Tuesday Breakfast

Headlines: Victorian Opposition leader Jessica Wilson recently vowed to drastically restrict the Victorian public’s right to protest with new ‘move on’ laws, as well as criminalise phrases including “globalise the intifada”. The Victorian Forest Alliance has posted photos on social media of logging occurring in Croanjingolong National Park. A new biotechnology start-up, Warhound, seeks to use gene...

Headlines:- Yaaran Couzens Bundle have set up a tree-sit defence and support camp on Djab Wurrung land, located alongside the Western Highway just outside of Ararat, to stop the logging of Naram Naram Sacred Womens Country- While all eyes are on uprisings taking place across Europe, Specter Affairs has also reported on protests that have taken place in two French colonies, Mayotte and French Guian...

Mililma May is a Danggalaba Kulumbiringin Tiwi woman and Advocacy & Campaigns Manager at Change the Record, Australia's only First Nations-led coalition of legal, health + family violence prevention experts. She recently spoke to Jodi Ryder on Noongar Radio's Our Voices to talk about the work of Change the Record, an organisation that seeks to dismantle unjust systems that criminalise, oppress and...

Mililma May is a Danggalaba Kulumbiringin Tiwi woman and Advocacy & Campaigns Manager at Change the Record, Australia's only First Nations-led coalition of legal, health + family violence prevention experts. She recently spoke to Jodi Ryder on Noongar Radio's Our Voices to talk about the work of Change the Record, an organisation that seeks to dismantle unjust systems that criminalise, oppress and...

Polly Cutmore, Gamilaroi/Wiri/Anaiwan Elder, Traditional Owner and nationally respected advocate for Aboriginal water rights and culture governance speaking at the Women's Climate Congress. She spoke at the Women's Climate Congress, exploring the many ways First Nations women are leading change through culture, community, governance and Country. Co-hosted and facilitated by Janet Salisbury, Founde...

Headlines: Late last week, the Minister of Home Affairs, Tony Burke, gave an address at the National Press Club, during which he announced a suite of changes to migration policies that would impact workers and students. In Turkiye last week the government carried out a series of crackdowns against LGBT rights groups across the country. In Italy, far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced th...

Headlines - - 12 countries that have ceased to criticise Israel’s Netanyahu government in the past, glossing over genocidal violence and regarding it as the “Palestinian issue” have taken a stronger stand on the actions occurring in illegally occupied west bank.  - A new report by Human Rights Watch documents the devastating impacts of the use of white phosphorus by Israeli forces in Lebanon.  - N...

Headlines: - LeadWest, an advocacy group states that outreach services for the homeless are struggling to keep up with growing demand.- New data reveals frequent PFAS contamination of the Murray River in Victoria.- Palliative care advocate Lida Moniava has been detained in Moscow last week and could face up to ten years in prison. - Indra Raj Bhattarai, a human rights advocate, conservation educat...

Headlines:Nepal’s rescue teams, aided by Chinese and Indian experts, are racing to save more than 900 workers believed to be trapped underground at hydropower projects hit by devastating flash floodsThe Northern Territory Government has seemingly rejected a Commonwealth offer to split the cost of acquiring Darwin's largest homeless shelterMore than 450 University of Sydney (USyd) alumni and curren...

On Sunday 23 August, Dr Kim Reid from the University of Melbourne spoke to 3CR's Out of the Blue presenter Sabrina about El Niño, which is a climate pattern happening now. Dr. Reid explained to listeners what El Niño means and how it affects weather patterns over the globe, not just Australia. She described this phenomenon in detail and shed some light on popular headlines. Jed Pica is a Filipino...

Headlines:- Bird flu has spread to Westernport Bay- Supreme Court of Russia cancels pro-peace party Yabloko’s registration- Racist and violent comments following alleged attack of two Aboriginal children in Mildura have caused grief and despair in Aboriginal communities in Victoria- Report underpinning social media ban found to non-existent academic article, according to Guardian analysis 7:15AM /...

Headlines: - Two 12-year-old Aboriginal boys are in hospital with serious injuries after a man allegedly chased and struck them in a ute in Mildura last week, prompting outrage from community members.- Last week a worker in a West Melbourne boat yard tragically lost his life in a workplace accident.- Last week the Liberian government announced an end to registration fees for primary school from th...

Headlines - Prisoners in Victoria will no longer be guaranteed daily access to fresh air after legislation allowing prisons to deny outdoor access due to "operational considerations" passed. Israeli forces have killed at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza, despite United States President Donald Trump announcing a plan he described as a “monumental step” towards peace and security in the shattered encla...

Headlines  - Aboriginal leaders have warned the Northern Territory's controversial overhaul of child protection laws could embolden other governments to weaken protections for First Nations children - Israeli soldiers have intensified their offensive in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, raiding at least 20 towns and villages, demolishing homes and arresting dozens of Palestinians - CW: Ab...

Headlines:- Senator Lidia Thorpe on the Senate Inquiry into racism against First Peoples- Randa Abdel-Fattah taking legal action against the Greater Bendigo City Council and La Trobe University- Asylum seekers in Nauru are struggling to buy enough food- 3 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, US continues attacks on Iran for 9th consecutive day Natalie Hunter - Justice Not Jail...

Piper Rollins is the climate campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. Today we're speaking to Piper about the reef-themed rally that will be occurring outside of the Australian federal court hearing here in Naarm against Woodside's North West Shelf Extension. The rally will be held on the 21st of July from 8-9am and aims to support ACF's court case against Woodside's gas project whic...

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...