Wednesday Breakfast

 Wednesday Breakfast 28th June 2023 Headlines 7.09am We revisit a chat with Bill Peel about his new book Tonight It's A World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics. What are the possibilities in a musical genre whose notoriety connects it with fascist politics? Part of a segment that aired in full on 3CR Yeah Nah Pasaran Thursday 22 June 2023. 7.28am Flic Manning, host of 3CR Brainwaves, chats with S...

Patrick Morrow spoke with resident Margaret Kelly and other fellow residents at the Save Barak Beacon housing estate rally last week, discussing the Port Melbourne public housing estate refurbishment where Kelly demanded a meeting with Housing Minister Colin Brooks, regarding her relocation and the situation for other residents. The government has delivered a stance. "We acknowledge that moving ho...

 7:00am Acknowledgement of Country 7.05am Headlines 7:13am Claudia speaks to Associate Professor and Dean of Indigenous Knowledge at Murdoch University, Western Australia, Bep Uink about the impact of the Voice to Parliament debates on Indigenous Australians in the lead up to the referendum. Bep shares the lessons from the equal marriage plebiscite, as well as explains that non-Indigenous Australi...

We hear from Cape York leader, lawyer, and land rights activist Noel Pearson on the Voice to Parliament. Pearson spoke at the inaugural Sydney University event series ‘Voices on the Voice’ last week which seeks to encourage meaningful engagement on the Voice to Parliament within the community. Sunehra speaks to Chris Schuringa from the Victorian Forest Alliance about the end of native logging in V...

Patrick speaks to La Trobe University Business School Associate Professor Buly Cardak about the Victorian State budget and what could be coming your way in terms of support, the future surplus, and cuts to mental health.    Claudia speaks with United States history and policy expert and lecturer in the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University, Dr Emma Shortis. Emma is a signatory to the o...

 Wednesday Breakfast Rundown - 17th May 2023  With Grace Tan, Claudia Craig and Patrick Morrow 7:00am Acknowledgement of Country 7:04am News headlines  7:12am Grace speaks with Daniel Bastard, head of the Asia-Pacific desk at Reporter Without Borders (RSF) about the 2023 World Press Freedom Index, with highlights of the fake content industry and Australia's situation with press freedom. Read the f...

Headlines Naomi Fowler speaks with Alex Cobbin and Rachel Etter-Phoya from the Tax Justice Network, about the importance of tax policy in stopping the continuation of empire and patterns of extraction that impoverish communities and harm children. They look at a recent report “How can corporate taxes contribute to sub-Saharan Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals?” which examined the Vodafone com...

Press Freedom Day Special Acknowledgement of Country Headlines Region Riverina News Editor Chris Roe joins Patrick to discuss Press Freedom and the future of regional media   https://regionriverina.com.au/ Grace speaks with Malaysian journalist Alyaa Alhadjri and Malaysian-based social commentator, researcher-writer and co-founder of IMAN research Dina Zaman about the  country's press freedom, and...

7:00am AOC 7.05am News Headlines 7:11am We look at the effect of dairy farming on fresh water rivers in Aotearoa and the Fonterra Company (a big dairy corporation), their greatest climate polluter. 3CR's Climate Action Show host, Vivien Langford chats to Christine Rose, a lead agricultural campaigner for Greenpeace Aotearoa, about what the climate movement looks like post-Jacinda Ardern and the ca...

 We revisit a conversation between Robbie Thorpe from Bunjil's Fire and Munanjahli, Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman Dr Chelsea Watego about Indigenous health, particularly the problems in our healthcare system leading to further oppression for Indigenous people as well as the Inala Manifesto which she issued. (This conversation was originally broadcasted on April 18th 2023) You can tune into...

 Sunehra speaks with Dr Paula Gerber, Professor of Law at Monash University, discussing how the collapse of Home Builder, Porter Davis affected thousands of customers and the construction industry. Grace speaks with writer, editor and critic, Ben Brooker, about his recent article called "Congo line to Armageddon: the rush to get us into war with China" (Overland 24/3/23) in which he critiques the...

Headlines//  We hear from Sue McKinnon from Kinglake Friends of the Forest about the state logging company Vic Forests, and their logging methods which failed to protect threatened species of gliders. Vic Forests were brought to court by conservation groups, Kinglake Friends of the Forest and Environmental East Gippsland, who won the case last year. However, more needs to be done to make sure that...

