Angus McFarland, Secretary of the NSW/ACT branch of the Australian Services Union talks to Deb Smith about the Skilled, Respected and Equal campaign to improve the SCHADS (Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services) Award for workers in the community sector.

Scan the QR code to find out about community events in support of these important workers, including one on Friday 8th November at 11:30am in the Katoomba Civic Centre, 81-83 Katoomba St, Katoomba.

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On Survival Day 2024 at North Katoomba's Bureau Park those attending were privileged to visit the Kinchela Boys Home Mobile Education Centre run by the Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) and attended by Terry Grimes and his son. Rights, Rorts and Rants spoke to Uncle Terry Grimes and recorded this interview with him about his experiences at KBH after being kidnapped by the Aboriginal Protection Board and taken there as a 9 year old in 1963.

Terry's story is difficult to hear but it is important for listeners to know the truth of what happened to him, his family and the other 700 boys who passed through KBH.

You can learn more about the KBKAC by going to https://kinchelaboyshome.org.au

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The interview was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 26 January, 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Fran Dyson. The podcast was produced by Ann-Maree McEwan. 

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This is the Q & A session of War & Peace a community conversation, held at Lawson Mechanics Institute, NSW on 13 September 2024.

War & Peace was organised by Blue Mountains Peace Collective.

The Q & A was broadcast on Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 27 September 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Debra Smith. The podcast was produced by Ann-Maree McEwan. 

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BMUC's Ann-Maree McEwan and presenter Merran Maclaren discuss the upcoming launch of the Airwatch project where 20 Air monitors have been installed throughout the Greater Blue Mountains region.

You can book a free ticket to the launch here.

BMUC's community Airwatch campaign is covered. Ann-Maree explains some of the science of how the monitors work. From the launch onwards BMUC wants everyone to access air quality using these monitors by searching the Purpleair map at map.purpleair.com and looking for your nearest location.

The interview illustrates the importance of a campaign that involved the whole community, unions and state and local government, environmental scientists, Planetary Health Initiative, Lithgow Environment Group and the 20 participants who agreed to instal a PurpleAir monitor, and succeeded after 7 years. An example of how many worthwhile campaigns usually take a long time to come to fruition.

The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 20 September 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Merran Maclaren. The podcast was produced by Ann-Maree McEwan. 

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While the topic of Dr Vince Scappatura's speech at War & Peace Community Conversation was Aukus: The US lobby and Australian Defence policy, Dr Scappatura also concentrated on the implications of the increasing rotations of US strategic bombers on military bases in Australia, and for the first time the possibility of nuclear combat operations launching from Australian soil.

Dr Scappatura spoke at War & Peace at the Mechanics Institute in Lawson, NSW on Sunday 15 September 2024. 

War & Peace was presented by the Blue Mountains Peace Collective www.blue-mountains-peace-collective.net

It was recorded and podcasted by Blue Mountains Unions and Community (BMUC). 

Dr Vince Scappatura is an academic and author. He works in the field of International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney NSW. 

Arms control since the 1990s : Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Daryl Le Cornu spoke at War & Peace a community conversation at Lawson Mechanics Institute Lawson NSW on Sunday 15 September 2024.

Daryl Le Cornu is a history and legal studies educator in secondary and tertiary settings. He is a board member of ICAN. ICAN is a coalition of organisations inmate than 100 countries promoting implementation of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

He actively campaigns for Australia to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Australia and Singapore are the only countries in the Asia Pacific who have not signed. A powerful statement form Daryl's speech is that a nuclear war can never be won and should never be fought.

War & peace a community conversation was presented by Blue Mountains Peace Collective. www.blue-mountains-peace-collective.net

Speeches were recorded and podcasted by Blue Mountains Unions and Community.

Promoting a culture of peace - peace is union business

Kelly Marks gave this speech at War & Peace a community conversation held at Lawson Mechanics Institute in Lawson, NSW on 15 September 2024.

Kelly Marks is teacher and research officer with the NSW Teachers Federation and a member of Union Aid Abroad APHEDA.

War & Peace was presented by Blue Mountains Peace Collective. www.blue-mountains-peace-collective.net

The podcast was made by Blue Mountains Unions and Community.

Having just landed in Sydney from the UK for a holiday in Australia, Savita Sathe kindly came on Rights, Rorts and Rants. Savita articulately provided listeners with background from her perspective on what is happening in Middlesbrough and the UK more generally.

Savita talks about the recent UK elections, political vacuums, Local Councils in deficit, the reasons behind recent riots around Middlesbrough and what positives have come from the riots' aftermath.

The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 13 September 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Fran Dyson. The podcast was produced by Ann-Maree McEwan.  

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On the 13 Sept 2024 Rights, Rorts and Rants show presenter Fran Dyson asked Bruce Cornwall for some background on the Disrupt Land Forces anti-war protests in Melbourne across the three days of the Land Forces Expo from 13-15 Sept.

The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 13 September 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Fran Dyson. The podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan.

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CFMEU update. On 13 September 2024 Fran Dyson and Bruce Cornwall discussed what's been happening for CFMEU officers and members on Rights, Rorts and Rants brought to you by Blue Mountains Unions and Community.

This is a follow up to Bruce's earlier chat about the CFMEU Ranting About CFMEU Allegations.

Hear the podcast - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/rKs4pcsuVMb

The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 13 September 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Fran Dyson. The podcast was produced by Ann-Maree McEwan.

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