City Limits

 This is City Limits' final housing show for the year! First up, we chat to Shane McGrath from Housing for the Aged Action Group about the State Government amendments in the Retirement Villages Act Review, and HAAG's comment on the proposed changes, where despite small positive changes, big issues such as power imbalances and dispute resolution between residents and operators and not redressed. Fo...

 This week, City Limits is joined by community activist from Melbourne's west Helen van den Berg, and climate researcher, activist and author David Spratt.  Helen takes us through the ecology, history and policy surrounding the Maribyrnong river and adjacent developments which have contributed to destruction by recent flooding. She talks to us about groundwater, natural floodplains, poor planning,...

First up on the program, Kevin and Zeb speak with Spike Chiappalone and Kelly Whitworth, co-hosts of the former 3CR peer homelessness show, Roominations, and Homeless Persons Union Victoria co-founders. Together, they talk to us about about the upcoming launch of Homeless in Hotels, a 3-part radio series documenting life in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic and discussion on what to expect from...

This week on City Limits, Kevin and Karina speak with Mark Riley, Mayor of the council formerly known as Moreland. He discusses the decision behind the name change, Jamaican slave plantation roots of the name 'Moreland', and the process by which the Council formally accepted and endorsed 3 name options offered by the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation. The proposed nam...

 This housing week, Kevin and Karina speak with housing show regulars Shane McGrath (Retirement Housing Worker at HAAG & 3CR broadcaster on Raise the Roof), and later with Cathryn Murdoch (Defend and Extend Public Housing) and Jack Verdins (Friends of Public Housing). With Shane we include discussion on the upcoming elections - Labor promises of (surprise surprise) 30,000 "social" housing houses o...

This week is energy week! Zeb and Kevin speak with climate change activist David Spratt about a lack of climate solutions worldwide since his co-authored publication Climate Code Red: the case for emergency action,14 years ago. They discuss:- the upcoming "non-climate climate election"; the irony of how climate issues have dominated federal leadership changes for the past several years and yet nei...

It's transport week on City Limits! Zeb interviews Anja Homburg from the Disability Resources Centre [8:10-32:23] on the Transport for All campaign and their recent series of actions across Victoria. Their media release states:"The deadline for accessible public transport in Victoria under the current Standards for Accessible Transport is just 282 days away, but given the glacial rate of progress...

This week on City Limits, Zeb kicks off the show by interviewing Dr Reden Recio, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, on the topic of informal urbanism, giving us an overview of the multiple practices through which individual citizens and groups produce urban spaces, and how informal urbanism intersects with state processes in urban spaces across the global south and north. They...

This week on City Limits, we listen to an interview from Radio EcoShock, where Alex Smith interviews Professor of Urban Ecology Timon McPhearson about the effects of climate change on cities, and the recent IPCC report Climate Change 2022 : Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Later Kevin and Zeb have a conversation with Anna Langford with Act on Climate (Friends of the Earth), who reflects on t...

Listen in to our March Energy week on City Limits! Intro discussion:East-West Link road is still on federal books as billions are kept aside in the budget. Alexandra parade is the shortest state highway in the country due to protests back in the 70s to stop the construction of the Eastern freeway. Find out more about that history: https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/45_years_of_acting_up_friends_of_th...

It's another transport week on City Limits! This week, Zeb, Kevin and Karina kick off the show by listening back to an interview from Solidarity Breakfast, where Annie McLoughlin gets a run-down on the #FakeStrike of NSW rail workers from Stewart Prins, Executive Director of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU). Karina reads RTBU National Secretary Mark Diamond's open letter to Scott Morrison (issu...

This week on City Limits, Zeb and Karina present a special show, with recordings from the online forum Housing Justice After Lockdown, held by the Renters & Housing Union (RAHU) in conjunction with 3CR, with guests from Support Network for International Students (SNIS), and Homes not Prisons, on 9 February, 2022.  During the first part of this program, we listen to the Housing Justice After Lockdo...

This housing week, Zeb and Kevin chat with Shane McGrath (Retirement Housing Worker at HAAG and 3CR Broadcaster on Raise the Roof) and later with Cathryn Murdoch (Defend and Extend Public Housing and PH tenant).  Shane discusses the closing of the John Curtin Hotel, the interim report of the Social Housing Regulation Review, the ongoing case for public over social housing from a financial perspect...

