Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country News headline Chris Schuringa from GECO spoke to us in April 2020 about the 10-year logging exemptions that had been rolled over at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions while the area was recovering from this season's devastating bushfires. These logging exemptions means that native forests will continue to be destroyed. We cross live to Isaac Carné wh...

 Acknowledgement of country News headline We hear Yorta Yorta Bundjalung man John Patten speaking about the history of the Day of Mourning at the Invasion Day Dawn Service 2021.  We hear an excerpt of speeches from the Invasion Day Rally 2021 in Naarm. We hear from speakers Uncle Bill Nicholson, Stan Dryden, Sue-Anne Hunter and Mandy Nicholson.  Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian U...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Mozhgan Moarefizadeh and Nicole Curby, co-hosts of The Wait, join us to introduce listeners to the podcast. The Wait is a new five-part narrative podcast series, telling the story of the refugees stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s border crackdown. The Wait will be airing each week on Thursday Breakfast during our summer progr...

 Acknowledgement of country News We hear an excerpt from a conversation between Carol Que and Joel Spring, part of the Digital Launch of Hyphenated Biennial 2020/2021. Carol and Joel speak about Anticolonial Asian Alliance, Radio Skid Row and translation work.  George Newhouse, Principal Solicitor and Director of the National Justice Project joins us to speak about the High Court of Australia's re...

 Acknowledgement of country News Last week, Tecber Ahmed Salah, Head of African Union Department, Ministry of Public Health in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Oxfam Algeria Country Director, Haissam Minkara spoke with the Australian Western Sahara Association about the precarity and effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the Saharawi residents of Tindouf camps in Algeria.  Bobuq Sayed is a ficti...

Acknowledgement of country News Karen Wyld joins us to talk about her newly published book, Where the Fruit Falls. Karen Wyld is a freelance writer and author currently based in South Australia but her grandmother's county, Martu is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.   Human rights defender and activist Adolf Mora joins us today to speak more about the situation in West Papua and...

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Mother and daughter Savanna and Kim Kruger, members of the Warrior Woman Lane project working group, cousins of Lisa Bellear and part of her Melbourne Aboriginal community, speak to Priya about honouring Lisa Bellear's life and legacy.  Arika Waulu (dey/dem), discusses their sovereign-led land-back initiative Wuurn of Kanak. Find out more...

Acknowledgement of Country  News May Kotsakis joins Rosie to talk about the Phillipines Australia Solidarity Network's upcoming event Legitimising Repression - a discussion that looks at the's Phillipines Anti-Terrorism Act and the proposed ASIO Ammendment Bill 2020. May is the co-chairperson of PASA (Phillipines Australia Solidarity Association). Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian...

Acknowledgement of country Carly and Priya let listeners know that the police officer charged over the death of Kumanjayi Walker has been committed to Supreme Court you can follow updates at #JusticeforWalker campaign and they discuss the destruction of trees at the Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy and share ways for listeners to stand in solidarity.  News headlines with Cait Kelly Adam Wi...

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait Kelly Priya gives a brief overview of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh. They provided the following resources for listeners to find out more. https://helparmenians.carrd.co/ bit.ly/artsakh-solidarity  Marisol Salinas, host on 3CR's Mujeres Latinoamericanas show joins us to speak about Mapuche political prisoners,...

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait KellyEditor-in-chief of Archer Magazine, Lucy Watson speaks with Rosie about the new issue of the magazine, and the digital launch and fundraiser for GiveOUT Day on Friday, October 16.Carly speaks with Panda Wong about her residency at Incendium Radical Library - Whispers From Home which is a google doc poem that will be updated throughout the len...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Carly treats Thursday Breakfast listeners to a mix of new tracks by local First Nations artists.  We hear part of an interview with Dr Kate Shaw on the policy of 'social-mixing' on Carlton's public housing estate, from 3CR's Women on the Line. The episode was aired on Monday the 28th September and was presented by  Anya Saravanan and produc...

