Radioactive Show

Public hearings were held in early july in Kimba and Hawker as part of the senate inquiry giving communities an opportunity to have their say about flawed site selection process for the waste dump. A Canberra hearing will be held in early August before the senate committee report their findings on 14 August. From 20 August, the communities are being asked to participate in a ballot to gauge commun...

6 members of the Strong Grandmothers of the Central Desert Region travelled to Naarm (Melbourne) from Mparntwe on Arrente Country (Alice Springs and the central desert region), to share their stories and wisdom at the Students of Sustainability conference 2018. Making the journey were Nungurla Doreen Carroll McCormack, Sabella Kngwarraye Ross Turner, Christine Kngwarraye Palmer, Pamela Kngwarraye...

On this show, I'd like to give you a taste of some of the talks from the Students of Sustainability conference held in Narrm Melbourne that started in the first weekend of July. Includes a talk by Uncle Bill Nicholson, Wurundjeri elder, about Traditional Owners experience on the land where SOS was held and a talk by Aunty Hazel Collins from Grandmothers against removals NSW.

This week we speak with Dr Sue Wareham, president of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, MAPW and board member of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN, Australia on the one year anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.  Dr Sue Wareham also talks about her visits to Perth to speak with medical students about nuclear weapons and the global hea...

On this show, we hear about nuclear medicine and the recent shutdown of ANSTO’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.  We speak to Dr Margaret Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War and get her perspective on the shutdown and ways to avoid such incidents. The music in this show is from www.bensound.comRead articles about the shut down here:https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustain...

On this weeks show, listen to the campaign to stop uranium mining in Western Australia, updates on recent news of the national radioactive waste dump PLAN B and wher the Supreme Court of Appeals to stop Yeelirrie uranium mine is at.    You will hear from Dr Jim Green, the national nuclear free campaigner for Friends of the Earth talking about his latest smashing report that he has released this we...

On this week’s radioactive show we hear Adnyamathanha concerns about the radioactive waste dump threatening their Country. We hear an interview with Vince Coulthard, the CEO of ATLA, the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association.  This interview was recorded by Dray at Umeewarra Aboriginal Media Association in Port Augusta. We are grateful for their permission to share it with our listeners.www....

21 years since the Bringing Them Home report was tabled in parliament, we mark Sorry Day by featuring Aunty Hazel Collins who initiated the group Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR) in 2014.  The GMAR movement is fighting against the systematic removal of Aboriginal children from their families and calling out what Aunty Hazel calls the mispractice of child welfare officials. Thanks to Tegan Hugh...

Melbourne University along with RMIT are trying to build Australia's largest arms manufacturer on the site of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne. Radioactive talks to Lucy Turton and Callum Simpson from Melbourne University about activism and the campaign to kick Lockheed Martin off of their university.https://www.facebook.com/lockoutlockheed/

On this week’s radioactive show we hear from Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder and staunch fighter against the uranium industry on his land. We also hear from Cat Beaton from Conservation SA who’ll give us an update on what’s been happening there. There’s a postcard campaign and online petition to Minister Canavan urging him to lift his game on radioactive waste management. Please get online a...

On this weeks show, you will hear part two of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour 2018 where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the four proposed uranium mine sites : mulga rock, yeelirrie, wiluna and kintyre to hear and support Traditional Owners at the forefront of the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining.   The last proposed uraniu...

No Bunda Bunda on Ngemba LandWe learn about the fight to stop the nomination for the radioactive waste dump at Brewarrina being approved. Brewarrina is a small town in north west NSW. It is home to the largest fish traps in the world, and are thought to be the world’s oldest man made structure. They are estimated to be over 40,000 years old. Despite the presence of this astonishing local feature,...

Come along for a taste of the 2018 Radioactive Exposure Tour of South Australia, which happened over Easter and in the first week of April. On the show, which is part one of two, you'll hear from Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Vivienne McKenzie from Flinders Ranges, Cat Beaton from CCSA, Jim Green from Friends of the Earth, Nuclear whistle blower Avon Hudson, and ICAN's Dimity Hawkins. 

Hear Tim Wright, from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Ray Acheson, of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and ICAN, speaking to the Radioactive Exposure Tour 2018. Features stories and analysis of the recent International Treaty ban on nuclear weapons and ICAN’s subsequent winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. Recording were taken on unceded Adnyamathanh...

On this weeks show, you will hear part one of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the four proposed uranium mine sites : mulga rock, yeelirrie, wiluna and kintyre to hear and support Traditional Owners at the forefront of the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining.   Listen to Wongatha Elder, Geo...

On  6 February 2018, the federal Senate referred an inquiry into the selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia for inquiry and report by 14 August 2018. Submissions are due by Tuesday 3rd April. On this week’s show we hear from the Nick Xenophon Team’s Rex Patrick, the senator who initiated this inquiry. With a new liberal government in South Austral...

Peter recalls the Waihopai Plowshare action that successfully disrupted US war making in Iraq- from central Aotearoa.

3 speakers about different eras and wars that Australia has been involved in. We hear from Jenny Grounds about the culture of war in our modern day society, Bob Muntz reflects on being a draft resister in the Vietnam war and Joy Damousi addresses the link between women’s leadership and the fight against conscription in WW1

Serenading Adela: A Sreet Opera was a performance held on 7 January 2018 at the old Pentridge prison, in Coburg Melbourne. It tells a history of the anti WW1-conscription campaigns held nationally, but in particular the story of Adela Pankhurst, one of the key campaigners who was imprisoned briefly at Pentridge for her protests. The performance was a cooperation of many. A conglomeration of local...

On this show we delve deep into the rad show archives to learn more about the history of the Radioactive Exposure Tour. The first Radioactive Exposure tour happened in 1983, as part of Rox Stop, which was a massive year long protest against the construction o Roxby Downs Uranium Mine in South Australia. Thirty five years later, it's is still going, with this year's tour leaving on the 30th March a...

Connection to Country : Fukushima to KintyreOn this weeks show we hear the strong testimony from Kenichi Hasegawa, a Fukushima dairy farmer who’s land, farm, life and community has been destroyed following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster that occurred in March 2011.  Hasegawa’s story was shared at the recent Making Waves event held nationally as part of the Peace Boat visit. Tha...

Peace Boat Nuclear Survivors in AdelaidePeace Boat, a Japanese based global NGO, visited Adelaide on 29th January for the first time as part of a speaking tour featuring nuclear survivors from Japan and Australia on its 93rd global voyage. The Australian tour started in fremantle, sailed to Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, ending in Sydney. The visit was hosted by ICAN in conjunction with local groups...

ANTI NUCLEAR ACTIVITY IN 2017 CAMPAIGN WRAP UP : LOOKING INTO THE NEXT YEAROn this weeks Radioactive Show we will hear from some of Australia’s most dedicated and long time nuclear free campaigners who will give us a 2017 wrap up from both national and international perspectives and an insight into what to expect in 2018 from the nuclear free campaign.  We will also be taking a look into the year...

On this week’s show, we listen to some of the speakers at the Don’t Dump on SA Rally, held on 2 December 2017 on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide. The rally brought together people from Kimba and the Flinders Ranges, the communities affected by the federal government’s waste dump proposal, as well as supporters from South Australia and beyond.  Over 1500 people attended the rally calling...