Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Members of the Pacific Climate Warriors Mary Maselina Harm and Guy Ritani joined us to reflect on their campaigning for Pacific climate justice and a fossil fuel free future within and outside of last week's Labor national conference, which was held in Meanjin/Brisbane. Mary is a proud Samoan/Chinese-Fijian born in Canada and raised on Turrbal country, Brisbane, Australia. Passionate about the power of storytelling in creating social change, Mary enjoys working in multidisciplinary spaces, in particular with young people, to co-design initiatives and projects that are of value to them and their communities. Mary serves as the Pacific Climate Warriors' Queensland coordinator. Guy (ia/they/them) is a proud takatāpui Māori artist, climate justice and food systems sovereignty advocate. Guy is passionate about our relationship to country/whenua and the role creativity and storytelling plays in overcoming our climate crisis. You can find out more about the Pacific-led initiative for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty here.// Naomi Hodgson, a founding member of the Rising Tide movement of civil resistance for climate defence, joined us to discuss Rising Tide's campaign - DISRUPTION TO END THE CLIMATE DESTRUCTION. Naomi will talk to us about and promote Rising Tide's climate justice forum to be held next week at Vic Trades Hall, 6pm Wednesday August 30. Naomi will also tell us how the 16 day Rising Tide speaking tour of South Eastern Australia is going and the planned action for early November. You can check out Rising Tide's events calendar here.// Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre and anti-poverty advocate Alex joined us in studio to unpack the Centre's recently-released report 'Punishment for Profit: How private providers became the only winners in Australia's cruel employment services system', which was published with support from GetUp! last week. The report, co-authored by Jay and Kristin O'Connell and incorporating the lived expertise of contributors including Alex, presents a critical analysis of the use of "mutual obligations" in Australia's social security system. Jay and Alex will be speaking about the rationale behind, impacts of and expenditure on employment services providers, as well as the structural changes required to centre the dignity, agency and wellbeing of people living below the poverty line. Head to the Punishment for Profit site to find out more and take the mutual obligations survey.//Australian Services Union member and Brotherhood of St Laurence employee Alex Kakafikas talked to 3CR about the 24-hour industrial action taken by workers against the not-for-profit on Thursday the 14th of August. BSL workers are campaigning to improve their enterprise agreement (workers are unhappy with current pay and reproductive leave entitlements), this is the first time in 93 years that workers at the not-for-profit have taken strike action. BSL  have not been" charitable" with their employees who are 2 or 3 paychecks away from poverty. Support BSL workers' action today at 67 Brunswick Street from 12PM.//

//Acknowledgement of Country////Headlines////We'll hear a segment of the For the Wild podcast, where host Ayana Young is joined by artist and writer James Bridle in a conversation that considers AI and multiple forms of intelligence. Looking at research into forms of intelligence, from artificial to mycelial, James posits that it is a critical failure to use human intelligence as the benchmark for all forms of knowing. James Bridle is an artist, writer and publisher whose work deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one. For The Wild podcast is an anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth and consumerism. Listen back to the full episode with James Bridle here.////We will hear part two of a pre-recorded interview with Meghan Fitzgerald from Fitzroy Legal Service about the coronial inquest into the passing in custody of Veronica Nelson. This weeks episode reflects on the "war on drugs", intersectionality, lived experience and findings from the Muirhead Royal Commission into aboriginal deaths in custody. Please be advised that this interview contains content that you may find distressing. If you wish to speak with someone about any of the issues mentioned in the, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. First Nations listeners can call 13 YARN, that's 13 92 76, for dedicated mob-only support, 24/7.