15 - Doin Time//Has anything changed with election of the Albanese Government in terms of refugee rights? Marisa caught up with Refugee Action Collective member David Glanz on this weeks Doin' Time show. You can hear the conversation in full at https://www.3cr.org.au/dointime, and catch Doin' Time from 4-5PM on Mondays.// 7:30 - Maddie - RMIT Students for Palestine// Maddie Hah, an activist with Students for Palestine at RMIT University, joins us today to remind listeners about the planned speak out today demanding that RMIT cut ties with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Maddie has also engaged in anti-racist activism with Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, and is running as a candidate in Pascoe Vale for the Victorian Socialists in the upcoming state election. The speak out action will be held at 1PM today, Thursday the 11th of August at Bowen Street.// Song: Muzik - Jennifer Loveless// 7:50 - Madeleine Thornton-Smith//Madeleine Thornton-Smith has a strong interest in labour issues, particularly in relation to the visual arts and ceramics industry. She has become passionate about the working rights of artists and artworkers since doing an internship with the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), participating in discussions with the Melbourne-based Artists’ Union research group and after experiencing years of insecure and unsafe working conditions as a practising artist, technician and tutor alongside her artworker comrades. Today, Madeleine joins us to discuss her work on art and labour, the renewed National Cultural Policy and unioinising in the creative sector. 8:15 - Chris Schuringa Victorian Forest Alliance//Chris Schuringa, campaigner with the Victorian Forest Alliance, joins us to discuss concerns about recently-passed Victorian legislation criminalising environmental protest by introducing sanctions of up to 12 month jail time or $21,000 in fines, and the impacts that this will have on environmental defenders fighting against native forest logging in the state. Songs: Backseat of My Mind - Thelma PlumHEAVEN WITH U - Tasman Keith ft. Jessica Mauboy END//
Acknowledgement of Country// 7:05 - News Headlines// Down City Streets - Archie Roach// 7:15 - The Justice Map Part 1.//Anya Saravanan spoke with Ayan Shirwa from Diaspora Blues about the Justice Map project and their work challenging carceral narratives and over-policing. Anya is a Tamil woman and community lawyer working in summary crime and family violence. Here's part 1 of that interview.// 7:30 - The Justice Map Part 2.//Beggar Man - Archie Roach// Part 2 of the conversation between Anya Saravanan and Ayan Shirwa from Diaspora Blues about the Justice Map project and their work challenging carceral narratives and over-policing.// Buoyancy - Body Type// 7:45 - Protected Areas and Conservation Policy//Dr Benjamin Cooke, a senior lecturer at RMIT's Centre for Urban Research, joins us to discuss the Albanese government's commitment to protect 30% of Australia's land and waters by 2030, what this actually means, and why it needs to go further. The government's commitment to this target was re-affirmed by Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek alongside last month's launch of the 5-yearly State of the Environment Report. Ben and several colleagues recently co-authored an article in the Conversation breaking down the 30 by 30 target - you can read it here.//To find out more about some of the issues Ben discussed, check out the links below:Country Needs People: https://www.countryneedspeople.org.au/Trust for Nature to return Neds Corner to First People of the Millewa Mallee Aboriginal Corporation: https://trustfornature.org.au/news/victorias-largest-conservation-reserve-to-return-to-traditional-owners/The 30x30 international target background: https://www.iucn.org/news/protected-areas/202204/targets-effective-area-based-conservation-under-30x30-ambitions-what-counts-who-countsFederal Government data on protected area: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/science/capad 8:00 - Music// F Troop - Archie Roach// Bona - Sampa the Great// 8:15 - Youth Homelessness After Leaving Care//In recognition of homelessness week this week, we will be speaking to Reggie Chang. Youth homelessness remains an urgent issue in Victoria. With poor access to housing and rising rent prices, young people leaving out-of-home are particularly vulnerable. Reggie joins us today to share their experience of homelessness after leaving care, as well as their role with The Centre for Excellence and Child and Family Welfare.// Crash - Stevan ft. Tommy Richman//
7:00 - Acknowledgement// 7:05 - News// 7:12 - David Kelly + Libby Porter on City Limits//We hear all about the upcoming Forum for Dwelling Justice with Libby Porter and David Kelly from RMIT's Centre for Urban Research, who caught up with Zeb and Kevin on 3CR’s City Limits program yesterday. The Forum will be held on Friday the 26th of August from 1-7PM at the Capitol Theatre. Catch City Limits on Wednesday mornings, 9AM, here on 3CR.// 7:30 - Mark Holden - Mob Strong Debt Help, Financial Rights Legal Centre//Mark Holden is a Dunghutti man who works as the solicitor and policy advocate for Mob Strong Debt Help, part of the Financial Rights Legal Centre. He joins us to discuss the collapse of disgraced funeral insurer ACBF/Youpla earlier this year, its effects on Aboriginal communities and recently-announced government support, as well as associated regulatory issues. Mark has been working on ACBF matters for the past 4 years.// 7:45 - Dr Claire Loughnan//Dr Claire Loughnan is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her research examines the modes, practices and effects of living and working in confinement sites (with a focus on neglect as a form of violence) and the carceral expansion accompanying border control practices. She joins us today to speak on the policy paper: Healthcare and Health-Related Harms of Australia's Refugee Externalisation Policies.// 8:00 - Songs//Without You - Becca Hatch//Brand New - Mi-kaisha// 8:15 - Joshua Badge - Studio Interview//Joshua Badge is a writer and scholar living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne. They join us today to speak about the need for a comprehensive public health response to the monkeypox outbreak, share some information about how to keep yourself and your community safe, and discuss the importance of destigmatization of the disease. Joshua has worked pro-bono in public health policy at Thorne Harbour Health for several years, and for the last two years they have been working freelance in the health sector.During the interview, Joshua referred to the NSW government’s public health factsheets on monkeypox - you can find them here.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma woman Kaylene Daniel speaks on Ngaarda Radio about the protests at Murujuga on the Burrup Peninsula to protect rock art from destruction. As Australia faces a gas crisis, Indigenous communities fear millennia-old sacred sites will be collateral damage in the rush for fresh supplies. Woodside has now received state and Commonwealth approval for a further $16.5 billion expansion, known as the Scarborough offshore gas project, which includes the expansion of the Pluto facility, called Pluto 2. In the Pilbara, approximately 80 Save Our Songlines supporters staged a March for Country in July to protest at the expansion of the natural gas industry at Murujuga, the Burrup Peninsula.// Chris Gough, Executive Director of the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy or CAHMA, joins us to talk about the opening of Australia’s first fixed-site pill and drug testing site, CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service. CAHMA is the alcohol, tobacco and other drug consumer organisation for the Australian Capital Territory.// Nadia Gavin is the FUSE Project Coordinator at Harm Reduction Victoria - Supporting peer workers with living experience who work in mainstream Victorian alcohol and other drugs (AOD) harm reduction services. Nadia has been involved in the drug user movements and harm reduction sector for over 20 years, and is passionate about drug law reform, grassroots activism, human rights, and ending stigma and discrimination for people who use drugs. She join us today to speak on the importance of living experience peer workers in harm reduction and the challenges and stigma they face.// Michael Stanton, President of Liberty Victoria, speaks with us about Victoria’s mandatory minimum sentencing regime in light of its recent condemnation by justices on the state’s Court of Appeal. Liberty Victoria’s Rights Advocacy Project is hosting the event ‘Police Panopticon: Zooming in on the use of Body Worn Cameras by Victoria Police Officers’ on Tuesday the 26th of July. Find out more here.// Lastly, we will be speaking to Jeremy Poxon, who is an anti-poverty advocate and organiser with the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, about the recently introduced points-based system for people on the JobSeeker program.// Songs//Curbside Finds - Special Feelings//Fell in Love - Jesswar//
Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15 - Yemurraki Egan and Naomi Kennedy-Bamblett//We'll hear a short clip of speeches from the Naarm NAIDOC March this past Friday the 8th of July, featuring Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Gunditjmara man Yemurraki Egan, and Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri and Trawlwoolway woman Naomi Kennedy-Bamblett . Thanks to Ayan from Diaspora Blues for the recordings. https://www.3cr.org.au/diasporablues Mondays at 2:30pm on 3CR 7:30 - Stephanie Bernard//Stephanie Bernard is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, researching the most distant galaxies with space telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope. She joins us today to discuss the recent release of images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and to talk about telescope's potential to deepen our understanding of the universe. Stephanie is also an astronomy and science educator at Scienceworks, the Melbourne Planetarium, and the Victorian Space Science Education Centre. Stephanie also co-presents an astronomy podcast called Spaghettification that you can listen to here. 7:45 - Kelly and Spike//Kelly Whitworth and Spike Chippalone speak with us about the upcoming launch of Homeless in Hotels, a 3-part radio series documenting life in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic, which premieres on 3CR on Thursday the 28th of July at 12PM. Kelly produces Radical Australia here on 3CR and is passionate about peer-produced media. Spike is a peer support worker at a Melbourne homeless health service with a lived experience of homelessness and drug use. Together, they co-hosted the former 3CR peer homelessness show, Roominations, and co-founded the Homeless Persons Union Victoria. 8:00 - Ella Shi//Ella is the Digital and Communications Organiser at the Migrant Workers Centre. She's previously worked as a community organiser, student union representative and is also a former ASU workplace delegate. She joins us today to speak about importance of the Migrant Workers 2022 Survey, and how this impacts their work and policy recommendations. 8:15 - Renuga Inpakumar//Renuga Inpakumar from Tamil Refugee Council is a young Eelam Tamil activist and Law/Arts student with a long history of organising to amplify Eelam Tamil issues. She joins us today to provide an analysis of the economic crisis and mass protests in Sri Lanka from an Eelam Tamil perspective, highlighting some important concerns that have often gone neglected in mainstream media coverage. Renuga's activism and organising has focused on issues including the return of land to Eelam Tamil people, and the recognition of Tamil Eelam and Tamil Eelam genocide, calling for those responsible to be held to account. If you’re in Sydney, support the action by joining the July 24 rally at Sydney Town Hall. Songs//Thelma Plum - When It Rains It Pours
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Historian Clare Land, based at the Moondani Balluk Academic Unit at Victoria University, spoke with Robbie Thorpe on the June 8th episode of Bunjil’s Fire on 3CR about the history of the struggle for Northland Secondary College in the 90s. The Melbourne Museum is currently holding a special exhibition - Fight for Survival - featuring students’ artworks, community responses and the rousing speech from Gary Foley that united a community. Catch Fight for Survival at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, and the exhibition now closes on Sunday July 24th. Catch Bunjil's Fire on 3CR 855AM every Wednesday from 11AM to 2PM.// The following interview includes discussion of racism and domestic and family violence. If you need support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or 1800RESPECT.//Dr Amanda Porter joins us to discuss the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence and to discuss concerns around dominant approaches to police reform. Amanda is a prison abolitionist and policing researcher of Brinja-Yuin, Greek and English descent based in Naarm. You can read the submission made by Amanda and co-author Connor Hannan to the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service Responses to Domestic and Family Violence here.// You can also read the submission made by Amanda and co-author Dr Marlene Longbottom to the Queensland Government’s Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce: Discussion Paper 1 – Options for legislating against coercive control and the creation of a standalone domestic violence offence here.// We replay a segment of Beyond the Bars 2022 on 3CR featuring Tie, a community member who is at Loddon Prison near Castlemaine, talking about art and doing time during lockdown. Art plays a big role in many peoples’ journeys on the inside. You’ll also hear the voices of Dale, Shiralee and Willy. Beyond the Bars was established 20 years ago to connect people and families separated by prison during NAIDOC Week, giving voice to issues faced inside and out. You can tune into Beyond the Bars on 3CR 855AM or 3cr.org.au/streaming all this week from 11AM.// Judy Kuo is an Asian-Australian unionist and artist in Naarm. She currently works at Victorian Trades Hall Council and her union and activist work feature strongly in her art practice. She joins us today to speak about her art practice and how this intersects with organising, unionism, anti-racism, and disability justice solidarity. Judy has designed some beautiful art for the Disability Justice Network - you can donate to their mutual aid fund here.// Daniel Storer is the Research Coordinator for the Flux Study, conducted by the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, and joins us today to talk about the study's investigation into the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental and sexual health among gay and bisexual men. Daniel completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is currently completing his doctoral research at the Kirby Institute investigating the impacts of COVID on Australian gay and bisexual men’s health and wellbeing.// During the show, we mentioned some organisations and Indigenous community movements you might wish to donate to during NAIDOC Week:Blak Pearl Studio//The Dhadjowa Foundation//Sisters Inside//Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans and Gender Diverse Decarceration Project//Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community Fund//
7:00am - Acknowledgement of Country// 7.05am - News Headlines// 7:15am - Catch a bonus segment from the upcoming episode of 3CR's Women on the Line program featuring Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker and Samantha Floreani discussing digital rights and the possibilties and pitfalls of regulation. Kat is a Nyungar technologist and digital rights activist serving on the board of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and Sam is a digital rights activist and writer currently working as Program Lead for Digital Rights Watch. This snippet features Kat and Sam speaking about queerness and digital spaces, and forms part of a broader conversation that will air on 3CR on Monday the 4th of July from 8:30-9AM on 3CR 855AM and online at 3cr.org.au/streaming. You can read the article about queer online spaces and government regulation that Kat and Sam referred to during the clip here on Junkee.// 7:30am - Alex, from the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU, joins us to unpack some of the key insights around housing availability and affordability from the recently released 2021 census data, as well as in a report published this week by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare which highlights rising rental stress and lack of public housing availability in Australia. We will also discuss RAHU's recommendations for a response from the new federal government, including the need for a comprehensive national housing strategy.// 7:45am - Laura Riccardi is a Health Promotion Officer at Women's Health in the South East (WHISE), in Sexual and Reproductive Health. She is the project lead on the regional strategy to improve sexual and reproductive health and has been an activist for reproductive rights for many years. She joins us today to speak on inclusive abortion access, barriers to care, stigma, and how to support protecting and enhancing these rights, following the overturning of landmark abortion access legislation Roe v Wade in the US.// For information about options surrounding contraception, sexual health, and pregnancy: Please call 1800 MY OPTIONS - 1800 696 784// Open 9am-5pm Mon to Fri (closed public holidays) //or email: info@1800myoptions.org.au// For National Relay Service call 1800 555 660.//For interpreters call 13 14 50.// 8:00am - Anastasia from Legal Observers NSW joins us again to evaluate some of the early impacts of New South Wales' Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2022, considering the concerning crackdowns by NSW police on Blockade Australia's climate justice direct actions and organising over the past two weeks. We will also discuss how this fits into a wider legislative push across other Australian states, including the Victorian government's proposal to impose harsher penalties for forest protestors, and the implications of this trend for the right to protest and fundamental civil liberties of organisers across movements.// 8:15am - Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane, with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and 'disinheritance' of both of these cultures focus her work. Mia's paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to Empire’s deliberate, violent interferences with the cultural heritages of Burma and K’gari (Fraser Island). Mia is a studio resident at Gertrude Contemporary in Preston and is currently showing her work at Penny Contemporary alonside Katie Eraser.// Songs//BIRYANI - ASHWARYA//
Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15am - Barbara Shaw (IRAG) - Karrinjarla Muwajarri Mparntwe Rally//Arrernte activist Barbara Shaw from the Intervention Rollback Action Group or IRAG spoke at a rally on Saturday the 18th of June in Mparntwe Alice Springs calling for Karrinjarla Muwajarri, no guns in community. The Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign, organised by members of the Yuendumu community, demands a ceasefire and the restoration of self-determination to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In this speech, Barbara Shaw connects the 15th anniversary of the Northern Territory Intervention with state violence in Aboriginal communities. Our thanks to the Punk Tree Hour crew on 8CCC Community Radio Alice Springs and Tennant Creek for sharing this recording with us! You can find out how to support the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign at karrinjarlamuwajarri.org, and more information about IRAG is available via their Facebook page - Intervention Rollback Action Group.// 7:30am - Music and Promotion//Event promotion: Emerging Writers Festival and Schizy Inc: Gnarly Writers, showing tonight at EWF Thursday 23rd of June from 7:30-8:30PM at Loop Project Space & Bar// Gnarly Writers celebrates storytellers who’ve been in the public mental health system for decades. These artists will bring you insights into the system and into healing, which might just come in handy to anyone starting out on a mental health lived experience apprenticeship or seeking validation for a lifetime of service. This event emphasizes that writing one’s own story can be more than a chance to impart words of wisdom: it’s also an act of freedom from a lifetime of being recorded. Find out more here // Radiothon promotion: Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR’s 2022 Radiothon!//Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855//Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast.//Don’t forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// 7:45am - Zianna Fuad - Blockade Australia//Then we are joined by Zianna Fuad, a member of the climate activist group Blockade Australia. To speak on the heavily armed police raid at a NSW property on Sunday the 19th of June. The raid was triggered after activists spotted camouflaged, unmarked police officers filming them. Followed by dozens of police storming the site and detaining protesters. 7 protesters were charged on Sunday with a range of offences, 5 of them have been slammed with extremely punitive conditions such as being denied bail and maximum sentences of 10 years. Join their event on Monday 27th of June in Sydney DAY ONE here// 8:00am - Anna Weekes//We also speak to Anna Weekes from Frack Free Arts NT about the continued sponsorship of arts programming from fossil fuel giants such as Santos who is a sponsor of the upcoming Darwin Festival. Anna is a community cultural artist who has worked within Australia and internationally on community directed arts projects for social justice. Anna has a passion for the creation of personal and group expression through the arts with a focus on art as a passage for social commentary to provoke thought and change. Anna has also received the Kirk Robson Community Cultural Arts Development award for her work over the past 10 years in the field. Sign the open letter to end funding by Santos here// 8:15am - Mammad Aidani//Finally, we are joined by Mammad Aidani, who is a human rights advocate, poet, playwright, theatre director and psychosocial resarcher. He speaks with us today about the play 'I said this to the bird', which is currently showing at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies with upcoming performances from the 24th to 26th of June.Ticket details are available here.//Mammad's research investigates the violence, torture, trauma and suffering experienced by Iranian and Middle Eastern immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers who have resettled in Australia and the West. He is currently the vice president of PEN International Melbourne. He teaches Hermeneutics and Phenomenological philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and his writings have been banned in Iran. You can read an essay by Mammad on exile, '300 words for truth,' here in Overland.// Songs//R U My Love - ParvynNilotic - Elsy WameyoKush (Amadou Suso Replay) - SO.Crates//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines with Emily// Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR’s 2022 Radiothon!Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855 Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast.Don’t forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// Ellise Bourne, Media and Communications Officer at the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU, joins us to discuss the crisis of rental availability in Australia and about the ongoing fight for renters rights. Ellise is also a disability worker and proud unionist. You can find out more about RAHU's work, including how to find your local RAHU branch, at rahu.org.au.// Michelle Roger is a Gippsland based Disabled artist, writer and model. She is part of the Emerging Writers Festival event 'By My Bed' at No Vacancy gallery and online. Disabled Artists with lived experience of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness answer the question ‘What are the objects that make up your world?’ Alongside the photographs, you will find musings about the body, accessibility, care, community, and tenderness that can accumulate by their beds.// Dylan O'Hara is the acting manager of Vixen, Victoria's peer-only sex worker organisation. Vixen is a member organisation of Scarlet Alliance, the national peak body representing sex worker organisations in Australia, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, NSWP. Today, Dylan will be discussing the impacts and obstacles of the Victorian Sex Work Decriminalisation Act 2022.// We also heard from some excellent former Thursday Breakfasters - Katia Lallo (Done By Law on 3CR) and Rosie Isaac - and from Natalie Osborne (Radio Reversal on 4ZZZ), who shared why they love community radio!// Katia let us know about a new campaign fighting for workplace justice for community legal workers- you can sign the petition to support their fight for fair workplace conditions here, and follow them on Twitter and Instagram. You can also attend the campaign launch at Trades Hall on Thursday 16 June at 5.30PM.// Songs//hate me - miniskirt ft. blackwinterwells//Smile - Izy//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Marisa from 3CR’s Doin’ Time show caught up with Nerita Waight (Yorta Yorta), CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, about a recent case challenging aged pension discrimination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - which is headed for Full Federal Court later this year. The interview highlights the need for fair and equal access to benefits for Aboriginal people who commonly do not reach pension age by virtue of lower life expectancy. Until this life expectancy gap is properly addressed, Aboriginal people must have the right to retire with dignity. Listen to Doin’ Time on 3CR on Mondays from 4-5PM.// Ronny Kareni, Canberra-based West Papuan activist, musician and a youth worker, joins us to provide a West Papuan analysis of prime minister Anthony Albanese's meeting with Indonesian president Joko Widodo earlier this week, and the impact of Australia-Indonesia relations on West Papuans. Ronny is a visiting fellow for the West Papua Project at the University of Wollongong and the Pacific Mission for United Liberation Movement for West Papua. You can listen to The Voice of West Papua on 3CR, Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30PM.// Mary Mallett is the CEO of the Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) - the national representative body for a network of advocacy organisations in Australia - that aims to strengthen and support disability advocacy organisations. They join us today to speak about advocacy, how to build strong networks and current projects at DANA.// Dr James Lesh, urban historian and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, speaks with us today about heritage policy and climate change adaptation. James' research explores the theory and practice of heritage conservation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He’s had appointments at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney and King's College London, and his latest book Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia offers an overview of the Australian heritage movement.// Songs// Better Things - Kee’ahn//Fuschia - Ngaiire//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Janelle Da Silva is Multidisciplinary Artist, Speaker, and Birthworker. They join us today to speak about their live podcast series ‘Race on the Table’ produced by 3rd Stage Productions with Dr Nilmini Fernando and Fjorn Bastos (DJ Papaphilia). These free public events at Twosixty in Brunswick unpack issues marginalised artists face and discuss the vital role arts and artists play in navigating race, racism, and healing. The last podcast recording will be this week on Saturday 4th of June between 2-3PM and you can grab your tickets through Eventbrite.// Jimmy Grant from the band ‘Big Farmer’ joins us today to talk about making joyful music and having a sweet creative time with your pals. Big Farmer is an upcoming Naarm-based band that brings platters of joyful lyrics, jangly guitar lines, stonkin’ bass, and BIG ENERGY! Their next show will be supporting Kitten Heel at B.East in Brunswick for free on Sat 11th of June from 6pm. This is one musical harvest you won't want to miss!// Professor Nancy Baxter, head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, joins us to speak about the need for a comprehensive public health strategy to deal with the spread of COVID19 and influenza in the face of rising infection rates as we enter the colder months.// Anastasia Kanjere is a rank and file candidate running for the position of General Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union or NTEU, and speaks with us today about the need to transform the NTEU to save jobs and rebuild the sector. Anastasia is currently a worker in the sector as a casual academic, and is supported by a crew of campaigners in her push for A New NTEU.// Holly Jones is a researcher in the Healthy Housing Centre for Research Excellence at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Her research focuses on mould in housing, and she joins us to discuss this in the context of a need for action on climate change and building codes. As part of her research, Holly is involved in a Healthy Housing CRE study currently recruiting participants to measure dampness and mould exposure in Australian homes. You can take the study survey and find out more information here.// Songs//Franco Bernet - Big Farmer//
Acknowledgement of Country Headlines Naavikaran is a Meanjin based trans-Goddess, an upcoming producer, multimedia artist and changemaker. Through storytelling and the practice of culture, Naavikaran wants to support the care for land, Elders and children to come. She will be performing next week at 10 and 11pm on Thursday the 2nd of June for the event SERVE, and then DJing!!! from 4-8pm the next day Friday the 3rd of June. Both events will be at Rainbow House Club, 125 Smith St, Fitzroy VIC 3065. Geril is a filmmaker, writer, poet, musician and volunteer community organiser for Filipino youth organisation Anakbayan Melbourne. He migrated to Australia from the Philippines along with his family in 2012 and has been engaged in various forms of activism ever since. Today Geril joins us to discuss the impact of the recent Philippines presidential election. Tuffy, a campaigner with Goongerah Environment Centre, speaks with us about concerns with the Andrews government's Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones) Bill 2022, which was introduced into the Victorian parliament on Tuesday and poses a serious threat to forest protests in the state. Find out more and get involved in the push back here. You can join an in-person information session at Black Spark in Northcote on the first Tuesday of every month - more information here. Nick Riemer, president of the National Tertiary Education Union's University of Sydney branch, speaks with us about the strike actions taken by academic workers at the university from May 11-12 and again on May 24 to demand fair remuneration and job security. SONGS:Naavikaran - If My Genders Were the Entire Solar SystemBecca Hatch - Without You
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7:15 Mercedes Zanker//Mercedes Zanker is a producer and host on 3CR's Uprise Radio and an anti-military activist with Renegade Activists, conveners of the Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus online symposiums. Mercedes joins us to provide updates on AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced late last year.Hear more AUKUS updates on 3CR’s A Friday Rave this Friday the 20th of May from 5-5:30PM.// 7:30 Nakba Day Speeches May 15 2022//We heard a recording of speakers from Free Palestine Melbourne’s Nakba Day and Justice for Shireen Abu Aqleh Rally, which was held on Nakba Day, May 15 2022. These speeches were recorded by 3CR’s Annie McLoughlin, and you can listen to more about the fight for a free Palestine on 3CR’s Palestine Remembered show, Saturdays from 9:30-10AM.// 8:00 Selena Repanis//Selena Repanis is a graphic designer who designed Voiceworks Magazine from 2020 until recently. She also co-runs Amici Studio. She's running the 'Graphic Design as World Building Workshop' for The National Editing and Writing Students Conference (NEWS). She joins us today to share her journey into graphic design, how to build worlds, and how to create creative and authentic work. The online workshop will run tomorrow, Friday the 20th of May, starting at 12PM.// 8:15 Tamar HopkinsTamar Hopkins joins us to speak about concerns with proactive policing operations by Victoria Police, and attendant issues with accountability, scrutiny and oversight. Tamar is a lawyer and researcher who has worked in the area of police accountability, police powers and racial profiling since 2005. She is currently working for the Inner Melbourne Community Legal Centre (ICML) on a COVID policing project. IMCL’s Policing Health Survey is still open, and you can find out more and fill it out here.// Songs//Formations - Mild Minds Fashion Model Art - Haiku Hands White Noise - DancingwaterWalk Away - DOBBY ft. The Merindas
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On last week’s Friday Breakfast show Chloe and Jacob spoke with Joey, who is detained at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation or MITA, about Section 501 of the Migration Act. This Act allows the government visa cancellation powers, and Joey discusses how the present government has been using these provisions. You can read about last month’s rally to free those detained at MITA, many of whom are held under 501 provisions, here.// Elise Almond is a lawyer at Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service, a state-wide service that represents disabled people, including via providing assistance with NDIS appeals at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Elise joins us today to speak about the large spike in NDIS participants who have had their funding slashed, often without warning, in the recent months, with many taking their cases to the AAT.//You can find out more about the issue here, here and here, and about the Melbourne march and rally against NDIS cuts and appeals being organised by Every Australian Counts for Thursday the 19th of May here.// On Wednesday the 4th of May, members of the Australian Services Union and Municipal and Utilities Workers Union employed at Moreland Council downed tools to rally for decent wages and conditions. Like many workplaces across Australia, Moreland Council workers have been given an offer below the inflation level in their latest EBA negotiation. Solidarity Breakfast's Annie McLoughlin joined them outside the Brunswick Townhall on Sydney Road.// Alec Ferguson joins us to discuss the recent BDS resolution passed by the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) - ‘UMSU Stands with Palestine – BDS and Solidarity Policy’ - and Students For Palestine’s on-campus rally, which will be held today from 1PM on South Lawn. Alec is a Lebanese-Australian socialist activist at Melbourne University, and is involved in Students for Palestine and Free Palestine Melbourne. You can find the academic solidarity statement Alec refers to here.//Free Palestine Melbourne's 2022 Nakba Day Vigil will be held on Sunday the 15th of May from 12PM outside the State Library of Victoria. More information is available here.// Songs// Return Home - Bumpy// Don’t Sleep - Alice Ivy, imbi, BOI//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Listen back to VOX pops from Sunday’s May Day 2022 Rally with Jiselle Hanna (3CR’s Accent of Women and Asia Pacific Currents), featuring Michael from Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union, Merri from Save Public Housing Collective, and other attendees. Find out more and listen back to 3CR’s dedicated May Day 2022 programming here.// Justin Warren, chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, joins us to discuss online privacy and digital surveillance in Privacy Awareness Week 2022, an Australian Government initiative which runs from the 2nd to the 8th of May. Electronic Frontiers Australia is a not-for-profit national organisation working to promote and protect digital rights.// Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran, Director of Tech Policy at Reset Australia,speaks with us about how YouTube’s algorithms contribute to promoting misogynistic, anti-feminist and other extremist content to Australian boys and young men. Reset Australia is a think tank and research organisation working to tackle digital threats to democracy. Alongside their work at Reset Australia, Dhakshayini is a PhD candidate at ANU looking at the impact of technology in social welfare and border policing. Please be advised that this interview includes discussion of intimate partner violence, which may be distressing to some listeners. If you need support, please call Lifeline 13 11 14 or 1800Respect on 1800 737 732.// Joshua Tavares, long time Collingwood resident and soul/funk singer, joins us to discuss the resident-led push to save Collingwood's public housing green space. Along with the pushback against new development on the Collingwood estate, Joshua has been involved in community events and initiatives including the Collingwood underground roller disco and Dolphins Gym, a Bla(c)k queer gym partnering up with Koori pride. You can sign the petition organised by Collingwood public housing residents here, and find more information about the protest organised by residents for Friday the 6th of May here.// Songs// Fiji Water - Kobi Spice and Sevy, prod. UTILITY//Valley of Peace - Teymori//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Zelda Grimshaw, a campaigner with the anti-war group Wage Peace, joins us to discuss the international week of action against arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, which has been running from 21-28 April. The Melbourne action to Stop Lockheed Martin will begin at 11AM today, Thursday 28 April, at Lincoln Square in the CBD - find out more here.// Jeremy Poxon is an anti-poverty advocate for the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union. He joins us to discuss concerns with workplace safety and the significance of Workers’ Memorial day for unemployed workers.// Amity Mara is a proud transgender Tamil woman from Sri Lanka and Malaysia. She is a member of the Borderless Affirmation Mutual Aid group, which supports trans migrants to build strong and loving lives on this continent as their true selves, and joins us today to speak about the group's organising, support and fundraising efforts. You can find out more and donate here.// If you are a trans migrant seeking support you can text the group on 0456 385 145 with your request (calls will not be answered).“Requests can currently be responded to in Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Malay/Bahasa, & English. Please be patient as it can take awhile for us to respond to requests from new people. We regret that we will not be able to support everyone, and prioritise supporting people on precarious visas and facing family violence.”// Josh Cullinan, Secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers' Union or RAFFWU, joins us to speak about RAFFWU's demand for a transition fund to support vulnerable workers to exit the industry in the wake of eased COVID restrictions in NSW and Victoria. Josh also discusses international worker solidarity and organising with Bangladeshi unionists in light of the 9th anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster on 24 April and Workers’ Memorial Day.// Songs//Flick - Pookie//Undead - Marcus Whale ft. BAYANG (tha Bushranger)//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Professor Libby Porter is a researcher and educator at RMIT's Centre for Urban Research. Libby's work focuses on dispossession and displacement in contemporary cities, and she joined Priya on this week's episode of Women on the Line on 3CR to discuss the importance of maintaining and building public housing as a crucial element of tackling housing insecurity. Listen back to Women on the Line at 3cr.org.au/womenontheline, and tune in live on Mondays from 8:30-9AM on 3CR 855AM.// Disability advocate and award-winning writer El Gibbs speaks with us about key election issues for disabled people, election promises and the question of costing around the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and the power of disabled and sick folks as a political force. El's writing focuses on disability and social issues, and you can read it at elgibbs.com.au.// Associate Professor Elise Klein and Priya have a conversation about the cashless debit card, focusing on concerns about welfare conditionality, racialised income management, and Labor's commitment this week to end all forms of compulsory income management in Australia if elected. Elise is a Senior Lecturer of Public Policy at the Australian National University's Crawford School, researching intersecting issues of social security and conditionality, women's economic security, decoloniality, development and care. Priya works with the Accountable Income Management Network, a network of community organisations, academics and grassroots organisers collaborating to raise awareness about issues with compulsory income management programs in Australia.// Brahmi Kumarasamy and Niroshnee join us to discuss the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka, resistance to government mismanagement, and organising efforts to support people on the ground. Brahmi is a meme-maker who works in arts admin, and is critical of the gendered nature of nationalisms. She spent her early years between Jaffna and Colombo, and is currently based in Sydney. Niroshnee is a Tamil community organiser raised in both Sydney and Colombo and is currently based in Canberra. You can find out more information about their fundraising for people in Sri Lanka and donate here.// Songs//My Island Home - Warumpi Band//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Eirene Tsolidis Noyce, founding Secretary of the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), joins us to discuss the impacts of increased cost of living on renters in Australia. RAHU is a member-run union for renters which formed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and are fighting for safe and secure housing for all.// Isabelle Moreton is a community member who has been involved in analysing government policy and legislative pushes in Australia that affect trans and gender diverse people. Isabelle joins us today to speak about a range of issues surrounding the discussion of trans people in Australian politics and media, including the operation and impacts of framing of trans lives and identities as a legitimate arena for debate.// Here are some of the organisations, groups and individuals mentioned during Isabelle’s interview, who are engaged in vital work for the rights of trans and gender diverse people:ACON TransHubEquality AustraliaLGBTI Rights AustraliaTrans Health AustraliaGender Analysis with Zinnia JonesTrans Safety NetworkAmerican Civil Liberties UnionProfessor Sandy O’SullivanJude DoyleChrista PetersonErin ReedMallory MooreDavid Paisley// Catherine McAlpine is the CEO of Inclusion Australia, the peak national organisation of people with intellectual disability and their families. She speaks with us today about the labour exploitation of people with a disability, which is being discussed this week during hearings at the Disability Royal Commission.// Kellie Caught is the Climate Change Policy Advisor for Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). Kellie discusses ACOSS' response to the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, focusing on the importance of keeping social policy in view when developing initiatives to mitigate and adapt to climate change.// Songs//There’s Only One - Winston Surfshirt ft. Genesis Owusu//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Anastasia from Legal Observers NSW joins us to discuss serious concerns with the recent passing of anti-protest laws in New South Wales. The Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment 2022 passed the NSW parliament on Friday the 1st of April, sparking widespread backlash from community and advocacy groups who argue that the laws undermine the right to protest and fundamental civil liberties.// Singer-songwriter, EAL teacher, and refugee activist Cate Taylor is the organiser/host for Musicians for Freedom, a benefit concert where musicians, activists, and refugees come together to raise funds and awareness in support of refugees in detention. The event will be held at the Brunswick Ballroom on Wed 27 April at 6:30pm. Find tickets through Moshtix.// Jathan Sadowski, a senior research fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, speaks with us about issues with buy now pay later or BNPL platforms including Australian company Fupay. Last week, Fupay announced partnerships with IGA, Foodworks and United Petroleum, raising concerns about people experiencing financial hardship falling further into debt through using these platforms.// Liel Bridgford is a writer, poet, podcaster and a disability and justice advocate joining us to speak about writing on disabled parenting. Liel was an ABC TOP 5 Arts resident in 2021, and has had work published via the ABC and the Spaced Zine of The Waiting Room Arts Company. Liel is the creator, producer and host of the (Un)marginalised podcast. She also works as a Provisional Psychologist and identifies as a proud disabled, immigrant, non-conforming female.// Songs// Fight for Me - Barkaa ft. Electric Fields Superstar - Sycco Dizzy - Teether and Don GloriPure Shores - CLYPSO
