Thursday Breakfast

7:00am - Acknowledgement of Country// 7.05am - News Headlines// 7:15am - Catch a bonus segment from the upcoming episode of 3CR's Women on the Line program featuring Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker and Samantha Floreani discussing digital rights and the possibilties and pitfalls of regulation. Kat is a Nyungar technologist and digital rights activist serving on the board of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and Sam is a digital rights activist and writer currently working as Program Lead for Digital Rights Watch. This snippet features Kat and Sam speaking about queerness and digital spaces, and forms part of a broader conversation that will air on 3CR on Monday the 4th of July from 8:30-9AM on 3CR 855AM and online at 3cr.org.au/streaming. You can read the article about queer online spaces and government regulation that Kat and Sam referred to during the clip here on Junkee.// 7:30am - Alex, from the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU, joins us to unpack some of the key insights around housing availability and affordability from the recently released 2021 census data, as well as in a report published this week by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare which highlights rising rental stress and lack of public housing availability in Australia. We will also discuss RAHU's recommendations for a response from the new federal government, including the need for a comprehensive national housing strategy.// 7:45am - Laura Riccardi is a Health Promotion Officer at Women's Health in the South East (WHISE), in Sexual and Reproductive Health. She is the project lead on the regional strategy to improve sexual and reproductive health and has been an activist for reproductive rights for many years. She joins us today to speak on inclusive abortion access, barriers to care, stigma, and how to support protecting and enhancing these rights, following the overturning of landmark abortion access legislation Roe v Wade in the US.// For information about options surrounding contraception, sexual health, and pregnancy: Please call 1800 MY OPTIONS - 1800 696 784// Open 9am-5pm Mon to Fri (closed public holidays) //or email: [email protected]// For National Relay Service call 1800 555 660.//For interpreters call 13 14 50.// 8:00am - Anastasia from Legal Observers NSW joins us again to evaluate some of the early impacts of New South Wales' Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2022, considering the concerning crackdowns by NSW police on Blockade Australia's climate justice direct actions and organising over the past two weeks. We will also discuss how this fits into a wider legislative push across other Australian states, including the Victorian government's proposal to impose harsher penalties for forest protestors, and the implications of this trend for the right to protest and fundamental civil liberties of organisers across movements.// 8:15am - Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane, with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and 'disinheritance' of both of these cultures focus her work. Mia's paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to Empire’s deliberate, violent interferences with the cultural heritages of Burma and K’gari (Fraser Island). Mia is a studio resident at Gertrude Contemporary in Preston and is currently showing her work at Penny Contemporary alonside Katie Eraser.// Songs//BIRYANI - ASHWARYA//

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15am - Barbara Shaw (IRAG) - Karrinjarla Muwajarri Mparntwe Rally//Arrernte activist Barbara Shaw from the Intervention Rollback Action Group or IRAG spoke at a rally on Saturday the 18th of June in Mparntwe Alice Springs calling for Karrinjarla Muwajarri, no guns in community. The Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign, organised by members of the Yuendumu community, demands a ceasefire and the restoration of self-determination to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In this speech, Barbara Shaw connects the 15th anniversary of the Northern Territory Intervention with state violence in Aboriginal communities. Our thanks to the Punk Tree Hour crew on 8CCC Community Radio Alice Springs and Tennant Creek for sharing this recording with us! You can find out how to support the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign at karrinjarlamuwajarri.org, and more information about IRAG is available via their Facebook page - Intervention Rollback Action Group.// 7:30am - Music and Promotion//Event promotion: Emerging Writers Festival and Schizy Inc: Gnarly Writers, showing tonight at EWF Thursday 23rd of June from 7:30-8:30PM at Loop Project Space & Bar// Gnarly Writers celebrates storytellers who’ve been in the public mental health system for decades. These artists will bring you insights into the system and into healing, which might just come in handy to anyone starting out on a mental health lived experience apprenticeship or seeking validation for a lifetime of service. This event emphasizes that writing one’s own story can be more than a chance to impart words of wisdom: it’s also an act of freedom from a lifetime of being recorded. Find out more here // Radiothon promotion: Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR’s 2022 Radiothon!//Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855//Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast.//Don’t forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// 7:45am - Zianna Fuad - Blockade Australia//Then we are joined by Zianna Fuad, a member of the climate activist group Blockade Australia. To speak on the heavily armed police raid at a NSW property on Sunday the 19th of June. The raid was triggered after activists spotted camouflaged, unmarked police officers filming them. Followed by dozens of police storming the site and detaining protesters. 7 protesters were charged on Sunday with a range of offences, 5 of them have been slammed with extremely punitive conditions such as being denied bail and maximum sentences of 10 years. Join their event on Monday 27th of June in Sydney DAY ONE here// 8:00am - Anna Weekes//We also speak to Anna Weekes from Frack Free Arts NT about the continued sponsorship of arts programming from fossil fuel giants such as Santos who is a sponsor of the upcoming Darwin Festival. Anna is a community cultural artist who has worked within Australia and internationally on community directed arts projects for social justice. Anna has a passion for the creation of personal and group expression through the arts with a focus on art as a passage for social commentary to provoke thought and change. Anna has also received the Kirk Robson Community Cultural Arts Development award for her work over the past 10 years in the field. Sign the open letter to end funding by Santos here// 8:15am - Mammad Aidani//Finally, we are joined by Mammad Aidani, who is a human rights advocate, poet, playwright, theatre director and psychosocial resarcher. He speaks with us today about the play 'I said this to the bird', which is currently showing at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies with upcoming performances from the 24th to 26th of June.Ticket details are available here.//Mammad's research investigates the violence, torture, trauma and suffering experienced by Iranian and Middle Eastern immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers who have resettled in Australia and the West. He is currently the vice president of PEN International Melbourne. He teaches Hermeneutics and Phenomenological philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and his writings have been banned in Iran. You can read an essay by Mammad on exile, '300 words for truth,' here in Overland.// Songs//R U My Love - ParvynNilotic - Elsy WameyoKush (Amadou Suso Replay) - SO.Crates//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines with Emily// Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR’s 2022 Radiothon!Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855 Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast.Don’t forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// Ellise Bourne, Media and Communications Officer at the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU, joins us to discuss the crisis of rental availability in Australia and about the ongoing fight for renters rights. Ellise is also a disability worker and proud unionist. You can find out more about RAHU's work, including how to find your local RAHU branch, at rahu.org.au.// Michelle Roger is a Gippsland based Disabled artist, writer and model. She is part of the Emerging Writers Festival event 'By My Bed' at No Vacancy gallery and online. Disabled Artists with lived experience of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness answer the question ‘What are the objects that make up your world?’ Alongside the photographs, you will find musings about the body, accessibility, care, community, and tenderness that can accumulate by their beds.// Dylan O'Hara is the acting manager of Vixen, Victoria's peer-only sex worker organisation. Vixen is a member organisation of Scarlet Alliance, the national peak body representing sex worker organisations in Australia, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, NSWP. Today, Dylan will be discussing the impacts and obstacles of the Victorian Sex Work Decriminalisation Act 2022.// We also heard from some excellent former Thursday Breakfasters - Katia Lallo (Done By Law on 3CR) and Rosie Isaac - and from Natalie Osborne (Radio Reversal on 4ZZZ), who shared why they love community radio!// Katia let us know about a new campaign fighting for workplace justice for community legal workers- you can sign the petition to support their fight for fair workplace conditions here, and follow them on Twitter and Instagram. You can also attend the campaign launch at Trades Hall on Thursday 16 June at 5.30PM.