Thursday Breakfast

Dirt Radio & Cam Walker on Environmental issues for the Victorian State Election, Critical Mass bike ride with Annie McLoughlin & Faith Hunter, Witt Gorrie with updates from Beyond Bricks & Bars, Robodebt Royal Commission, Logging of Old Growth Forest with Tuffy Morwitzer.// Acknowledgement of Country// ​Headlines//​ Dirt Radio​ ​brings us the latest on Environmental issues for the Victorian State Election. Sam and Jack speak to Cam Walker about gas extraction in Victoria and the protection of the Greater Glider in Victorian state forests. You can hear the full episode at www.3cr.org.au/dirtradio​// Faith Hunter joined Annie to talk about the Critical Mass Bike ride to be held on Nov 18 starting at 5pm at the State Library (or join at 5.30pm at Avenue Reserve, Royal Pde leading in to Sydney Rd ride for better bike lanes and bike facilities.)//  Witt Gorrie provides us with updates from the Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans Gender Diverse Decarceration Project, which is continuing to fundraise to support vital work with trans and gender diverse people impacted by the criminal punishment system, and to speak about the Project's plans for 2023 and beyond. Witt is a white trans social worker who has worked alongside communities impacted by criminalisation and incarceration for the past decade. They have been building Beyond Bricks & Bars over the past 3 years, providing direct support to trans and gender diverse people incarcerated, at risk of incarceration and those re-establishing life after prison.//Welfare advocate and activist Thomas Studans speaks with us about the Robodebt Royal Commission, which wrapped up its first block of hearings at the end of last week. The Royal Commission is investigating serious concerns about the establishment and legality of this devastating program of automated debt recovery. Thomas is a JobSeeker recipient and a member of the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union.// Tuffy Morwitzer from Goongerah Environment Centre joins us to discuss recent revelations that the Victorian state forestry agency, VicForests, has been logging areas of old-growth native forest despite a 2019 promise from Premier Daniel Andrews that such forest areas would be protected. Goongerah Environment Centre has been fighting to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993.//  Songs//  Flex by Komang//Roadtrain by The Pigram Brothers​//​

Dirt Radio & Jupiter McIntire on Uranium in Drinking Water in the ​NT, Natalie Feliks talks advocacy and Trans Fiction, ​Lilly Ryan on biometrics, privacy and recent cyber attacks and cartoonist Tommi Parish on their sophomore graphic novel 'MEN I TRUST'. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// ​Jack and Sam from 3CR's Dirt Radio talked to Jupiter McIntire about her new report - Northern Waters: Uranium in Drinking Water in the Northern Territory last Tuesday the 25th of October. The report, due to be released later this week, looks at the heightened levels of Uranium in the drinking water of remote communities in the NT, the detrimental health effects and social issues that are driven by careless Uranium mining in the territory. Keep your eyes peeled for the report through to be published with FoE Melbourne and find out how you can get involved spreading the word of this very pressing issue in the NT. Catch Dirt Radio from 9:30-10AM on Tuesdays here on 3CR Community Radio.​// ​Natalie Feliks is a writer, feminist and activist, who has published both fiction and non-fiction work. These days, Natalie has a focus on bringing empowerment to queer and disabled people through advocacy and representation. Today Natalie joins us to talk all things trans-fiction, coping with rejection, staying motivated and what inspires her writing practice​. ​You can find Natalie's latest non-fiction article on trans women in sport here.​// ​Lilly Ryan is a software security consultant and board member of Digital Rights Watch. She joins us today to discuss what the recent cyberattack and data breaches on Optus and Medibank mean for legislation, privacy, and the department of home affairs proposed strategy to prevent this through biometrics.​//​We are joined by cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor Tommi Parrish to discuss their breathtaking sophomore graphic novel MEN I TRUST. Tommi is based in Montreal. Their previous work, The Lie And How We Told It, was nominated for the Ignatz awards and won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Graphic Novel. MEN I TRUST is out this month with Scribe, available online and in all good bookstores.​//​​Songs// ​Black Child - Birdz, Mo'Ju​//

L​ily Ryan on cyber security and personal protection in the digital world​, Hoang Tran Nguyen & Sebastian Henry-Jones on 'House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue' and Simon Robinson from design and research practice OFFICE.// Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// ​Lilly Ryan is a software security consultant and board member of Digital Rights Watch. Last week we heard from Lilly Ryan about cyberattacks, reform, and biometrics. Today she joins us again to speak about cybersecurity and personal protection in the digital world!​//​​​Hoang Tran Nguyen is an artist working in social practice to address overlapping cultural histories, politics of place and the role of the art-worker.