Solidarity Breakfast

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...

Today we hear from a new coalition calling for Living Incomes for Everyone they will be launching their national campaign to retain the Job Seeker payment and much much more after the covid crisis has receded. We follow up with a chat with filmmaker Judith Ehrlich about her film The boys that said no about to be screened at the upcoming Melbourne documentary film festival, we hear from our friends...

- We hear from Bernard Collaery who was featured on a recent Search Foundation webinaire. Bernard gave Solidarity Breakfast an interview about his book Oil Under Troubled Waters - Australia's Timor Sea Intrigue. It's published by Melbourne University Press and is available throught the New International Bookshop. This time Bernard had just come back from the secret court hearings being held in Can...

It has been a momentous time not only with covid-19 restrictions easing but massive rallies across the country, cities as well as provinical towns, in support of Black Lives Matter. Tilde Joy part of our Stick Together Team was able to give us access to material from the end of the Melbourne event that gives a real sense of the size and emotion of the rally. It includes voices of the families of s...

- A reflection on the not so United States and Black Lives Matter with a word from Thomas Mayor, writer activist and Unionist National Indigeous officer for the Marinetime Union of Australia.- Ann Davies from Fair Go For Pensioners who outlines what they see as the key issues as we go out of the Covid 19 stay at home. - Environmental defenders up at Warbuton are calling for help to defend Big Pat'...

First up we go down to Gippsland stopping at Morewell for a word with Wendy Farmer from Voices of the Valley to talk about the end of the Hazelwood power station but more particularly the end of the court cases against the companies behind the run away fire and its affects in 2014 that burned for 45 days and still affects residents today. We hear from the far North East of the State with the fourt...

News round up II Add your name to the petition asking the Energy Minister to commit to a renewably-powered economic recovery, not a gas-fired one >LinkMojo Film Festival II To celebrate World Schizophrenia Day, on Sunday 24th May, a group of Melbourne filmmakers and artists are holding their annual pride film festival online. Kate Wheller, Executive Officer, Community Information & Support Victori...

We start this morning with a chat with Alexander Dunlap about his article End the green delusions: industrial scale -renewable energy is fossil fuel plus. Followup with a critque of his article and the film Planet of the Humans by  a fellow 3cr broadcaster from Friday Breakfast Zane Alcorn. In the final half hour of the program we actually will return to these issues but from a particularly Austra...

Today we hear from:the Refugee Action Collective/Tax Justice Australia /Despatches from East Gippsland honours Deb Foskey /This is the Week that Was/ Don Sutherland & workers role in kick starting manufacturing in Australia

Today we are going to swim in history. And the reason I am taking this tack this morning is because all week in covid stay at home I have been worrying over how we deal with the issues of inequality and climate degradation after covid when clearly the strong arm of big business influence on Government is in the ascendancy. Reading Dr Liam Byrne's new book Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin the...

Unemployed during Covid II Trevor Hendly was made unemployed when the general closure of businesses took place at the beginning of the Covid-19 shut down. He gives us a look at what his life is like despite the Federal Government announcements concerning jobkeeper and jobseeker.ideas for a better future IIHealing Haiku II a second despactch from East Gippsland community of Googenrah - fire affecte...