Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Artist, writer and curator SJ Norman joined Rosie earlier this week to speak about his recently released collection of short stories Permafrost. Permafrost 'inverts and queers the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted.' The collection is published by University of Queensland Press.// Lady Lash is a Kokatha and Greek musician who has brought her magic to stages including the Sydney Opera House, prime rooftop bars, grass roots 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 earlier in the week to speak about her new album Spiritual Misfit, which was released with Heavy Machinery Records on 22 November.// Content warning: the following interview contains themes of domestic and family violence, which may be distressing to some listeners. Support is available at 1800 RESPECT/1800 737 732, as well as at inTouch/1800 755 988.//Amani Haydar is an award winning artist, lawyer, mother, and author of The Mother Wound, published by Pan MacMillan Australia. Amani speaks on the familial and cultural contexts in which family and domestic violence operate. The Mother Wound is a story that explores intergenerational trauma, dispels myths about victim/survivors, and explores how to grow around your grief with writing that is hopeful, devastating, and impactful.// Matt Chun and Jennine Khalik join us to talk about The Sunday Paper, a new publication launching 6 December that displays the strong solidarity and co-resistances between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Palestinian communities in so-called Australia. Jennine Khalik is a Palestinian writer who has 8 years of experience working as a journalist in Australian newsrooms. Matt Chun is an artist and writer whose latest self-published work Do You Ever Wonder? came out earlier this month. The Sunday Paper is available for pre-order here. Lew Ching or LC speaks with us about the impacts of current travel restrictions with the new COVID-19 variant on international students at Australian universities. LC is a Singaporean Chinese psychology major and youth work student at the Australian National University, and has been living in Canberra since 2017. LC also works part time as a peer support worker and as a youth worker.// Songs//Crest of Gold - Lady Lash//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Mick Power, Logistics Coordinator at United Workers Union, spoke with Rosie earlier this week about Country Road workers' strike action and win at the Truganina warehouse. Workers were fighting for union rights, fair pay and better working conditions.// Julia Cockram, Victorian State Director of Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds, joins us to speak about concerns with the Melbourne cup greyhound racing season, which is now underway. Julia is also a lead volunteer for the rescue group Gumtree Greys.// Tishiko King and Jacynta Fa’amau join Thursday Breakfast to speak about COP26, First Nations and Pacific leadership and solidarity in the fight for climate justice.//Tishiko King is a proud Torres Strait Islander with strong connections to Masig and Badu Islands and is the Campaigns Director at Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network. Tish believes in working towards sustainable futures for First Nations communities, as a Torres Strait Islander, Tishiko understands the intrinsic value of country and the spiritual connection to the islands.//Jacynta Fa’amau is a member of Pacific Climate Warriors and a Regional Pacific Campaign Specialist at 350.// Songs//Weakness - Alice Ivy, Sycco//No Longer There - Spinifex Gum, Marliya Choir//

Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Pan Karanikolas joins us to speak about the impacts of abelist Higher Education policy and the further implementation of the 'Job Ready Graduate Package' on disabled students and students with chronic illness. Pan Karanikolas is a PhD candidate in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, where they are also involved with organising casual university workers and fighting to secure jobs with the La Trobe University Casuals Network. They are also a Board Member of Women with Disabilities Victoria.  Professor Sandy O'Sullivan is a Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary person.They join Thursday Breakfast to speak about Trans Awareness Week. Sandy is a 2020-2024 ARC Future Fellow, with a project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists.  Associate Professor Chelsea Watego is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman. Chelsea’s work has drawn attention to the role of race in the production of health inequalities. Chelsea spoke with Priya earlier in the week about her new book, Another Day In The Colony, which is published by the University of Queensland Press. Chelsea is a founding board member of Inala Wangarra, an Indigenous community development association within her community, a Director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research.   Alex Kakafikas is a long time activist and 3CR broadcaster currently presenting Greek Resistance Bulletin. He is a member of the Solidarity and Defence Fund and joins us this morning to talk about the fund and the importance of building movement infrastructure.  CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY Roxy Moore, Noongar woman and member of the Ban Spit Hoods campaign, speaks with us about the South Australian government's delay in legislating the ban of spit hoods via the Statutes Amendment (Spit Hood Prohibition) Bill, otherwise known as Fella's Bill, in line with campaigning by the family of Wiradjuri, Wirangu and Kokatha man Wayne Fella Morrison. You can support the campaign today by sending an email here. SongsKing Stingray - MilkumanaElectric Fields - Gold EnergyBIRDZ ft. Missy HIggins - LEGACY Part 2.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Monday's episode of Women on the Line, Iris interviewed Dylan O'Hara from Victoria's peer sex-worker organisation Vixen Collective on the benefits of full decriminalisation of sex work and how the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill 2021, which is currently before Victorian Parliament, leaves some sex workers behind. You can listen back to the whole episode at here, and find out how to support the push for amendments to the Bill by visiting the 'No Sex Worker Left Behind' campaign on vixencollective.org.// Shabnam from Action for Afghanistan speaks with us about the continued crisis in Afghanistan, impacts on the Afghan community here in so-called Australia, and the obligation of the Australian government to provide tangible support.// On 14 October, we were joined by Samantha Floreani, Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch, about the Basic Online Safety Expectations, which fall under the Online Safety Act and provide the Minister with broad discretion to define the parameters for digital safety and content restrictions on social media and other online services. We replay this interview today as public consultation on the draft expectations close this Friday 12 November. You can have your say here. If you’re not sure how to get started, Digital Rights Watch has published their submission along with information about how to make a submission here.// Artist and writer Matt Chun joins us to speak about his new self-published picture book ‘Do You Ever Wonder?’, and processes and politics of creating against colonisation in the literary sphere in so-called Australia. You can grab a copy of ‘Do You Ever Wonder?’, as well as Matt’s other work, here.// SongsBlue - Camp Cope//Carafe - Teether and Kuya Neil//

Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines 7:30 Cam Walker, Campaigns Coordinator at Friends of the Earth Melbourne, joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about the climate crisis and what has happened at COP26 in Glasgow so far this week. 7:45 We hear an excerpt from a recent episode of Earth Matters with Dr Mary Graham, a Kombu-merri and Wakka Wakka person from SE Queensland. Dr Graham speaks about Collaborative Governance and Relational Ethos. Earth Matter is broadcast on Sunday 11-11:30 on 3CR. 8:00 Alex, from CUDL (Community Union Defence League) joins us to chat about supporting the community as we emerge from lockdown.   Songs  Bonnie - Bruce Is My Butch Aunty Becca Hatch - Safety  SO.Crates (feat. Zima & Kalala) - Beaut-i-full World  Miiesha - Price I Paid Ngaiire - Moonshine Moktar - Lemon

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Giles Fielke, sessional academic, unionist and member of Casualised, Unemployed and Precarious Uni Workers AU or CUPUW, joins us to speak about the ongoing exploitation of casual workers in Australian universities, failure to convert thousands of casual contracts to ongoing positions, and continued job cuts in the sector.//You can find CUPUW here on Twitter.// As part of our Disarmament Week (24-30 October) breakfast series, we speak with Andy Paine from Disrupt Land Forces about demilitarisation in the Australian context, organising against the military industrial complex, and touching on the recent report launched by the Medical Association for Prevention of War on the influence of weapons companies in Australian Schools.// You can also find more about campaigns against militarisation in Australia via Wage Peace.// Folole Asueao Sagele Tupuola is the Pacific Climate Warriors Coordinator for so-called Victoria, Australia. Daughter of the Moana, they are a storyteller and artist settled on Wathaurung Country. Folole joins us today to discuss the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and the #Youth4Pacific Declaration on Climate Change to be delivered to Pacific Leaders at COP26.// Homes Not Prisons is a campaign calling on the Victorian government to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost Centre and to re-allocate the budget for prison building to public housing. This morning, we are joined by Homes Not Prisons campaign members Vickie Roach, Yuin woman, activist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison, Sara, advocate with lived experience, and Gabi Franich, Flat Out campaign worker, to talk about the campaign’s key priorities in the context of the Victorian government inquiry into the state's criminal justice system.//Head to Homes Not Prisons’ site to sign their open letter and find out more.//  Songs//Click That - The Merindas//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Tuesday 12 October, the Australian Western Sahara Association held a panel discussion on the United Nations' role in the Western Sahara conflict. Today, we hear two speakers from that discussion- Golriz Ghahraman MP, Green Party of Aotearoa NZ, and Kamal Fadel, Polisario Front Representative in Australia and New Zealand. The full event recording is available on the Association's Facebook page, Western Sahara Down Under.// Listen back to Chris Schuringa, campaigner from GECO, the Goongerah Environment Centre, in discussion with Meg and Zeb from City Limits in late September 2021 on how important Direct Action continues to be in protecting the environment.// AM Kanngieser, award-winning geographer and sound artist, joins us to discuss working through listening and attunement to approach the relations between people, place and ecologies. AM is an incoming Marie Curie International Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway University of London.//A list of sources AM mentioned during the interview:Aileen Moreton Robinson - The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous SovereigntyUnaisi Nabobo Baba - Knowing & Learning: An Indigenous Fijian ApproachLeroy Little Bear - Listening to Stones Learning in Leroy Little Bear's laboratory: Dialogue in the world outsideZoe Todd and AM Kanngieser - From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin StudyZoe Todd - https://fishphilosophy.org/Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr - https://www.miriamrosefoundation.org.au/dadirri/Bawaka Collective - https://bawakacollective.com/about-us/ Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste & gender transcendent diva. She speaks with us about Rainbow Vaccination Week or #FabJab, which is running from 18-22 October. Mama Alto will be joining Dr Anita Munoz to answer your vaccine questions live on the JOY 94.9 Facebook page today, Thursday 21 October, from 5:30PM. Find out more about #FabJab here.// Songs// Shadows - Briggs and Troy Cassar-Daley// Rebel Time - MOONGA K. and Sampa the Great// Therapy - June Jones//Lung - Teether, Kuya Neil//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Last week we spoke with Dimity Hawkins about the Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus, held on 7 October 2021. Organised by Renegade Activists, the webinar featured a panel discussion on concerns around the AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US. This morning we hear a segment of the event featuring speakers Talei Mangioni and Scott Ludlam.// Samantha Floreani, Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch (DRW), joins us to speak about the Basic Online Safety Expectations, which fall under the Online Safety Act and provide the Minister with broad discretion to define the parameters for digital safety and content restrictions on social media and other online services. Public consultation on the draft expectations closes 12 November 2021- have your say here. If you’re not sure how to get started, DRW and Electronic Frontiers Australia recently ran a workshop on how to write a policy submission which you can view here.// We speak with Ian Rintoul, spokesperson from the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney, about safety concerns for people currently detained at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation detention centre in Broadmeadows as guards continue to test positive for COVID-19.// While nation states are currently setting targets for biodiversity protection that may or may not be met at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, this week we wanted to turn our attention to the knowledge of First Nations people in protecting the lands and waters across this continent. We are joined today by Bunna Lawrie, a Mirning Elder and whale songman from the Nullabor, to talk about protecting Country and why it's important to learn and think about the animals and plants we're talking about when we say biodiversity. Bunna is a founding member of the band Coloured Stone, and has spent many years fighting to protect his Country.// Songs// King Brown - Barkaa// Surrender - Tseba (feat. PRICIE)//Jeedara (White Whale Song) - Bunna Lawrie with Rob Hirst and Neil Morris//