​ ​Sebastian Henry-Jones is a curator and writer led by an interest in DIY thinking; whose practice is informed by striving for a personal ethics with sincerity, generosity, honest communication and learning at its core. Today, Seb and Hoang join us to explore the context that has informed the project ‘house of mother tongue, house of other tongue’, currently showing across and in-between ​Footscray Community Arts and ​West Space. You can find details for the Vietspeak Symposium here.​​//​Simon Robinson, architect and a managing director of the not-for-profit design and research practice OFFICE, joins us today to discuss OFFICE's 'https://www.office.org.au/project/retain-repair-reinvest/' project. This ongoing project has involved developing proposals for public housing refurbishment and retention as an alternative to the Victorian Government's Big Housing Build plans to demolish and rebuild these estates.//  Songs// Big Girls - Pricie​​​//Ezinna - B wise, Sampa the Great, Milan Ring//Smile - IZY// ​Where are you from? - Naavikaran//​By the Moon - Punko//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Saw Lwin Oo currently serves as President for the Australian Karen Organisation (AKO), which was established in 1996 and seeks to serve the social and political concerns of the Karen community in Australia. AKO held their first national conference in Sydney in 1998. Today Saw Lwin Oo joins us to discuss their work for the AKO, recent events in Myanmar and the demands of the Myanmar community in response to inaction from the Australian government following the reimposition of the military junta in February last year.// We hear a two-part conversation between Bunjilinee (Robbie Thorpe) and his nephew Alister, who caught up to discuss the Victorian treaty process and its issues on Wednesday the 26th of October during Bunjil's Fire on 3CR. You can listen back to the full 50-minute discussion here - the audio will be available on demand until next Wednesday the 2nd of November. Tune in to Bunjil's Fire at 11AM every Wednesday on 3CR. More information about the Victorian treaty process is available here, as well as on the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s website.// Steven Caruana, coordinator of the Australia OPCAT Network, joins us to discuss serious concerns about Australia's breach of its obligations as a party of the United Nations' Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. The Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture or SPT visited Australia earlier this month but was forced to suspend its visit early due to a lack of cooperation and obstructions to carrying out its mandate, noting particular difficulties with the Queensland and New South Wales state governments. Steven mentioned a range of resources listeners can access for further information, including the OPCAT section of the AHRC website, the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s  OPCAT page, an article Steven co-authored with Associate Professor Laura Grenfell titled ‘Are we OPCAT ready? So far, bare bones’, and Steven’s Churchill Fellowship report on best practice inspection methodologies for bodies tasked with overseeing the implementation of OPCAT.// Songs// Black Lives Matter - Birdz// R.I.P. - JK-47 ft. JON DO£ and Jarulah// Come Back - Barkaa ft. Mi-kaisha// Diyama - Ripple Effect Band//LOVE TOO SOON - Tasman Keith//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On the 25th of September, James Whitmore from 3CR's Out Of The Blue show caught up with marine biologist Thay Barrros to discuss how megafires threaten estuarine and coastal ecosystems. You can catch Out of The Blue every Sunday on 3CR from 11:30AM-12PM.// Joshua Badge joined us to speak about the No Police at Pride: LGBTQ Community Forum, which will be held next Thursday the 27th of October at Harehole in Fitzroy. The forum aims to progress the conversation about the conflicted relationship between Victoria Police and the LGBTQ community and explore concerns about police participation in Pride. Joshua is a writer and scholar living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, working freelance in the LGBTQ health sector and pro-bono in public health policy.// Cody Smith is a Canberra based intersex educator, activist and current Senior Projects Officer at Intersex Human Rights Australia. Cody joined us to commemorate Intersex Awareness Day, which falls on this coming Wednesday the 26th of October. October 26th marks the anniversary of the first public demonstrations by intersex people in Boston USA. Today Cody spoke with us about their work for IHRA, unpacking the range of meanings within the intersex label, and why intersex awareness day is important everyday! Find out more about and affirm the Darlington Statement for intersex human rights here.// Footscray local historian Liz Crash spoke with us about urban planning and the unequal impacts of climate change on the Maribyrnong flood plain in the wake of last week's flooding events, which left homes in suburbs including Maribyrnong and Flemington inundated while the Flemington racetrack stayed conspicuously dry.// Songs//Down Under (Under One Sun) - King Stingray//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Dr Dale Tweedie and David Wild of Macquarie University join us to talk about the sinister growth of "bossware" or workplace surveillance technologies allowing your manager to keep tabs on what you're up to on the computer. They'll speak with us about the rationale behind its development and application and how bossware impacts worker performance. Dale and David recently published an article in The Conversation about bossware- you can read it here.