Wednesday Breakfast

7:10 Jacob speaks with Dr Patricia Ranald, the Convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET). The World Trade Organisation is set to meet tomorrow to debate a waiver on a controversial trading agreement related to COVID-19 vaccines. The original waiver on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights was proposed by South Africa and India in 2021 a...

7.00am Acknowledgement of Country and Reconciliation Week 2022 7.10am Judith Peppard from 3CR's Communication Mixdown speaks with Professor Katie Field about new research which suggests that 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 'sen...

Claudia speaks with Richard Sawada, director of the St Kilda Film Festival – Australia’s longest running short story film festival - about the 2022 the programme highlights and the magic of short films. // Debbie Hamilton is a Systematic Mental Health Advocate with experience on both sides of the mental health system which she is working to change to better suit the needs of people with a psychoso...

7.11am Claudia speaks with Linda Fisk from Seeds of Affinity: Pathways for Women  a South Australian not for profit organisation supporting criminalised women transition to community. Linda talks about the barriers facing women in this transition including the challenges around obtaining basic ID papers necessary to open a bank account and access Centrelink. (Part One of a two part segment. Part T...

Wednesday Breakfast with Claudia and Jacob // 7.10AM: Lurion De Mello from Macquarie Business School spoke with Evan Wallace about the international energy crisis and the risk that fuel shortages and surging fossil fuel prices present to decarbonising efforts. // 7:18AM: Loy Yang coal industry worker Tony Wolfe advocates for the transition to renewables speaking at last week's Workers for Climate...

Drag performers Timberlina and Foxxe Faux spoke with Jacob about the drag scene in Newcastle, and the joy of bringing queer spaces to regional areas. //Professor Tom Boellstorff spoke with Claudia about their article 'Why English Might Let Go of "He" and "She"' on radical gender inclusion in the English language. //Angela Buckingham spoke with Ella about her play '#NoExemptions' that follows the s...

7.15 am Jacob speaks with Terence Humphries and Jade Winter from LGBTQIA+ youth services provider Twenty10 about the incidence of homelessness among trans people and how we can create a safe society to protect our community. 7.30am Ella speaks with Susan Goldie, the National Lead for End of Life Strategy at CCNB Limited Community Care and Wellbeing about how to talk about end of life and the Dying...

7:14  We hear about the origins of Easter from Dr Caroline Tully, an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. 7:35 Dawn Barrington, refugee activist and folk singer, speaks on the refugees who have recently been released from the Park Hotel and the many challenges that lay ahead as the men seek to move on with their lives and return to s...

Eiddwen speaks to Andrew Norton, a longstanding tertiary policy expert, about the federal government's Job Ready Graduate Package and it's impact on universities. //Ella speaks with Josephine Langbien from the Human Rights Law Centre about the recent parliamentary inquiry into the family VISA system, and where it needs reform. //Jacob speaks with John Cook from the Monash Monash Climate Change Com...

Wednesday Breakfast 30/3/22with Ella and Jacob // We hear from COP26 youth delegate Amelia Goonerage about some of the accessibility issues experienced at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow last year, particularly how First Nations people fared at the negotiating table. // Dr Ariaan Purich from Monash University speaks on an ice shelf in East Antarctica the size of New York City that...

Wednesday, 23rd of March 2022 7.15       Troy Innocent, creator of a new immersive art and culture experience called 64 Ways of Being, joins us to discuss the inspiration behind the project, how this kind of crossover of art and technology can help bring people closer to their environment and with one another, and what users can expect. The project is launching in Footscray and the CBD on Wednesda...

Wednesday 16th of March 2022 7: 15 Ella speaks with Chris Breen from the Refugee Advocacy Collective about the release from detention of 13 Medivac refugees on Friday 11th March and the issues they face from here. 7: 30 Claudia speaks with Margaret Anderson, Director of the Old Treasury Building, about a new exhibition “Lost Jobs: The Changing World of Work” which illuminates changes to the Victor...

Wednesday 9th of March 2022 7:15 Alice plays her first ever interview with 3CR! Dr Caroline Tully, Pagan witch and academic, talks to us about the origins of Easter.  7:35 Associate Professor Bridget Harris from QUT dicusses the use of technology in domestic violence against women in rural/regional/remote Australia. Bridget is the Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre and Centre...

