Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// CONTENT WARNING: this segment includes distressing content - if you need support, you can call Lifeline any time on 13 11 14, or QLife between 3PM and midnight every day on 1800 184 527.We hear audio from the Vigil in memory of Rodri, which was held in Melbourne on September 4th at 11AM. Rodrigo Ventosilla, a Peruvian trans man, activist and Harvard student, died in Indonesian state custody in August, after travelling to Bali on a honeymoon with his husband. He was targeted based on his gender and race, and detained after state authorities found traces of cannabis under Indonesia's draconian drug laws. He later died in hospital after being abused and extorted in police custody. The vigil was part of international solidarity demanding that the Peruvian state conduct an investigation and provide an immediate autopsy. In the last week or so in response to pressure, the Peruvian state has announced an investigation, though Indonesian authorities continue to deny any wrongdoing. Note: The audio includes some passing loud tram noises and background city noise.You can help by spreading the word: stay updated by following @accionporjusticia and @diversidadestm on Instagram.// Kelly Whitworth reports from the Renters and Housing Union’s Rent Is Too High! campaign launch, which was held on September 2nd at Victorian Trades Hall in the lead up to the November state election. The campaign draws attention to the injustice of rising rents in the face of stagnant wages, exacerbating Australia’s housing crisis and putting even more pressure on renters. You can follow RAHU on Twitter and Facebook to find out more about upcoming events and how to get involved.// Tim Hogan, Principal Librarian at State Library Victoria, speaks with us about the library’s 2023 Fellowships program. The program is offering creatives and scholars a share in $190,000 to support bringing fresh perspectives to Victorian life and history. Fifteen places are open for artists, performers, writers, musicians and academics to spend one year delving into the State Collection. Applications are open for the 2023 fellowships program and close Friday the 16th of September 2022. Find out more and apply here.// Nick Rose joins us to speak about food justice, sustainability, and The Oakhill Food Justice Farm, which celebrates its first Birthday Party + Open Day this Saturday 10th September, 12pm- 3pm at 233 Tyler St, Wurundjeri Country, Preston. Nick is the Founder and Executive Director of Sustain: the Australian Food Network, and is a lecturer in sustainable food systems at William Angliss Institute.// Georgie Yovanovic joins us to discuss the importance of addressing housing insecurity for members of the LGBTIQA+ community in light of the Victorian Greens’ launch of its Northcote initiative yesterday. The initiative is a plan to establish a dedicated crisis accommodation facility with health services for trans, gender diverse and non-binary people in Northcote. Georgie is an Intersex Femm who proudly shares her story through lived experience and advocacy to campaign for the end of forced medical interventions on intersex people, and the pathologisation of transgender, gender diverse and intersex people. She is currently a board member of the Zoe Belle Gender Collective and an advocate and co-founder of the Transfemme resource, a website supporting healthier relationships between trans women and cis, straight and bi+ men. During the interview, Georgie also speaks about the Darlington Statement, a joint consensus statement by intersex organisations and independent advocates in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand setting out the priorities and calls by the intersex human rights movement in both countries. You can read and affirm the statement here.//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Shannon Kilmartin-Lynch, is a Vice-Chancellors Indigenous Pre-Doctoral research fellow. He joins us today to speak on how engineers at RMIT developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste.// Melissa Fisher is an anti poverty advocate on income support payments, who joins us to discuss the Albanese government's inaction on poverty and what needs to change to improve the lives of people on social security in Australia. Melissa and Priya are members of the Antipoverty Centre - follow them here on Twitter to keep up to date about the national day of action on poverty to be held on October 17th, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.// We listen back to Marisa from 3CR's Doin' Time show interviewing Kieran Pender, Senior Lawyer at Human Rights Law Centre, who gives listeners a breakdown of the anti-protest bill that passed Tasmania's Upper House on 25 August, 2022. Kieran highlights the nationwide trend, following the passing of similar bills in VIC and NSW in recent months, that erodes democracy through attacks on protest rights. Catch Doin' Time on 3CR on Mondays from 4-5PM.