// //Jasmine Duff from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism joins us to talk about an upcoming protest event that CARF is holding to drive the nazis out of so-called Melbourne! A few weeks ago, we had fellow CARF member Amelia on to discuss CARF's planned protest against the National Socialist Network's "white power lifting meet" at the Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine West. Today, Jasmine will recap what went down on the day and talk about the importance of building a more sustained and widespread movement against anti-fascism in Melbourne, as well as tell us a bit about the protest coming up on Saturday the 23rd of September and how listeners can start getting prepared to attend.////Professor Nicholas Davis, Industry Professor of Emerging Technology at the University of Technology Sydney and co-Director of UTS' Human Technology Institute along with Professor Edward Santow, speaks with us about what it means to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in Australia, including the regulatory mechanisms we already have in place that pertain to AI. Earlier this week, Nicholas co-authored a Conversation piece with Edward Santow and Sophie Farthing, head of the Policy Lab at the Human Technology Institute, which provided further insights into the tech sector's backflip on regulation and the issue of enforcing both existing and future regulatory mechanisms in the face of increasingly widespread AI use across various sectors of Australian industry and society. The Human Technology Institute is a new initiative situated at UTS which aims to build Australia's capabilities around the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence.////JR from the Renters and Housing Union joins us to extend the conversations we had on the show during last week's Homelessness Week special, discussing RAHU's campaigns and advocacy work. We'll also get the chance to speak about what yesterday's housing announcements by national cabinet really mean, and touch on some of the negative impacts of property tech used by landlords and the real estate industry.//

Homelessness week phone discussion with community health worker from the cohealth Beau Branch . August 7 - 13 is Homelessness Week in Australia, and to discuss the work of cohealth Central City, a not for profit community health organization dedicated to providing health services to the homeless and marginalized communities we are having a phone conversation with outreach, activities, housing and health worker Beau Branch. Megan Fitzgerald (managing lawyer of strategic litigation) from Fitzroy legal Service on the coronial inquest into the passing of Veronica Nelson in custody. Examining how institutional racism and sexism, colonial systems of (in) justice and the war on drugs, brutally robbed a family, community and culture of a friend, mother and leader. Part one - how the stigma is expressed through the criminal justice system and the impacts this has on marginalized communities. HAAG Ageing in a Housing Crisis Report Launch - part 1 Fiona York, Executive Officer of Housing for the Aged Action Group, and Professor Wendy Stone of Swinburne University to discuss today's launch of the 'Ageing in a Housing Crisis' report at Parliament House in Canberra. The report, commissioned by Housing for the Aged Action Group and co-authored by Wendy along with researchers at Western Sydney University and Curtin University, analyses the housing circumstances of people in Australia aged 55 years and older, based on analysis of 2021 Census data and Homelessness Estimates. You can register to attend today's launch online here, and find out more about the work of Housing for the Aged Action Group here. Don't forget that you can also tune into Housing for the Aged Action Group's show 'Raise the Roof' on 3CR on Wednesdays from 5:30-6PM.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Friday the 14th of July, James McKenzie from In Ya Face spoke with Jacob Thomas, who designs and makes wings with the Rainbow Community Angels. We listen back to their discussion of the wholesome joy of drag children's story time, and the role played by the Angels to keep everyone safe in the face of disrupters. Listen to In Ya Face on 3CR every Friday from 4-5PM.// We'll replay the final episode of the 'Loss, Damage, and Denial' miniseries, in which Jacob Gamble of Earth Matters spoke with Netta Maiava, a young Samoan Pacific Climate Warrior, about the need to centre First Nations perspectives in climate solutions. You can listen back to the full series at www.3cr.org.au/earthmatters, and catch Earth Matters every Sunday from 11-11:30AM.