Solidarity Breakfast

Some exerpts from the Eureka Medal Ceremony at Bakery Hill Dec 3.Dr Cassandra Goldie (CEO ACOS) damns Federal Governments witch hunt methods around social security. Humphy McQueen talks taxes, and why a war on China might backfire on Monsieur Trump.

We get an update on the recent political events in Spain and Italy, a load down on several victories: the CUB win, the Lex Wotton win and the Standing Rock back down. Kevin Healy is here with This is the Week that Was. Dr Noah Bassil gives his views about the year and the one to come.

Milestones in disability political history; Disability Sports & Recreation and Wages Justice.

Weekly politics with your weetie. This morning we followed up the issue of commericial use of public land with a chat with Shane Howard from the Belfast Coastal Reserve protest group. We catch up with supporter of anti fascist protest Nazren who was at the rally on Sunday 20 in Melbourne that routed Trump triumphialism. Kevin Healy sums up the week and Humphrey McQueen gives the world economy a re...

We have a 3 part chat with Vince Emmaneul who is on the ground in the US. We chat with Alex from Melbourn University branch of the NTEU about the swingeing cuts being made to support staff at the University as the managers at the University feast on the education cash cow; This is the Week that was sums up the week; we chat with Debbie Brennan who confronts the views of those who say that the Patr...

Speakers at the Sydney Doctors for Refugees on 5-11-2016 give a clear picture of why pressure must be kept up to change Australia's Refugee Policy. Dr David Berger (Doctors for Refugees) recounts his grandfathers experience of rejection as a German Jew during World War 11; Dr Steward Condon (MSF) gives an up-to-date account of the situation at refugee camps; Dr Munjed Al- Murderis who arrived from...

Sister Susan Connolly gives an eyewitness account of her visit to West Papua in Feburary, 2016. The report from the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission - We Will Lose Everything: A Report on a Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, characterises the Indonesian occupation as part of a slow motion genocide on our door step. Exerpt from 1999 interview with unionist Jack Mundie as part of...

We open with a report on Peter Norman Day commerations at Human Rights Square Melbourne. We speak to Shane Howard who with other locals blockaded Killlarney Beach down on the South West Coast of Victoria to stop the use of public spaces for commerical interests: in this case race horses being exercised - not a few but at some times over hundred on this small stretch of beach. They have formed the...

The recent Polar Fresh Strike asks the question is the law stopping fair work outcomes? Reflections on the 1998 WaterFront Dispute as part of 3CR's 40 Days of Radical Radio Breakfasts. This is The Week That Was. Rod Quinn on UK labour politics now that Corbyn is reelected with a bigger majority. Vince Emmanuel on USA leading up to the Presidential election.

Dave Oliver (ACTU), Sarah Hansen Young (Greens Senator) and Karen Batt (CPSU) address rally to stop TPP outside Vic Parliament; Joe Toscano is starting a campaign to defend public housing assets in Victoria - no to the sale to private and not for profits; This the Week that Was;  Dr Noah Bassil chats about the state of world politics.

Interview with Mission Australia's CEO Catherine Yeomans on homelessness of older people. Listen here. Jafri Alexander X on the attack by Victorian police on him at Flinders Street for his peaceful solo demonstration. Listen here. Humphrey McQueen, freelance journalist talks to Lalitha about this weeks political events and 149th. anniversary of Das Capital. Kevin Healy with The Week That Was.

A Handful of Sand the story of the Wavehill Walk-off and the struggle of land rights by the Gurindji people is the first book by Charlie Ward. We talk about the book and his reflections on the importance of the struggle for present day Australia. Liz Ross tells us about the programme for the Union Activism & History Conference on Oct 15. A programme of historic and present day struggles with a pin...

Dick Nichols Listen here. re the left conference in Portugal; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/portugals-left-bloc-we-are-competing-left-hegemonyDr. Michael Leach Listen here. from Swinburne Uni; Head of Social Sciences dept; https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=13O6fdEAAAAJ&hl=en Kevin Healy - regular satirist on current politics. Listen here. Jayathika Bandara - a singer and an accom...

