The Informer

Today:

COVID-19 update

Cameron Bloomfield from Rainbow Rights and Advocacy on helping people with disabilities during quarantine

Fenella, a trauma therapist on self-care, compassion and breathing. Her page with resources and advice is really helpful.

Part two of my interview with Sophie McNeill about her new book We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know; Dispatches from the Age of Impunity.

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Michael O’Brien, Victorian Opposition leader and Shadow Minister for Small Business talks about support for small businesses – and more.

We speak to Sophie McNeill about her amazing book We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know – Dispatches from the Age of Impunity.

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Today: COVID-19 Update, an update on services from Foodbank Australia (including askizzy), long queues outside Centrelink offices and how the Australian Unemployed Workers Union can help you, and we speak to author Bernard Gallate about his new book The Origin of Me.

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On today’s Informer Daily we speak with Dr Tim Read, an MP and MD. We talk to futurist Mark Pesce about what the future holds, and also how to deal with things today. Fi from Chicks Talking Footy on what the future holds for sport and JOY 94.9’s own Rachel Tyler Jones on how we’re staying on air when we’re all isolated.

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Today: We have a COVID-19 update. We also have a report about what’s going on in schools here in Victoria. We continue our interviews with the Diversity Council of Australia about cultural diversity and LGBTQ+ people. We talk to Bathsheba and Mat from Pride of Our Footscray about how they’re keeping busy when their venues are closed. And advice from Thorne Harbour Health about sex and COVID-19.

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Tonight:

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Tonight we have COVID-19 updates for the LGBTI community. We have updates from the Federal Government, State Government and some specialist advice for people living with HIV. We talk to State Deputy Opposition Leader Georgie Crozier about community responses to the pandemic. What do public utilities do to keep themselves running in an emergency? We talk to a utility in the United States about what they’re doing. And we take a tour of a garden.

To serve our community during the pandemic emergency, we’re experimenting with running The Informer as The Informer Daily, a 30 minute current affairs update. It is available here and on your radio at 6pm Melbourne time each day, Monday through Friday. Your feedback is very welcome: [email protected]

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We spoke with Kunal from Trikone, a Facebook and community group for people from South Asia. It’s part of the Your Voice Matters campaign, which is a partnership between the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Instagram and Facebook. YVM has focused on highlighting the stories of gender expression and our local trans/non-binary community and how Facebook and Instagram can be places of community, safety, and visibility for the LGBTIQA+ community.

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ACON’s work to end HIV and AIDS in Australia has hit a huge milestone. In a new campaign, ACON is congratulating the community – about 78% of all gay men are being tested regularly in NSW and 98% of HIV+ people are on treatment. There’s work to be done still, but the results are promising. We spoke to Matthew Vaughn at ACON in Sydney about their work.

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We spoke with Alanta Colley about her new show On the Origin of Faeces and why poo matters. Something like 2kgs of an adult’s body weight is their gut biome. It’s a major part of who we are and how we feel. But there’s a huge stigma around the gut. Alanta spoke with Informer Executive Producer Arion Potts about the show. And poo.

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