Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgment of CountryNews with Cait Kelly We play a segment from Power from the Margins titled, 'Ableism in the Settler Colony'. We hear from Latoya Rule, Indigenous prison abolitionist, on the criminalisation of people living at the intersection of both race and disability. Dominic Golding also discusses Australia's immigration system and the control of borders which has historically been bot...

Acknowledgment of country News with Cait Kelly Carly interviews Carol Que about the History of Boycotting in so-called Australia Max speaks with Gala Vanting, Acting President of Scarlet Alliance about decriminalisation of sex work in the NT, becoming the third jurisdiction in the world to decriminalise sex work. Vikki John, Peace activist and general secretary of the Bougainville Freedom Movement...

On the show with MaxAcknowledgement of countryNews Headlines with Cait KellyOverdose Lifesavers: Australia’s first dedicated website presenting personal stories of opioid overdose and the use of take-home naloxone to save lives. The new website overdoselifesavers.com explores the different ways people who consume drugs manage overdose, including through the use of take home naloxone. We hear some...

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines
Audio recorded by Beyond Zero Emissions at a snap rally outside the NSW parliament where an amendment to the environment and planning laws, to remove climate change as a consideration in decision making, was to be debated. We hear from speakers who have been living through the unprecedented catastrophic bush fires in NSW.
We speak with journalist Paddy Mann...

Acknowledgement of country A selection of audio from the first day of The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019.Part 1: First up is Sara Saleh, introducing the session titled Identity, Race and Solidarity. Part 2: Alexis Wright speaks about the work of Mahmoud Darwish and reads a number of his poems. Part 3: Tony Birch speaks about climate change as colonial violence. Shannon from from Vict...

Acknowledgement of countryMax, and poet Vincent Silk, interview author Jordy Rosenberg at the Sydney Writers Festival 2019. They speak about Jordy's recent novel Confessions of the Fox, trans visibility in literature and historical and speculative fiction. Scout, the creative director of Tilde The Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival and Tommy Hart, director of 'Kids on Fire,' join us to discuss...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyCarly speaks with Carol Que about the history of boycott. Part 1 of 'Once The Freest, Now The Poorest' a special 3 part series focusing on the island nation of Haiti. The series is produced by the Latin American Update program. Nadia Nadez is the editor of The Australian Multilingual Writing Project, a free online journal that publishes local multiling...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyDavid Barnden, from Equity Generation Lawyers, is running the first case against a superannuation fund in Australia for not taking climate risk into account. Anne-Marie Te Whiu and David Stavanger, editors of the new anthology Solid Air: Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word, will host the Wheeler Centre’s third event in the Group Texts series. Featurin...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellySara El Sayed speaks with Carly about her short story, 'Areobics for Arabs' in the book Arab Australian Other. Fayrouz Yousfi speaks about the campaign she has launched to free Journalist Hajar Raissouni. Spencer Lai is an artist, writer and curator. They speak about Spring Poetry Night happening at Incendium Radical Library on Saturday 12th October. W...

Acknowledgement of country News with Cait KellyJournalist Roza Germian lived through war for most of her childhood. In 1991 she was one of more than one million Kurds who fled Saddam Hussein's Iraq. She now works as the executive producer on SBS Radio Kurdish. The remarkable Germian will share her story at the Wheeler Centre on Thursday October 10th at Writing in Exile hosted by Sami Shah. Samia K...

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlinesTecber Ahmed Saleh, an advocate for human rights, speaks about the continuing struggle for self determination in Western Sahara. Tecber lives in the Saharawi refugee camps in south-west Algeria. Georgia MacGuire and Bek Saltmarsh on their exhibition Ngardang Giri Kalat Mimini. Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini is the first large scale exhibition of the Victorian I...

With Em and CarlyAcknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyAnne-lise Ah-fat on facilitating Men’s Behaviour Change Programs, the underlying drivers of family violence and the importance of centring survivors in all anti-violence workSantilla Chingaipe on the Wheeler Centre’s 'Not Racist, But' series and systemic racism in the criminal legal system and mainstream mediaDr Fiona Foley,...

Acknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyCarly spoke with Carol Que from the Anticolonial Asian Alliance about the importance of solidarity work. Ian Okoka, 3CR presenter with the Voice of West Papua, speaks about the political oppression in West Papua and the solidarity rally in Narrm on Saturday on 14 September 2019.Investigative journalist Jess Hill speaks about her research into...

