Radio Reversal Podcast

In this episode of Radio Reversal we share two recent interviews from our broadcast program which each speak to the ways that Palestinian free speech and political expression is being censored and constrained at the present moment. First up, we hear from Rouba Rayan, a Palestinian lawyer and human rights advocate who is an organiser with Justice for Palestine Magan-djin and a legal observer with A...

This week on the Radio Reversal podcast, Marissa and Han catch up with trade unionist, trans justice organiser and pro-Palestine protester Dana Endelmanis. Dana was one of 7 people arrested in Queensland under the new "prohibited expression" offence in the Queensland Criminal Code during Justice for Palestine Magan-djin's Six Words for a Free Palestine protest last weekend. Dana and the other arre...

In this episode, Nat & Anna discuss the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games, and why being a host city is, overwhelmingly, a bad thing for the city and a worse thing for a city's poorer and more marginalised inhabitants. We draw on John Rennie Short's idea of "event capture" to look at the ways hosting a mega-event redirects urban processes (further!) away from more just modes of planning and transformati...

In this episode, Anna catches up with friend and fellow 4zzz radio producer Belle to talk about disability justice, the NDIS, and Belle's experiences navigating a diagnosis of bipolar. Belle talks us through her experiences with bipolar and psychosis. She talks a bit about disability justice and the intersection between the health system and carceral logics, as well as the importance of access to...

In this episode, Anna shares an interview from the Radio Reversal archives with the incredible Dr. Samah Jabr - د. سماح جبر, recorded during her 2025 tour of so-called australia. Dr Samah Jabr is a Palestinian Jerusalemite psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer, and former Head of the Mental Health Unit in the Ministry of Health, Palestine. She has written columns about the psychological consequ...

In this episode, Anna brings you an interview with Mununjahli poet Maria Van Neerven to discuss her new poetry collection "Two Tongues." We chat to Maria about this collection, and consider some of the questions it asks about the role of language in colonial occupation and anti-colonial resistance. In the face of the ongoing attempts by the queensland state government to prohibit political express...

In this episode, we return to an interview from a few weeks ago with our wonderful friend and comrade Sam Woripa Watson about their decision to join the Global Sumud Flotilla. Sam is are a Birri Gubba and Wangeriburra activist and film-maker who grew up in the Brisbane Black movement here in Magan-djin. Sam is an active organiser and agitator for Indigenous justice and land back (both here in so-c...

As most of you probably already know, over the past few years we've seen a sharp increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness across south east queensland as the housing crisis has intensified. This has led, unsurprisingly, to more people living in public spaces. This week on the podcast, Marissa catches up with Sam Tracy, Practice Director at Basic Rights Queensland, a community leg...

This week we're bringing you a very special double episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, featuring not one but TWO of our wonderful producer Nat's recent radio programs which showcase content from the recent Palestine Calling: Roads to Justice forum hosted by Geographers for Palestine at the University of Tasmania in lutruwita. You'll be hearing in this episode from Dr. Adel Youssef, a Palestinia...

In this week's episode, we're sharing a really special interview with Dr. Raylene Nixon. Dr. Nixon is a Gungarri woman, an academic researcher and writer, and in 2021 her beloved son, Stevie-Lee, was killed in police custody in Toowoomba . Steve had been recently hospitalised with severe asthma, and (as the family later found out) pneumonia, and had been on his way back to his grandmother's house...

This week on the Radio Reversal podcast we introduce our new weekly episode structure with a special edition digging into Queensland's new "Fighting Anti-Semitism and Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of Terrorists and Criminals Amendment Act" (spoiler: it's as ridiculous as it sounds). We share a recording from Justice for Palestine Magan-djin's public meeting with Anna Reynolds from Action Ready Que...

This episode* of the Radio Reversal podcast brings together two interviews recorded over the last couple of months digging into the targeting of trans people, especially trans kids, and moral panics about gender and transition here and abroad. The first interview is between Anna and Necho Brocchi, proud trans woman and Service Delivery Coordinator at Open Doors Youth Service, and together they dis...

