Radioactive Show

Class is in session for ICAN's Ban School, a series of classes covering everything you need to know about United Nations' Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In class 1, you'll hear Tim Wright, ICAN's Treaty Coordinator, give a detailed explanation of the Treaty's articles and learn about Pacific nations' role in shaping the Treaty with Dr Vanessa Griffen, long time activist and founding...

On Today’s show we celebrate with Mirarr Traditional owners about the returning of their land after a four-decades long fight for traditional ownership at Jabiru, within the World-Heritage listed Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. In late June this year, Mirrar Traditional owners were granted freehold title over the town of Jabiru, under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory)...

It’s Naidoc week, and the theme of ‘Heal Country’ resonates strongly through our radioactive Shows. For todays show I’ve looked back into our archives and found some powerful interview clips to share. We’ll hear from three incredible protectors of Country, Kokatha Mula woman Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine, Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah and Arabunna man Uncle Kevin Buzzacott. The recordings of Aunty S...

In this episode, Anthony Amis, land use researcher at Friends of the Earth, takes us through the findings of the WA Auditor Report which found unacceptable levels of uranium in drinking water in several remote aboriginal communities. Anthony’s further research has found high levels of uranium in other parts of Australia as well, but a lack of data means the full scale of the problem is unknown. Th...

An interview between Joi Iti, Sean Bonner and Pieter Franken, the co-founders of Safecast, a citizen science organisation that formed in response to Fukushima nuclear disaster. At the time of the disaster, information on local radiation level was scarce, but their organisation combined a crowd-sourcing approach with cutting edge and easily sourced technology to quickly begin monitoring, collecting...

A conversation with Barbara O’Dwyer and Ludmilla Kwitko. two long term organisers involved with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (or WILPF). We explore a report released in May 2021 by WILPF Australia, called  Militarisation in Australia: Normalisation and Mythology. Read Militarisation in Australia: Normalisation and Mythology. Check out the work of WILPF Australia. Check ou...

 We speak to Andy Paine and Uncle Kevin Buzzacott about the Disrupt Land Forces festival currently taking place in Meanjin, Brisbane. https://disruptlandforces.org/

This week we take a look at the Federal Budget allocation for Defence and Military spending with renegade activist and presenter of A Friday Rave Jacob Grech. To read more about the Victorian Government partnership with the major Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems announced in February and the Australian federal government’s ongoing contracts with Elbit visit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...

Today is a special Nakba Day show, highlighting the recent struggle of Palestinians in Jerusalem against displacement and the settler colonial violence of the Israeli state. I’ll share with you a talk given by Badour Hassan and Aseel Albajeh, who talk about the resistance of Sheikh Jarrah families to forced eviction from their homes in East Jerusalem and the broader Palestinian resistance to colon...

Today we speal with Zelda and Porobibi from the Make West Papua Safe campaign about Disrupt Land Forces. A festival of resistance to the Land Forces Defence Exposition that runs from May 28-June 3 in Meanjin, Brisbane on the lands of the Jagera people. #disruptlandforces

On this radioactive show, we take a look at the work done by aboriginal people around Australia caring for Country. This work is not only mostly unpaid, but also comes at enormous personal cost. While on May Day people around the world stand in solidarity with workers, it is important that unpaid workers are also remembered and acknowledged. We hear from Kuyani woman Regina McKenzie about her work...

Features audio from series of Inependent and Peaceful Australia Network webinars on Australia and US alliance. We’ll hear an introduction by Kelly Tranter followed by a speech from Vince Scappatura, Politics and International Relations Professor at Macquarie Unitersity. To find out more about the IPAN Inquiry: https://ipan.org.au/the-ipan-inquiry/https://independentpeacefulaustralia.com.au/   

  Today we hear from Lee Tan, who is working with Aid/Watch to stop the radioactive activities of  Australian company Lynas Rare Earths in both Western Australia and Malaysia. Lynas seem to be getting special treatment in both Malaysia and Australia for geopolitical reasons, yet the potential impacts on human and environmental health are enormous. While rare earths are important for many renewable...

  On this Radioactive Show, to coincide with World Water Day, Ayumi Fukakusa, the Climate Change and Energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Japan talks about the proposal to release radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. Sign the PetitionWatch Video by the Fukushima Mieruka Project called Fishermen from Fukushima "Don't dump 'contaminated water'!" Music creditRankin & Dub Ainu...

On this show, we hear a detailed description of how the disaster unfolded by Dr Philip White, who is an expert in Japanese nuclear power policy and was living in Tokyo at the time of the disaster. In the second part of the show we hear from Kirsten Blair, a non-Indigenous woman who works as media officer for the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, which represents the rights of Mirrar people. She s...

We hear from Aunty June Mills - Larrakia elder speaking about the community campaign against gas fracking proposed for the Beetaloo Basin in the Nothern Territory.  This speech is from an online forum ‘Protecting Country from Gas & Fracking in so called "Australia" that was part of the Beyond Mining Counter Conference organised by Blockade IMARC on Friday 27 November, 2020.The project led by Origi...

Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody, shares the story of the her people’s displacement after the nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga in South Australia. Debbie is a Traditional Owner of Mulga Rock, east of Kalgoorlie, which is currently under threat from a uranium mine proposed by mining company Vimy resources. This recording is one of two taken from the Yellow Cake country webinar “Maralinga t...

Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody, shares the story of the her people’s displacement after the nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga in South Australia. Debbie is a Traditional Owner of Mulga Rock, east of Kalgoorlie, which is currently under threat from a uranium mine proposed by mining company Vimy resources. This recording is one of two taken from the Yellow Cake country webinar “Maralinga t...

 On December 30, 2020, in a joint police and military operation, Tumandok indigenous leaders were tortured and shot in their homes. 16 others were arrested. Some were over 70 years old. These Tumandok people were branded terrorists because they were opposed to the construction of the Jalaur Mega Dam. On today’s show, we hear from May Kotsakis from the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association a...

On this episode of the Radioactive show, we bring you recordings from some speeches and interviews from Invasion Day.  We hear from Celeste Liddle and Tish King in Naarm, or so-called melbourne, Regina Mckenzie in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, and Tameeka Tighe in Sydney.  

 This episode of the Radioactive Show is a repeat of a show that originally went to air in August 2020. It was produced by Emma Crunch and features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), and Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW). Annette speaks about RIMPAC 2020, which is the Rim of...

Independent and Peaceful Australia, or IPAN, advocate for an Australia free of foreign military bases and free of interventions by other foreign governments, corporations or vested interests that seek to exert undue influence in shaping Australia’s foreign and defence policies in a manner that diminishes Australia's sovereignty. They have recently launched A People’s Inquiry - Exploring the case f...

As part of 3CR’s 16 Days of Action against Gender-Based Violence we're joined by Dimity Hawkins and Marianne Hanson to discuss nuclear weapons, gender and the feminist ‘Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons’ that was introduced by the UN in 2017 and that will finally see nuclear weapons made illegal under international law on 22 January 2021.Marianne Hanson who has been teaching at Uni QLD...

In this show, I speak with Del Cuddihy and Valerie Joy from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Brisbane, who travelled over 3000 kms via plane, train and bus across regional Queensland, promoting the ICAN Cities Appeal and encouraging remote towns and shires to sign on in support of the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty.https://icanw.org.au/cities/https://www.wilpf.org.au/