// Content warning: please be advised that this discussion includes mention of experiences of violence against people with disability through the use of restrictive practices. Dr Claire Spivakovsky, senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss the recently released report commissioned by the Disability Royal Commission titled 'Restrictive practices: A pathway to elimination'. The report, co-authored by Claire, University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Linda Steele, and University of Sydney Associate Professor Dinesh Wadiwel, emphasises the urgency of ending the use of forced restraints and restrictive practices against people with disability in the face of their continued and expanding use across multiple sectors. Claire spends much of their time drawing attention to the violent, restrictive and coercive practices that continue to segregate, control and limit the lives of people with disability in the community.If you wish to speak with someone about any of the issues mentioned in this interview, you can always call lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. If you are at risk of domestic, family or sexual violence, please call 1800 RESPECT, that’s 1800 737 732. You can also contact the National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline on 1800 880 052. Further resources and support line details are available on Disability Gateway.// Lara Week, a resident of Techno Park Drive in Williamstown, joins us with an update about the campaign by Techno Park residents to stay in their homes in the wake of eviction notices issued by Hobsons Bay Council, which decided to enforce the area's long-standing industrial zoning in May of this year despite it being used for residential accommodation since the post-WWII era. Residents of Techno Park Drive are holding a rally next Tuesday the 8th of August prior to the next Hobsons Bay Council meeting, and are calling for supporters to meet at Logan Reserve, Altona at 5:30PM with plans to march to the Altona Civic Centre ahead of the Council's 7PM meeting. Find out more about the campaign and how to write to Hobsons Bay Councillors here, and sign their petition here.// Announcements:Attention all social workers! The Australian Association of Social Workers’ EGM is being held today at 4PM AEST. Social workers with lived experience of the criminal punishment system are calling for members to use their votes to remove the discriminatory criminal history clause from the AASW constitution. This clause prohibits membership to people with lived prison experience of over 12 months. Credit to Tina at Sisters Inside for leading the charge on this important motion.//Please sign the Keep Our City Alive petition in support of a medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD.// Songs// Disconnected - Kiwat Kennell// We Dat Good - Inkabee and Flewnt//Rain - JK-47, Jay Orient and Adrian Eagle//

Super Loss for Under 18s, Food Not Bombs Melbourne, CARF Counter-Rally on Saturday, Protecting Transport Gig Workers Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Bernie Dean is the chief executive officer of Industry Super Australia – a marketing and advocacy body that runs collective programs on behalf of some of Australia’s largest profit to member super funds. Industry Super Australia’s objective is to maximise the retirement outcomes of the more than 5 million members of industry super funds. They joined us today to talk about how under 18s who work, are missing out on super contributions that can cost them thousands in the long run.// Chris Rust from Food Not Bombs Melbourne joined Spike earlier this week to talk about food security under the cost of living crisis. Food Not Bombs Melbourne are a grassroots, community-based volunteer food service, with the Melbourne chapter part of the worldwide movement Food Not Bombs movement which is committed to preparing vegan meals for people doing it tough.// Amelia from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism/CARF joined us with a reminder about this coming Saturday's snap rally to protest the far right in Sunshine. This anti-fascist counter-rally has been called in resistance against the National Socialist Network organising a "White Power Lifting Meet" at Sunshine's Legacy Boxing Gym. CARF has asked rally attendees to meet at the Sunshine West IGA car park to stand in solidarity against fascist recruitment and continue to build the movement against the far right.// Michael Kaine, National Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union, spoke with us about the urgent need for labour protections for transport gig workers, including ride-share and food delivery workers. Our conversation today comes in the wake of the tragic road death of another food delivery worker in Sydney over the past weekend, the 12th food delivery driver known to have been killed in Australia since 2017, though numbers are likely underreported. An April 2023 report by the McKell Institute documenting the experiences of over 1,000 transport gig workers in Australia has outlined pressing concerns faced by these workers regarding low pay, unstable working conditions, and workplace hazards - you can read it here. If you are a transport gig worker currently working in Melbourne, you can access the Gig Worker Support Service for support with understanding your rights and resolving workplace disputes.// Songs//White Dog - C.O.F.F.I.N//

