Tuesday Breakfast

Imogen Cowan, one of the managing social workers in the Crime Team at YouthLaw, responds to calls from the Chief Commissioner for mandatory minimum sentencing for young offenders. Imogen speaks about how incarceration is not an effective deterrent, and she stresses the collective responsibility of the community to care and provide for young people.  Lucinda Thorpe, Privacy Campaigner at Digital Ri...

In an excerpt from Acting Up (20 June 2026), presenter and former Breakfast host, Judith, reflects on Covid-19 and the challenges faced by 3CR, its staff, and volunteers in response to the pandemic with former 3CR staff members. In this segment, we hear from Pilar (Chair of 3CR Board), Rachel (Manager of 3CR) and Gab (Current Affairs Coordinator). Jo is a campaign manager from the Wilderness Socie...

(Archival audio from Sustainable Breakfast 2016) - Former Tuesday Breakfast presenter Tobie speaks to Chloe Aldenhoven from Lock the Gate about the effects that unconventional gas mining has on water quality. Since this interview aired, Victoria became the first Australian state to permanently ban the process of fracking to access ‘unconventional’ gas in March 2017. This interview was from the Sus...

Annette Brownlie, Chairperson of Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), speaks about the public hearing into AUKUS and urges concerned citizens and organisations to make submissions.  Pranati, creative worker, artist, and founder of South by South East Asian (SXSEA), speaks about SXSEA's upcoming gig, Unmuted, featuring Asian diasporic storytellers to First Nations voices of this land,...

Headlines:Israel has issued a forced displacement order to residents of seven villages in southern Lebanon, including Houmine al-Faouqa, Bnaafoul, Arab Salim, Roumine, Aazze, Arki and Jbaa. The Allan government has released a State Forest By-Products Framework that effectively creates a loophole for a new form of incentivised logging and land clearing, with fewer protections than the industry it r...

Headlines: Human rights organisations have warned that Australia may become “a safe haven for persons alleged to have committed the most serious international crimes” unless the federal government investigates Australian-Israeli dual nationals who may have committed war crimes in Gaza. City of Melbourne Councillors will be meeting to debate and vote on whether to expand the Community Safety Office...

Headlines:- Last week marks the Nakba, the catastrophe of 1948 that saw more than 750,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced from their homes and lands. - The Indonesian Parliament has passed new legislation to protect the rights of domestic workers as formal workers. - Amnesty International Australia has found that an Australian company Ioneer is involved in the construction of lithium mines in Neva...

HeadlinesThe High Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the Albanese Government’s power to permanently deport refugees and stateless people to Nauru, even where inadequate medical care in Nauru would put their lives at risk. Tomorrow, 13 May 2026, will see the High Court of Australia hear the first ever climate change case to reach this level — a moment that will set a binding national preceden...

Headlines - - The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has released its new national report, presenting preliminary findings from the Anti-Palestinian Racism national register, which has identified a significant increase in incidents of anti-Palestinian racism across so-called Australia.- A new report from Oxfam Australia has found that one in three large fossil fuel companies paid no tax i...

Maree Pardy was the lead author of a report by Footscray Community Response, which evaluated Maribyrnong Council's use of security patrols to address social and health issues. She speaks about the new, not-security 'Welcome Crew', voted in by the Maribynong Council. This comes after months of organising by local residents and Footscray Community Response against the controversial and harmful secur...

Headlines - CW: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, please note that the following story contains the names of deceased people. A second Aboriginal woman has died in Western Australia’s Bandyup prison in less than five weeks. - The Maribynong Council will be meeting today to vote on what it calls its “civic presence” model for Footscray. This comes after Councillors unanimously voted...

Headlines: Access to free public transport in regional VictoriaExpansion of secularism laws in QuebecStolen Generations honoured at Ngarra Jarra Noun Healing CeremonyPay increase for workers under the Health Professionals and Support Services award Shivani Kaur, New Delhi-based Political and Labour Movement activist, spoke to Jiselle Hanna (Asia Pacific Currents) on Saturday 21st March about the i...

