Thursday Breakfast

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) held a discussion on Tuesday 28 September about the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021, which gives broad powers to federal police and intelligence agencies to spy on, disrupt and modify communications. We play a segment featuring lawyer and human rights advocate Angus Murray discussin...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Associate Professor Bradley Moggridge is a Kamilaroi water scientist working on closing the gap between western science and Traditional Science. In this recording from 3CR’s Earth Matters program, Prof Moggridge speaks about how Indigenous knowledge is still sidelined in water management and why this needs to change.// Dr Chris Lemoh is an infectious diseas...

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// Wiradjuri and Noongar woman Edie Shepherd spoke with Annie from 3CR’s Stick Together show to provide an update on the campaign to stop fracking in the Northern Territory, and raised concerns about government failures to protect Aboriginal communities in far west NSW from COVID-19. Edie is a senior organiser in the First Nations Justice Team at GetUp!./...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On 11 August, James Brennan interviewed senior economist from the Centre for Future Work Alison Pennington about the issues facing workers who are working from home on 3CR’s Stick Together program. While casualisation was sold as a flexible working option, with the employers holding the power it has meant workers are in insecure work. The COVID-19 pandemic...

Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines James, Jackson and Mercedes from Uprise Radio caught up with Friends of the Earth campaign coordinator Cam Walker to discuss the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report. Cam talks about the report's strengths and weaknesses and campaigning opportunities in the lead up to the looming federal election. This conversati...

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We play the second part of a two-part interview with JN Joniad, where he speaks about the experiences of refugees stranded in Indonesia due to the Australian government's border regime, the consequences of being stuck in a country which is not a signatory to the 1951 refugee convention, and the work refugee activists are doing to raise awareness and fight...

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Petition calling on the release of pro-independence  and antiracism activist Victor Yeimo This is the first part of a two-part interview with JN Joniad, where he speaks about his own experience of seeking asylum and becoming stranded in Indonesia, and the Australian government's complicity in this process. Joniad is a Rohingya journalist and journalism edit...

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Nicky Stott from 3CR's Earth Matters show spoke with Chris Schuringa from GECO about proposed changes to the Victorian state logging code. Catch Earth Matters every Sunday from 11-11:30AM on 3CR.// Paul Healey, State Secretary of the Health and Community Services Union or HACSU, joins us to discuss Victorian mental health workers' fight for fair remunerati...

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We replay part of an episode of 3CR's The Black Block from Friday 28th July, where Viv Malo caught up with Palawa artist Thelma Beeton about the power of art and sisterhood in an exhibition currently showing at the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick. Banj Banj/nawnta, meaning sister in the First Nations languages of Taungurung/Palawa kani respectively, repr...

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// On the May 3rd episode of 3CR's Women on the Line program, Priya caught up with Dr Indigo Willing and Emily Kafoa to talk about how skateboarders are shifting the conversation on consent, anti-racism and inclusivity. Dr Indigo Willing is a Vietnamese sociologist and skateboarder and co-founder of both We Skate Queensland and Consent is Rad, based in Me...

 Acknowledgement of Country News Headline We play a short excerpt of episode 4 of Black Gold, a series produced in the studios of 3CR Community Radio on Wurundjeri land in Fitzroy, by Kerri-Lee Harding and assistant producer Corey Green. The episode is presented by Viv Malo and celebrates the life of broadcaster Lisa Bellear.  We would also like to advise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander list...

 Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We hear a speech by Tasnim at the Free Palestine Rally in Narrm on Saturday 3rd July, which focused on building an ongoing movement for solidarity with Palestine from the Australian settler colony. You can find more about the work of Free Palestine Melbourne here, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.// We replay a segment of 3CR’s Beyond the Bars 2021...

Thursday 8th July 2021 7:15am - We hear an excerpt from the 2021 Emerging Writers' Festival Late Night Literature: Imagining Abolitionist Futures event. The event is hosted by Nayuka and Witt Gorrie. We hear poetry from Flick Smith, and poetry & prose by Ashleigh Chapman and Stacey Stokes which is recited by Nayuka & Witt Gorrie. Rosalina Curtis also shares her story about growing up in the Northe...

