City Limits

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. 

For our final show of the year and our final housing episode for 2018, we get a comprehensive round-up of all the developments, and an explaination of the current situation. We play a short documentary by Eugenia and then speak with long-time public housing defender Howard Marosi and Housing for the Aged Action Group executive officer Fiona York. Thanks for listening in 2018 - we'll be back Feb 6,...

On today's show we talk a combination of transport and waterways, catching up with a couple of our regular guests for the last time in 2018. Helen van den Berg from Friends of Steele Creek joins us to talk about the importance of incorporating Indigenous knowledge in water management practices and policies around Melbourne. Afterwards we speak to professor Patrick Moriarty from Monash Uni about en...

For the year's last transport show we're joined by Peter Flanagan who shares insights with his recent transport-focused trip to Germany. We talk circular train lines, transport interchanges, congestion, parking and Uber. 

In the first half of today's show we are joined in the studio by Naomi Chainey, coordinator of 3CR's special whole-day broadcast for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, coming up next Monday (December 3rd). Together we speak to Jen Hargraves from Women with Disabilities about her recent 2-month research tour to England, Scotland and Sweden, comparing disability policies on financial in...

Today's topic is housing! With only three days to go before the Victorian state election, Kevin's news digest is as topical as ever. In the second third of the show we speak to Jacqui Alexander, Senior Lecturer at the Monash University's department of Art, Design & Architecture about Melbourne's Airbnb economy, and how it is affecting housing design and affordability. In the final third of the sho...

On the 30th of August 2018, a factory fire on Stony Creek in West Footscray devastated the local waterway, obliterating animal, insect and bird life in in the creek, and affecting people who live nearby and use the park for recreation. In this special episode of City Limits, we spotlight the work of two Community Groups who have been working tirelessly to regenerate the creek for years. Steve Wils...

Our monthly episode with public transport boffin John McPherson swerves between issues including the Bicycle Network's recent campaign for removing Melbourne helmet laws, privatisation of bus services, "sky rail", public space around train stations & even runaway trains! Tune in for our post-cup-day digest of all things happening in Melbourne's public transport news.

It's the fifth Wednesday of the month so we talk Halloween, activism on the Upfield line and wonder- how much attention does Eugenia actually pay during the show? Our first guest is Peta from Melbourne non-profit Cultivating Community, who talks to us about the important social, economic and health benefits of community gardens in public housing estates. Our second guest is Setu Pelz, an engineer...

On today's show Meg is away but Eugenia is back from Europe with some fresh city-related ideas! In the second half of the show we talk to Dave Sweeney, the Australian Conservation Foundation's anti-nuclear campaigner to bebunk new attemps to re-brand nuclear energy as safe and clean in the media. Dave tells us about the embryonic nuclear SMR (Small Modular Reactor) technology, remote communities,...

Kevin and Meg are joined by Colin Long, who will soon be stepping into a role at Trades Hall working on issues relating to climate change, just job transitions and cooperatives. Before that, Howard Marosi updates us about events in defence of public housing. Kevin and Meg start the show with a chat about Amazon, Wetlands, and, for something a little different, capitalism. 

Nobody likes public transport, right? The ad's on TV tell us that. Well this week we break that down - what's good and what's not about Melbourne and Victoria's transport systems, what could be better, and how - with regular transport guru John McPherson joining Kevin and Meg in the studio. At the start of the show we hear about this weeks quality journalism on topics such as Union rallies, the Fo...

This week we are joined by George Maxwell who shares with us the realities of what it's like to work at a University as a sessional or contract worker. We also speak with Prof. Moriarty about waste-burning power and our dwindling water resources. At the top of the show we explore some cheerful headlines from the Herald Sun and other quality news sources.