Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Josie Alec is a Kuruma Marduthunera custodian from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Josie joined Rosie earlier this week to speak about the ongoing destruction of rock art and country on Murujuga/The Burrup Peninsula and the Federal Government's recent announcement of a $255 million dollar loan to support the development of the Perdaman Urea Plant on sacred country.// Asher Wolf, activist, freelance columnist and general rabble-rouser, speaks with us about the lack of recognition of and support for chronic illnesses such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and how this intersects with growing awareness of long COVID. Find out more about current disability justice issues through People with Disability Australia and Women with Disability Australia, and support the grassroots organising of Disability Justice Network.// Debra Nicholl is the Programs Manager at Elder Rights Advocacy. Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety 2018 - 2021, the Federal Government is transitioning to a different model of service provision. Debra speaks about recent local council changes to home aged and disability care services, and what these changes mean for service users, workers, and the aged care sector.// We are joined by Sasha and Greg from Blockade Australia to speak about climate activism and strategic nonviolent resistance to the colonial extraction project called Australia. Sasha has been doing climate, anti-war and human rights activism for the last 3 years. Sasha found her niche in supporting direct action and has been arrested for the cause as well. Greg is a full time supporter of frontline nonviolent direct action.// David Lindenmayer is Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU. He is an expert in forest ecology and resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. David joins us today to discuss the science behind why the Victorian Government must put an end to native forest logging. You can read a recent article by David on this issue here in Cosmos.//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Priya caught up with Gregor Husper, Principal Lawyer at the Police Accountability Project, to discuss the Department of Justice's review into Victoria's police complaints system and the serious problem of police investigating police. The review responds to a range of concerns outlined in the 2018 Independent Broad-Based Anti-corruption Commission's Inquiry into the external oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria and the Royal Commission into the management of Police Informants. Gregor recommended that listeners read the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service's policy brief 'Reforming Police Oversight' to find out more.//  Lloyd Williams, National Secretary for the Health Services Union joins us to discuss the devastating number of deaths due to Covid-19 in aged care facilities, the Government's recent announcement of bonuses for aged care workers and the HSU's case for higher wages currently before the Fair Work Commission.// Xen, founder of Red Pocket Press, joins us to discuss Lunar New Year, and their new zine for the Year of the Water Tiger. Red Pocket Press is a publishing project for Queer Asians who celebrate Lunar New Year. Since 2019 (Year of the Golden Pig) they've been making cute moments and connections through zines, food and gatherings.// Aboriginal activist and veteran 3CR broadcaster Robbie Thorpe joins us along with collaborator Mindy (Melinda) Michail, sovereign Remenkermi woman whose ancestral lands are in the south of what is now called Egypt, to discuss working in solidarity, Indigenous sovereignty and the Black GST movement. Read the 'No Jurisdiction' writ that Black GST launched on 26 January 2022 at the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra here, find out more about Black GST and how to support via their Facebook page.// Songs// L’Idole Des Jeunes - Ngaiire//

Acknowledgement of Country News headlines 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, No Police at Pride, Housing and Homlessness crisis, Dr Jackie Huggins on the reissue of ‘Sister Girl: Reflections of Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation’  We hear a speech from Guwama woman Cheryl Buchanan, one of the early campaigners at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972, at the 50th anniversary of the Embassy. This audio was broadcast live yesterday during 3CR's Invasion Day 2022 programming. Frank Gafa is a Wailwan and Wiradjuri queer man, trade unionist, education and community activist and one of the organisers of the No Police at Pride Open Letter. He joins us to discuss the open letter and it's call for Victoria Police to cease participation in the Pride march. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins us to discuss the Centre's recent statement on Australia's housing and homeless crisis as highlighted in the Productivity Commission's 2022 report on government services. Jay will also update us on the proposed sale of public land by Moreland council and the importance of prioritising public housing over private profit.  Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Dr Jackie Huggins to discuss the recently published updated edition of her classic collection 'Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation', which is out now with the University of Queensland Press. Dr Huggins is a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples, and is currently leading the work towards Treaty/Treaties in Queensland. Catch the rest next Monday 31st January from 8:30-9AM on 3CR's Women on the Line. Links to organisations to Pay The Rent: Pay the RentDhadjowa FoundationAnaiwan LandBack Wuurn of KanakVALSThe Blak Pearl Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Studio SongsTiddas - AnthemAncestress - One By One

