Tuesday Breakfast

7:15AM // Aysha Zaharin is a PhD researcher, award-winning trans rights advocate, and member of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Trans and Gender Diverse Expert Advisory Committee. Her work focuses on cultural relativism and decoloniality, bridging rigorous academic research with grassroots advocacy to highlight marginalized voices in the quest for transformative justice and equity. A surv...

 7:15AM // Lisa Barrand is a founding member of the Gippsland Forest Guardians, an organisation focused on protecting the Gippsland forest and the animals that inhabit it. Phuong spoke with Lisa about a positive update regarding the Fella coupe and protecting the future existence of the Strzelecki Forests which have been subject to logging in the past. To keep up with their campaigns click here. 7...

Headlines //  - Seven Australians have been abducted from the Global Sumud Flotilla by the Israeli government- New housing index released by the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) has revealed that the housing crisis in Victoria is deepening- New polling has found that the majority of Australians oppose the genocide in Gaza and want action from the Australian government- Last Wednesday 1 October, l...

We replay a conversation with Dr Susie Allanson and Lizzie O'Shea from 12 July 2022 about the fight for reproductive rights in Australia. Dr Susie Allanson was a clinical psychologist for more than 35 years. Twenty-six of those years were at the Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne. Susie led the clinic’s campaign for safe access to abortion. Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer and writer. Lizzie represent...

Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman, Professor Chelsea Watego speaks about her new book, Black Thoughts Matter: Essays on Black Love, Black Power, and Black Joy. In the following excerpt from this week’s episode of Women on the Line, Chelsea speaks about Aboriginal women's voices and perspectives that are often missing from public discourse; the censorship and control of white women editors; a...

Emma Valente, from THE RABBLE, spoke to Kannagi for this week's Women on the Line about their new show UNWOMAN (the protest), a durational artwork celebrating the multitude of experiences around birth, fertility and pregnancy. THE RABBLE was formed in 2006 by Kate Davis and Emma Valente from a desire to make work that wasn’t being produced in Australia: visually ambitious, political, feminist and...

Headlines// 7:15AM// Jessica has been a member of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union since it was founded but has been an activist since the 70s. In 2014, Jessica helped form a local AUWU branch in Wonthaggi, where they picketed job centres to support their members. Now she is on age pension and says she can't believe that we are still fighting Howard-era payments under the poverty line and t...

7:15am // A speech from Dr Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychologist and author of the newly released 'Radiance in Pain and Resilience'. Her book includes insight into the experience of trauma that occurs as a result of the genocidal war faced by Palestinians, and the necessity of psychological aid within war torn countries. Dr Jabr is a trainer and supervisor with a special focus on Cognitive Behavi...

7:15 AM// Xen spoke with 44 Flats United (44FU), a group of residents, former residents and supporters of public housing, on this week’s episode of Women on the Line. 44FU is organising against the Victorian State Government's decision to demolish the 44 high-rise commission flats and a growing number of walkups across Narrm (Melbourne). Xen interviewed R-Coo Tran, leader of 44 FU and Thi, a Vietn...

 HEADLINES Further displacement, violence and famine in Gaza Passing of Aboriginal dancer, author, actor, choreographer, director and gay rights activist Bolivia's presidential Elections Saturday anti-trans rally police repression  7:15AM // Cher Tan is an essayist and critic whose written work has been published widely. In this interview, Cher delves into the dark side of Spotify; its ties to the...

7:15 AM//  Lucinda Thorpe, Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch. Lucinda joined us this morning to chat about the latest Productivity Commission report on AI, how big tech companies will benefit from lack of regulation and how this will impact regular people. To learn more about privacy rights online, head to https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/  7:30 AM// Nina, the Family Violence Justice Pro...

7:15 AM// The Convergence on Canberra from 20th-22nd July saw Palestine allies from across the nation come together to call upon the Australian government to impose sanctions on Israel in response to the state’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We hear from Remah Naji who spoke on July 22, the opening of Parliament. Remah was the Greens candidate for the Federal seat of Moreton. An education work...

7.15 am// The Struggle for Peace in the Pacific || hereAnnette Brownlie is founding member of the Brisbane based community peace organisation, Just Peace Queensland, and the current (and inaugural) chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Ausralia Network (IPAN). She has served in this position for over a decade. Annette is on the show this morning to tell us more about Talisman Sabre war exerc...

HEADLINES 7:15 AM// Janet Parker, from Jews for Palestine WA, speaking at the rally to Sanction Israel Now! that took place in Canberra on Sunday. Janet spoke about the ongoing dehumanisation of Palestinians, the responsibility of Western governments in the facilitation of genocide, and the silencing of dissent through the new report by Jillian Segal in so-called Australia.  7:30 AM// Aunty Sue Ha...

7:15 AM // STAMPED zine is a project made by migrants, for migrants. It is edited by a group of creatives who have been navigating so-called Australia as foreigners for some time. The goal of STAMPED is to create a space for visa holders to express both the mundane and the aspirational while trying to settle (temporarily). A place to protest without the shame of needing to be grateful, or being to...

HEADLINES //  7:15 AM// An excerpt from yesterday's Beyond the Bars broadcast from Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. As part of NAIDOC week 2025, First Nations presenters from 3CR are speaking to women and men inside Victoria's prisons. In this particular excerpt, we hear from some women who shed light on the rolling lockdowns that they are subjected to, where they are confined to their cells and miss ou...

HEADLINES // 7:15AM // Jaimie Jeffrey, co-convenor of IPAN Geelong and Vic Southwest speaks at the Future Funds rally outside Hanwha HQ last Thursday 26th June 2025 as part of Elbit out of Victoria's EOFY Week of Action. Jaimie speaks about the expansion of the military industrial complex here in so-called Australia.  7:30AM // Yolanda Robson is the Director of the Young Workers' Centre at Trades...

7:15AM // Phuong spoke to India, who is a community organiser in the Act on Climate collective at Friends of the Earth Melbourne and a local in the City of Port Phillip. The Port Phillip Council is looking to establish no camping zones in the area that would target rough sleepers. India has lived in the area her whole life and has always loved the diversity of people around Port Phillip. She is a...

Headlines- Israel bombs Iran's state television- HACSU walk-out- Yoorook Walk for Truth final 2 days- Vic push for ADHD diagnosis by GPs 7.15 am// Hannah Tamata, Pacific Menstrual NetworkOn May 28th, Menstrual Hygiene Day, a report called 'Exploring the links between Climate Change and Menstrual Health in the Pacific' was published by WaterAid Australia and The Pacific Menstrual Health Network. Th...

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HEADLINES // 7:15AM // Scheherezade is a researcher and campaigner with Elbit Out of Victoria, a member of the Free Palestine Naarm Coalition, and is a fellow presenter here on 3CR. Last week on the show we played Scheherezade's speech from outside Hanwha headquarters as part of the Free Palestine rally in Naarm on Sunday 19th May. Sche joined to speak further about weapons manufacturing in this c...

HEADLINES//  7:15 AM// Kate Colvin is the CEO of Homelessness Australia. Previously, Kate was the spokesperson for national housing and homelessness campaign Everybody's Home and served as the deputy CEO for Victoria's peak body for homelessness, the Council to Homeless Persons. Last week, the Australian Government's National Housing Supply and Affordability council released its State of the Housi...

7:15AM // Worker Women's Strength and Struggle: Rana Plaza disaster 2013 From 3CR's May Day 2025 special programming. Mercedes from Uprise Radio and A Friday Rave presented a speech from Taslima Akhter, president of Bangladesh Garment Workers Solidarity, & Rupali Akhter, survivor of Rana Plaza Disaster - recorded at the 2023 May Day for Freedom and Liberation Rally at the state library.7:30AM // S...

7.15 am// Desiree Cai from Tomorrow Movement on Australia's post-electionDesiree Cai is National Director at Tomorrow Movement, building a movement of young people powerful enough to win ambitious solutions to the climate and economic crises. Formerly President of the National Union of Students, and organiser at GetUp, Desiree has run youth-led campaigns on economic justice, education, and climate...

Gippsland Forest GuardiansLisa Barrand is a founding member of the Gippsland Forest Guardians, a small team working with community to protect Gippsland's forests for future generations of animals, plants and people. Lisa speaks about the campaign to protect the critically endangered slender tree-fern and why increased pine plantations are contributing to the destruction of native forests. You can...