Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15 - Yemurraki Egan and Naomi Kennedy-Bamblett//We'll hear a short clip of speeches from the Naarm NAIDOC March this past Friday the 8th of July, featuring Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Gunditjmara man Yemurraki Egan, and Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri and Trawlwoolway woman Naomi Kennedy-Bamblett . Thanks to Ayan from Diaspora Blues for the recordings.  http...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Historian Clare Land, based at the Moondani Balluk Academic Unit at Victoria University, spoke with Robbie Thorpe on the June 8th episode of Bunjil’s Fire on 3CR about the history of the struggle for Northland Secondary College in the 90s. The Melbourne Museum is currently holding a special exhibition - Fight for Survival - featuring students’ artworks, com...

7:00am - Acknowledgement of Country// 7.05am - News Headlines// 7:15am - Catch a bonus segment from the upcoming episode of 3CR's Women on the Line program featuring Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker and Samantha Floreani discussing digital rights and the possibilties and pitfalls of regulation. Kat is a Nyungar technologist and digital rights activist serving on the board of Electronic Frontiers Australia,...

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15am - Barbara Shaw (IRAG) - Karrinjarla Muwajarri Mparntwe Rally//Arrernte activist Barbara Shaw from the Intervention Rollback Action Group or IRAG spoke at a rally on Saturday the 18th of June in Mparntwe Alice Springs calling for Karrinjarla Muwajarri, no guns in community. The Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign, organised by members of the Yuendumu...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines with Emily// Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR’s 2022 Radiothon! Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855 Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast. Don’t forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// Ellise Bourne, Media and Communications Officer at the Rent...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Marisa from 3CR’s Doin’ Time show caught up with Nerita Waight (Yorta Yorta), CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, about a recent case challenging aged pension discrimination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - which is headed for Full Federal Court later this year. The interview highlights the need for fair and equal access to bene...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Janelle Da Silva is Multidisciplinary Artist, Speaker, and Birthworker. They join us today to speak about their live podcast series ‘Race on the Table’ produced by 3rd Stage Productions with Dr Nilmini Fernando and Fjorn Bastos (DJ Papaphilia). These free public events at Twosixty in Brunswick unpack issues marginalised artists face and discuss the vital ro...

 Acknowledgement of Country Headlines Naavikaran is a Meanjin based trans-Goddess, an upcoming producer, multimedia artist and changemaker. Through storytelling and the practice of culture, Naavikaran wants to support the care for land, Elders and children to come. She will be performing next week at 10 and 11pm on Thursday the 2nd of June for the event SERVE, and then DJing!!! from 4-8pm the next...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7:15 Mercedes Zanker//Mercedes Zanker is a producer and host on 3CR's Uprise Radio and an anti-military activist with Renegade Activists, conveners of the Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus online symposiums. Mercedes joins us to provide updates on AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced late last ye...

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On last week’s Friday Breakfast show Chloe and Jacob spoke with Joey, who is detained at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation or MITA, about Section 501 of the Migration Act. This Act allows the government visa cancellation powers, and Joey discusses how the present government has been using these provisions. You can read about last month’s rally to...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Listen back to VOX pops from Sunday’s May Day 2022 Rally with Jiselle Hanna (3CR’s Accent of Women and Asia Pacific Currents), featuring Michael from Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union, Merri from Save Public Housing Collective, and other attendees. Find out more and listen back to 3CR’s dedicated May Day 2022 programming here.// Justin Warren, chair of El...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Zelda Grimshaw, a campaigner with the anti-war group Wage Peace, joins us to discuss the international week of action against arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, which has been running from 21-28 April. The Melbourne action to Stop Lockheed Martin will begin at 11AM today, Thursday 28 April, at Lincoln Square in the CBD - find out more here.// Jeremy Poxon i...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Professor Libby Porter is a researcher and educator at RMIT's Centre for Urban Research. Libby's work focuses on dispossession and displacement in contemporary cities, and she joined Priya on this week's episode of Women on the Line on 3CR to discuss the importance of maintaining and building public housing as a crucial element of tackling housing insecurit...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Eirene Tsolidis Noyce, founding Secretary of the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), joins us to discuss the impacts of increased cost of living on renters in Australia. RAHU is a member-run union for renters which formed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and are fighting for safe and secure housing for all.// Isabelle Moreton is a community member who h...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Anastasia from Legal Observers NSW joins us to discuss serious concerns with the recent passing of anti-protest laws in New South Wales. The Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment 2022 passed the NSW parliament on Friday the 1st of April, sparking widespread backlash from community and advocacy groups who argue that the laws undermine the right to protest a...

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Witt Gorrie joins us again to speak about the Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans Gender Diverse Decarceration Project, which is continuing to fundraise to support vital work with trans and gender diverse people impacted by the criminal punishment system, and to reflect on trans liberation and abolition on Transgender Day of Visibility. Witt is a white trans socia...

 7:15am - Prof Lyndall Ryan\\An eight year long project to map the massacres of people on the Australian frontier is the “first sustained effort to break the code of silence” on the violence of colonisation. The map is not definitive, because so many massacres were hidden and people have never talked about them, but this is the first time we have a national map that has a clear method of investiga...

Acknowledgement\\News Headlines\\7:15am -  Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran\\Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran is Director of Tech Policy at Reset Australia, a think-tank focused on digital threats to democracy. They are also a PhD candidate at ANU RegNet researching automation and racialised surveillance in border policing and social welfare. They join us to discuss moderation for political ads on social medi...

 Acknowledgement of Country Headlines 7:15AM -  An excerpt from a conversation with Dr Mary Graham, a Kombu-merri and Wakka Wakka person from SE Queensland on Collaborative Governance and relational ethos. Introduced by Dr Michelle Maloney (Co-Founder and National Convenor, Australian Earth Laws Alliance). You can catch EarthMatters Sundays on 3CR from 11am MC Dreckschwester (aka Stinky Girl) from...

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Elina Mark, a Sudanese refugee who has been living in Indonesia for the past four years, interviews Abdullah, who is also stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia's border regime. Abdullah speaks about barriers to accessing education for refugees in Indonesia, and his concerns about their flow-on effects. Elina is a trained dentist, but is currently...

 Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Martin Hodgson is a Senior Advocate at the Foreign Prisoners' Support Service and co-hosts Curtain the Podcast along with South Sea Islander and Darumbal writer and academic Amy McQuire. Martin spoke with Priya about the shameful crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Australia and the work he has been doing with Amy and the families...

Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Earlier this week, Priya caught up with writer and comedian Kaitlyn Blythe to hear more about the lived experiences of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome during COVID-19.  Earlier in the week, Rosie spoke with Dan Hogan, a working-class writer and public-school teacher. They currently live and work on Dharug and Gadigal Country....

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Josie Alec is a Kuruma Marduthunera custodian from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Josie joined Rosie earlier this week to speak about the ongoing destruction of rock art and country on Murujuga/The Burrup Peninsula and the Federal Government's recent announcement of a $255 million dollar loan to support the development of the Perdaman Urea Plant on sacred...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Priya caught up with Gregor Husper, Principal Lawyer at the Police Accountability Project, to discuss the Department of Justice's review into Victoria's police complaints system and the serious problem of police investigating police. The review responds to a range of concerns outlined in the 2018 Independent Broad-Based Anti-corruption Commission's Inquiry...

Acknowledgement of Country News headlines 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, No Police at Pride, Housing and Homlessness crisis, Dr Jackie Huggins on the reissue of ‘Sister Girl: Reflections of Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation’  We hear a speech from Guwama woman Cheryl Buchanan, one of the early campaigners at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972, at the 50th anniversary of the...