// Songs//hate me - miniskirt ft. blackwinterwells//Smile - Izy//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Marisa from 3CR’s Doin’ Time show caught up with Nerita Waight (Yorta Yorta), CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, about a recent case challenging aged pension discrimination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - which is headed for Full Federal Court later this year. The interview highlights the need for fair and equal access to benefits for Aboriginal people who commonly do not reach pension age by virtue of lower life expectancy. Until this life expectancy gap is properly addressed, Aboriginal people must have the right to retire with dignity. Listen to Doin’ Time on 3CR on Mondays from 4-5PM.// Ronny Kareni, Canberra-based West Papuan activist, musician and a youth worker, joins us to provide a West Papuan analysis of prime minister Anthony Albanese's meeting with Indonesian president Joko Widodo earlier this week, and the impact of Australia-Indonesia relations on West Papuans. Ronny is a visiting fellow for the West Papua Project at the University of Wollongong and the Pacific Mission for United Liberation Movement for West Papua. You can listen to The Voice of West Papua on 3CR, Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30PM.// Mary Mallett is the CEO of the Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) - the national representative body for a network of advocacy organisations in Australia - that aims to strengthen and support disability advocacy organisations. They join us today to speak about advocacy, how to build strong networks and current projects at DANA.// Dr James Lesh, urban historian and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, speaks with us today about heritage policy and climate change adaptation. James' research explores the theory and practice of heritage conservation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He’s had appointments at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney and King's College London, and his latest book Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia offers an overview of the Australian heritage movement.// Songs// Better Things - Kee’ahn//Fuschia - Ngaiire//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Janelle Da Silva is Multidisciplinary Artist, Speaker, and Birthworker. They join us today to speak about their live podcast series ‘Race on the Table’ produced by 3rd Stage Productions with Dr Nilmini Fernando and Fjorn Bastos (DJ Papaphilia). These free public events at Twosixty in Brunswick unpack issues marginalised artists face and discuss the vital role arts and artists play in navigating race, racism, and healing. The last podcast recording will be this week on Saturday 4th of June between 2-3PM and you can grab your tickets through Eventbrite.// Jimmy Grant from the band ‘Big Farmer’ joins us today to talk about making joyful music and having a sweet creative time with your pals. Big Farmer is an upcoming Naarm-based band that brings platters of joyful lyrics, jangly guitar lines, stonkin’ bass, and BIG ENERGY! Their next show will be supporting Kitten Heel at B.East in Brunswick for free on Sat 11th of June from 6pm. This is one musical harvest you won't want to miss!// Professor Nancy Baxter, head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, joins us to speak about the need for a comprehensive public health strategy to deal with the spread of COVID19 and influenza in the face of rising infection rates as we enter the colder months.// Anastasia Kanjere is a rank and file candidate running for the position of General Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union or NTEU, and speaks with us today about the need to transform the NTEU to save jobs and rebuild the sector. Anastasia is currently a worker in the sector as a casual academic, and is supported by a crew of campaigners in her push for A New NTEU.// Holly Jones is a researcher in the Healthy Housing Centre for Research Excellence at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Her research focuses on mould in housing, and she joins us to discuss this in the context of a need for action on climate change and building codes. As part of her research, Holly is involved in a Healthy Housing CRE study currently recruiting participants to measure dampness and mould exposure in Australian homes. You can take the study survey and find out more information here.// Songs//Franco Bernet - Big Farmer//

