Radioactive Show

On today's show we'll be hearing some of the speeches from The International Peace Day Rally Against AUKUS held outside the US Embassy and Consulate at 533 St. Kilda Rd in Melbourne on Sunday 20 September. We'll hear from the MC Natalie Farrah from the Anti Military Action Network, Djap Wurrung & Gunditjmara woman Yaaran Bundle Couzens and Aria from Bayan Australia and Dr. Margie Beavis from the M...

Today we'll be hearing updates and discussions around nuclear waste on this continent recorded at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) meeting held at Pichi Richi park in August. Facilitating the session is long nuclear free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Dave Sweeney, joined by: Googatha elder & ANFA Presiden...

The AUKUS Public Inquiry is coordinated by the Australian Peace and Security Forum (APSF) and is committed to a serious evidence-based independent examination of all things related to the Australia, UK and US military pact that was publicly unveiled 5 years ago in September 2021.Today we bring you an update shared by the incredible long time campaigner Karina Lester a Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman...

Aunty Sue Haseldine, Googatha elder and President of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance reflects on the recent meeting of the alliance in Pichi Rich park, so called South Australia. We hear more speeches from the Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence that saw the 500 strong group of participants back the Hayes Fanily in handing over a letter of their demands to the US military base that...

Reed and Max from the Nuclear Free Collective visited Umeewarra Radio on Barngarla/Nukunu Country in Port Augusta, in preparation for the second Peace Walk Against AUKUS.  They speak with Uncle Harry Dare and Dre Ngatokorua on 6 August. More information and registration for the 2026 Peace Walk Against AUKUS."We are walking against the blatant escalation towards war and the unjust spending of over...

We mark Hiroshima Day 2026 with recordings from the 'Singing for Peace' event at the State Library of Victoria.  Featuring a speech from Janet Craven, Australian Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, poetry from Sato Itoh and Kaori Okubo,  and song from Singing with Purpose made up of the Victorian Trade Union Choir, the Brunswick Rogues Choir the Climate Choir and the...

Today we continue reporting on the 'Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence', held on Arrernte Country in Alice Springs from 17-20 July. Kuyunba is the Arrernte name for the sacred ancestral land occupied by the joint Australian-US military intelligence facility of Pine Gap near Alice Springs. The Hayes family are the custodians for the site that was taken without consent 60 years ago.  Foll...

We bring you footage from the Pine Gap Convergence, the first in a series of episodes to come. In this instalment, we explore the origins of Pine Gap and hear political analysis from David Shoebridge, recorded during one of the convergence panels. We pay our respect to Arrernte people of whose sacred lands Pine Gap illegally occupies. Always was, always will be, Arrenrte land. We encourage our lis...

A Radioactive Show featuring recordings from 2006-2016 as picked out by Radioactive Show producers from that time. With the theme of 'journey', hear some powerful clips from that decade which really resonate with current struggles.  

On Friday 3 July at Balam Balam Place on Kulin Land, 100 people gathered for a candlelight vigil and talanoa as part of the Pacific Peace Pilgrimage 2026.The Pacific Peace Pilgrimage was organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Quakers Australia and the Pacific Conference of Churches to cooincide with two significant anniversaries. July 1 marked 80 years since the United...

 A repeat of a 2021 pre-NAIDOC week show featuring Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Vicki Abdullah and Uncle Kevin Buzzacott. NAIDOC theme was 'Heal Country'. 

As we approach the 80th anniversary of the first of around 300 nuclear explosions imposed on the Pacific by colonial powers, and mark the 60th anniversary of the French nuclear testing in the Pacific, we dip into the archives and bring you a show that first aired in 2006 and was presented by Bilbo and Emily with guest presenter Nancy Atkin for the 40th anniversary of French nuclear testing. The In...

This week's show, hosted by the Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free Collective, discusses the recent alarming changes to the Roxby Downs Indenture legislation & the to the sacred mound springs on Arabunna country where BHP draws up to 42 million litres of water a day from the Great Artesian Basin. We interview Annie McGovern, a participant in the early Roxby Blockades in 80s, who reflects on her exp...

