Thursday Breakfast

Welcome to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming on 3CR Community Radio. Today's show features a selection of interviews covering topics related to solidarity and resistance campaigns locally and across the globe. From migrant sex worker justice, keeping incarcerated people connected through phone calls, the secret F-35 fighter jet parts being flown on commercial Aus planes, and the interconnect...

You're listening to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming Series on 3CR Community Radio. Happy New Year! Today's show features a selection of interviews covering topics related to housing justice. We hear about voters understanding of the housing crisis, the fight for public housing, crisis accommodation and youth homelessness, and how climate hazard don't affect everyone's housing equally. Stay...

You're listening to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming Series on 3CR Community Radio. Happy New Year! Today's show features a selection of interviews we've done with artists, writers, video game designers, and filmakers. We hear about the importance of disabled oracles, 'Blaktasia' the First ever Aboriginal mobile game, the Famili music collective's EP 'Bloodfire', Tony Birch's 'Pictures of Y...

 You're listening to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming Series on 3CR Community Radio! Today's show features a selection of interviews covering public health topics such as young people's experiences of chronic pain, First Nations medical trailblazers, the campaign to Save Cohealth, a Palestinian physician in Gaza practicing medicine during genocide, and the importance of drug checking.// Ack...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//We replay a conversation between from Danielle & Shev about late diagnosis, privilege, getting services from an inadequate system, stigma and disability inclusion in activist spaces, originally broadcast for as part of 3CR's Disability Day special broadcast on the 3rd of December, 2025. This year's theme, "Right Relations & Innovations" was about disabled peo...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Youth social media ban comes into effectNT government blocks UN human rights inspectors from prison accessVictorian Government apology to First Nations people criticised as performativeNew fossil fuel exploration permits not welcome in Victoria Care in Unit 18 found 'inhumane' in Cleveland Dodd coronial inquestCity of Port Phillip councillors vote to punish r...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Mass arrests at Rising Tide protest in NewcastleUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visit AustraliaWest Papuan National Flag DayCalls for federal government to wipe household energy debt Victorian healthcare workers strike today Physiotherapy researcher and health science communicator Dr Joshua Pate joined us to unpack the impacts of chronic pain on young...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Torrential flooding across southeast AsiaSudan and Palestine updatesRampant racial profiling in Victoria Police searches and use of force6-month expansion of Victoria Police search powers in Melbourne’s CBDHigh Court challenge against Australia's social media age ban Fundraisers this Saturday the 29th of November:RAHU x AUWU Solidarity BBQ, 12-4PM, Edinburgh...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:israel continues assault on Gaza, the West Bank, and LebanonEscalating famine and RSF attacks across Kordofan provinceUrgent demand to halt rocket testing on Googatha CountryLegal Aid Northern Territory cuts support for adults and children as young as 10Mass coral death revealed at Ningaloo Reef Writer, artist, and 3CR's Disability Day coordinator Pauline Vet...

Acknowledgement of Country// HeadlinesStand with Sudan RallyWhistleblowers speak out on corrupt Nauru refugee dealVictoria Legal Aid employees accuse management of censorship on Palestine Allan Labor government introduces draconian "Adult Time for Violent Crime” billYarra City Councillors urged to save Medically Supervised Injecting Rooms// AnnouncementsListeners are urged to email Yarra City Mayo...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//News updates from SudanAustralian government announces new restrictions on weapons exports to IsraelProtesters arrested at Indo Pacific defence expo in SydneyNews updates from GazaConcerns about mass Centrelink suspension noticesHerald Sun misreports crime statistics about young people// Announcements//Eimable Manirakiza coronial inquest: The family and loved...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Mass killings in El Fasher, SudanGaza and West Bank updatesAlbanese Government makes first deportation under multi-billion dollar Nauru dealSenator Thorpe tables petition demanding justice for neo-Nazi attack on Camp SovereigntyLegal challenge brought against Environment Minister over Woodside climate impacts Proposed Changes to SCHADS AwardPhillipa Balk, Ass...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Public housing updates: pickets, class action appeal, public meeting on 23 OctoberEmergency public meeting on 24 October about cohealth closures Climate trigger ruled out of federal government environment laws Marand engineering Palestine solidarity protests in GeelongGaza and West Bank updatesSudan updates// Artist and community organiser TextaQueen joined R...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Rapid Support Forces intensify violence in SudanIsrael immediately break ceasefire in GazaF-35 parts pipeline to IsraelContainer trucks blocked by activists at Webb dockAnti-Poverty Week// Dr Samah Sabawi//We play a speech delivered by Palestinian playwright, poet, scholar, and political commentator Dr Samah Sabawi as part of the National Day of Action for Pa...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Criticism of Labor’s October 7 statementAustralian Future Fund protest against increased investment in Elbit SystemsFreedom Flotilla Coalition updateMyanmar vigil attacked by military juntaCourt case testing limits of free speech on criticism of Israel begins Monday Affordable housing revealed to be run by private firmCity of Melbourne council expansion of CC...