Sunehra speaks with Ayman Islam, the Executive Director of the Centre for Muslim Health and Wellbeing, an initiative to help Muslims navigate mental health support that is culturally appropriate and to help prevent harm in crisis situations. Islam joined us to discuss the importance of mental health during Ramadan. You can call their navigator to find a Muslim or culturally trained mental health p...

 - Sunehra Speaks with Dr Simon Longstaff AO about ethical challenges over the years, and the Ethics Centre - which is now taking in applications for their upcoming Youth Advisory Council. The applications close Friday 31 March and they plan to start activities in late April. https://ethics.org.au/connect/youth-advisory-council/ - Content warning - This segment discusses transphobia, police violen...

7:00 AM           Acknowledgement of Country 7:08 AM           Sally Goldner from Out of the Pan, spoke to amazing community contributor Dean Arcuri, a cabaret comedian, entertainer and emcee during the Chillout festival last week, about world pride, Victoria and giving a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community.  7: 28 AM          Nucelar Free Collective Action Meeting TONIGHT 15th MARCH at Friends of...

International Women's Day Special  Grace speaks to Wong Kai Hui, a young Malaysian female freelancing journalist based in Taiwan. She is currently in Taiwan studying for her master's but has worked as part of Malaysiakini, one of Malaysia's independent journalism platforms, and received the 2021 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist award for her articles on the impact on the environment of mining p...

Mammad Aidani speaks to Tina Giannoukos on 3CR's Spoken Word program. Aidani is a human rights advocate, playwright, theatre director, psychosocial researcher and poet from Iran, which is also where his poetry has been banned. His work focuses on the experiences and traumas of Middle Eastern people, especially migrant, refugees and asylum seekers who have left their homelands to settle in the west...

3CR Wednesday Breakfast 22/2/23With Claudia (and Grace remotely) 7:05AM Claudia speaks with former 3CR presenter Evan Wallace about the recent spate of media reporting about Mpartwnee/ Alice Springs. Evan is a journalist and radio presenter working for the ABC on the ground in Mpartwnee/ Alice Springs.  Further reading: https://theconversation.com/heres-some-context-missing-from-the-mparntwe-alice...

Grace speaks with Catherine Simmonds of Act in Connection, the artistic director of the film 'Forget the Stereotypes' a collection of rich personal stories of international students, showing at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum. We hear the creative process and the story's message which is a more diversified experience of International Students that is often presented in the media.  Watch the film tr...

 7.10AM We hear from refugee activists Margaret Sinclair & Ian Rintoul of the Refugee Action Coalition, on their witness of the harsh survival life for refugees in Indonesia, the need to end the ban on resettlement in Australia and the Albanese government's promise for the refugees. To learn more about what went on in the forum, head to https://refugeeaction.org.au/ You can watch the full video at...

Grace speaks with Aerospace engineering & Aviation Associate Professor Chrystal Zhang from RMIT University about the recent Nepal plane crash - the worst Nepalese aviation disaster since 1992 - to learn why Nepal's aviation industry has safety issues.   We revisit the 181st Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration event which took place in Naarm last Friday 20th January. First up, 3CR's J...

Judith speaks to Professor Katie Field about new research suggesting mushrooms have the ability to communicate with each other and that fungi has an electrical 'language' all its own, "far more complicated than anyone previously thought" and "might even use 'words' to form 'sentences' to communicate with neighbours".  Claudia speaks with Julie Borninkhof, a clinical psychologist who has worked acr...

We bring a discussion between Professor Carl Rhodes and Professor Verity Firth, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Social Justice and Inclusion at the University of Technology Sydney, as they discuss Rhodes' book  Woke Capitalism’: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy. UTS Sydney Business School and the Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion hosted the event. Claudia speaks with Ana Aguera, co-founde...

 4th January 2023 Summer Special - Women in SportHosted by Claudia Craig The First Friday in FebruaryA feature audio documentary showcasing the voices of women witnessing the inaugural AFLW match 7:00 AM Acknowledgement of Country 7:01AM Writer/audio producer Kirby Fenwick speaks with Claudia about the making of The First Friday in February and why it is important to capture women's voices and his...

 7.00AM Acknowledgement of country 7.10AM Claudia speaks with Gunai Kurnai author Veronica Gorrie - Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience - on winning the Victorian Premier's Literature Prize, police racism, and alternatives to criminal justice. (First broadcast 9/2/22)  7.30AM Grace speaks with Jordan Guiao (@jordanguiao(link is external)), former digital strategist for the Australian...