Featuring a conversation with Ray Acheson in New York, wherein they dissect the 2026 Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), discuss the status of International law and disarmament treaties in our current era, and consider the importance of the upcoming Pine Gap Sacred Land Back Convergence.  Reaching Critical WillTreaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsClose Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Conver...

Today we are joined by Liz Downes and Lee Tan to discuss the rush for rare earth mining and critical mineral processing to feed the 'green' energy revolution, new technology and the needs of the military industrial complex. We take a close look at Australian company Lynas's Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Kuantan, Malaysia that is being fed by rare earths mined at Mt. Weld in WA.  LAMP was cons...

This weeks show hosted by the Nuclear Free Collective shares recordings from the 40 Years of Chernobyl Vigil held on Monday evening in Naarm (Melbourne). Speeches by Reed, O'Loughlin, Dave Sweeney and Kirsten Blair. The songs featured in this episode are from the Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World, performed by Ensemble Hilka.  

This show from the archives 'Uranium Mill Protest on Native American Land' features recordings from the Ute Mountain Ute Native American protest against the White Mesa Uranium Mill on their land from April 2017. Presenter KA Garlick interviews White Mesa Community Leaders Priscellna Rabbit and Ephraim Dutchie, an attorney Marie Ann Tapp and Dinah women Leona Morgan.  White Mesa Uranium Mill is the...

Today we take a look at some of the research and actions around military spending on this continent as we mark the beginning of the month long Global Days of Action on Military Spending initiated by the International Peace Bureau.  First up we'll hear from Jaimie Jeffries, Co-convenor of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Geelong and Vic South West and member of Defend Peace Djilang. T...

The Donald Rare Earths and Mineral Sands Project is in the Wimmera region of Victoria, about 300 km north-west of Melbourne.  The Donald Project plans to develop a massive mineral deposit discovered in the 1970s. The Victorian Government approved the Donald Project work plan for construction and operation of the mine in June 2025. In October 2025, the Australian Government awarded the mine "Major...

This conversation with Dr Scheherazade Bloul traces the pathways into AUKUS Pillar II, examining how universities are increasingly entangled in military research and defence infrastructure. We explore the implications of this alignment and what it means for knowledge production, power, and the futures being shaped across our region. Part one of a two part series. 

On the 11th of March fifteen years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the east coast of Japan triggering a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant.  Vast amounts of radioactive contamination were suddenly released into the environment and around 150,000 people were forced to flee their homes.  Fifteen years later, the impacts of that dreadful day are still very real with clean up ongo...

On March 1st, about 20 people came together for an anti-nuclear workshop held in Lutruwita at an activist camp organised by Grass Roots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT). Nuclear Free Collective coordinators Reed and Manju teamed up with our friends at Beyond Uranium Canberra, to discuss AUKUS in the context of the anti-nuclear movement in so-called Australia. We also “soft launched” an anti-AUKUS p...

Sharing audio from an online forum organised by no nuclear subs SA, ‘Stop the AUKUS nuclear submarines’, held on February 11. Firstly we’ll hear from Dr Margie Beavis, from the Medical Association for Prevention of War, and ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Margie will provide some of the broader context of defence policy and AUKUS nuclear submarines. Later in the show...

From the 21-23rd of February World Beyond War have called the Global Days of Action to #CloseBases. For all the details of Close Bases actions globally go to worldbeyondwar.org/closebases. As actions to close military bases across the continent and around the globe are underway, we bring you a show about the campaign to close the 'Nurrungar Joint Defence Facility' in the late 8o's and early 90's....

Today we speak with Dr. Tilman Ruff about the end of the New START Treaty, that removes a significant nuclear restraint between Russia and the United States, which together possess 87% of the world’s nuclear weapons. Under New START,  the United States and Russia were limited to deploy each a maximum of 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads and 700 nuclear weapon delivery systems.  They also complied w...