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Witt Gorrie joins us again to speak about the Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans Gender Diverse Decarceration Project, which is continuing to fundraise to support vital work with trans and gender diverse people impacted by the criminal punishment system, and to reflect on trans liberation and abolition on Transgender Day of Visibility. Witt is a white trans social worker who has worked alongside communities impacted by criminalisation and incarceration for the past decade. They have been building Beyond Bricks & Bars for over 3 years, providing direct support to trans and gender diverse people incarcerated, at risk of incarceration and those re-establishing life after prison.//You can donate to Beyond Bricks & Bars here, and you can check out and donate to the Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community Fund here.// Tishiko King, proud Kulkalaig woman with connections to Masig and Badu Islands, is the campaigns director at Seed Mob. She speaks with us about Seed Mob's upcoming Heal Country Summit which will be held this weekend to bring together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from around the country to discuss working towards climate justice. The Summit will feature the panel Land Back is a Climate Solution this Saturday the 2nd of April from 6-7:30PM AEST - RSVP via the link.// NJA is an artist, producer, and writer who joins us today to speak on pUssUp's ‘Tell Me About It’ event which is on tomorrow, Friday the 1st of April. pUssUp was founded by NJA, and 3CR's very own Marroushti (Salaam Radio). This dual event begins with written and spoken word performances from 5PM AEST, transitioning into an afterparty filled with incredible DJs when the sun goes down at 8PM, all at Miscellania. Tickets are available via Humanitix.// Thomas Feng is a community advocate for anti-racism and young people in Naarm. They joins us today to talk about how young Chinese-Australians can navigate conversations with family about politics, and about being a guest on SBS Radio's new podcast Chinese-ish (hosted by Wing Kuang and Mark Yin).// Rhonda Garad is a Councillor for Greater Dandenong in the Keysborough South ward, joining us to discuss the 2022 federal budget, asylum seeker intake and the Back Your Neighbour campaign. Rhonda is a health professional currently working as a lecturer and researcher at Monash University with a PhD in health policy.// Songs// Act of God - Alter Boy//
7:15am - Prof Lyndall Ryan\An eight year long project to map the massacres of people on the Australian frontier is the “first sustained effort to break the code of silence” on the violence of colonisation. The map is not definitive, because so many massacres were hidden and people have never talked about them, but this is the first time we have a national map that has a clear method of investigation. The true picture may never be known because the code of silence about massacres has been universal.\ Prof Lyndall Ryan, the academic and historian who led the massacres map project at the University of Newcastle joined Marisa Sposaro on Doin Time earlier in the week\ CONTENT WARNING: A warning that the audio contains information about acts of violence that may cause distress.\(There are no images of people on this website)\ 7:30am - Emma Macey-Storch\Emma Macey-Storch is the director of the film GEETA. A film about a mother's heartfelt attempt to support herself and her daughter after an acid attack. The Melbourne premiere is scheduled for this Wed 30th of March at 7pm at the Astor Theatre. You can find tickets on :https://www.astortheatre.net.au/films/geeta\ Please be advised that this interview contains discussion of intimate partner violence, physical assault, and acid attacks. If you need support please contact 1800RESPECT(1800 737 732) or Safe Steps on 1800 015 188.\ 7:45am - Matt Kunkel\Matt Kunkel is the CEO of the Migrant Worker's Centre and joins us today to discuss visa and migration pathways. We will discuss the Centre’s recent Lives in Limbo report and the recent news that Australia will begin recognising degrees from India.\ 8:00am - Tilde Joy\3CR producer extraordinaire Tilde Joy comes on to chat about our special Trans Day of Audibility 2022 broadcast, 7 hours of trans radio this Sunday the 27th of March from 12-7PM in the lead up to Trans Day of Visibility on 31 March.\ 8:15am - Fiona Allison\Dr Fiona Allison, Senior Research Fellow at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, joins us to speak about the Call It Out racism register released this week by the National Justice Project and Jumbunna Institute, which aims to track instances of racism against First Nations people. She has worked on national and other projects related to improving justice outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including in the area of race discrimination and racism and in the criminal justice system. \
Acknowledgement\News Headlines\7:15am - Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran\Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran is Director of Tech Policy at Reset Australia, a think-tank focused on digital threats to democracy. They are also a PhD candidate at ANU RegNet researching automation and racialised surveillance in border policing and social welfare. They join us to discuss moderation for political ads on social media platforms.\7.45am - Dr. Nisha Thapliyal and Sneha Chrispal\Dr. Nisha Thapliyal, an academic at the University of Newcastle and Sneha Chrispal, a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne, join us today to discuss their recent submission for National Anti-Racism Framework (NARF), in relation to Caste Discrimination in Australia.\8.00am - Bhiamie Williamson\Bhiamie Williamson, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Australian National University, speaks with us about the disproportionate vulnerability of Indigenous peoples to climate change, and the need for Indigenous-centred disaster management and climate change mitigation strategies in Australia.\8.15 am - Dhanya\CONTENT WARNING: This interview will discuss sexual harassament and abuse. If you need support, please contact 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732, or Lifeline on 13 11 14. Dhanya is the founder of Kate's List, which does work around Advocating to make politics & workplaces safer for women & POC. They join us to discuss intersectionality in discussions around gender equity and womens safety.\Songs\Camp Dog - King Stingray\Gold Energy - Electric Fields\
Acknowledgement of Country Headlines 7:15AM - An excerpt from a conversation with Dr Mary Graham, a Kombu-merri and Wakka Wakka person from SE Queensland on Collaborative Governance and relational ethos. Introduced by Dr Michelle Maloney (Co-Founder and National Convenor, Australian Earth Laws Alliance). You can catch EarthMatters Sundays on 3CR from 11am MC Dreckschwester (aka Stinky Girl) from Roominations speaking at 3CR's IWD street party on Tuesday March 8. An event actively pushing back against white liberal corporate feminism. Roominations Radio was a show produced and presented by people with a lived experience of homelessness that until recently was presented on 3CR - sadly a casualty of the corporatisation of community services. You heard at the end there - part of a set from DJ Marroushti from Salaam Radio Sundays on 3CR from 4pm. Check out the full IWD 24hour Broadcast. 7:30AM - We were joined by Karen Fletcher, CEO of Flat Out Inc. and Sara Stilianos, a performer for Outside Voices. Outside Voices is a free online event for International Women's Day in collaboration with Creative Brimbank and Flat Out Inc. Together they are running a short series of creative readings and songs from women & trans and gender diverse folks who have experienced criminalisation and imprisonment. The event will be online tomorrow Fri 11 March 2022 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM AEDT through Eventbrite. 7:45AM - Lucy Honan is a high school Humanities and English teacher, a member of the Australian Education Union (AEU), and of the rank and file educators group Melbourne Educators for Social and Environmental Justice (MESEJ). They join us to discuss the call for improvements in the working standards for teachers. 8:15AM - Claudia, a former employee at the Australian lingerie company Honey Birdette, and Felicity Sowerbutts from Young Workers Centre, join us to speak about the campaign to end sexual harassment at Honey Birdette. Despite the tireless organising of former employees associated with the 2015 Not Your Honey campaign, Claudia's recently launched petition raises concerns about the company's failure under the Equal Opportunity Act to prevent and respond to sexual harassment in the workplace. Find out more and sign the petition here. You can also sign the 2015 Not Your Honey petition here. Songs:Everything is Great - Alice Skye Find out more about Alice Skye’s upcoming tour and tour dates here Smile - IZY IZY is playing at The Old Bar on Saturday 19th of March
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Elina Mark, a Sudanese refugee who has been living in Indonesia for the past four years, interviews Abdullah, who is also stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia's border regime. Abdullah speaks about barriers to accessing education for refugees in Indonesia, and his concerns about their flow-on effects. Elina is a trained dentist, but is currently working with two NGOs providing education support to refugees in Indonesia- 4All learning centres and Beyond the Fabric. She is also a member of Archipelago Magazine. To hear more of Elina's collaborative work with Scheherazade Bloul interviewing refugees in Indonesia, listen to the next Women on the Line episode on Monday 7th March from 8:30-9AM on 3CR.// Greg Foyster is the campaigns manager at Environment Victoria. He is a long-term Geelong resident and member of the community group: 'Geelong Renewables Not Gas.' He joins us today to speak on the alleged underreporting of Geelong gas terminal emissions. Find out more and sign the petition at Geelong Renewables Not Gas’s website.// Professor Daniel Angus is a Professor of Digital Communication at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. His research examines issues at the intersection of technology and society, including algorithms, misinformation, and new methods to study the digital society. Daniel joins us to talk about fake viral footage being shared during the current crisis in Ukraine.// Dr Nina Ridder, Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at the University of New South Wales, joins us to discuss the recent catastrophic flooding in Queensland and New South Wales, their relationship to climate change and La Niña cycles, and the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. You can find out more about the climate science research Nina and her team are working on at climateextremes.org.au, and take action with these tips from United Nation Environment Program.// Songs// Still Dream - Miiesha// What Should I Do? - Budjerah// Doin It Different - Arona Mane ft. Shantan Wantan Ichiban & Dancingwater// The Shake Up - dameeeela ft. Tjaka// Come Back - Barkaa ft. Mi-kaisha// Check out dameeela’s Boiler Room set x Sugar Mountain and Barkaa at SorBaes Festival on 13 March at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.//
Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Martin Hodgson is a Senior Advocate at the Foreign Prisoners' Support Service and co-hosts Curtain the Podcast along with South Sea Islander and Darumbal writer and academic Amy McQuire. Martin spoke with Priya about the shameful crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Australia and the work he has been doing with Amy and the families of these women to fight for justice and draw attention to systemic discrimination. Please be aware that this interview contains distressing content - if you need to speak with someone about this, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Pan is from the La Trobe University Casuals Network. A group of casualised workers at La Trobe who are dedicated to improving working conditions. They join us today to speak on the widespread, systemic wage theft of casual staff and the Network's recent submission to the Senate Select Committee on Job Security. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins Thursday Breakfast to discuss why Services Australia are spying on people receiving welfare payments and to talk about the Anti Poverty Centre's ongoing campaign to Abolish Work For the Dole. Fetle is an Ethiopian-Australian woman based in Naarm, interested in dissecting ideas at the intersection of race, spirituality and communion. She’s an emerging artist, writing and producing music, spoken word and sound art. Fetle joins us to speak about her new piece as part of the SIGNAL sound walk. Omar Sakr is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections These Wild Houses and The Lost Arabs, which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Omar joins us today to talk about his new novel Son of Sin which is out now with Affirm Press.
Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Earlier this week, Priya caught up with writer and comedian Kaitlyn Blythe to hear more about the lived experiences of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome during COVID-19. Earlier in the week, Rosie spoke with Dan Hogan, a working-class writer and public-school teacher. They currently live and work on Dharug and Gadigal Country. In their spare time, Dan runs small DIY publisher Subbed In. Dan joined us to discuss the Religious Discrimination Bill, the harmful consequences of the public discourse on trans and gender diverse people, and why private schools should be abolished.You can find Dan's piece here Nasser Mashni is the Vice President of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network and co-presenter of Palestine Remembered, Australia’s only radio show dedicated to Palestine, Saturday mornings at 9:30am on 3CR. They join us to talk about their case against the Australian Government, following official comments made in support of Israel last year. Racerage aka Mini Miller is a queer Blak radical rapper based on Wurundjeri country. They join us today to have a chat about their debut album Black Medusa. This majestic record uses the mythology of Medusa to explore their living experiences, different paths to healing, and finding strength. It is the soundtrack to a shared decolonised, queer, and accessible future. You can find Black Medusa on Bandcamp. Emma is the COVID-19 Testing Coordinator At Cohealth. They manage all testing operations for cohealth and have played an active role in testing, isolation support and outbreak responses across the Northern and Western Suburbs of Melbourne since the beginning of the pandemic. Emma joins us to discuss access to rapid antigen tests and the importance of ongoing community testing for Covid-19. SongsRacerage - Black Medusa
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Josie Alec is a Kuruma Marduthunera custodian from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Josie joined Rosie earlier this week to speak about the ongoing destruction of rock art and country on Murujuga/The Burrup Peninsula and the Federal Government's recent announcement of a $255 million dollar loan to support the development of the Perdaman Urea Plant on sacred country.// Asher Wolf, activist, freelance columnist and general rabble-rouser, speaks with us about the lack of recognition of and support for chronic illnesses such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and how this intersects with growing awareness of long COVID. Find out more about current disability justice issues through People with Disability Australia and Women with Disability Australia, and support the grassroots organising of Disability Justice Network.// Debra Nicholl is the Programs Manager at Elder Rights Advocacy. Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety 2018 - 2021, the Federal Government is transitioning to a different model of service provision. Debra speaks about recent local council changes to home aged and disability care services, and what these changes mean for service users, workers, and the aged care sector.// We are joined by Sasha and Greg from Blockade Australia to speak about climate activism and strategic nonviolent resistance to the colonial extraction project called Australia. Sasha has been doing climate, anti-war and human rights activism for the last 3 years. Sasha found her niche in supporting direct action and has been arrested for the cause as well. Greg is a full time supporter of frontline nonviolent direct action.// David Lindenmayer is Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU. He is an expert in forest ecology and resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. David joins us today to discuss the science behind why the Victorian Government must put an end to native forest logging. You can read a recent article by David on this issue here in Cosmos.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Priya caught up with Gregor Husper, Principal Lawyer at the Police Accountability Project, to discuss the Department of Justice's review into Victoria's police complaints system and the serious problem of police investigating police. The review responds to a range of concerns outlined in the 2018 Independent Broad-Based Anti-corruption Commission's Inquiry into the external oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria and the Royal Commission into the management of Police Informants. Gregor recommended that listeners read the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service's policy brief 'Reforming Police Oversight' to find out more.// Lloyd Williams, National Secretary for the Health Services Union joins us to discuss the devastating number of deaths due to Covid-19 in aged care facilities, the Government's recent announcement of bonuses for aged care workers and the HSU's case for higher wages currently before the Fair Work Commission.// Xen, founder of Red Pocket Press, joins us to discuss Lunar New Year, and their new zine for the Year of the Water Tiger. Red Pocket Press is a publishing project for Queer Asians who celebrate Lunar New Year. Since 2019 (Year of the Golden Pig) they've been making cute moments and connections through zines, food and gatherings.// Aboriginal activist and veteran 3CR broadcaster Robbie Thorpe joins us along with collaborator Mindy (Melinda) Michail, sovereign Remenkermi woman whose ancestral lands are in the south of what is now called Egypt, to discuss working in solidarity, Indigenous sovereignty and the Black GST movement. Read the 'No Jurisdiction' writ that Black GST launched on 26 January 2022 at the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra here, find out more about Black GST and how to support via their Facebook page.// Songs// L’Idole Des Jeunes - Ngaiire//
Acknowledgement of Country News headlines 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, No Police at Pride, Housing and Homlessness crisis, Dr Jackie Huggins on the reissue of ‘Sister Girl: Reflections of Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation’ We hear a speech from Guwama woman Cheryl Buchanan, one of the early campaigners at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972, at the 50th anniversary of the Embassy. This audio was broadcast live yesterday during 3CR's Invasion Day 2022 programming. Frank Gafa is a Wailwan and Wiradjuri queer man, trade unionist, education and community activist and one of the organisers of the No Police at Pride Open Letter. He joins us to discuss the open letter and it's call for Victoria Police to cease participation in the Pride march. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins us to discuss the Centre's recent statement on Australia's housing and homeless crisis as highlighted in the Productivity Commission's 2022 report on government services. Jay will also update us on the proposed sale of public land by Moreland council and the importance of prioritising public housing over private profit. Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Dr Jackie Huggins to discuss the recently published updated edition of her classic collection 'Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation', which is out now with the University of Queensland Press. Dr Huggins is a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples, and is currently leading the work towards Treaty/Treaties in Queensland. Catch the rest next Monday 31st January from 8:30-9AM on 3CR's Women on the Line. Links to organisations to Pay The Rent: Pay the RentDhadjowa FoundationAnaiwan LandBack Wuurn of KanakVALSThe Blak Pearl Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Studio SongsTiddas - AnthemAncestress - One By One
We hear Janet Galpin, Boonwurrung Foundation Representative, speaking at the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration 2021. This year's commemoration took place today 20th January and was broadcast live on 3CR from 12pm. We are joined by Angus MacFarland, Acting Secretary of The Australian Services Union, to discuss the urgent need for Commonwealth and State governments to provide support to essential disability services workers, including paid isolation leave, priority boosters and personal protective equipment. Samantha Floreani, Program Lead with Digital Rights Watch, joins us to discuss the searching of returned travellers' phones by Australian Border Force and the need for a Federal Charter of Human Rights, as well as the review of the federal Privacy Act, and the current Inquiry into Social Media and Online Safety. Dave Widders, proud Anaiwan man and campaign media representative for the Anaiwan Land buyback joins us to speak about Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation's Land Back campaign, raising funds to buy a piece of land for Anaiwan cultural practice, care for Country and language revitalization. SongsCamp Cope - Running with the HurricaneBirdz - Know Your TruthDRMNGNOW - Indigenous Land
Kutcha Edwards is a Mutti Mutti songwriter. He spoke with us about his long-spanning music career, his twenty year involvement with the Beyond the Bars Radio broadcasts and memories from Fitzroy in the 1980s. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, please be advised that this conversation refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have passed away.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Evelyn Araluen joined us on 25 March 2021 to speak about her debut collection of poetry, Dropbear. Evelyn is a poet, researcher and co-editor of the Overland literary journal. She has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Evelyn was born and raised on Dharug Country and she descends from the Bundjalung Nation.// Lady Lash is a Kokatha and Greek musician who has brought her magic to stages including the Sydney Opera House, prime rooftop bars, grassroots festivals and arts venues across the country. As a family woman searching for deeper meaning through sound and voice, Lash’s is a musical vision of eclectic rarities that is embodied by culture and experience. She caught up with Priya for our show on 2 December 2021 to speak about her new album Spiritual Misfit, which was released with Heavy Machinery Records on 22 November.// Songs// Missing You - Budjerah// We Sing - Kutcha Edwards// Price I Paid - Miiesha// Role Models - Kobie Dee//Crest of Gold - Lady Lash//
Kelly and Spike are longtime housing activists and broadcasters on 3CR. They speak with us about the Homeless Persons Union, the 2016 Bendigo Street housing occupations and share reflections on hosting the 3CR Roominations show.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Poet and educator Eunice Andrada joined us on 9 September 2021 to discuss her new collection ‘TAKE CARE’, which has just been published by Giramondo Publishing. Her first poetry collection ‘Flood Damages’ won the Anne Elder Award. Born and raised in the Philippines, Eunice currently lives and writes on unceded Gadigal Land.// Professor Libby Porter (RMIT) is a planner and urban geographer working on the role of planning and urban development in dispossession and displacement, and what we might do about it. In this conversation, Libby explored the problems of urban planning on stolen land, selective state investment in development projects, and the valuation of cultural production and heritage in inner-city areas. Read the full transcript here.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// George Kanjere, representing the newly formed Save the Preston Market Action Group, joined us on 1 July 2021 to discuss the fight to save Preston Market from aggressive redevelopment proposed by the Victorian Planning Authority.// Songs// The More Things Change - Kutcha Edwards// Boomerang - The Merindas//Milkumana - King Stingray//
Porobibi is a West Papuan based in Narrm, a human rights activist and campaigner for Make West Papua Safe. Izzy Brown is the lead singer and MC of Combat Wombat and founder of the United Struggle Project. They joined us to speak about political organising, performing in public spaces in and around Collingwood and the importance of creative autonomous zones. Read the full transcript here.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on sovereign Gadigal land. Her poetry has been published widely and reimagined as murals, installations, digital interventions and film. She joined us on 30 September 2021 to discuss her award winning debut poetry collection 'how to make a basket'.// Melbourne Activist Legal Support held a discussion on Tuesday 28 September 2021 about the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021, which gives broad powers to federal police and intelligence agencies to spy on, disrupt and modify communications. This clip features lawyer and human rights advocate Angus Murray discussing the legislation and notions of relevant offences and reasonable suspicion, with comments from host Jordan Brown from MALS. MALS has published an explainer on the Act, which you can read here.// Songs// King Brown - Baarka// Nothing I Can Do - Emma Donovan and the Putbacks// Moonshine - Ngaiire//Addy ft. Sevy - Teether & Kuya Neil//
John Harding is a Kuku-Yulangi and Meriam man and playwright. He spoke to us about his play ‘The Dirty Mile’, a 2008 production by Ilbijerri Theatre Company, and his time broadcasting and working as the Aboriginal Programming Coordinator at 3CR in the late 1980s. This interview includes excerpts of two 3CR broadcasts - the Bicentennial protest broadcast and Tent Embassy broadcast. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, please be advised that this conversation refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have passed away.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Sabina, co-founder of the Australian Anti-Racism Kit, joined us on 30 September 2021 to speak about the recent launch of the kit, which is the first of its kind and targeted at Australian high school students. Sabina is a migrant woman of colour who recently graduated high school. You can follow the Anti-Racism Kit on Instagram at @antiracismkit.// Bobby Nicholls is a proud Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wotjobaluk man, and a founding member of the Yalinguth Working Group. Bobby has worked for many years in community run organisations such as the Aborigines Advancement League, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, and the Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria. He is also one of the founding members of Yarnin’ Pictures, inspired by his passion to document Elders stories whilst training Aboriginal youth in the art of filmmaking. Bobby joined us on 29 July 2021 to discuss the Yalinguth App, an audio augmented reality experience that connects people to place and history through geo-located soundscapes and stories told by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The first site for the app is the area around Gertrude St, Fitzroy.// Songs//Blak Matriarchy - Barkaa// Sometime - Mo’Ju//Stay in Bed - Alice Skye//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay part of City Limits' show from Wednesday 15 December, where Zeb and Kevin caught up with Shane from Housing for the Aged Action Group for a final update on housing justice issues in Victoria and nationally for 2021. Catch City Limits on Wednesdays from 9-10AM on 3CR, and listen back to past episodes here.// Ronny Kareni, Canberra-based West Papuan activist, musician and youth worker, joins us to discuss the West Papuan fight for self-determination 60 years after the first raising of the Morning Star flag, and to speak about the grand opening online of the West Papua Solidarity Gallery on 20 December 2021. Ronny is a visiting fellow at the West Papua Project with the University of Wollongong and the Pacific Mission for United Liberation Movement for West Papua, as well as a host on 3CR’s Voice of West Papua. Find tickets to the grand opening here, read the open letter ‘Stand with West Papua’ here, and catch Voice of West Papua on 3CR on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30PM.// Kutcha Edwards is a proud Mutti Mutti man, a multi-award winning singer and songman, advocate, and co-host of the 20 Years on the Inside podcast on 3CR with Vickie Roach. Kutcha joins us to discuss his latest album Circling Time, which is filled with soulful melodies and stories - have a listen here. Tickets to Kutcha's show at the Brunswick Ballroom this Friday 17 December are still available through Moshtix. It will be a show you don't want to miss!// Dylan O'Hara from Vixen Collective, Victoria's peer only sex worker organisation, speaks with us about a rally organised for the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers this Friday 17 December. The rally will be held at 4PM outside the State Library of Victoria - find out more here.Vixen Collective have also developed a guide to support the ongoing push for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Victoria via the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill 2021 - find it here.// Songs// Less Talk - CLYPSO// Blak Matriarchy - Barkaa// The More Things Change - Kutcha Edwards//
Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Elizabeth Wathuti addresses COP26 in Glasgow in November. Elizabeth Wathuti is a founder of the Green Generation Movement in Kenya. Henry Rajendra is the Deputy President of the NSW Teachers Federation. Henry joins Thursday Breakfast to discuss Tuesday's strike action and the demands of public school teachers in NSW. Henry is a teacher who moved into organising several years ago and he has spearheaded the campaign to highlight the acute shortage of teachers in NSW public schools. André Dao is a writer and researcher. Andre joins us to discuss 'Growing Up Bilingual in Australia' a new podcast that speaks to bilingual children and their parents about language, culture and what it feels like to be multilingual in Australia. The podcasts first two episodes will be launched on the 18th December. Justin Warren, chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, Inc., speaks with us about concerns regarding the Australian Federal Police's recent announcement about the use of Massively Parallel Sequencing technology, a new technology for forensic profiling called Massively Parallel Sequencing. Justin also gives us a wrap of current Parliamentary inquiries into legislative pushes by government that risk curtailing Australians' digital rights. Jamie McConnachie, Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service or NATSILS, joins us to discuss the national disgrace of 500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and the urgent need to implement all recommendations in the Commission's report. Listeners can read NATSILS’ policy statement Black Lives Matter: always have, always will here. Songs Kutcha Edwards - We Sing Miiesha - Price I PaidBarkaa - Blak Matriarchy
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Artist, writer and curator SJ Norman joined Rosie earlier this week to speak about his recently released collection of short stories Permafrost. Permafrost 'inverts and queers the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted.' The collection is published by University of Queensland Press.// Lady Lash is a Kokatha and Greek musician who has brought her magic to stages including the Sydney Opera House, prime rooftop bars, grass roots festivals and arts venues across the country. As a family woman searching for deeper meaning through sound and voice, Lash’s is a musical vision of eclectic rarities that is embodied by culture and experience. She caught up with Priya earlier in the week to speak about her new album Spiritual Misfit, which was released with Heavy Machinery Records on 22 November.// Content warning: the following interview contains themes of domestic and family violence, which may be distressing to some listeners. Support is available at 1800 RESPECT/1800 737 732, as well as at inTouch/1800 755 988.//Amani Haydar is an award winning artist, lawyer, mother, and author of The Mother Wound, published by Pan MacMillan Australia. Amani speaks on the familial and cultural contexts in which family and domestic violence operate. The Mother Wound is a story that explores intergenerational trauma, dispels myths about victim/survivors, and explores how to grow around your grief with writing that is hopeful, devastating, and impactful.// Matt Chun and Jennine Khalik join us to talk about The Sunday Paper, a new publication launching 6 December that displays the strong solidarity and co-resistances between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Palestinian communities in so-called Australia. Jennine Khalik is a Palestinian writer who has 8 years of experience working as a journalist in Australian newsrooms. Matt Chun is an artist and writer whose latest self-published work Do You Ever Wonder? came out earlier this month. The Sunday Paper is available for pre-order here. Lew Ching or LC speaks with us about the impacts of current travel restrictions with the new COVID-19 variant on international students at Australian universities. LC is a Singaporean Chinese psychology major and youth work student at the Australian National University, and has been living in Canberra since 2017. LC also works part time as a peer support worker and as a youth worker.// Songs//Crest of Gold - Lady Lash//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Mick Power, Logistics Coordinator at United Workers Union, spoke with Rosie earlier this week about Country Road workers' strike action and win at the Truganina warehouse. Workers were fighting for union rights, fair pay and better working conditions.// Julia Cockram, Victorian State Director of Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds, joins us to speak about concerns with the Melbourne cup greyhound racing season, which is now underway. Julia is also a lead volunteer for the rescue group Gumtree Greys.// Tishiko King and Jacynta Fa’amau join Thursday Breakfast to speak about COP26, First Nations and Pacific leadership and solidarity in the fight for climate justice.//Tishiko King is a proud Torres Strait Islander with strong connections to Masig and Badu Islands and is the Campaigns Director at Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network. Tish believes in working towards sustainable futures for First Nations communities, as a Torres Strait Islander, Tishiko understands the intrinsic value of country and the spiritual connection to the islands.//Jacynta Fa’amau is a member of Pacific Climate Warriors and a Regional Pacific Campaign Specialist at 350.// Songs//Weakness - Alice Ivy, Sycco//No Longer There - Spinifex Gum, Marliya Choir//
Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Pan Karanikolas joins us to speak about the impacts of abelist Higher Education policy and the further implementation of the 'Job Ready Graduate Package' on disabled students and students with chronic illness. Pan Karanikolas is a PhD candidate in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, where they are also involved with organising casual university workers and fighting to secure jobs with the La Trobe University Casuals Network. They are also a Board Member of Women with Disabilities Victoria. Professor Sandy O'Sullivan is a Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary person.They join Thursday Breakfast to speak about Trans Awareness Week. Sandy is a 2020-2024 ARC Future Fellow, with a project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. Associate Professor Chelsea Watego is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman. Chelsea’s work has drawn attention to the role of race in the production of health inequalities. Chelsea spoke with Priya earlier in the week about her new book, Another Day In The Colony, which is published by the University of Queensland Press. Chelsea is a founding board member of Inala Wangarra, an Indigenous community development association within her community, a Director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research. Alex Kakafikas is a long time activist and 3CR broadcaster currently presenting Greek Resistance Bulletin. He is a member of the Solidarity and Defence Fund and joins us this morning to talk about the fund and the importance of building movement infrastructure. CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY Roxy Moore, Noongar woman and member of the Ban Spit Hoods campaign, speaks with us about the South Australian government's delay in legislating the ban of spit hoods via the Statutes Amendment (Spit Hood Prohibition) Bill, otherwise known as Fella's Bill, in line with campaigning by the family of Wiradjuri, Wirangu and Kokatha man Wayne Fella Morrison. You can support the campaign today by sending an email here. SongsKing Stingray - MilkumanaElectric Fields - Gold EnergyBIRDZ ft. Missy HIggins - LEGACY Part 2.
