City Limits

It is a huge week in housing this week after the detention of 3,000 public housing tenants has been announced and enforced by police in Victoria.  Today Kevin and Meg kick off the show with an interview with Scott Stewart, a tenant from one of the 9 blocks in so-called "hard-lockdown", who is joined by Daniel Nair Dadich, Victorian Socialists Candidate for Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne. We discus...

This week is energy week on City Limits! We speak with activist Ronny Kareni about the disastrous impact of the mining industry in West Papua (and Australia's involvement), the ongoing struggle of indigenous communities to protect land and people from imperialist destruction, and the BLM movement in Indonesia. Later we invite Julia Stockigt, secretary of Save Westernport Inc, to discuss the social...

This week Kevin chats with regular guest and public transport expert John McPherson about the state of public transport in Victoria and the latest developments in PT infrastructure abroad. 

This week we invite Adjunct Associate Professor Patrick Moriarty to discuss the latest issues in global energy during and beyond the pandemic, including the science behind rainforest cycles and biofuels, the problems with industrial carbon capture, and much more. Access Dr. Moriarty's published work from the past 45 years here and here.  

Demolition of public housing continues, as 80,000 Victorians remain on the public housing waiting list. Kevin and Meg, with guests Shane McGrath (Housing for the Aged Action Group) and Howard Marosi (Friends of Public Housing) look at public housing, the Vic Governments "eviction moratorium" in action, and all the other key issues in housing this month. For help with elder abuse call Seniors Right...

 It’s energy day, and Meg and Kevin are joined by Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth to discuss the environmental exploitations that are being sanctioned by Federal and State governments, desperate to remove ‘red and green tape’ from industry in efforts to restore a pre-covid economy.

This week, regular guest John McPherson joins us to discuss all things public transport!

This week on City Limits, community campaigner Helen van den Berg joins Kevin and Meg to discuss the latest developments with Friends of Steele Creek and the Environment Protection Authority Victoria. In the second part of the show, Bridget Kelly and Spike Chiappalone, project worker and peer worker with CoHealth’s Rough Sleepers Harm Minimisation Project, talk about creating a co-designed peer-to...

It’s housing week and we take a deep-dive into the delayed new rental laws, the emergency housing laws, public housing, homelessness and the economics of housing. Meg, Kevin and Karina are joined by Howard Marosi from Friends of Public Housing and Shane McGrath from Housing for the Aged Action Group. 

City Limits this week pays tribute to and explores the legacy of Union leader Jack Mundey, who died on Sunday 10th May 2020, aged 90.Mundey was the state secretary of the NSW Builders and Labourers Federation in the 1970s, during which time the union implemented 40 green bans - a type of strike where members would not work on projects it viewed as socially or environmentally destructive. City Limi...

This week we invite regular guest and public transport expert John McPherson to City Limits to give us an update on PT in Victoria, including what low user rates during the pandemic mean for our wishy-washy private~public PT system and our (one) new fully electric metropolitan bus!

This week, Kevin and Meg speak withHan Aulby, Executive Director of The Centre for Public Integrity about their work in transparency and accountability of our governmental bodies, their petition for Australian parliament to resume sitting in the wake of COVID-19, and the need for an independent commission against corruption. Check out their publications page with coronavirus and other related and...

This week, Kevin and Meg speak with Howard Marosi from Friends of Public Housing to give us a run-down on the state government's recently announced rent-freeze, then we play a repeat of Sunday morning's Radio EcoShock where Alex Smith interviews Australian researcher David Spratt about threats from simultaneous pandemic and climate change. Links to housing resources discussed on this program: ROAR...

It's week 1 of long-distance prerecording! This week Kevin and Meg speak with Howard Marosi from Friends of Public Housing, who speaks to us about housing in Victoria during the onset of the novel coronavirus - including the government's response to the crisis and what this means for Victorians - from rough sleepers to private renters.

This week, Kevin broadcasts from home with a cuppa for the first time under our strange circumstances. We invite Helen van den Berg (Friends of Steele Creek and northwest suburbs issues activist) to discuss the:- Tullamarine toxic waste dump company Cleanaway being fined- impact of dumping Westgate Tunnel contaminated soil from in the western suburbs of Vic- estate in St. Albans built on a contami...

This week after our weekly news round-up, Meg & Kevin interview Prof. Patrick Moriarty from Monash University on energy efficiency, emissions and extreme weather events. Here we discuss alternative and "transition" energy sources such as natural gas and wind, as well as Tassie's $50 million green hydrogen export plan.

Kevin is joined this week by our resident transport guru John McPherson (and Paddy from Monday Breakfast on the panel!).This week we discuss the issues surrounding the recent signal failure and ensuing railway accident resulting in the deaths of two workers and hospitalisation of 11 passengers on the Wallan line. We also provide listeners with some more info about the airport rail and other suburb...

This week on City Limits, Kevin and Meg speak with Kate Shaw about yesterday's "rent-freeze" laws for social housing in Berlin, and later with Stever McAtee and Catherine Phelps on the whys and wherefores of universal basic income in Australia. 

This week on City Limits, Kevin chats with Shane McGrath and Howard Marosi about issues affecting our public housing, as well as news and local events being held in Melbourne this week. 

Nuclear energy is increasingly on the political agenda. What are the risks and realities of this so-called 'carbon neutral' energy source? Kevin and Meg interview Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation about this and related issues such as energy, water use, climate change and social license - both in Australia and around the world. City Limits stands in solidarity with the resis...

Regular transport update with John McPherson, including discussion on the proposed orbital railway line through Sunshine, the Transurban business model and Westgate tunnel, single vs. double lines on the Upfield suburban and western rural V/Lines, and what's going on with our ten-year-old signalling system. 

This week on City Limits, Kevin and Meg talk all things housing with Shane McGrath and Howard Marosi. This is the last show for 2019; we will be back on the first week of February 2020 (Wednesday the 5th).

This week Kevin and Meg discuss the NSW fires, and a round-up of the latest news from the Herald Sun and Financial Review. Then we are joined by Prof. Paddy Moriarty from Monash University who explains the science behind Hydrogen Energy and what we need to do to avoid catastrophic climate change. 

Regular transport update with John McPherson, including railway infrastructure in Victoria. Interview with Gemma Cafarella from SAVE FOOTSCRAY PARK on the recent win for Footscray residents to save Footscray Park from development.

This week Kevin and Meg talk about climate change, urban planning and public housing with Mark Allen and Kate Shaw.