Tuesday Breakfast

Dr Virginia MapedzahamaDr Virginia Mapedzahama, critical race scholar and Director of Member Education at Diversity Council Australia (DCA), on DCA's report 'Racism at Work', the importance of anti-racist actions and how whiteness is still our default. Hella IbrahimHella Ibrahim, founder and editorial director of Djed Press, an online publication that works exclusively with Black creatives and oth...

Emma CuttingEmma Cutting is the founder of the community initiative, The Heart Gardening Project. The aim of the project is to create wildlife corridors on public land, transforming nature strips and other urban areas into insect-friendly gardens. Emma joins the show to talk about the importance of community gardens, not just for the bees and other critters that depend on these environments, but t...

News Headlines 7:15 Allara is a powerful Yorta Yorta winyarr. She is a storyteller, composer, director, producer, musician and soundscape designer. With humour and integrity, Allara uses the double-bass and sound samples from Country to weave textures for healing in her work “I am Sovereign, I am Free”. Allara's innovative music speaks to Blak justice and sovereignty. This interview originally air...

7:15 Nic Fox is a member of Warburton Environment, a community organisation dedicated to protecting the forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. After two and a half years of grassroots campaigning, the Supreme Court handed down a judgment against VicForests, the state-owned logging business, in favour of Warburton Environment, that will increase protection for the endangered Tree Geebung. Ni...

7:20 Murrawah Johnson, a Wirdi woman, First Nations Program Lead and Co-Director of Youth Verdict, talks about Youth Verdict's win against Waratah Coal, the massive Clive Palmer-owned Galilee Basin coal project. Last week, a Queensland court said that the coal project should not go ahead because of its contribution to climate change, its environmental impacts, and because it would erode human righ...

HEADLINES//- State election results- Melbourne win AFLW Grand Final- Youth Verdict wins landmark case against Clive Palmer's coalmine- Afghani women secretly network for change- Pakistan lifts ban on Joyland- National party won’t support Indigenous voice to parliament, saying it won’t close the gap0715We hear two speeches recorded at SlutWalk Melbourne -- Nazanin speaks about women's experience in...

Fleur Taylor is Vice President of Victoria University's National Tertiary Education branch and joins us on the show to talk about Victoria University going through another restructure. It has been reported that changes will be made to the university's colleges, strategic direction, and more. This comes after 2020 saw university wide staff redundancies, job cuts and changes to working conditions. F...

Kate Robinson tells us about WOMEN* NOW, an exhibition at Queen Victoria Women's Centre featuring feminist art works by more than 50 artists, designers and makers. Kate's artwork features in the exhibition, and is a board member at QVWC.Associate Professor Dominique Allen joins us to share the findings in a new report by the Monash Business School about the discrimination pregnant women face in th...

Community Voices from the 2022 Victorian Seniors Festival; SlutWalk Naarm/Melb 2022 - Taking a Stand Against the Patriarchy; Hát Xe Buýt - Exploration of Place, Language and Migrant-Settler Positionalities; Catalyst Festival 2022 - 3 Days of Connection and Resistance; SWAMP - Newest Show by Snuff Puppets  Huang Ni tells her story to Belinda Lo and Lella Cariddi OAM, for "This Singular Life", a pro...

We replay an excerpt from the forum event, Women's Lived Experience in Decarceration and Carceral Resistance, organised by Fitzroy Legal Service on Monday 24th October. We hear from Elena Campbell (CIJ - RMIT University) and Karen Fletcher (Flat Out) talking about the ways in which the system is currently failing women. // We replay another excerpt from the forum event. This time we hear from Nina...

Headlines - Police protect neo-nazi "protest" - Kakadu uranium site clean-up in limbo amid calls to revive mine - Disrupt Land Forces happening in Meanjin all week We listen to Annie from Solidarity Breakfast speaking with Lauren Perry from UTS, co-author of a recent report called Facial recognition technology: Towards a model law about the issues that could place this technology against citzen's...

We hear from Lynne Kelly and Margo Neale about their book Design: Songlines. Lynne Kelly is a science writer whose field of research is the memory methods used by those who depended on their memories for knowledge. Margo Neale is the head of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges, senior Indigenous curator, and principal adviser to the director of the National Museum of Australia. The authors share...

We hear from Architectural design activist - Linda Kennedy who introduced the recent 2022 Forum For Dwelling Justice. Linda delivered the Keynote speech from the symposium held at The Capitol Theatre here in Naarm/Melbourne a few weeks ago. The event brought together grassroots individuals, groups and activist-scholars to talk about the radical potential for resistance to dispossession, displaceme...