Today, I’m coming back to the core of this series on crisis, disaster & collective futures to ask: how can we think about the crisis when the crisis is permanent? As of today, it's 610 days since the Israeli Occupation Forces began their most recent genocidal siege on Gaza. It’s more than 76 years since the Zionist occupation of Palestine began with the events of the Nakba: massacres, displacement...

In case you missed it, over the weekend, a loose collective of performers, workers and patrons of the Wickham Hotel downed tools and refused to take shifts or perform their sets to protest a decision by Aus Venue Co, the parent company who owns the Wickham Hotel, to book an event hosted by the State Zionist Council of Queensland. For some context: the State Zionist Council of Queensland is a polit...

This week’s episode of the Radio Reversal podcast features an interview with Dr Jeff Rickertt, renowned People’s Historian, for Labour Day 2025. Han speaks with Jeff about histories of labour organising (particularly here in so-called queensland), the early formation of unions, and the tensions and contradictions these movements expressed and revealed regarding race, gender, and colonialism. They...

Welcome to another episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, continuing our current series on crisis, disaster & collective futures. This week, we’re turning our attention to the recent federal election here in so-called australia. Last Saturday, roughly 1 in 3 people voted Labor, 1 in 3 voted Liberal/National, and 1 in 3 voted for someone else. Has anything changed? With the centre-right-wing Labor...

We’re back with another episode in our running series on Disasters, Crisis, and Collective Futures - this time looking at the “slow violence” of environmental disasters and degradation, the links between this violence and settler-colonialism, and the long standing practices of Aboriginal refusal and resistance against the crisis conditions of colonialism. Something we’ve talked a bit about in this...

If you haven’t already listened to the first couple of episodes in this series - never fear! You can jump in fresh here, or head back and listen to Episode 12 - After the Flood & Episode 13 - Disaster Communism with Nick Southall. In these episodes, we chatted about weather events like Cyclone Alfred & what happens during “disasters”: how the parameters of political possibility shift, sometimes in...

We are continuing our series - begun last week on our broadcast show on 4ZZZ and then sent out in our podcast feed - on Disaster, Crisis, and Collective Futures. What is it about disasters that enables us to plan and act together with neighbours and strangers, more collaboratively, more collectively, more generously? How do public and private institutions leverage crises to retain and expand their...

Welcome to a new series of the Radio Reversal Podcast - this one focussed on Crisis, Disaster & Collective Futures! Like a lot of people, we've been thinking a lot about disaster, crisis, climate change, community-based responses this week, in the aftermath of Cyclone Alfred here in Magan-djin, so-called brisbane. In case you somehow missed it - South East Queensland was struck by its first cyclon...

If you’ve been following the Justice for Palestine movement, you’ll know that there’s been a lot happening here in so-called brisbane over the past few weeks, mirroring a massive upsurge in Palestinian justice organising globally. From the extraordinary encampments being established by students on university campuses across the globe (including the University of Queensland, here in so-called brisb...

Welcome to Episode 1.7 of our current podcast series, following the Justice for Palestine movement here in so-called brisbane, and working to understand the political and moral imperatives of this moment. This series is a small labour of love and solidarity dedicated to everyone who is contending with the relentless violence of colonial racial states: from the Palestinians in Gaza and worldwide wh...

In Episode 1.6 Until All of Us are Free, None of Us are Free we focus on the fundamental connections between the struggle for an end to the genocide in Gaza and the liberation of Palestine and Palestinian people with oppressed peoples everywhere. In particular in this episode we recognise interconnections and entanglements across the movements for prison abolition, queer and trans liberation, and...

In Episode 1.5 Palestine to the Pacific: Land Back & Climate Justice we focus on understanding the connections between the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the crisis conditions of climate change that are destroying Indigenous knowledges, communities, kinship networks and lifeworlds, all across the world. Settler-colonialism violence works to steal the land from the people and remove Indigenous Peop...

If you’ve just found your way to our podcast and you’re jumping in fresh, welcome to Episode 1.4 of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin podcast. This podcast aims to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland....