Tuesday Breakfast

Phuong's Summer Show Podcast!  March for Native Forests - Rosemary Storey and MelOn Sunday 23 March 2025, grassroots organisations and concerned members of the community gathered outside Peter Khalil's office in Coburg to stand up for native protests and protest logging, planned burns, and other forms of destruction. This rally, organised by the Bob Brown Foundation, took place in many other citie...

Headlines//- North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency welcomed UN criticism of states and territories' "tough on crime" policies- Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast to become Chile’s 38th president- Pro-democracy activist and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai convicted - Landmark class action victory against Victoria Police use of capsicum spray 7.15 am// Carolyn Dunbar is the Women’s Team Leader a...

Headlines// - New National Homelessness Plan reveals homelessness amongst Aboriginal Victorian's has increased at four times the rate of the state population.- Two Victorians file legal challenge with the federal court against Vic Police announcing six month declaration of Melbourne CBD as a designated area. - World Health Organisation says 114 people including 63 children were killed in senseless...

Headlines //- Donald Trump's governing party imposing sanctions against International Criminal Court organisations seeking accountaibility and justice for war crimes against Palestine.- Climate activists from 'Rising Tide' have halted coal ships entering Newcastle port during the people's blockade of the world's biggest coal port. - 700 'Put Australia First' anti-immigration protesters in CBD.- Ma...

Headlines // - Accusations of racial profiling by Victoria Police- Palestinian law student Baraa Khairi Ali Maali killed by Israeli forces on Sunday- Save Our Community Health campaigning to save co-health in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington- Snapchat verifying user ages in Australia 7:15 AM // For this week's episode of Women on the Line, Scheherazade spoke to Najla Mohamed-Lamin, a Sahrawi hu...

7:15 AM // Jay Underwood is the music manager and community connector behind Liberate. A grassroots initiative uplifing indie and emerging creatives across the Naarm music community. They joined us on 3CR Breakfast  to discuss the upcoming fundraising event for Switchboard, a community based not for profit organisation that provides a peer driven, support service for LGBTIQA+ communities and their...

News Headlines:Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung peoples' Native Title claim in VictoriaFemale MPs received death threats after condemning Neo-Nazi rally in NSWHome renovations leading cause of asbestos-related cancer Documentary 'Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War' reveals breakdown in norms and legal constraints Bonnie Dukakis is a Gunditjmara woman and is also CEO of Koorie Youth Council, the representat...

News Headlines:War crimes in SudanFootscray Community Response opposes private security guardsIsrael's continued breach of ceasefireMedical professionals criticise NT's prison and justice systems Karen Fletcher from FlatOut and Louisa Bassini from Inner Melbourne Community Legal speak at the Standing Together for Public Housing meeting on 23 October 2025. Karen speaks about imprisonment numbers of...

7:15AM // Aysha Zaharin is a PhD researcher, award-winning trans rights advocate, and member of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Trans and Gender Diverse Expert Advisory Committee. Her work focuses on cultural relativism and decoloniality, bridging rigorous academic research with grassroots advocacy to highlight marginalized voices in the quest for transformative justice and equity. A surv...

 7:15AM // Lisa Barrand is a founding member of the Gippsland Forest Guardians, an organisation focused on protecting the Gippsland forest and the animals that inhabit it. Phuong spoke with Lisa about a positive update regarding the Fella coupe and protecting the future existence of the Strzelecki Forests which have been subject to logging in the past. To keep up with their campaigns click here. 7...

Headlines //  - Seven Australians have been abducted from the Global Sumud Flotilla by the Israeli government- New housing index released by the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) has revealed that the housing crisis in Victoria is deepening- New polling has found that the majority of Australians oppose the genocide in Gaza and want action from the Australian government- Last Wednesday 1 October, l...

We replay a conversation with Dr Susie Allanson and Lizzie O'Shea from 12 July 2022 about the fight for reproductive rights in Australia. Dr Susie Allanson was a clinical psychologist for more than 35 years. Twenty-six of those years were at the Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne. Susie led the clinic’s campaign for safe access to abortion. Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer and writer. Lizzie represent...

Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman, Professor Chelsea Watego speaks about her new book, Black Thoughts Matter: Essays on Black Love, Black Power, and Black Joy. In the following excerpt from this week’s episode of Women on the Line, Chelsea speaks about Aboriginal women's voices and perspectives that are often missing from public discourse; the censorship and control of white women editors; a...

Emma Valente, from THE RABBLE, spoke to Kannagi for this week's Women on the Line about their new show UNWOMAN (the protest), a durational artwork celebrating the multitude of experiences around birth, fertility and pregnancy. THE RABBLE was formed in 2006 by Kate Davis and Emma Valente from a desire to make work that wasn’t being produced in Australia: visually ambitious, political, feminist and...

Headlines// 7:15AM// Jessica has been a member of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union since it was founded but has been an activist since the 70s. In 2014, Jessica helped form a local AUWU branch in Wonthaggi, where they picketed job centres to support their members. Now she is on age pension and says she can't believe that we are still fighting Howard-era payments under the poverty line and t...

7:15am // A speech from Dr Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychologist and author of the newly released 'Radiance in Pain and Resilience'. Her book includes insight into the experience of trauma that occurs as a result of the genocidal war faced by Palestinians, and the necessity of psychological aid within war torn countries. Dr Jabr is a trainer and supervisor with a special focus on Cognitive Behavi...

7:15 AM// Xen spoke with 44 Flats United (44FU), a group of residents, former residents and supporters of public housing, on this week’s episode of Women on the Line. 44FU is organising against the Victorian State Government's decision to demolish the 44 high-rise commission flats and a growing number of walkups across Narrm (Melbourne). Xen interviewed R-Coo Tran, leader of 44 FU and Thi, a Vietn...

 HEADLINES Further displacement, violence and famine in Gaza Passing of Aboriginal dancer, author, actor, choreographer, director and gay rights activist Bolivia's presidential Elections Saturday anti-trans rally police repression  7:15AM // Cher Tan is an essayist and critic whose written work has been published widely. In this interview, Cher delves into the dark side of Spotify; its ties to the...

7:15 AM//  Lucinda Thorpe, Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch. Lucinda joined us this morning to chat about the latest Productivity Commission report on AI, how big tech companies will benefit from lack of regulation and how this will impact regular people. To learn more about privacy rights online, head to https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/  7:30 AM// Nina, the Family Violence Justice Pro...

7:15 AM// The Convergence on Canberra from 20th-22nd July saw Palestine allies from across the nation come together to call upon the Australian government to impose sanctions on Israel in response to the state’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We hear from Remah Naji who spoke on July 22, the opening of Parliament. Remah was the Greens candidate for the Federal seat of Moreton. An education work...

7.15 am// The Struggle for Peace in the Pacific || hereAnnette Brownlie is founding member of the Brisbane based community peace organisation, Just Peace Queensland, and the current (and inaugural) chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Ausralia Network (IPAN). She has served in this position for over a decade. Annette is on the show this morning to tell us more about Talisman Sabre war exerc...

HEADLINES 7:15 AM// Janet Parker, from Jews for Palestine WA, speaking at the rally to Sanction Israel Now! that took place in Canberra on Sunday. Janet spoke about the ongoing dehumanisation of Palestinians, the responsibility of Western governments in the facilitation of genocide, and the silencing of dissent through the new report by Jillian Segal in so-called Australia.  7:30 AM// Aunty Sue Ha...

7:15 AM // STAMPED zine is a project made by migrants, for migrants. It is edited by a group of creatives who have been navigating so-called Australia as foreigners for some time. The goal of STAMPED is to create a space for visa holders to express both the mundane and the aspirational while trying to settle (temporarily). A place to protest without the shame of needing to be grateful, or being to...

HEADLINES //  7:15 AM// An excerpt from yesterday's Beyond the Bars broadcast from Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. As part of NAIDOC week 2025, First Nations presenters from 3CR are speaking to women and men inside Victoria's prisons. In this particular excerpt, we hear from some women who shed light on the rolling lockdowns that they are subjected to, where they are confined to their cells and miss ou...