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Monday's episode of Women on the Line, Iris interviewed Dylan O'Hara from Victoria's peer sex-worker organisation Vixen Collective on the benefits of full decriminalisation of sex work and how the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill 2021, which is currently before Victorian Parliament, leaves some sex workers behind. You can listen back to the whole episode at here, and find out how to support the push for amendments to the Bill by visiting the 'No Sex Worker Left Behind' campaign on vixencollective.org.// Shabnam from Action for Afghanistan speaks with us about the continued crisis in Afghanistan, impacts on the Afghan community here in so-called Australia, and the obligation of the Australian government to provide tangible support.// On 14 October, we were joined by Samantha Floreani, Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch, about the Basic Online Safety Expectations, which fall under the Online Safety Act and provide the Minister with broad discretion to define the parameters for digital safety and content restrictions on social media and other online services. We replay this interview today as public consultation on the draft expectations close this Friday 12 November. You can have your say here. If you’re not sure how to get started, Digital Rights Watch has published their submission along with information about how to make a submission here.// Artist and writer Matt Chun joins us to speak about his new self-published picture book ‘Do You Ever Wonder?’, and processes and politics of creating against colonisation in the literary sphere in so-called Australia. You can grab a copy of ‘Do You Ever Wonder?’, as well as Matt’s other work, here.// SongsBlue - Camp Cope//Carafe - Teether and Kuya Neil//
Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines 7:30 Cam Walker, Campaigns Coordinator at Friends of the Earth Melbourne, joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about the climate crisis and what has happened at COP26 in Glasgow so far this week. 7:45 We hear an excerpt from a recent episode of Earth Matters with Dr Mary Graham, a Kombu-merri and Wakka Wakka person from SE Queensland. Dr Graham speaks about Collaborative Governance and Relational Ethos. Earth Matter is broadcast on Sunday 11-11:30 on 3CR. 8:00 Alex, from CUDL (Community Union Defence League) joins us to chat about supporting the community as we emerge from lockdown. Songs Bonnie - Bruce Is My Butch Aunty Becca Hatch - Safety SO.Crates (feat. Zima & Kalala) - Beaut-i-full World Miiesha - Price I Paid Ngaiire - Moonshine Moktar - Lemon
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Giles Fielke, sessional academic, unionist and member of Casualised, Unemployed and Precarious Uni Workers AU or CUPUW, joins us to speak about the ongoing exploitation of casual workers in Australian universities, failure to convert thousands of casual contracts to ongoing positions, and continued job cuts in the sector.//You can find CUPUW here on Twitter.// As part of our Disarmament Week (24-30 October) breakfast series, we speak with Andy Paine from Disrupt Land Forces about demilitarisation in the Australian context, organising against the military industrial complex, and touching on the recent report launched by the Medical Association for Prevention of War on the influence of weapons companies in Australian Schools.// You can also find more about campaigns against militarisation in Australia via Wage Peace.// Folole Asueao Sagele Tupuola is the Pacific Climate Warriors Coordinator for so-called Victoria, Australia. Daughter of the Moana, they are a storyteller and artist settled on Wathaurung Country. Folole joins us today to discuss the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and the #Youth4Pacific Declaration on Climate Change to be delivered to Pacific Leaders at COP26.// Homes Not Prisons is a campaign calling on the Victorian government to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost Centre and to re-allocate the budget for prison building to public housing. This morning, we are joined by Homes Not Prisons campaign members Vickie Roach, Yuin woman, activist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison, Sara Stilianos, advocate with lived experience, and Gabi Franich, Flat Out campaign worker, to talk about the campaign’s key priorities in the context of the Victorian government inquiry into the state's criminal justice system.//Head to Homes Not Prisons’ site to sign their open letter and find out more.// Songs//Click That - The Merindas//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Tuesday 12 October, the Australian Western Sahara Association held a panel discussion on the United Nations' role in the Western Sahara conflict. Today, we hear two speakers from that discussion- Golriz Ghahraman MP, Green Party of Aotearoa NZ, and Kamal Fadel, Polisario Front Representative in Australia and New Zealand. The full event recording is available on the Association's Facebook page, Western Sahara Down Under.// Listen back to Chris Schuringa, campaigner from GECO, the Goongerah Environment Centre, in discussion with Meg and Zeb from City Limits in late September 2021 on how important Direct Action continues to be in protecting the environment.// AM Kanngieser, award-winning geographer and sound artist, joins us to discuss working through listening and attunement to approach the relations between people, place and ecologies. AM is an incoming Marie Curie International Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway University of London.//A list of sources AM mentioned during the interview:Aileen Moreton Robinson - The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous SovereigntyUnaisi Nabobo Baba - Knowing & Learning: An Indigenous Fijian ApproachLeroy Little Bear - Listening to Stones Learning in Leroy Little Bear's laboratory: Dialogue in the world outsideZoe Todd and AM Kanngieser - From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin StudyZoe Todd - https://fishphilosophy.org/Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr - https://www.miriamrosefoundation.org.au/dadirri/Bawaka Collective - https://bawakacollective.com/about-us/ Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste & gender transcendent diva. She speaks with us about Rainbow Vaccination Week or #FabJab, which is running from 18-22 October. Mama Alto will be joining Dr Anita Munoz to answer your vaccine questions live on the JOY 94.9 Facebook page today, Thursday 21 October, from 5:30PM. Find out more about #FabJab here.// Songs// Shadows - Briggs and Troy Cassar-Daley// Rebel Time - MOONGA K. and Sampa the Great// Therapy - June Jones//Lung - Teether, Kuya Neil//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Last week we spoke with Dimity Hawkins about the Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus, held on 7 October 2021. Organised by Renegade Activists, the webinar featured a panel discussion on concerns around the AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US. This morning we hear a segment of the event featuring speakers Talei Mangioni and Scott Ludlam.// Samantha Floreani, Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch (DRW), joins us to speak about the Basic Online Safety Expectations, which fall under the Online Safety Act and provide the Minister with broad discretion to define the parameters for digital safety and content restrictions on social media and other online services. Public consultation on the draft expectations closes 12 November 2021- have your say here. If you’re not sure how to get started, DRW and Electronic Frontiers Australia recently ran a workshop on how to write a policy submission which you can view here.// We speak with Ian Rintoul, spokesperson from the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney, about safety concerns for people currently detained at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation detention centre in Broadmeadows as guards continue to test positive for COVID-19.// While nation states are currently setting targets for biodiversity protection that may or may not be met at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, this week we wanted to turn our attention to the knowledge of First Nations people in protecting the lands and waters across this continent. We are joined today by Bunna Lawrie, a Mirning Elder and whale songman from the Nullabor, to talk about protecting Country and why it's important to learn and think about the animals and plants we're talking about when we say biodiversity. Bunna is a founding member of the band Coloured Stone, and has spent many years fighting to protect his Country.// Songs// King Brown - Barkaa// Surrender - Tseba (feat. PRICIE)//Jeedara (White Whale Song) - Bunna Lawrie with Rob Hirst and Neil Morris//
Acknowledgement of country News headlines Priya caught up with El to discuss how the federal and state governments have failed disabled people during the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, including through the covert de-prioritisation of vulnerable community members who were meant to be covered in phases 1a and 1b of vaccination, as revealed in a recently released Disability Royal Commission draft report. El Gibbs is a disabled person, writer, and disability rights advocate. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre speaks with us about the proposed sale of public land by Moreland Council to build a privately owned health and community services precinct in Coburg, and the importance of prioritising public housing over private profit. Find out more by looking up Coburg Health Precinct at conversations.moreland.vic.gov.au. This morning we hear from Dimity Hawkins, one of the speakers at tonight’s Raucus Anti-Aukus Caucus webinar organised by Renegade Activists. She joins us to talk more about the implications of the Aukus pact with a specific focus on the announcement of nuclear subs that accompanied the announcement of the alliance. Dimity is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University. She has over two decades of experience in the civil society sector working as an advocate on issues of nuclear disarmament and broader social, environmental and human rights activism and was a co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. CONTENT WARNING: discussions around disordered eating and body image. Listeners can contact Butterfly Foundation: 1800 33 4673 Laura joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about the impacts of Covid-19 on eating disorders and services. Laura is a clinical psychologist from Melbourne. They've specialised in eating disorders for over seven years, through research, outreach work, support groups, and as a therapist, and currently work in public and private practice supporting individuals affected by eating disorders. CONTENT WARNING: discussions around family and domestic violence. 1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732Anu Krishnan joins us to speak about the situation for culturally and linguistically diverse communities currently experiencing or accessing support for family violence in Victoria. Anu is a specialist family violence practitioner with over 25 years experience in direct services, prevention and training. She works within mental health and family violence settings, to bring greater cultural understanding and awareness to their work. SongsEmma Donovan and the Putbacks - Out the DoorPookie - Halloween King Stingray - Milkumana
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) held a discussion on Tuesday 28 September about the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021, which gives broad powers to federal police and intelligence agencies to spy on, disrupt and modify communications. We play a segment featuring lawyer and human rights advocate Angus Murray discussing the legislation and notions of relevant offences and reasonable suspicion, with comments from host Jordan Brown from MALS. MALS has published an explainer on the act, which you can read here.// Victoria Legal Aid has operated Independent Family Advocacy and Support or IFAS, a non-legal advocacy support service for parents in the early stages of child protection involvement, since 2018. Today, we are joined by Chloe, a member of the IFAS reference group, to speak about the role and importance of the service. Name changed for privacy.// Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on sovereign Gadigal land. Her poetry has been published widely and reimagined as murals, installations, digital interventions and film. She joins us to discuss her award winning debut poetry collection 'how to make a basket'.// Sabina, co-founder of the Australian Anti-Racism Kit, joins us to speak about the recent launch of the kit, which is the first of its kind and targeted at Australian high school students. Sabina is a migrant woman of colour who recently graduated high school. You can follow the Anti-Racism Kit on Instagram at @antiracismkit.// Frankie Lai from WEstJustice discusses the ‘Ignorance is NOT bliss’ report, which was published on Tuesday 28 September and focuses on the barriers to employment access for young people in Melbourne’s west and how to overcome them. Frankie is a member of the Employment and Equality Law Program at WEstjustice, and has co-coordinated the International Students Work Rights Legal Service, managed and completed the Infographics Project and most recently managed the Youth Employment Justice Project. Frankie is strongly committed to improving access to fair, safe and decent work for all vulnerable workers.//
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Associate Professor Bradley Moggridge is a Kamilaroi water scientist working on closing the gap between western science and Traditional Science. In this recording from 3CR’s Earth Matters program, Prof Moggridge speaks about how Indigenous knowledge is still sidelined in water management and why this needs to change.// Dr Chris Lemoh is an infectious disease and general physician based at Monash Health in south east Melbourne. He works in a public hospital and at the refugee health service in Dandenong, and is also the current President of the Victorian African Health Action Network. Chris joins us to discuss the impact of Victoria's roadmap to COVID normal on healthcare workers, the healthcare system and marginalised communities.// Melbourne-based electronic pop and R&B duo The Merindas speak with us about their new single ‘Boomerang’ and forthcoming EP (out September 27). The Merindas are the collective force of Ballardong Whadjuk and Nyoongar woman Kristel Kickett and Candice Lorrae of Jawoyn and Thursday Island heritage.// Alec Miguel from Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) takes us through concerns about the policing of anti-lockdown protests, which have escalated over the past week in Melbourne and have been met with a worrying use of tactics and equipment by Victoria Police. MALS is a group of volunteers that support activists to defend their own civil and political rights.// Songs//Closer - Ngaiire// Addy - Teether and Kuya Neil feat. Sevy//Boomerang - The Merindas//
Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// Wiradjuri and Noongar woman Edie Shepherd spoke with Annie from 3CR’s Stick Together show to provide an update on the campaign to stop fracking in the Northern Territory, and raised concerns about government failures to protect Aboriginal communities in far west NSW from COVID-19. Edie is a senior organiser in the First Nations Justice Team at GetUp!.// Coedie McAvoy is a Wangan Jagalingou cultural custodian who speaks with us from the edge of Adani's Carmichaeal mine site, where Wangan and Jagalingou people have been holding a continuous Waddananggu ceremony for the past 3 weeks. Coedie discusses communication, consent and protecting Wangan and Jagalingou Country. Find out more ad support here.// Mo'ju is a singer/songwriter whose third album Native Tongue was one of 2018’s most important and award-winning releases, documenting a deep and intimate exploration of her Wiradjuri and Filipino roots. She joins us to talk about her new single 'Wave' which premieres today on community radio stations across the continent. The full album is set for release November 19th as part of 'Flash Forward'.// Chaya is a postgraduate student, artist and community organiser with Sydney-based Tzedek Collective. She speaks with us about anti-colonial Jewish organising and the Collective's upcoming online launch event (18 September, 6-7PM) and art auction (17-26 September) which is raising funds for AlQaws and Black Rainbow. Find out more and register at tzedekcollective.com.// Songs Shiver - Ngaiire H I G H E R - Kwame Wave - Mo'ju
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On 11 August, James Brennan interviewed senior economist from the Centre for Future Work Alison Pennington about the issues facing workers who are working from home on 3CR’s Stick Together program. While casualisation was sold as a flexible working option, with the employers holding the power it has meant workers are in insecure work. The COVID-19 pandemic has meant many workers are working at least partially from home. Listen to the full interview here.// Ian Rintoul, spokesperson from the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney, joins us to discuss the safety of people currently detained at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre in Broadmeadows, after a guard tested positive for COVID-19 almost two weeks ago.// Barkindji woman and Wilcannia resident Monica Kerwin spoke with Priya earlier in the week to provide some updates on the COVID-19 situation in Wilcannia, highlighting how the federal and state government have failed Aboriginal communities during the delta wave. Content warning: this segment includes mentions of suicidal ideation. You can contact Lifeline 24/7, Australia-wide on 13 11 14.// Jesse Noakes, co-founder and coordinator of House the Homeless WA, speaks with us about the homelessness crisis in Western Australia and the recent investment in social housing flagged in the 2021-22 state budget.//Poet and educator Eunice Andrada joins us to discuss her new collection TAKE CARE which has just been published by Giramondo Publishing. Her first poetry collection ‘Flood Damages’ won the Anne Elder Award. Born and raised in the Philippines, Eunice currently lives and writes on unceded Gadigal Land.// SongsMade for Silence - Miiesha One By One - Ancestress
Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines James, Jackson and Mercedes from Uprise Radio caught up with Friends of the Earth campaign coordinator Cam Walker to discuss the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report. Cam talks about the report's strengths and weaknesses and campaigning opportunities in the lead up to the looming federal election. This conversation is part of a 2 part special - the full discussion can be found here. Thursday Breakfast speaks with a Victorian high school art and woodwork teacher, who has taught in regional and metro areas as well as overseas in London. They are currently teaching at an inner city public school, and join us to talk about the challenges of teaching through the recurring lockdowns in Naarm. Heela Arsala, an Afghan Australian who moved to Australia 30 years ago with her family, joins us to talk about the current situation in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal. As well as how the non-Afghan community can stand in solidarity over the coming months. Heela is a practicing commercial lawyer and she spends a considerable amount of time giving back to the community by advising not-for-profits as well as being the director of Edmund Rice Camps Vic. Brendan Kennedy is a Tati Tati Elder from Victoria's north-west. He is the Director of Tati Tati Kaiejin, an artist, teacher and linguist. Brendan joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about water rights and returning Cultural Flows to Margooya Lagoon, a permanent wetland on the Murray river in northern Victoria. A new report, produced by Environmental Justice Australia, lays out a plan for how this important action can proceed. You can support calls for Cultural Flows by sending a letter to government here.Kristin O'Connell, who does research and policy at the Antipoverty Centre, joins us to speak about the ongoing need to raise the rate and #PayPeopleToStayHome, provide updates on the mutual obligations bill, and discuss the Antipoverty Centre and People with Disability Australia's joint submission to the inquiry into the Disability Support Pension. SongsSimona Castricum - Grateful for the Heartache
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We play the second part of a two-part interview with JN Joniad, where he speaks about the experiences of refugees stranded in Indonesia due to the Australian government's border regime, the consequences of being stuck in a country which is not a signatory to the 1951 refugee convention, and the work refugee activists are doing to raise awareness and fight for their rights. Joniad is a Rohingya journalist and journalism editor at the archipelago magazine. He is a student of political science and human rights activist, and was formerly an Engineering and Physics student in Myanmar, before being forced to flee to Indonesia. Joniad contributes to film and publishing accounts of refugees searching for a safe and durable solution.// CONTENT WARNING: this segment includes some discussion of traumatic experiences endured while seeking asylum which may be distressing to listeners who are refugees or from refugee backgrounds. If you need to speak to someone about this, you can call Lifeline 24/7 Australia wide on 13 11 14.// The Freedom Street documentary covers the story of Joniad and other refugees trapped in Indonesia due to Australia's border regime- donate to their fundraiser. Don’t forget to check out the archipelago magazine too!// Dylan O'Hara, Advocacy Coordinator at Vixen Collective, and Gala Vanting, National Programs Manager at Scarlet Alliance, join us to discuss the road to decriminalising sex work in Victoria, and the information kit developed by Vixen Collective and Scarlet Alliance to support people to make submissions to the government's public consultation process- due Friday 27 August. You can find the information kit here.//Scarlet Alliance has been running an emergency support fund for sex workers in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic- donate here.// Hoang is a parent and co-founding member of ViệtSpeak. Hoang discusses the work ViệtSpeak does around bilingual education and their open letter to the Maribyrnong City Council calling for support and funding for a Vietnamese-English bilingual early childhood education program in Melbourne's West.// Babs is a founding member of Loud Jew Collective - a new group formed in Naarm, which is a space for bringing people together and for pushing the boundaries of what it means to be Jewish. Babs joins us to chat about their launch event 'What is the future you dream of?', which will be held online on Thursday 2 September.// Asami discusses the impacts of lockdown on mental health, as well the online platform Shapes and Sounds, which she established to talk about Asian Australian mental health and wellbeing. Asami is a first generation migrant who moved to Melbourne from Japan when she was 4 years old. She started Shapes and Sounds in 2019 after spending 5 years in the community and youth mental health sector, where she witnessed that young Asian Australians were not being given the same care and treatment as their white peers.//
Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Petition calling on the release of pro-independence and antiracism activist Victor Yeimo This is the first part of a two-part interview with JN Joniad, where he speaks about his own experience of seeking asylum and becoming stranded in Indonesia, and the Australian government's complicity in this process. Joniad is a Rohingya journalist and journalism editor at the archipelago magazine. He is a student of political science and human rights activist. He was formerly an Engineering and Physics student in Myanmar, before being forced to flee to Indonesia. Joniad contributes to film and publishing accounts of refugees searching for a safe and durable solution. CONTENT WARNING: this segment includes some discussion of traumatic experiences endured while seeking asylum which may be distressing to listeners who are refugees or from refugee backgrounds. If you need to speak to someone about this, you can call Lifeline 24/7 Australia wide on 13 11 14. The Freedom Street documentary covers the story of Joniad and other refugees trapped in Indonesia due to Australia's border regime- donate to their fundraiser We speak with Mariam, a clinical scientist and Afghan clothing and jewellery boutique owner, about her fundraising campaign to raise emergency funds for displaced families in Kabul, during the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Mariam moved to Australia in 2001 on a humanitarian visa from Pakistan with her mother. Senator Lidia Thorpe is a DjabWurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman and The Greens Senator for Victoria. In 2017, she became the first Aboriginal woman in Victorian parliament. In 2020, she became the first Indigenous person to represent Victoria in federal parliament. This morning, she’s joining us on 3CR to talk about Treaty in light of incarceration rates and climate change, and to discuss the Truth Telling and Treaty Circle which is on this evening at 7pm. Eirene, Secretary of the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), joins us to discuss a recent VCAT decision that ruled it lawful for renters to be evicted from their homes for unpaid rental debt accrued during the victorian eviction moratorium that ended in March this year. We will also discuss the ongoing rental stress and housing precarity of casualised workers and those on low incomes amid current lockdowns. Sara El Sayed joins us to speak about her first book, Muddy People. Her work features in the anthologies Growing Up African in Australia and Arab, Australian, Other. She is a recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2020 Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award. SongsKing Stingray - Milkumana
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Nicky Stott from 3CR's Earth Matters show spoke with Chris Schuringa from GECO about proposed changes to the Victorian state logging code. Catch Earth Matters every Sunday from 11-11:30AM on 3CR.// Paul Healey, State Secretary of the Health and Community Services Union or HACSU, joins us to discuss Victorian mental health workers' fight for fair remuneration and working conditions as part of their new multi-year enterprise bargaining agreement.// Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Witt Gorrie about the newly launched fundraiser for Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans Gender Diverse Decarceration Project. Witt is a white trans social worker who has worked alongside communities impacted by criminalisation and incarceration for the past decade. They have been building Beyond Bricks & Bars over the past 3 years, providing direct support to trans and gender diverse people incarcerated, at risk of incarceration and those re-establishing life after prison.// Hensen Jeong, Research and Policy Officer at the Migrant Workers Centre, discusses the MWC’s new campaign around the future of the Visa System in Australia. They also speak about the MWC’s current survey asking migrant workers about their experiences in Australia and the impact of the visa system.// Dr Natalie Osborne, one of the hosts of Radio Reversal on 4zzz community radio 102.1FM in Meanjin/Brisbane, chats with us about the 4zzz Radiothon fundraiser and the ways community radio can support transformative political projects.// Songs Always Was - Flewnt ft. Dylan Voller and Tani Walker Theory - Teether and Kuya Neil Molotov - Kira Puru
Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We replay part of an episode of 3CR's The Black Block from Friday 28th July, where Viv Malo caught up with Palawa artist Thelma Beeton about the power of art and sisterhood in an exhibition currently showing at the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick. Banj Banj/nawnta, meaning sister in the First Nations languages of Taungurung/Palawa kani respectively, represents the unique friendship between artists Thelma and Taungurong and Boon Wurrung woman Stacey, both of whom are participants in The Torch’s Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program.// Cam Walker, Campaigns Coordinator at Friends of the Earth Melbourne, speaks with us about FoE Melbourne's report released this week titled 'An Icon at Risk, Current and Emerging threats to the Victorian High Country', which details environmental risks to the Victorian Alps including the potential loss of Snow Gum forests. You can sign FoE Melbourne’s petition to the Victorian Government here.// Professor Sandy O'Sullivan, a Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary researcher in Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, takes us through some of the problems with the 2021 Australian census with respect to gender and sexuality. Sandy is a 2020-2024 ARC Future Fellow, with a project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists which explores the unique contribution and influence of queer artists to understand how modelling complex identities contributes to the wellbeing of all First Nations' peoples.// Maree Clarke, a Yorta Yorta / Wamba Wamba / Mutti Mutti / Boonwurrung woman joins us to discuss the exhibition Wrapped in Culture, opening tomorrow Friday 6th August at Footscray Community Art Centre. She is a well-respected figure of the south-eastern Australian Aboriginal community for her work supporting Aboriginal artists and for her own successful career as a visual artist in the mainstream arts scene. In her practice she works to revive elements of Aboriginal culture that were lost in the period of colonisation and uses art as a tool to heal.// Songs Black and Yellow - Wiz Khalifa Tranquilize - Telenova Stay in Bed - Alice Skye
Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// On the May 3rd episode of 3CR's Women on the Line program, Priya caught up with Dr Indigo Willing and Emily Kafoa to talk about how skateboarders are shifting the conversation on consent, anti-racism and inclusivity. Dr Indigo Willing is a Vietnamese sociologist and skateboarder and co-founder of both We Skate Queensland and Consent is Rad, based in Meanjin on Jagera and Turrbal land. Emily Kafoa is a Bundjalung skater, a Minjungbul girl from Tweed Heads, and is the founder of Girls Skate Gold Coast as well as a new ambassador for the First Nations skate team Songline Skateboarding. Catch Women on the Line on 3CR on Mondays from 8:30-9AM, and listen back to the full episode here.// Melbourne-based stand up comedian Anna Piper-Scott joins us to discuss the slow reopening of the arts in Melbourne, and the impact this has had on performers and other arts workers. A trans woman for remarkable wit and social insight, Anna is a skilled writer and bold performer. Her comedy is incisive, relatable, well-crafted and flat out funny. You can find her website here.// Dr David Kelly, Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT and an organiser at the Save Public Housing Collective, joins us to talk about Save Public Housing Collective's newly launched map, which plots public housing decline in Victoria. You can find the map and more information about the Collective here.// Bobby Nicholls is a proud Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wotjobaluk man, and a founding member of the Yalinguth Working Group. Bobby has worked for many years in community run organisations such as the Aborigines Advancement League, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, and the Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria. He is also one of the founding members of Yarnin’ Pictures, inspired by his passion to document Elders stories whilst training Aboriginal youth in the art of filmmaking. Bobby joins us to discuss the Yalinguth App, an audio augmented reality experience that connects people to place and history through geo-located soundscapes and stories told by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The first site for the app is the area around Gertrude St, Fitzroy.// Songs Missing You - Budjerah Everything Is Great - Alice Skye
Acknowledgement of Country News Headline We play a short excerpt of episode 4 of Black Gold, a series produced in the studios of 3CR Community Radio on Wurundjeri land in Fitzroy, by Kerri-Lee Harding and assistant producer Corey Green. The episode is presented by Viv Malo and celebrates the life of broadcaster Lisa Bellear. We would also like to advise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners that the program contains the voices of people who have passed away. Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual abuse. Lloyd Williams, National Secretary of the Health Services Union joins us to talk about the Change Aged Care Campaign to increase the pay of aged care workers by 25%. El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. El joins us to talk about the Senate inquiry into the Disability Support Pension and Department of Social Services consultation on the DSP impairment tables We speak to Cait Kelly, a journalist currently working at The New Daily. Cait joins us to discuss the pay and conditions of fruit pickers, And the application by the Australian Workers Union to the Fair Work Commission for a rise in the award wage for farm workers. Songs Baarka - King Brown Miiesha - Made for Silence Squidgenini - All Made Up Miss Blanks - Fly High
Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We hear a speech by Tasnim at the Free Palestine Rally in Narrm on Saturday 3rd July, which focused on building an ongoing movement for solidarity with Palestine from the Australian settler colony. You can find more about the work of Free Palestine Melbourne here, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.// We replay a segment of 3CR’s Beyond the Bars 2021 recorded at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. Daniel James and Viv Malo present this special broadcast, and this excerpt features Aboriginal Wellbeing Officer and recent Order of Australia medal recipient Aunty Lynne, as well as Heather, Suzanne and Stacey, who speak about art, culture and how family visits in the prison have been impacted by COVID-19. Beyond the Bars was broadcast on 3CR from 5-9 July 2021.// slumberkitty, a genderqueer, writer, musician and troublemaker who has been on the Victorian Pride Centre’s community reference group, joins us to discuss the opening of the Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda.// Flora and Hal from the Community Union Defence League join us to speak about the work of CUDL Melbourne and their fundraiser CUDL PUDL, which will be held on Friday 16 July from 5PM at Cafe Gummo in Thornbury. Flora and Hal are both members of the Australian Communist Party, and Flora will be performing at the event under the name Magnetite Moth.// Songs King Brown - Barkaa Brand New - Mi-kaisha Cashmere - Tkay Maidza
Thursday 8th July 2021 7:15am - We hear an excerpt from the 2021 Emerging Writers' Festival Late Night Literature: Imagining Abolitionist Futures event. The event is hosted by Nayuka and Witt Gorrie. We hear poetry from Flick Smith, and poetry & prose by Ashleigh Chapman and Stacey Stokes which is recited by Nayuka & Witt Gorrie. Rosalina Curtis also shares her story about growing up in the Northern Territory. 7:30am - We hear a speech by Shams Moussa, a Palestinian activist, from the Free Palestine Rally in Narrm on Saturday 3rd July. 7:45am - Tony Green & Neithan Newton from Dardi Munwurro join us to speak about their new show, Strong Spirit that airs on 3CR every Monday from 1pm. This show features interviews with community members from a First Nations perspectives and focuses on having discussions about cultural healing and inter-generational trauma.