Acknowledgement of country// News// Solidarity Brekky Techno Park//First up, we'll hear a conversation from Saturday the 15th of July between Annie McLoughlin of 3CR's Solidarity Breakfast show and Lara Week, a resident at Techno Park Drive Williamstown, who talks about how the Hobson Bay Council sent eviction letters to the residents of Techno Park in May enforcing the estate's industrial zoning despite years of accepting residential use. Lara and Annie discuss this decision, and how the residents are fighting back. You can sign the residents' petition here. Tune in to Solidarity Breakfast on Saturday mornings from 7:30-9AM on 3CR.// Sarah Lord from HRVic's Pharmacotherapy Advocacy Mediation Support (PAMS)//Then we'll hear Spike's interview with Sarah Lord from Harm Reduction Victoria's Pharmacotherapy Advocacy Mediation Support (PAMS) service, where they discuss recent changes to the placement of opiate replacement therapy drugs on the medicare schedule. This is in an effort to help to reduce barriers to prescribing and access – and in the process reduce stigma.// Priya - Gertrude St Projection Festival//For ten nights from July 27 The Gertrude Street Projection Festival offers a confluence of projections from their artists-in-residence, alongside community projects, talks and screenings. This morning, we speak to artist and arts worker Priya Namana, about community, art in civic space, and the thinking behind the festival. Priya is the CEO and artistic director for The Centre for Projection Art, the proud presenter of the Gertrude Street Festival.// Daney Faddoul - Human Rights Law Centre//Daney Faddoul joined the Human Rights Law Centre in March 2020 and focuses on the campaign to create an Australian Charter of Human Rights. Daney previously worked at GetUp where he was a Senior Campaigner and then their Political Director, and before that worked as an Industrial Officer in the trade union movement. He joins us today to talk about the Centre's campaign for an Australian Charter of Human Rights.// Jaanu - DJ & e.merge Agency//Jaanu is a queer Telugu asylum seeker from South India. She currently lives in Naarm and connects to community through youth work and djing her fav Desi tracks with the spice uncompromised. She joins us today to chat about her art, music, and her next event! Gertrude Street projection festival x e.merge agency live set. Thrusday 27th July 5:30-8:30 https://www.gspf.com.au/program-2023 //

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Mere Nailatikau, AM Kanngieser and Eliki Reade, co-creators of the Listening Across Faultlines sound art series, join us to discuss their deep dive into Pacific listening cultures. Bringing the wisdom of Pacific Elders and knowledge holders together with immersive soundscapes, the series centres Pacific cultures’ understanding of the fundamental interdependence between people and ecosystems, and the importance of deep listening to these relations. Mere Nailatikau is a storyteller and independent consultant, working in research, communications and public diplomacy, as well as a current Fulbright scholar at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. AM Kanngieser is a writer, geographer and sound artist who focuses on the connections and relationships between people, places and ecologies. Eliki Reade is an Interdependent Producer and artist of kailoma-Fijian (Fijian/European) heritage with 6 years experience in creative production with a focus on the Community Art and Cultural Development sector.// We listen back to Phuong’s conversation with Daisy, a Narrm based family violence lawyer and queer parent of a newborn who has recently had to navigate the medical maternity system, on the Women on the Line episode 'Your birth, your body: Seeking continuity of care'. Daisy joined Phuong on the 26th of June to share with us her observations on the lack of continuity of care for birthing people; the learning and unlearning that was required to avoid a traumatic birthing experience; and the similarities she noticed between the maternity system and her field of work. Catch Women on the Line on Mondays from 8:30-9AM on 3CR.// We hear the second part of a conversation between Megan Krakouer, Noongar woman and project director at the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project, and Uncle Robbie Thorpe from the 8th of May about community based ways of dealing with trauma, the black excellence of elders, the need for practical opportunities and radical empathy. You can catch Uncle Robbie on Bunjil's Fire, broadcasting on Wednesdays at 11AM.// Tucker Jesse Hayes, 3CR supporter, musician and sound designer extraordinaire, tells us about his musical journey so far and debuts two new music stings!// Songs// Falling - Dean Brady//

