Monday Breakfast

The YourGround NSW crowd-sourced map launched on 15 November 2023 and is open for submissions until February 2024. This interactive, crowd-sourced map asks women and gender-diverse people to pin a spot and share their experiences about safety across NSW to help create more inclusive public spaces and transport hub precincts. Sonia Randhawa from Wednesday Breakfast spoke to Dr Nicole Kalms – Direct...

3CR presenter Dale Bridge of the program Defence of Government Schools (DOGS), reported on Press Release #1002 with information that the Swedish School Minister stated the failure of their free private school system. NB: This is an excerpt of a longer discussion, for more info, head to DOGS. Airs every Saturday morning from 12-1 pm.  Jan Bartlett of Tuesday Hometime spoke to Associate Professor Ja...

First, Kannagi from Tuesday Breakfast’s interview with lecturer and researcher Dr Brandy Cochrane on the Forcibly Displaced People's Network's report 'Inhabiting Two Worlds at Once' which looks at the experiences of LGBTIQA+ settlement in Australia. Find out about FDPN's refugee sponsorship program here//Next, Jan Bartlett speaks about killings and dispossession in the West Bank while the attentio...

Connor Flynn came into the studio to update us on developments in the Save Preston Market Campaign. Stall holders have been offered new 5-year leases. (Originally broadcast: 25 November 2023) David Glanz, from Refugee Action Collective, talks about the rally that occurred on Sat 18-11-23, set to highlight the people in Indonesia, still stranded by Australia's refugee policies. Grace speaks with Ad...

Welcome to this week's iteration of Monday Breakfast, bringing you current affairs from a range of radical topics. First up we hear part 2 of Claudia Craig's interview with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian territories. You can listen to the full interview here. Then Grace speaks with Samantha Floreani, Program lead at Digital Right...

The hosts of Yean Nah Pasaran chat with journalist Brandi Buchman about covering J6 (the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol), the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys. (This was originally broadcast on: 2nd November 2023)**This is an excerpt of a longer conversation, for a full interview head to Yeah Nah Pasaran Rob speaks to Jackie Turner, Director at Trans Justice Project, discussing Trans Day of Rem...

Welcome back to another edition of Monday Breakfast with Grace Tan, James Tait and Rob Harrison. Grace speaks with Prof Catherine Crock AM, a long-time doctor at the Royal Children Hospital Melbourne since 1994, discussing World Kindness Day, and the Gathering of Kindness, a series of online events happening throughout the week, about building, nurturing and instilling culture of kindness in the h...

This week Rob, James and Grace gathered round the microphones to bring listeners a diverse selection of radical news. We started off by playing Liz Walsh's speech from Sunday's Pro-Palestine rally which was recorded by Grace at the rally itself. Liz Walsh is a member of Victorian Socialists. Following that we revisited last week's conversation with Elio Celotto, founder of The Coalition for the Pr...

Grace speaks with Helena Hassani, human rights advocate and campaigner for the prevention of child and forced marriage and family violence. We discussed the 'A survivor-led approach to combating modern slavery' event tomorrow, 31 October 2023. Time: 1.30-2.30 pmWhere: Online via ZoomEmail events.socialjustice@uts.edu.au to discuss access requirements. To register: Register link  James at Sporting...

To start off the show, Grace spoke with Oscar Davis, Associate Professor of Philosophy and History at Bond University, discussing what makes a good life, and the concept of existentialism. Next, Rob interviews Harry Millward, a general delegate of the Renters and Housing Union, about Victorian Labour's Housing Plan and what it means for the state's housing crisis. The team then revisits a conversa...

Chris from Raising our Voice interviews self-advocates Heather, Shona and James, who speak up about their experiences as people with intellectual disability with bullying and discrimination. They talk about how these experiences of bullying and discrimination have affected them and share their ideas about what they think should change in the community, like the need for more disability awareness....

This week the team dove into a plethora of topics, covering issues such as underestimating the economic impacts of climate change, preventing child sexual abuse, the Disability Royal Commission, and a secret deal surrounding refugees between Australia and Papua New Guinea. Rob spoke to River Night, an advocate for reform within the National Disability Sector as well as a person living with Disabil...

