Radio Reversal Podcast

Hello and welcome to another meeting of the NOlympics Committee, chaired by your intrepid Radio Reversers Anna & Nat. This week on the show: THE OLYMPICS IS FASCIST! A provocation and an invitation to think about the long and continuing relationship between the Olympics and fascism. We kick off by digging into the historical links between the Olympics and fascist regimes in Europe, including the r...

Are you ready for another meeting of the NOlympics Committee? On today's agenda: how the Olympics reflects, reproduces, advances, and launders nationalism and militarism. Anna and Nat are joined this week by Dr Samid Suliman - Samid is Director, International (Arts, Education and Law) and Senior Lecturer, Migration and Security (School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science) at Griffith Unive...

Hello friends and welcome to a new series here at Radio Reversal, all about Fascist Affect & Everyday Resistance. To kick it off, we're sharing a show we've been talking about and promising for ages : a sort of 'Fascism 101'. Regular listeners will know that over the past year or so we have been talking a lot about fascism and the resurgence of far-right movements here and elsewhere, and the relat...

We're back with Episode #2 in our A(gainst) I(mperial) Technofascism series, this week asking "what is the relationship between AI and fascism"? We're joined this week by the brilliant Dr. Karen Crawley from Griffith University who recorded a live podcast conversation with Radio Reverser Anna as part of a counter-cultural convergence called No Phones, No Phascists in Magan-djin, so-called brisbane...

This week on the Radio Reversal podcast we're kicking off our new series "A(gainst) I(mperial) Technofascism", digging into all things AI, authoritarianism and technofascism. In this first episode, Marissa is joined by good friend of Radio Reversal and passionate luddite Dr. Jathan Sadowski. Jathan is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash...

In this week's episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, Nat takes the NOlympics Committee back to May 2025 to dig into one of our first episodes examining the then Planning (Social Impact and Community Benefit) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill (POLA) (which has subequently been passed into law in Queensland. Nat and fellow Radio Reverser (and planning nerd) Jonathan Sriranganathan are joined by...

This week on Radio Reversal, join Marissa and Roshan as they remember the fight for Kurilpa Commons - a beloved community space in Brisbane's West End on the Kurilpa peninsular, which has been carefully tended by a collective of (human and more-than-human) gardeners, composters, growers, gatherers and organisers for almost five years. They reflect on the closure of the commons as part of a much lo...

Welcome to the third meeting of the 2032 NOlympics Committee! In this episode, join Anna & Nat on an excursion to Ibis Island where they give a talk on fascism & olympics fatalism, and how we can resist it. We dig back into the concept of Event Capture that we've been exploring over the past few weeks, this time introducing the concept of "narrative capture" or "future capture" - the way that the...

G'day friends and welcome to the second official meeting of the Brisbane NOlympics Committee! In this episode, Anna and Nat are continuing the conversation from our first NOlympics show to consider why exactly the Olympics is such a bad proposition for host cities (and what we could still be doing about it!) We pick up on John Rennie Short's theory of "event capture" to express the many and varied...

In this episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, Han is in the studio with acclaimed Australian-British concert pianist Jayson Gillham for a broad-ranging chat about arts, censorship, and Jayson's new collaboration, Music for Two Pianos. Jayson is returning to Australian stages from next week, performing at QPAC Wednesday, 22 July, alongside his friend Palestinian-Jordanian pianist Iyad Sughayer. We...

In this episode of Radio Reversal we share two recent interviews from our broadcast program which each speak to the ways that Palestinian free speech and political expression is being censored and constrained at the present moment. First up, we hear from Rouba Rayan, a Palestinian lawyer and human rights advocate who is an organiser with Justice for Palestine Magan-djin and a legal observer with A...

This week on the Radio Reversal podcast, Marissa and Han catch up with trade unionist, trans justice organiser and pro-Palestine protester Dana Endelmanis. Dana was one of 7 people arrested in Queensland under the new "prohibited expression" offence in the Queensland Criminal Code during Justice for Palestine Magan-djin's Six Words for a Free Palestine protest last weekend. Dana and the other arre...