Acknowledgement of country// News// 7:15AM - Megan Krakouer//PART 1 ( LOADED into INTERVIEWS) We'll hear the first part of a conversation between Megan Krakouer, Noongar woman and project director at the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project, and Uncle Robbie Thorpe from the 8th of May about community-based ways of dealing with trauma and looking after young people. You can catch Uncle Robbie on 3CR Wednesdays at 11AM on Bunjil's Fire.// 7:30AM - Greg Jericho//Next up, we will hear Leila's interview with Greg Jericho, who is the Policy Director, Labour Market and Fiscal for the Centre for Future Work and a Guardian columnist. Today Greg will be discussing the findings from the OECD’s latest report into what’s driving inflation in so-called Australia.// 7:45AM - Beyond the Bars//3CR First Nations Programmers are LIVE from Victorian prisons all this week for Beyond The Bars - Connecting First Nations people with families and community during NAIDOC (see www.3cr.org.au/beyondthebars2023). This morning we bring you a clip from 3CR's Beyond the Bars broadcast yesterday from Fulham Prison. Where First Nations people who have been criminalised talk about family, connection, and arts practise. Tune into Beyond the Bars, broadcasting all of NAIDOC this week.//TW/CW: If any of the content from this broadcast is distressing, feel free to contact 13 YARN for mob only support, and Lifeline on 13 11 14.//  8:00AM - Renuga Inpakumar from Tamil Refugee Council//Then we'll hear from Renuga Inpakumar from the Tamil Refugee Council, who is a young Eelam Tamil activist and Law/Arts student with a long history of organising to amplify Eelam Tamil issues. She will be speaking to us about the fight to stop the deportation of Dixtan Arulban and granting him a permanent visa.//TW/CW: This interview will likely involve brief discussions of sexual violence, racial violence, and genocide. If you feel that this interview will be distressing for you to listen to at the moment, feel free to join us again in about 15 minutes. You can also contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 and 1800RESPECT for further support, as well as Foundation House //  Songs:Sunsets - Kee'Ahn//Spring to Life - Tia Gostelow//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear a conversation between team members of the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch initiative discussing the recently-released 2022 Tree Cover Loss data, and how last year's data set fits into concerning global trends in forest loss. Global Forest Watch Communications Manager Kaitlyn Thayer kindly interviewed director Mikaela Weisse and senior GIS research manager Elizabeth Goldman on my behalf, discussing how the data is obtained by the University of Maryland and analysed by experts at Global Forest Watch, and how it relates to issues of global and national governance and climate change.// Spike Chiappalone speaks about the Need To Know zine and website, a regularly updated and peer developed resource for people experiencing homelessness or doing it tough in Melbourne's CBD. Spike was a peer outreach worker Melbourne homeless health service, is a co-founder of the Homeless Persons’ Union, and until very recently facilitated the collective of folks with current or past lived experience of homelessness who put together Need To Know at Kathleen Syme library in Carlton.// Kristin O'Connell, research and policy expert at the Antipoverty Centre, discusses the convergence between Australia's cost of living and rental crises for people living below the poverty line. Kristin is in town this week for the Ecosocialism 2023 conference at Trades Hall, where she'll be speaking on the Housing as a Human Right panel on Saturday the 1st of July at 4PM. Check out the rest of the conference program and register here.//

3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.