// Miss Cairo is a cabaret and burlesque superstar, conceived in Egypt, born in the UK and blossomed on Wurundjeri country. Her career has taken her around the world exploring many avenues in creative fields. Miss Cairo mixes burlesque, live vocals, comedy and activism to smash stereotypes, while entertaining the masses. She joins us today to speak about her fantastical cabaret show for Fringe Festival called Breasts Become Her. Miss Cairo is giving away TWO FREE TICKETS to the show's premier on Saturday the 15th of October at 10:30pm to the first 3CR subscriber to call (03) 9419 8377 this morning!// Nerita Waight is a proud Yorta Yorta woman with connections to the Ngarrindjeri and Taungurung people, and the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS). She joins us today to speak on the joint letter from VALS, the Police Accountability Project, community legal centres and Aboriginal organisations that are calling on Daniel Andrews to overhaul the state’s failed police oversight system by introducing a Police Ombudsman.// Dr Michelle Blewitt is the program director of AUSMAP, the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project. She joins us today to talk about mapping levels of microplastic pollution in Australia's aquatic environments with the help of citizen scientists, and the importance of this work as part of finding solutions to address the growing problem of plastic pollution in our waterways.// Songs// Hoodie Girl - June Jones// GUAP POP - Agung Mango ft. Genesis Owusu//Flick - Pookie//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Mere Tuilau spoke about self-determination and the Pacific Global Youth Movement pursuing the full UN Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ban as part of the Reverse The Trend Pacific event hosted to mark the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Pacific youth continue to raise their voices against the twin existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change that threaten the Pacific region and the entire world.// SUWA Show's Iain McIntyre takes a look at arms fairs in Australia and the local history of community resistance against these events. Iain has written extensively on this topic in the book Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life: The AIDEX ’91 Story, which gives a detailed account of the November 1991 protest where over 1000 protesters blockaded the National Exhibition Centre in Canberra for 12 days with the aim of shutting down the Australia International Defence Exhibition.// We are joined by Matt Kunkel, CEO of the Migrant Workers Centre, who speaks on the Centre's new report ‘Waiting to Be Seen: Problems of Australia’s Visa Processing Delays’. The report shows that Australia’s migration system has denied tens of thousands of people the stability and certainty to build their lives, with unacceptably high numbers of onshore visa applicants, some of whom have waited as long as three years for the outcome of their applications.// We call in for live updates from Disrupt Land Forces 2022, an anti-militarist week of protest against Land Forces, which is the largest land-based weapons expo in the southern hemisphere. Disrupt Land Forces is running from 1-7 October, creatively disrupting the military industrial complex and fighting back against weapons manufacturers including Thales, Elbit, Rheinmetall, Electro Optic Systems Australia, Boeing and NIOA. Keep up to date by following along on Facebook, Instagram or via Disrupt Land Forces’ website. Find out more about and get involved in anti-war organising by visiting Wage Peace. During the chat, Zelda mentioned Uncle Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves’ staunch resistance at NIOA headquarters during DLF22, bringing the call for an indefinite police ceasefire to the arms manufacturers supplying Australian police. Find out more about the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign here.// Iranian-Australian photo media artist and costume designer Ramak Bamzar joins us today to share her experience of growing up in Iran, Mahsa Amini's recent death, the ensuing fight for freedom led by women and how creative practice has helped her tell the stories that need to be told. Ramak’s work explores the connection between the male gaze and beauty standards in Middle Eastern pop culture. Through staged photography, she delves into her vulnerabilities, memories, and anxieties to explore the formation and development of female identity under religious dogma and traditional values.// Songs//Better Days - Airwolf Remix - Baker Boy, Dallas Woods, Sampa the Great//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear Izzy Brown speaking at the Naarm Truth Not War rally which was held outside the State Library on Sunday the 18th of September, United Nations International Peace Day. The Truth Not War rally was organised by a coalition of peace and social justice activists including Melbourne 4 Assange, PEN Melbourne, Anti AUKUS Vic and Extinction Rebellion VIC and AUS. Our thanks to Michaela for recording this audio. Since her teens, Zelda Grimshaw has been a grassroots activist for earth rights, human rights and is now a co-organiser of Disrupt Land Forces. Disrupt Land Forces is a project forged between October 2020 and June 2021 to resist the weapons industry and ongoing militarisation in so-called Australia. As part of 3CR’s daily coverage of anti-militarisation efforts this week, Zelda joins us to speak about Disrupt Land Forces' upcoming action responding to the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere, which will be held in Meanjin-Brisbane this October. Today we will be discussing the intersectional relationships between patriarchy, colonialism and militarised harm and the ways that nonviolence and radical respect