7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country 7:05 am News headlines with Cait Kelly 7.15 am Birdz joins us in the studio to chat about hip hop in so-called Australia 7.30 am. Conversation between Carly and Paul & June from the First People's Disability Network of Australia about NuunaRon's art exhibition at the UN, Geneva7.45 am Aran Mylvaganam from the Tamil Refugee Council on the government's cruelty towa...

Acknowledgement of CountryCait with news headlines     Carly travelled to Meanjin to speak with counsellor, narrative therapist and workshop facilitator Michelle Dang from Healing and Justice about strategies and sneaky tactics for people to use who work in social services and non-governmental organisations that don't reflect individual worker's values, beliefs and politics. James Trezise is a pol...

Acknowledgement of CountryCait Kelly with news headlinesNiviaq Korneliussen, young queer Greenlandic rising star, on her first book Crimson, her decision to only write about Indigenous women characters and the importance of talking up about high rates of suicide in her community in the context of colonisation.  Niviaq was a recent guest at the Sydney Writers FestivalSiyavash Doostkhah from Youth A...

Acknowledgement of CountryJenni Smith from Council to Homeless Persons joins us to discuss Youth Homelessness Day 2019Andy Farrell lets us know about the new (Australia-first!) Queer Indigenous studies units at Macquarie UniversityYorta Yorta musician, composer and climate justice activist Allara Briggs-Pattison joins us in the studio to discuss her soon-to-be-released documentary 'Beautiful Sunsh...

Presented by Grace and ScheherazadeAcknowledgement of CountryAlt news: the viral icon of the Sudanese uprisings Alaa Salah and women's frontline role in uprisings and revolts in Nubia/East Africa     Cheryl from Indigenous Social Justice Association talks about Stop deaths in custody both onshore and offshore contingent at 'Palm Sunday' rallies for refugees and the links between incarceration of I...

Thursday Breakfast 4 April 2019Acknowledgement of CountryNick Carson gives us a report back on the Transgender Day of Visibility Rally that took place on Sunday 31st March 2019.Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union on the Dignity Not Dole: Rally to raise Newstart today. Hannah Morphy-Walsh, Associate Producer at FCAC, joins me in the studio to discuss the Wominjeka Festival (6...

Acknowledgement of CountryShantha Rau Barriga, founding director of the disability rights division at Human Rights Watch, discusses the disproportionate rates of violence and imprisonment experienced by people with disability in Australia, and the importance of accountability and allyship. Shantha will be speaking at the Wheeler Centre next Friday 5th AprilExcerpts from the Melbourne solidarity ra...

Interview with Jacob and Harry from Dispossessed Part 1: on the whiteness of the punk scene and Australia as an active prison colonyInterview with Jacob and Harry from Dispossessed Part 2: on using music as a political platform to inspire change and fundraising for Gamilaraay mob on country facing a water crisis Shakira Hussein talks about community and media response to Christchurch and the failu...

Debbie Brennan No To Racism, No To The Right rally this Saturday March 16 and the need for strong links to address the growth of the far-right. Curator Andy Butler and artist James Nguyen join us in the studio to discuss the exhibition, ‘These Monuments Don’t Know Us’ at Bundoora Homestead, exploring the politics of ‘belonging’ in Australia from the perspectives of First Nations and culturally and...

3CR Thursday Breakfast 28 Feb 2019 Acknowledgement of country and welcome to showGabrielle Fakhri, from the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights, on the new Guide for Muslim Women and Communities On Family Violence and Early Marriage. Alt news: the limited reporting in mainstream Australia media on the current protests in Sudan and student protests in Algeria and the key role of alter...

Thursday Breakfast 7 Feb 2019 7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country7.10 am Jenny Smith, CEO of Council to Homeless Persons, on the importance of addressing homelessness in the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health and the increasing number of workers seeking homelessness assistance because wages aren’t keeping up with housing costs.7.30 am Julia Kretzenbacher, Vice President of Liberty Victo...

Thursday 31 January 2019 with Em, Katia and Scheherazade7:00am  Acknowledgement of Country7:18am  Alternative news - Katia and Scheherazade discuss international students and the privatisation of universities7:30am  Katia speaks to Kent Morris, Barkindji man and CEO of The Torch, about 10 years of Confined 10 - launching tonight at St Kilda's Carlisle Street Arts Space 7:56am  Katia chats with Nic...