Headlines:- refugee resettlement program - VALS Raise the Age seminae this Thursday - Taliban closes recently opened girls' schools We revisit Phuong's conversation with Heather Corinna, founder and director of Scarleteen about the importance of comprehensive and inclusive sex and consent education.  Phuong speaks with Angelique Wan, CEO, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Consent Labs, about th...

Headlines -Coronial Inquest in to Kumanjayi Walkers death commences yesterday-Announced yesterday (05/09) Youpla Funeral Fund: Compensation scheme to begin for Aboriginal victims of predatory insurer -Santos withdraws applications for NT gas pipeline approval over legal challenge risk -One-in-eight women working in emergency services experienced sexual harassment, Victorian report says - Gender eq...

Headlines - Indian supreme court recognises different family units, including queer families - 29 August was equal pay day - Freedom Day Festival was this past weekend - Nursing and Midwifery studies to become free in Victoria next year - Victoria paying more than $1m a day to keep unsentenced prisoners in jail We revisit a discussion that Emma Crunch from the Radioactive Show had with Margie Pest...

 HeadlinesUMSU passes new motion in solidarity with Palestine & BDS movementBrittney Griner's defence team appeals against conviction for drug possession and traffickingScott Morrison was somehow several ministersSocialist and activist Maeve Russak talks to Kannagi about UMSU's motion to support Palestine and calling on University of Melbourne management to cut ties with Israeli apartheid.  Fiona...

HeadlinesIsraeli attack on GazaAustralian education ministers to address nationwide teacher shortages Future of Redfern’s National Centre of Indigenous Excellence unclear  Footscray man faces fines for garden Olivia Newton John dies at 73Jessi Hooper from the Youth Disability Advocacy Service speaks to Phuong about the Young Leaders Program: www.yacvic.org.au/ydas Renee Dixson from the Forcibly Di...

Headlines:-LGBTIQ+ communities a key national focus ahead of women's safety summit meeting -Paid FV leave -Victorian public hospitals could not prevent doctors from providing abortions under new bill -Ditch “Naarmcore”: Clothing the Gaps on the Problematic New Tiktok Term for a Melbourne Fashion Style -FDPN survey -RIP Archie Roach Phuong speaks with Melanie Schleiger, a discrimination lawyer at V...

 We revisit a speech made by refugee advocate, Pamela Curr, at the recent launch of Aileen Crowe's new book, 'Act of Cruelty' about the experiences of asylum seekers who come to Australia by plane. This event took place on June 21st 2022 and this speech was first aired on Solidarity Breakfast on July 2nd 2022. Priya Namana, CEO of the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, speaks to Phuong about the...

Melbourne-based choreographer, artist, dancer and advocate Nebahat Erpolat speaks to Phuong about her new work, Conquest of the Garden, an interdisciplinary and experimental new dance work. The work takes inspiration from Forough Farrakhzad, a feminist poet whose work in 1950’s Iran was seen as highly progressive as a result of its criticism of the position of women in Iranian society. //Nerita Wa...

Speeches from the Naarm/Melbourne Rally for Reproductive Rights: We replay speeches made by Esma James, Dorinda Rose Cox and Anneke Demanuele at the Rally for Reproductive Rights that took place on 2 July 2022. //Chloe from Friday Breakfast speaks to Gen about an event organised in collaboration with Green Left and the Socialist Alliance called “Asylum! A socialist view of the refugee crisis”. The...

Truth Telling with Lidia ThorpeLidia Thorpe chats to Uncle Jack Charles about the importance of Truth telling in order to move forward as a nation. The excerpt is from the episode 'Truth and Treaty with Uncle Jack Charles' of Lidia Thorpe's podcast, 'Truth Telling with Lidia Thorpe'.  Lucy* on the challenges of teachingLucy* is a secondary school teacher and works at a government school in the wes...

Tuesday 28 June 2022 Dr Tania Penovic is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Deputy Associate Dean (International) and the research program group leader in gender and sexuality for the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Dr Penovic spoke with Kannagi about the implications of overturning Roe vs Wade in the US and here in Australia. This interview originally aired on May 10 2022. // Dr Erica Mil...

Headlines- Girls freed from Nigerian 'baby factory' - FINA decision on transgender swimmers - Maybelle Blair comes out at 95- Rally today against Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones) Bill 2022 Phuong speaks with Joanna Bosse, curator at the Bayside Gallery in Brighton about the Ellen Jose Art Award. Ellen Jose was a pioneer in Australia's urban Indigenous art movem...