Acknowledgement of Country HeadlinesDeclassified Australia reveals covert shipping of F-35 fighter jet parts to IsraelCritical reception of UN / US / Israel colonial ‘peace’ deal and proposed transitionary authority for GazaGlobal Sumud Flotilla intercepted by Israeli forcesBayside City Council adopts discredited definition of antisemitismVictorian Government undermines calls to raise the age of c...

Acknowledgement of Country Headlines:Updates from Gaza and the West BankMelbourne City Council review aimed at stifling protestMelbourne City Council pushes to criminalise homelessness with ‘community safety’ teamKumanjayi White death in custody investigation completedLabor’s 2035 greenhouse targets criticised as greenwashing ***GIVEAWAY*** 3CR Thursday Breakfast is giving away a copy of acclaimed...

Acknowledgement of Country HeadlinesGaza and West Bank updatesUnited Nations inquiry finds Israel has committed genocideProtest news around so-called Australia: Webb dock picket, Occupy ALP, Mask Off Maersk Race Discrimination Commissioner urges action against IslamophobiaAustralia's first national climate risk assessment released  We heard the first part of an interview with Tyler and Dani from C...

Acknowledgement of Country Headlines:Gaza and West bank updates: high rise bombings, Qatar bombings, attack on Sumud flotillaASU strike for GazaAnti-corruption protests in NepalVictorian Treaty bill introducedRobodebt class action settlement Leo Patterson Ross, CEO of the Tenants' Union of New South Wales, joined us to discuss the challenge being mounted against the New South Wales government's Ju...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Joint Statement from Black People's Union and Camp Sovereignty// Leila read out a excerpt from the joint statement from Black People's Union and Camp Sovereignty, published 2nd of September. Donate and show up for a shift at Camp Sovereignty.//Join the Sovereign Day Out Event this Saturday 6th of September from 12pm - 10:30pm September at Kings Domain. Cash d...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Gaza and West Bank updateIn Aus - weekend protests, Albanese expulsion of Iranian ambassador, Israeli intervention claims Fed gov plan to change Centrelink debt policies Use of force at Canberra’s Bimberi Youth Justice CentreVictorian Government’s move to open the Otway coastline for further gas explorationToll - Stop Driving Genocide Campaign goes National//...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Footscray Safety Forum// CW: Police violenceWe heard a statement from three trans queer disabled people with a lived experience of homelessness in response to the footscray safety forum held last week on Thursday. Learn more by visiting crisis housing reform and footscray hospo on instagram.// Tiaki Teremoana - Stranger, Brother// Tiaka Teremoana spoke to Ine...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Responses to Labor gov’s plans to recognise the state of PalestineGaza and West Bank updateVictoria’s proposed anti-protest laws to be scaled backEnvironment groups condemn Vic gov’s decision to invite applications for two new petroleum exploration licences in Gippsland and the OtwaysVictoria recorded its highest number of fatal drug overdoses in a decade in...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Pro-Palestine protests Gaza and West Bank updateReport reveals widespread unlawful Centrelink payment suspensionsPublic housing towers protests and state Labor party votes re public housing UN requests halts of deportations to Nauru while it investigates human rights abuses Australian Uyghurs take legal action against KmartMutual aid, forced starvation, and c...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Russia Tsunami update (will check updates later tonight - Wednesday - as I’ve written it as the news is just coming in)Gaza updateVic gov bail reforms, inquiry into death in custody of Heather CalgaretSA algae bloom protests and potential inquiryUnions say a more diverse economy is needed to boost productivityPart two of Race Matters' Kanaky Rising special,...