Acknowledgement of Country Headlines Naavikaran is a Meanjin based trans-Goddess, an upcoming producer, multimedia artist and changemaker. Through storytelling and the practice of culture, Naavikaran wants to support the care for land, Elders and children to come. She will be performing next week at 10 and 11pm on Thursday the 2nd of June for the event SERVE, and then DJing!!! from 4-8pm the next day Friday the 3rd of June. Both events will be at Rainbow House Club, 125 Smith St, Fitzroy VIC 3065. Geril is a filmmaker, writer, poet, musician and volunteer community organiser for Filipino youth organisation Anakbayan Melbourne. He migrated to Australia from the Philippines along with his family in 2012 and has been engaged in various forms of activism ever since. Today Geril joins us to discuss the impact of the recent Philippines presidential election. Tuffy, a campaigner with Goongerah Environment Centre, speaks with us about concerns with the Andrews government's Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones) Bill 2022, which was introduced into the Victorian parliament on Tuesday and poses a serious threat to forest protests in the state. Find out more and get involved in the push back here. You can join an in-person information session at Black Spark in Northcote on the first Tuesday of every month - more information here.  Nick Riemer, president of the National Tertiary Education Union's University of Sydney branch, speaks with us about the strike actions taken by academic workers at the university from May 11-12 and again on May 24 to demand fair remuneration and job security. SONGS:Naavikaran - If My Genders Were the Entire Solar SystemBecca Hatch - Without You

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7:15 Mercedes Zanker//Mercedes Zanker is a producer and host on 3CR's Uprise Radio and an anti-military activist with Renegade Activists, conveners of the Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus online symposiums. Mercedes joins us to provide updates on AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced late last year.Hear more AUKUS updates on 3CR’s A Friday Rave this Friday the 20th of May from 5-5:30PM.// 7:30 Nakba Day Speeches May 15 2022//We heard a recording of speakers from Free Palestine Melbourne’s Nakba Day and Justice for Shireen Abu Aqleh Rally, which was held on Nakba Day, May 15 2022. These speeches were recorded by 3CR’s Annie McLoughlin, and you can listen to more about the fight for a free Palestine on 3CR’s Palestine Remembered show, Saturdays from 9:30-10AM.// 8:00 Selena Repanis//Selena Repanis is a graphic designer who designed Voiceworks Magazine from 2020 until recently. She also co-runs Amici Studio. She's running the 'Graphic Design as World Building Workshop' for The National Editing and Writing Students Conference (NEWS). She joins us today to share her journey into graphic design, how to build worlds, and how to create creative and authentic work.  The online workshop will run tomorrow, Friday the 20th of May, starting at 12PM.//  8:15 Tamar HopkinsTamar Hopkins joins us to speak about concerns with proactive policing operations by Victoria Police, and attendant issues with accountability, scrutiny and oversight. Tamar is a lawyer and researcher who has worked in the area of police accountability, police powers and racial profiling since 2005. She is currently working for the Inner Melbourne Community Legal Centre (ICML) on a COVID policing project. IMCL’s Policing Health Survey is still open, and you can find out more and fill it out here.// Songs//Formations - Mild Minds Fashion Model Art - Haiku Hands White Noise - DancingwaterWalk Away - DOBBY ft. The Merindas

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On last week’s Friday Breakfast show Chloe and Jacob spoke with Joey, who is detained at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation or MITA, about Section 501 of the Migration Act. This Act allows the government visa cancellation powers, and Joey discusses how the present government has been using these provisions. You can read about last month’s rally to free those detained at MITA, many of whom are held under 501 provisions, here.// Elise Almond is a lawyer at Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service, a state-wide service that represents disabled people, including via providing assistance with NDIS appeals at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Elise joins us today to speak about the large spike in NDIS participants who have had their funding slashed, often without warning, in the recent months, with many taking their cases to the AAT.//You can find out more about the issue here, here and here, and about the Melbourne march and rally against NDIS cuts and appeals being organised by Every Australian Counts for Thursday the 19th of May here.// On Wednesday the 4th of May, members of the Australian Services Union and Municipal and Utilities Workers Union employed at Moreland Council downed tools to rally for decent wages and conditions. Like many workplaces across Australia, Moreland Council workers have been given an offer below the inflation level in their latest EBA negotiation. Solidarity Breakfast's Annie McLoughlin joined them outside the Brunswick Townhall on Sydney Road.