Grace, Rob and James start today's show with a debrief about the grand final weekend, and then hear from an excerpt of the stop seismic blasting rally in the Otway Basin supported by X-Rebellion, held on Monday the 15th of September. Then, the focus turns to Victorian Labour's Housing Plan with Rob speaking with Harry Millward, a delegate of the Renters and Housing Union about the very ambitious H...

Rob, Grace and James recap their weekends, and then get into a big show talking about climate, justice and being your true self. First, the team heard from Dr. Karl Braganza on how warmer and drier conditions will be more likely over spring and summer for parts of Australia, under the influence of these two climate drivers. Bureau of Meteorology Climate Manager Dr Karl Braganza outlined how both E...

AOC//  Headlines// Jacques Boulet from Think Again interviews Lucinda Holdforth about her book: 21st-Century Virtues: How they are failing our democracy. Priya from Thursday Breakfast caught up with Professor Katerina Teaiwa and Itinterunga Rae Banteiti to discuss the colonial history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the fight by Banabans for reparations and an end to extraction.  Annie McLoughli...

This week Rob, James and Grace gathered around the microphones to talk about Sydney Road's inaccessible tram network, Australia's athletes in poverty, decolonising gender, and the perils of a local art collective trying to simultaneously provide a space for art while managing landlords and short-term leases. Rob spoke to Jen Hargrave from the Sydney Road Accessible Tram Stops campaign about their...

On this week's show, Rob, Grace and James cover debunking housing and migration myths, climate change education in schools and how to navigate sadness with hope and visioning, the 'fuelling hate' report by Trans Justice Project and Victoria Pride Lobby researching and responding to Anti-Trans Hate, and a course on how to ruminate less by the Black Dog Institute. 7:08 - James talks to Dr. Aude Bern...

This week Grace, Rob and James cover climate hange and democratic nationalisation, Planetary redesign, AI hallucination and automation, and The Zero Waste Festival.  7:08 - Emeritus Professor Rob WhiteVivien Langford from the Climate Action show interviews Emeritus Professor Rob White from the University of Tasmania. Vivien and Rob talk about Eco socialism and regaining democratic control of the e...

This week Grace, James and Rob gather around the microphones to cover AI Hallucination, protecting renters from the housing crisis, and an anti-fascist counter-protest which pushed Nazis away from a recent Drag Expo.  The trio revisit a conversation with Dr Sarah Bentley, research scientist at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, where they discussed the concept of AI Hall...

Grace speaks with Dr Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, teaching associate at University of Melbourne, discussing the need for bilingual teaching of Indigenous language at schools. Rikke is an experimental psycholinguist with a particular interest in acquiring and processing Australian Indigenous languages.  Grace speaks with Maggie Walter, discussing Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and the negative consequenc...

Grace and James talk about their weekends, then we get into the interviews for the day: 7:03 - Part one of a two-part interview with Palestinian writer and political analysist Jafar M. Ramini, beginning with 1948 when he was a five year old and the Hagenah militia stormed his family home in Jenin. Interviewed by Jan Bartlett on Tuesday Hometime.  7:30 - Professor Emeritus Stuart Rees talking about...

 07:31 am - Tamil refugee activist and SES volunteer Neil Para leaving Ballarat on 1 August to walk to Marrickville in Sydney to advocate for those refugees without citizenship and unable to live meaningful lives with the fear of being deported. Link to petition here.(link is external)08:04 am -  An anti-sanctions campaign led by the Zimbabwe Information Centre(link is external) in Sydney to press...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//From the Archives: The Launch of the Brunswick Library Walking Tours in 2018. Reminding us of how things change and stay the same. We hear from two historians involved in developing the walks - Iain McIntyre and Melinda Barry. Featuring moments of working class history during the Depression. Covering the free speech fights which saw artist Noel Counihan locki...

Jan Bartlett talks to Journalist Adrain Weller on BDS (Boycott Divest and Sanctions) backlash in the US. The movement refers to a global campaign promoting various forms of boycott against the State of Israel due to its discriminatory policies against Palestinians. BDS posits that Israel is an apartheid state and calls for an end to the occupation of Arab lands and for Israel to follow internation...

An update on the transition to the new president of the Philippines. Jan speaks with Peter Murphy, Human Rights activist for the Philippines about what changes the new presidency will bring to the country if any, communism, the connection between the Philippines and Central/South american politics. Jan speaks with Anne McAllister from The Celtic Folk Show about the power of music, the Irish Diaspo...