Radioactive Show

Today’s focus is on the role of various art and media practices on engaging with nuclear legacies and nuclear stories. We hear from Merilyn Fairskye, Sydney based photomedia artist about her new film ‘Birds’, a tale about Radioactive pigeons, two pairs of twins and a massacre that brings chaos to a sleepy seaside village. A story, which is based on true events related to the Sellafield nuclear pow...

Today’s show features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), and Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW). Annette speaks about RIMPAC 2020, which is the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, currently being held in Hawaiian waters. She also introduces us to the IPAN inquiry. Margie cr...

On the 10th of July 1985, Greenpeace flagship protest vessel - the Rainbow Warrior - was bombed by French government agents in Auckland. Fernando Pereira, a Greenpeace photographer on board at the time, was killed in the blast. The bombing was a major diplomatic incident, and helped shape the nuclear free identity of Aotearoa New Zealand. But it was part of a much bigger and more deadly story of F...

Listen to the highlights from the excellent Yellowcake Country webinar - uranium and nuclear weapons. Listen to the update on the nuclear free WA campaign by KA Garlick and then tune into International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Australia's excellent co-founders Dave Sweeney and Dimity Hawkins AM. Listen to ambassador and former Federal MP, Melissa Parke as they share powerful and...

August 6th, 2020 marks 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima. On this Rad Show, we are sharing a talk by Koko Kondo, a hibakusha from Hiroshima, speaking here about her experience as a nuclear survivor. This audio is from ‘Beyond Trinity’ a special panel discussion that the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) hosted to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first...

 On this Radioactive Show, we hear an interview recorded by KA Garlick with Ralph Hutchinson. Ralph is the coordinator of OREPA, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.  He tells us about the Y12 bomb plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and about the US government’s plans for the modernisation of their nuclear industry. For more information check out:https://orepa.org/https://www.facebook.com/stopth...

This Rad Show includes speakers from a panel discussion organised by ICAN commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion, code-named “Trinity”, honouring the lives and struggles of nuclear survivors. It features two incredible women:Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, New Mexico, US.Karina Lester, Yankunytjatjara-Anangu second-generation surviv...

On this weeks show, listen to the highlights from the recent webinar, SA: Too Good to Waste. You'll hear from Jason Bilney, Barngarla Aboriginal Determination Corporation, Vivianne McKenzie, Adnyamathanha Traditional Owner and Peter Woolford, No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land, as they share their concerns from the town of Kimba, South Australia on the site to host Australia's national dump...

On this Radioactive Show we hear an interview that originally went to air on 3CR’s Doin’ Time show. Marisa interviews Aunty Helen, Aboriginal academic and Elder, about her personal story around land, nuclear testing and her extensive work around international law and transitional justice in the context of colonisation and genocide.

So what are killers robots? And what work is being done to challenge their use? To find out, Rad Show host AC spoke with Professor Michael Winikoff, AI expert from Aotearoa New Zealand and Matilda Byrne, Australian National Coordinator for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and a specialist in international security and disarmament. We discuss LAWS - Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, the ethical,...

On this week's Radioactive Show, you will hear from Taiwan activist Shi Ting and Tomohiro Matsuoka from Japan, on the challenges and long term impacts their countries face from Australian uranium.   The Yellowcake Country webinar is a five part series, that will explore the local, national and international impacts of Australia’s uranium industry. In this first webinar, we explore where does Austr...

 BHP is once again proposing to expand its operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia.  If approved, the expansion would increase BHP’s already significant impacts on land, water, culture and wildlife. On this week’s show, we hear from independent environmental campaigner  David Noonan, who outlines the numerous flaws and potential impacts of the proposal. Further information is available at the...

In today's show highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement, I'm sharing interviews and statements from family members of First Nations people who have died in custody. Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report was released in 1987, 432 Aboriginal people in so-called Australia have been killed while in police custody. There is an interview with Latoya Aroha Rule whose br...

On this weeks episode of the Radioactive Show, listen to Annette Brownlie, chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Australian Network and Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War discuss the recently released statement calling for healthcare not warfare. The show will take you through the statement and the steps Australia could take to cease our involvemen...

On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we hear from Indian social activist Dr Vaishaili Patel about resistance to compulsory land acquisition for developments such as nuclear power reactors and the fight for a people-centric development model in India. For more information about the nuclear relationship between Australia and India go to www.nuclear.foe.org.au/uranium-customers. To learn more abo...

Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the Disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. In the show we dive into her recent article ‘COVID-19: Divest, Demilitarise and Disarm.’ We explore how now is the time to expose the grave injustice of military spending, while health care systems around the world are ill-equipped to cope with a pandemic, mil...

As we come to the end of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) the magnitude and importance of work needed to redirect national budgets to 'Healthcare not Warfare' is clear.  This week we bring you some speeches from the World Conference 2020:  Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis, For Social & Economic Justice, a global online conference held on Saturday...

The storage capacity at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is reaching its limit, and a japanese government committee has come out with a report stating that “the most realistic option is to release treated water into the ocean.” Alternatives for long-term storage on land, including large tank storage and mortar solidification are being ignored. On this week’s radioactive show, we hear from Philip...

In this episode we hear from long term anti-nukes activist Sister Michele Madigan to discuss her recent article in Eureka street 'Fight against nuclear waste no over yet' and developments on the Barngala anti-nuclear waste dump campaign. We are also joined by Gem Romuld from ICAN with latest update on their divestment campaign and campaigning in the times of Covid-19.Music: Milky Way - Lady Lash

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and speaks with the Radioactive Show about growing up on land that became a designated nuclear sacrifice zone, the work of exposing cultural and environmental destruction and promoting peace with earth.  Tiokasin presents First Voices Indigenous Radio on Turtle Island (US).Music is 'Rises from the Depths' from Ghosth...

On this weeks show you will hear the highlights from the recent webinar ~ Yeelirrie, a case for environmental law reform. You'll hear from Ruby Hamilton a solicitor from the Environmental Defenders Office of WA You will hear from Australian Conservation Foundation, Environmental Investigator and Mia Pepper from the Mineral Policy Institute. The story of the Yeelirrie uranium mine approvals process...

On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we speak to Mark Parnell, the parliamentary leader of the SA Greens in the South Australian Legislative Council. We discuss the federal bill currently before the federal senate that aims to amend the already inadequate National Waste Management Act. We urge our listeners to send in a submission opposing the passing of the bill. To find out how, go to www.me...

On this week's Rad show, Retired UK navy commander turned antinuclear campaigner Robert Green discusses a push to convince the Australian government to invest in nuclear submarines.

Filipino antinuclear activists Roland G. Simbulan and DJ Janier discuss the struggle against nuclear power in the Philippines. Recorded at the No Nukes Asia Forum in Taiwan in September 2019. A recent update from Nuclear Free Bataan Movement (Philippines) below: 

On the 9th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster,  we speak with Dr. Jim Green (Friends of the Earth Australia)  about 'Forgetting Fukushima'  - the ways in which the environmental and social impacts of the nuclear disaster are being covered up as Japan prepares to host the 2020 Olympic games.   Special guest, Mayu Seto, musician and Peace Boat activist from Hiroshima, Japan, discusses the ways sh...