City Limits

  City Limits                                             13-9-17  On todays programme we tackle our usual 2nd Wednesday of the month to discuss energy issues. Joined on the phone with guest Coal & Gas Community Campaigner Cloe Aldenhoven from Friends Of the Earth. Topics include The Adani Coal mine, Hazle Wood the Solar Thermal power plant built in Port Augusta & the Latrobe and Hunter Valley. I...

 City Limits                 6-9-17 Today Kevin talks with regular guest,  former Public Transport Users Association vice president, John McPherson about all things Trains, trams & roads.

This week our guest is Colin Long, Victorian division secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union. In this extensive interview we discuss the changes to tertiary education employment and what the effects are on academic staff and students. We begin by discussing the recent news that Melbourne University has been accused of trying to stifle free speech for academics. Colin also discusses his...

Today on City Limits we speak with Mark Zirnsak,Chair of the Victorian Inter-Church Gambling Taskforce, about problem gambling and the power of poker machines. Kevin asks the question - are poker machines actually fun? And we learn about corruption and integrity in Federal politics, and what can be done to expose corruption and encourage accountability in our politicians, when we speak with Hannah...

Kevin, Megan and Andy discuss the local and international news - the 'Dutch reach', Britney Spears, Melbourne station safety, homeless rights and negative gearing. In the first half of the show, we speak with Sonja Rutherford, a local resident of Broadmeadows who shares fascinating local information about the Coolaroo recycling plant fire. In the second half of the show, April Bragg from the Housi...

We are joined this week by the co-founder of the permaculture movement David Holmgren to discuss his ideas behind retrofitting the suburbs as part of our transition to a low carbon society. Have the suburbs been given a bad press when in fact they can be a tremendous resource? Is increasing densities a bad thing and if so, how do we prevent our conurbations from continuing to sprawl outwards? Can...

We are joined this week by transport commentator and regular guest John McPherson as well as a campaigner from People For Public Transport (www.publictransportpublichands.com). How damaging has privatisation been and what can we do to reverse the trend? We are joined later in the show by Dr John Stone who is a lecturer in transport planning at the University of Melbourne. Are we investing enough i...

City Limits                         26-7-17On today's programme Kevin Healy and Megan Kimber discuss inequality, political trust funds, and quirky news from Florida, U.S.A.We then investigate two issues - the problems with local recycling centres, and the issues with Australia's uranium mining industry. Helen Vandenberg is a well-known activist from the North-Western Suburbs of Melbourne who talks...

This week we are joined by Howard Marosi from Friends of Public Housing and Shane McGrath from Housing for the Aged Action Group to discuss why the campaign for more public housing is growing and why older people are increasingly being exploited by the retirement industry.

We are joined this week by Professor Patrick Moriarty from Monash University to discuss renewable energy, battery technology and the viability of electric/hydrogen powered vehicles. We also discuss World Population Day and how we should approach the topic at a global level. We also examine how this fits in with the issue of Melbourne's rapidly growing population. Finally, we premiere a new song fr...

 City Limits      28-6-17  On todays programme Kevin is joined by new to the team Presenter Megan and they speak with Amelia Young from wilderness society. They discuss the take over of GUNS by Heyfield in Tasmania and the effects it has played on the enviroment. Impowered by the goverment Vic Forest the state goverment logging company are still logging rare timbers, in cases where 90% are being u...

In today's jam packed episode we look at the growing threat to Melbourne's capacity to produce fresh, locally grown food as well as our capacity to provide truly affordable housing. We interview Rachel Carey from the University of Melbourne to discuss the growing threat to Melbourne's food bowl and the long term implications that this is having. We also interview April Bragg from Housing For the A...

Today we interview regular guest, former Public Transport Users Association vice president, John McPherson. Is our health at risk from diesel trucks? Are the railways buckling under infrastructure? These and many other topics face the scrutiny of the City Limits team.

We talk to Michael Bayliss from Planning Backlash about the development woes facing Melbourne and how this issue will only become more serious in light of plans to further deregulate the planning system. Whether it is increasing densities in the inner suburbs or developing the urban fringe, we are not getting the standard of development that Melbourne requires as we proceed to a low carbon economy...

On this episode we interview founding president of the Waverton hub, Helen L'Orange on helping older people stay in their own homes for as long as possible. We also chat to Michael Hamil-Green who is involved in the campaign against the proposed 19 storey high-rise residential development at the old Pentridge Prison in Coburg. Adrian Whitehead from  Community Action for the Climate Emergency (CACE...

In this episode we meet Irene Hopper from an initiative called Street By Street which is aimed at helping people in their local neighbourhoods connect with each other to the betterment of themselves and the community at large. Their website is streetbystreet.org.auWe also talk to April Bragge about the dispute (and its successful conclusion) at Housing for the Aged Action Group.

This week we interview long-term community activist (and former Moonee Valley citizen of the year) Helen Van Den Berg regarding the proposed reforms of the E.P.A.What are the wider implications of these reforms and how will it impact the efforts of community activists to initiate change?

Christine Harris of Spotswood South Kingsville Residents Group reports on the community forum on April 27 about demanding a review of TransUrban's  'unsolicited proposal' for the Western Distributor that will lock in the west to trucks on local roads and tolls. Community groups across Melbourne are vigorously protesting the propspect of the mega freeway tunnel project which has no strategic planni...

On April 26, 2017, Dave Kerin, Earthworker Founder, spoke about the rally planned for Friday, 28 April to save Queen Victoria Markets from redevelopment. It runs from 11.30 to 1pm. 513 Elizabeth Street.   Professor Patrick Moriarty, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University spoke about the future of energy sources such as fossil and renewable. 

 City Limits              19-4-17  Kevin's guest today is Howard Marosi, they discuss whats happening in public housing(Ashburton) and also a social housing estate in Preston and they also touch on land tax. In the second half of the show City Limits has Jeff Fielder from HAAG join us in the studio talking about the current housing crisis and the expansion of their service now moving into the Geel...

In this week's City Limits we replay a fantastic interview that was on Earth Matters on April 2 with the director of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, Michelle Maloney. Michelle discusses how the Australian Earth Law Alliance stems from global movements for Earth justice, led by first nations people and advocates for system change in governance and the law. In the second half we interview filmma...

In this episode we are joined by John McPherson to discuss the lack of investment in public transport infrastructure in Melbourne and the wider implications that this may have. John is a former vice president of the Public Transport Users Association and several times advisor to the government (who ignored him totally).

We speak to Prof. Philip Taylor, professor of Human Resources Management at Federation University and Marilyn King, founder of WOW, Willing Older Workers. Prof Taylor has researched issues of ageing for more than 30 years and speaks of his views on both age and youth discrmination and how he believes it occurs more often at recruitment stage rather than in the workplace itself. Marilyn King speaks...

We interview ex-assistant commissioner for taxation, John Passant on the issue of affordability in the housing sector and how this relates to the broader economic paradigm that we find ourselves in.