We hear Janet Galpin, Boonwurrung Foundation Representative, speaking at the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration 2021. This year's commemoration took place today 20th January and was broadcast live on 3CR from 12pm.  We are joined by Angus MacFarland, Acting Secretary of The Australian Services Union, to discuss the urgent need for Commonwealth and State governments to provide support to essential disability services workers, including paid isolation leave, priority boosters and personal protective equipment.  Samantha Floreani, Program Lead with Digital Rights Watch, joins us to discuss the searching of returned travellers' phones by Australian Border Force and the need for a Federal Charter of Human Rights, as well as the review of the federal Privacy Act, and the current Inquiry into Social Media and Online Safety.  Dave Widders, proud Anaiwan man and campaign media representative for the Anaiwan Land buyback joins us to speak about Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation's Land Back campaign, raising funds to buy a piece of land for Anaiwan cultural practice, care for Country and language revitalization. SongsCamp Cope - Running with the HurricaneBirdz - Know Your TruthDRMNGNOW - Indigenous Land

Kutcha Edwards is a Mutti Mutti songwriter. He spoke with us about his long-spanning music career, his twenty year involvement with the Beyond the Bars Radio broadcasts and memories from Fitzroy in the 1980s. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, please be advised that this conversation refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have passed away.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Evelyn Araluen joined us on 25 March 2021 to speak about her debut collection of poetry, Dropbear. Evelyn is a poet, researcher and co-editor of the Overland literary journal. She has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Evelyn was born and raised on Dharug Country and she descends from the Bundjalung Nation.// Lady Lash is a Kokatha and Greek musician who has brought her magic to stages including the Sydney Opera House, prime rooftop bars, grassroots festivals and arts venues across the country. As a family woman searching for deeper meaning through sound and voice, Lash’s is a musical vision of eclectic rarities that is embodied by culture and experience. She caught up with Priya for our show on 2 December 2021 to speak about her new album Spiritual Misfit, which was released with Heavy Machinery Records on 22 November.// Songs// Missing You - Budjerah// We Sing - Kutcha Edwards// Price I Paid - Miiesha// Role Models - Kobie Dee//Crest of Gold - Lady Lash//

Kelly and Spike are longtime housing activists and broadcasters on 3CR. They speak with us about the Homeless Persons Union, the 2016 Bendigo Street housing occupations and share reflections on hosting the 3CR Roominations show.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Poet and educator Eunice Andrada joined us on 9 September 2021 to discuss her new collection ‘TAKE CARE’, which has just been published by Giramondo Publishing. Her first poetry collection ‘Flood Damages’ won the Anne Elder Award. Born and raised in the Philippines, Eunice currently lives and writes on unceded Gadigal Land.// Professor Libby Porter (RMIT) is a planner and urban geographer working on the role of planning and urban development in dispossession and displacement, and what we might do about it. In this conversation, Libby explored the problems of urban planning on stolen land, selective state investment in development projects, and the valuation of cultural production and heritage in inner-city areas. Read the full transcript here.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// George Kanjere, representing the newly formed Save the Preston Market Action Group, joined us on 1 July 2021 to discuss the fight to save Preston Market from aggressive redevelopment proposed by the Victorian Planning Authority.// Songs// The More Things Change - Kutcha Edwards// Boomerang - The Merindas//Milkumana - King Stingray//

Porobibi is a West Papuan based in Narrm, a human rights activist and campaigner for Make West Papua Safe. Izzy Brown is the lead singer and MC of Combat Wombat and founder of the United Struggle Project. They joined us to speak about political organising, performing in public spaces in and around Collingwood and the importance of creative autonomous zones. Read the full transcript here.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on sovereign Gadigal land. Her poetry has been published widely and reimagined as murals, installations, digital interventions and film. She joined us on 30 September 2021 to discuss her award winning debut poetry collection 'how to make a basket'.// Melbourne Activist Legal Support held a discussion on Tuesday 28 September 2021 about the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021, which gives broad powers to federal police and intelligence agencies to spy on, disrupt and modify communications. This clip features lawyer and human rights advocate Angus Murray discussing the legislation and notions of relevant offences and reasonable suspicion, with comments from host Jordan Brown from MALS. MALS has published an explainer on the Act, which you can read here.// Songs// King Brown - Baarka// Nothing I Can Do - Emma Donovan and the Putbacks// Moonshine - Ngaiire//Addy ft. Sevy - Teether & Kuya Neil//