// Content warning: drug use, Aboriginal deaths in custody// We hear a compilation of voxpops from the International Overdose Awareness Day (August 31) 2022 event organised by Harm Reduction Victoria, which was held on the steps of Parliament House. We also hear a selection of sounds and speeches from a side demonstration by peers at the Australian Federal Police Headquarters in Naarm's CBD demanding the safe release of confiscated heroin to be incorporated and used in safe supply programs. Our thanks to Kelly Whitworth for these recordings.// Harm Reduction Victoria provide free online Overdose Response and Naloxone Training on the 1st of every month with a free Naloxone Kit provided to each participant. Find more information here.// Zara Page is a Phd candidate at the University of New South Wales. After graduating with First Class Honours and a major in Neuroscience, she is currently conducting research exploring the fairness of cognitive assessments for culturally and linguistically diverse Australians. Adults from CALD backgrounds make up about 30% of the Australian population aged 65 years and above, yet remain underrepresented in dementia research. Today Zara joins us to speak about her recent work with the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and the CogSCAN analysis that aims to improve the diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and dementia in CALD individuals. You can participate as a volunteer in the study here.//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay a segment of Tuesday's episode of Dirt Radio featuring Tim from Blockade Australia and Isabelle from Friends of The Earth discuss resisting Australia's climate destruction with organised disruption and the authoritarian response by NSW police. Catch Dirt Radio on Tuesdays at 9:30AM on 3CR.// On this week's Doin' Time show, Marisa interviewed Felicity, proud Ngarrindjeri woman with lived experience of incarceration, about her participation in The Torch program. Felicity speaks about how she began learning more about her mob, culture and art while participating inside, and her ongoing connection with the program from the other side of the prison walls - as an in-community participant. You can listen to Doin' Time on Mondays from 4-5PM on 3CR.// Kelly Rowe, co-host of Footy, Actually on Play on Radio joins us to talk about AFLW season 7, which kicks off today, and the push for greater inclusivity in community sports. Kelly is a graphic designer with a background in creative communications and has combined this experience with her love of footy to inform her 5-9 as a local footy journalist, photographer and podcaster.// El Gibbs, an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, speaks with us about the systemic issues with Disability Employment Services and breaks down current government approaches to disability employment in the lead up to the September Jobs and Skills Summit. You can follow El on Twitter and support their writing on Patreon. During the interview, El also recommended the work of the Antipoverty Centre on issues at the intersection of disability justice and social security reform.// Songs// FELL IN LOVE - Jesswar// Opportunity - Caution ft. P. Nona// No Peace - Citizen Kay// Of Another Kind - Winston Surfshirt ft. Milan Ring & Jerome Farah//

Acknowledgement of Country// News// Cathryn Murdoch//Cathryn Murdoch, a member of People from Public Housing, Defend and Extend Public Housing, and Victorian Socialists, joined Zeb and Kevin on 3CR's City Limits show yesterday to discuss homelessness crisis accommodation and the Coburg Motor Inn. Catch the rest of the show here, and tune in to City Limits on Wednesdays from 9-10AM// Miranda - Inside Out//Then we are joined by Miranda, a queer prison abolitionist. They co-founded the Inside Out solidarity network 7 years ago and have been one of the coordinators ever since. They have been involved in other abolitionist projects such as the International Day of Solidarity with Trans Prisoners. They join us today to speak on the the importance of the Inside Out LGBTIQA+ Prisoner Solidarity Newsletter and fundraiser https://chuffed.org/project/inside-out-lgbtiqasb-prisoner-solidarity-newsletter For a starting resource on abolition please visit: https://millionexperiments.com/// Elizabeth Strakosch - Institute for Collaborative Race Research (ICRR)//Liz Strakosch is a co-director at the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, which aims to do politically useful, community led research grounded in Indigenous sovereignty, and she joins us today to discuss the Institute's submission co-authored with Sisters Inside to the Commission of Inquiry to examine Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence calling to defund QPS. Liz is a white Jewish heritage settler and an academic at Melbourne University whose work focuses on Indigenous policy, bureaucratic violence and comparative colonialism.// Sam Wallman - Our Members Be Unlimited//Comics journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman joins us to speak about his powerhouse comic 'Our Members Be Unlimited', a beautifully illustrated narrative of workers and their unions that inspires hope, solidarity and radical action. 'Our Members Be Unlimited' is published by Scribe, and is now onto a second printing after selling out since its original publication in late May this year.// Songs// Twisting Words - Miiesha//RĀIN - The Merindas Samuel Gaskin//Waitin' On Ya Remix - Genesis Owusu//

