Wednesday Breakfast

Headlines Grace speaks with Australian Council Trade Union's assistant secretary, Joseph Mitchell, discussing their upcoming price gouging inquiry, a chance to see if big business are artificially inflating their prices & taking advantage of the cost of living crisis. Claudia speaks with Professor Igarashi from Vanderbuilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Professor Igarashi is a specialist in mod...

Daniel Andrews has postponed urgently required bail reform for another 12 months. We revisit Claudia's conversation with Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service CEO Nerita Waight about why the reform is so necessary and why it is taking so long. With the semester starting already for many of us, I will be speaking with Dr Joseph Crawford senior lecturer in management at the University of Tasmania, disc...

In the final episode of the 'Loss, Damage, and Denial' miniseries, Jacob Gamble of Earth Matters speaks with Tristan Ward, a social and behaviour change officer at UNICEF from Barbados, about the climate losses and damages facing the Caribbean and the need for climate finance.  Patrick spoke to Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at Melbourne University, Andrew King, regarding the catastrophic weat...

Grace speaks with the CEO of the Australian Writers' Guild, Claire Pullen, discussing the current situation of the writers guild strike, how this affects Australia and our artists, and what we can do about it. Claudia speaks with author/historian/barrister and community campaigner Kate Auty about her work on the Euroa YES campaign. Information on: Referendum YES/NO Case Pamphlet  Grace speaks with...

3CR Breakfast Wednesday 12th July 2023With Grace and Claudia 7.15am Annie McLoughlin speaks with Jasmine Duff from the Campaign against Racism and Fascism about their work protesting the now postponed speaking tour of Trump Junior and Nigel Farrage, and the Nazi gym operating in Sunshine. Download the CARF Welcome Pack to find out more at www.carf.melbourne 7.30am Bec Horridge from Earth Matters s...

We hear from Aunty Georgina Lovett Williams, a Gunditjmara Elder who was born in Fitzroy and has been actively involved in the development of just about every Fitzroy Aboriginal community organisation. She also sits on the Elders council at Deakin University and is currently the Volunteer Chairperson of the Weeroona Trust Inc., which manages the Weeroona Aboriginal Cemetery. Recorded as part of th...

 Wednesday Breakfast 28th June 2023 Headlines 7.09am We revisit a chat with Bill Peel about his new book Tonight It's A World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics. What are the possibilities in a musical genre whose notoriety connects it with fascist politics? Part of a segment that aired in full on 3CR Yeah Nah Pasaran Thursday 22 June 2023. 7.28am Flic Manning, host of 3CR Brainwaves, chats with S...

Patrick Morrow spoke with resident Margaret Kelly and other fellow residents at the Save Barak Beacon housing estate rally last week, discussing the Port Melbourne public housing estate refurbishment where Kelly demanded a meeting with Housing Minister Colin Brooks, regarding her relocation and the situation for other residents. The government has delivered a stance. "We acknowledge that moving ho...

 7:00am Acknowledgement of Country 7.05am Headlines 7:13am Claudia speaks to Associate Professor and Dean of Indigenous Knowledge at Murdoch University, Western Australia, Bep Uink about the impact of the Voice to Parliament debates on Indigenous Australians in the lead up to the referendum. Bep shares the lessons from the equal marriage plebiscite, as well as explains that non-Indigenous Australi...

We hear from Cape York leader, lawyer, and land rights activist Noel Pearson on the Voice to Parliament. Pearson spoke at the inaugural Sydney University event series ‘Voices on the Voice’ last week which seeks to encourage meaningful engagement on the Voice to Parliament within the community. Sunehra speaks to Chris Schuringa from the Victorian Forest Alliance about the end of native logging in V...

Patrick speaks to La Trobe University Business School Associate Professor Buly Cardak about the Victorian State budget and what could be coming your way in terms of support, the future surplus, and cuts to mental health.    Claudia speaks with United States history and policy expert and lecturer in the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University, Dr Emma Shortis. Emma is a signatory to the o...

 Wednesday Breakfast Rundown - 17th May 2023  With Grace Tan, Claudia Craig and Patrick Morrow 7:00am Acknowledgement of Country 7:04am News headlines  7:12am Grace speaks with Daniel Bastard, head of the Asia-Pacific desk at Reporter Without Borders (RSF) about the 2023 World Press Freedom Index, with highlights of the fake content industry and Australia's situation with press freedom. Read the f...