8:00am - Fayen d’Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of unceded Dja Dja Wurrung country, Australia. Her projects are often collaborative, and resist spectatorship by inviting audiences into sensorial readings of artworks. Fayen joins us to talk about her solo exhibition opening at West Space this saturday 10th July. The exhibition is titled "We get in touch with things at the point they break down // Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates…" Online elements of the exhibition can be found here. 8:15am - Yves Rees, writer, podcaster and historian based at La Trobe University, joins us to speak about the recently released special issue of Bent St journal, 'Soft Borders, Hard Edges'. This issue, co-edited with Sam Elkin and Tiffany Jones, contains a collection of pieces by members of the trans and gender diverse community. Soft Borders, Hard Edges is available widely online, as well as at Hares and Hyenas in Fitzroy and The Bookshop Darlinghurst. Songs Indigenous land - Drmngnow Smoking Ceremony - Skinnyfish Sound System, B2m, Birdz, Tasman Keith
Thursday 1 July 2021
7:15 am - Amy & Karen activists involved in the Homes Not Prisons campaign join us to speak about the campaign to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost Prison. Amy also shares her story of being incarcerated at Dame Phyllis Frost Prison and she shares an indepth insight into the draconian Victorian bail laws which came into effect in 2018 8:00am - Deb Lee, NSW Sector Development Officer from the First Peoples Disability Network joins us to speak about the experiences of people with cognitive disability and the issues people face when coming into contact with criminal legal system and NDIS 8:15am - George Kanjere, representing the newly formed Save the Preston Market Action Group, joins us to discuss the fight to save Preston Market from aggressive redevelopment proposed by the Victorian Planning Authority Songs Kee'ahn - Better Things Better in Blak - Thelma Plum
Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Coronial Inquest into death in custody of Raymond Noel Lindsey ThomasRISE statement on Refugee Week/Day We hear a segment from Episode 2 of Radio A & A, a new program on 3CR talking about community and individual accountability, transformative justice, support, healing & prison abolition in Narrm. In this interview Anne-lise & Ani speak with Aunty Lisa, Keith and Iris about the Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Support Fund Lucie McMahon (director and producer), Celeste de Clario Davis (cinematographer and producer) and Will (Walker st tenant) join us to talk about their work-in-progress documentary film Things Will Be Different, which focuses on neighbours Will and Najat who were displaced from their communities when the Walker Street Public Housing Estate was sold for private development. You can donate to support the production of this documentary here. Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of cultural and social analysis at Western Sydney University, joins us to unpack some of the current conservative uproar about 'critical race theory', and to discuss the importance of critical engagements with racism. Her latest book, Why Race Still Matters, was published by Polity Press in 2020. Tom Sayers is a United Workers Union Spokesperson and Union Organiser who is on site with striking General Mills workers at Rooty Hill. Tom joins us this morning to discuss the ongoing strike action by workers at General Mills who are fighting for wage increases and to protect conditions. Support their campaign here and follow the hashtags #PassOnOldElPaso #WorkersRaiseWages SongsStill Standing - Kobie Dee ft. Liyah KnightTip of the Spear - Pataphysics
Acknowledgement of Country News Headline El Gibbs, disability advocate and award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, has been a guest on Thursday Breakfast several times this year to discuss the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the issue of independent assessments, the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine for disabled folks, and outcomes for disabled people in the latest federal budget. Today, El chats with us about the intersections between this advocacy work and community media. Anna Carlson is a host and producer with 4ZZZ Radio Reversal - one of our sibling radio shows based in Meanjin. Anna joins us to chat about community radio and why you should support it! We speak with Yamiko Marama and Amarachi Okorom, two artists who are part of ‘Amazing Babes’, an online storytelling event that is part of the Emerging Writers Festival. Amarachi Okorom is a Nigerian born Igbo actor, spoken word poet and emerging playwright. She has recently started diving into writing for stage and has been in residency in 2020 with Lonely Company. Yamiko Marama is a writer, therapist and food truck owner from Naarm. Yamiko is an inaugural recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter Fellowship and is a contributor to Growing Up Queer in Australia. Anti-poverty activist Kristin O'Connell, has been a regular guest on 3CR Thursday Breakfast over 2020-21. Kristin speaks with us today about anti-poverty activism and community media, and provides a brief update on the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Bill 2021, which stands to make rapid and significant changes to mutual obligation requirements. With a special guest call from Priya’s parents :) SongsBullseye - Jess BBefore Daylight - The MerindasHeartless - ONEFOURDamaged - MiieshaAncstr - The Ancient Bloods
Acknowledgement of Country News Headline We hear Behrouz Boochani speaking as part of the program 'Infrastructural Inequalities: Resistant Media and Abolitionist Futures' broadcast online on 14th May. The panel focused on carceral infrastructures and the struggle to abolish them. Infrastructural Inequalities is a journal and public program that investigates how infrastructural systems distribute resources, capacities, and harms in differentiated and unjust ways. Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, filmmaker and former refugee. Julia Dehm joins us to discuss an open letter, from a group of Legal experts, calling on Australian government to support a trade law waiver to address global COVID-19 vaccine production. Julia Dehm is a Senior Lecturer at the La Trobe Law School. Her research addresses international and domestic climate change and environmental law and questions of human rights, economic inequality and social justice. Mudit Vyas joins us to speak about the experiences of International Students in Melbourne, during COVID-19. Mudit is a graduate researcher at Monash University, majoring in the study of Cultural Industries. Mudit has been challenging some of the changes last year at Universities around online delivery of courses and the continued mass intake of international students. Dr Lesley Russell, Associate Professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, joins us to speak about the recently announced changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule, and their impacts on consumers, doctors and insurers, with a public health and health equity framing. SongsSquidgenini - Into My HeartTseba ft. Electric Fields - Must Be LoveZiggy Ramo ft. Paul Kelly - Little Things
Thursday 3 June 2021 7:15 - Anna Carlson from 4ZZZ radio reversal interviews Jamal Nabulsi, a diaspora Palestinian writer and researcher, living on the unceded sovereign lands of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. His research explores the intersections between emotion and resistance, through analysing Palestinian practices of graffiti and hip-hop music. In this interview, which also includes part of Low Key's track "Free Palestine", we talk about some of the Palestinian justice organising that has happened as part of the Disrupt Land Forces Expo. 7:30 - We hear a speech by Tabitha Lean as part of the program 'Infrastructural Inequalities: Resistant Media and Abolitionist Futures' broadcast online on 14th May. Infrastructural Inequalities is a journal and public program that investigates how infrastructural systems distribute resources, capacities, and harms in differentiated and unjust ways. Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman, activist, storyteller and lived experience abolitionist. Tabitha speaks about why she is an abolitionist and how abolition is a framework for organising, a longterm goal and way of living. 7:45 - We hear audio from Disrupt Landforces. The audio features, part of a speech by Oula, a Syrian refugee who is an organiser with the Socialist Alternative and the current Environment Officer at the UQ union as well as an interview with Andy Paine, Sam Watson Junior (Wangeriburrah and Birrigybba) and George from the Free West Papua campaign. 8:00 - Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, spoke with Priya earlier this week about the urgent need for changes to bail laws in Victoria and their impact on Aboriginal people, as well as the Victorian government's failure to provide adequate funding for Aboriginal Legal services in the 2021 state budget. 8:15 - Margaret Pestorius gives us an update from the Disrupt Landforces demonstrations in Meanjin, Brisbane
Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We hear excerpts of speeches from the rally to support harm reduction in the Inner West, held in Nicholson Mall, Footscray on Saturday May 22nd. The same week saw opponents of a safe injecting facility, including the ALP Mayor of Maribyrnong Michael Clarke and right wing politicians, mobilise on Wednesday night, which was also counter-protested. The rally in support of harm reduction was co-chaired by Phoebe McDonald (speaking first) and Liz Walsh from the Victorian Socialists. Earlier this week, Rosie caught up with Fernanda Rodriguez, a member of the Colombian community living in Melbourne. Fernanda is an engineer and a member of Solidarity for Colombia, a group that has been raising funds to support First Line, a Colombian activist organisation. Fernanda joined Rosie to discuss the ongoing protests and strikes in Colombia. Women on the Line presenter Scheherazade Bloul interviewed Jeanine Hourani this week about the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, Israeli arms manufacturing, complicity and solidarity. Jeanine Hourani is a Palestinian activist, campaigner, and storyteller. She is currently the director of Road to Refuge, an organisation that aims to change the narrative around refugees and people seeking asylum by transferring the power of narrative back to those most directly impacted. Catch the full episode of Women on the Line this coming Monday May 31st from 8:30-9AM on 3CR, or listen back at 3cr.org.au/womenontheline. Professor Libby Porter at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, and a member of Save Public Housing Collective, joins us to provide a public housing-focused analysis of the Victorian budget 2021-22. Read the full Save Public Housing Collective budget analysis by Professor Porter and Dr David Kelly here. We hear a speech by Samah Sabawi, Palestinian playwright, author and poet, at the Narrm/Melbourne Nakba Rally held on Saturday May 22nd at 1PM outside the State Library of Victoria, which continued to amplify calls to end the Gaza siege, save Sheikh Jarrah and call for the end of Israeli colonisation beyond just a ceasefire. Find out more about local actions and events in support of Palestine at Free Palestine Melbourne, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, and BDS Australia. Songs//Sardine Baby - Maurial Spearim
Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Noura Mansour, a Palestinian educator, political analyst, community organiser and campaigner from Akka. Noura discussed Israeli apartheid and genocidal violence against Palestinians, Palestinian anti-colonial resistance, and solidarity with Palestine. Free Palestine Rally Saturday 22nd May 1pm at The State Library Nakba Forum - Free Palestine Melbourne Matt Kunkel, Director of Migrant Workers Centre joins us to speak about their campaign to assist workers on temporary visas who were erroneously approved JobKeeker and are now being asked to return the JobKeeker money to the ATO. Amy & Karen activists involved in the Homes Not Prisons campaign join us to speak about the campaign to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost prison. Samira Farah joins us to discuss the exhibition 13 Years at West Space. Samira is an art producer and radio presenter. She is a co-founder of Melbourne based black African arts collective still nomads. She currently hosts The Score on Triple R. Sione Crawford, CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria, joins us to speak about the importance of supervised, safe injecting facilities in Melbourne and countering conservative pushback against these sites. Songs Daboor - Sheikh JarrahMiiesha - DamagedSquidgenini - All Made UpBudjerah - Shoulda Coulda
Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Anti-poverty activist Kristin O'Connell joins us to give us a run down of the federal budget 2021-22 with a focus on social security. 3CR Tuesday Breakfast presenter Evie interviews Jeanine Hourani about what's happening in Sheikh Jarrah. Jeanine Hourani is a Palestinian advocate, campaigner and educator who arrived in Australia as a stateless Palestinian refugee in 1997. She is currently the Director of Road to Refuge, an organisation that aims to change the narrative around refugees and people seeking asylum by transferring the power of narrative back to those who are most directly impacted. EMERGENCY: Palestine Melbourne Rally This Saturday And NextEmail your MPs - template here El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. El joins Thursday Breakfast to continue our discussion of the NDIS and funding for mental health and disability services, following the release of the federal budget on Tuesday. Milima May from Uprising of the People joins us to speak about newly amended NT youth justice legislation. SongsMali Huriye (I don’t have freedom) - Dam Galbi Dari - Zenobia Maskhara - Bashar Murad Cavalry - Mashrou' Leila
Acknowledgement of Country News headlines Dr Vikrant Kishore, a filmmaker and academic at Deakin University, joined us to speak about COVID-19 and caste discrimination in Australia and India. Dr Kishore's current work involves capturing stories of cultural flows and their impacts on the Indian diaspora in Australia, and his approach involves integrating traditional cultural practices with new media technologies.// Monica Karst, a mental health social worker and founder of Safe Haven Counselling, discussed the proposed extension to telehealth services under Medicare, how the introduction of telehealth services last year impacted service users, and what is needed going forward.// Felix Ralph is a criminal lawyer at Marshall Jovanovska Ralph Criminal Lawyers based in Melbourne’s Western suburbs and CBD, and appears regularly in specialist criminal courts like the Drug Court. He joined us to discuss recent plans for a Drug Court to be introduced into the Victorian County Court.// Guido Melo and Stephen Pham spoke with us about the new anthology, ‘Racism: Stories of Fear, Hate & Bigotry,’ published by Sweatshop Western Sydney Literacy Movement. Stephen Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Cabramatta. He has been published in Meanjin, Griffith Review of Books, and Sydney Review of Books. Most recently he co-wrote Sex Drugs & Pork Rolls, which was produced by UTP and debuted at Sydney Festival 2021. Guido Melo is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx multilingual author and poet based in Naarm (Melbourne). His words can be found in Peril Magazine, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese, Cordite, Voz Limpia, Alma Preta Jornalismo and Guia Negro News.// Jasmine Pilbrow from Make West Papua Safe joins us to discuss an action on Monday, 10 May 2021 to call on the Australian Federal Police to stop training the Indonesian National Police Force.// Songs// On Our Way - CLYPSO// One - Tasman Keith & Kwame//
Acknowledgement of country News headlines In the lead up to May Day Ella, from 3CR's Wednesday Breakfast, spoke with Lizzie O’Shea on The nature of work and why the term "unskilled labour" doesn't really exist. Bernardo Duarte, member of the Timorese community, and one of the organisers of the Melbourne Timorese Relief Fund joins us to discuss the situation in Timor-Leste following catastrophic floods at Easter and the impact of Covid-19. Donate here. Jenny Davidson, CEO of the Council of Single Mothers and their Children Victoria, speaks with us about the current Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into the ParentsNext program of welfare conditionality, as well as broader concerns about the program. Submissions are due by 4 May 2021, and more information is available here. Porobibi, West Papuan activist and community organiser, joins the show to give us an update on West Papua and speak about an upcoming event, Before the Genocide happening this 3pm Saturday May 1st at Collingwood Yards. Boe Spearim, Kooma, Muriwarri & Gamilaraay, joins us to speak about his podcast Frontier War Stories, each episode is dedicated to truth-telling about a side of Australia that has been left out of the history books. Frontier War Stories now has 21 episodes and is celebrating its first birthday! SongsTMO - Squidgenini
Acknowledgement of country News headlines Julia Bak is a queer, takatapui writer based in Narrm. Julia joins us to speak about the Disability Justice Network - a newly formed grassroots collective which has created a national mutual aid fund to provide support to marginalised disabled people. El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. El joins us to discuss the delayed introduction of independent assessments to the NDIS, what disability communities are actually calling for in the scheme and the Covid-19 vaccine roll out for disabled folks. Sam Guerra is a queer, non-binary Primary School teacher. They join us to discuss the fight against NSW One Nation MP Mark Latham's anti-trans Education Legislation Amendment 2020 (Parental Freedoms) Bill, which is currently before NSW parliament. Sign the petition pushing back against the Bill here, and find out more about future actions here. Asher Wolf is a founder of CryptoParty and an Amnesty Australia 'Humanitarian Media Award' recipient. Asher spearheaded the campaign against Robodebt which began in 2016 due to the Federal Government's plan to prevent fraud and recover debt from welfare recipients. They join us to speak about vanishing Centrelink debts and Roboplanning logics of NDIS reforms. SongsStranger - Dallas Woods ft. Kee’ahnRole Models - Kobie Dee
Acknowledgement of country News headlines Meriki Onus, host of The Black Block, speaks to Wurundjeri woman, Sue-Anne Hunter, about the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission - a truth-telling process expected to begin in July 2021. This episode on The Black Block was aired on 12 April 2021 and you can find the whole episode online. The Black Block is an Indigenous current affairs program that is broadcast on 3CR every Monday from 11am-1pm. June Riemer, Deputy CEO of the First Peoples Disability Network, joins us to speak about proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. We discuss mandatory independent assessments, the experiences of First Nations Peoples when accessing NDIS and the slow rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine to the disability community. Amanda, an activist scholar of Aboriginal (Brinja-Yuin) and settler (Greek, English) descent, provides some reflections on the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Apryl Day, Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Barapa Barapa woman and daughter of Tanya Day – a proud Yorta Yorta grandmother who died in the custody of Victoria Police in 2017, reads the demands of families whose loved ones have died in custody at the Naarm rally for the National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody on Saturday April 10th. Steph Tzanetis, Harm Reduction Victoria’s DanceWize Program Director and board member of Harm Reduction Australia, which runs Pill Testing Australia, discusses the state of support availability for people who use drugs and/or alcohol and how this has changed over COVID. She speaks about findings from the recent coronial inquest into the deaths of five young men between July 2016 and January 2017 after ingesting what they believed to be MDMA and/or magic mushrooms. Today, 15th April, marks 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Some events we encourage listeners to tune into: 1pm 15th April - Stop Black Deaths in Custody Webinar organised by NATSILS3pm 15th April 30 Years: Still No Justice organised by FISTT, WAR and Gamilaraay Next Generation6pm Monday 19th April - Stop Black Deaths in Custody Webinar organised by NATSILS SongsPookie - Mad
Acknowledgement of Country// Micaela Sahhar joined us earlier in the week to discuss her essay ‘COVID Among the Palestinians,’ which was published in Arena Quarterly no. 5. Micaela is a Melbourne-based writer, poet and researcher.// Chris Schuringa from the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) provided us with an update about Camp Errinundra - a blockade halting forest logging in East Gippsland. For more information about Camp Errinundra, visit GECO's website. Key politicians to call and email with your concerns about the forest logging are: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Minister for Energy Environment & Climate Change Lily D'Ambrosio, and Minister for Regional Development & Minister for Agriculture - Mary-Anne Thomas, who is the Minister in charge of VicForests.// Bianca Hennessy, a unionist working with Casualised, Unemployed and Precarious University Workers in so-called Australia, or CUPUW for short, joined us to discuss CUPUW's work and upcoming summit on April 9-10. Bianca is a casual academic and PhD candidate at the Australian National University.// Eirene Tsolidis Noyce, Secretary of the Renters and Housing Union, spoke about recent extensions to the transitional measures for Victorian renters affected by COVID 19, as well as changes to rental property standards.// CONTENT WARNING: TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE, DEATH. On Tuesday 6 April, Anakbayan Melbourne, Gabriela and Migrante held a rally and vigil calling for justice for Mhelody Polan Bruno, a 25 year old Filipina trans woman who died in 2019 in Wagga Wagga, NSW, at the hands of a member of the royal Australian air force. Lawrence, a member of Anakbayan Melbourne, read out a statement from Bahaghari, an anti-imperialist Filipino LGBTQ+ organisation, calling for justice for Mhelody.// Songs// Faithfool - Man Made Mountain ft. Silentjay and LUCFR Circle;Line - Squidgenini Fly - Birdz ft. Ngaiire
Acknowledgement of Country// Thea Deakin-Greenwood, a solicitor from the Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre, discussed calls and support for restorative justice models as another way to address sexual assault matters. Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre's support for alternative models to the criminal legal system follows in light of the NSW Law Reform Commission's recent recommendations to expand criminal legal reforms for sexual consent.// Tasnim Sammak, a PhD candidate at Monash University researching the emergence of youth political subjectivities and imaginaries, joined us to speak about Palestinian Land Day. On Saturday, hundreds gathered at the state library in Narrm/Melbourne to honour Palestinian Land Day, which falls on March 30, commemorating the murder of six Palestianian protestors in 1976 as they were calling attention to Israel’s expropriation of thousands of hectares of land. Tasnim has been involved in Palestinian and Muslim organising since the 2008 Israeli onslaught on Gaza.// Apryl Day, a proud Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Barapa Barapa woman, talks about the Dhadjowa Foundation, which is being established to provide strategic, coordinated and culturally appropriate support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families whose loved ones have died in custody. Apryl is the daughter of Tanya Day, a proud Yorta Yorta grandmother who died in the custody of Victoria Police in 2017.// Ronnie Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai woman who lives and writes in Victoria. She spoke with us about her debut book, Black and Blue, a memoir of her childhood and the decade she spent in the Queensland police force.// Songs// I Can’t Breathe - DOBBY and Barkaa//
Acknowledgement of Country Jack, a delegate from the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), spoke with us to provide an update about the eviction moratorium, which prevents landlords in Victoria evicting tenants for rental arrears. Kristin O'Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, joins us to discuss the Jobmaker hiring credit and the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy and COVID-19 JobSeeker supplement in light of the current Senate inquiry into job security. Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, founding editor of the institutional critique platform Decolonial Hacker and curatorial assistant at the Julia Stoschek Collection, discusses Decolonial Hacker. Eugene is a writer based in Berlin, whose work has appeared in Art+Australia, Griffith Review, The Saturday Paper, Running Dog, and PW-MAGAZINE, among others. Evelyn Araluen joins us to speak about her debut collection of poetry, Dropbear. Evelyn is a poet, researcher and co-editor of the Overland literary journal. She has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Evelyn was born and raised on Dharug Country and she descends from the Bundjalung Nation. SongsHeatsink - imbi and Slim SetBones - TelenovaTwo Lovers - Tia GostelowCruisin’ - Emily Wurramurra
Acknowledgement of country We hear Doin Time's Marisa Sposaro speak with Tabitha Lean last week on International Womens' Day - a day generally not inclusive of Indigenous women. Tabitha spells out the dangers of carceral responses to harm and what criminalising coercive control could mean for Indigenous women experiencing family violence. Doin Time airs Monday from 4-5pm on 3CR. Scott Jordan, Tarkine campaigner joins us on the show to speak about the blockade at Venture Minerals' Riley Creek mine site. Yesterday activists blocked the mine site in an effort to prevent works on the controversial and environment destroying project. You can find out more on Facebook and at the Bob Brown Foundation. NO COMMENT is an investigation by Bridget Chappell into the science of phase cancellation — the phenomenon when audio waves work against each other eliminating inverse frequencies — and the theory of ungovernable space. Chappell imagines an anti-carceral speculative future of sound technologies, and tactical defence to ‘phase cancel the cops’ in material, political and psychic terms. The exhibition is located at Blindside level 7, Room 14 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Naarm/Melbourne. Dr Ruth de Souza, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at RMIT University, joins us to talk about recent research on older migrant Australians' experiences of isolation during COVID-19. Ruth is a nurse, academic and community engaged researcher in gender, race, health and digital technologies. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow role at The Centre for Digital Transformation of Health at The University of Melbourne and has her own consulting practice. Tilde Joy, from 3CR's Stick Together show, comes on to chat about the special 3CR Binary Busting Broadcast, which airs this Sunday the 21st of March from 12-7PM. SongsIzy - FranticBarkaa - 22clan
Acknowledgement of Country// Adam Thompson, a pakana writer from Launceston, Tasmania, speaks about his debut book of short stories, ‘Born Into This’. Adam has won several local writing awards and has been published by the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Kill Your Darlings and Griffith Review.// Tony Briggs, Artistic Director of the Birrarangga Film Festival, joins us to talk about the festival, which runs from March 11-14 at ACMI. Tony Briggs is a Yorta Yorta/Wurundjeri Stage and Screen Creative - he is an actor, writer, director and producer and he was the creator of the hit feature film The Sapphires. The Birrarangga Film Festival is a celebration of Indigenous films from across the globe that explore themes of 'strength, resilience and the environment'.// Andrew Giles, spokesperson for the United Workers Union, joins us to discuss the ongoing strike by workers at food manufacturer McCormick, over wage freezes and threats to conditions. Support striking McCormick workers here.// Mali Hermans, a Wiradjuri organiser, writer, community worker and project officer at Women with Disabilities Australia living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land, joins us to discuss the government's plan to introduce independent assessments to the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act, and why this proposed change is so concerning. As a disabled woman, Mali is deeply invested in disability justice work, committed to challenging ableism and its intersections with colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy and class, and is studying a Master of Social Work.// Songs//Ek Parivar - L-Fresh the Lion and Akaali Inc// Frantic - Izy// Get Me Out - King Stingray// Don’t Give Up On Me - Emma Donovan and the Putbacks//
Acknowledgement of country News headlines Jill Gallagher, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation speaks to Carly about the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. The final report, released on Tuesday, highlights the catastrophic failures of the mental health system in Victoria. Jill speaks about VACCHO's hopes post-Royal Commission to establish two co-designed healing centres, as well as hopes to create more culturally appropriate and family-oriented health services. Amelia Bright, University of Melbourne Student Union Queer Office Bearer, speaks about the recent escalation of transphobia at the University of Melbourne and how students and staff are fighting back against it to create a campus where everyone feels safe. Chris Schuringa from the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) joins us to give an update about Camp Errinundra - a blockade halting forest logging in East Gippsland. Larissa Baldwin is a Widjabul woman from the Bundjalung Nations and GetUp’s First Nations Justice Campaign Director. Larissa joins us to discuss Get Up's petition calling for an 'Urgent Moratorium to protect sacred sites' in response to mining giant BHP's irreparable damage to a Banjima sacred site in the Pilbara in so-called Western Australia. Hella Ibrahim, founder and editorial director of Djed Press, joins us to talk about Djed's editorial mentorship and featured writers programs, which will open for application soon, as well as their Bla(C)K speculative fiction anthology. Songs YUWANI - Mambali ft. Emily WurramaraA Long Way From My Country - Kobie Dee
Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Jay Coonan, the National Operations Co-coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, joins us to discuss the coalition government's abysmal raise to Jobseeker, tightening of Mutual Obligations and AUWU's #80aDay campaign. Jay is also the outgoing policy coordinator for the AUWU. Ben Redford is the Director of Strategic Power at the United Workers Union. Ben joins us to update listeners on the government's proposed Industiral Relations bill and to discuss the United Workers Union's campaigns around stolen wages. Sean, a renter in Thornbury, member of the Renting and Housing Union's eviction defence team, and neighbour to Louise, joins us to speak about RAHU's Keep Louise Home campaign.Alexander Powers is a DJ, music producer, event organiser, contemporary dancer and choreographer living and working on Wurundjeri land. they join us to talk about the upcoming launch of Powertrip, a label showcasing local queer dance music.SongsHold On - Emma Donovan and the PutbacksChurch - Kuya NeilPlease U - Becca Hatch ft. Planet VegetaMedusa - Jesswar
Acknowledgement of country News Wiradyuri Traditional Owners, Yanhadarrambal Uncle Jade Flynn, Mallyan Uncle Brian Grant, Dinawan Uncle Bill Allen and Arlia Fleming from Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre join Carly to discuss the scheduled destruction of a sacred Wiradyuri women’s site on Whaluu (Mount Panorama). To support Wiradyuri Traditional Owners, voice your concern about the go kart track by calling Paul Toole MP, State Member for Bathurst on (02) 6332 1300 and sign the petition Save Mount Panorama. Jonathan Hempel is a researcher for American Friends Service Committee and the co-founder of the Database of Israeli Military and Security Export, DIMSE.info. He joined us to discuss Israeli arms and security intelligence companies exporting to Australia. On Tuesday 16th February a Victorian research centre, a partnership between Israeli owned company Elbit Systems and the Victorian government, was launched. Human rights organisations and research reports have criticised Elbit (among other Israeli arms and security companies) for their involvement in occupation of Palestine and profiting from war. Dr David Kelly, Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT and an organiser at the Save Public Housing Collective, joins us to discuss the Victorian government's current consultation for the development of a 10-year strategy for social and affordable housing, and to explain the importance of maintaining and building public housing.
