City Limits

This week on City Limits, we get an update on Transport in Victoria from our regular transport expert John McPherson. We also invite Leigh Ewbank, climate justice campaigner from Friends of the Earth, on the show to discuss a recent announcement from the Andrews Government to repower all of Melbourne's metropolitan trains (and all state schools and hospitals) with solar and wind-generated electric...

This week Meg and Kevin talk with Debbie Carruthers (from Mine-Free Glenaladale) about the proposed 1600 km2 mineral sands mine in East Gippsland, by Kalbar Operations Pty Ltd. We discuss the concerns surrounding radioactive and carcinogenic dust contaminants for the local community and ecosystems, as well as a major agricultural zone that produces much of Melbourne's food supply. Say NO to this m...

This week, Kevin and Meg speak with Helen van den Berg, long time community activist in northwestern Melbourne, to discuss the company Cleanaway in an in-depth look at their toxic waste dump in Tullamarine. For more info, visit Terminate Tulla Toxic Dump Action Group Inc.  

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Federal intervention into the Victorian ALP, and so Kevin kicks off the show with an on-the-ground perspective of events that led to formalised factionalism within the ALP.Later, Howard Marosi from Friends of Public Housing joins Kevin and Meg to give us a comprehensive update on housing in Victoria. Topics discussed:Keating's recent calls for "public ho...

This week on City Limits, Kevin and Karina welcome Meg back with a discussion on some recent news items, including recent developments in energy. Later, we go to an interview from Sunday's Radio EcoShock where Alex Smith interviews Dr. Gray Brechin, author of Imperial San Fransisco, on the role of modern cities in the U.S. 

This week, City Limits regular and transport expert John McPherson joins Kevin and Karina to talk all things transport. 

This week on City Limits, Kevin and Karina invite Julia Stockigt, secretary of Save Westernport Inc, to discuss their fight against AGL's proposal to import and process gas at Crib Point, and to construct gas pipeline which means probable destruction for life and community in many parts of Victoria. Victorians have set a record for number of submissions in an environmental assessment process, and...

Join Karina and Howard (Friends of Public Housing) this week as we discuss recent housing issues for Victoria, including:- the ombudsman inquiry and damning reports by community legal groups regarding the July towers lockdown, - the parliamentary inquiry into the Victorian government's response to COVID-19 ,- young renters struggling within the private housing system,- a push to build "affordable"...

This week is energy week with Kevin and Karina - We kick off the show with an interview with former co-presenter Mark Allen, who discusses a new group called Town Planning Rebellion (TPR), set up to highlight the critical role that land use planning plays in combatting our current climate and ecological emergency. We discuss their main aims and focus points, as well as the critical role of citiize...

This week Kevin invites our regular transport expert John McPherson on the show to discuss updates in Victorian transport, looking at the dichotomy of the governmental funding for road-based transport over effective and accessible public transport. Here, we look at the tokenistic improvement to Victorian train lines - 10 extra weekly services on a few key lines, and the Upfield railway upgrades, v...

This week, Kevin and Meg speak with Josh Cullinan, secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), discussing the history of their inception, the questionable role of the SDA, and RAFFWU's ongoing work in supporting their members to secure the terms and conditions that workers have long been denied through direct and militant industrial action in the workplace. Join RAFFWU here; and...

Since the events surrounding the so-called "hard-lockdown" of Victorian public housing estates, Meg and Kevin take advantage of the increased attention on public housing issues. This week we interview Professor Libby Porter, a social scientist who works at RMIT and with the Save Public Housing Collective. We discuss secure and dignified housing as a fundamental human right (rather than a means of...

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...