Acknowledgement of country News headlines Priya caught up with El to discuss how the federal and state governments have failed disabled people during the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, including through the covert de-prioritisation of vulnerable community members who were meant to be covered in phases 1a and 1b of vaccination, as revealed in a recently released Disability Royal Commission draft report. El Gibbs is a disabled person, writer, and disability rights advocate. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre speaks with us about the proposed sale of public land by Moreland Council to build a privately owned health and community services precinct in Coburg, and the importance of prioritising public housing over private profit. Find out more by looking up Coburg Health Precinct at conversations.moreland.vic.gov.au. This morning we hear from Dimity Hawkins, one of the speakers at tonight’s Raucus Anti-Aukus Caucus webinar organised by Renegade Activists. She joins us to talk more about the implications of the Aukus pact with a specific focus on the announcement of nuclear subs that accompanied the announcement of the alliance.  Dimity is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University. She has over two decades of experience in the civil society sector working as an advocate on issues of nuclear disarmament and broader social, environmental and human rights activism and was a co-founder of the  International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. CONTENT WARNING: discussions around disordered eating and body image. Listeners can contact Butterfly Foundation: 1800 33 4673 Laura joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about the impacts of Covid-19 on eating disorders and services. Laura is a clinical psychologist from Melbourne. They've specialised in eating disorders for over seven years, through research, outreach work, support groups, and as a therapist, and currently work in public and private practice supporting individuals affected by eating disorders.  CONTENT WARNING: discussions around family and domestic violence. 1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732Anu Krishnan joins us to speak about the situation for culturally and linguistically diverse communities currently experiencing or accessing support for family violence in Victoria. Anu is a specialist family violence practitioner with over 25 years experience in direct services, prevention and training. She works within mental health and family violence settings, to bring greater cultural understanding and awareness to their work.  SongsEmma Donovan and the Putbacks - Out the DoorPookie - Halloween King Stingray - Milkumana

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) held a discussion on Tuesday 28 September 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. We play a segment featuring 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.// Victoria Legal Aid has operated Independent Family Advocacy and Support or IFAS, a non-legal advocacy support service for parents in the early stages of child protection involvement, since 2018. Today, we are joined by Chloe*, a member of the IFAS reference group, to speak about the role and importance of the service. *Name changed for privacy.// 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 joins us to discuss her award winning debut poetry collection 'how to make a basket'.// Sabina, co-founder of the Australian Anti-Racism Kit, joins us 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.// Frankie Lai from WEstJustice discusses the ‘Ignorance is NOT bliss’ report, which was published on Tuesday 28 September and focuses on the barriers to employment access for young people in Melbourne’s west and how to overcome them. Frankie is a member of the Employment and Equality Law Program at WEstjustice, and has co-coordinated the International Students Work Rights Legal Service, managed and completed the Infographics Project and most recently managed the Youth Employment Justice Project. Frankie is strongly committed to improving access to fair, safe and decent work for all vulnerable workers.//