Acknowledgement of country //News //Liv Tualau joins the show to speak about Nursery for Community, a nursery adaptation project in Vanuatu. The project has been created as a response to climate change and natural disasters which have damaged the livelihoods of many across the island, impacting on food stock and food security. You can support the project here. //Liz Starry is a financial counsellor working at Women's Legal Service. She will join us to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted financially disadvantaged women experiencing family violence. Liz has worked in several community service organisations, and prior to the Legal Service, with people experiencing homelessness. As a Financial counsellor, Liz is a member of Financial Counselling Vic and convenes the Working Group on Centrelink issues. //Jack Bertolus, Research Coordinator at Market Forces joins us to speak about tax breaks afforded to the resource extraction industry and recent disclosures of fossil fuel company donations to major political parties. //Gala Vanting, National Programs Manager at Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, speaks about the federal government's Online Safety Bill, which poses a serious threat to sex worker livelihoods and digital freedom and privacy. //Ayebatonye Abrakasa, DJ and artist based on Gadigal Land, joins us to chat about the brand new podcast Four to the Floor: Exploring the Bla(c)k roots of contemporary music, a podcast about Bla(c)k music, history and culture in Australia and beyond. Four to the Floor is created and hosted by Ayebatonye and produced by Sarah Mashman as part of Melbourne Music Week, and you can catch the first episode with guest Paul Gorrie here. // Songs //Kick off by Khtek //
Acknowledgement of country News headline Chris Schuringa from GECO spoke to us in April 2020 about the 10-year logging exemptions that had been rolled over at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions while the area was recovering from this season's devastating bushfires. These logging exemptions means that native forests will continue to be destroyed. We cross live to Isaac Carné who is currently occupying a tree in an area of the lands of the Gunaikurnai, Bidewell and Monero people, also known as East Gippsland, which is earmarked for logging by VicForrests despite government recommendations released in October last year. We are joined by Carly Findlay and C.B. Mako joins us to discuss Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Carly Findlay OAM is a writer, speaker and appearance activist. She is the author of memoir 'Say Hello' and the editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia C.B. Mako is a non-fiction, fiction, and fanfiction writer, member of Disabled QBIPOC Collective and a contributor to Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Tameeka Tighe, Gomeroi, Dunghutti and Biripi woman and member of Gamilaraay Next Generation and Fighting in Solidarity Towards Treaties (FISTT), joins us to talk about tomorrow's day of action organised by Gamilaraay next Generation to protest Santos' Narrabri Gas Project and the Santos Festival of Rugby. Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. She joins us to discuss the digital launch of Voiceworks issue 121, Root where you will find knitted boyfriends, flooded apartments and regret-filled werewolves. Voiceworks is a national literary journal that features exciting new writing and art by young Australians. Their purpose is to create a space for people under twenty-five to develop their creative and editorial skills and to publish, and be paid for, their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and comics. Songs No Further Than you - Izy
Acknowledgement of country News headline We hear Yorta Yorta Bundjalung man John Patten speaking about the history of the Day of Mourning at the Invasion Day Dawn Service 2021. We hear an excerpt of speeches from the Invasion Day Rally 2021 in Naarm. We hear from speakers Uncle Bill Nicholson, Stan Dryden, Sue-Anne Hunter and Mandy Nicholson. Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union, joins us to discuss the impending second cut to the jobseeker payment and the need for vision and compassion in Australian social security policy. Priya and Carly fundraisers and petition that listeners can support, including:NATSILS - Petition calling on the Prime Minister to meet with families whose loved ones have died in custody for 30th anniversary of Royal CommissionLandBack Festival - Fundraiser for Wuurn of Kanak Refugee Voices Fundraiser for the men released from hotel detention Songs Solid Gold - Sycco White Noise - Dancingwater Groovy - Barkaa About These Demons - Jimblah Australia Does Not Exist (ft. Kee'ahn) - DRMNGNOW
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Mozhgan Moarefizadeh and Nicole Curby, co-hosts of The Wait, join us to introduce listeners to the podcast. The Wait is a new five-part narrative podcast series, telling the story of the refugees stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s border crackdown. The Wait will be airing each week on Thursday Breakfast during our summer programming. Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union, gives us a rundown of the big changes in social security policy in 2020. Shakira Hussein joins us to discuss two of her recent articles: The Christchurch Massacre:an Australian Crime and the other on ecofacism and disability published on the other film festival. Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of From Victims to Suspects:Muslim Women from 9/11. Joshua Badge, a queer writer and philosopher living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, joins us to discuss and contextualise the most recent spate of queer and transphobic articles in Australian media. Joshua's writing has been featured in places like Meanjin, Overland, The Guardian, & Junkee. They previously lectured at Deakin University and currently volunteer with Thorne Harbour Health and the Renters and Housing Union. Priya reads No Flowers, a poem by Bridget Flack, as a tribute to her memory. Vale Bridget Flack. SongsJerome Farah - Vibrate
Acknowledgement of country News We hear an excerpt from a conversation between Carol Que and Joel Spring, part of the Digital Launch of Hyphenated Biennial 2020/2021. Carol and Joel speak about Anticolonial Asian Alliance, Radio Skid Row and translation work. George Newhouse, Principal Solicitor and Director of the National Justice Project joins us to speak about the High Court of Australia's recent decision ruling that the Federal Court has the power to hear the claims of over 50 refugees and asylum seekers. Claimants now have the opportunity to take action for breaches of duty of care whilst held in the custody of the Australian government. Liz Crash is a local historian of Melbourne and prison abolitionist, as well as a co-creator of the Underfoot project, a series of virtual tours uncovering the secret histories of Footscray. Liz joins us to speak out about and historically contextualise the recently launched redevelopment of Pentridge Prison in Coburg into a retail and hospitality precinct. Keith Quayle joins us to discuss the push to remove police and corrective services officers from the Mardi Gras parade and plans for Pride in Protest’s Mardi Gras Oxford Street Takeover next March. Keith Quayle is a Malyangapa/Barkindji gay man raised on Dharug country. He is a member of Pride in Protest, SWOP and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Members Committee. Aminata is a true aquarian vegan weirdo and they'll be a guest artist on Channel QTIPOC hosted by InVisible, a community led queer program that connects PoC, Friday December 11th at 4pm. SongsBosh - DjombBarkaa - 22 clanMiiesha - Neon Moon
Acknowledgement of country News Last week, Tecber Ahmed Salah, Head of African Union Department, Ministry of Public Health in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Oxfam Algeria Country Director, Haissam Minkara spoke with the Australian Western Sahara Association about the precarity and effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the Saharawi residents of Tindouf camps in Algeria. Bobuq Sayed is a fiction writer, essayist, editor, and multidisciplinary artist. Their research interests include the War on Terror, fugitivity, queer and trans* studies, theories of place, and faggotry. On November 23rd they published A New Generation of Australian War Criminals in Meanjin online in response to the mainstream media coverage of the Brereton Report and war crimes perpetrated by the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan. Candy Bowers joins us to speak about her podcast Multi-Hypho. Candy Bowers is a radical mischief-maker and award-winning cross-disciplinary artist born of South African political refugees. She has a long list of original works to her name, including Inna Thigh: The Sista She Story, The Naked MC, Hyper Fragility #why-are-white-men-so-defensive-lol, MC Platypus & Queen Koala's Hip Hop Jamboree, Who's That Chik?, Australian Booty, One The Bear and Hot Brown Honey Burlesque. June Riemer, Deputy CEO of First Peoples' Disability Network, joins us to discuss the Disability Royal Commission from a First Nations perspective, focusing on the intersection between disability and child removal. SongsAziza Brahim Baraka
Acknowledgement of country News Karen Wyld joins us to talk about her newly published book, Where the Fruit Falls. Karen Wyld is a freelance writer and author currently based in South Australia but her grandmother's county, Martu is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Human rights defender and activist Adolf Mora joins us today to speak more about the situation in West Papua and the Make West Papua Safe campaign. Adolf came by boat in 2006 and has been detained in Christmas Island for a bit then granted temporary protection via and came to Narrm since then to continue the campaign for his people’s struggle under Indonisian colonialism. Professor Libby Porter joins us to discuss the Andrews Government’s recent announcement of investment in social housing and what it really means. Libby Porter is a research fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University and convenor for Darebin Community Friends of Public Housing which is a member of Save Public Housing Collective. Dr. Fiona Foley joins us on the show to speak about her new book Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. Fiona Foley is from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala nation. Foley completed her fourth film titled Out of the Sea Like Cloud in 2019. Her recent exhibitions include a 25-year photographic retrospective titled Who Are These Strangers and Where Are They Going? Dr Fiona Foley is currently a Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Kamal Fadel, the representative for the Polisario Front in Australia and New Zealand joins us to discuss the Western Sahara independence movement and the end of a 29-year-old ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario Front, the Western Sahara independence movement, after the Moroccan military opened fire on a blockade halting civic and commercial flux on the only road connecting West Africa to Western Sahara, Morocco and Europe. You can find out more and how to support the Saharawi community in so-called Australia here. SongsEmma Donovan and The Putbacks - Leftovers
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Mother and daughter Savanna and Kim Kruger, members of the Warrior Woman Lane project working group, cousins of Lisa Bellear and part of her Melbourne Aboriginal community, speak to Priya about honouring Lisa Bellear's life and legacy. Arika Waulu (dey/dem), discusses their sovereign-led land-back initiative Wuurn of Kanak. Find out more and support the fundraiser here. Fan Yang (she/her) joins us to speak about QR codes, COVID and surveillance. Fan is a PhD candidate at school of communication and creative arts, Deakin University. She researches and publishes on Chinese technologies overseas and the effect of large-scale international social media platforms in terms of cross-jurisdictional tensions and expectations, and their cross-border effects on political activity and identity, surveillance and information privacy. Viv Malo joins us to discuss the 2020 Beyond the Bars CD launch, on air today from 2-3.30pm. This broadcast event will feature highlights from the July broadcasts and officially launch the 2020 CD. BTB is a 3CR community project designed to give Indigenous prisoners a voice. Encompassing music and spoken word workshops facilitated by Indigenous presenters from 3CR, the project then culminates in six radio shows broadcast live from regional Victorian prisons during NAIDOC Week July 8-12. Viv Malo presentsThe Black Block every Monday from 11am here on 3CR. Featuring local indigenous voices with unadulterated grass roots perspectives. Viv is part of the Beyond The bars production team.Songs Bumpy - FallingDRMNGNOW (ft. Emily Wurramara) - Get Back To The LandBayang - Sugar Cane
Acknowledgement of Country News May Kotsakis joins Rosie to talk about the Phillipines Australia Solidarity Network's upcoming event Legitimising Repression - a discussion that looks at the's Phillipines Anti-Terrorism Act and the proposed ASIO Ammendment Bill 2020. May is the co-chairperson of PASA (Phillipines Australia Solidarity Association). Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union speaks with Priya to demystify the government’s proposal for a JobMaker Hiring Credit and discuss some of its shortcomings. Jim Malo, journalist at Junkee, former property journalist at Domain, joins us to talk about housing in the pandemic. We discuss the Victorian Government's COVID-19 response to homlessness, the challenges of renting throughout the pandemic and the current property market in Victoria Michael-Shawn Fletcher, a Wiradjuri man and Associate Professor of Geography and Director of Research at Indigenous Knowledges Institute at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss the recently-released Bushfire Royal Commission report and the importance of Indigenous land management practices.
Acknowledgement of country Carly and Priya let listeners know that the police officer charged over the death of Kumanjayi Walker has been committed to Supreme Court you can follow updates at #JusticeforWalker campaign and they discuss the destruction of trees at the Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy and share ways for listeners to stand in solidarity. News headlines with Cait Kelly Adam Willson, Senior Drug Outreach Lawyer at Fitzroy Legal Service speaks to Carly about the effects that policing and surveillance, amidst Covid-19, is having on some of Fitzroy Legal Service's clients. A’isyiyah, a Batak and Jawa mother, storyteller and community organiser, joins us to discuss their narrative essay Undocumented, which was released earlier this month by Incendium Radical Library. Undocumented will be launched online on the 6th of November. We hear an interview with the new Senator for Victoria, Lidia Thorpe with Viv Malo and Meriki Onus from 3CR’s The Black Block. They discuss Senator Thorpe’s first week in parliament and her plans for bringing grassroots Aboriginal voices to the Senate. Huna Amweero, a board member at Radio Skid Row in Sydney. Huna speaks with Priya about the recent cut in Radio Skid Row’s operational funding, and the station’s push this week to fundraise to be fully grassroots and community-owned. The fundraiser can be found here. Songs Jesswar - Venom
Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait Kelly Priya gives a brief overview of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh. They provided the following resources for listeners to find out more. https://helparmenians.carrd.co/ bit.ly/artsakh-solidarity Marisol Salinas, host on 3CR's Mujeres Latinoamericanas show joins us to speak about Mapuche political prisoners, Mapuche resistance and the upcoming referendum in Chile. Since this interview protests have sparked in Chile and protestors have set two churches alight including San Francisco de Borja which is regularly used by Carabineros police force. Eileen Chong is a poet based in Sydney. She is the author of eight books, the latest being Rainforest, a collection of 52 poems, published in 2018 by Pitt Street Poetry. Her work has been shortlisted for many prizes, including twice for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Her next book, A Thousand Crimson Blooms, will be published by the University of Queensland Press in April 2021. Today she reads a selection of four poems: three shorter poems from her forthcoming book, and one longer poem, in five parts, from Rainforest. Dr Monique Mann and Dr Jake Goldenfein join Scheherazade to discuss facial recognition and their recent report on regulating biometrics in Australia. Monique is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Monique's socio-legal research concentrates on the intersecting topics of algorithmic justice, police technology, surveillance, and transnational online policing. Jake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar based at Melbourne Law School where he teaches digital platform regulation. He is also an investigator at the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait KellyEditor-in-chief of Archer Magazine, Lucy Watson speaks with Rosie about the new issue of the magazine, and the digital launch and fundraiser for GiveOUT Day on Friday, October 16.Carly speaks with Panda Wong about her residency at Incendium Radical Library - Whispers From Home which is a google doc poem that will be updated throughout the length of the residency. Panda is a poet and editor who lives in Narrm. She is an associate editor at The Suburban Review and has been published in Runway Journal, Rabbit, Sick Leave, Liminal, and more.Griffith Law School and Law Futures Centre researcher, Dr Shelley Bielefeld speaks with Priya about government's new push to expand the Cashless Debit Card across the NT and turn it into a full-blown programThird-year nursing student, public health, community development and writing professional, Hope Mathumbu and aged care nurse Michelle speak with Scheherazade and share their perspectives as frontline workers in aged care and disability support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria.
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Carly treats Thursday Breakfast listeners to a mix of new tracks by local First Nations artists. We hear part of an interview with Dr Kate Shaw on the policy of 'social-mixing' on Carlton's public housing estate, from 3CR's Women on the Line. The episode was aired on Monday the 28th September and was presented by Anya Saravanan and produced by Ayan Shirwa. For this week's writing and poetry segment we hear three poems by Rebecca Jessen. Rebecca Jessen is a timeless boi. a linen daddy. a random shy poet. a sleeping body that remembers desire. a comet trail. a body that is a bridge. a moonstruck adolescent. an incomplete list poem. a lesbian, but… She has two books published with University of Queensland Press. Her poetry collection Ask Me About the Future is out now. You can follow Rebecca on Instagram and Twitter Scheherazade discusses the arrest of Moroccan journalist Imad Stitou. Stitou is a key witness in the case of jailed award-winning journalist Omar Radi. Scheherazade goes on to update listeners on the various North African countries that have continued their crackdown on journalists and freedom of information. Zachary, a delegate for the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU, joins Priya to discuss RAHU's origins, work and concerns regarding Victorian renters' rights during COVID-19. SongsMiiesha - Twisting Words T Breezy - TL Freestyle Jk-47 - Guess Again The Kid LAROI - Let Her Go CLYPSO - Sidestep Sophiegrophy - Shake Baker Boy, Dallas Woods - Better Days (feat. Sampa the Great) Tkay Maidza - Shook Carmouflage Rose - Late Nights
Carly speaks with Thursday Breakfast’s own Scheherazade Bloul about Omar Radi, a Moroccan journalist who has recently been jailed on a series of charges including espionage. Omar is an award-winning investigative journalist and human rights activist who frequently publishes articles about land grabs by speculators and the corruption within Moroccan officials. Omar's imprisonment comes after an investigation by Amnesty International which found that his phone was infected with NSO Pegasus software - Israeli spyware that last year was used illegally against journalists, dissidents and campaigners around the world. We return to Thursday Breakfast's poetry and writing segment. This week we have readings by two poets. First we hear a poem by Jeanine Leane called The Colour of Massacre then we hear Boy Dentata by Vincent Silk. Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west New South Wales. This poem was published as part of Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today, edited by Alison Whittaker. Vincent is a writer, poet and community organiser. His work has been published in the UTS Writers' Anthology, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Archer and Seizure, among other places. Earlier in the year Carly from 3CR Thursday Breakfast spoke with Vincent about his first novel, Sisters of No Mercy. Dani Cotton, a casual tutor and PhD student at the University of Sydney and member of the Usyd Casuals Network, speaks with Priya about the recent protests against course and staff cuts and fee hikes at USYD, and the NSW Police response. Kristin O'Connell, the Australian Unemployed Workers Union Acting Communications Coordinator, joins us to speak about the Australian Government's recent cuts to Jobseeker payments and the Union's concerns about changes to mutual obligations for income support recipients. Robyn Oxley, a Tharawal and Yorta Yorta woman and criminologist and lecturer at Western Sydney University, speaks with Priya about the recent practice direction issued by the Victorian state coroner regarding Indigenous deaths in custody.
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Carly shared Tuesday Breakfast’s panel Classroom to Newsroom: Racial gatekeeping in Australian media with listeners. You can click the link to go to the event page or listen back on Tuesday Breakfast. And Priya read from RISE: Refugees, survivors and eX-detainees’ eX-detainee Day 2020 statement eX-detainee Day was Wednesday 23rd September. Scheherazade speaks with Sue McKinnon from Kinglake Friends of the Forest Inc, a not for profit environment organisation established to advocate for the preservation of the native forests in Kinglake and the Central Highlands. Sue joins us to talks about VicForest’s alleged logging of bushfire protection areas in the central highlands. We return to our Thursday Breakfast poetry and writing segment. Today we listen to 'Unceded Airwaves: Listening with Compassion' written and read by Jason De Santolo. The text was part of Endless Study, Infinite Debt an ongoing collaborative project facilitated by Snack Syndicate that brings together artists, writers, and activists to build spaces of dialogue and collective learning. Dr Jason De Santolo is a researcher and creative producer of Garrwa and Barunggam descent. He is Assoc Professor of Indigenous Research in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney. Priya speaks with Mabel, a Boandik, Gunditjmara and Ngarrindjeri kid living on Kaurna country who has started an undercover kindness campaign with her family, sending care packages and positive affirmations to mob around the country. SongsJK-47 Ft. Chiggz, NATEG & Nerve - On OneGenesis Owusu - I AmBridz ft. Fred Leone - Bagi-la-m Bargan
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly The Thursday Breakfast team discusses recent incidents of police violence across the continent and the systemic nature of this carceral violence. They also share the link to the GoFundMe JUSTICE FOR SHERRY TILBEROO and details for an upcoming vigil and march in Meanjin to demand justice for the death in custody of Aunty Sherry Tilberoo. Schereazade speaks to Jessica Stott, the Service Delivery Manager at the Victorian women, non-binary, and gender-diverse referral group WIRE. WIRE provides a free Victoria-wide support, information, and referrals service. Jessica joins us to discuss the intersections of domestic and family violence, COVID-19, and the lockdown period. We hear a small excerpt from the panel 'Arab-Australian Authors Unite for Lebanon' recorded on Saturday 5th September. To raise funds for the victims of the Beirut explosion, some of so-called Australia’s most celebrated authors, poets, and academics of Lebanese and Arab backgrounds came together for two nights of online discussions about the literature of the Arab diaspora. Hosted by Better Read than Dead bookstore in Newtown Sydney and Sweatshop Writers Collective the panel was moderated by Dr. Jumana Bayeh and featured Ghassan Hage, Amani Haydar, Omar Sakr, Sarah Ayoub, Ruby Hamad, and M M Morsi. 100% of the ticket proceeds were donated to Impact Lebanon, an NGO that provides disaster relief as well as activism resources for the Lebanese diaspora. Carly sits down with Vanmali Hermans, a Wiradjuri, Irish & Flemish woman living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Mali joins us to speak about the Australian Government's recent announcement of independent assessors to be appointed as part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Mali is a disabled organiser and writer, is a board member of Women with Disabilities ACT, and currently works in gender-based violence policy alongside studying a Master of Social Work. Songs Pookie - TuesdayMo'Ju, Birdz, Trials - Rider in the Rain 2020
Acknowledgement of Country News headlines with Cait Kelly Carly sits down with Anne-lise Ahfat- behaviour change facilitator and family violence practitioner who is passionate about transformative justice; and Iris-lee writer and presenter on 3CRs women on the line and queering the air. They speak about prison-industrial complex aboltion in so-called Australia, how to harness newfound acab engergy and the impacts of the internet on abolitionst theory and practice. Bridget Chappell joins us to speak about the upcoming LP release of Undertow, their debut full-length album. Bridget is a sound artist and activist currently based in Mildura/Latji Latji and Nyeri Nyeri country. Undertow will be released on the 30th of September on Heavy Machinery Records, and we play track 4, Elizabeth Street, on the show today.
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Robbie Bundle joins Carly to discuss the Yalinguth Art Prize. Yalinguth (“yesterday” in Woi Wurrung) is an innovative Augmented Reality experience, expressed entirely through sound, accessible via a location-specific mobile App. The Yalinguth prize is seeking submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, living on or connected to the land we now call Victoria, to visually represent the Yalinguth App. Submissions close on the 11th of September. For more details on The Yalinguth Prize, you can visit their Facebook page. Robbie Bundle is a singer-songwriter and musician who has been writing and performing music for more than 35 years. In 2014, Robbie formed the Melbourne Community Indigenous Film Collective (MCIFC), an unincorporated Indigenous organisation that supports the development of Indigenous filmmakers in Victoria. Robbie has been a key force in initiating Yalinguth and is a member of the Project Working Group. We return to our Thursday Breakfast poetry and writing segment. This week we hear Groundwork a text written and read by Snack Syndicate. The text was part of 'Endless Study, Infinite Debt' produced with Liquid Architecture in June this year. Snack Syndicate is Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange. Scheherazade speaks with JN Joniad, a Rohingya refugee and journalist presently living in Jakarta, Indonesia. JN was studying engineering in Myanmar when he was forced to abandon his chosen career path and flee into exile. He has since become a student of political science as well as a writer and human rights activist searching for a safe and durable solution for refugees in Indonesia and around the world. He joins us to discuss Rohingya persecution, life in limbo for people seeking asylum in Indonesia, and the added COVID-19 dynamics. Songs Miiesha ft. Hoodzy, JessB, JessWar - Hold StrongBirdz, Fred Leone - Bagi-la-m Bargan
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear an interview with Messiah Rhodes filmmaker and host of the documentary series Against All Odds. Messiah was interviewed by Amy Goodman on US current affairs program Democracy Now on 14 August. His new documentary series, available online at ajcontrast.com/againstallodds, explores the challenges faced by people released from prison, especially women, through telling his mother's story. Rhodes describes his work as a response to calls to defund police and calls for investment in housing, education, family reunification and mental health support. Soundscapes of the lockdown, produced by Thursday Breakfast’s Scheherazade. A few weeks back we heard sounds from Morocco, and we’ll try to recreate it here. Now, what is a soundscape? Well it's like a landscape but sonic, creating a sense of place through audio. The sounds that we’ll gather each week will represent stage 4 lockdown on unceded lands. This week we’ll hear a few soundscapes that our team made. To contribute sounds please contact us via Instagram @3crthursdaybreakfast We hear part of a conversation between Marisa Sposaro from the Doin Time show and Vickie Roach, Aboriginal writer and activist. Vickie speaks about her lived experience of prison, violations of human rights of the healthcare of women in prison, the overincarceration of Aboriginal women, and prisons within the context of the Pandemic. This episode aired on the 10th August. Doin Time airs 4-5pm every Monday and podcasts of the show can be found at the 3CR website 3CR.org.au/dointime Tina Grandinetti joins us to discuss the movement to cancel RIMPAC, or rim of the Pacific exercises, the world's largest maritime war games. Tina is a PhD candidate at RMIT, a lecturer at the University of Hawai'i, and a coorganiser of the cancel RIMPAC coalition.SongsTkay Maizda - 24kTasmin Keith - 64 BarsDuckwrth ft. Kian - QuickJK-47 - I Am Here (Trust Me)
Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait KellyPriya speaks with Dr Sandy O’Sullivan talks about their development of a list of 101 Black Writers and Voices. Sandy is Wiradjuri person an Associate Professor of Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast.Carly speaks with Elizabeth Povinelli about the Karrabing Film Collective's film, Day in the Life which is featuring at the Melbourne International Film Festival 681/2 - Day in the Life is a multi-layered story that illuminates the ways that First Nations communities in the Northern Territory are resisting settler forms of governance and extractive capitalism on a daily basisPriya speaks about campaigns in Lebanon advocating for the rights of migrant workers under the exploitative kafala system in which workers (mainly from the African continent) have little to no rights.Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) is a grassroots collective by young Lebanese feminist activists in collaboration with migrant workers and migrant domestic workers. they do most of their work through the centres in Lebanon in direct collaboration with migrant workers, especially migrant domestic workers. armlebanon.org // @armlebanon This Is Lebanon (TIL), a project of Domestic Workers Unite (DWU), is a project run by a coalition of former migrant workers and activists demanding the protection of migrant domestic workers, and an end to labour exploitation and abuse, with the aim to effectively end government-sanctioned, modern-day slavery in Lebanon. thisislebanon.info // @thisislebanon961 Sydney and Melbourne based film director Fatima Mawas has organised a campaign to help domestic workers escape Lebanon. If you’d like to get involved with this project visit the Chuffed website and search ‘flights for domestic workers fleeing Lebanon’. https://www.chuffed.org/project/flights-for-domestic-workers SongsBriggs ft. Thelma Plum - Go to WarHoodzy - The Land
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Liam Kane and Shan Windscript speak to Priya about campaigns against wage theft at Australian universities. Liam is a PhD candidate in History at UNSW, and an active National Tertiary Education Union member. Shan is PhD student and tutor in History at the University of Melbourne, as well as a member of the NTEU Casuals Network and Branch Committee. Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction is the title of an upcoming anthology for young adults co-curated with Djed Press and edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven. The project is a chance for First Nations writers and Afro-Black writers to share their stories about visionary past, present and possible futures. Hella and Rafeif from Djed Press join us to talk about the anthology and how it was born. SongsMo’Ju, Birds (Produced by Trials) - Rider in the Rain 2020
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear part of a webinar discussion hosted by Melbourne Law School - Black Lives Matter. The discussion is facilitated by Larissa Behrendt and features Alison Whittaker, Eddie Cubillo Amy McQuire and George Newhouse speaking about campaigns to stop Aboriginal deaths in custody, the media's role in supporting the Blak Lives Matter movement and reflections on the legal profession's role in changing the criminal justice system Max speaks with journalist Royce Kurmelovs on the flaws and dangers of the Australian Government's COVIDSafe contact tracing app. We hear a recording by Samad Abdul from the Manus Recording Project Collective's new project 'Where are you today?' Every day for a month, beginning on 1 August, subscribers will receive a text message with a new ten-minute audio recording from Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul, Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj or Yasin Abdallah. These men, seeking asylum by boat, were forcibly transferred to Manus Island by the Australian government nearly seven years ago. Now, they are held in hotels or detention centres in Port Moresby, Melbourne or Brisbane. You can subscribe to the project by texting "Hello" to 0488 845 951 We hear audio from a Free Palestine Melbourne forum on the Palestinian Struggle in the Era of Annexation that took place on July 22nd. We'll listen to excerpts from analyst and former legal advisor Diana Buttu; writer and academic-activist Dr Yara Hawari both live from Palestine, as well as Melbourne or Narrm based journalist Maher Mughrabi.SongsJessB - Shut up!Kee’ahn - Better Things
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Scheherazade speaks with producer Joshua Francis about HISSY FIT, an online space where we can rant without reprise, a space for anyone called hysterical or too much in this white colony. We hear excerpts from the inaugural HISSY FIT, broadcast live on Friday, 24 July and featuring three artists Hella Ibrahim, Natesha Somasundaram and Hope Mathumbu. Joshua Francis is a producer and writer who moves across art forms to create new work for social change; their practice is informed by experimentation, immediacy and collaboration. Priya speaks with Hannah Sycamore, a queer lawyer who works at the LGBTIQ Legal Service as a Project Support and Community Engagement Officer, about the Service's recently-released 'Reflections on LGBTIQ Legal Need' report. We hear Elvira Rumkabu, lecturer of international relations at Cenderawasih University in Jayapura, Papua, speaking at a panel discussion hosted by The Conversation on 9 July: #BlackLivesMatter in the Asia Pacific, about how the #BlackLivesMatter movement resonates deeply for West Papuans living within systemic racism and oppression. Carly speaks with Nerita Waight, NATSILS co-chair. They discuss NATSILS calls to release Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prison amidst a rise in cases of COVID-19 cases entering prisons. Songs DOBBY Feat. BARKAA - I Can't Breathe
We hear Imani Barbarin and Damien Griffs speaking at the Virtual Progress 2020 conference about vital lessons from the disability justice movement. Imani is a disability rights activist from the United States and Damien is a descendant of the Worimi people and leading advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability. Emma Russell, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at Latrobe University and Jill Faulkner, Manager of Women transforming Justice, a program of Fitzroy Legal Service speak about a new report, A constellation of circumstances: The Drivers of Women’s Increasing Rates of Remand in Victoria. This report urges a review of Victoria’s strict bail laws, stating that decreases in prisoner numbers observed during the COVID-19 pandemic should be sustained and extended into the future. Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman currently living on Kaurna land. She is a formerly incarcerated person and a vocal advocate for incarcerated people. Priya and Tabitha speak about the dangers of COVID-19 in Australian prisons, and the importance of urgent abolition and decarceration. Songs Time's Up (feat.Krown) - Sampa the Great
We listen to part of a powerful conversation from the Virtual Progress 2020 Conference on creating police-free futures. Three community organisers from MPD150, Arianna Nason, Jae Hyun Shim and Molly Glasgow, join Meriki Onus co-founder of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, to discuss lessons and insights from MPD150's work towards dismantling the police force in Minneapolis, US. Anya Saravanan, from 3CR's Women on the Line, speaks with Tigist Kebede, counsellor, and volunteer at AMSSA Youth Connect about what was happening in the housing estates after the lockdown was announced. Women on the Line broadcasts Monday 8:30am to 9:00am and is available on podcast Priya speaks with Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson about the 20th edition of her groundbreaking book ‘Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism’, which was released by the University of Queensland Press on the 2nd of July 2020. Songs Grand Ideas - Alice Skye 22 Clan - MackRidge x BarkaaGemini - Sachém Woke Blokes - Thelma Plum .
