City Limits

This week on City Limits, Kevin and Meg are joined by anti-nuke campaigner Dave Sweeney who gives us his thoughts on the standing commitee investigation examining the feasability of nuclear energy. We even manage to have some laughs! Lol, nuclear energy. Before being joined by Dave, Kevin and Meg cover the news of the week including political and union integrity, wage theft, and where to buy the l...

This week we talk high-speed rail, Crown Casino, suburban buses, 10 minute trains on the Upfield line, Google Cities, the cost of transport in Paris and lots more!

Today on City Limits Eugenia and Meg discuss the latest news including Crown Casino, political corruption, the SKM fires and recycling, before speaking with Emily Pearson from Teach for Australia and Hannah Aulby from the Centre for Public Integrity. https://www.teachforaustralia.org/https://publicintegrity.org.au/ 

Kevin and Meg discuss the news of the day (except Boris). We feature an interview from Dirt Radio about Djap Wurrung Embassy and protecting the sacred birthing tree. The breaking news from the jap Wurrung Embassy is that police have advised bulldozers will be in today. If you can get up there or donate, please do.  https://dwembassy.com/Sacred birthing trees on Djap Wurrung country need protecting...

This week we speak to Susan Motherwell, a community campaigner who was part of a group that won in VCAT against developers. We also catch up with Howard and Reuben about public housing and housing for the aged action group. Information sessions for the public housing estates can be found here: https://www.vhhsba.vic.gov.au/eventsNorthcote public housing estate - Drop-in sessionProject Name : North...

This week Kevin, Eugenia and Meg talk with Western suburbs campaigner Helen van den Berg about air quality in Melbourne, and anti-Uranium campainer Dave Sweeney about the expansion of the Olympic dam as well as the ideology of Uranium extraction. Both guests also address the issues of climate change and the role of capitalism.

Transport week! We start off by chatting to Michael Bayliss from Sustainable Population Australia about his view on urban issues and unpeggingAustralia's economy from constant GDP growth. In the show's second half we chat to transport regular John MacPherson about the Myki system and how similar systems work better elsewhere.

This week is a fourth Wednesday so we're covering topics miscellaneous! Kevin does a thorough news debrief, ranging from local union issues to international workers' safety, transport and the environment. In the second half we get an update from Monash University's professor Patrick Moriarty about electric vehicles, Uber Air in Melbourne and the impacts of glyphosate weed-killer.

Welcome to Radiothon Week! Listen to a highlights reel of our regular-irregular guests talking about the role 3CR plays in the media landscape and why it's important to talk about cities. If you like City Limits, donate now to help us stay on air. Help us remain a community-led voice for just and sustainable cities!https://www.3cr.org.au/donate

Join us for our monthly cup of tea with public transport expert John MacPherson, as he and Kevin talk about Melbourne's latest urban transit news.

Today is the 5th Wednesday and we're talking sustainable city planning for Melbourne. Our guests are former co-host Mark Allen, town planning activist from 'Population, Permaculture and Planning and Holistic Activism.net'. He tells us about the massive environmental impacts of Melbourne's sprawling concrete-heavy housing industry, and the importance of maintaining and re-using existing buildings t...

This week we debrief from Saturday's Federal election. We speak to Sue Bolton who ran as a socialist candidate in Wills about the need to provide employment opportunities while maintaining left-wing policies on migration and climate change. Next, Dave Kerin from the Earth Worker Alliance talks about cross-partisan efforts to replace environmentally exploitative industries with sustainable ones by...

This week we're talking environment with the Australian Conservation Foundation's anti-uranium campaigner Dave Sweeney. We talk about the environmental impacts of a controversial new approval for a uranium mine at Ullaring in WA. We also hear from Debbie Carmody- an indigenous woman from WA campaigning against the Ullaring mine, explaining why it is critical to respect Indigenous sovereignty in th...

It's the 1st of May- the international dayfor workers' rights! It's also City Limits transport week so we have John MacPherson in the studio to update us on Melbourne transport news. We interview Jim Chrysostomou from the locomotive division of Victoria's Transport Workers Union on an upcoming lawsuit against Metro for wage theft, sub-standard safety protocols and the pressures facing train and tr...

Sonja Rutherford from the Broadmeadows Progress Association Talks with us about the impact of the repeated fires in Melbourne's Western Suburbs. We then explore with Professor Pat Moriarty how we actually address the stockpiling of waste, and the increasing problem of emissions from the fossil fuel industry. 

It's energy week! After catching up on the news we chat to Dr Yvette Maker, a Senior Research Associate at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Yvette studies how people with cognitive disabilities interact with the companies that provide essential utilities like power, water and telecommunications. She talks about the barriers faced by people with experiences as broad as dementia, acquired brai...

After a run-down of the news this week, we are joined by Tim Read, Greens state member for Brunswick. Trains, trams, buses, and bikes are all under discussion. 

For our 4th Wednesday of the month we start the show we do a thorough digest of all the news that Kevin's spotted in the media this week. In the second half we chat to James Frazer, coordinator of the Waterwatch program at Melbourne Water. He tells us about the significance of frogs to understanding Melbourne's water health, and the Frog Census app that Melbourne Water have developed to allow all...

This week we're talking housing- and the affordable housing crisis is more acute than ever. We speak to Howard Morosey from Defend and Extend Public Housing about community resistance to the proposed redevelopment of public housing in Northcote. In the second half of the show we have a conversation between Tanya McColl from the Northern and Western Homelessness Networks and Gemma White from Housin...

Brendan Dobby from Environmental Defenders Office of NSW joins us to discuss the recent rejection of a proposed coal mine in Gloucester NSW, partly for Climate Change reasons. Before that, Kevin, Meg and Eugenia explore the news of the week, including Labour Day, Federation Square and superannuation.   Kevin Healy, Meg Kimber, Eugenia Zoubtchenko, Brendan Dobby

It's the first Wednesday of the month AND the broadcast before International Women's Day, so Meg & Eugenia have booted the boys out of the studio to talk gender & transport. Our first interview is with Dr Nicole Kalms from the Monash Design Department's XYX Lab about her research into women's safety on public transport around the world. We talk about how design is gendered and the dramatic changes...

The Olympic Dam mine is 400 kilometres from Adelaide in South Australia. It's owned by BHP and mines copper, gold, silver, uranium. It currently has a licence to produce 200 tonnes of copper per annum, but BHP has put in an applications to increase that to 350,000 tonnes of copper. Listen in for all the details from Dave Sweeny from the Australian Conservation Foundation. Our second guest is Ruby...

On our first housing episode for 2019!In the first segment we chat to Alex Fearnside from Urban Coup about cooperative housing in Melbourne. Urban Coup are starting Australia's first inner-urban housing cooperative, and he talks about the environmental and social benefits of living in community. Note: Alex mentions a particular development company and some architecture firms. These are just one of...

Guillermo Narsilio is a researcher in Infrastructure Engineering with the Melbourne School of Engineering, and he joins the City Limits team to give us the 'low down' on Geothermal Energy. More information here: http://pmrl.eng.unimelb.edu.au 

Our first week back from summer break is our monthly transport show with regular guest & public transit guru John McPherson. In the first half of the show we catch up on news. In the second half we discuss tunneling projects in metropolitain Melbourne, the ways in which we could improve our public transport without building new infrastructure and why it's so hard to hold bus operators to account.