Acknowledgement of country// 7:05 - News Headlines// 7:15 - Doin Time//Has anything changed with election of the Albanese Government in terms of refugee rights? Marisa caught up with Refugee Action Collective member David Glanz on this weeks Doin' Time show. You can hear the conversation in full at https://www.3cr.org.au/dointime, and catch Doin' Time from 4-5PM on Mondays.// 7:30 - Maddie - RMIT Students for Palestine// Maddie Hah, an activist with Students for Palestine at RMIT University, joins us today to remind listeners about the planned speak out today demanding that RMIT cut ties with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Maddie has also engaged in anti-racist activism with Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, and is running as a candidate in Pascoe Vale for the Victorian Socialists in the upcoming state election. The speak out action will be held at 1PM today, Thursday the 11th of August at Bowen Street.// Song: Muzik - Jennifer Loveless//  7:50 - Madeleine Thornton-Smith//Madeleine Thornton-Smith has a strong interest in labour issues, particularly in relation to the visual arts and ceramics industry. She has become passionate about the working rights of artists and artworkers since doing an internship with the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), participating in discussions with the Melbourne-based Artists’ Union research group and after experiencing years of insecure and unsafe working conditions as a practising artist, technician and tutor alongside her artworker comrades. Today, Madeleine joins us to discuss her work on art and labour, the renewed National Cultural Policy and unioinising in the creative sector.  8:15 - Chris Schuringa Victorian Forest Alliance//Chris Schuringa, campaigner with the Victorian Forest Alliance, joins us to discuss concerns about recently-passed Victorian legislation criminalising environmental protest by introducing sanctions of up to 12 month jail time or $21,000 in fines, and the impacts that this will have on environmental defenders fighting against native forest logging in the state. Songs: Backseat of My Mind - Thelma PlumHEAVEN WITH U - Tasman Keith ft. Jessica Mauboy END//

Acknowledgement of Country// 7:05 - News Headlines// Down City Streets - Archie Roach// 7:15 - The Justice Map Part 1.//​Anya Saravanan spoke with Ayan Shirwa from Diaspora Blues about the Justice Map project and their work challenging carceral narratives and over-policing. Anya is a Tamil woman and community lawyer working in summary crime and family violence. Here's part 1 of that interview.​// 7:30 - The Justice Map Part 2.//Beggar Man - Archie Roach// Part 2 of the conversation between ​​Anya Saravanan and Ayan Shirwa from Diaspora Blues about the Justice Map project and their work challenging carceral narratives and over-policing.// Buoyancy - Body Type// 7:45 - Protected Areas and Conservation Policy//Dr Benjamin Cooke, a senior lecturer at RMIT's Centre for Urban Research, joins us to discuss the Albanese government's commitment to protect 30% of Australia's land and waters by 2030, what this actually means, and why it needs to go further. The government's commitment to this target was re-affirmed by Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek alongside last month's launch of the 5-yearly State of the Environment Report. Ben and several colleagues recently co-authored an article in the Conversation breaking down the 30 by 30 target - you can read it here.//To find out more about some of the issues Ben discussed, check out the links below:Country Needs People: https://www.countryneedspeople.org.au/Trust for Nature to return Neds Corner to First People of the Millewa Mallee Aboriginal Corporation: https://trustfornature.org.au/news/victorias-largest-conservation-reserve-to-return-to-traditional-owners/The 30x30 international target background: https://www.iucn.org/news/protected-areas/202204/targets-effective-area-based-conservation-under-30x30-ambitions-what-counts-who-countsFederal Government data on protected area: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/science/capad 8:00 - Music// F Troop - Archie Roach// Bona - Sampa the Great// 8:​15 - ​Youth Homelessness After Leaving Care//In recognition of homelessness week this week, we will be speaking to Reggie Chang. Youth homelessness remains an urgent issue in Victoria. With poor access to housing and rising rent prices, young people leaving out-of-home are particularly vulnerable. Reggie joins us today to share their experience of homelessness after leaving care, as well as their role with The Centre for Excellence and Child and Family Welfare.​//​ Crash - Stevan ft. Tommy Richman//

