Radioactive Show

It’s been a year since the Australian government unveiled its AUKUS military pact with the US and the UK that will see it acquire nuclear-powered submarines, forecast to cost up to AU$368 billion. It's a deal that poses serious threat to regional and global health and security, runs counter to our commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and brings us closer to nuclear weapons capability.  The 14th...

This week we discuss a Federal Government's public consultation for the  “Northern Water Desalination and Pipeline Infrastructure Project” in South Australia that could be critical to the campaign to attain protection for the Mound Springs of the Great Artesian Basin – sacred sites to the Arabunna people who's land BHP draws water from for their Roxby Downs uranium mine.  Submissions are open till...

Today’s show features audio and discussion about the Teachers and School Staff for Palestine (Vic) March 3rd launch of a Teaching for Palestine resource, and a campaign to boycott STEM programs in Victorian schools sponsored by Weapons companies. We hear an  interview by Phuong Tran of 3CR with Elise West, Director of Teachers for Peace and Medical Association for the Prevention of War, and Elspet...

This week we speak to Margaret Wiliamson from No AUKUS Coalition - Victoria about the upcoming weekend of Australia-wide actions opposing the AUKUS deal starting on March 14.  We also speak with Dave Sweeney Nuclear-free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation about what's happening with nuclear power being pushed as a climate solution post Cop28.  On 21 March 2024, the Internationa...

We speak with Winiata & Karina from Beyond Uranium Canberra about the upcoming Peace Walk Against AUKUS - a month long walk from Port Kembla to Canberra that starts on March 17. They are raising funds to support the walk so please donate if you can!  We are also joned by Maeve Larkins from Students Against War to hear about their protest at the opening of the Nuclear Innovation Hub by Minister for...

This show features two interviews concerning people's solidarity actions with Palestine. The first interview is between Inez Winters, from the Thursday Breakfast show on 3CR, and Hume For Palestine member, Waseem Razvi, he speaks about the organising of Hume for Palestine, the rallies they have been holding at HTA (Heat Treatment Australia) In Campbellfield in Melbourne’s north and how HTA is tied...

On today's program, we will be hearing from Mia Pepper from Nuclear Free WA speaking outside the Deep Yellow AGM in Perth on Friday 24 November.  Deep Yellow are the owners of the Mulga Rock uranium project and the proposal would involve the clearing of almost 4,000 hectares of native vegetation that is home to many species including the endangered Sandhill Dunnart, the establishment of 4 open pit...

On today's program, we hear from 3 fantastic community organisers about the work of demilitarisation, countering extractivism and building for peace, justice and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. Zelda Grimshaw from Wage Peace brings us report backs from recent actions at Defence Minister Richard Marles office in Geelong and Thales Australia's headquarters in Melbourne and an invitat...

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...