Thursday Breakfast

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Dr Nikki Moodie, Gomeroi woman and sociologist based at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss recent changes to the university sector in Australia. This conversation focuses on the intersection between impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and austerity measures such as fee hikes, and the effects that this is likely to have on teachi...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Priya and Carly talk about important local news stories from the week including the fundraiser for West Papuan activists robbed at gunpoint in Collingwood, RISE Boycott Refugee Week campaign, WA law passed to end incarceration for unpaid fines and finally they discuss domestic violence and the lifting of the suppression order on the name of...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear part of the first episode of Frontier War Stories hosted by Boe Spearim. This podcast delves into the first 140 years of conflict and resistance on this continent. In the first episode, Boe speaks with Callum Clayton Dixon - Ambeyang researcher, author of Surviving New England and PhD student working on the Anaiwan dictionary. In th...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear a number of speeches from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally that took place on Saturday 6th June. In this first segment of audio we hear from Meriki Onus from Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Sue-Anne Hunter, Mandy Nicholson, Ky-ya Nicholson-Ward and Warren Day supported on stage by two of Tanya Day’s first cousins. In the se...

Acknowledgement of Country  News headlines with Cait Kelly  Carly mixes a music selection of local artists.  We listen to part 2 of a three part podcast presented by Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco. The idea is to understand how Think Tanger work with different comunities to carve out a creative space in a rapidly expanding...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Tanya Talaga, Anishinaabe journalist and author, about her recent book All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism. We will hear a number of poems by Darlene Silva Soberano. Darlene is a poet whose work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, Peril Magazine, Go...

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 8 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Simon Clough. Simon is currently the culture and practice manager of Brook RED a peer led mental health service. Simon is a passionate advocate for lived-experience practice, learning to live with his own mental health concerns and using them to assist others.  Timmah Ball reads her recen...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 7 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Anna Carlson about how surveillance operates in so-called Australia and how it's operating amidst COVID-19.Anna Carlson is a cofounder and organiser of the Brisbane Free University, co-host of 4zzz's Radio Reversal and a freelance radio producer, illustrator, writer and community (dis)orga...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 6 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Lauren Caulfield. Lauren works at the intersection of interpersonal and state-sanctioned gender violence, and is involved in training, organising work and community-based interventions to violence. She also coordinates the “Policing Family Violence: Changing the Story” project, which is a...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 5 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Nawa Nightshade, herbalist, somatic coach, death doula and community organiser. Their healing practice is centred on anti-oppressive praxis that works to address systemic harm, informed by decolonial activism on the front lines.  Jeremey Kings speaks to Max about the IBAC findings into the...

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Sam Elkin speaks with Max about the LGBTI+ legal needs survey, which closes soon, as well as the Change Your ID day coming up in May. Chi Tran reading a selection of their poetry. Chi Tran is an emerging artist and writer, based in Naarm. Chi has written and exhibited in Cordite Poetry Review, Firstdraft, ACCA, Liquid Archi...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Roxanne Moore, Executive Officer of NATSILS, about the urgent need to immediately release people in prison to stop the spread of COVID-19 and prevent COVID-19 Black deaths in custody. As part of a new regular segment we hear a number of new poems read by writer Elena Gomez.  Scheherazade speaks to Basil Byrne about making mu...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 4 of Liberation Loops, a 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. This week Carly speaks with...

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 3 of Liberation Loops, a 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. This week Carly speaks wit...

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Alessio Scandurra, from the organisation Antigone in Italy, on the experiences of people detained in Italian during the COVID-19 crisis and the need for decarceration. Max speaks with Peaches, a sex worker living in Naarm, about the impact the pandemic is having on sex workers locally.  Max speaks with Maru Mora-Villalpando,...

Acknowledgment of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 2 of Liberation Loops, a 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. This week Carly speaks with...

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...