7:16 Ella is joined by her mum Fiona! Fiona's based in Brisbane and fills us in on her experience of the floods over the past week and the impact they've had on the local community. 7:31 Ella speaks with Robynne Murphy who directed the documentary Women of Steel, about the 1980-1994 campaign by Wollongong women for jobs in the BHP-AIS steel work. The film deals with issues such of sexual harassmen...

 7.00am Acknowledgement of Country 7.07am  We take a look at the way the media is reporting on the crisis at the Ukraine-Russia border. Jacques Boulet and Jennifer Borrell from 3CR’s Think Again programme https://www.3cr.org.au/thinkagainask whether the hype and rhetoric about the tensions on the border is part of an information war led by western leaders, particularly by the US and NATO. This seg...

 7:00 Acknowledgement of Country 7:11 Claudia introduces the subject of modern slavery in corporate supply chains and provides key facts. 7:19 We revisit an interview between Claudia and Dr Nga Pham from the Monash Centre for Financial Studies about corporate responsibility for modern slavery. 7:31 Claudia speaks to senior lawyer Freya Dinshaw from the Human Rights Law Centre about "Paper promises...

7.02 Acknowledgement of Country 7.16 Ella speaks with Annie Butler, the federal secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation about the results of a recent survey of aged care nurses and carers, workers in the industry having to pay for RATs, the protest being held outside Parliament House yesterday, and other issues facing aged care workers, residents and their families. 7.30 Claud...

WEDNESDAY February 2nd 2022 7:17 Joe Maliglnaggi from 3CR Music Matters speaks to St Kilda Festival organiser Fred Gesha and legendary artist Archie Roach (includes song - Ball and Chain featuring J-Milla - by Xavier Rudd) 7:45 Claudia speaks to Kuku Yalanji, Jirrbal, Badulaig songwoman Kee'ahn (she/them) about her forthcoming performance at the St Kilda & Yalluk-ut Weelam Ngargee Festival on Feb...

Content warning for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations listeners:This broadcast contains the voices and names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who have died, and references to suicide, trauma and deaths in custody. For support contact:Lifeline 13 11 14Yarning Safe 'n' Strong 1800 95 95 563 (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only) 7:00 Acknowledgement of...

WEDNESDAY 19th January 20227:12 Paddy speaks with Australia’s first female roadie, Tana Douglas who discussed her memoir loud and the impact of covid on the music industry and we’re going to take a listen back now. Paddy starts by asking Tana about the importance of music in her life.7:30 Claudia speaks to Dr Katie Hepworth from the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility about workers’ rig...

00:15 - We’re going to hear “Fat Bodies, Healthy Lives” the special feature about healthy living in everybody size. West Australian community broadcaster Rebecca Bowman pushes back on the singular, outdated and flat out bogus notion that slim equals healthy - I can’t wait for that one!00:30 - Next up, Beth Matthews from 3CR’s Radical Philosophy programme speaks to Associate Professor Elizabeth Fin...

In this show we play two full length interviews with guests through the year, Aunty Hazel from the Grandmothers Against Removals and Sophie Trevitt from Change the Record.  7:15 - Aunty Hazel Part 1 - Alice speaks to Aunty Hazel about the continuous removal of children and the ongoing stolen generations. Aunty Hazel talks about her own experience with the Welfare/child protective services, the eff...

This morning’s programme features an extended discussion on The Mental Load – the invisible, enduring and boundaryless work impacting women, men, families and society. Three University of Melbourne sociologists Associate Professor Leah Ruppanner (Co-Director, The Policy Lab), Dr Liz Dean (Lecturer in Sociology) and Dr Brendan Churchill (Research Fellow and Program Manager of Life Patterns) togethe...

Claudia speaks with Dr Kaori Okano from LaTrobe University about the rise of single women in Japan and the film - Hold Me Back - which is screening as part of the Japanese Film Festival this week in Melbourne. Alice plays an interview with Sophie Trevitt, Executive Officer of Change the Record and the ACT Co-Chair of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights. In reflection of Friday's announcement of ra...

Giancarlo De Vera, Senior Policy Manager with People with Disability Australia, discusses the government's vaccine rollout for people with a disability, which has failed to fully vaccinate people with a disability, despite placing them in priority groups 1a and 1b. Marg Thomas from Preserve our Forests Mirboo North, tells us about the  report they released yesterday, the Conservation Values Of the...