Solidarity Breakfast

Over the Wall II Indue Cashless Welfare Card. Kathryn Wilkes from the No Cashless Welfare Card CampaignLessons from Occupy II Larissa Payne, Sydney Occupation activist. From MALS event looking at what can be learnt from the Occupy movement as we move into X Rebellion movement activism for the environment. McCormick Protected Action II Five year wage stagnation shuts down Aeroplane jelly production...

Community Defence League II Jordan goes down to the CUDL community kitchen and filed this report. Merger of the Family Court II Nassim Arrage, CEO of Community Legal Centres, outlines the loss of the stand alone Family Court - a LNP Federal Government 'cost cutting measure'.Over the Wall II Robodebt dissected. This is the week that was II Kevin Healey sums up the week. Corporate Bludging II Don Su...

Bernard Colleary Trial Update II Sr Susan Connelly gives us background and the present situation in the case that is being held behind closed doors at the behest of Attorney General Christian PorterArms Factory Picket II Margaret Pestorius from Wage War explains why Members of the Quaker and Catholic communities shut down the entrances of a Pinkenba weapons factory in Brisbane this week. Members o...

Invasion Day Marshal Experience II Tom talks about his experience as a marshal at the recent massive Melbourne Invasion Day Rally. Save Lake Knox II Derryn Walsh talks about the community push back against Development Victoria's plan to remove the lake from the face of the earth. Gamestop II A critique of the Gamestop and what happens when working people push the levelers of the financial system....

So you want to be a Candidate? II Jordan dissects the experience of a canditate for local elections in Hume with Philip Di Biase. Invasion Day vox pops II We talk to people at the enormous Invasion Day rally in Melbourne on Jan 26th. Chris Breen incitement case II we go outside the Melbourne Magistrates Court to the support rally for Chris Breen in his contested inditement case brought against him...

Peter's Icecream Dispute II The workers at the Peter's Melbourne Plant took stop work action on Friday 21 Jan over cuts to casuals' hourly rates. We talk to UWU spokesperson Dave Harris. Melb City Use of By-laws to stop Protest? II The recent rally outside Treasury Place in support of Refugees detained at Park Hotel was threatened with the use of by-laws related to noise. MALS has expressed concer...

 Sue Bolton talks to us about the voting irregularities in the North West Ward of Moreland Council in recent local Government elections. Despatches from East Gippsland looks at frogs. Over the Wall - This week is strong as it has personal story of young person on cashless welfare card. This is the Week that Was. Dr Noah Bassil - Sudan's recent normalisation of relations with Israel leads to Americ...

Today we are going to hear from a local who witnessed the attack on the Djab Wurrung camp protecting the sacred trees near Ararat. We hear from Bob Broughton about the celebrations to mark the centenary of the Australian Communist Party, To access NSW Library event. To access Comrades publicationWe hear a little about Holloween from Dr Michael BarberazKevin's round up of the week. We finish with A...

This morning we're going to find out more about the new Citzen's report Inquiry into the Health of the Barka_Darling River & Menindee Lakes. We follow with a chat with Shirley Winton from IPAN and Spirit of Eureka about the Federal Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergence Bill 2020.Over the Wall continues it's investigation of the abhorrent Cashless Welfare...

This week we hear from Behrooz Boochani who is now settled in New Zealand after 6 to 7 years held at Manus. He was speaking with his commissioning editor and writer Geordie Williamson at the 10th Sandy Duncanson Lecture put on by University of Tasmania as part of their Island of Ideas Series. We follow with a little of the online Westgate Memorial held on Thursday by Victoria Trades Hall,Over the...

Today we are going to look at the budget. Today we will go through some of the key points using a presentation given by Ali Pennington and Matt Grundnoff from a webinare put on  by the Australia Institute. We will follow  with two areas that missed out Aged Care and the environment Lloyd Williams from the Health Services Union will talk about Aged Care May House from the Australian Conservation Fo...