Thursday 1 July 2021   7:15 am - Amy & Karen activists involved in the Homes Not Prisons campaign join us to speak about the campaign to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost Prison. Amy also shares her story of being incarcerated at Dame Phyllis Frost Prison and she shares an indepth insight into the draconian Victorian bail laws which came into effect in 2018 8:00am - Deb Lee, NSW Sector Deve...

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Coronial Inquest into death in custody of Raymond Noel Lindsey ThomasRISE statement on Refugee Week/Day We hear a segment from Episode 2 of Radio A & A, a new program on 3CR talking about community and individual accountability, transformative justice, support, healing & prison abolition in Narrm. In this interview Anne-lise & Ani speak with Aunty Lisa, Kei...

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline El Gibbs, disability advocate and award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, has been a guest on Thursday Breakfast several times this year to discuss the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the issue of independent assessments, the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine for disabled folks, and outcomes for disabled people in the late...

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline We hear Behrouz Boochani speaking as part of the program 'Infrastructural Inequalities: Resistant Media and Abolitionist Futures' broadcast online on 14th May. The panel focused on carceral infrastructures and the struggle to abolish them. Infrastructural Inequalities is a journal and public program that investigates how infrastructural systems distribute r...

Thursday 3 June 2021  7:15 - Anna Carlson from 4ZZZ radio reversal interviews Jamal Nabulsi, a diaspora Palestinian writer and researcher, living on the unceded sovereign lands of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. His research explores the intersections between emotion and resistance, through analysing Palestinian practices of graffiti and hip-hop music. In this interview, which also includes part o...

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We hear excerpts of speeches from the rally to support harm reduction in the Inner West, held in Nicholson Mall, Footscray on Saturday May 22nd. The same week saw opponents of a safe injecting facility, including the ALP Mayor of Maribyrnong Michael Clarke and right wing politicians, mobilise on Wednesday night, which was also counter-protested. The ra...

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Noura Mansour, a Palestinian educator, political analyst, community organiser and campaigner from Akka. Noura discussed Israeli apartheid and genocidal violence against Palestinians, Palestinian anti-colonial resistance, and solidarity with Palestine.  Free Palestine Rally Saturday 22nd May 1pm at The State Library Na...

 Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Anti-poverty activist Kristin O'Connell joins us to give us a run down of the federal budget 2021-22 with a focus on social security. 3CR Tuesday Breakfast presenter Evie interviews Jeanine Hourani about what's happening in Sheikh Jarrah. Jeanine Hourani is a Palestinian advocate, campaigner and educator who arrived in Australia as a stateless Palestinian...

Acknowledgement of Country News headlines Dr Vikrant Kishore, a filmmaker and academic at Deakin University, joined us to speak about COVID-19 and caste discrimination in Australia and India. Dr Kishore's current work involves capturing stories of cultural flows and their impacts on the Indian diaspora in Australia, and his approach involves integrating traditional cultural practices with new medi...

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines In the lead up to May Day Ella, from 3CR's Wednesday Breakfast, spoke with Lizzie O’Shea on The nature of work and why the term "unskilled labour" doesn't really exist.  Bernardo Duarte, member of the Timorese community, and one of the organisers of the Melbourne Timorese Relief Fund joins us to discuss the situation in Timor-Leste following catastrophic...

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines Julia Bak is a queer, takatapui writer based in Narrm. Julia joins us to speak about the Disability Justice Network - a newly formed grassroots collective which has created a national mutual aid fund to provide support to marginalised disabled people.   El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social iss...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines Meriki Onus, host of The Black Block, speaks to Wurundjeri woman, Sue-Anne Hunter, about the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission - a truth-telling process expected to begin in July 2021. This episode on The Black Block was aired on 12 April 2021 and you can find the whole episode online. The Black Block is an Indigenous current affairs program that is broadcast o...