Acknowledgement of Country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear an excerpt from the Virtual Progress 2020 conference where Dr Jackie Huggins speaks on Bla(c)k Lives Matter and the incarceration of First Nations women. Jackie Huggins is a Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru woman and a celebrated author, historian, and former Co-Chair of National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples. We hear a selection of interviews from Dame Phyllis Frost Prison and Loddon/Middleton Prison as part of the Beyond the Bars broadcast series which began in 2002, and cannot be delivered as per normal in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. We hear Part 2 of an interview with Reyvi from the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) who speaks with Thursday Breakfast about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Filipino students and other international students in so-called Australia and the importance of grassroots migrant community organising. We play an exercept from 3CR's Diaspora Blues where Ayan Shirwa interviews a resident in one of the lockdown public housing towers. 3CR Thursday Breakfast host Priya further discusses the Victorian Government's policy to heavily restrict the movement of residents in 9 public housing towers across Melbourne, as well as community-led initiatives supporting and caring for residents affected by these punitive restrictions. Songs MacRidge x Barkaa - 22 Clan Becca Hatch - 2560 Sampa the Great - Leading us Home
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Dr Nikki Moodie, Gomeroi woman and sociologist based at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss recent changes to the university sector in Australia. This conversation focuses on the intersection between impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and austerity measures such as fee hikes, and the effects that this is likely to have on teaching and learning. We hear part of Writing Blak an event presented online by the Wheeler Center in partnership with the Emerging Writers Festival last Thursday. Hosted by Evelyn Araluen, four emerging First Nations writers from The Next Chapter writers’ scheme – Jasmin McGaughey, Racheal Oak Butler, Lorna Munro and Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi – discuss the creative process, writing for Blak and settler readerships, and how they respond to expectations of genre, character and identity. Reyvi Marinas, secretary of The Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) and Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, shares his grave concerns about the proposed Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2020 which threaten to severely limit democratic rights. SongsSachém - GeminiHoodzy - Hardcase
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Priya and Carly talk about important local news stories from the week including the fundraiser for West Papuan activists robbed at gunpoint in Collingwood, RISE Boycott Refugee Week campaign, WA law passed to end incarceration for unpaid fines and finally they discuss domestic violence and the lifting of the suppression order on the name of Aboriginal woman Noeline Dalzell who died on 4th February 2020. We hear a conversation between Nasser Mashni and Robert Martin from 3CR’s Palestine Remembered show. Nasser and Rob speak about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to illegally annex parts of occupied West Bank as well the lack of dissent from international leaders about Israeli annexation of Palestinian land. Max speaks with Thant Myint-U about his recent book ‘The Hidden History of Burma – Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century’. Thant Myint-U is currently the Chairman of U Thant House, a leading education and discussion centre in Yangon. He is also an Affiliated Scholar of the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge University. He lives in Yangon. Max speaks with Allison Koenecke, a researcher whose interests lie broadly at the intersection of economics and computer science. Allison shares learnings from her research into the systemic racial bias built into voice recognition software.SongsThelma Plum - Woke BlokesThe Merindas - I Feel ItBarkaa - For my TittasAlice Skye - Grand Ideas Sophiegrophy - Evol
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear part of the first episode of Frontier War Stories hosted by Boe Spearim. This podcast delves into the first 140 years of conflict and resistance on this continent. In the first episode, Boe speaks with Callum Clayton Dixon - Ambeyang researcher, author of Surviving New England and PhD student working on the Anaiwan dictionary. In this episode Callum speaks about his book Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through The First Forty Years of the Colonial Apocalypse". We listen to the last segment of a three part podcast presented by Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco. In the series the students look into how Think Tanger works with different communities to carve out a creative space in a rapidly expanding city. In conversation with the creative minds behind Think Tanger co-founder Amina Mourid and communications manager Youssef el Idrissi, part 3 delves into community building and fostering stronger solidarity networks beyond class boundaries as the city changes. We hear part of a conversation with spoken word artist Dr. Denise Chapman who shared poems with us last week reflecting on BLM in the US/Turtle Island and the murder of George Floyd. Denise is a storyteller who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy and new media/technology at Monash University. She uses poetry, oral stories, children’s literature, film, call-and-response storying, and interactive digital content as windows and spaces for critical activism. Her creative art and research centre the experiences of marginalization and oppression to illuminate inequities and put forward social change. Songs Sampa the Great (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi) - Energy Tkay Maidza - ShookJess B - Pon it
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear a number of speeches from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally that took place on Saturday 6th June. In this first segment of audio we hear from Meriki Onus from Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Sue-Anne Hunter, Mandy Nicholson, Ky-ya Nicholson-Ward and Warren Day supported on stage by two of Tanya Day’s first cousins. In the second segment of audio from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally we hear speeches by Dwayne, the brother of Veronica Nelson accompanied by Viv Malo, Uncle Ray Thomas, Uncle Ted Wilkes, Justin (supported on stage by Rachel Hocking) reading a statement from the family of Kumanjayi Walker with input by Samara Fernandez and Walpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves and Uncle Talgium Edwards. We hear a number of poems by Dr. Denise Chapman, a storyteller, digital media-creator, and spoken word artist who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy and new media/technology at Monash University. She uses poetry, oral stories, children’s literature, film, call-and-response storying, and interactive digital content as windows and spaces for critical activism. Her creative art and research centre the experiences of marginalization and oppression to illuminate inequities and put forward social change. Denise will share a few of poems reflecting on racism and her experience as a Black woman from the US/turtle island in Australia. We hear a final speech from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally delivered by wāni Le Frère and written in collaboration with Pauline Vetuna and Hamile Ibrahim. wāni speaks about violence against Black peoples, colonies & continent, connecting Black struggle across so-called Australia, the Pacific, the African continent, the United States and more. Links to support families of First Nations people who have died in custody SongsPhilly - Yil Lull
Acknowledgement of Country News headlines with Cait Kelly Carly mixes a music selection of local artists. We listen to part 2 of a three part podcast presented by Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco. The idea is to understand how Think Tanger work with different comunities to carve out a creative space in a rapidly expanding city that with high infrastructure changes bring urban/social challenges. In conversation with the creative minds behind Think Tanger co-founder Amina Mourid and communications manager Youssef el Idrissi, part 2 looks at how artistic projects can form solidarity networks beyond class boundaries. We hear readings by Sam Petersen, Emily Johnson and Alison Whittaker recorded as part of the online launch of un Magazine 14.1 on Care. The launch took place earlier in May. We hear part of an interview from Marisa Sposaro from the Doin' Time show who speaks with Palm Island man Lex Wotton about Channel 9's racist reporting on the way Palm Island compensation recipients have spent their money. SongsKee'ahn - Better Things Alice Skye - Grand Ideas Miiesha - Broken Tounges The Merindas - I Feel It Kobie Dee - Still Standing feat. Liyah Knight Jimblah - Black Life Matters feat. Ellie May
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Tanya Talaga, Anishinaabe journalist and author, about her recent book All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism. We will hear a number of poems by Darlene Silva Soberano. Darlene is a poet whose work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, Peril Magazine, Going Down Swinging, and elsewhere. Darlene currently serves as a poetry editor for Voiceworks Magazine, and is a recipient of a Hot Desk Fellowship from The Wheeler Centre in 2020. Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco present part one of a three part podcast. In a series of interviews with the creative minds behind Think Tanger co-founder Amina Mourid and communications manager Youssef el Idrissi, the topics covered include urbanisation in Tanger and the region, creative spaces and art as a tool to build stronger solidarity between communities through artistic mediums and research.Priya speaks with Jordy Silverstein, a historian and casual academic working at Macquarie University in Sydney, and Deakin, Monash, Latrobe Universities in Melbourne, about the impacts of COVID-19 on higher education in so-called Australia, and the way that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing issues in the sector. We discuss the actions of universities, the National Tertiary Education Union or NTEU's Jobs Protection Framework, and resistance from casual university workers.
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 8 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Simon Clough. Simon is currently the culture and practice manager of Brook RED a peer led mental health service. Simon is a passionate advocate for lived-experience practice, learning to live with his own mental health concerns and using them to assist others. Timmah Ball reads her recent piece ‘Imaginary Conversations about the Past and the Future’.Timmah is an emerging nonfiction writer of Ballardong Noongar heritage whose writing is influenced by studying and working in urban planning. In 2016 she won the Westerly magazine Patricia Hackett Prize, and her writing has appeared in a range of anthologies and literary journals. Max speaks with Dr Patricia Ranald, convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network and a research fellow at University of Sydney, about how mining companies, Big Pharma and other global corporations use trade agreements to pressure and sue governments. They discuss how this has occurred recently in relation to essential COVID-19 public health measures. We hear soundscapes of Tanger, Morocco produced – as part of a workshop run by Chloé Despax in collaboration with Think Tanger – by two participants, Bill and Amina. Think Tanger is an organisation that looks into the social impacts of urbanisation in the northern city. Max speaks with Paul Kidd from Fitzroy legal service about their new Covid policing service - a free information and advice phone service for people who have been stopped, questioned, fined, and/or charged for breaching the new COVID-19 restrictions.
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 7 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Anna Carlson about how surveillance operates in so-called Australia and how it's operating amidst COVID-19.Anna Carlson is a cofounder and organiser of the Brisbane Free University, co-host of 4zzz's Radio Reversal and a freelance radio producer, illustrator, writer and community (dis)organiser. She is mid way through her PhD, supervised by Dr. Alissa Macoun, Associate Professor Chelsea Bond, Dr. Liz Strakosh, and Dr. David Singh. Her research examines the relationship between surveillance and colonial governance in (so-called) Brisbane, focusing on how surveillance functions to produce and maintain settler colonial regimes of possession, ownership and belonging. Victoria’s only free legal service for the LGBTIQ community will host the first ever virtual Change Your ID Day this Monday 18 May. Sam Elkin speaks with Max about the upcoming live online session, which will provide practical information on how trans and gender diverse people can change their name and preferred sex descriptors on legal identification documents. (note more tix to be released soon) Neika Lehman, a writer and artist living and working on Kulin Country, reads a number of poems. Neika grew up in Tasmania | lutruwita and descends from the Trawlwoolway peoples of north east Tasmania. Their ancestral and contemporary stories inform Neika’s written and visual practice. We hear the second part of Scheherazde’s conversation with Dr Shakira Hussein is a writer and academic in multiculturalism and Muslim studies at the National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne. Last week Shakira spoke about the intersection of race, islamophobia and COVID19, this week she discusses the dynamics of race, class and the far-right within the settler colony. Priya Speaks with Raj Patel, a former university cleaner stood down during COVID-19 and member of the United Workers' Union, about the Australian Universities Support Your Cleaners petition. This interview follows on from Priya's chat with Nick Ferguson about the same petition a few weeks ago. Songs Sophiegrophy - Boii
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 6 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Lauren Caulfield. Lauren works at the intersection of interpersonal and state-sanctioned gender violence, and is involved in training, organising work and community-based interventions to violence. She also coordinates the “Policing Family Violence: Changing the Story” project, which is a collaborative, integrated community legal and survivor support project that responds to harm and criminalisation of people through family violence policing. Max speaks with Apryl Watson, daughter of Aunty Tanya Day, on the open letter and petition from families of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody calling on the Australian Governments to urgently release people from prison to prevent COVID-19 deaths. Scheherazade speaks with Dr Shakira Hussein, a writer and academic in multiculturalism and Muslim studies at the National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, about the intersection of race, islamophobia and COVID-19.Priya speaks with Chelsea Bond, a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman and long-term Aboriginal Health Worker and researcher. Chelsea is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland’s Poche Health Centre for Indigenous Health, and a co-host of the show Wild Black Women on 98.9FM in Meanjin. They discuss the public discussion around the 250th anniversary of Cook’s invasion.To intro this segment we hear a poem by Neika Lehman titled ‘Cook 250’. Neika Lehman is a writer and artist living and working on Kulin Country. Neika grew up in Tasmania | lutruwita and descends from the Trawlwoolway peoples of north east Tasmania. Their ancestral and contemporary stories inform Neika’s written and visual practice.
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 5 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Nawa Nightshade, herbalist, somatic coach, death doula and community organiser. Their healing practice is centred on anti-oppressive praxis that works to address systemic harm, informed by decolonial activism on the front lines. Jeremey Kings speaks to Max about the IBAC findings into the police raid on the Hares and Hyenas bookshop and covidpolicing.org.au, a website launched to track policing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Priya speaks with Nick Ferguson, a spokesperson for the United Workers Union, about the campaign to get Australian universities to support their cleaning staff– many of whom are international students – during COVID-19. UWU are asking you to1. Sign the petition created by University Cleaners calling on Universities to support them 2. View Niroshan’s story and share it on your social media to help him and other university cleaners build community support. 3. Go to the social media of your favourite University to call on them to support their cleaners so they can’t hide their responsibilities. Priya talks to Shan Windscript and Jimmy Yang, graduate researchers and casual workers at the University of Melbourne, about the lack of support provided to grad students during the pandemic and their open letter to demand universal extensions and paid COVID leave for all domestic and international students.Songs CLYPSO - Down to the WireIzy - MoonSophiegrophy - Evol
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Sam Elkin speaks with Max about the LGBTI+ legal needs survey, which closes soon, as well as the Change Your ID day coming up in May. Chi Tran reading a selection of their poetry. Chi Tran is an emerging artist and writer, based in Naarm. Chi has written and exhibited in Cordite Poetry Review, Firstdraft, ACCA, Liquid Architecture, and many more. They also have forthcoming work in un. magazine and Minority Report. Scheherazade speaks withChris Schuringa from the Googerah Environment Centre (GECO). Chris talks about the 10-year logging exemptions that have just been rolled over in late March in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic while the area is recovering from this season's devasting bushfires. Danush, a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee currently detained at Mantra Bell City, talks to Priya about the harms of immigration detention, the need to release refugees into the community, and the potential impacts that coronavirus will have on detainees. Jane speaks with Max about challenges facing the drug using community in these uncertain times and shares some tips and tricks from Harm Reduction Victoria's awesome resources on drug use, planning and pharmacotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. SongsBecca Hatch - Girl Like MeArno Faraji - Bass Jumpin
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Roxanne Moore, Executive Officer of NATSILS, about the urgent need to immediately release people in prison to stop the spread of COVID-19 and prevent COVID-19 Black deaths in custody. As part of a new regular segment we hear a number of new poems read by writer Elena Gomez. Scheherazade speaks to Basil Byrne about making music, politics and the release of her new track Listenin’ Out Priya speaks with Tabitha Lean about the problems with comparing incarceration and home detention to self isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman living on Kaurna Country. She is also a formerly incarcerated person. Tabitha is a vocal advocate for incarcerated people. Sanmati Verma from Undocumented Migrant Solidarity joins Carly to speak about the Undocumented Migrants COVID-19 Fund & petition calling on State and Federal governments to commit to the following demands: Medicare for All, Information Firewall with Immigration, Universal Basic Income for Undocumented Workers, No Detention or Deportation, Amnesty for Undocumented Workers. SongsBecca Hatch - 2560Baker Boy - MoveBasil Byrne - Listenin’ Out
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 4 of Liberation Loops, a 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. This week Carly speaks with poet, writer and community organiser, Vincent Silk. We listen to an excerpt from the United Workers Union online picket line, part of the #NoWorkerLeftBehind campaign. A panel of workers and unionists discuss all those left out of the government's wage subsidy including casual and migrant workers. We listen to a soundscape recorded and produced by Scheherazade in the rapidly urbanising city of Tangiers, Morocco. Scheherazade introduces and translates the French and Arabic we hear in the piece. SongsBaro Sura, Silentjay - IN UR EYESSlim Set - Gee Up & SprayPataphysics - Shake the RootsFanau Spa - Leather and Wood
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 3 of Liberation Loops, a 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. This week Carly speaks with Anne-lise Ah-fat, community organiser, mother of two and family violence practitioner, about the work of changing harmful behaviours and collaborative dialogue. Max speaks with May Kotsakis from the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) and Migrante Melbourne about Damayan Migrante, a compassionate collective action working to support migrant workers and international students during the pandemic. Scheherazade speaks with Jessica Morrison, Executive Officer of Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) about the current situation in Palestine and the impacts of COVID-19 under Israeli occupation. Carly speaks with Gala Vanting, Acting President of Scarlett Alliance. Following last week’s interview with Peaches, Carly and Gala delve deeper into the impacts and responses of sex workers to the COVID-19 pandemic. Songs Baker Boy - MoveSophiegrophy - EvolCLYPSO - Beyond Desire
Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Alessio Scandurra, from the organisation Antigone in Italy, on the experiences of people detained in Italian during the COVID-19 crisis and the need for decarceration. Max speaks with Peaches, a sex worker living in Naarm, about the impact the pandemic is having on sex workers locally. Max speaks with Maru Mora-Villalpando, a community organiser working in Seattle/Tacoma, Washington, about the threat of coronavirus outbreaks in immigration prisons in the US. They talk about the importance of centring the experiences and leadership of people impacted by incarceration and deportation when working toward the broader goal of abolition during the COVID-19 crisis.
Acknowledgment of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 2 of Liberation Loops, a 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. This week Carly speaks with Dương Ocean Đặng about pod mapping. Ocean is a Vietnamese settler, therapist, supervisor and facilitator living and working on Jagera and Turrbal country. We speak with Pauline Vetuna, a Tolai (PNG) Melanesian writer, poet, artist and disability justice advocate. Pauline joins us on the show to talk about what disability justice looks like amidst the coronavirus pandemic.We are joined by Manisha Anjali, a writer and artist working with text, performance and installation. Her practice and research explores narratives and languages of dreams and exile. Today Manisha joins us to speak about her newly published work, Electric Lotus (Incendium Radical Library Press, 2019).SongsSnotty Nose Rez Kids - Real DeadlyREMI, Sensible J & Jace XL - Get it RightCLYPSO - SidestepThelma Plum - Homecoming Queen
Acknowledgement of country Alternative NewsWe listen to Episode 1 of Liberation Loops, a new 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. In the first episode Carly speaks to Bridget Chappell (Hextape) about their project To (Phase) Cancel The Cops.Click here for information about their upcoming exhibition No Comment. Steph Zhang joins us to discuss the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s recent report ‘Uyghurs for Sale.’ We discuss the current situation of re-education, involuntary transfers and forced labour of Uyghur people. Steph is a queer, trans writer and journalist of colour living and working on stolen Wurundjeri land. They were a key researcher on ASPI's Uyghurs for Sale report. They grew up in China and have written for Junkee, the Saturday Age and the Citizen. Jeremy Wiggins joins us for the first interview in our series on trans affirmative health care. Jeremy is a Churchill Fellow in transgender health and the Project Manager of the Victorian Government trans and gender diverse in community health initiative, led by Your Community Health. We play a segment from ‘Power From the Margins’ 3CR’s Disability Day broadcast 2019 programmed by Pauline Vetuna. From a segment entitled 'Ableism in the Settler Colony' we hear from Latoya Aroha Rule, speaking about the intersection of race and disability in so-called ‘Australia’s’ prison system. SongsSampa The Great - FreedomSlim Set - Gee Up & SprayMwanje - The Divine
Acknowledgement of country Alternative News We listen to Keala Kelly Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist speaking with Robbie Thorpe and Viv Malo on The Black Block. The conversation opens with a discussion of the ways astronomy and the building of telescopes has been used as a method of occupying and militarising land in Hawaii. Priya speaks with journalist and founder of South Asian Today, Dilpreet Taggar about Hindutva oppression in India and the recent islamophobic violence in Delhi.**Content warning: Discussion of islamophobic violence. Porobibi joins us in the studio to talk about the Rise Up 2.1: Concrete Jungle fundraiser happening on Saturday 14 March to raise money for Mapuche and West Papuan Resistance. Yatu Widders Hunt joins us to talk about the event Indigenous Fashion Storytelling that is happening Saturday 7th March from 2:30-4:30pm at MPavillion. Yatu is a proud Anaiwan and Dunghutti woman. She founded Australian Indigenous Fashion two years ago and is passionate about celebrating the stories of Indigenous fashion and design.Bron from The Department of Homo Affairs and Charlie from Trans Action Warrang join us to talk about DOHA’s recent action at Mardi Gras and the importance of the Resist250 campaign and rejecting the presence of cops at Pride.SongsMiiesha - Twisting WordsNgaiire - ShiverCLYPSO - Sidestep
7.00 am Acknowledgement of country 7:05 am News with Cait Kelly 7.15 am We hear a segment of the episode, Femicide, from the 3CR Doin Time show, where Professor Bronwyn Carlson discusses missing and murdered Indigenous women in Australia and internationally as part of the Deathscapes project.**Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this recording contains the names and stories of people who have passed away 7.30 am We speak with Nurmuhammad Majid Siddiq, Uyghur leader and spokesman, about the plight of the Uyghur People of East Turkistan. He speaks about the crimes against humanity being committed against his people and outlines what the government of so-called Australia could and should be doing in condemning this state oppression. 7.45 am We are joined by Gerii Pleitez, a writer and the founder of Kara Sevda Press, a publishing house dedicated to illuminating the voices of women of colour and First Nations women. We discuss the free panel Existence is Resistance which is happening on 17th March at the Wheeler Centre. 8.00 am Sasja Sydek & Rebeckah Loveday from Trans Sisters United join us in the studio to talk about their recent trip to the Tiwi Islands and the group's involvement in the Th!s is Me project on International Women’s Day.8.15 am We hear a segment from QR Code, aLGBTIQA+ health podcast produced at 3CR, where Anya Saravanan speaks to Dr Asiel Adan about trans affirmative health care.Songs Woman’s World 2.0 - Okenyo, Jesswar, Miss BlanksTommy - Miss BlanksFreedom - Sampa the Great
Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly Carly speaks with Melissa Yvonne, human rights lawyer from BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights about Palestinian resistance and what the annexation of Palestine means under Trump's so-called peace plan.Max speaks with May Kotsakis, co-chairperson of Philippines Australia Solidarity Association and Co-convenor of Philippine Caucus for Peace (PCP) about attacks against Lumad Indigenous people by paramalitary groups and why peace in the Philippines involves more than laying down arms.Max speaks with Dr Vicki Sentas lawyer and academic form UNSW about the findings of investigation into NSW police's Suspect Target Management Plan (STMP) and the systematic criminalisation and targeting of Aboriginal young people.Max speaks with Joshua Badge, queer writer, activist and philosopher at Deakin University about exposing and fighting back against the transphobic reporting of The Australian.
Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly Carly speaks with BUMPY, Noongar musician at the St Kilda Festival about her music. Then Yorta Yorta musician Neil Morris joins Carly in the studio to talk about the importance of forging First Nations spaces at festivals, the pressures of the music industry & the beauty behind DRMGNOW's first single - Australia Does Not ExistMargret Harvey joins us to discuss the upcoming panel Indigenous Women Filmmakers on Self-representation and Sovereign Storytelling. The panel is part of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival and is happening at 3:30pm Saturday 22nd February. We speak with West Papuan activist Adolf Mora about a protest that took place on 10th February in Naarm (Melbourne) in response to Indonesian president Joko Widodo's visit to Australia and ongoing Indonesian repression of West Papua. Adolf is an activist and refugee who was detained on Christmas Island in 2006.Eddie Synot, Centre Manager of the Indigenous Law Centre and Wamba Wamba lawyer joins us to discuss the High Court of Australia’s recent decision in the matter Love v Commonwealth and Thoms v Commonwealth that Aboriginal people born overseas can't be deported as “aliens” under the constitution. See Nat Cromb's article here. SongsDRMGNOW - Australia Does Not Exist
Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly We listen to the English translation of a speech from the Primera Linea (Front Line) given on the 25th January at the InterAmerican Forum of Human Rights in Santiago Chile. The Forum determined that the Human Rights abuses in Chile are systematic.We hear audio of Uncle Robbie Thorpe speaking at Invasion Day 2020.We speak with Gerald Roche, one of the organisers of Melbourne Free University, to discuss upcoming MFU events. Tonight at the Alderman MFU present a session on the Israeli annexation of Palestine.Carol and Yanni from the Anticolonial Asian Alliance join us in the studio. They share AAA’s statement, to be published today, addressing the public racism surrounding the coronavirus and draw links between these experiences and ongoing First Nation and refugee struggles and histories of white supremacy and Anti-Blackness. Ripley and Meleika join us to discuss FAMILI a platform for Pasifka artists to come together and explore identity. The FAMILI EP launch is tonight at the Abbotsford convent as part of Midsumma. Fresh hip hop, new wave R&B, Oceanic musicality, words, and movement. Focusing on Oceanic, LGBTQIA+ and diaspora experiences. Artists: Wahe, Lay the Mystic, Luscious, Kalala, Lonelyspeck, Iki, Bella Waru and Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi.SongsSurvive - DRMNGNOWDrowning -Miiesha Blackfellas - Nooky Chapter One - Dallas Woods
Acknowledgement of country Alternative News We speak with Sharner Bremner the founder and director of End Rape on Campus Australia. EROC provides assistance and support to higher education students who have been sexually assaulted or harassed. We discuss the systemic issues behind the recent award of an Order of Australian to men’s rights activist Bettina Arndt, the widespread nature of victim blaming and the crucial importance of believing survivors. Following Invasion Day 2020 and renewed calls for all settlers to Pay the Rent, we listen to part of an interview with Aunty Hazel Collins, one of the founders of Grandmother's Against Removals. GMAR is one of the organisations that Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance have suggested settlers make monthly rent payments to. The interview was conducted in 2018 by Teaghan Hughes for the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association We speak with writer and performer Laniyuk about the launch of the First Nations Issue of Archer magazine on Saturday at Testing Grounds. Laniyuk discusses her article on queer kinship and the power of being featured on the cover of the magazine. We speak with Sasja Sydek and Rebeckah Loveday from Trans Sisters United, a Melbourne based community group that creates projects that benefit the transgender community through advocacy, awareness and community collaboration. The group is traveling to the Tiwi Islands next week and they join us on the show to tell us more about this project. You can support this trip through a GoFundMe here.House of Dévine, Melbourne’s first vogue house, joins us in the studio to discuss vouging/ballroom, claiming public space and creating queer and trans family. House of Dévine is a queer collective and family based in Naarm founded by Mother Kiki Dévine. The House currently consists of ten queer and trans POC artists that participate and thrive within the Australian ballroom scene. They perform tomorrow night at the Immigration Museum.SongsMake $ense, Mack RidgeDon’t Let a Good Girl Down, Thelma PlumSurvive, DRMNGNOWQuay Dash - Queen of this Shit (Kuya Neil & Various Asses Remix), Kuya Neil and Various Asses
Acknowledgement of CountryMay Kotsakis - co-chairperson of PASA (Philippines Australia Solidarity Association). PASA is a cause oriented organisation of Filipinos and non-Filipinos. We often hear about the so called 'war on drugs' in the Philippines. May joins us to talk about the real impacts on peoples lives, how the rhetoric is used to justify state violence and the impacts on activists and human rights advocates in standing up to state oppressionThe Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference Melbourne 2019 - a convergence of ideas, art and transnational solidarity contesting settler nationalisms which took place at Melbourne Uni from the 6th-8th November 2019. Featuring 2 Professor John Maynard,The Other Fellow: Aboriginal and Palestinian Political Resistance. Community Accountability. Carly speaks with Michelle Dang – part of a new series speaking with Councillors and community based facilitators about the creative possibilities that people use in communities to address interpersonal violence. What are the tools and vision we can use to keep communities safe.Amao Leota Lu - Narrm-based Samoan fa'afafine / trans advocate of colour activist, speaker, performer and storyteller on her journey with her extended Rainbow family through the highs and lows, tears and laughter – embracing the notion "You’re welcome at our table." On tonight as part of Midsumma 2020 SONGSKrown - Catch a VibeBaker Boy and JessB - MeditjinAlice Skye - I Feel Better But I Don't Feel Good The Merindas - Before Daylight
Acknowledgment of country Carly speaks with Phina Hartson - the first Pacific trans Fa'afafine person to be admitted as a lawyer in so-called Australia. Alethea Beetson, Mervyn Trescott, Loki Liddle and Kane Brunjies talk about their experiences of being a part of Digi Youth Arts and the incredible sound installation and clapstick performances curated for the festival. Carly converses with Jessie Lloyd from the Mission Songs Project. Jessie speaks deeply about her love for reviving intergenerational song traditions. Kamahi Djordon King, aka Constantina Bush, speaks with Carly about living under the Northern Territory intervention and the uplifting power of humour. Monica from 4EB and Carly converse with Jeremy Dutcher, classically trained operatic tenor and composer who takes every opportunity to blend his Wolastoq First Nations roots into his music. Jeremy speaks about his process of incorporating 1900s wax cylinder field recordings into his music, the turbulent nature of the pop industry and this period of Indigenous renaissance. Songs Better in Blak - Thelma Plum Mission Songs Project at the Melbourne Recital CentreMehcinut - Jeremy Dutcher
Acknowledgment of CountryNews with Cait Kelly We play a segment from Power from the Margins titled, 'Ableism in the Settler Colony'. We hear from Latoya Rule, Indigenous prison abolitionist, on the criminalisation of people living at the intersection of both race and disability. Dominic Golding also discusses Australia's immigration system and the control of borders which has historically been both racist and ableist. Philip Marrii from SEED Mob joins us to speak about the Don't Frack the NT Campaign encouraging Origin customers to pledge to leave Origin and change energy providers. This campaign has already seen over 4000 people take the pledge! Carly interviews Roxanne Moore, the Executive Officer of NATSILS about the defunding of the national secretariat of the Family Violence Protection Legal Services. Clara Sione, local jazz and soul musician, speaks about the upcoming fundraiser, 'Songs for Samoa' happening at 7:30pm on 20 December 2019 at the Footscray Community Art Centre to raise money for the Samoan community affected by the measles epidemic. SongsPosted by T-Breezy IDC IF U BE DED - Tkay Maidza Down Swing (far from home) by Project NRTMeghalaya by Tiana Khasi