John Harding is a Kuku-Yulangi and Meriam man and playwright. He spoke to us about his play ‘The Dirty Mile’, a 2008 production by Ilbijerri Theatre Company, and his time broadcasting and working as the Aboriginal Programming Coordinator at 3CR in the late 1980s. This interview includes excerpts of two 3CR broadcasts - the Bicentennial protest broadcast and Tent Embassy broadcast. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, please be advised that this conversation refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have passed away.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew’s contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects’ disorganising.// Sabina, co-founder of the Australian Anti-Racism Kit, joined us on 30 September 2021 to speak about the recent launch of the kit, which is the first of its kind and targeted at Australian high school students. Sabina is a migrant woman of colour who recently graduated high school. You can follow the Anti-Racism Kit on Instagram at @antiracismkit.// Bobby Nicholls is a proud Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wotjobaluk man, and a founding member of the Yalinguth Working Group. Bobby has worked for many years in community run organisations such as the Aborigines Advancement League, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, and the Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria. He is also one of the founding members of Yarnin’ Pictures, inspired by his passion to document Elders stories whilst training Aboriginal youth in the art of filmmaking. Bobby joined us on 29 July 2021 to discuss the Yalinguth App, an audio augmented reality experience that connects people to place and history through geo-located soundscapes and stories told by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The first site for the app is the area around Gertrude St, Fitzroy.// Songs//Blak Matriarchy - Barkaa// Sometime - Mo’Ju//Stay in Bed - Alice Skye//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay part of City Limits' show from Wednesday 15 December, where Zeb and Kevin caught up with Shane from Housing for the Aged Action Group for a final update on housing justice issues in Victoria and nationally for 2021. Catch City Limits on Wednesdays from 9-10AM on 3CR, and listen back to past episodes here.// Ronny Kareni, Canberra-based West Papuan activist, musician and youth worker, joins us to discuss the West Papuan fight for self-determination 60 years after the first raising of the Morning Star flag, and to speak about the grand opening online of the West Papua Solidarity Gallery on 20 December 2021. Ronny is a visiting fellow at the West Papua Project with the University of Wollongong and the Pacific Mission for United Liberation Movement for West Papua, as well as a host on 3CR’s Voice of West Papua. Find tickets to the grand opening here, read the open letter ‘Stand with West Papua’ here, and catch Voice of West Papua on 3CR on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30PM.// Kutcha Edwards is a proud Mutti Mutti man, a multi-award winning singer and songman, advocate, and co-host of the 20 Years on the Inside podcast on 3CR with Vickie Roach. Kutcha joins us to discuss his latest album Circling Time, which is filled with soulful melodies and stories - have a listen here. Tickets to Kutcha's show at the Brunswick Ballroom this Friday 17 December are still available through Moshtix. It will be a show you don't want to miss!// Dylan O'Hara from Vixen Collective, Victoria's peer only sex worker organisation, speaks with us about a rally organised for the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers this Friday 17 December. The rally will be held at 4PM outside the State Library of Victoria - find out more here.Vixen Collective have also developed a guide to support the ongoing push for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Victoria via the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill 2021 - find it here.// Songs// Less Talk - CLYPSO// Blak Matriarchy - Barkaa// The More Things Change - Kutcha Edwards//

Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Elizabeth Wathuti addresses COP26 in Glasgow in November. Elizabeth Wathuti is a founder of the Green Generation Movement in Kenya.  Henry Rajendra is the Deputy President of the NSW Teachers Federation. Henry joins Thursday Breakfast to discuss Tuesday's strike action and the demands of public school teachers in NSW. Henry is a teacher who moved into organising several years ago and he has spearheaded the campaign to highlight the acute shortage of teachers in NSW public schools.  André Dao is a writer and researcher. Andre joins us to discuss 'Growing Up Bilingual in Australia' a new podcast that speaks to bilingual children and their parents about language, culture and what it feels like to be multilingual in Australia. The podcasts first two episodes will be launched on the 18th December. Justin Warren, chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, Inc., speaks with us about concerns regarding the Australian Federal Police's recent announcement about the use of Massively Parallel Sequencing technology, a new technology for forensic profiling called Massively Parallel Sequencing. Justin also gives us a wrap of current Parliamentary inquiries into legislative pushes by government that risk curtailing Australians' digital rights. Jamie McConnachie, Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service or NATSILS, joins us to discuss the national disgrace of 500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and the urgent need to implement all recommendations in the Commission's report. Listeners can read NATSILS’ policy statement Black Lives Matter: always have, always will here. Songs Kutcha Edwards - We Sing Miiesha - Price I PaidBarkaa - Blak Matriarchy