Thursday Breakfast

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 Me...

 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 list...

 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...

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 Northe...

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 Deve...

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, Kei...

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 late...

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 r...

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 o...

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 ra...

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 Na...

 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...

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 medi...

 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...

 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 iss...

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 o...

 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. F...

 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 t...

 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 C...

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, T...

 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 festiv...

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...

 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 Worke...

 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...

 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 counsell...