Tuesday Breakfast

7.15 am// Jordy Silverstein from Loud Jew Collective at Free Palestine RallyWe revisit a speech from the Free Palestine rally from Sunday 23rd March, where Jordy Silverstein of the Loud Jew Collective spoke about solidarity and the ways in which we in the west can fight against occupation and imperialism in our daily lives.  7.30 am// Manju from Nuclear Free Campaign, Friends of the EarthManju is...

Seismic shift protest in Warrnambool. Photo credit: OCEAN/ XRVic 7:15AM //  3CR presenter Kannagi on the recent earthquake in Myanmar. Kannagi is currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and spoke to Phuong about the impacts of the earthquake in Thailand, the communities particularly impacted in Myanmar, and the efforts of organisations and mutual aid campaigns to support those affected. This inte...

7:15 AM// Kannagi speaks to Avika, a regenerative farmer in Chiang MaiOn a recent episode of 3CR's Women on the Line, Kannagi spoke to Avika, a regenerative farmer in Chiang Mai, Thailand who is passionate about regenerating soil and working with farmers across the country to make regenerative farming tools and techniques more accessible. This interview originally aired on Women on the Line on Mon...

7:15 AM // Rosemary Storey and Mel (Victoria Forest Alliance) On 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 cities across so-called...

7:15AM // Amelia Young, Wilderness SocietyOn Monday 3rd March 2025, the Wilderness Society launched court action against Australia's Environment Minister, saying successive environment ministers have failed in their legal duties to create recovery plans that would give threatened wildlife a better chance at surviving extinction. Phuong spoke with Amelia Young, National Campaigns Director at the Wi...

 7:15AM // Annie McLoughlin spoke to CFMEU Organiser Lisa Zanatta and four union members. As part of 3CR's 24 hour International Working Women's Day coverage last Saturday, Annie McLoughlin spoke to women from the CFMEU. We listen back to that interview, starting with Lisa Zanatta, Women's Organiser for the union, and later, four rank & file members who talk about the work they do and how the CFME...

 Content warning: The following segment contains references to violence. For support contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. 7:15AM // Debbie Stothard, human rights advocate and founder of ALTSEAN Burma. ALTSEAN Burma is a human rights organisation which campaigns for a return to democratic and civilian rule for Myanmar. Debbie is here in Naarm to celebrate the release of ALTSEAN's latest publication Women'...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Content warning: This segments contains references to violence, and suicide. For support contact 13YARN, that's 13 92 76 or Lifeline at 13 11 14. Jodie Bell, descendant of the Butchella and Jagera people of Southeast Queensland and board member of the Kimberley Aboriginal Women’s Council, spoke to Phuong this week on Women on the Line. They speak about the organisation’...

News headlines // 7:15AM //  Sue McKinnon, President of Kinglake Friends of the Forest which is a member of the Victorian Forest Alliance. In the last few days, the Victoria Forest Alliance has posted photos shared by local photographers of planned burns taking place across Victoria, including on Gunnai Kurnai country. Sue joins us to talk about the true impact of planned burns as well as the misi...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Laura Sykes is a community organiser with Lock the Gate Alliance and part of the Beyond Gas Network. She has been involved with grassroots climate justice and youth organising for over a decade, and is passionate about building community led campaigns to fight for systemic change. Laura is on the show today to talk about some of the current campaigns and organising, inc...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Alexia Wellbelove from the Australian Marine Conservation Society on the impacts of the marine heatwave and the need for urgent government action. Last month fisheries officials reported that a marine heatwave may have led to a fish kill on Western Australia's Pilbara coast. About 30,000 fish were found dead at Gnoorea Beach near Karratha. The marine heatwave is expecte...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Helen Mayers, secretary of EFA (Environmental Films Australia, previously EFFA), on the potential for environmental and climate action through cinema, community and connection, and what’s on in 2025 for EFA. You can find out more and support their work at www.effa.org.au 7:30AM // Susie Russell, a member of Save Bulga Forest - a grassroots organisation who are trying to...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Moments from Monday 19 Jan action to Return Lee Point to the Larrakia People that took place outside the office of Defence Housing Australia in Port Melbourne. Lee Point is under threat of being destroyed by DHA to build 800 houses for the military and for overseas buyers. In this clip, two of the organisers, Laniyuk and Te Raukura, speak, as well as some short testimon...

