Thursday Breakfast

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 suppor...

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 form...

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...

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 int...

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 a...

 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 Papua...

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 orga...

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....

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...

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 u...

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...

 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 C...

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...

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 avail...

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 Flo...

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...

 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 discussin...

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 diseas...

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!./...

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...

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 conversati...

 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...

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 edit...

 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 remunerati...

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, repr...