can strengthen our resistance. Links to additional resources mentioned are here: Michael West News, Declassified Australia, Wage Peace. Donate to Disrupt Land Forces here. We are joined by Dr Ruth DeSouza, a health researcher, clinician, nursing educator at RMIT university and podcast creator of Birthing & Justice. She has professional expertise in diverse areas from cultural safety, maternity, migration, tech, social inclusion and mental health and much more. She joins us today to speak on research co-authored with Dr Sukhmani Khorana and PHD candidate Bhavya Chitranshi, about the experiences of six cisgender South Asian-Australian women who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Gary Foley joins us to speak about the upcoming national cinema release of the fully restored documentary NINGLA-A'NA. NINGLA-A'NA is the inside story of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, which celebrated its 50th year of continued occupation and resistance this year. The documentary is the only film shot inside the Embassy, up close and personal with the people who established it. The film will screen at Cinema Nova in Carlton this coming Friday 30th September, Saturday 1st October and Sunday 2nd October (details here). There will be special panels on Friday with Professor Gary Foley, Lidia Thorpe and Tony Birch, and on Sunday with Professor Gary Foley, Rulla Kelly Mansell and Rachel Maza. During today’s show, we mentioned a rally that will be happening today at Federation Square from 6-7;30PM Naarm/Melbourne to show solidarity with the people of Iran in the wake of 22 year old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody. The country is currently under an internet blackout after over a week of demonstrations against Amini’s death, and the death toll at these protests continues to rise. Find out more information about today’s rally here.// Songs:You, Me & The Sky - Big Sand and Tia Gostelow// Doin it different - Arona Mane, Shantan Wantan Ichiban and Dancingwater//Sweet Disposition - Budjerah, Ngaiire and Gretta Ray//

7:00 - Acknowledgement of Country// 7:05 - News// 7:30 - Franky for Liminal//Franky joins us in the studio to speak about Liminal1312! This very special interview touches on what community dance spaces look like and what pleasure means. And to invite people to the Queen's Birthday Hallelujah this Saturday 24/09/22 from 8 pm.// 8:00 - Tarneen Onus Williams for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance//Tarneen Onus Williams is a proud Gunditjmara, Bindal, Yorta Yorta person and Torres Strait Islander from Mer and Erub islands, as well as an organiser with Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance. They join us to discuss why we need to abolish the monarchy in the lead-up to today's rally, which will begin at Birrarung Marr at 1:30PM with a planned march to Parliament House. Event details for the rally are available here. You can find details here for this morning's Ngarra Jarra Noun healing ceremony, which will be held by Djirri Djirri and begins at 11AM at Birrarung Marr (live stream available).// Music//Indigenous Land - Drmngnow, River Boy// Finesse ft Pheelz, BNXN, PANIA, Kedus// Ezinna - B Wise, Sampa the Great, Milan Ring// Milkumana - King Stingray// Susie Q - DOBBY, Jackie Brown Jr// The Shake Up - Dameeeela, Tjaka// Minimale Fatale - Salaam Radio Show Remix// Glow - Jessica Maubouy// Sista Girl - Oetha// Made for Silence - Miiesha//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7:15 - Lorraine Finlay// Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay joins us to discuss Australia’s lack of progress on its obligations as a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. This conversation follows a national symposium on OPCAT last week, which brought together human rights experts to discuss key areas of concern in the lead up to a visit from the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to Australia planned for late 2022.//  ​7:30 - Andy Hall//Andy Hall, Migrant Worker Rights Specialist and Journalist, on the case being brought in the US against Ansell subsidiary in relation to forced labour in Malaysia. Andy spoke with Jiselle from Asia Pacific Currents with an update of the case - APC - News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Saturdays from 9am. // 7:45 - Maree McCabe//Maree McCabe AM is the CEO of Dementia Australia and a member of the organisation’s Board. A recognised leader in the health and aged care sector Maree brings more than twenty years’ experience across the health, mental health and aged care sectors to her current role. She joins us today in the lead up to Dementia Action Week 2022 (Monday 19 September to Sunday 25 September), to speak on this year's theme ‘A little support makes a big difference’.// 8:15 - Texta Queen//Texta Queen is queer, disabled, non-binary Goan Indian second-generation settler, living on Wurundjeri land, known for using the humble fibre-tip marker to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and identity. They examine existence and empowerment in dis/connection to our own and others’ ancestral lands, investigating these themes via photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, video, performance, self-publishing, curating, music, writing and murals. Today, Texta joins us to speak about their creative practice, the monarchy, as well as their project in the works 'TheySwarm' and upcoming exhibitions. Instagram: @textaqueen. Donate to TheySwarm!// Songs: Taal Se Taal (JYOTY Remix) We Won't Cry - Archie Roach & Unlce Jack CharlesDance Ritual II - Auntie Flo featuring Anbuley//