Headlines Naomi Fowler speaks with Alex Cobbin and Rachel Etter-Phoya from the Tax Justice Network, about the importance of tax policy in stopping the continuation of empire and patterns of extraction that impoverish communities and harm children. They look at a recent report “How can corporate taxes contribute to sub-Saharan Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals?” which examined the Vodafone com...

Press Freedom Day Special Acknowledgement of Country Headlines Region Riverina News Editor Chris Roe joins Patrick to discuss Press Freedom and the future of regional media   https://regionriverina.com.au/ Grace speaks with Malaysian journalist Alyaa Alhadjri and Malaysian-based social commentator, researcher-writer and co-founder of IMAN research Dina Zaman about the  country's press freedom, and...

7:00am AOC 7.05am News Headlines 7:11am We look at the effect of dairy farming on fresh water rivers in Aotearoa and the Fonterra Company (a big dairy corporation), their greatest climate polluter. 3CR's Climate Action Show host, Vivien Langford chats to Christine Rose, a lead agricultural campaigner for Greenpeace Aotearoa, about what the climate movement looks like post-Jacinda Ardern and the ca...

 We revisit a conversation between Robbie Thorpe from Bunjil's Fire and Munanjahli, Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman Dr Chelsea Watego about Indigenous health, particularly the problems in our healthcare system leading to further oppression for Indigenous people as well as the Inala Manifesto which she issued. (This conversation was originally broadcasted on April 18th 2023) You can tune into...

 Sunehra speaks with Dr Paula Gerber, Professor of Law at Monash University, discussing how the collapse of Home Builder, Porter Davis affected thousands of customers and the construction industry. Grace speaks with writer, editor and critic, Ben Brooker, about his recent article called "Congo line to Armageddon: the rush to get us into war with China" (Overland 24/3/23) in which he critiques the...

Headlines//  We hear from Sue McKinnon from Kinglake Friends of the Forest about the state logging company Vic Forests, and their logging methods which failed to protect threatened species of gliders. Vic Forests were brought to court by conservation groups, Kinglake Friends of the Forest and Environmental East Gippsland, who won the case last year. However, more needs to be done to make sure that...

Sunehra speaks with Ayman Islam, the Executive Director of the Centre for Muslim Health and Wellbeing, an initiative to help Muslims navigate mental health support that is culturally appropriate and to help prevent harm in crisis situations. Islam joined us to discuss the importance of mental health during Ramadan. You can call their navigator to find a Muslim or culturally trained mental health p...

 - Sunehra Speaks with Dr Simon Longstaff AO about ethical challenges over the years, and the Ethics Centre - which is now taking in applications for their upcoming Youth Advisory Council. The applications close Friday 31 March and they plan to start activities in late April. https://ethics.org.au/connect/youth-advisory-council/ - Content warning - This segment discusses transphobia, police violen...

7:00 AM           Acknowledgement of Country 7:08 AM           Sally Goldner from Out of the Pan, spoke to amazing community contributor Dean Arcuri, a cabaret comedian, entertainer and emcee during the Chillout festival last week, about world pride, Victoria and giving a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community.  7: 28 AM          Nucelar Free Collective Action Meeting TONIGHT 15th MARCH at Friends of...

International Women's Day Special  Grace speaks to Wong Kai Hui, a young Malaysian female freelancing journalist based in Taiwan. She is currently in Taiwan studying for her master's but has worked as part of Malaysiakini, one of Malaysia's independent journalism platforms, and received the 2021 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist award for her articles on the impact on the environment of mining p...

Mammad Aidani speaks to Tina Giannoukos on 3CR's Spoken Word program. Aidani is a human rights advocate, playwright, theatre director, psychosocial researcher and poet from Iran, which is also where his poetry has been banned. His work focuses on the experiences and traumas of Middle Eastern people, especially migrant, refugees and asylum seekers who have left their homelands to settle in the west...

3CR Wednesday Breakfast 22/2/23With Claudia (and Grace remotely) 7:05AM Claudia speaks with former 3CR presenter Evan Wallace about the recent spate of media reporting about Mpartwnee/ Alice Springs. Evan is a journalist and radio presenter working for the ABC on the ground in Mpartwnee/ Alice Springs.  Further reading: https://theconversation.com/heres-some-context-missing-from-the-mparntwe-alice...

Grace speaks with Catherine Simmonds of Act in Connection, the artistic director of the film 'Forget the Stereotypes' a collection of rich personal stories of international students, showing at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum. We hear the creative process and the story's message which is a more diversified experience of International Students that is often presented in the media.  Watch the film tr...