7:00 - Acknowledgement// 7:05 - News// 7:12 - David Kelly + Libby Porter on City Limits//We hear all about the upcoming Forum for Dwelling Justice with Libby Porter and David Kelly from RMIT's Centre for Urban Research, who caught up with Zeb and Kevin on 3CR’s City Limits program yesterday. The Forum will be held on Friday the 26th of August from 1-7PM at the Capitol Theatre. Catch City Limits on Wednesday mornings, 9AM, here on 3CR.//   7:30 - Mark Holden - Mob Strong Debt Help, Financial Rights Legal Centre//Mark Holden is a Dunghutti man who works as the solicitor and policy advocate for Mob Strong Debt Help, part of the Financial Rights Legal Centre. He joins us to discuss the collapse of disgraced funeral insurer ACBF/Youpla earlier this year, its effects on Aboriginal communities and recently-announced government support, as well as associated regulatory issues. Mark has been working on ACBF matters for the past 4 years.// 7:45 - Dr Claire Loughnan//Dr Claire Loughnan is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her research examines the modes, practices and effects of living and working in confinement sites (with a focus on neglect as a form of violence) and the carceral expansion accompanying border control practices. She joins us today to speak on the policy paper: Healthcare and Health-Related Harms of Australia's Refugee Externalisation Policies.// 8:00 - Songs//Without You - Becca Hatch//Brand New - Mi-kaisha// 8:15 - Joshua Badge - Studio Interview//Joshua Badge is a writer and scholar living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne. They join us today to speak about the need for a comprehensive public health response to the monkeypox outbreak, share some information about how to keep yourself and your community safe, and discuss the importance of destigmatization of the disease. Joshua has worked pro-bono in public health policy at Thorne Harbour Health for several years, and for the last two years they have been working freelance in the health sector.During the interview, Joshua referred to the NSW government’s public health factsheets on monkeypox - you can find them here.//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma woman Kaylene Daniel speaks on Ngaarda Radio about the protests at Murujuga on the Burrup Peninsula to protect rock art from destruction. As Australia faces a gas crisis, Indigenous communities fear millennia-old sacred sites will be collateral damage in the rush for fresh supplies. Woodside has now received state and Commonwealth approval for a further $16.5 billion expansion, known as the Scarborough offshore gas project, which includes the expansion of the Pluto facility, called Pluto 2. In the Pilbara, approximately 80 Save Our Songlines supporters staged a March for Country in July to protest at the expansion of the natural gas industry at Murujuga, the Burrup Peninsula.//  Chris Gough, Executive Director of the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy or CAHMA, joins us to talk about the opening of Australia’s first fixed-site pill and drug testing site, CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service. CAHMA is the alcohol, tobacco and other drug consumer organisation for the Australian Capital Territory.// Nadia Gavin is the FUSE Project Coordinator at Harm Reduction Victoria - Supporting peer workers with living experience who work in mainstream Victorian alcohol and other drugs (AOD) harm reduction services. Nadia has been involved in the drug user movements and harm reduction sector for over 20 years, and is passionate about drug law reform, grassroots activism, human rights, and ending stigma and discrimination for people who use drugs. She join us today to speak on the importance of living experience peer workers in harm reduction and the challenges and stigma they face.// Michael Stanton, President of Liberty Victoria, speaks with us about Victoria’s mandatory minimum sentencing regime in light of its recent condemnation by justices on the state’s Court of Appeal. Liberty Victoria’s Rights Advocacy Project is hosting the event ‘Police Panopticon: Zooming in on the use of Body Worn Cameras by Victoria Police Officers’ on Tuesday the 26th of July. Find out more here.// Lastly, we will be speaking to Jeremy Poxon, who is an anti-poverty advocate and organiser with the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, about the recently introduced points-based system for people on the JobSeeker program.// Songs//Curbside Finds - Special Feelings//Fell in Love - Jesswar//

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15 - Yemurraki Egan and Naomi Kennedy-Bamblett//We'll hear a short clip of speeches from the Naarm NAIDOC March this past Friday the 8th of July, featuring Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Gunditjmara man Yemurraki Egan, and Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri and Trawlwoolway woman Naomi Kennedy-Bamblett . Thanks to Ayan from Diaspora Blues for the recordings.  https://www.3cr.org.au/diasporablues Mondays at 2:30pm on 3CR 7:30 - Stephanie Bernard//Stephanie Bernard is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, researching the most distant galaxies with space telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope. She joins us today to discuss the recent release of images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and to talk about telescope's potential to deepen our understanding of the universe. Stephanie is also an astronomy and science educator at Scienceworks, the Melbourne Planetarium, and the Victorian Space Science Education Centre. Stephanie also co-presents an astronomy podcast called Spaghettification that you can listen to here.  7:45 - Kelly and Spike//Kelly Whitworth and Spike Chippalone speak with us about the upcoming launch of Homeless in Hotels, a 3-part radio series documenting life in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic, which premieres on 3CR on Thursday the 28th of July at 12PM. Kelly produces Radical Australia here on 3CR and is passionate about peer-produced media. Spike is a peer support worker at a Melbourne homeless health service with a lived experience of homelessness and drug use. Together, they co-hosted the former 3CR peer homelessness show, Roominations, and co-founded the Homeless Persons Union Victoria. 