Radioactive Show

Earlier this year, the Japanese Peace Boat made its 103rd voyage to this country, visiting Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody on her recent time on the Peace Boat.  Debbie was invited as a guest educator on the Peace Boat as part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) workshops series, All Aboard. Debbie gave a powerful history...

We speak with Gem Romuld, the Australian Director for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons about their plans for the year and how you can help build pressure for Australia to sign on the Global Nuclear Weapons ban.  We then get an update from Western Australian reporter KA Garlik on where things are at for the four uranium mining projects that are approved but not yet operational.

On January 23, 2020, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hand of the Doomsday clock to 100 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been.  The reasons:  a worsening nuclear threat, lack of action on climate change & the rise of 'Cyber-Enabled Disinformation Campaigns'.  Covering all this and more, we bring you excerpts of speeches from the 'No War with Iran' rally held on the steps of...

In this episode we hear from Pinar Demircan - a Turkish anti nukes activist on issues and challenges the Turkish anti-nukes movement faces in the current political climate.

On this weeks show we speak with Friends of the Earth’s National Nuclear Campaigner Dr Jim Green about the latest developments on the federal government’s push for a radioactive waste facility in South Australia as well hearing the speech given by Kimba farmer James Sheperdson at the rally held recently in Kimba. 

In the midst of devastating fires across the land and as we lead up to Invasion Day we bring you a calls to action from First Nations activists.  First up is a conversation between Arabunna elder and president of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance Kevin Buzzacott and Gunai Kurnai activist Robbie Thorpe.  We then bring you speeches from Gambangari woman Aretha Brown and Gunai Kurnai Yamaji Noonga...

We bring you some highlights of our 2019 shows. Featuring a clip from a show of all the Radioactive Show producers. Crunch interviews Katherine Peat of Network Waitangi Otautahi, Lavanya recording Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine at the Yeelirrie camp, Michaela’s IMARC show featuring Uncle Ned Hargraves, Mara’s interview with Regina McKenzie after finding out her Country is off the list of nuclear wast...

On this radioactive show, we hear the presentation that Dr Ann-Elise Lewallen -Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, at the University of California in Santa Barbara - gave at the No Nukes Asia Forum in Taiwan in September 2019.  Then, we’ll hear an update on the Australian situation, as the federal government’s consultation period has just closed. Minister Canavan has...

On this weeks show you will hear from Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah who was one of the recipients of this years Australian Conservation Foundation's 2019 Rawlinson award winner with her two aunties, Shirley and Lizzie Wonyabong. You will also hear from Mia Pepper who travelled with Aunty Shirley and Vicki to receive the award at last Friday's ACF’s annual general meeting.   I will also be giving a...

We hear from Maria Rost Rublee (Monash University) and Dimity Hawkins (ICAN) on the history and power of nuclear activism and resistance in Australia and beyond. Music: Rise - Solange

Young Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker, was shot at his family home and  died while in police custody on Saturday November 10th, 2019, in Yuendumu a community 300km north west of Alice Springs. A Northern Territory Police Officer has since been charged with the murder of Kumanjayi Walker. Today’s show brings voices from the Melbourne solidarity rally, hosted by the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance,...

Voices, songs, poems from SA recorded at the 2019 Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting in the Flinders Ranges. We hear from Adnyamathanha women Enice Marsh, Vivianne McKenzie and Heather Stewart. Music: Thou Shalt Not Steal - Kev Carmody 

Today we hear from from First Nations front-line communities on their struggles against mining & resource extraction.  Uncle Ned Hargraves, from Yuendumu in the Northern Territory, Wiradjuri activist Tim Buchanan, and Aunty Vicki Abdullah from Leonora in Western Australia joined allies in Melbourne to speak out on extractive industries on their land and blockade the annual International Mining and...

The exhibition, ‘Bladerunner was set in November 2019’, was inspired by a group trip in August 2019, of seven activists/artists/friends, to Kokatha, Anangu and Maralinga Tjuratja lands in South Australia. We made recordings along the way, which became part of the soundscape for the exhibition. Recordings made from our camp on Country near Yalata include the voices of Rita Bryant, Mima Smart, and R...

Earlier this month the Radioactive team travelled to Yeelirrie in WA to hear from people and communities affected by Cameco’s proposed uranium mine. I interviewed locals Marilyn and Colin  - owners of a nearby cattle station which will be affected by the proposed mining. Also a special fireside talk by Tjirwal traditional owner Vicky on her country in Yeelirie. Vicky talked to us about her involve...

Interviews taken at Yeelirrie Solidarity Camp facilitated by Ban Uranium Mining Permanently collective on Tjirwal country. Sue Coleman Haseldine speaks of her lived experience and why solidarity across anti-nukes campaigns is important to her. Mara Bonacci gives us an in depth background on the SA anti-waste dump campaign and what people outside affected communities can do. Submissions to DIIS her...

On today’s show we speak to Dr Jillian Marsh, Adnyamathanha woman and lecturer in Aboriginal studies at Latrobe University.  Jillian has recently written an article with Dr Jim Green that explores some of the tensions between Traditional Owners, Industry and government in the context of the nuclear industry. We’ll hear about some of the legislative and systemic issues that make it difficult to pro...

Last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s AUSMIN visit and hints at Australia hosting US missiles in Northern Territory raised many concerns about provoking and even blindly following the US into war with our greatest economic partner China. In this episode, Vince Scappatura to discuss these developments. He speaks in detail about the US and Russian withdrawal from the cold-war era Intermedi...

On this weeks Radioactive Show, you will hear the recordings taken over last weekend at the 2019 WA State Labor Conference in which the WA nuclear free campaign held a seminar hosted by the State Secretary Steve McCartney of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The Nuclear Free Australia seminar speakers included Tjiwarl women Vicki Abdullah  who is co-chair of ANFA, the Austraian nuclear f...

On this edition of the Radioactive Show we speak with Dr. Jim Green, national Anti-nuclear Campaigner with Friends of the Earth about the recently announced nuclear inquiries in Victoria, NSW and federally.  Shirley Winton,  Victorian Convenor of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), shares their response to the announcement on Wednesday 21 August by the Morrison Government that A...

I catch up with Annette Brownlie, chair of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, about their recent IPAN conference held in Darwin. Followed by a discussion with Lina Koleilat, a Lebanese-Australian PHD student at Australian National University who specialises in historical and ethnographic approaches to study of protests, social movements and religion in contemporary South Korea.

In this show we commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day by listening speeches by nuclear survivors Setsuko Thurlow and Sue Coleman Haseldine. We also bring you a Hiroshima Day speech by Dimity Hawkins, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon founder, honouring survivors and launching the ICAN's  new report "Choosing Humanity: Why Australia Must Join The Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclea...

In the show we share with you an interview with Katherine Peet, a Pākehā resident of Ōtautahi (Christchurch) and organiser with Network Waitangi Ōtautahi. Our discussion is based around the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi, its promise of more just relationships between Māori and settlers, and the failure of successive Colonial governments to honour the Treaty. Katherine has hopes for a futu...

On Friday 12 July 2019 Justice White handed down his ruling that the exclusion of Barngarla Native Title holders who do not live in the Kimba District from participating in a ballot to gauge community support for the radioactive waste facility was not a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. On this radioactive show, Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation, Dave Sweene...

In one blinding moment in July 1945 on the white sand desert of New Mexico, humanity entered the nuclear age. Project Trinity was the first nuclear explosion, paving the way for the nuclear incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later, and the ensuing arms race that plagues us still. The communities living near the Trinity site are known as the Downwinders. They continue to experience...