Monday Breakfast

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...

Jan from Tuesday Hometime speaks with Max Costello (LLM) former WorkSafe Victoria prosecuting solicitor and RMIT Law lecturer to explain the past sabotage of refugee law in Australia. Costello co-wrote submissions to the 2014 Moss review and the 2015 Senate Select Committee on Nauru abuses, highlighting misconduct and violation of rights from the former Australian government and the manipulation o...

 Melissa Yvonne from Free Palestine Melbourne (FPM) joins Jan with an update about events. The international human rights lawyer and Palestinian activist explains the violation of human rights in the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. As the conflict continues and segregates Palestinians in Israeli territory. She explains that Israel continues to isolate Palestine through colonization. The Library...

Kathy Kelly -  A call to desert   - an update on the war in Ukraine. Ukraine's situation escalates as the use of killer drones increases. Kathy pleads that the USA do not condone nor support war by not providing weapons. She urges the need to end the killing. She begs for the powerful countries to become involved and stop the war, with the promise that nuclear weapons must not be used. Asia Pacifi...

May Kotsakis Co-founder of The Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) speaking with Jan about Marcos Jnr and the recent election in the Philippines. Kostakis confirms the manipulation and corruption within the current election and the country's history. The Phillipienes was previously ruled by Marcos SNR a known dictator who has cause much terror across the counrty. Kostakis discusses...

Tamil Radiothon on 3CR: The Good Friday appeal for medical aid for Tamils in Sri Lanka and the history of the Australian Medical Aid Foundation with the Victorian AMAF Branch Secretary Dr Sathi Seevanagayam and Jan Bartlett from Tuesday HometimePhilippines Election 2022:  Pre-election violence escalating in the Philippines - update with human rights activist Peter Murphy, chairperson of the Global...

3CR BreakfastMonday 4 April with Evan7.00AM - 8.30AMKristy Walters talked about the work of the Community Power Agency and their response to the disappointing Federal Budget. Put your name to the Repower our Communities Campaign here. David Bowman chatted with Evan about the Gondwanan Forests of South West Tasmania and the fire threats they are facing due to global warming. Read David's excellent...

Paul Power, CEO of the Refugee Council of Australia, talked with Evan about the Morrison Government's decision to accept New Zealand's long-standing offer to resettle 450 refugees in Nauru and in Australian detention. https://www.refugeecouncil.org.auNaomi Barnes chatted all things Education Policy in the lead-up to the 2022 Federal Election. Read Naomi's great article for The Conversation here: h...

On this special edition of Monday Breakfast, Evan Wallace caught up with Australian political historian and writer, Judith Brett. Judith's most recent book is 'Doing Politics: Writing on public life'. The book covers an incredible breadth of topics including Australian Prime Ministers, the process of writing, and politics from the perspectives of 'ordinary Australians'. In this interview Judith ta...

Monday Breakfast - 14 Marchwith Evan - Stephen Duckett, Health Director from the Grattan Institute, talked about how we can address out of pocket costs in the Australian health system. The conversation looked at the Grattan Institute's latest report into the subject and what can be done to tackle the prohibitive costs of seeing medical specialists in Australia.  - Lurion de Mello, Senior Lecturer...

Monday Breakfast - 7 March 2022with EvanLatest from Chisholm - 7.15Evan ventured to 'The Glen' to hear what was on the minds of community members in the Federal Electorate of Chisholm. An electorate held by the Liberal Party by only 1090 votes. Changing Water Cycles Taimoor Sohail, a physical oceanographer from the University of Sydney explained some concerning new research on the world's water cy...

Monday Breakfast with Jacob and Evan // Acknowledgement of Country 7.15: Jordan Crook, a conservationist and arborist from the Victorian National Parks Association, spoke about the campaigns to preserve Victorian forests, and his hopes for maintaining animal habitats. // 7.30: Smash the Drag Show is a collective of POC and First Nations drag performers dismantling whiteness and cisgender norms in...

Monday Breakfast - 14 February 2022with Evan Latest from Chisholm '16"06Evan ventured to Mount Waverley to hear what was on the minds of community members in the Federal Electorate of Chisholm. An electorate held by the Liberal Party by only 1090 votes.  Collingwood Community Farm - '30'37"We had a listen to audio from a rally over the weekend aimed at saving the Collingwood Community Gardens. The...

Monday Breakfast 7/2with Jacob and Evan // Dr Penny Olsen spoke with Evan about her book, The Flight of the Budgerigar, looking at the budgerigars transition from a happy desert dweller to one of the world's most celebrated pets. // Aziz, a local resident of Cairns, spoke to Evan about politics, life, and his hopes for 2022. // Renuga Inpakumar, a spokesperson for the Tamil Refugee Council, spoke...

Monday Breakfast 31 January with EvanTiffany Kosch, Research Fellow from the University of Melbourne, talks about the role of Targeted Genetic Intervention in the fight to save Australia's threatened species. Erin Sebo, Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, chats with Evan about the Wordle phenomenon.  Steven Cooke, Associate Professor at Deakin University and research team member of the Gandel...

Monday Viv Allanson from Maroba Caring Communities spoke wth Jacob about the impact that the pandemic is having on aged care. She covers how the sector is being subject to government neglect, funding gaps and staff underpayment.//Caitlin talked with Warren Roberts, founder of YARN Australia about their approach to story telling and YARN’s mission to create a more unified and inclusive Australia.//...