The Battle for the Sydney College of the Arts has all the elements common to the transformation of Australian Univeristies to the US corporate model. We talk to Thomas McLoughlin the solicitor for the Sydney University SRC about the fight. Tiernan Brady was the Political Director for the Irish campaign for marriage equality. He has some interesting things to say about how to win a potentially divi...

Interview with Jacob Rumbiak, Minister for trade and publc affairs for the government of West Papua, located here in Melbourne gives an update on the situation in his country. Listen here. Interview with Humphry McQueen who talks about social and political issues around the world. Listen here. Kevin Healy - The Week That Was. Listen here.

Honduran activist Berte Caceres was murdered in March of this year. This event is one of the events that Antony Lowenstien talks about after a visit to Hondurasin Central America; Tess Dimos from the Monash Student Union talks about their victorious campaign to get permanent residency for Dr Banik, lecturer at Monash. Dr Banik and his family were first rejected after nine years in Australia becaus...

Outrages of the Week - a grab of news stories that raise  blood pressure to unhealthy levels. Ron Ipsen from Voices of the Valley talks about plans for the transition away from coal and the investigation into new ways of future-proofing the region's jobs and community well-being. Listen here. http://www.votv.org.au/transitionhttps://www.facebook.com/walkwiththevalley/Specialist in women’s health,...

We look at the great cross cultural adventure film Motorkite Dreaming with director/ writer Charlie Hill Smith & have a chat with one of the cultural protocals ambassadors for the film Carroll Karpany. We chat with Chris White about the threat that the ABCC still posesKevin Healy takes through the Week that Was. Vince Emmanuel talks about the state of America as it goes to the November Presdential...

Interview with Tian Chua, sitting parliamentarian for the Batu electorate in Kuala Lumpur, spoke about the current political situation in Malaysia and a new political party set to challenge the current government. Listen here.https://theconversation.com/profiles/thiago-rodrigues-126451Interview with Jorge Knijnik, lecturer in Education, researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society, Universi...

Rod Quinn is a rank file UK Labour member who returned to Labour with the rise of Jeremy Corbynn. Rod gives an account of the what is happening leading up to the September party leadership vote. Gaye Demmaneul from Boycott Wilsons Security gives us the background to Wilsons who hold the contract for the refugee detention centres and the actions they are running with WACA  against the company. Kevi...

Kate Hudson, General Secretary and campaigner for Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament in the United Kingdom, talks about the campaign and the debate about the nuclear weapons upgrade in her country, Jeremy Corbyn, trade unions and other issues. Listen here. Dr. Jeremy Smith, Senior Lecturer from Foundation University, Ballarat, talks about his work with Lynn Beaton, recently passed away, in researchi...

Preeminent Australian political wit John Clarke talks about his comedy; the CUB dispute at the steps of CUB head office; This is the Week that Was; Hayden Keenan talking Persons of Interest: the Asio Files.

Dick Nichols, Green Left Weekly's European correspondent and Socialist Alliance member from Spain talks about the aftermath of the recent Spanish elections. Listen here. Sean Marler and three others paddled across Bass Strait in a kayak in the name of climate change, Sean talks about this expedition and raising awareness of climate change. Humphrey McQueen, Australian author, historian, and cultur...

Exerpts from Inside the Election Campaign event held at Melbourne University Wednesday before the Australian Federal Election; outside Sydney court June 29th for Stephen Langton's case for graffettting OMID RIP on Malcolm Turnbulls electoral office; This is the Week that Was election special; Tom Bramble, former senior lecturer in Industrial Relations at Queensland University, on Brexit for the En...

Lalitha Celliah presents;Friends Of Public Housing members, Fiona Ross and Jeremy Dixon talk about day to day practical issues which are not talked about in the current election campaigns by the major political parties. Listen here. Paul Duffill from the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network gives an update on the issues in the Palestinian region. Listen here. Louis, Louise and Adolf from the We...