Acknowledgment of country News with Cait Kelly Carly interviews Carol Que about the History of Boycotting in so-called Australia Max speaks with Gala Vanting, Acting President of Scarlet Alliance about decriminalisation of sex work in the NT, becoming the third jurisdiction in the world to decriminalise sex work. Vikki John, Peace activist and general secretary of the Bougainville Freedom Movement Australia speaks about the historic referendum for independence from Papua New Guinea.Carly interviews Dwayne Coulthard, Adnyamathanha man, and Original Power Community Organiser about the Adnyamathanha Traditional Owners campaign against the controversial Underground Coal Gasification project at Leigh Creek in South Australia. Songs Billy Bad Again by Tasman Keith Time Out by Jess BBlackfellas by Nooky Numb by NookyBetter in Blak by Thelma Plum Book Covers by Deejai Good Times by Mojo Juju Meditjin by Baker Boy & Jess B Before Daylight by the Merindas
On the show with MaxAcknowledgement of countryNews Headlines with Cait KellyOverdose Lifesavers: Australia’s first dedicated website presenting personal stories of opioid overdose and the use of take-home naloxone to save lives. The new website overdoselifesavers.com explores the different ways people who consume drugs manage overdose, including through the use of take home naloxone. We hear some of these real life stories documented on the website.Dr Adrian Farrugia - Research Fellow at the (Australian Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University), then joins us to talk about the gaps in public discussion of overdose, the need to counter stigmatising misconceptions, and how to create a more effective community response. May Kotsakis - co-chairperson of PASA (Philippines Australia Solidarity Association). PASA is a cause oriented organisation of Filipinos and non-Filipinos. We often hear about the so called 'war on drugs' in the Philippines. May joins us to talk about the real impacts on peoples lives, how the rhetoric is used to justify state violence and the impacts on activists and human rights advocates in standing up to state oppression.The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference Melbourne 2019 - a convergence of ideas, art and transnational solidarity contesting settler nationalisms which took place at Melbourne Uni from the 6th-8th November. Featuring 2 of the speakers from the conference : Professor John Maynard,The Other Fellow: Aboriginal and Palestinian Political Resistance and. Samah Sabawi - Palestinian playwright, author and poet. SONGSAlice Skye - I Feel Better But I Don't Feel GoodThe Merindas - Before DaylightBaker Boy and JessB - MeditjinKrown - Catch a VibeREMI, Sensible J REMI ft. Lori, Brain
Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines Audio recorded by Beyond Zero Emissions at a snap rally outside the NSW parliament where an amendment to the environment and planning laws, to remove climate change as a consideration in decision making, was to be debated. We hear from speakers who have been living through the unprecedented catastrophic bush fires in NSW. We speak with journalist Paddy Manning about Medevac legislation and conditions inside the Australian-government funded Bomana prison where people seeking asylum are currently being held in Port Moresby after the closure of Manus immigration prison. Audio recorded at Wajampa kurlu - Rally in memory of Kumanjayi Walker. The speakers read statements from senior Warlpiri elders concerning the events of last Saturday and the community demands in response to the killing of Kumanjayi Walker. To contribute to the Go Fund Me campaign in support of the Yuendumu community click here We speak with Sarah Bond broadcaster from Beyond the Bars, 3CR's annual live prison broadcast that gives voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates during NAIDOC Week. The Beyond the Bars CD will launch tonight 6:30 pm at MAYSAR, Fitzroy. SongsDRMNGNOW - Australia Does Note ExistDRMNGNOW - Indigenous LandContraband - The Message (Beyond the Bars CD release)Sophiegrophy - American Honey
Acknowledgement of country A selection of audio from the first day of The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019.Part 1: First up is Sara Saleh, introducing the session titled Identity, Race and Solidarity.Part 2: Alexis Wright speaks about the work of Mahmoud Darwish and reads a number of his poems. Part 3: Tony Birch speaks about climate change as colonial violence. Shannon from from Victorian National Parks Association speaks with Thursday Breakfast about the Nature for Life rally which is happening on the 28th of November calling for the Victorian Government to take urgent action to protect Victoria's biodiversity.Sara Saleh joins on the line from The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019 to talk about the conference and what is coming up over the next two days. Sara also shares upcoming events from the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network Alec Reade from the New Wayfinders, Jack Mitchell from Black White and Bluespace and artist Marita Dyson from The Orbweavers join us to talk about their project Resistance Transmission for Due West 2019.Resistance Transmission weaves together a series of deep listening experiences that explore our changing relationship to water, and waters changing relationship to us. Exploring indigenous and settler histories, contemporary migrations and our ongoing social and economic interactions with the water bodies that sustain life on this planet, Resistance Transmission asks you to engage and to listen deeply so we can better prepare for the challenges of our water futures together. Squidgenini joins us in the studio to talk about her new track Trigger Me and her upcoming show at Colour tomorrow night. Songs Mackridge - EverydayMiiesha - DrowningMojo Juju - They Come & They GoP-Unique, Krown, IAMMXO - ChangeThelma Plum - Better in BlakTasman Keith - EveningsSquidgenini - Trigger Me
Acknowledgement of countryMax, and poet Vincent Silk, interview author Jordy Rosenberg at the Sydney Writers Festival 2019. They speak about Jordy's recent novel Confessions of the Fox, trans visibility in literature and historical and speculative fiction.Scout, the creative director of Tilde The Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival and Tommy Hart, director of 'Kids on Fire,' join us to discuss the Tilde program launch happening tonight 31 October at Hares and Hyena's. Lisa Fuller, a Wuilli Wuilli woman, joins us to discuss her new novel Ghost Bird, a YA novel about two sisters from her hometown. Porobibi, West Papuan Student activist and 3CR broadcaster, spoke with Michaela Stubbs on Day 1 of the IMARC blockade about the blockade's links to mining, genocide and resistance in West Papua.Speaking live from the IMARC blockade, Marisol, 3CR broadcaster and Lasnet activist, shares community views on mining, multinationals and First Nations rights. Monique Hurley, lawyer from the Human Rights Law Centre, discussing the age of criminal responsibility and the calls to raise the age. A bill has recently been tabled in federal parliament calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised to 14.SongsOetha - Cruisin'Okenyo - Buckle Up
Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyCarly speaks with Carol Que about the history of boycott.Part 1 of 'Once The Freest, Now The Poorest' a special 3 part series focusing on the island nation of Haiti. The series is produced by the Latin American Update program.Nadia Nadez is the editor of The Australian Multilingual Writing Project, a free online journal that publishes local multilingual creative writing. Their aim is to challenge the idea of a monolingual Australia by giving voice to the many languages that live here.At Generations The Australian Multilingual Writing Project are presenting a live performance of multilingual works. Generations is on Saturday 26th October 11am - 5pm at the Immigration Museum. We speak with Porobibi Bibiporo about the ongoing demonstrations for justice in West Papua. Hundreds of buildings have been torched and more that 12,000 people have fled Jayapura since August this year.SongsNooky - NumbRAIZA BIZA - S&D (feat. Bwise)Squidgenini - Trigger Me
Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyDavid Barnden, from Equity Generation Lawyers, is running the first case against a superannuation fund in Australia for not taking climate risk into account.Anne-Marie Te Whiu and David Stavanger, editors of the new anthology Solid Air: Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word, will host the Wheeler Centre’s third event in the Group Texts series. Featuring electrifying local performers and practitioners of spoken word.Paul Gorrie speaks to us about Young Mob Questioning Treaty a documentry film he worked on that is featuring at imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto.We speak to Jonathan Homsey & Pookie about performing in THRICE FOR THE THIRD CULTURE KID and at VIBE! at Emerge in Yarra 2019, a festival showcasing artistic & cultural diversity to the wider public.Andy Paine on proposed laws in Qld set to outlaw "lock-on" devices used in prominently, environmental protests , giving police extra search powers and making the use of devices an offence punishable by one year in prison.SongsSampa the Great - HeavenGenesis Owusu - Good TimesDRMNGNOW - Australia Does Note ExistPookie - YZ
Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellySara El Sayed speaks with Carly about her short story, 'Areobics for Arabs' in the book Arab Australian Other.Fayrouz Yousfi speaks about the campaign she has launched to free Journalist Hajar Raissouni.Spencer Lai is an artist, writer and curator.They speak about Spring Poetry Night happening at Incendium Radical Library on Saturday 12th October.We speak to L-Fresh the Lion about music, politics and his upcoming gig at the Grace Darling Hotel on 12 OctoberSongsL-Fresh the Lion - AlchemyL-Fresh the Lion - Bron to StandNina Rose - SongbookKobie Dee - Jody
Acknowledgement of country News with Cait KellyJournalist Roza Germian lived through war for most of her childhood. In 1991 she was one of more than one million Kurds who fled Saddam Hussein's Iraq. She now works as the executive producer on SBS Radio Kurdish. The remarkable Germian will share her story at the Wheeler Centre on Thursday October 10th at Writing in Exile hosted by Sami Shah.Samia Khatun challenges the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to those of colonised peoples in her new book Australianama. A few weeks ago, Em met with Samia to discuss the importance of South Asian languages and stories as a source of transformation, creating new ways of understanding what gets called "Australian history".Monique is a lawyer from Human Rights Law Centre. She speaks with Grace about the Australian Government's new bill that is seeking to expand the use of cashless welfare cards.Kutcha Edwards has recently launched his Youtube Channel - Kutcha's Carpool Koorieoke and he has released the first episode featuring Archie Roach and Uncle Jack Charles. We speak with him about this new project.SongsKayla Truth - WaveP-UniQue, Krown, IAMMXO - Change
Acknowledgement of countryNews headlinesTecber Ahmed Saleh, an advocate for human rights, speaks about the continuing struggle for self determination in Western Sahara. Tecber lives in the Saharawi refugee camps in south-west Algeria.Georgia MacGuire and Bek Saltmarsh on their exhibition Ngardang Giri Kalat Mimini. Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini is the first large scale exhibition of the Victorian Indigenous women’s and trans diverse art collective of the same name at The Central Goldfields Gallery in Maryborough which runs from until the 13th of October.Cheryl Axeby, co-chair of NATSILS, speaking about the use of spithoods on kids in SA prisons.Conversation with Dinu Kumarasinghe and Zoe Kingsley editors of the Suburban Review.Scotty McDinny speaks about about Warburdar Bununu: Water Shield, a film that follows the story of heavy metal pollution from mining making the Borroloola community's water unfit to drink. Warburdar Bununu: Water Shield will be showing on NITV soon.SongsJess B - MoodKing Jag - Black ExcellenceSampa the Great - Diamond in the RuffJesswar, Tasha the Amazon - Heata
With Em and CarlyAcknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyAnne-lise Ah-fat on facilitating Men’s Behaviour Change Programs, the underlying drivers of family violence and the importance of centring survivors in all anti-violence workSantilla Chingaipe on the Wheeler Centre’s 'Not Racist, But' series and systemic racism in the criminal legal system and mainstream mediaDr Fiona Foley, internationally celebrated Badtjala artist, on her current retrospective exhibition in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 'Who are these strangers and where are they going?'Paddy Manning on his recently released book 'Inside the Greens' and the activist roots (and future) of the Greens partyWe hear from speakers at the rally outside the Melbourne Federal Court building on September 18, just before the opening of the appeal by Priya, Nades and their two Australian-born children against the government's plan to deport them to Sri Lanka.
Acknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyCarly spoke with Carol Que from the Anticolonial Asian Alliance about the importance of solidarity work. Ian Okoka, 3CR presenter with the Voice of West Papua, speaks about the political oppression in West Papua and the solidarity rally in Narrm on Saturday on 14 September 2019.Investigative journalist Jess Hill speaks about her research into men's violence towards women recently published book 'See What You Made me Do'.Kate ten Buuren joins Em and Carly in the studio to discuss an exhibition she is co-curating, 'They Shield Us' at the Koorie Heritage TrustSongs:Tasman Keith - Prey So.Crates - Bounce Rebecca Hatch - Brown Girl Chronicles Pataphysics - Today
7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country 7:05 am News headlines with Cait Kelly 7.15 am Birdz joins us in the studio to chat about hip hop in so-called Australia 7.30 am. Conversation between Carly and Paul & June from the First People's Disability Network of Australia about NuunaRon's art exhibition at the UN, Geneva7.45 am Aran Mylvaganam from the Tamil Refugee Council on the government's cruelty towards Tamil family Nadesalingam and Priya and their two children and the ongoing fight to prevent their deportation 8.00 am Nish Morris lets us know about the Djab Wurrung Embassy Solidarity Rally taking place at Parliament House next Tuesday 10 Sept from 8:30am 8.15 am Co-curators Moorina Bonini (Yorta Yorta/Woiwurrung), and Tyson Campbell (Ngati Maniapoto/Te Rarewa) join us in the studio to discuss their upcoming exhibition Code Switch at Blak Dot gallery 8.30 End Songs Black Lives Matter – BirdzBlack Child – BirdzSunset Dreaming: Djapana Remix – BirdzFreedom – Sampa the Great
Acknowledgement of CountryCait with news headlines Carly travelled to Meanjin to speak with counsellor, narrative therapist and workshop facilitator Michelle Dang from Healing and Justice about strategies and sneaky tactics for people to use who work in social services and non-governmental organisations that don't reflect individual worker's values, beliefs and politics.James Trezise is a policy analyst with the Australian Conservation Foundation and the co-author of a recently released report that found the Great Dividing Range will become climatically unsuitable for 26 native species within 60 years if the current global high emissions trajectory continues.Mark from Earthworker joins us in the studio to talk about workers cooperatives as a way to give power back to communities and combat capitalist/neoliberal forces as well as climate change.Hella Ibrahim and Tresa LeClerc join us in the studio to talk about whether diversity is adequately supported within the Australian Publishing Industry and the lack of statistical research to address this. They are part of a team that set up the FNPOC Count seeking to count the number of books by First Nations and POC writers published in 2018. They also set up a Facebook page.
Acknowledgement of CountryCait Kelly with news headlinesNiviaq Korneliussen, young queer Greenlandic rising star, on her first book Crimson, her decision to only write about Indigenous women characters and the importance of talking up about high rates of suicide in her community in the context of colonisation. Niviaq was a recent guest at the Sydney Writers FestivalSiyavash Doostkhah from Youth Advocacy Network Queensland, on young people being locked up in Queensland police watch houses and the Queensland government's pitch to build a new 32 bed youth prison in BrisbaneBobuq Sayed and Hugh Childers, co-editors of un magazine, on the launch of issue 13.1 tomorrow night, reclaiming terrorist discourses around 9/11 and the normality of police brutality and surveillance in a colonial carceral state Creatrix Tiara, writer, performance artist, producer, activist, on IDAHOBIT, citizenship privilege and how LGBTIQ movements are never single issueSongsSophiegrophy, Rolls RoyceMitch Tambo, DhinawanThe Merindas, We Sing Until SunriseDRMNG NOW ft. Kee'ahn, Ancestors
Acknowledgement of CountryJenni Smith from Council to Homeless Persons joins us to discuss Youth Homelessness Day 2019Andy Farrell lets us know about the new (Australia-first!) Queer Indigenous studies units at Macquarie UniversityYorta Yorta musician, composer and climate justice activist Allara Briggs-Pattison joins us in the studio to discuss her soon-to-be-released documentary 'Beautiful Sunshine'We talk with Farhad Bandesh, Kurdish artist amd refugee who has been cruelly and unjustly imprisoned on Manus Island by the Australian Government for nearly six years, about the upcoming launch of his music video 'The Big Exhale' at Black Dot Gallery, with collaborator Jenell Quinsee Report back from the vigil marking the 28th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the urgent need to repeal the 'offence' of public drunkennessSongsAllara - Wala is LifeFarhad Bandesh - Flee from War (Our Rights) Kaylah Truth - Wave Sophiegrophy - Baby Let$ Fly
Presented by Grace and ScheherazadeAcknowledgement of CountryAlt news: the viral icon of the Sudanese uprisings Alaa Salah and women's frontline role in uprisings and revolts in Nubia/East Africa Cheryl from Indigenous Social Justice Association talks about Stop deaths in custody both onshore and offshore contingent at 'Palm Sunday' rallies for refugees and the links between incarceration of Indigenous and refugee folx.Megan Williams, River Country Coordinator at Friends of the Earth Melbourne, chats about the latest updates with the Darling River, its mismanagement, and the importance of water and healthy rivers.Shakira Hussein, researcher and academic, has been following far-right groups in Australia for a number of years and discusses the far-right trends we're seeing in the wake of the white supremacist conference in Finland a few days ago and Christchurch.Camille Nurka, independent gender studies scholar, traces the origins of contemporary ideas of genital normality. Her book Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery delves a long tradition of pathologizing 'female anatomy' and how 'medicin' shapes our commonly held ideals.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of the program featured the following music track Yemen Blues by Jat Mahibathi (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)
Thursday Breakfast 4 April 2019Acknowledgement of CountryNick Carson gives us a report back on the Transgender Day of Visibility Rally that took place on Sunday 31st March 2019.Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union on the Dignity Not Dole: Rally to raise Newstart today. Hannah Morphy-Walsh, Associate Producer at FCAC, joins me in the studio to discuss the Wominjeka Festival (6 April 2019). Adolfo Aranjuez, editor-in-chief of Archer magazine, on the need to be 'More than Queer' (Wheeler Centre, 9 April 2019) Eric on the RISE Queer Project Launch, Dinner and Fundraiser (13 April 2019) and the intersections of border imperialism, racism, homophobia and transphobia. The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: Kalyani & Isha, That's All I Came ForAllara, Wala is LifePhilly, Yil Lull(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)
Acknowledgement of CountryShantha Rau Barriga, founding director of the disability rights division at Human Rights Watch, discusses the disproportionate rates of violence and imprisonment experienced by people with disability in Australia, and the importance of accountability and allyship. Shantha will be speaking at the Wheeler Centre next Friday 5th AprilExcerpts from the Melbourne solidarity rally to show support for Muslim communities on Tuesday 21 March. Speakers included Roj Amedi from Colourcode, Mohd Halmy from the Islamic Council of Victoria and Husain Al Qatari, union delegate for the Preston Chemist Warehouse StrikeCarolyn Graydon, manager of human rights law program at ASRC, discusses fast track asylum seeker process for people living in community and changes to SSRS payments. Recent updates from the Djab Wurrung embassy: Victorian Trades Hall has come on board and VicRoads has given an undertaking that no work will start until 22 April - however support is still urgently needed! Merret joins us to talk about youth detention in the Northern Territory and new laws that go against Royal Commission recommendations.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: (Lady Lash, Yadu - new track, check it out!) (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)
Interview with Jacob and Harry from Dispossessed Part 1: on the whiteness of the punk scene and Australia as an active prison colonyInterview with Jacob and Harry from Dispossessed Part 2: on using music as a political platform to inspire change and fundraising for Gamilaraay mob on country facing a water crisis Shakira Hussein talks about community and media response to Christchurch and the failure to address the structures that enable white supremacy Uncle Robbie Thorpe (on Fire First) speaks with Zallanach at the Djap Wurrung embassy about the importance of continued to resist and protest the intended beginning of works that would destroy sacred tree sites and how you can support. Kate Pern, Daniel Wars and Gaia Miler-Foote join us in the studio to talk about the PARTi project (Sesh Ed), a peer-led harm reduction project, and free drug awareness trainingnext Wednesday 27th March.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: DRMNGNOW, Indigenous Land (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)
Debbie Brennan No To Racism, No To The Right rally this Saturday March 16 and the need for strong links to address the growth of the far-right. Curator Andy Butler and artist James Nguyen join us in the studio to discuss the exhibition, ‘These Monuments Don’t Know Us’ at Bundoora Homestead, exploring the politics of ‘belonging’ in Australia from the perspectives of First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse artists.Performance poet Manal Younus joins us to discuss her upcoming performance at Brunswick Music Festival this Saturday and her contribution in the 'Growing Up African in Australia'Environmental activist Emma Dorge on what the lackof coverage in the mainstream media of 70+ hours of non-violent action protesting the Adani coal mine says about the concentration of power across the media, politics and fossil fuel industries. The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: Serenity Uki – NavigatorManal Younus – Can WeYung Baddie – Colour(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)
3CR Thursday Breakfast 28 Feb 2019 Acknowledgement of country and welcome to showGabrielle Fakhri, from the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights, on the new Guide for Muslim Women and Communities On Family Violence and Early Marriage.Alt news: the limited reporting in mainstream Australia media on the current protests in Sudan and student protests in Algeria and the key role of alternative media platforms like Whatsapp and twitterIzzy Brown joins us to discuss Sail 4 justice who are fundraising to sail to Manus Island for human rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and climate justice.Simon Ruth, CEO of Thorne Harbour Health, on the proposed ban on alkyl nitrate which will disproportionately impact and criminalise gay men and queer people who use poppers.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: thando: Gag Order, Yung Baddie: Lit Vibes, Sophiegrophy: Purple $way, Bag and Baby Let$ Fly(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)
Thursday Breakfast 7 Feb 2019 7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country7.10 am Jenny Smith, CEO of Council to Homeless Persons, on the importance of addressing homelessness in the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health and the increasing number of workers seeking homelessness assistance because wages aren’t keeping up with housing costs.7.30 am Julia Kretzenbacher, Vice President of Liberty Victoria, on the proposed spent convictions bill introduced by the Reason Party leader Fiona Patten this week.7:50 am Headlines and community announcements8.10 am Rene Woods, Nari Nari man and Chairperson Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) on Indigenous water rights, the importance of cultural flows and overturning aqua nullius. 8.30 am End Songs (such great new tracks!!) P-Unique and Krown Change BIRDZ ft. Ecca Vandal Place of DreamsBaker Boy Cool as HellLady Lash Nightlounge 3ØØØ
Thursday 31 January 2019 with Em, Katia and Scheherazade7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:18am Alternative news - Katia and Scheherazade discuss international students and the privatisation of universities7:30am Katia speaks to Kent Morris, Barkindji man and CEO of The Torch, about 10 years of Confined 10 - launching tonight at St Kilda's Carlisle Street Arts Space 7:56am Katia chats with Nick Kent, National Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy about their new campaign #beheardnotharmed calling for pill testing at festivals8:10am Em discusses the upcoming event ‘Summer courtyard: I feel Love’ at the Immigration museum with Bhenji Ra and The HuxleysSongsEmily Wurramara x Steady - TogetherThe Last Kinection - Are we there yet?Thando ft. Remy - NumbElectric Fields - Inma
7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:10am We listen to an interview with Nayuka Gorrie, Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta freelance writer, about transformative justice, decolonisation and abolishing 'Australia Day' (first aired on the Transformative Justice Show, part of Satellite Skies). 7:45am We chat with Meriki Onus, Gunditjmara and Gunnai woman and co-founder of the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), about 7 Days of Resistance, creativity and centring Indigenous sovereignty in abolition work. 8:05am: Neil Morris (DRMNGNOW) joins us in the studio to discuss his recently released (incredible!) track, Ancestors, Jan 26th and the question of how to #AbolishAustraliaDay if, after all, Australia Does Not Exist.Songs (The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)Kev Carmody: Pillars of SocietyDizzy Doolan: This Is How We Do RemixAncestress: Bring Buildings DownDRMNGNOW: Ancestors feat. Kee'ahn Prod. River BoySee you all this Saturday at the Invastion Day Dawn Service, BIRRARANGA (Melbourne) Invasion Day 2019 Protest and Balit Narrun Share the Spirit Festival
Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018Acknowledgement of CountryGabby Alamin, Saharawi member of Australian Western Sahara Association, talks about Morocco's colonisation of the Saharawi people and the film Rifles or GraffitiRacerage, an emerging politi-cute queer post-internet rapper based on Wurundjeri country.Jules Kim, CEO of Scarlett Alliance talking about the problems with the My Health Record system (centralised online summary of your key health information), including how the current opt-out system will affect sex workers. NOTE since the interview the OPT OUTperiod has been extended to Jan 31st 2019Andre Dao, writer, lawyer, editor and co- founder of Behind the Wire, about the Manus Recording Project Collective and the work 'How are you today?' which was on the Ian Potter Museum of Art In 2018Raquel Willis. African American writer, editor, and transgender rights activist, Raquel Willis was in Melbourne town for FLCC’s Transforming Democracy 2018 and joined 3CR Breakfast over a number of weeks for a broad discussion of rights including colonisation, race, gender and abolition. At the time of interview she was a national organizer for the Transgender Law Center. Raquel is now the executive editor of Out Magazine(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music tracks - removed owing to no music license for podcasting)SONG: Cheikh Lo Degg Gui feat. Flavia Coelho & Fixi, Cheiko LoSONG: Racerage: BurnSONG: Racerage: Violence and SapphiresSONG : The Merindas - We Sing Until SunriseSONG: Sophiegrophy Purple Swag
Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018Acknowledgement of CountryOmid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison was published in 2018. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English. The conversation touched on WIMCM - Why Is My Curriculum White campaignCommemorating 30 years since the first Fairlea Wring Out demonstration with community activists, academics and prison abolitionists Amanda George and Emma Russell. The first Wring Out Fairlea demonstration was organised by the Coalition Against Women's Imprisonment and took place at the former Fairlea women's prison in Melbourne on 26 June 1988. The Wring Out action was repeated three more times over the next eight years, bringing thousands of people to encircle Fairlea prison in protest and in solidarity with the women inside.https://soundcloud.com/wringoutfairleaChristine Kngwarraye Palmer from GrandMothers Against Removals (GMAR) on the demands made to government during Reconciliation Week to stop the removal of aboriginal young people from their communities.(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)SONG : The Merindas - We Sing Until SunriseSONG : Pigram Brothers - Nothing Really MattersSONG: Nice Girls Don't Spit - Fairlea Prison BluesSONG: Baker Boy - Mr La Di Da DiSONG: Baker Boy (ft Yirrmal) - Marryuna
Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018Acknowledgement of CountryAlison Gibbins - Deputy National Director of Amnesty International Australia's on the shameful reality of children in detention, the over representation of aboriginal children in detention, theBanksia Hill Detention centre, and the findings of a recent report.Charandev Singh - Human rights advocate and member of the Abolitionist and Tranforming Justice Centre spoke about #PrisonStrike2018, prison abolition and the history of resistance. In 2018 Activists targeted SERCO's Melbourne Headquarters at 535 Bourke Street to bring attention to its expanding colonisation and commodification of imprisoned Aboriginal women at their new private women's prison in Gatton, Queensland and their ongoing record of indefinite detention, torture and deaths in custody in all their on-shore and International refugee and other prisons.Melissa Lucashenko - Aboriginal writer of Goorie and European heritage joins us to talk about her latest book, Too Much Lip. High energy and profoundly funny - the book takes you on an intergenerational journey, set in the aboriginal underclass in country NSW.(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)SONG: Lady Lash - Busy BeeSONG: Mojo Juju - I just wanna know
Thursday 6 December 2018with Em and Katia7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.05am Thando - Happy7.10am Em and Katia cover RISE's media release #Savehakeem Urgent Action Call: Stop Deportation to Bahrain of Australian Refugee Hakeem Al Araibi in Thailand.7.20am Soli Temesa (ft. Cam Noble) - Boo'd Up x My Boo7.25am Em and Katia introduce the case of Informer 3838 and the role of Victoria Police.7.30am Katia speaks to Professor Adrian Evans, Monash University, about Informer 3838 and the lawyer's duty to the court and to their client. 7.50am Em talks about the bill put forward by Independent MP Kerryn Phelps for emergency medical transfers of asylum seekers from offshore detention8.00am Em speaks to Dr Christine Rufener, Clinical psychologist and Médecins Sans Frontières, Mental Health Activities Manager, about MSF's report on extreme mental health suffering on Nauru.8.20am Em speaks to Jennifer Nixon, Assistant Manager at First Nation Media, about Converge Conference - First Nations Media National Conference held in November, and Indigi Tube a new media platform for indigenous creators. 8.29am It's a wrap!
Thursday Breakfast 1 November 2018with Katia 7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.03am Song dedication to Em: Sophiegrophy - Purple $way 7.07am Alternative News - Birmingham vetos ARC grants, Tehan calls for a 'National Interest Test' as we watch our right to education, free speech and the pursuit of social knowledge go down the drain.7.13am Song dedication to Scheherazade: Jamilla Woods feat. Noname - VRY BLK 7.17am Part one: The Wheeler Centre in conjunction with Deakin Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network hosted a lecture by Sara Ahmed, independent feminist scholar, writer and activist on her new research project - On complaint. 7.28am Part two: Sara Ahmed - on complaint. 7.40am Song dedication to Apeec: Janelle Monáe - Yoga7.44am The folk from Completada Bailable speak to Denise Frizzo, journalist, Doctor in Social Sciences and co-author of the 2018 book `Brazilians Abroad: Emigrant Voting and Political Engagement’, about the rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil.8.00am Katia speaks to Sophie Black, Head of Publishing at the Wheeler Centre about 'So You Think You Can Pod' competition.8.12am Song dedication to myself (Katia): Sampa the Great feat. Remi - Flowers8.18am Robbie Thorpe speaks to Lidia Thorpe, Greens Member for Northcote, at the 38 Nations rally. Elders came together to call for their voice and the voice of 27 nations left out of the treaty process to be heard.8.23am Song dedication to Summer and getting out that door: Lion Babe - The Wave 8.27am It's a wrap!
Thursday Breakfast 25 October 2018with Em, Katia and Scheherazade7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.03am VRY BLK, Jamila Woods ft. Noname7.07am Blk Girl Soldier, Jamila Woods7.09am Alternative news - new NSW drug laws ignore harm reduction measures and adversely affect party goers at festivals7.19am Doing me, RAY BLK7.24am Sowia, Porier ft. Samito 7.33am News headlines - Corporatisation of health care for young people in Victoria's prisons; new court hurdle by Coalition government to transfer ill children from offshore detention to Australia; Indigenous deaths in custody still not implemented; report on sexual assault at music events released. 7.39am Em speaks to Andre Dao, writer, lawyer, editor and co founder of Behind the Wire, about the Manus Recording Project Collective and the work 'How are you today?' on now at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. 8.00am Em speaks to Dr Beth O'Connor, psychiatrist with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), about the health of asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and about MSF's condemnation of Nauru’s decision to cease mental health care. 8.13am Scheherazade speaks to Tamar Hopkins, PHD candidate at UNSW and founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project, about the Police Stop Survey.8.28am Wrap up
Thursday Breakfast - 18 October 20187.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.02am Oetha - Sista Girl7.07am Stick Together's Matt Kunkel talks Union News.7.15am In Ya Face's James speaks with long-time LGBTIQ rights campaigner Janet Jukes, about the leaked Ruddock Report.7.30am Janelle Monáe - Yoga7.35am Alternative News - job seekers and disadvantage7.41am Kaiit - OV Luv Kush 7.45am Katia speaks to Elena Jefferys, state coordinator from Respect Inc., about the legislative frameworks affecting sex workers in Queensland. 8.00am Katia follows up with Louise Sales from Friends of the Earth's Emerging Technology Project about last week's Legislative and Governance Forum on Gene Technologythe potential move to deregulate GM technologies for use on animals and the associated risks. 8.15am Saatsuma - Stay8.20am Abortion legalised in QLD!
Thursday Breakfast - 4 October 20187.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.05am Ravyn Lenae – Sticky7.12am Speech by Martha Ojulo, mother of Liep Gony whose memorial was held on 26 September 20187.26am Alice Skye – Friends with feelings7.30am Em speaks to Alice Skye, proud Wergaia and Wamba Wamba woman, about her debut album and upcoming show. 7.50am Katia speaks to Teishan Ahearne about the launch of the People’s History of Brunswick Tours next week at Brunswick Library.7.55am Willow Beats – Merewif 8.00am Em speaks to Kalyani Mumtaz, proud Pyemairrenner woman, about her new band and upcoming show.8.12am Kalyani & Isha – That’s all I come for8.15am Upcoming events – 3CR Breakfast Fundraiser, Done By Law Fundraiser, Defend Public Housing, Prisoner Letter Writing Workshop, Apeec’s birthday!8.20am Alternative news – USA’s refusal of g4 visa’s for same-sex partners of diplomats and foreign nationals.