// ​News headlines// ​We hear some speeches from the ​​Accessible Tram Stops for ALL rally held on 17th June to launch the campaign to win accessible tramstops on Sydney Road, before proposed rail upgrades remove 8 level crossings in Brunswick. First up, we'll hear Monica Harte (Merri-Bek Councillor), who spoke about the history of transport campaigns in so-called Melbourne from 1980 (including Upfield line closures) and honoured disability activists no longer with us today. We will also hear Elyse Cunningham from the FOE Sustainable Cities Campaign, who shared campaign information and the importance of putting pressure on government since “only 15% of tram network is accessible to wheelchair users.” Crossing removal is planned to for around 2 years time, resulting in closures to the Upfield line and adjoining bike path for around 18 months, leaving older people, people with disability, and many other community members with no access to the city of Merri-Bek, likely to lose work, and become further isolated from society. Currently there are no accessible tram stops between Park Street (Brunswick) and Bakers Road (North Coburg, end-of-the-line) on the Route 19 tram. Approx 200-300 people attended the rally, including music from the the Riffraff Radical Marching Band, stopping traffic and trams at the corner of Brunswick Town Hall.​//​ Angelica Ojinnaka is a youth development advocate, researcher, and speaker. She served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, as well being involved in a number of projects and organisations. You can typically find her speaking, facilitating, or shaping change on social inequalities experienced by children and young people, mental health, youth civic and economic participation, and cultural rights on national and global forums. She joins us today to chat about the importance of investing in authentic youth voices, youth participation in mental health sectors, and advocacy.// Then we are joined by ​​Ruth Nyaruot Ruach and Idil Ali. Ruth is the Future Reset Project Producer at Footscray Community Arts & creative producer at Next in Colour. She’s multidisciplinary artist, cultural curator and community arts worker. Nyaruot uses art to understand herself, explore elements of her surroundings, heal, liberate herself and validate her blackness. And Idil is a proud Somali woman raised by the East African community in the Carlton flats. A settler on unceded Wurundjeri land, Idil embeds her belief in freedom, sovereignty and resistance into her work as a creative, youth practitioner and community organiser. You can find out more about the event this Sat 24th of June 1pm - 3pm at NGV Ian Potter Centre Free Entry - https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/ancestral-words/​// ​​Professors Judith Bessant and Rob Watts, both based at RMIT University's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, join us to discuss the youth-led Make It 16 campaign to lower the voting age in Australia, which launched on the 13th of June at Parliament House in Canberra. Drawing on their research into young peoples' political participation, Judith and Rob will unpack why expanding voting eligibility is not just important but increasingly in line with young peoples' appetites for political engagement. Judith Bessant writes in the fields of sociology, politics, youth studies, policy, media-technology studies and history. She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for 'Significant service to education as a social scientist, advocate and academic specialising in youth studies research'. She also provides advise to government and non- government organizations. Rob Watts teaches policy studies, politics, the history of ideas, and applied human rights at RMIT University. He is a founding member of the Greens Party in Victoria, a founding editor of the journal Just Policy (1994-2006) and established the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University in 2008.​//​ ​Event: This Friday June 23, ​​Oral History Victoria is hosting a symposium themed “Oral History Across and within Communities”. The event coincides with Refugee Week and is open to all members of the community interested in hearing about the way life stories are collected, preserved and experienced.​//​  The guest speakers are: Dr Andre Dao, from the ground-breaking Behind the Wire oral history project which recorded the first-hand experiences of people detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia. These human stories became an award-winning podcast, The Messenger. He’ll be joined by Dr Jordana Silverstein, co-author of the recently released impact report, Getting My Dignity Back. She’ll be talking about -just how meaningful and validating it can be, to share one’s story and create an oral history. Our fellow Breakfast presenter - Claudia Craig - will also be making an appearance at the Symposium! Claudia will be talking about the role of community radio in creating and sharing the oral histories of diverse communities.​//​The Symposium is on this Friday 23rd June, 9.45am-2pm, at Museo Italiano, 199 Faraday Street Carlton. It’s a hybrid event so you can join online if you can’t make it in person.​//​ To register head to: humantix  OR go to the events page on the Oral History Victoria website – www.oralhistoryvictoria.org.au​. ​Bookings close TODAY at 5pm so get in quick!​//​​​ Songs ​Leaving the Light - Genesis​ Owusu​Ocean Friends - Ellatronix ​