Solidarity Breakfast

Abdul & Jose: We hear from Luigi Acquisto co-director of Abdul & Jose, a film about children taken to Indonesia from Timor Leste during the occupation.Raising the Pension Age: We hear from Todd Morris, Melbourne University Phd student, who has investigated the effects of raising the pension age for women.Australian Unemployed Workers Union Campaign Day: the AUWU members came together to discuss the campaign against the attacks on Social Security by the LNP Federal Government. We hear from two speakers Lisa Newman (CPSU) & Father Bob "a tribal Catholic".

Women's Rights At Work (WRAW) events leading up to Iternational Working Women's Day on March 8thDon Sutherland just back from Cuba talks Cuba and the National Wage CaseHumphrey McQueen talks Historical Materialism v Philosophical Idealism - yes you heard!

The Apple in Fed Square Grows Roots - John Tribe (CEO Fed Square) why they want Apple followed by the President of Citizens for Melbourne Tania Davidge why we don't.Fair Go For Pensioners' Lew Wheeler talks about the fight back against the Victorian Public Housing Renewal Plan. Demo March 2 11am Martin Foley's Office 54 Rouse St Port Melb This is the Week that wasWhat cutting Foreign Aid Means. Alice Quinn just back from volunteering in Cambodia gives a first hand view of what happens when foreign aid dries up.

Apple Building for Fed Square? We talk to Citizens for Melbourne Action Group.Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) National Day of Action against dracoian Welfare Reform Bill in Senate at moment - exerptsStephen Jolley talks about the Left coalition working towards getting a Socialist into Victorian Parliament in the November election.This is the Week that Was - Kevin HealyDon Sutherland talks about what faces workers in a system that needs rebalancing.

1st Half hour: Tony Nicholson gives an idea where the $45 mill will go to combat homelessness in Victoria                     Ascot Vale Public Housing Residents take a letter to the Minister saying they won't go.2nd Half hour: Friends of Public Housing report on meeting Federal Senators investigating public housing 3rd Half Hour: National Day of action called by the Ausralian Unemployed Workers Union

1st half hour - Grassroots USA a report from Vince Emmanuel2nd half hour - Anna Bourzourkas Setting Sun Film Festival director talks about the festival that brings the celebrates the Western Suburbs in film                       - Chris Smyth from Victorian National Parks warns that the report from the Vic Government that will allow up to 250 Race Horses on the Beach between Port Fairy & Warrnambool for training is                           the  start of a massive assault on public spaces and environmental heritage.3rd half hour - Socialist Historian Humphrey McQueen talks about the checked passed of Australia Day.

1st 1/2 hour:  Human Rights Day Rally - we take you on-the-ground to Melbourne's Human Rights Rally 10/12/172nd 1/2 hour: Public Housing - Jeff Fielder from Fair Go For Pensioners (FGFP) & Housing for Aged Action Group (HAAG) talks about the rise in homelessness, housing affordability & solutions.3rd 1/2 hour: Save Vic Market - Phil Cleary calls people to a rally & possible community picket to defend Vic Market from City Council development plans many say exclude traders & community aspirations.                       Web Dock Win - Will Tracey, Assistant Secretary of the MUA, thanks the community for its support as their delegate is reinstated at Web Dock.

1st Half Hour:   Can We Afford to Bring Them Here?  New International Bookshop & Search Foundation Forum Series: Lucy Horan (Teachers For Refugees & RAC) & Julian Burnside QC.On the Steps of Vic Parliament to celebrate Lidia Thorpe's first speech - the first indiginous women in Vic Parliament.2nd Half Hour: Fascist & the Fight Back What happened Mon 6 in Melb? Debbie Brennan from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism was there.This is the Week that Was with Kevin Healy3rd Half Hour: Don Sutherland and I chat about the industrial landscape with reference to High Court Decision to make taking protected action a 'privilege'.

1st half hour: The Police Problem - on the streets outside Flinders Street in the centre of Melbourne Dec 26, 2017 Special Operations police barred the way of peaceful refugee activists after a violent altercation at Friday's  rally in city. We talk to refugee rallyists on the street on the police response.We talk to the Laywer from Melbourne Activists Legal Support (MALS) who went to the watch house after the Friday rally.2nd Half HourWe speak with Anne Moon for a look at Manus and what is happening for the men there.This is the Week that Was3rd Half HourDr Noah Bassil's end for year summation.

1st half hour: Don Sutherland talks about the Streets victory 2nd half hour: Environment Rally on steps of Victoria Parliament on Nov 1 to celebrate victories and the game plan for 2018                       This is the Week That Was3rd half hour: Humphrey McQueen Christmas round up.