Happy trans day of audibility! Headlines: CW: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should note that this headline mentions the name of a deceased person. The coronial inquest into the passing of proud Noongar man, Jeffrey Winmar began yesterday on Monday 30th of March. Iran’s parliament speaker has accused the United States of plotting a ground attack despite publicly pushing for a negoti...

Headlines Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has denied that Iran held talks with the US, saying that Tehran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz and conditions for ending the war have not changed. A new survey of Victorians has found strong public support for truth-telling processes that centre the voices and experiences of First Nations peoples. Deepcut News has revealed that the RBA gover...

Headlines: - A remote Aboriginal community north of Broome has released a new strategy aimed at strengthening health and wellbeing through cultural governance and community control. - A 35-year-old Aboriginal woman has died in Western Australia's Bandyup Women's Prison.- The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) calls on the Australian government to condemn the illegal and brutal US/Is...

Headlines - the Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency - has welcomed the passage of amendments to the Children, Youth and Families Act by the Children, Youth and Families Amendment (Stability) Bill 2025 by Victoria's parliament. - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found evidence Israel used white phosphorus in residential areas of southern Lebanon earlier this month, in violation of internati...

Headlines:- Fitzroy Stars netball players have been left "traumatised" after alleged racism endured by their players went without punishment at a tribunal meeting last week.- Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and US Marine intelligence officer, stated that 'If there is a military attack against Iran, it's because the goal is to destroy Iran and eliminate the Islamic Republic.- The Brazil...

Headlines:- First Nations activists have announced a constitutional challenge to New South Wales Premier Chris Minns' anti-protest laws- Sudan has condemned Uganda for hosting the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, as an “insult” to humanity and the Sudanese people.- In the Philippines, same-sex couples will now have equal rights to property, following a Su...

Headlines //- Senator Lidia Thorpe has been cleared by the Australian Federal Police over comments made at a Palestine solidarity rally in October- Injured Workers Support Network will rally at Parliament this Wednesday 1pm to demand a meaningful Code of Injured Workers’ Rights- February 13th marked 18 years since the National Apology to Stolen Generations- Traditional owner groups in North West V...

Headlines:-  Australians’ biometric info will be given to United States agencies such as ICE and the Trump administration, by the Albanese government.-  New figures show that the number of people in Australia living with dementia is growing. Iand is expected to more than double to reach over million by 2065.-  National Housing Campaign Everybody’s Home has found that frontline services are current...

Headlines:- Local footy clubs have suspended or abandoned initiatives addressing gender based violence in the face of State Goverment funding cuts.- Aquaculture program developing production methods for goldlined rabbit fish.- 44Flats United has identified the decision as wholesale destruction of public housing in Victoria as a method of social cleansing of Melbourne's inner city suburbs. - Gaza's...

Headlines:- Invasion day rally gathers crowd of 17,000 protesters rallying for changing the date of Australia day or replacing it with a day of mourning- Since October ceasefire in Gaza went into effect Israeli attacks have now killed 486 people and wounded 1,341- The National Rent Affordability Scheme set to end this June- Bushfires in the Otways region due to Victoria's worst heatwave since 2009...

Cath Strong is a researcher of popular music. She spoke to Marion for Tuesday Hometime in December about calls to boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. In this excerpt we hear how the State of Israel uses this international cultural event to project soft power and clean its image by pinkwashing. Lucinda Thorpe is Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch. In 2025, she was regularly on the pro...

Juliette's Summer Show! Kim Chua, Save our Community HealthKim Chua, a community advocate from the Save our Community Health campaign. In late October, it was announced that co-health services across inner city Melbourne would be closing significant services due to budget cuts. At the Collingwood service, this will mean that the pharmacy and counselling services would be cut on 19 December. Kim jo...