Radioactive Show

Last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s AUSMIN visit and hints at Australia hosting US missiles in Northern Territory raised many concerns about provoking and even blindly following the US into war with our greatest economic partner China. In this episode, Vince Scappatura to discuss these developments. He speaks in detail about the US and Russian withdrawal from the cold-war era Intermedi...

On this weeks Radioactive Show, you will hear the recordings taken over last weekend at the 2019 WA State Labor Conference in which the WA nuclear free campaign held a seminar hosted by the State Secretary Steve McCartney of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The Nuclear Free Australia seminar speakers included Tjiwarl women Vicki Abdullah  who is co-chair of ANFA, the Austraian nuclear f...

On this edition of the Radioactive Show we speak with Dr. Jim Green, national Anti-nuclear Campaigner with Friends of the Earth about the recently announced nuclear inquiries in Victoria, NSW and federally.  Shirley Winton,  Victorian Convenor of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), shares their response to the announcement on Wednesday 21 August by the Morrison Government that A...

I catch up with Annette Brownlie, chair of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, about their recent IPAN conference held in Darwin. Followed by a discussion with Lina Koleilat, a Lebanese-Australian PHD student at Australian National University who specialises in historical and ethnographic approaches to study of protests, social movements and religion in contemporary South Korea.

In this show we commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day by listening speeches by nuclear survivors Setsuko Thurlow and Sue Coleman Haseldine. We also bring you a Hiroshima Day speech by Dimity Hawkins, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon founder, honouring survivors and launching the ICAN's  new report "Choosing Humanity: Why Australia Must Join The Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclea...

In the show we share with you an interview with Katherine Peet, a Pākehā resident of Ōtautahi (Christchurch) and organiser with Network Waitangi Ōtautahi. Our discussion is based around the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi, its promise of more just relationships between Māori and settlers, and the failure of successive Colonial governments to honour the Treaty. Katherine has hopes for a futu...

On Friday 12 July 2019 Justice White handed down his ruling that the exclusion of Barngarla Native Title holders who do not live in the Kimba District from participating in a ballot to gauge community support for the radioactive waste facility was not a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. On this radioactive show, Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation, Dave Sweene...

In one blinding moment in July 1945 on the white sand desert of New Mexico, humanity entered the nuclear age. Project Trinity was the first nuclear explosion, paving the way for the nuclear incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later, and the ensuing arms race that plagues us still. The communities living near the Trinity site are known as the Downwinders. They continue to experience...

In this episode we bring you an interrview with Maaike Beenes, The Senior Programme Officer for Humanitarian Disarmament at PAX in Netherlands who talks to us about the Don't Bank on The Bomb report. Don’t Bank on The Bomb is the only regularly published source of information on the private companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons and their financiers. But it also profiles those ins...

Rosa Moiwend, a West Papuan researcher, activist and educator speaks at a forum called, 'West Papua: The Pacific Crisis we can no longer ignore', held in Christchurch, New Zealand. She speaks of the history of her home land and some of the current challenges they are facing, including the Trans-Papua road project.

Mining giant BHP wants to expand its operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia. Again. On this week’s show we speak to independent environmental campaigner and a person with a deep understanding of nuclear issues in Australia, David Noonan.  David tells us about the current proposal and why we can’t let it go ahead. JOINT ENVIRONMENT GROUPS PUBLIC SUBMISSION TO THE BHP OLYMPIC DAM EPBC REFERRAL...

In this episode we speak to Shirley WInton and Annette Brownlie from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN).Shirley speaks about the Genoa dock strike, where unions and workers are refusing to load arms into ships and effectively preventing shipment to Saudi Arabia where they fear they will be used on civil populations in Yemen. This interview was originally aired on 3CR's Monday Br...

A second Radioactive Show reflecting on the March 15th Terror attack on two mosques in Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Featuring a discussion with Adel Salman, Vice President of the Islamic Council of Victoria. He speaks about his experience of the massacre, the public and political response in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa, and the important work ahead. Later in the show we share two powerful spoken...

