Radioactive Show

Today’s show is our second featuring audio from a panel discussion marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was held on September 26th. The online panel was organised by Reverse the Trend Pacific, a chapter of Reverse the Trend, save our people, save the planet. We’ll hear from the facilitator, Jeshua Hope, as well as panel guests, Kasha Sequoia Slavner a y...

Today’s show features audio from a panel discussion marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was on September 26th. The online panel was organised by Reverse the Trend Pacific, which is a chapter of Reverse the Trend, save our people, save the planet. We’ll hear from the facilitators, Jeshua Hope and Christian Ciobanu, both organisers with Reverse the Trend...

Land Forces is the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere. Wage Peace is organising, for the second year, a festival of resistance from October 1-7 in Meanjin-Brisbane. We speak with Walpiri elder Ned Tjampijinpa Hargraves about the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign that is a calling for a ceasefire and no police guns.  The campaign started after 19 year old Kumanjayi Walker was s...

In this show, I take you onto the streets of Ōtautahi Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand, to join in a protest against white supremacy and the far right. Christchurch, of course, has became a name synonymous with the terrorist attacks on two mosques where a far right white supremist murdered 51 muslim people who were gathered for Friday prayers on March 15, 2019.Three and a half years later and...

With the war in Ukraine threatening nuclear power plants, on this week’s show, we talk to Friends of the Earths Dr Jim Green about threats, safeguards and what it means for the nuclear industry in Australia. Then we speak to Aunty Sue Haseldine and Susie Thisleton about rocket testing in SA and why caring for Country is so important.

This show features a talk by Lorraine Rekmans, member of the Serpent River First Nation and president of the Green Party of Canada. She speaks about working conditions in the uranium mining industry in Canada and the rights of first nations whose lands are being mined. She is speaking from personal experience of her family and there are striking similarities to the uranium mining industry in Austr...

 A discussion with Lil Barto and Margie Pestorius from Wage Peace. We discuss with Lil Barto an action on August 15, when around 20 people from Meanjin disrupted a STEM Education and Defence conference. Wage Peace oppose the 'militarisation of STEM education' and are calling for weapons companies to be banned from schools. Margie Pestorius outlines the upcoming Disrupt Land Forces event, which is...

 On this show we present some of the speakers from the recent Hiroshima Day Peace Rally held in Naarm, or Melbourne. In the past, these events focussed on remembering the bombing of hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945, and on fighting for a nuclear free future. This year included more about a nuclear free present, with current threats such as the AUKUS submarine deal, the trilateral security pact...

On the 77th Anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima, we take time to think of all of those around the world that have died due to nuclear weapons.   We keep carrying on the stories and messages from those survivors of atomic bomb explosions, the hibukasha across the world and their descendants suffering to this day due to their exposure.  Whether at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Maralinga and...

 BHP has been sucking up to 42 million litres of water per day out of the Great Artesian Basin for its giant Olympic Dam underground copper and uranium mine since 1988. There is increasing awareness that pumping so much water from the great artesian basin is unsustainable.  But BHP is a very thirsty beast, and is looking to find an alternative water source through the Water Supply Project, a partn...

This week we discuss nuclear power (again), as it seems to be an issue that—despite everything that is stacked against it—keeps on returning. The CSIRO have published their annual GenCost report, which states that: “Renewables remain the cheapest new-build electricity generation option in Australia” and the case for nuclear power generation in Australia still doesn’t add up. To discuss this issue...

 It’s NAIDOC week and the theme is Get Up Stand Up Show Up! We hear from three incredible activists doing just that: Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman Karina Lester and Kokatha Mula women Sue Coleman-Haseldine and Mia Haseldine presenting at the event ‘From Port Augusta to Vienna with love’. This Nuclear Ban Hub organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons streamed live to Vienna...

A discussion from one of ICAN’s Nuclear Ban hubs, an event featuring experts from on the ground at the landmark first meeting of states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This one was hosted by Womens International League for peace and freedom or WILPF, in Meanjin / Brisbane on June 22nd. The event was facilitated by ICAN Australia Director Gem Romuld, Campaigner Jemil...

On this show, we present an interview between Uncle Robbie Thorpe and nuclear-free superstar Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine. Aunty Sue is well known to radioactive show listeners because of her tireless work fighting the nuclear industry and her involvement with ICAN, the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and ANFA, the australian nuclear free alliance. The struggle to protect country...

In this show, I interview Jess Urwin, a phd student from ANU, who is researching South Australia’s nuclear history. Jess’s work highlights a nuclear history that started before 1945, and what we think of the beginning of the nuclear age, and puts this nuclear story in the context of settler colonialism in South Australia.

Today’s show contains all nuclear themed songs, hosted by AC and Micheala. Originally recorded live in September last year for the Rotations show, we've picked the highlights for you to enjoy. Song list: - Kev Carmody "Thou shalt not steal"- Three little birds "Uranium mining"- Desert Stars "Running"- Blekbala Mujik "Nyukliya Fiya Nyukliya war"- Time Zone "World destruction"

Update from Mia Pepper from the Conservation Council of WA about the proposed uranium mine in Western Australia at Mulga Rock, and the proposed merger between Vimy Resources and Deep Yellow. After that, we’ll get Dr Jim Green’s perspective on what the election result means for the nuclear free campaign in Australia.

 Interviews and speeches from May Day 2022 in Naarm (Melbourne). Shirley Winton from the Spirit of Eureka sets the context for the day, explaining the history and importance of the struggle against imperialism. At the 2022 May Day rally in Naarm, she explained how AUKUS is a manifestation of imperialism and why it's about so much more than just submarines. Lastly, we hear from Anisa Rogers from Bl...

There's a lot to hear about from ICAN- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons organisers, Gem Romuld and Jemila Rushton. We hear the latest about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, including the upcoming first meeting of State Parties in Vienna. How ICAN, and the public, are working towards getting more MPs signing a pledge to work towards Australia signing onto this Trea...

 While Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has excluded Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, from its investment portfolio because of allegations of its involvement in the production of cluster munitions,  hte Victorian government seems to be swimming against the tide, establishing a partnership with Elbit Systems Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems, to estab...

This weeks show we take to the streets to hear voices and sounds from two rallies in Narrm-Melbourne this week. We'll hear voices from a rally for a nuclear free future on the steps of Victorian parliament on April 26 - the 36th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster.  Then we join Wage Peace at the University of Melbourne-Lockheed Martin ‘STELarLab' research facility at 766 Elizabeth St, Carlton o...

Today on the show we speak with Yohanis Mambrasar, lawyer and resident of Tambrauw, West Papua about the community campaign against the construction of a new military base, the 1810 Tambrauw Kodim, along with several smaller military posts that the Indonesian National Army (TNI) and the Government of Indonesia are planning to build without consultation or consent from the Indigenous landowners. Th...

 An interview between 3CR’s Jan Bartlett and Lee Tan from Aid/Watch.  Lee updates us on the impacts of Australian miner Lynas Rare Earth’s, both in Australia and Malaysia. Malaysians should not be left to deal with the health and environmental risks or the long-term inconvenience and costs of housing a mega radioactive waste dump of toxic materials brought in by Australian Rare Earth miner Lynas....