Radioactive Show

As we approach the CoP 28, United Nations Climate Change Conference that starts in Dubai on November 30, the nuclear industry continues to promote itself as climate friendly in a massive and well-funded distraction from effective action to address the climate catastrophe. Don’t Nuke the Climate, a global civil society initiative with members and supporters from environment, First Nation, trade uni...

The 2023 AGM of BHP Group Limited was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, on Wednesday 1 November 2023.  Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott prepared a statement and today we hear from Donna Abdulla who attended the AGM to present the statement.  The wide ranging conversation shows many intersecting issues at play where these extractive industries operate a...

Arabunna Elder, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, has returned to be on Country, by the sacred Mound Springs and Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre). In today’s show we feature current recordings of Uncle Kevin, speaking from Country, about the ongoing struggle to protect Country. We also cast back to audio from the 2016 Lizard Bites Back, a protestival at the gates of the Olympic Dam uranium mine, which continues to be...

This week we bring you recordings from two public events on Collins Street Melbourne that are calling for justice and reparations for those directly impacted by industrial disasters.  On 15 September a delegation of First Nations people representing communities experiencing the ongoing consequences of the Mariana tailings dam collapse at BHP's Samarco mine in Brazil visited BHP's global headquarte...

Today we speak with Zelda Grimshaw from Wage Peace about the upcoming ‘Disrupt Sea Forces’ mobilisation that aims to disrupt the naval version of Land Forces, ‘Indo Pacific 2023’ at the Sydney Harbour Convention Centre from 5-9 November. They are welcoming peace and climate justice allies to gather in opposition to the weapons manufacture and to work towards #EarthcareNotWarfare. Wage Peace won Wo...

On the 15th of October 1953, the first British Atomic test on mainland Australia was undertaken on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands, in the north west of South Australia. 70 years on, the legacy of contamination of the land and the intergenerational health impacts remain unaddressed. First Nations people did not consent to the tests and weren’t warned. They were heavily impact...

Today on the program we will connect with co-convenors of the newly formed organisation 'Nuclear Free WA', Mia Pepper and KA Garlick, who bring us updates on all things nuclear in Western Australia.  They also announce the Nuclear Free West Australia Peace Walk - 2023 on 29 October, that will begin at the WA base of one of the world's largest weapons corporations and builder of nuclear submarines...

We're out on the streets again - this time at the Aerospace summit in Ōtautahi Christchurch where attendees were greeted with an unwelcome party. Protesters say the summit is a weapons expo by another name. Learn more about the aerospace industry in Aoteraoa New Zealand, resistence to military rocket launches from Māori land and how AUKUS pillar two has increased the research and development of we...

Dr. Jim Green,  National Anti-nuclear Campaigner at Friends of the Earth, joins us to discuss the recent visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics & Human Rights.  'Where the Australian Government sees efforts towards stronger regulations to address the risks of chemicals and pollution, communities and civil society denounce the capture of the State for the benefit of mining, oil, gas, agrochemical...

Millions will take to the streets in a global mobilisation to #EndFossilFuels from September 15-17 as political leaders meet in New York City for the UN Secretary General's 'Climate Ambition Summit'.  In Melbourne a rally for Whales not Gas is being organised by Extinction Rebellion and Allies of the Victorian Coast to bring the song of the whale to the city and drown out the proposals for Seismic...

First up we are joined by Margaret Pestorius from Wage Peace Australia to talk about their work, that has seen them be recognised internationally as winner of World Beyond War's Organizational War Abolisher of 2023.We preview their fantastic new podcast series Get Your Armies Off Our Bodies, that shares stories against the war machine, from peace campaigns in Australia and around the world. Then w...

On Thursday 24th August, 2023, Japan's TEPCO electric company began discharging radioactive waste water into the Pacific. The waste water comes from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which went into meltdown following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. There is 1.3 million tonnes of water is currently held in tanks at the power plant, which TEPCO plans to release over the next 30-...

On today’s Radioactive Show we travel to Meanjin, Brisbane, to hear direct from the nuclear free movement at the Australian Labor Party National Conference. We hear from Gem Romuld, national director for ICAN Australia, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Gem takes us through ICAN’s position coming into the ALP national conference, and assesses whether the ALP are standing up to...

On Thursday 10 August, Resources Minister Madeleine King announced that the Federal Government will not be appealing the Federal Court's decision that quashed the declaration of the Napandee nuclear waste dump site in Kimba on July 18.  This is the result of the strong resistance of Barngarla Traditional Owners.  Today we speak with Aunty Dawn Taylor, Barngarla elder woman about this fantastic win...

As the Talisman Sabre military war games held on this continent draw to close and we mark the 78th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we take a look at the corporate greed and colonisation that see the ongoing manufacture of these weapons and create the conditions for their use. Today we’ll hear from Monaeka Flores from Guahan and Shinako Oyakawa from Okinawa...

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...

On Saturday 15 July there was a Merri-bek community rally gathering on Sydney Rd, Brunswick, around the message of ‘no nuclear submarines, fund essential services and real climate action.” The rally was organised by Merri-Bek Councillors, Sue Bolton and Monika Harte. Get fired up and hear some strong speeches and voices from the crowd. Speakers include Socialist Councillor Sue Bolton, followed by...

A special 2021 NAIDOC week Heal Country edition of the Radioactive Show that we have chosen to re-play. Features Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Vicky Abdullah, all speaking strong on Country. 

On 12 June, 2023 the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons released the report "Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending", showing that global spending on nuclear weapons increased in 2022 to $82.9 billion!  We speak with Alicia Sanders-Zakre, report co-author and Policy and Research Coordinator at ICAN.We also bring you an interview by Phuong from 3CR's Tuesday Breakfast Show with...

Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Free campaigner from the Australian Conservation Foundation speaks with Asha from The New International Bookshop about the release of ‘Yeelirrie 50 years of resistance’ - a collection of powerful stories and contributions about a community who have fought off three multi national mining companies over five decades under 11 Governments in a fierce effort to protect cultural he...

On today’s show we’ll be looking a nuclear, peace and energy issues related to the oceans for World Oceans Day - 8 June. We speak with Dr. Jim Green Friends of the Earth Australia’s National Anti-nuclear campaigner about plans for dumping of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant disaster at sea. We bring you an interview from 3CR’s Thursday Breakfast about how the impact o...

On May 6 thousands gathered on the streets of Port Kembla, on Dharawal Country in Wollongong, to say no to a proposal that Port Kembla harbours the future Australian nuclear submarines. I speak to Cath Blakey, a Wollongong Councilor about local politics regarding the issue. A new group has formed, Wollongong Against War and Nukes, I speak with organiser Mel Barnes, about their growing campaign aga...

In March this year the Australian Government 'Defence' department announced that Western Australia will be at the forefront of Australia’s 'AUKUS Pathway', with more frequent port visits by nuclear-powered submarines from the United States beginning this year and from the United Kingdom starting in 2026.Today our discussion of the AUKUS military pact has a focus on Western Australia where the camp...

This week we bring you recordings from a visit that the Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective made to the Napandee proposed nuclear waste dump site at Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia on 27 March.  We hear from Barngarla elder Harry Dare, Kimba farmer Peter Woolford and concerned local citizen Veronica Skipworth.  The Federal Governments nomination of the site is being conte...