There's trouble a-brewing in Hastings, where mere months after a successful campaign against AGL's liquefied natural gas project, dirty brown-coal hydrogen exports have crept in—and this time with no publicly available plans, no environmental effects statement, and no community consultation! Meg and Kevin kick off energy week interviewing Julia Stöckigt, campaigner with Save Westernport, about the...

It's our first show back for the year, and today Zeb and Kevin have a chat with our regular transport commentator John McPherson about topics including:Melbourne's traffic dipping to less than 66% of the pre-COVID baseline,How Melbourne's motorists are paying more on average on cars than those from any other city in Australia,Questions about the proposed $18 surcharge to catch the Melbourne Airpor...

Last show of the year! This Housing Week, Zeb and Kevin speak with Shane McGrath from Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG) about how COVID and related policies affected housing in 2021, including the end to the eviction moratorium and Coronavirus supplements for welfare recipients, a reflection of pervasive governmental inaction. We also discuss the continued under-investment of public housing...

This week, Kevin and Zeb get an update from regular transport commentator John McPherson, but first we take a quick detour to celebrate a good news story!  Debbie Carruthers from Mine-Free Glenaladale comes on the program to discuss the third rejected environmental effects statement in the past 20 years, but the second of 2022.  Kalbar Operations' proposed mineral sands mine at Glenaladale has bee...

Kevin and Zeb catch up on the latest news before chatting with Pam Morgan about the Collingwod Children's Farm history and disputes concerning their Community Gardens, and finally interview Jessica Harrison about housing challenges on the bass coast. Links to check out:'Let's Talk with Boe Spearim' 98.9FM interview with Wonnarua Man Scott Franks on Massacres and Mining.

This week, Meg and Karina catch up with Cathryn Murdoch from Defend and Extend Public Housing, to discuss some local housing issues as well as dates for Steps to a Home vigils on the steps of Parliament house on November 18th 12-1pm and 23rd 6:30-7:30pm. Later, we talk to Shane McGrath to give us an update on what's going on at the Housing for the Aged Action Group, their AGM, and more. Listen to...

The critically endangered temperate grassland ecosystem along Steele Creek, Steele Creek North are home to the Striped Legless Lizard and Growling Grass Frog. The current Threatened Species Management Plan is inadequate and threatens the grassland, its precious ground fauna, as well as the one and only 200+ year old tree, other riparian vegetation and genetically unique seedbanks supposedly protec...

The Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) Victoria has acheived a lot for tenants in the short time it's been active. In this City Limits, Kevin and Meg speak with RAHU Secretary Eirene Tsolidis Noyce. If you have a rental issue or enquiry, contact RAHU's Renters Rights Support team at organise@rahu.org.au Later in the show, Shane McGrath from Housing for the Aged Action Group joins to discuss the rece...

This week City Limits hosts Kevin and Zeb speak with campaigner Anna Langford, from Act on Climate at Friends of the Earth Melbourne. We chat about the upcoming COP26 in Glasgow, including Australia's embarrassingly inadequate targets, a surprise turnaround from the Murdoch press and big business on their climate change rhetoric, and the role of the States and Territories in picking up some of the...

This week on City Limits, Kevin and Zeb catch up with our transport regular John McPherson to discuss a range of issues, including more on government secrecy and FOI loopholes, industrial disputes going on in the trucking industry, and short-sightedness with respect to transport planning and future climate impacts.

This week on City Limits, Meg, Kevin and Zeb speak with Han Aulby, Director of the Centre for Public Integrity, and later with Dave Sweeney, nuclear-free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation. With Han, we discuss definitions of corruption, the continued absence of a national integrity commission, and the influence of lobby groups and problems with the Australian model defining lo...

This week, Kevin and Meg talk to Shane McGrath from Housing for the Aged Action Group, then with Cathryn Murdoch and Jack Verdins from Friends of Public Housing and Defend and Extend Public Housing. With Shane we discuss the flood of eviction applications to VCAT following the end to the eviction moratorium, no further protections (save for a few narrowly-targeted grants) for Victorian renters suf...