7:15AM // An excerpt from 3CR's summer series "Writing Home", a show in which Satellite Skies host Madhvi takes listeners through important feminist readings from the Global South. In this excerpt, which originally aired on 6 Jan, Madhvi discusses and reads an extract from "Against White Feminism" by Rafia Zakaria. It's a fabulous read on compulsory sexuality, and the problems with a singular whit...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Rin Mcardle is a Naarm/Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer. In September, she released her new single 'Strings', which waxed lyrical on the silence of the music scene when it comes to Palestine. All proceeds from this single went to Palestine Australia Relief and Action (PARA) Foundation. She joined us now to chat about music, advocacy...

Xen Nhà is founder and editor of Red Pocket Press, a queer asian publishing project celebrating Lunar New Year through zines, food and gatherings. Xen talks about Red Pocket Press and the upcoming Languages in Community Festival where they'll be sharing stories of queer and trans Asian histories, ancestry and family in the diaspora. 3CR reporter Pilar Aguilera reports from the Federal Court in Syd...

Dr Aryati Yashadhana is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity (CPHCE), and School of Population Health, and a Visiting Fellow, School of Social Sciences, UNSW. Her work focuses on socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of health, intersectional health equity (gender, race, class), and international development. Aryati speaks about the recent research into t...

Headlines // 7:15AM // Senator Fatima Payman speaking at the Free Palestine Rally in Naarm on Sunday 10 November, calling for the Australian Government to impose sactions and divestment from Israel. 7:30AM // Senator Mehreen Faruqi speaking at the Free Palestine Rally in Naarm on Sunday 10 November on the crisis of gender-based violence facing women in Sudan, the impacts of the US election and the...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Speaking at the community forum "Your Taxes Fund Weapons", held in Coburg on Tues 29 October, is Mary Merkenich, former teacher, AEU (Aus Edu Union) state councillor and climate activist and feminist who writes for Green Left. Mary speaks about deficits in government schools which could easily be fixed if funds were redirected from submarines to public education. In a s...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Carolyn Mogharbel, Manager of 1800 My Options at Women's Health Victoria, on a new report ‘Realising Access’ released last week by Women's Health Victoria, which revealed that there remain major ongoing inequities in abortion and contraception access across Victoria. For more information, you can go to 1800myoptions.org.au or call the confidential free phone line at 180...

News headlines // 7:15AM // A segment from this week’s Women on the Line episode, in which Scheherezade revisited a conversation from 2021 between Eugenia Flynn and Tasnim Sammak as they reflected on their article, Blak Australia to Palestine: solidarity in decolonial struggle, published on Indigenous X on 10 June 2021. Eugenia Flynn is a writer, academic, arts worker and community organiser,  she...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Replay of a speech from Judy McVey, from the Community and Public Sector Union for Palestine, at the Free Palestine Naarm rally on Sunday 13 October. Judy speaks about the importance of union power and reflects on moments in the past year when different unions have organised for Palestine such as the actions to stop ZIM ships and the student encampment at the University...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Candice, a data analyst by profession, who is coordinator in a grassroots formation Support Network for International Students (SNIS), which advocates for international students rights, and Nishani, international student from Melbourne who is about to finish her Masters in Business Information System this year, on recent changes in the Australian Government 485 visa pol...

News headlines // 7:15AM // Loretta Beliniak, president of Friends Of Organ Pipes National Park, on the tireless work the group has been doing for over 50 years at Naarm’s closest National Park. To follow their work or get involved, head to foopsnp on Instagram.  7:30AM // Afaf, an attendee at the community picket being held by Weapons Out of Naarm outside of A.W Bell in Dandenong, demonstrating a...

Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG) hosted a roundtable on Wednesday 11th September at Victorian Parliament in which Ministers, housing experts, and people with lived experience of the housing crisis came together. This was facilitated by Fiona York, CEO of HAAG. In this segment, we hear accounts from lived-experience housing advocates and working group members with Housing for The Aged Actio...