3CR Breakfast 6 September 2018with Em and ScheherazadeAcknowledgement of CountryYesterday was Indigenous Women's Day so we dedicated the first half hour to Indigenous women in song.Facial Recognition Surveillance Scheme: Lizzie O'Shea is a human rights lawyer and board member of Digital Rights Watch. She has a book being published next year on technology, history and politics. a board member at Digital Rights Watch. She joins us today to discuss the risks of the government's proposed facial recognition surveillance scheme (including racial profiling, targeting young people and jeopardising rights of protest.)Germaine Greer action tonite: Iris Lee (3CR's Queering The Air) is a white trans femme living on Bunurong and Wurundjeri country, joining us to talk about an action tonight protesting the launch on Germaine Greer's new book, On Rape, in Melbourne tonight.Pacific Islands Forum: Ronny Kareni is a West Papuan advocate on West Papua's right to self-determination. His family are part of large exodus of Papuan refugees to PNG in early 1980s. Until today, many West Papuans refugees live on Manus. Ronny joins us today to discuss the Pacific Islands Forum that has been underway this week. (Ronny is a regualr commentator on 3CR's Voice of West Papua and a previous 3CR Current Affairs Coordinator:))Anti GMO: Jonathon R Latham is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicises documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering.During the program we played the following SONGS (not included in podcast due to licensing agreement) Wave by Kaylah Truth - Wave feat. Nagra Beats Kaylah Truth is a Meerooni woman and hiphop artist of the Gurang nation and also connected with the Ngugi people of Queensland’s Quandamooka areaStill Here by JB the First Lady is an Indigenous hip-hop and spoken word artist, emcee, beat-boxer, activist, cultural dancer, and youth educator from the Nuxalk and Onondaga nations.Agua by Lido Pimienta, a Colombian singer and producer based in Toronto An Anthem to water Native (Feat. Supaman) by Mariame, Cree (First Nations) artistTamazight by Malika Zarra, Gnawa/Moroccan Jazz fusion artist
Thursday Breakfast 23 August 2018with Em, Katia Scheherazade 7.00am Acknowledgement of country7.04am Sophiegrophy - Baby let's fly(link is external)7.09am Milouda - Gar Gar Ya Zoubida(link is external)7:15am Em and Katia speak with presenter, Scheherazade Bloul, about the appropriation of Amazigh cultural products in the wake ofMadonna wearing Amazigh clothing to the VMA(link is external)s.7:33am Katia speaks with Saiful Islam, colleague and brother-in-law of Dr Shahidul Alam, photographer, writer, curator, activist and Chairperson of Majority World who iscurrently imprisoned in Bangladesh(link is external) for "provocative comments" made in an Al-Jazeera interview.7:49am Em and Katia speak with Rachel Saravanamuthu, Senior Lawyer at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Human Rights Law Program about theauthorisation of Ashmore Reef as a port(link is external) to validate the detention of 1,600 asylum seekers.8:05am Quater to Africa - Tahabil(link is external)8:09am Kaiit - OG Luv Kush Pt.2 (link is external)8:11am Scheherazade speaks to Hella Ibrahim, Egyptian-Australian Muslim editor, founder and editorial director of Djed Press about her upcomingMelbourne Writers Festival events.8:27am Update on the US Prison Strike and the Turnbull Dutton spill
Thursday Breakfast 16 August 2018with Em and Katia7:00am Acknowledgment of Country7:05am Petero Thony - No No7:09am Alternative News7:15am Cassandra Goldie, CEO ACOSS, joins us to discuss the risk and negligence of Centrelink's most recent robodebt trial7:30am Jeswynn Yogaratnum, lecturer of law, speaks about the current status of the Global Compact on Refugees7:45am May Maloney on receiving the Mary Fran Myers Gender and Diasater Award 7:56am Sophygrophy - Purple $way8:00am Alana Lentin, President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, on a new unit at Western Sydney University - Understanding Race8:15am Iris, 3CR's Queering the Air, talks about a snap protest against the extreme anti-LGBTIQ hate tour by Quentin Van Meter and an anti-trans book launch hosted by the reactionary right wing Australian Families Association
Thursday Breakfast 9 August 2018SPECIAL PROGRAM Enough is Enough: Beyond #AfricangangsThursday Breakfast were joined by four amazing guests live on air for a panel discussion about the everyday impacts of the #AfricanGangs narrative on community, connecting this to bigger issues of systemic racism, anti-blackness and colonisation, and focusing on some of the incredible initiatives and stories from the African community here in Narrm/Melbourne. Presenters: Apeec Nhial and Scheherazade Bloul Special guests: Meriki Onus from the Gunnai, Djap Wurrung and Gunditjmara nations, is a community member living on unceded territory of Narrm. Meriki has been involved in activism on the over incarceration of Aboriginal people, Aboriginal deaths in custody, youth justice and most recently saving Djap Wurrung sacred sites. Meriki has also worked in the Community Legal Centre sector on and off for the past seven years, with a particular focus on survivors of family violence. Maker Mayek is a lawyer and co-campaigner behind the original #AfricanGangs social media campaign. Saba Alemayoh is a conscientious social entrepreneur, the founder of Afro Hub that provides a platform for African talent. Incorporated within her restaurant attempting to use the existing capitalist structure to create the empowerment she wants to see. Areej Nur is a radio journalist and co-founder of African artists collective Still Nomads. Music by hip hop artists from the African community living on Naarm.P-Unique Everlasting Ft. KaraROR - Prophecies Ft. P-UniqueSophiegrophy - Purple $waySampa the Great - F E M A L E
3CR Breakfast Thursday 2 August 2018with Em, Katia and Apeec7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:05am Song - Searching for Gold, Honeymoon Bridge. Honeymoon Bridge launches their debut album this Friday 3 August at Northcote Uniting Church. Find them at honeymoonbridge.com7:09am Headlines and Alternative News7:26am Song - Indigenous Land, DRMNGNOW . They played an amazing gig to launch this new track at the Gaso last Wednesday7:30am Jules Kim, CEO of Scarlett Alliance talking about the problems with the My Health Record system (centralised online summary of your key health information), including how the current opt-out system will affect sex workers7:45am Nikki Madgwick, a proud Worimi-Biripi woman from mid-north coast NSW who has lived and worked on Wurundjeri land most her life. Nikki writes and performs amazing poetry and works at HICSA, a not-for-profit Indigenous organisation based in Healesville as the Community Engagement Worker.This Saturday 4th August is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day - and this year marks 30 years since this important day was first established.7:56am Song - Sing Until Sunrise, The Merindas8:00am Omid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is being launched tonight in Sydney. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English.8:25am LIVE CROSS to Katia (Abolitionist and Transformative Justice Centre) speaking from outside the Prisons 2018 Conference where the ATJC has called a snap action to demand an end to Youth Incarceration.
Thursday Breakfast 21 June 2018with Apeec, Katia and Scheherazade 7.00am Acknowledgement of country7.05am Song - Beaches, Horizon7.10am Alternative news - The expansion of police powers to include DNA samples without a court order; and state border walls and the militarisation of policing.7:15am Sankar Battacharya, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Monash University, talks about his team's prototype processing plant that can turn used plastic and waste tyres into fuel and energy. 7:30am Jeswyn Yogaratnum, Lecturer of Law at Charles Darwin University, joins us for the second instalment of the discussion on the Global Compact on Refugees.7.55am Song - Degg Gui feat. Flavia Coelho & Fixi, Cheiko Lo8:00am Gabby Alamin, Saharawi member of Australian Western Sahara Association, talks about Morocco's colonisation of the Saharawi people and a film screening of Rifles or Graffiti on Friday 22 June 2018.8:15am Kim Chibnall, member and leader of Hospo Voice, talks about the new union for hospitality workers.8:25am Song - Aicha, Bayta Ag Bay
Thursday 14 June 2018 - Radiothon editionwith Apeec, Katia and ScheherazadeSpecial Radiothon edition talking about the importance of community radio and taking pledges of support. We reached $815 by the end of the episode! To help us reach $1,000 donate to Thursday Breakfast here. 7.00am Acknowledgement of country7.10am Song - Briggs, Bad Apples7.20am Song - Alsarah & The Nubatones, Aroos el neel 3roos7:25am Caller Michele Vesio, 3CR producer for In Ya Face and Breakfast Mentor, pledges their support.7:35am Caller Charlotte King, ABC journalist and formerTuesday Breakfast presenter7.45am Song - Eddy Current Suppression Rings, She's dancing away7:50am Shakira Hussein talking about the Home Affairs Department and thescheme to recruit 'good Muslims'8:15am Song - Kaia Kater, Sun to Sun8:25am Song - Beaches, Horizon
3CR Breakfast Rundown 31 May 2018 7:05am Acknowledgement of Country 7:25am Zianna Fuad, coordinator of Quit Coal Collective talks about the energy Justice Roadtrip held over May 11-13. 7:40am Song - Elbow, Running to stand still 7:45am Erin McKinnon, statewide coordinator at Reconciliation Victoria, speaks about the HART Awards and the fundamental principles of reconciliation. 7:55am Song - Baker Boy, Mr La Di Da Di8:00am Christine Kngwarraye Palmer, talks about GrandMothers Against Removals (GMAR) and the demands they have made to government during Reconciliation Week to stop the removal of aboriginal young people from their communities.8:20am Song - Baker Boy, Marryuna ft Yirrmal
3CR Breakfast 24 May 20187:00am Acknowledgement of Country 7:15am Stick Together's Matt Kunkel caught up with Hazel Nolan - Britain's General Union (GMB) organiser about Ireland's abortion referendum. 7:35am Paul McDonald, CEO of Anglicare Victoria & Chair of Home Stretch 7:50am Racerage, an emerging politi-cute queer post-internet rapper based on Wurundjeri country. 8:15am Part of an interview with Zianna Fuad, coordinator at Friends of the Earth talking about the Energy Justice Roadtrip that toured East Gippsland over May 11-13. Full next we will play the full interview. 8:20am Veronica Koman, public interest lawyer at the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute speaks about the Melbourne campaign event Let's Talk about West Papua and the current situation in West Papua.
Facebook Data Breach - BBC WORLD SERVICE REPORT and an update on the issueNick Savaidis - Etiko Founder & Director - Talking about the environmental impact of the fashion industry & human rights abusesJosie Evans- Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) Inner West branch member. Today in NSW the AUWU are hosting a memorial and public forum to commemorate the life of Josh Park-Fing. The event will unite local people, welfare advocates and politicians in an awareness raising event about how we can work to ensure the safety of unemployed workers. Event on Facebook.In Ya Face James and YvettePhil Soliman about Not Done Yet, a film he created about trans visibility. In Ya Face airs live on 3CR every Friday 4-5pm, or listen on-demand at www.3cr.org.au/inyaface for up to a week after initial broadcast.
Melanie Eagles - CEO of Hepatitis Victoria - Talking about: A visit to the Hospital: Pam's #StigmaStops story:- Pam’s story is the 2nd instalment of our Stigma Stories series where she tells of her experience while undergoing a surgical procedure & LIVERBility GrantsRichard Amon- CEO Disability Sport & Recreation - Letting us know what the organisation is all about and it's role in promoting health outcomes for people with a disability and the challenges that you or people with a disability may be facingBrad Martin- Founder and Managing Director - Indigenous Connection- As the social enterprise Indigenous Connection digitally launches tonight with the hope of setting out to better connect Experience Seekers with Experience Provider #IndigenousConnectionLocal Spokesperson from the 'Sorrowbe' Campaign speaks with Kroft up on the Gold Coast at the Stolenwealth Games Camp Freedom about protecting koala habitat against over development. This campaign is using the koala logo and Borobi mascot concept to get the message for koala conservation across.
Time2Choose rally took place in Sydney on March 24 Saturday 2018. Speakers include: Nathan Leslie, Aunty Shirley, Charlie Prell, Anne Kennedy and Sally Anne Brown.Chris Pavilidis - ECCV Chairperson - The Emerging Aging Event and the up coming ECCV Conference. Arika Walu - Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - Robbie Thorpe from Blak 'n' Deadly 3CR has a qucik chat to Arika as she Introduces the forum.Stolenwealth Games Update: The Stolenwealth Games protests are happening over the next ten days to highlight ongoing issues of inequality and genocide. Ruby Wharton from (WAR) Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance spoke with Lily McKenzie from the Brisbane Times as they stopped the Commonwealth Games baton relay passing through the Spit at Southport on the Gold Coast during a peaceful protest yesterday afternoon. Over the next two weeks the protest camp will be a at Broadbeach ( Gold Coast), It will be a central hub throughout the games for demonstrations, public forums and discussions, as well as workshops for cultural sharing and resistance concerts when the sun goes down https://www.facebook.com/WARcollective/ Tony Birch in conversation with Claire Land (@ClaireLand) - Author of Decolonising Solidarity - about her new book and working as an ally from the Black GST Forum which was held at the Melbourne Museum on Sunday 21st February 2018....
Melinda O'Conner - 3CR On Screen interviews Liam Ward - Federal Organiser & Lecturer @RMIT - On Screen Marxism Conference this Saturday 29th March 2018Chris Atmore - Lawyer - Environmetal Justice Australia - The state Environment Protection Authority (EPA) ignores resident's concerns as Landfills in Melbourne’s outer west continue to growMatt Kunkle - 3CR Stick together - Union news report regarding the double worker fatality as a result of a trenchTamara Bonaci - Media Spokeperson - @WACA - Update on the seven members of WACA of whom super glued themselves to the railing of the public gallery in November 2016 and the Supreme Court prceedings began two days ago
Andrew Thain - Talking about property co-ownership tackling housing affordabilityMillie Telford - Seed Indigenous Youth Network - National Director - The people of the Northern Territory urgently need our help to protect country and water from dangerous gas field fracking. Join us at the Melbourne snap rally to ensure the NT government bans fracking for good. WHAT: Snap rally to put national pressure on NT chief minister Michael Gunner to ban fracking in the Northern Territory WHEN: Wed 21st March, 10am WHERE: Federation Square, Melbourne CBD WHO: Everyone who cares about land rights in this country and wants to see the NT protected from dangerous frackingAmanda Thomas - Lecturer environmental Studies Victoria university of Wellington NZ - Wrote the article 'How Media Framing Limits Public Debate about Oil Exploration'.
Amazing Guest List for Today's March 8 #TakeBackIWD Show:Adele Murdolo @AdeleMurdolo - Executive Director - MCWH (Multicultural Centre for Women's Health)Shakira Hussein @shakirahussein- Academic and writer - Gender, multiculturalism and Islam; Muslim Women, Gendered Violence and Racialised Political DiscourseIris Lee - 3CR's Queering the Air - Writer, Activist and Hospitality Employee for Naarm/Melbourne. Hella Ibrahim - @Djed Press- Founder and Editorial Director - Writer, Editor & Publisher Jane Green (@VixenCollective) - Media Liaison - Vixen Collective - Victoria’s Peer Only Sex Worker Organization.Here to Discuss the Following Topics:History and current feminisms - How did IWD come about? People talk about feminism movements in waves, what are your understandings of feminism? What are some awesome things that people are doing activism wiseDecolonisation/De-centering certain feminism - History of feminism in the west and current globalised context centres on white, middle-class, hetero-normative, ableist and wipes out other perspectives and voices.Representation - Importance, Problematisation of Representation, and Tokenism(Producer: Michele Vescio. Assistant Producer: Bernadette Jurik. Tech: Corey Green)
Anthony Kelly - Police Accountability Project (PAP) - The Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre. Racism in the police force and an update on Independent Broad Based Anti Corruption Commission (ibac) . PAP is a public interest legal project addressing police accountability law and strategies. Facebook Sonya Voumard (@SonyaVoumard) - Author of 'Skin in the Game' - Sharing insight into the world of journalism & the pitfalls of telling people's storiesBassem Al-Tamimi - Jan Bartlett from Tuesday Hometime with an excerpt from an interview with Palestine Activist Bassem Al-Tamimi. Recorded by Palestine Remembered
Paul McDonald - Anglicare Victoria CEO - Face your fears for foster kids at Altitude Shift 2018 and help a foster kid step into a safe home by challenging yourself to a 113m abseil - Head to www.altitudeshift.org.au to register for more information or to register.David Holmes - Communication and Director - Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University - Talks about the ways television weather segments can raise the level of concern about climate change and develop public understanding - Care of Communication MixDown, Thursdays 6-6:30PM on 3CRUmesh - Tamil Refugee Council - Talks about action taken and the current deportations of 3 Tamil's expected to be deported by the end of today
Alison Thorne @ISJAMelb - Lidia Thorpe launch Stop Failing Our Kids postcard directed at Daniel Andrews. ISJA to talk about phase 2 of campaignNikki Blanch - Community Development Project Worker, NMLL - Talking about the launch of the Community Harvest Project Crowdfunding Campaign for North Melbourne Language & LearningMark Grierson – Executive Officer – Disability Advocacy NSW - The NSW government plans to cut independent disability advocacy funding from June this year as NDIS rolls out.Phil Evans @esshg3 - Friends of the Earth, Dirt Radio 3CR - interview with a member of 3CR’s affiliate organisation about being a subscriber and what it means to the station and why a listener would want to join.Morgana Russell - River country campaigner FOE - Joined with Jacquie Kelly Friends of Nyah Vinifera Forest - The Murray Darling is back in the news with the Senate rejecting the Federal Government's changes to the Basin Plan yesterday.
Presenters: Dean Shingange, Grace Bigby, Scheherazade Bloul. Producer: Bernadette Jurik. Guests: Elaine Pearson, Chris Atmore,Jenny Smith & Jessica MorrisonRoger Waters speaking in Melbourne! - TICKET GIVEAWAY WhenFebruary 9th, 2018 7:45 PM through 9:30 PMLocation: Athenaeum Theatre - 188 Collinst St, Melbourne Event Fee - $20.00Congratulations to the two winners of double passes to The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network's event this Friday. Elaine Pearson (@pearsonElaine) - Director of Human Rights Watch - Human Rights Watch about a new report into experiences of people with disabilities in prisonChris Atmore -(@chrisPolicy) - Lawyer with Environmental Justice Australia - Western suburbs residents will take the expansion of the Werribee landfill to VCAT after the tribunal refused to uphold Wyndham City Council’s attempt to have residents’ application dismissed. She will update us on the situationJenny Smith - CEO, Council to Homeless Persons - Victoria’s peak body for homelessness has welcomed the Victorian Government’s plans to revitalise the Markham public housing estate in Ashburton, turning vacant land into 200 units, two-thirds of which would be social and affordable housing. The most recent DHHS rent report showed that just 6% of all private rentals in metro Melbourne are affordable to someone on a low income. --- ALSO: Has warned that a flood of people will be turning to homelessness services for help, if a controversial Welfare Reform Bill passes through Parliament this week. Welfare Reform package includes a raft of measures designed to strip Centrelink payments from many people who are already on the brink of homelessness. The package includes proposals that will blow out the length of time people wait before receiving payments, and remove income protection measures for women trying to flee family violenceJessica Morrison - Executive Officer - Australia Palestine Advocacy Network - TICKET GIVEAWAY- The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network is a civil society coalition advocating for peace and justice in Palestine/Israel based on UN resolutions and international/humanitarian law - Jessica will promote event on Friday Roger Waters in discussion with Palestinian-Australian author and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah and Jewish-Australian author and activist Antony Loewenstein.
7:00am Acknowledgement of country7:10am Daniel Ajak, criminal defense lawyer , in the media as a model citizen with South Sudanese background, the media hype surrounding #Africangangs is still ongoing.7:25am Prof Scott McQuire speaking about a paper he wrote about surveillance in our cities, and the way cameras, billboards and other devices track our data. #Geomedia Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space.7:35am Fred Gesha, producer of Yalukut Weelam Ngargee Festival, on the phone speaking about the upcoming indigenous music and arts festival happening on St Kilda foreshore on Saturday 3 February. 7.55am Dr Shakira Hussein on the gentrification of Melbourne's northern suburbs like Coburg and Brunswick following VICE documentary with Aamer Rahman .8:05am Yael from Allies Decolonising on the phone speaking about Decolonise Now, a fundraiser on Jan 20. Funds will go to WAR ahead of Invasion Day, a mulit-genre benefit gig and community event to get active and thinking during #7daysofresistance.8.15am Tallulah, Billy and Ruby from Girls Rock! joined us live in the studio to talk about the amazing experience of Girls Rock!, a music/art/self-expression/acceptance camp for trans youth. 8:30am EndMusic:Rebel Girl, Bikini KillRosie Burgess, It's written [and more]
7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:15am Father Chris Riley, Founder and CEO of Youth Off the Streets on the government playing politics with South Sudanese community and on the work of this organisation. 7:30am Curator, Maddee Clark, on exhibition Black Magic at Incinerator Gallery, 20 Jan - 18 Feb 7:45am Bahman Yusufi- Solidarity with Iranian uprising crew in Melbourne. Since late December 2017, Iran has been witnessing a wave of protests in more than 80 cities. At least 21 people have been killed while more than 2000 people including 90 student activists and labour organizers have also been arrested. 8.00am Dani Weber, Events Coordinator, speaking about the highlights of the current issue of Archer magazine.8.15am Nyok Gor, Co-founder of the South Sudan Australia Peace Initiative (SSAPI's). SSAPI has been working for over six years to facilitate healing and reconciliation amongst South Sudanese after decades of civil war. They are all volunteers. SSAPI's Focuses: Trust-building, Ethical Leadership & Reconciliation and Rule of Law
Haley Bracken - Cleanskin Cinema - Annie from Showreel (3CR) spoke with the cleanskin Cinema events Founder about the eventMengzhu Fu - Youth Project Coordinator at Shakti Youth - Hope from Tuesday Breakfast discussed Shakti’s work in New Zealand and Australia around intervention and prevention of family violence in immigrant and refugee communitiesBec Kavanagh - Coordinator of Read-Up; Resource aimed at 15-24 year olds - Fiona Villella spoke with Bec Kavanagh regarding a series of book lists organised under the headings: diverse cultures, LGBTQI+, respectful relationships, minds and bodies and feminismKon Karapanagiotidis - CEO and Founder of Asylum Seeker Resource centre - Donate to support refugees and people seeking asylum in detention
Ballbusters - Speaks about their upcoming show on Saturday December 16thCam Walker - Campaigns co-ordinator Friends of the Earth- Talking about the mayor concern expressed in the social sector at the appointment of Dr Gary Johns – considered a staunch critic of charities, as the new commissioner of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). There is a petition started by concerned members of the sector and supported by ALP member Andrew Leigh.Prof. Lyndall Ryan - Centre for the History of Violence and Centre for the 21st Century Humanities at the University of Newcastle - Alongside her research team are creating an online interactive map documenting massacres site locations, details of the individual massacres and, the sources corroborating evidence of the massacres - released in July http://thenamesofplaces.com/tnop/Reyadh al-Adassi - Public Relations Officer - Palestinian Community Association of Victoria - Talking about Trump's plans to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem and the solidarity march opposing Trump's decisionDr Micaela Sahhar - Australian-Palestinian poet and academic - Her PhD focused on the impact of Israeli national narrative in Western media reporting of two 21st century assaults on the Occupied Palestine Territories while more recently her work looked at comparisons of Israeli and Australian settler-colonial paradigms as well as ideas of subterranean forms of resistance in vanishing landscapes, both conceptual and geographical. Sary Zananiri - Australian-Palestinian artist and academic - his PhD looked at the ways in which biblical frameworks colour the imaging of the Palestinian landscape and more recently he has been researching the masculinity and transgression in the Middle Eastern.
Sophia Tipping - Academic Research associate @ Latrobe Uni - Raising awareness about a project to increase and facilitate people with intellectual disabilities with voting and the political systemEmma Bannister - CEO of Presentation Studio - Public speaking is said to be one of our biggest fearsChris Bigby - Director - Living with a disability Research centre (latrobe Unversity)Cienan Muir - Senior Project Officer at Koorie Youth Council - Marramb-ik Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum looking at Aboriginal identity in the modern world – noting comic Books pop culture and cosplay as modern vessels for storytelling by First Nations peoples.
Hope Mathumbu - Speaking about a project that aims support Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women living in regional Victoria to access mainstream family and domestic violence and sexual assault services, Facebook Jan Bartlett caught up with Ahmed Saleem - The campaign REJECT ELBIT against The Royal Australian Flying Doctors service venture with a major arms manufacturer Elbit Systems AustraliaJane Green - Vixen Collective - Talking about the use of family violence funding for sex work abolition organisations (Twitter @vixoncollective #sexwork #16daysofactivism #projectdisrespect)Maya - soul singer and songwriter based in Melbourne. They discuss the upcoming launch of her debut EP ‘Future Soul,’ and the release of her new song 'What We Are Worth', more info check out FacebookDr. Shakira Hussein - (Twitter @shakirahussein), Honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne specialising in Gender, Islam and Multiculturalism - Should the assisted dying bill be scrutiniised more?
Kevin Healy - City Limits caught up with former tax commissioner John Passant on the current state of politics - Full interview Content warning: This interview contains descriptions of rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, torture and the use of guns, that may be distressing to some listeners. If the content thas raised questions or caused distress to you, please call Lifeline (13 11 14), or Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (1800 211 028).Anneke Demanuele - National Union of Students(NUS) - Melbourne protest against the construction of the Adani mine in Northern Queensland - RALLY: Melbourne CBD on Friday 2pm, 567 Collins Street, 24th of November - FacebookDr. Holly Doel-Mackaway - @4childrights - How the royal commission into NT youth detention has failed children. Roxanne Moore - @RoxyAmnestyOz - Indigenous Rights Campaigner at Amnesty International Australia. Petition here: https://www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/national-plan-of-action-kids-in-detention/
Fiona Villiella interviewed Cath Rouse - Newlands Friends of the Forest - Northcote by-election Forest protection and job potential and sustanable tourismDr. Shakira Hussein - (Twitter @shakirahussein), Honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne specialising in Gender, Islam and Multiculturalism - reflecting on tension between high migrant areas who voted no and homonationalism with Scheherazade Bloul.Donna Stolzenberg - Director of Melbourne Homelss Collective - Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign 25th Nov -10th December, this years theme, “Leave No One Behind: End Violence against Women and Girls”Yes For Love Campaign - Are the Kids Alright?, Featuring children Sebastian and Felix from a rainbow family, they chat about the impact the Yes Campaign is having on them and their family and answer the question, Can Mum's tell Dad jokes? YES for LOVE was produced by Joy (94.9) FM for the Community Radio Network - Stories from the LGBTIQ community across Australia recorded in the lead up to the survey @Joy949Karl Fitzgerald - Renegade Economists - 5.30pm wednesdays on 3CR - Campaigning to implement a Vacancy Tax on the recorded 11.2 per cent of unoccupied dwellings.
Chris Breen from Refugee Action Collective with an update on the current status of the stranded detainees, The court ruling declining the restoration of food, water and power and lawyers intention to appeal. Rally ImagesMichele Vescio (Twitter @Mchl_Vsc) attended the Rally on Saturday 4 November 2017 at the State Library and managed to organised amazing recordings. You'll be hearing from speakers from the Bring Them Home rally that was held in Melbourne on Saturday 04/11/17. The speakers have a lived experience of being current, or former refugees or asylum seekers. In these audio excerpts, you'll be hearing from Behrouz Boochani, Walid Zazai, Aran Mylvaganam, and Safikul Islam. Twitter @Mchl_VscWe heard from:1. Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer. He has been at the Manus Island detention centre since August 2013. He has been tweeting consistently about the conditions and mistreatment on Manus Island. Twitter @BehrouzBoochani 2. Walid Zazai is a young Afghan man currently detained on Manus Island. He has been on Manus Island for 5 years. His intro on his Twitter account says: "Dreaming of freedom" "Suffering in hell" You can follow him via his Twitter handle @ZazaiWalid3. Aran Mylvaganam was born in Nagar kovil in Northern Sri Lanka. Between 1995 and 1997 he lived in a refugee camp in Udayarkaddu, before coming to Australia as a 13-year-old unaccompanied refugee in 1997. He was detained in Villawood detention centre for three months. In 2011 he founded the Tamil Refugee Council. Aran Presents Tamil Manifest here at 3CR and currently works as a union organiser with the Finance Sector Union and is a spokesperson for the Tamil Refugee Council. Twitter @aranmylvaganam4. Safikul Islam came by boat, he is a refugee from Rohingya. He is a union activist and organiser. There are 170 Rohingya refugees on Manus and Naru. In this audio, he speaks of his experiences as a refugee.Contact your local MP:Malcolm turnbull - (02) 6277 7500Julie Bishop - (02) 6277 7500Bill Shorten - (02) 6277 4022Tanya Plibersek (02) 6277 4404Hope speaks with Karima Baadilla, a Melbourne-based artist, born in Indonesia. They discuss an upcoming event featuring Indigenous and women of colour artists, exploring the foundational qualities of being through material and object relations. Yes For Love Campaign - Are the Kids Alright?, Featuring children Sebastian and Felix from a rainbow family, they chat about the impact the Yes Campaign is having on them and their family and answer the question, Can Mum's tell Dad jokes? YES for LOVE was produced by Joy (94.9) FM for the Community Radio Network - Stories from the LGBTIQ community across Australia recorded in the lead up to the survey @Joy949
Dr. Bruce Lindsay - PLAN (Public Land Advocay Network) Group - Talking about Ribbons of History: Conversations about the ecological, cultured and social value of Victorian roadsidersMargaret Sinclair - Chairperson of Refugee Action Collective - An update on the current status of detainees on Manus Island, Rally for the Manus Detainees Island held this Saturday 4th November, Rally for Human Rights Day December 10th 2017Steph Price - West Heidelberg Community Legal- Regarding the Public Housing Renewal ProjectMargo Foster - Residents for Victoria Street Drug Solutions (RDVS) Spokesperson - To talk about the safe injecting room trial announcement 2 days ago, Facebook
Kate speaks with Prof Mark Taylor, Environmental Scientist at Macquarie University about his research into the impacts of air borne lead contamination from Mt Isa mines.Julian and Dean speak with Michael Green, Director of They Cannot Take the Sky about his exhibition and how it narrates the experiences of people who arrive to Australia fleeing persecution.Dean and Julian speak with Romlie Mokak, CEO The Lowitja Institute about a report addressing racism against Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Alternative News.Nick Wallis of 3CR’s Enpsychedelia presents a vignette on the Victorian Government accepting submissions to a wide-ranging inquiry into drug law in the state. Dean speaks with Stephanie Cousins, Advocacy and External Affairs Manager at Amnesty International Australia, about how Amnesty International has welcomed the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’ decision not to water down the Racial Discrimination Act (section 18C).Matt Kunkel of 3CR’s Stick Together presents a quick fire news segment of trade union news and stories.Dean speaks with Sophie Verass, Content Editor and concept creator photo series -‘Muslim, Aboriginal and outspoken’, about the 2011 National Census’ report, SBS’ campaign #FU2RACISM.