// Alec Ferguson joins us to discuss the recent BDS resolution passed by the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) - ‘UMSU Stands with Palestine – BDS and Solidarity Policy’ - and Students For Palestine’s on-campus rally, which will be held today from 1PM on South Lawn. Alec is a Lebanese-Australian socialist activist at Melbourne University, and is involved in Students for Palestine and Free Palestine Melbourne. You can find the academic solidarity statement Alec refers to here.//Free Palestine Melbourne's 2022 Nakba Day Vigil will be held on Sunday the 15th of May from 12PM outside the State Library of Victoria. More information is available here.// Songs// Return Home - Bumpy// Don’t Sleep - Alice Ivy, imbi, BOI//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Listen back to VOX pops from Sunday’s May Day 2022 Rally with Jiselle Hanna (3CR’s Accent of Women and Asia Pacific Currents), featuring Michael from Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union, Merri from Save Public Housing Collective, and other attendees. Find out more and listen back to 3CR’s dedicated May Day 2022 programming here.// Justin Warren, chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, joins us to discuss online privacy and digital surveillance in Privacy Awareness Week 2022, an Australian Government initiative which runs from the 2nd to the 8th of May. Electronic Frontiers Australia is a not-for-profit national organisation working to promote and protect digital rights.// Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran, Director of Tech Policy at Reset Australia,speaks with us about how YouTube’s algorithms contribute to promoting misogynistic, anti-feminist and other extremist content to Australian boys and young men. Reset Australia is a think tank and research organisation working to tackle digital threats to democracy. Alongside their work at Reset Australia, Dhakshayini is a PhD candidate at ANU looking at the impact of technology in social welfare and border policing. Please be advised that this interview includes discussion of intimate partner violence, which may be distressing to some listeners. If you need support, please call Lifeline 13 11 14 or 1800Respect on 1800 737 732.// Joshua Tavares, long time Collingwood resident and soul/funk singer, joins us to discuss the resident-led push to save Collingwood's public housing green space. Along with the pushback against new development on the Collingwood estate, Joshua has been involved in community events and initiatives including the Collingwood underground roller disco and Dolphins Gym, a Bla(c)k queer gym partnering up with Koori pride. You can sign the petition organised by Collingwood public housing residents here, and find more information about the protest organised by residents for Friday the 6th of May here.// Songs// Fiji Water - Kobi Spice and Sevy, prod. UTILITY//Valley of Peace - Teymori//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Zelda Grimshaw, a campaigner with the anti-war group Wage Peace, joins us to discuss the international week of action against arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, which has been running from 21-28 April. The Melbourne action to Stop Lockheed Martin will begin at 11AM today, Thursday 28 April, at Lincoln Square in the CBD - find out more here.// Jeremy Poxon is an anti-poverty advocate for the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union. He joins us to discuss concerns with workplace safety and the significance of Workers’ Memorial day for unemployed workers.// Amity Mara is a proud transgender Tamil woman from Sri Lanka and Malaysia. She is a member of the Borderless Affirmation Mutual Aid group, which supports trans migrants to build strong and loving lives on this continent as their true selves, and joins us today to speak about the group's organising, support and fundraising efforts. You can find out more and donate here.// If you are a trans migrant seeking support you can text the group on 0456 385 145 with your request (calls will not be answered).“Requests can currently be responded to in Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Malay/Bahasa, & English. Please be patient as it can take awhile for us to respond to requests from new people. We regret that we will not be able to support everyone, and prioritise supporting people on precarious visas and facing family violence.”// Josh Cullinan, Secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers' Union or RAFFWU, joins us to speak about RAFFWU's demand for a transition fund to support vulnerable workers to exit the industry in the wake of eased COVID restrictions in NSW and Victoria. Josh also discusses international worker solidarity and organising with Bangladeshi unionists in light of the 9th anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster on 24 April and Workers’ Memorial Day.// Songs//Flick - Pookie//Undead - Marcus Whale ft. BAYANG (tha Bushranger)//