On this week’s show we take a look at the Yes to Life No to Mining Movement, and hear from one of their regional co-ordinators, Natalie Lowrey. Those communities who wish to say No to mining should be able to. The yes to life no to mining movement is of and for them, in recognition that when we say no to mining, we stand in solidarity with the planet, with precious ecosystems and with the future g...

The announcement of the Federal environmental approval was not what many were expecting, especially for the First Nations people of Yeelirrie. This week, we speak to the Ban Uranium Mining Permanently (BUMP) spokesperson, Bilbo Taylor about the campaign in WA to stop uranium mining. Music played on the show was Red Dirt, Blue Skies by Mark Gleeson from the Northern Goldfields. Please support the #...

The result of the federal election was not what many had hoped for. This week, we speak to the Australian conservation Foundation’s Nuclear free campaigner Dave sweeney about what the results of the recent federal election mean for the anti-nuclear movement in Australia.

We hear from members of the Muslim community in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, in the wake of the March 15 terror attacks in two mosques. Asha Abdi, is a young person who has grown up attending the Al Noor Mosque. Asma Azara, explains her research with those affected after the attacks. Hisham Eldai, shares his views about the mantra ‘you are us’. Audio is from the Plains FM Community Radio station in Chr...

The highly contested Adani Carmichael mine proposal received approval for their groundwater management plan on the eve of the federal election being called. Today on the Radioactive Show we bring you recordings of the speeches at the final event in the Stop Adani Convoy as they arrived at Parliament House on Sunday 5th May.   We’ll hear speeches given by spokesperson for the Wangan and Jagalingou...

On this weeks show, we hear from Mia Pepper, from the Conservation Council of WA on the recent shocking and highly political Federal approval of Yeelirrie uranium mine. We also hear from Debbie Carmody an Anangu, Sphinifex woman about what this approval means for her and the community in Kalgoorlie along the transport route. Ways to support the campaign; Write a solidarity letter to the Yeelirrie...

On this Radioactive Show we hear from Kirsten Blair from The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation about the efforts to rehabilitate Ranger uranium mine and the plan for a post-uranium mining future in the Kakadu region. The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation's website is: www.mirarr.netThe music on this show is by West Arnhem Land's Nabarkek band with their song Little journey to Manmoyi. https://naba...

On Tuesday 16th April, the Darebin Council launched a mural at the Preston Library to honour two Preston-based co-founders of the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Dimity Hawkins and Dave Sweeney. The mural was created as ‘an enduring inspiration for active citizenship on local and global issues’.  It features a portrait of the late Yami Lester, an...

On this show we look at the legacy of atomic testing and pay tribute to Polynesian trade unionist Roland Oldham who passed away last month.  Roland was the President of Moruroa eTatou, a trade unionist, anti-nuclear campaigner, guitarist with the band Atomic Blues, and a true Pacific warrior.  Like other staunch campaigners of his generation, they have left a strong legacy that the younger generat...

On this weeks Radioactive Show we hear from the recent Western Australia Public Forum on the Yeelirrie legal challenge. The proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine is subject to a current legal challange in the Western Australia Supreme Court of Appeals, and we hear all about the legal aspects of the case in this episode! Dave Sweeney MC'd the event, followed by an excellent update from Declan Doherty, Pr...

On this show we hear recordings from the Keep Western Australia Uranium Free public meeting held at Friends of the Earth on 13 March 2019. We hear an overview of the campaign to keep uranium in the ground at four sites in WA and an obituary for Small Modular ReactorsThere’s lots you can do to support the campaign to keep WA uranium free. You can Sign the Uranium Free Charter, Donate to the Yeelirr...

A special edition Radioactive Show this week for International  Women's Day, honoring the women at the forefront of many campaigns to stop the nuclear industry here in this country but also globally.  We dedicate this show to the staunch and solid women around the country and globally who fight hard every day, often some  for decades, often Traditional Owners to stop this toxic nuclear industry. W...