Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country Alternative NewsWe listen to Episode 1 of Liberation Loops, a new 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. In the first episode Carly speaks to B...

Acknowledgement of country Alternative News We listen to Keala Kelly Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist speaking with Robbie Thorpe and Viv Malo on The Black Block. The conversation opens with a discussion of the ways astronomy and the building of telescopes has been used as a method of occupying and militarising land in Hawaii. Priya speaks with journalist and founder of South Asian Today,...

7.00 am Acknowledgement of country 7:05 am News with Cait Kelly  7.15 am We hear a segment of the episode, Femicide, from the 3CR Doin Time show, where Professor Bronwyn Carlson discusses missing and murdered Indigenous women in Australia and internationally as part of the Deathscapes project.**Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this recording contains the names and...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly Carly speaks with Melissa Yvonne, human rights lawyer from BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights about Palestinian resistance and what the annexation of Palestine means under Trump's so-called peace plan. Max speaks with May Kotsakis, co-chairperson of Philippines Australia Solidarity Association and Co-convenor of Philipp...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly Carly speaks with BUMPY, Noongar musician at the St Kilda Festival about her music. Then Yorta Yorta musician Neil Morris joins Carly in the studio to talk about the importance of forging First Nations spaces at festivals, the pressures of the music industry & the beauty behind DRMGNOW's first single - Australia Does Not ExistMargret Harvey joins us t...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly We listen to the English translation of a speech from the Primera Linea (Front Line) given on the 25th January at the InterAmerican Forum of Human Rights in Santiago Chile. The Forum determined that the Human Rights abuses in Chile are systematic. We hear audio of Uncle Robbie Thorpe speaking at Invasion Day 2020.We speak with Gerald Roche, one of the...

Acknowledgement of country Alternative News We speak with Sharner Bremner the founder and director of End Rape on Campus Australia. EROC provides assistance and support to higher education students who have been sexually assaulted or harassed. We discuss the systemic issues behind the recent award of an Order of Australian to men’s rights activist Bettina Arndt, the widespread nature of victim bla...

Acknowledgement of CountryMay Kotsakis - co-chairperson of PASA (Philippines Australia Solidarity Association). PASA is a cause oriented organisation of Filipinos and non-Filipinos. We often hear about the so called 'war on drugs' in the Philippines. May joins us to talk about the real impacts on peoples lives, how the rhetoric is used to justify state violence and the impacts on activists and hum...

Acknowledgment of country Carly speaks with Phina Hartson - the first Pacific trans Fa'afafine person to be admitted as a lawyer in so-called Australia. Alethea Beetson, Mervyn Trescott, Loki Liddle and Kane Brunjies talk about their experiences of being a part of Digi Youth Arts and the incredible sound installation and clapstick performances curated for the festival. Carly converses with Jessie...

Acknowledgment of CountryNews with Cait Kelly We play a segment from Power from the Margins titled, 'Ableism in the Settler Colony'. We hear from Latoya Rule, Indigenous prison abolitionist, on the criminalisation of people living at the intersection of both race and disability. Dominic Golding also discusses Australia's immigration system and the control of borders which has historically been bot...

Acknowledgment of country News with Cait Kelly Carly interviews Carol Que about the History of Boycotting in so-called Australia Max speaks with Gala Vanting, Acting President of Scarlet Alliance about decriminalisation of sex work in the NT, becoming the third jurisdiction in the world to decriminalise sex work. Vikki John, Peace activist and general secretary of the Bougainville Freedom Movement...

On the show with MaxAcknowledgement of countryNews Headlines with Cait KellyOverdose Lifesavers: Australia’s first dedicated website presenting personal stories of opioid overdose and the use of take-home naloxone to save lives. The new website overdoselifesavers.com explores the different ways people who consume drugs manage overdose, including through the use of take home naloxone. We hear some...

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines
Audio recorded by Beyond Zero Emissions at a snap rally outside the NSW parliament where an amendment to the environment and planning laws, to remove climate change as a consideration in decision making, was to be debated. We hear from speakers who have been living through the unprecedented catastrophic bush fires in NSW.
We speak with journalist Paddy Mann...