Today we honour the passing of two warriors of the feminist fight Susan Ryan the first female federal minister in Australia and architect of the sex discrimination Act and Helen Reddy who penned the song that goes down in history of a succinct statement of purpose I am woman. We’ll hear a piece from a speech Ryan gave to a Australian National University audience in the 1980’s about women and the p...

The government made some announcements around a renewables lead recovery a couple of weeks ago so I caught up with Leigh Ewbank from Friends of the Earth to find out some particulars. On the same theme in a sort of way I spoke with Daniel Herborn about Ethical Superannuation what is meant by ethical and how it might work for the social good. We move on to Over the Wall where Peter Davis is looking...

We open the show with a chat I had with Cam from Yeah Nah Pasaran on 3cr about this Freedom Day protest and I follow this with a discussion put on recently by MALS - Melbourne Activist Legal Support which is one of their webinars bringing the law to the Public during Victorian Law Week 2020. The theme Protest, Repression, and the Law. Peter Davis is back with Over the Wall,Kevin Healy wraps up the...

Today we start with a look at food security. The Leap  is working on a project it calls The People's Bailout an approach that challenges corporate control of people's lives and survival. They have food supply in their sights at their most recent webinaire. Over the Wall is back looking at Robodebt and Disability. We follow this with a word from the East Gippsland Dispatches,Kevin wraps up the week...

Today we talk to Liz  Ross about her new book Stuff the Accord Pay Up published by independent publisher Interventions. Over the Wall looking is back today talking about how non-residents are facing the crises during pandemic Australia. Also back is Kevin Healy thank goodness. Kevin is well enough to put the boot in as he covers the week. We are going to go out with exerpts from an chat between Un...

First up we hear why voting in your local council elections could be a winning strategy for your communities future. We hear from some voices that are often silenced supporting the Living Incomes for Everyone campaign. We hear the second installment from a deer hunter in East Gippsland dispatches. A word from our first female Prime Minister on women in leadership roles. Finally we hear from Dave K...

Today I wanted to give you a taste with a powerful speech from Tony McAvoy and an update from Thalia Anthony on the outcome of the investigation into the horrors at Donvale Youth Detention Centre in the Norhtern Territory reminincent of Arbu GrabiWe follow up with a word from a Melbourne man of Sudanese descent that shows that racism is a scourge in the Australian which needs to be put to bed. Kev...

Today we will hear some of Bernard Colleary's words from the Liberty Victoria's Voltaire Awards,Humphrey McQueen who was a featured speaker at the recent launch of the LIFE Campaign Living Incomes for Everyone,Kevin Healy sums up the week Alison Pennington senior economist at the Centre for Future Work suggests the opportunities for a unionized workforce coming out of covid in opposition to the la...

First up Professor Jenny Hockey and  the Palace Papers the letters of Sir John Kerr who was the public face of the removal of the Whitlam Government in 1975.We follow with what must be the speech of the week from Eileen Darley at the launch of LIFE Living Incomes for Everyone. We hear from East Gippsland about deer hunting. Kevin Healey rounds up the week. We finish with a chat with former industr...

Hope Mathumbu who is a nurse working on the front line of covid testing. We will hear from her first. We follow up with an exert from a recent webinar from the Australia Institute about Treaty & Sovereignty to celebrate National NAIDOC week. We follow up with a chat with Kath Larkin, a Victorian Socialist member, about her upcoming push to be Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Kevin Healy gives a run down o...

- Flemington Flats residents speak out about the  hard lock down without notice placed on their homes and themselves. block who spoke up on zoom arranged by the Victorian Socialist this week.-Today we hear a message from people in the Northern Territory on the 13 anniversary of the Northern Territory intervention.- 7th despatch from East Gippsland.- Jacob Grech from 3cr's A Friday Rave has a word...

Australia's Dependence on US II   Dr Margaret Beavis discussing Australia's need for an independent defence strategyBatman & Me & D'art II We move to some films coming on at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival which started on Tuesday and runs online to July 15. Both talk about collectors one a working class collector Batman and Me by Michael Wayne and the other D'Art by Karl Von Moller. This...