Radioactive Show

A special 2021 NAIDOC week Heal Country edition of the Radioactive Show that we have chosen to re-play. Features Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Vicky Abdullah, all speaking strong on Country. 

On 12 June, 2023 the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons released the report "Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending", showing that global spending on nuclear weapons increased in 2022 to $82.9 billion!  We speak with Alicia Sanders-Zakre, report co-author and Policy and Research Coordinator at ICAN.We also bring you an interview by Phuong from 3CR's Tuesday Breakfast Show with...

Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Free campaigner from the Australian Conservation Foundation speaks with Asha from The New International Bookshop about the release of ‘Yeelirrie 50 years of resistance’ - a collection of powerful stories and contributions about a community who have fought off three multi national mining companies over five decades under 11 Governments in a fierce effort to protect cultural he...

On today’s show we’ll be looking a nuclear, peace and energy issues related to the oceans for World Oceans Day - 8 June. We speak with Dr. Jim Green Friends of the Earth Australia’s National Anti-nuclear campaigner about plans for dumping of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant disaster at sea. We bring you an interview from 3CR’s Thursday Breakfast about how the impact o...

On May 6 thousands gathered on the streets of Port Kembla, on Dharawal Country in Wollongong, to say no to a proposal that Port Kembla harbours the future Australian nuclear submarines. I speak to Cath Blakey, a Wollongong Councilor about local politics regarding the issue. A new group has formed, Wollongong Against War and Nukes, I speak with organiser Mel Barnes, about their growing campaign aga...

In March this year the Australian Government 'Defence' department announced that Western Australia will be at the forefront of Australia’s 'AUKUS Pathway', with more frequent port visits by nuclear-powered submarines from the United States beginning this year and from the United Kingdom starting in 2026.Today our discussion of the AUKUS military pact has a focus on Western Australia where the camp...

This week we bring you recordings from a visit that the Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective made to the Napandee proposed nuclear waste dump site at Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia on 27 March.  We hear from Barngarla elder Harry Dare, Kimba farmer Peter Woolford and concerned local citizen Veronica Skipworth.  The Federal Governments nomination of the site is being conte...

It’s been 18 months since the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, announced the AUKUS deal, which includes an agreement that the US and the UK will assist Australia in acquiring nuclear-powered submarines. You may be familiar with the persistent and determined advocacy of Western Australian Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John against the deal. I interviewed Senator Jordo...

The McKenzie sisters led the successful fight to stop a nuclear waste dump at Wallerberdina Station on Adnyamathanha lands in South Australia. At the national Australia Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) meeting, two of the sisters (Vivienne McKenzie and Heather Stuart) and their niece (Lavene Ngatokorua) reflect on the fight to keep their homelands free of nuclear waste. Learn more about ANFA here: htt...

A conversation with Ray Acheson in the 3CR studios, visiting from New York. We discuss cultures of militarism, patriarchy and militarism, nuclear submarines and AUKUS, and how to build an alternative to the 'inevitability' argument around war between the US and China. Ray is an organiser with Reaching Critical Will, author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy (2021) and Abolishing State Vi...

This week, to further discuss the  AUKUS submarine deal, we are joined by Vince Scappatura who teaches Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University.  He is an active member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) and author of a book 'The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy'.  You can read or order a copy of IPAN's 'A People’s Inquiry' that explores the question...

On March 8 details of the AUKUS agreement revealed the Federal Government's plans to spend a shocking $368 billion on nuclear submarines as the centrepiece of the AUKUS deal that was signed by Australia, Britain and the US in September 2021.Our feature interview for today is Emma Crunch in conversation with Michele Fahy independent journalist who has been researching the links between the arms ind...

March 11 2023 marks the 12th anniversary of the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year, Tokyo Electric Power (or Tepco) is pushing forward with plans to release 1.3 million tons of radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean. This show features independent scientific experts who are assisting Pacific Island Forum me...

The Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation (BDAC) heads to the Federal Courts in Adelaide on March 6 to contest the Federal Government selection of the Napandee site near Kimba, South Australia as the proposed site for their National Radioactive Waste Facility.  We bring you a conversation between BDAC director Jason Bilney and Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe from Bunjil's Fire radio program. Fo...

Featuring a conversation with three organisers from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Gem Romuld, Jemila Rushton and Jessie Boylan. We speak about the importance of listening to survivors of nuclear incidents, ICAN’s position on Australia’s recent nuclear submarines purchase, and how this acquisition seems to clash with the Albanese government’s stated intention to sign...

Today we speak with Dr. Jim Green, National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia and Mia Pepper from the Conservation Council of Western Australia about what's happening with uranium mining, nuclear waste dumping and the ongoing nuclear power debate in parliament. Sign up for Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Nuclear-free Collective update emails to stay up to date with nucle...

March 11 2023 marks the 12th anniversary of the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year, Tokyo Electric Power (or Tepco) is pushing forward with plans to release 1.3 million tons of radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean. This show features independent scientific experts who are assisting Pacific Island Forum me...

This week we take a further look at proposed gas projects for Western Australia and repression faced by activists working to stop them.  The McGowan state government have announced a move to legislate for net zero by 2050.  We speak with Martin Pritchard from Environs Kimberley about how this sits with the State Governments support for currently proposed projects such as Fracking in the Kimberley...

In this show, we are doing a deep dive into the AUKUS deal from the perspective of peace and anti nuclear activists from each of the AUKUS states - Australia, the UK and the US. Speakers include Bruce Haigh, a retired diplomat, political commentator and author from Australia, Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and Bruce Gagnon from the US, who is the...

For Human Rights Day we're joined by Gurridyula Gaba Wunggu, Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Custodian about Waddananggu.  Translated as 'The Talking', Waddananggu is a stone Bora ring and ceremonial ground opposite Adani’s Carmichael coal mine where Wangan & Jagalingou people are asserting their human rights to practice culture. This ceremonial reoccupation that began on 26 August 2021 is using t...

This show includes interviews with Indigneous leaders attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties or COP27 which happened from Nov 6 to the 18th, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. These interviews, conducted by Cultural Survival for their Indigenous Rights Radio program, were recorded at preparatory meetings, the traditional knowledge holders meeting, a...

A conversation with three Iranian women - Dr Negar Partow, Dr Hoda Afshar and Dr Forough Amin - about the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran and what this uprising means for the future of the country and the Middle East region. The panel was hosted by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Aotearoa (MEISA) group and is moderated by Dr Pooneh Torabian from the University of Otago. You can watch t...

 From Jabiru on the lands of the Mirrar, we’re joined by Justin O’Brien, CEO of Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, whom he has been working closely with for over 20 years. He first connected with the Mirrar people during the successful Jabiluka campaign that saw mining by Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) stopped and the site put into care and maintenance with Traditional Owner veto powers since...