Acknowledgement of country A selection of audio from the first day of The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019.Part 1: First up is Sara Saleh, introducing the session titled Identity, Race and Solidarity. Part 2: Alexis Wright speaks about the work of Mahmoud Darwish and reads a number of his poems. Part 3: Tony Birch speaks about climate change as colonial violence. Shannon from from Vict...

Acknowledgement of countryMax, and poet Vincent Silk, interview author Jordy Rosenberg at the Sydney Writers Festival 2019. They speak about Jordy's recent novel Confessions of the Fox, trans visibility in literature and historical and speculative fiction. Scout, the creative director of Tilde The Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival and Tommy Hart, director of 'Kids on Fire,' join us to discuss...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyCarly speaks with Carol Que about the history of boycott. Part 1 of 'Once The Freest, Now The Poorest' a special 3 part series focusing on the island nation of Haiti. The series is produced by the Latin American Update program. Nadia Nadez is the editor of The Australian Multilingual Writing Project, a free online journal that publishes local multiling...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyDavid Barnden, from Equity Generation Lawyers, is running the first case against a superannuation fund in Australia for not taking climate risk into account. Anne-Marie Te Whiu and David Stavanger, editors of the new anthology Solid Air: Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word, will host the Wheeler Centre’s third event in the Group Texts series. Featurin...

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellySara El Sayed speaks with Carly about her short story, 'Areobics for Arabs' in the book Arab Australian Other. Fayrouz Yousfi speaks about the campaign she has launched to free Journalist Hajar Raissouni. Spencer Lai is an artist, writer and curator. They speak about Spring Poetry Night happening at Incendium Radical Library on Saturday 12th October. W...

Acknowledgement of country News with Cait KellyJournalist Roza Germian lived through war for most of her childhood. In 1991 she was one of more than one million Kurds who fled Saddam Hussein's Iraq. She now works as the executive producer on SBS Radio Kurdish. The remarkable Germian will share her story at the Wheeler Centre on Thursday October 10th at Writing in Exile hosted by Sami Shah. Samia K...

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlinesTecber Ahmed Saleh, an advocate for human rights, speaks about the continuing struggle for self determination in Western Sahara. Tecber lives in the Saharawi refugee camps in south-west Algeria. Georgia MacGuire and Bek Saltmarsh on their exhibition Ngardang Giri Kalat Mimini. Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini is the first large scale exhibition of the Victorian I...

With Em and CarlyAcknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyAnne-lise Ah-fat on facilitating Men’s Behaviour Change Programs, the underlying drivers of family violence and the importance of centring survivors in all anti-violence workSantilla Chingaipe on the Wheeler Centre’s 'Not Racist, But' series and systemic racism in the criminal legal system and mainstream mediaDr Fiona Foley,...

Acknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyCarly spoke with Carol Que from the Anticolonial Asian Alliance about the importance of solidarity work. Ian Okoka, 3CR presenter with the Voice of West Papua, speaks about the political oppression in West Papua and the solidarity rally in Narrm on Saturday on 14 September 2019.Investigative journalist Jess Hill speaks about her research into...

7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country 7:05 am News headlines with Cait Kelly 7.15 am Birdz joins us in the studio to chat about hip hop in so-called Australia 7.30 am. Conversation between Carly and Paul & June from the First People's Disability Network of Australia about NuunaRon's art exhibition at the UN, Geneva7.45 am Aran Mylvaganam from the Tamil Refugee Council on the government's cruelty towa...

Acknowledgement of CountryCait with news headlines     Carly travelled to Meanjin to speak with counsellor, narrative therapist and workshop facilitator Michelle Dang from Healing and Justice about strategies and sneaky tactics for people to use who work in social services and non-governmental organisations that don't reflect individual worker's values, beliefs and politics. James Trezise is a pol...

Acknowledgement of CountryCait Kelly with news headlinesNiviaq Korneliussen, young queer Greenlandic rising star, on her first book Crimson, her decision to only write about Indigenous women characters and the importance of talking up about high rates of suicide in her community in the context of colonisation.  Niviaq was a recent guest at the Sydney Writers FestivalSiyavash Doostkhah from Youth A...