Carly speaks with Thursday Breakfast’s own Scheherazade Bloul about Omar Radi, a Moroccan journalist who has recently been jailed on a series of charges including espionage. Omar is an award-winning investigative journalist and human rights activist who frequently publishes articles about land grabs by speculators and the corruption within Moroccan officials. Omar's imprisonment comes after an inv...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Carly shared Tuesday Breakfast’s panel Classroom to Newsroom: Racial gatekeeping in Australian media with listeners. You can click the link to go to the event page or listen back on Tuesday Breakfast. And Priya read from RISE: Refugees, survivors and eX-detainees’  eX-detainee Day 2020 statement eX-detainee Day was Wednesday 23rd September....

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly The Thursday Breakfast team discusses recent incidents of police violence across the continent and the systemic nature of this carceral violence. They also share the link to the GoFundMe JUSTICE FOR SHERRY TILBEROO and details for an upcoming vigil and march in Meanjin to demand justice for the death in custody of Aunty Sherry Tilberoo. Sch...

Acknowledgement of Country  News headlines with Cait Kelly Carly sits down with Anne-lise Ahfat- behaviour change facilitator and family violence practitioner who is passionate about transformative justice; and Iris-lee writer and presenter on 3CRs women on the line and queering the air. They speak about prison-industrial complex aboltion in so-called Australia, how to harness newfound acab engerg...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Robbie Bundle joins Carly to discuss the Yalinguth Art Prize. Yalinguth (“yesterday” in Woi Wurrung) is an innovative Augmented Reality experience, expressed entirely through sound, accessible via a location-specific mobile App. The Yalinguth prize is seeking submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, living on or conne...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear an interview with Messiah Rhodes filmmaker and host of the documentary series Against All Odds. Messiah was interviewed by Amy Goodman on US current affairs program Democracy Now on 14 August. His new documentary series, available online at ajcontrast.com/againstallodds, explores the challenges faced by people released from prison,...

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait KellyPriya speaks with Dr Sandy O’Sullivan talks about their development of a list of 101 Black Writers and Voices. Sandy is Wiradjuri person an Associate Professor of Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Carly speaks with Elizabeth Povinelli about the Karrabing Film Collective's film, Day in the Life which is featuring at...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Liam Kane and Shan Windscript speak to Priya about campaigns against wage theft at Australian universities. Liam is a PhD candidate in History at UNSW, and an active National Tertiary Education Union member. Shan is PhD student and tutor in History at the University of Melbourne, as well as a member of the NTEU Casuals Network and Branch Co...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear part of a webinar discussion hosted by Melbourne Law School - Black Lives Matter. The discussion is facilitated by Larissa Behrendt and features Alison Whittaker, Eddie Cubillo Amy McQuire and George Newhouse speaking about campaigns to stop Aboriginal deaths in custody, the media's role in supporting the Blak Lives Matter movement...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Scheherazade speaks with producer Joshua Francis about HISSY FIT, an online space where we can rant without reprise, a space for anyone called hysterical or too much in this white colony. We hear excerpts from the inaugural HISSY FIT, broadcast live on Friday, 24 July and featuring three artists Hella Ibrahim, Natesha Somasundaram and Hope...

We hear Imani Barbarin and Damien Griffs speaking at the Virtual Progress 2020 conference about vital lessons from the disability justice movement. Imani is a disability rights activist from the United States and Damien is a descendant of the Worimi people and leading advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability. Emma Russell, Senior Lecturer in Cri...

We listen to part of a powerful conversation from the Virtual Progress 2020 Conference on creating police-free futures. Three community organisers from MPD150, Arianna Nason, Jae Hyun Shim and Molly Glasgow, join Meriki Onus co-founder of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, to discuss lessons and insights from MPD150's work towards dismantling the police force in Minneapolis, US. Anya Saravanan...

 Acknowledgement of Country  News headlines with Cait Kelly  We hear an excerpt from the Virtual Progress 2020 conference where Dr Jackie Huggins speaks on Bla(c)k Lives Matter and the incarceration of First Nations women. Jackie Huggins is a Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru woman and a celebrated author, historian, and former Co-Chair of National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples. We hear a selec...