Radio Reversal Podcast

Welcome to another episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, continuing our current series on crisis, disaster & collective futures. This week, we’re turning our attention to the recent federal election here in so-called australia. Last Saturday, roughly 1 in 3 people voted Labor, 1 in 3 voted Liberal/National, and 1 in 3 voted for someone else. Has anything changed? With the centre-right-wing Labor...

We’re back with another episode in our running series on Disasters, Crisis, and Collective Futures - this time looking at the “slow violence” of environmental disasters and degradation, the links between this violence and settler-colonialism, and the long standing practices of Aboriginal refusal and resistance against the crisis conditions of colonialism. Something we’ve talked a bit about in this...

If you haven’t already listened to the first couple of episodes in this series - never fear! You can jump in fresh here, or head back and listen to Episode 12 - After the Flood & Episode 13 - Disaster Communism with Nick Southall. In these episodes, we chatted about weather events like Cyclone Alfred & what happens during “disasters”: how the parameters of political possibility shift, sometimes in...

We are continuing our series - begun last week on our broadcast show on 4ZZZ and then sent out in our podcast feed - on Disaster, Crisis, and Collective Futures. What is it about disasters that enables us to plan and act together with neighbours and strangers, more collaboratively, more collectively, more generously? How do public and private institutions leverage crises to retain and expand their...

Welcome to a new series of the Radio Reversal Podcast - this one focussed on Crisis, Disaster & Collective Futures! Like a lot of people, we've been thinking a lot about disaster, crisis, climate change, community-based responses this week, in the aftermath of Cyclone Alfred here in Magan-djin, so-called brisbane. In case you somehow missed it - South East Queensland was struck by its first cyclon...

If you’ve been following the Justice for Palestine movement, you’ll know that there’s been a lot happening here in so-called brisbane over the past few weeks, mirroring a massive upsurge in Palestinian justice organising globally. From the extraordinary encampments being established by students on university campuses across the globe (including the University of Queensland, here in so-called brisb...

Welcome to Episode 1.7 of our current podcast series, following the Justice for Palestine movement here in so-called brisbane, and working to understand the political and moral imperatives of this moment. This series is a small labour of love and solidarity dedicated to everyone who is contending with the relentless violence of colonial racial states: from the Palestinians in Gaza and worldwide wh...

In Episode 1.6 Until All of Us are Free, None of Us are Free we focus on the fundamental connections between the struggle for an end to the genocide in Gaza and the liberation of Palestine and Palestinian people with oppressed peoples everywhere. In particular in this episode we recognise interconnections and entanglements across the movements for prison abolition, queer and trans liberation, and...

In Episode 1.5 Palestine to the Pacific: Land Back & Climate Justice we focus on understanding the connections between the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the crisis conditions of climate change that are destroying Indigenous knowledges, communities, kinship networks and lifeworlds, all across the world. Settler-colonialism violence works to steal the land from the people and remove Indigenous Peop...

If you’ve just found your way to our podcast and you’re jumping in fresh, welcome to Episode 1.4 of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin podcast. This podcast aims to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland....

In this episode, we amplify the rich and powerful tradition of Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity in this place. We contextualise the understandings of settler colonialism, racial violence and genocide that are shaping the struggle for Palestinian liberation in relation to the history of this country, drawing clear connections between the struggle against colonisation on this continent and the figh...

In this episode, we pick up where we left off in the last episode, following the threads that Dr. Jamal Nabulsi introduces in Righting the History of Palestine, and digging deeper into the origins of zionism as a modern political ideology. With help from staunch anti-zionist Jewish academics and activist collectives, as well as Palestinian organisers and activists, we aim to better understand the...

In this first episode, we draw together speeches, interviews, public discussions and readings, to get a sense of what has been happening in Gaza since October 2023, and the relationship between the current atrocities and a much longer history of Israeli settler colonialism. We end the episode with a special reading from Dr. Jamal Nabulsi’s incisive 2021 essay Righting the History of Palestine (ava...

Today’s episode is the third and final instalment of our introductory mini series, Learning Out Loud, and it follows on from last week’s sampling of our joint podcast launch party with fellow fresh Zed-casters Paradigm Shift on Sunday 24th September 2023. For that event, we welcomed our incredible community of listeners and contributors to join the RR collective (Anna, Nat, Shreya & Han) and Parad...

In this second episode of the Radio Reversal Podcast, you’ll get to hear some of the live conversations we recorded during our launch party last week. Over the course of the episode, you’ll hear a conversation with our dear friend and host of the Paradigm Shift on 4zzz, Andy Paine, talking about why our long-standing broadcast radio programs are finally going digital. You’ll also hear a chat betwe...

The Radio Reversal collective is a long-standing audio collective based in so-called brisbane. Since 2012, we have been producing and presenting a weekly, research- and interview-based live radio show on community radio station 4zzz (102.1fm). As a collective, we come together around a shared vision of anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-ableist, abolitionist, Indigenist, queer feminist political e...