For the Rights, Rorts and Rants International Women's Day show feminist and Blue Mountains Unions & Community member Peter Lammiman chats to Debra Smith about the fascinating origins of IWD. We learn how IWD started in Europe in 1857 and spread to Sydney in 1928 to become an annual celebration of women world-wide.

The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 8 March 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Debra Smith and Peter Lammiman. Podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan 

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Rights, Rorts and Rants' International Women's Day 2024 show included this interview by Debra Smith with Ged Kearney. Ged is with Susan Templeman after a Women's Health Forum held in Katoomba on 6th March which all had attended. Debra Smith asks Ged some questions about Aged Care.

Ged is Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, and former President of the ACTU and the first MP to raise menopause in Parliament. Susan is Member for Macquarie.

Debra's report on the forum is below -

Draft Report on the Forum docx file

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A remarkable project created by APOPO has been running in Cambodia to save lives and prevent the loss of limbs from landmines. APOPO is a Belgian NGO and US non-profit which trains southern giant pouched rats to detect landmines. Because of the rats' work in saving lives they are called HeroRATS.

BMUC members Susan and Peter Lammiman recently visited APOPO in Siem Reap and tell their story to Merran McLaren, a Rights Rorts and Rants Presenter.

Peter mentions an essay by John Pilger called "The long secret alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot" msuweb.montclair.edu

This interview was recorded during BMUC's Rights, Rorts and Rants show on 15 March 2024 on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM.

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Rights, Rorts and Rants presenter Fran Dyson and BMUC member Bruce Cornwell discuss the alarming ramifications for Australia (and other nations) arising from Australia's membership of the AUKUS tripartite military alliance.

In contrast the economic, skills benefits and strategic advantages for the USA, and to a lesser degree the UK, from Australia's membership of the alliance, are discussed.

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 This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 1st March 2024.

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Nick Franklin interviews Julie Favell from the Lithgow Environment Group. Lithgow is still in the firing line for a waste incinerator (as with many other locations across NSW). Whilst the West Lithgow Precinct map was revoked the designated West Lithgow Precinct - Waste to Energy  still remains for Lithgow.  Listeners can sign the ePetition found on the NSW Legislative Assembly webpage parliament.nsw.gov.au and go to Petitioning then ePetitions. The deadline is 9th April.

The interview was first broadcast on RBM 89.1 FM on 1 March 2024 on Rights, Rorts and Rants.

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Rights, Rorts and Rants Presenter Merran McLaren interviews peace activist, union organiser and BMUC member Pat Donohoe about prolonged Sydney activism against the deadly consequences of the ongoing Israel Gaza conflict.

Pat performed two songs about Gaza for listeners live in the studio accompanied by his mandolin.

First heard live on Rights, Rorts and Rants on 23 Feb 2024.

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CONTENT WARNING - Discussion of suicide and troubled families.

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A worker describes the feedback she is getting from First Nations people from La Perouse to Lithgow - and her fears if a Voice to Parliament is rejected.

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This episode was part of an address by Thomas Mayo and Kerry O'Brien, chaired by Dr Lana Leslie at the Hub Theatre in Springwood NSW on 2nd September 2023 where they answered the questions of Blue Mountains residents about the upcoming ⁠Referendum on 14th October 2023⁠.

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A Blue Mountains resident asks, "How do we counter some of the misinformation, for instance, in the Electoral Commission booklet, it (the No campaign case) said, the statement cycle is going to hold up the courts forever". Kerry O'Brien responds.

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This episode was part of an address by Thomas Mayo and Kerry O'Brien, chaired by Dr Lana Leslie at the Hub Theatre in Springwood NSW on 2nd September 2023 where they answered the questions of Blue Mountains residents about the upcoming ⁠Referendum on 14th October 2023⁠.

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Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.

A Blue Mountains resident draws on her own Irish heritage of dispossession and oppression to understand the different perspectives of both First Nations people, and our settler/convict forebears.

She asks, "How can bring some of the cultural survival methods that our First Nations people have used into our...community, which is facing more and more crises, and collapse?"

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This episode was part of an address by Thomas Mayo and Kerry O'Brien, chaired by Dr Lana Leslie at the Hub Theatre in Springwood NSW on 2nd September 2023 where they answered the questions of Blue Mountains residents about the upcoming ⁠Referendum on 14th October 2023⁠.

We acknowledge the support of:

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Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.

A Blue Mountains resident asks if "Yes" vote supporters in the Voice to Parliament referendum have reason for cautious optimism?

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This episode was part of an address by Thomas Mayo and Kerry O'Brien, chaired by Dr Lana Leslie at the Hub Theatre in Springwood NSW on 2nd September 2023 where they answered the questions of Blue Mountains residents about the upcoming ⁠Referendum on 14th October 2023⁠.

We acknowledge the support of:

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Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.

Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.