8:00 - Ella Shi//Ella is the Digital and Communications Organiser at the Migrant Workers Centre. She's previously worked as a community organiser, student union representative and is also a former ASU workplace delegate. She joins us today to speak about importance of the Migrant Workers 2022 Survey, and how this impacts their work and policy recommendations.  8:15 - Renuga Inpakumar//Renuga Inpakumar from Tamil Refugee Council is a young Eelam Tamil activist and Law/Arts student with a long history of organising to amplify Eelam Tamil issues. She joins us today to provide an analysis of the economic crisis and mass protests in Sri Lanka from an Eelam Tamil perspective, highlighting some important concerns that have often gone neglected in mainstream media coverage. Renuga's activism and organising has focused on issues including the return of land to Eelam Tamil people, and the recognition of Tamil Eelam and Tamil Eelam genocide, calling for those responsible to be held to account. If you’re in Sydney, support the action by joining the July 24 rally at Sydney Town Hall. Songs//Thelma Plum - When It Rains It Pours

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Historian Clare Land, based at the Moondani Balluk Academic Unit at Victoria University, spoke with Robbie Thorpe on the June 8th episode of Bunjil’s Fire on 3CR about the history of the struggle for Northland Secondary College in the 90s. The Melbourne Museum is currently holding a special exhibition - Fight for Survival - featuring students’ artworks, community responses and the rousing speech from Gary Foley that united a community. Catch Fight for Survival at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, and the exhibition now closes on Sunday July 24th. Catch Bunjil's Fire on 3CR 855AM every Wednesday from 11AM to 2PM.// The following interview includes discussion of racism and domestic and family violence. If you need support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or 1800RESPECT.//Dr Amanda Porter joins us to discuss the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence and to discuss concerns around dominant approaches to police reform. Amanda is a prison abolitionist and policing researcher of Brinja-Yuin, Greek and English descent based in Naarm. You can read the submission made by Amanda and co-author Connor Hannan to the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service Responses to Domestic and Family Violence here.// You can also read the submission made by Amanda and co-author Dr Marlene Longbottom to the Queensland Government’s Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce: Discussion Paper 1 – Options for legislating against coercive control and the creation of a standalone domestic violence offence here.// We replay a segment of Beyond the Bars 2022 on 3CR featuring Tie, a community member who is at Loddon Prison near Castlemaine, talking about art and doing time during lockdown. Art plays a big role in many peoples’ journeys on the inside. You’ll also hear the voices of Dale, Shiralee and Willy. Beyond the Bars was established 20 years ago to connect people and families separated by prison during NAIDOC Week, giving voice to issues faced inside and out. You can tune into Beyond the Bars on 3CR 855AM or 3cr.org.au/streaming all this week from 11AM.// Judy Kuo is an Asian-Australian unionist and artist in Naarm. She currently works at Victorian Trades Hall Council and her union and activist work feature strongly in her art practice. She joins us today to speak about her art practice and how this intersects with organising, unionism, anti-racism, and disability justice solidarity. Judy has designed some beautiful art for the Disability Justice Network - you can donate to their mutual aid fund here.// Daniel Storer is the Research Coordinator for the Flux Study, conducted by the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, and joins us today to talk about the study's investigation into the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental and sexual health among gay and bisexual men. Daniel completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is currently completing his doctoral research at the Kirby Institute investigating the impacts of COVID on Australian gay and bisexual men’s health and wellbeing.// During the show, we mentioned some organisations and Indigenous community movements you might wish to donate to during NAIDOC Week:Blak Pearl Studio//The Dhadjowa Foundation//Sisters Inside//Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans and Gender Diverse Decarceration Project//Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community Fund//