In this episode, Nat & Anna discuss the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games, and why being a host city is, overwhelmingly, a bad thing for the city and a worse thing for a city's poorer and more marginalised inhabitants. We draw on John Rennie Short's idea of "event capture" to look at the ways hosting a mega-event redirects urban processes (further!) away from more just modes of planning and transformati...

In this episode, Anna catches up with friend and fellow 4zzz radio producer Belle to talk about disability justice, the NDIS, and Belle's experiences navigating a diagnosis of bipolar. Belle talks us through her experiences with bipolar and psychosis. She talks a bit about disability justice and the intersection between the health system and carceral logics, as well as the importance of access to...

In this episode, Anna shares an interview from the Radio Reversal archives with the incredible Dr. Samah Jabr - د. سماح جبر, recorded during her 2025 tour of so-called australia. Dr Samah Jabr is a Palestinian Jerusalemite psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer, and former Head of the Mental Health Unit in the Ministry of Health, Palestine. She has written columns about the psychological consequ...

In this episode, Anna brings you an interview with Mununjahli poet Maria Van Neerven to discuss her new poetry collection "Two Tongues." We chat to Maria about this collection, and consider some of the questions it asks about the role of language in colonial occupation and anti-colonial resistance. In the face of the ongoing attempts by the queensland state government to prohibit political express...

In this episode, we return to an interview from a few weeks ago with our wonderful friend and comrade Sam Woripa Watson about their decision to join the Global Sumud Flotilla. Sam is are a Birri Gubba and Wangeriburra activist and film-maker who grew up in the Brisbane Black movement here in Magan-djin. Sam is an active organiser and agitator for Indigenous justice and land back (both here in so-c...

As most of you probably already know, over the past few years we've seen a sharp increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness across south east queensland as the housing crisis has intensified. This has led, unsurprisingly, to more people living in public spaces. This week on the podcast, Marissa catches up with Sam Tracy, Practice Director at Basic Rights Queensland, a community leg...

This week we're bringing you a very special double episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, featuring not one but TWO of our wonderful producer Nat's recent radio programs which showcase content from the recent Palestine Calling: Roads to Justice forum hosted by Geographers for Palestine at the University of Tasmania in lutruwita. You'll be hearing in this episode from Dr. Adel Youssef, a Palestinia...

In this week's episode, we're sharing a really special interview with Dr. Raylene Nixon. Dr. Nixon is a Gungarri woman, an academic researcher and writer, and in 2021 her beloved son, Stevie-Lee, was killed in police custody in Toowoomba . Steve had been recently hospitalised with severe asthma, and (as the family later found out) pneumonia, and had been on his way back to his grandmother's house...

This week on the Radio Reversal podcast we introduce our new weekly episode structure with a special edition digging into Queensland's new "Fighting Anti-Semitism and Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of Terrorists and Criminals Amendment Act" (spoiler: it's as ridiculous as it sounds). We share a recording from Justice for Palestine Magan-djin's public meeting with Anna Reynolds from Action Ready Que...

This episode* of the Radio Reversal podcast brings together two interviews recorded over the last couple of months digging into the targeting of trans people, especially trans kids, and moral panics about gender and transition here and abroad. The first interview is between Anna and Necho Brocchi, proud trans woman and Service Delivery Coordinator at Open Doors Youth Service, and together they dis...

Today, I’m coming back to the core of this series on crisis, disaster & collective futures to ask: how can we think about the crisis when the crisis is permanent? As of today, it's 610 days since the Israeli Occupation Forces began their most recent genocidal siege on Gaza. It’s more than 76 years since the Zionist occupation of Palestine began with the events of the Nakba: massacres, displacement...

In case you missed it, over the weekend, a loose collective of performers, workers and patrons of the Wickham Hotel downed tools and refused to take shifts or perform their sets to protest a decision by Aus Venue Co, the parent company who owns the Wickham Hotel, to book an event hosted by the State Zionist Council of Queensland. For some context: the State Zionist Council of Queensland is a polit...

This week’s episode of the Radio Reversal podcast features an interview with Dr Jeff Rickertt, renowned People’s Historian, for Labour Day 2025. Han speaks with Jeff about histories of labour organising (particularly here in so-called queensland), the early formation of unions, and the tensions and contradictions these movements expressed and revealed regarding race, gender, and colonialism. They...