Radioactive Show

Melbourne University along with RMIT are trying to build Australia's largest arms manufacturer on the site of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne. Radioactive talks to Lucy Turton and Callum Simpson from Melbourne University about activism and the campaign to kick Lockheed Martin off of their university.https://www.facebook.com/lockoutlockheed/

On this week’s radioactive show we hear from Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder and staunch fighter against the uranium industry on his land. We also hear from Cat Beaton from Conservation SA who’ll give us an update on what’s been happening there. There’s a postcard campaign and online petition to Minister Canavan urging him to lift his game on radioactive waste management. Please get online a...

On this weeks show, you will hear part two of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour 2018 where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the four proposed uranium mine sites : mulga rock, yeelirrie, wiluna and kintyre to hear and support Traditional Owners at the forefront of the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining.   The last proposed uraniu...

No Bunda Bunda on Ngemba LandWe learn about the fight to stop the nomination for the radioactive waste dump at Brewarrina being approved. Brewarrina is a small town in north west NSW. It is home to the largest fish traps in the world, and are thought to be the world’s oldest man made structure. They are estimated to be over 40,000 years old. Despite the presence of this astonishing local feature,...

Come along for a taste of the 2018 Radioactive Exposure Tour of South Australia, which happened over Easter and in the first week of April. On the show, which is part one of two, you'll hear from Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Vivienne McKenzie from Flinders Ranges, Cat Beaton from CCSA, Jim Green from Friends of the Earth, Nuclear whistle blower Avon Hudson, and ICAN's Dimity Hawkins. 

Hear Tim Wright, from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Ray Acheson, of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and ICAN, speaking to the Radioactive Exposure Tour 2018. Features stories and analysis of the recent International Treaty ban on nuclear weapons and ICAN’s subsequent winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. Recording were taken on unceded Adnyamathanh...

On this weeks show, you will hear part one of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the four proposed uranium mine sites : mulga rock, yeelirrie, wiluna and kintyre to hear and support Traditional Owners at the forefront of the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining.   Listen to Wongatha Elder, Geo...

On  6 February 2018, the federal Senate referred an inquiry into the selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia for inquiry and report by 14 August 2018. Submissions are due by Tuesday 3rd April. On this week’s show we hear from the Nick Xenophon Team’s Rex Patrick, the senator who initiated this inquiry. With a new liberal government in South Austral...

Peter recalls the Waihopai Plowshare action that successfully disrupted US war making in Iraq- from central Aotearoa.

3 speakers about different eras and wars that Australia has been involved in. We hear from Jenny Grounds about the culture of war in our modern day society, Bob Muntz reflects on being a draft resister in the Vietnam war and Joy Damousi addresses the link between women’s leadership and the fight against conscription in WW1

Serenading Adela: A Sreet Opera was a performance held on 7 January 2018 at the old Pentridge prison, in Coburg Melbourne. It tells a history of the anti WW1-conscription campaigns held nationally, but in particular the story of Adela Pankhurst, one of the key campaigners who was imprisoned briefly at Pentridge for her protests. The performance was a cooperation of many. A conglomeration of local...

On this show we delve deep into the rad show archives to learn more about the history of the Radioactive Exposure Tour. The first Radioactive Exposure tour happened in 1983, as part of Rox Stop, which was a massive year long protest against the construction o Roxby Downs Uranium Mine in South Australia. Thirty five years later, it's is still going, with this year's tour leaving on the 30th March a...

Connection to Country : Fukushima to KintyreOn this weeks show we hear the strong testimony from Kenichi Hasegawa, a Fukushima dairy farmer who’s land, farm, life and community has been destroyed following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster that occurred in March 2011.  Hasegawa’s story was shared at the recent Making Waves event held nationally as part of the Peace Boat visit. Tha...

Peace Boat Nuclear Survivors in AdelaidePeace Boat, a Japanese based global NGO, visited Adelaide on 29th January for the first time as part of a speaking tour featuring nuclear survivors from Japan and Australia on its 93rd global voyage. The Australian tour started in fremantle, sailed to Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, ending in Sydney. The visit was hosted by ICAN in conjunction with local groups...

ANTI NUCLEAR ACTIVITY IN 2017 CAMPAIGN WRAP UP : LOOKING INTO THE NEXT YEAROn this weeks Radioactive Show we will hear from some of Australia’s most dedicated and long time nuclear free campaigners who will give us a 2017 wrap up from both national and international perspectives and an insight into what to expect in 2018 from the nuclear free campaign.  We will also be taking a look into the year...

On this week’s show, we listen to some of the speakers at the Don’t Dump on SA Rally, held on 2 December 2017 on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide. The rally brought together people from Kimba and the Flinders Ranges, the communities affected by the federal government’s waste dump proposal, as well as supporters from South Australia and beyond.  Over 1500 people attended the rally calling...

Recordings from two meetings:Scott Ludlam, former federal senator and anti nuclear activist, meet up with Andy Paine, peace activist and sometimes journalist, to discuss Scott's experience of being a senator and his views on politics. Meanwhile in Melbourne, students visited from the Fukushima support project. The project organises recreational trips out of Fukushima, to support children who have...

This weeks show is recorded on Whadjuk Noongar land, better known as Perth, WA about the Supreme Court action and Mulga Rock.  Piers Verstegen, Director from Conservation Council of WA talks about the environment perspective of the Supreme Court Action to stop Yeelirrie uranium project and Vicky Abdullah, Tjiwarl native title holder gives Traditional Owner perspective of why Yeelirrie uranium mine...

In 2016, six peace pilgrims trespassed onto Pine Gap in Central Australia. The United States uses Pine Gap to help kill people in illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and many others. The Peace Pilgrims will put Pine Gap on trial from the 13th of November. You can follow the trial's progress at https://closepinegap.org/ 

This week we pay tribute to Dennis Banks, Ojibwa from Leech Lake, who dies on the 29th October at age 80.  He was an activist, educator and writer and co-founded the American Indian Movement in 1968.  He was involved in and organised many sacred walks and runs,  enacting an ancient Native American tradition of bringing a message of "Land, Life and Peace" from village to village on foot. Today we’l...

Do we need a dump to have nuclear medicine? On this week’s radioactive show we speak to Dr Margaret Beavis from MAPW, the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, who dispels some of the misinformation that the government is spreading in their attempt to persuade remote communities to accept a dump in their region. The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) works for the elimi...

This week’s show features recordings from the Ute Mountain Ute Native American protest against the White Mesa Uranium Mill on their land. Interviews with White Mesa Community Leaders Priscellna Rabbit and Ephraim Dutchie, an attorney Marie Ann Tapp and Dinah women Leona Morgan.  Rad show co-producer K-A met them in April this year while participating in the protest walk from the White Mesa Communi...

Over the weekend of September 15-17, 2017, the 20th meeting of ANFA, the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, was held. This is the second show of recordings from that special gathering. Today's show is from one of the closing sessions of ANFA 2017, called Celebrating the Wins and specifically 7 year fight and 2014 win to save the country around Muckaty, near Tennant Creek NT, from a Federal Radioact...

On this week's show, I share two interviews with peace activists who are out there charging the world. Like Gem Romuld, Outreach Coordinator with ICAN, the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, who I speak to about winning the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. And Laura Drew and Emma Cullen from Peace Action Wellington, in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Laura and Emma have been involved in a successful...