Doin Time

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody. First up on the show , marisa Interviews Marianne Mackay First nations activist provides updates and much needed commentary on what's happening in Western Australia with youth and bail laws. They discuss incarceration and criminalisation of youth.Next, Marisa crosses over to Queensland to speak with Boe Spearim, podcaster with Frontier War Stories, who has done some excellent radio episodes on first nations content, particularly on Massacres. They discuss Native police, historial context and link it to the present and deaths in custody, and how police brutality has contributed to genocide and colonization.

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time may contain audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody.This special Doin' Time program is a dedication and tribute to the much loved and honourable Uncle Ray Jackson, born 27 March, 1941 and died on April 23 2015. He was a Wiradjuri warrior who dedicated his life to fighting for justice and human rights for Aboriginal people, and much more. Our first Tribute to Ray is Joseph Pugliese longtime activist and much loved guest on Doin Time, and close friend of Uncle Ray Jackson.  We will hear from his loved ones throughout the show.We will also interview Carolyn Jackson daughter of Uncle Ray. She has been a much loved part of the show since 2015 when her father passed away. Ray is missed by Carolyn, and her beautiful family.Lastly, we will bring you an interview with Rob from Monday Breakfast. On Saturday the 26th of April around 450 activists attended a counterprotest in the name of trans liberation. The action was countering the reactionary 'WOMEN WILL SPEAK' rally, organised by TERFs and white nationalists. A similar event held last year by the Women's Action Group, an organisation dedicated to spouting transphobia, was attended by members of the National Socialist Network. A group of trans and queer people, antifascists, and other allies disrupted Saturday's action by making noise and dancing to music in numbers vastly higher than that of the transphobic rally. Police set up a designated area during the day and used these powers to force activists, many of whom are disabled, to remove their masks before searching them with a wand. VicPol later used brutal force against protestors who were chanting about Victoria Police's murder of Somali man Abdifatah Ahmed in Footscray two weeks ago.  Doin' Time spoke to Rob Harrison, a proud non-binary, transgender and queer person, who attended the rally and witnessed the police violence. They are a co-host of the Monday Breakfast show at 3CR Community Radio. I invited Rob on to the show today because Uncle Ray was very committed to fighting police powers, and always stood in solidarity with our trans siblings. Rob gave an eyewitness account of the rally, and the police brutality.

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody. Marisa speaks with  with Travis Lovett, a proud Kerrupmara/Gunditjmara man,Traditional Owner, and Deputy Chair and Commissioner of the Yoorrook Justice Commission, who has spent his life advocating for truth and justice for First Peoples. They discuss The Walk for Truth, Travis will be walking from Portland to Parliament from May 25 to June 18 to bring Victorians together as part of the state's truth-telling process. Travis is passionate about practicing his Culture, working with Community and preserving Aboriginal languages. They also reflect on the fact that the four year Commission will end on 30 June 2025.We also hear speeches by Rathy Barthlote from Refugee Women Action for Visa Equality, and Jasmine Fischer, a member of the Refugee Action Collective (Vic), introduced by Nasser Mashni, President of APAN, from yesterday's Palm Sunday Refugee Rally which was combined with the Palestine rally outside the State Library Victoria in Naarm.

Refugees and supporters rally for justic.First up on this week's Doin Time is an interview with  Associate Professor Dr Hannah McGlade of Curtin University, expert member of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues and complaint author. We speak to her about a complaint which has been submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, with the support of the Human Rights Law Centre.Joining us after that we have David Glanz from the Refugee Action Collective, who will update us about a rally on Saturday in Brunswick to demand that Labor's deportation laws are scrapped and refugees in limbo are given permanent visas.

On this week's Doin Time, Marisa brings us an interview with  Lee Carnie, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Federation of Community Legal Centres. They speak to us about the expansion of draconian police powers impacting marginalised communities.We then hear from Nina from Flat Out, who shared her thoughts on the snap action regarding bail laws, and discussed her lived experience representing women in prison. We also played some audio of her speech from the snap action. Marisa also spoke with David Glanz, who was one of the Rally organizers for the 19 March Rally at Parliament over protest laws. David reported on the events of the rally.

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody.This week's Doin Time features an extended interview with Josephine Langbien, Associate Legal Director from the Human rights Law Centre, regarding brutal new anti-migrant laws rushed through Parliament last year.   Next is an extended interview with Sohini Mehta, Senior Lawyer from the Human Rights Law Centre. She works on First Nations Justice, and we hear from her about The Allan Government's  proposal  to revivive the worst of dangerous and discriminatory bail laws which will harm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and generations of Victorian children by keeping people needlessly locked away in pre-trial detention.

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody.On this week's Doin' Time, Marisa speaks to Denham Sadler of the Liberty Victoria Rights Advocacy Project regarding a new report on reform in police searches.Next, we hear from Coordinator for Justice Action Brett Collins about the International Prisons and Corrections Association conference he just attended in Thailand, as well as about the prospects of computers in cells for prisoners.

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody. On this week's Doin Time, Marisa interviews Ilo DIaz from the Centre Against Racial Profiling regarding sweeping new police powers which will exacerbate racial profiling. Folliowing that interview, we present a recording of the rally against Islamophobia that took places at the office of Andre Giles in Thomastown.

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody.This week's show is a Special Commemoration Broadast honouring Aboriginal Teenager TJ Hickey, who died at the hands of police on 14 February, 2004.First up you will hear from Aunty Dianne and Uncle Coco, who will talk about TJ Hickey and the 2025 rally which happened on 14 February at Waterloo Gree. Aunty and Uncle were both speakers at the rally.In between you will hear coverage from the streets on Invasion Day, interviewing Cheryl from ISJA Melbourne and a number of other rally attendees. A warning: deaths in custody were spoken about at great length on the show. There are graphic descriptions.

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time may contain audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody.First on this week's Doin Time, Marisa spoke to Trinity Ford, President of People With Disability Australia, who spoke about the Queensland Government's Trans Health Ban and what this means for trans and intersex young people with disability. Next, we bring you an interview with David Glanz, one of the organizers of the Anti-Zionist Jewish rally which took place on Sunday, 9 February.After that we hear from Sarah Schwartz, Human Rights Law Centre Legal Director, about  the Albanese Government's mandatory minimum sentences.