Radioactive Show

On this week’s program we speak to Smriti Keshari, who is an Indian-American director and artist whose work covers a spectrum of the moving image from traditional, linear filmmaking to art installations. We discuss her acclaimed multi-media installation, the bomb, which was heralded as “a stunning avant-garde approach to a plea for nuclear disarmament.”  the bomb is an immersive film, music and ar...

Repeat show: Hear from Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah who was one of the recipients of this years Australian Conservation Foundation's 2019 Rawlinson award winner with her two aunties, Shirley and Lizzie Wonyabong. You will also hear from Mia Pepper who travelled with Aunty Shirley and Vicki to receive the award at ACF’s annual general meeting. KA also gives campaign wrap and where each of the four...

  This week we hear an interview about the Sentencing of 2 of the 7 Plow Shares activists in the United States. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 performed an action as part of their campaign for nuclear disarmament two years ago inside the Kings Bay Trident Submarine base in southern Georgia. 3CRs Jan Barlett spoke to Brian Terrell, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non Violence. Read an article abo...

The Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020 has had little media coverage despite concerns the bill will erode human rights and vastly expand government powers to use the military domestically. Activist and Lawyer Kellie Trantor has been an outspoken critic of the proposed legislation - she says “This bill fails to properly define ‘other emerg...

On this weeks episode listen to highlights from the recent Yellowcake Country webinar - Don't Nuke the Climate. An excellent panel of speakers to hear about why nuclear power is not the answer to climate change, the solutions and an update on the Federal environment legislation - EPBC Act that is currently under review includes, Fremantle MP, Josh Wilson speaks on the findings and outcomes from th...

 RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. There is a strong movement to stop RIMPAC, even in lockdown.  On today’s show, we hear from some speakers from the Koa Futures: A Demilitarized Pacific Future. The webinar was organised by the cancel RIMPAc coalitionGet in touch with the Cancel RIMPAC crew via facebook To show your support for...

We catch up with stalwart legends of the nuclear free movement, honorary presidents of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, Arabana man Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Kokatha Mula woman, Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine. You’ll hear strong words in these troubled times as we get updates about their struggles on Country and some advice on staying the distance. Australian Nuclear Free Alliance 

Barry Wakelin shares his story about how the government’s attempt to put a radioactive waste dump in his community made him a de-liberalised Liberal and how the site selection process “makes the sports rorts look like petty cash”. From politician in Canberra to the frontline of the campaign to stop a waste dump being sited on agricultural land in his community of Kimba.

Today’s focus is on the role of various art and media practices on engaging with nuclear legacies and nuclear stories. We hear from Merilyn Fairskye, Sydney based photomedia artist about her new film ‘Birds’, a tale about Radioactive pigeons, two pairs of twins and a massacre that brings chaos to a sleepy seaside village. A story, which is based on true events related to the Sellafield nuclear pow...

Today’s show features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), and Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW). Annette speaks about RIMPAC 2020, which is the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, currently being held in Hawaiian waters. She also introduces us to the IPAN inquiry. Margie cr...

On the 10th of July 1985, Greenpeace flagship protest vessel - the Rainbow Warrior - was bombed by French government agents in Auckland. Fernando Pereira, a Greenpeace photographer on board at the time, was killed in the blast. The bombing was a major diplomatic incident, and helped shape the nuclear free identity of Aotearoa New Zealand. But it was part of a much bigger and more deadly story of F...

Listen to the highlights from the excellent Yellowcake Country webinar - uranium and nuclear weapons. Listen to the update on the nuclear free WA campaign by KA Garlick and then tune into International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Australia's excellent co-founders Dave Sweeney and Dimity Hawkins AM. Listen to ambassador and former Federal MP, Melissa Parke as they share powerful and...

August 6th, 2020 marks 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima. On this Rad Show, we are sharing a talk by Koko Kondo, a hibakusha from Hiroshima, speaking here about her experience as a nuclear survivor. This audio is from ‘Beyond Trinity’ a special panel discussion that the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) hosted to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first...

 On this Radioactive Show, we hear an interview recorded by KA Garlick with Ralph Hutchinson. Ralph is the coordinator of OREPA, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.  He tells us about the Y12 bomb plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and about the US government’s plans for the modernisation of their nuclear industry. For more information check out:https://orepa.org/https://www.facebook.com/stopth...

This Rad Show includes speakers from a panel discussion organised by ICAN commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion, code-named “Trinity”, honouring the lives and struggles of nuclear survivors. It features two incredible women:Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, New Mexico, US.Karina Lester, Yankunytjatjara-Anangu second-generation surviv...

On this weeks show, listen to the highlights from the recent webinar, SA: Too Good to Waste. You'll hear from Jason Bilney, Barngarla Aboriginal Determination Corporation, Vivianne McKenzie, Adnyamathanha Traditional Owner and Peter Woolford, No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land, as they share their concerns from the town of Kimba, South Australia on the site to host Australia's national dump...

On this Radioactive Show we hear an interview that originally went to air on 3CR’s Doin’ Time show. Marisa interviews Aunty Helen, Aboriginal academic and Elder, about her personal story around land, nuclear testing and her extensive work around international law and transitional justice in the context of colonisation and genocide.

So what are killers robots? And what work is being done to challenge their use? To find out, Rad Show host AC spoke with Professor Michael Winikoff, AI expert from Aotearoa New Zealand and Matilda Byrne, Australian National Coordinator for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and a specialist in international security and disarmament. We discuss LAWS - Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, the ethical,...

On this week's Radioactive Show, you will hear from Taiwan activist Shi Ting and Tomohiro Matsuoka from Japan, on the challenges and long term impacts their countries face from Australian uranium.   The Yellowcake Country webinar is a five part series, that will explore the local, national and international impacts of Australia’s uranium industry. In this first webinar, we explore where does Austr...

 BHP is once again proposing to expand its operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia.  If approved, the expansion would increase BHP’s already significant impacts on land, water, culture and wildlife. On this week’s show, we hear from independent environmental campaigner  David Noonan, who outlines the numerous flaws and potential impacts of the proposal. Further information is available at the...

In today's show highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement, I'm sharing interviews and statements from family members of First Nations people who have died in custody. Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report was released in 1987, 432 Aboriginal people in so-called Australia have been killed while in police custody. There is an interview with Latoya Aroha Rule whose br...

On this weeks episode of the Radioactive Show, listen to Annette Brownlie, chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Australian Network and Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War discuss the recently released statement calling for healthcare not warfare. The show will take you through the statement and the steps Australia could take to cease our involvemen...

On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we hear from Indian social activist Dr Vaishaili Patel about resistance to compulsory land acquisition for developments such as nuclear power reactors and the fight for a people-centric development model in India. For more information about the nuclear relationship between Australia and India go to www.nuclear.foe.org.au/uranium-customers. To learn more abo...

Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the Disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. In the show we dive into her recent article ‘COVID-19: Divest, Demilitarise and Disarm.’ We explore how now is the time to expose the grave injustice of military spending, while health care systems around the world are ill-equipped to cope with a pandemic, mil...

As we come to the end of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) the magnitude and importance of work needed to redirect national budgets to 'Healthcare not Warfare' is clear.  This week we bring you some speeches from the World Conference 2020:  Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis, For Social & Economic Justice, a global online conference held on Saturday...