Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Associate Professor Bradley Moggridge is a Kamilaroi water scientist working on closing the gap between western science and Traditional Science. In this recording from 3CR’s Earth Matters program, Prof Moggridge speaks about how Indigenous knowledge is still sidelined in water management and why this needs to change.// Dr Chris Lemoh is an infectious disease and general physician based at Monash Health in south east Melbourne. He works in a public hospital and at the refugee health service in Dandenong, and is also the current President of the Victorian African Health Action Network. Chris joins us to discuss the impact of Victoria's roadmap to COVID normal on healthcare workers, the healthcare system and marginalised communities.// Melbourne-based electronic pop and R&B duo The Merindas speak with us about their new single ‘Boomerang’ and forthcoming EP (out September 27). The Merindas are the collective force of Ballardong Whadjuk and Nyoongar woman Kristel Kickett and Candice Lorrae of Jawoyn and Thursday Island heritage.// Alec Miguel from Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) takes us through concerns about the policing of anti-lockdown protests, which have escalated over the past week in Melbourne and have been met with a worrying use of tactics and equipment by Victoria Police. MALS is a group of volunteers that support activists to defend their own civil and political rights.// Songs//Closer - Ngaiire// Addy - Teether and Kuya Neil feat. Sevy//Boomerang - The Merindas//

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// Wiradjuri and Noongar woman Edie Shepherd spoke with Annie from 3CR’s Stick Together show to provide an update on the campaign to stop fracking in the Northern Territory, and raised concerns about government failures to protect Aboriginal communities in far west NSW from COVID-19. Edie is a senior organiser in the First Nations Justice Team at GetUp!.// Coedie McAvoy is a Wangan Jagalingou cultural custodian who speaks with us from the edge of Adani's Carmichaeal mine site, where Wangan and Jagalingou people have been holding a continuous Waddananggu ceremony for the past 3 weeks. Coedie discusses communication, consent and protecting Wangan and Jagalingou Country. Find out more ad support here.// Mo'ju is a singer/songwriter whose third album Native Tongue was one of 2018’s most important and award-winning releases, documenting a deep and intimate exploration of her Wiradjuri and Filipino roots. She joins us to talk about her new single 'Wave' which premieres today on community radio stations across the continent. The full album is set for release November 19th as part of 'Flash Forward'.// Chaya is a postgraduate student, artist and community organiser with Sydney-based Tzedek Collective. She speaks with us about anti-colonial Jewish organising and the Collective's upcoming online launch event (18 September, 6-7PM) and art auction (17-26 September) which is raising funds for AlQaws and Black Rainbow. Find out more and register at tzedekcollective.com.//  Songs Shiver - Ngaiire H I G H E R - Kwame Wave - Mo'ju

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On 11 August, James Brennan interviewed senior economist from the Centre for Future Work Alison Pennington about the issues facing workers who are working from home on 3CR’s Stick Together program. While casualisation was sold as a flexible working option, with the employers holding the power it has meant workers are in insecure work. The COVID-19 pandemic has meant many workers are working at least partially from home. Listen to the full interview here.// Ian Rintoul, spokesperson from the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney, joins us to discuss the safety of people currently detained at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre in Broadmeadows, after a guard tested positive for COVID-19 almost two weeks ago.// Barkindji woman and Wilcannia resident Monica Kerwin spoke with Priya earlier in the week to provide some updates on the COVID-19 situation in Wilcannia, highlighting how the federal and state government have failed Aboriginal communities during the delta wave. Content warning: this segment includes mentions of suicidal ideation. You can contact Lifeline 24/7, Australia-wide on 13 11 14.// Jesse Noakes, co-founder and coordinator of House the Homeless WA, speaks with us about the homelessness crisis in Western Australia and the recent investment in social housing flagged in the 2021-22 state budget.//Poet and educator Eunice Andrada joins us 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.// SongsMade for Silence - Miiesha One By One - Ancestress

Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines James, Jackson and Mercedes from Uprise Radio caught up with Friends of the Earth campaign coordinator Cam Walker to discuss the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report. Cam talks about the report's strengths and weaknesses and campaigning opportunities in the lead up to the looming federal election. This conversation is part of a 2 part special  - the full discussion can be found here. Thursday Breakfast speaks with a Victorian high school art and woodwork teacher, who has taught in regional and metro areas as well as overseas in London. They are currently teaching at an inner city public school, and join us to talk about the challenges of teaching through the recurring lockdowns in Naarm.  Heela Arsala, an Afghan Australian who moved to Australia 30 years ago with her family, joins us to talk about the current situation in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal. As well as how the non-Afghan community can stand in solidarity over the coming months. Heela is a practicing commercial lawyer and she spends a considerable amount of time giving back to the community by advising not-for-profits as well as being the director of Edmund Rice Camps Vic.  Brendan Kennedy is a Tati Tati Elder from Victoria's north-west. He is the Director of Tati Tati Kaiejin, an artist, teacher and linguist. Brendan joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about water rights and returning Cultural Flows to Margooya Lagoon, a permanent wetland on the Murray river in northern Victoria. A new report, produced by Environmental Justice Australia, lays out a plan for how this important action can proceed. You can support calls for Cultural Flows by sending a letter to government here.Kristin O'Connell, who does research and policy at the Antipoverty Centre, joins us to speak about the ongoing need to raise the rate and #PayPeopleToStayHome, provide updates on the mutual obligations bill, and discuss the Antipoverty Centre and People with Disability Australia's joint submission to the inquiry into the Disability Support Pension. SongsSimona Castricum - Grateful for the Heartache

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We play the second part of a two-part interview with JN Joniad, where he speaks about the experiences of refugees stranded in Indonesia due to the Australian government's border regime, the consequences of being stuck in a country which is not a signatory to the 1951 refugee convention, and the work refugee activists are doing to raise awareness and fight for their rights. Joniad is a Rohingya journalist and journalism editor at the archipelago magazine. He is a student of political science and human rights activist, and was formerly an Engineering and Physics student in Myanmar, before being forced to flee to Indonesia. Joniad contributes to film and publishing accounts of refugees searching for a safe and durable solution.// CONTENT WARNING: this segment includes some discussion of traumatic experiences endured while seeking asylum which may be distressing to listeners who are refugees or from refugee backgrounds. If you need to speak to someone about this, you can call Lifeline 24/7 Australia wide on 13 11 14.// The Freedom Street documentary covers the story of Joniad and other refugees trapped in Indonesia due to Australia's border regime- donate to their fundraiser. Don’t forget to check out the archipelago magazine too!// Dylan O'Hara, Advocacy Coordinator at Vixen Collective, and Gala Vanting, National Programs Manager at Scarlet Alliance, join us to discuss the road to decriminalising sex work in Victoria, and the information kit developed by Vixen Collective and Scarlet Alliance to support people to make submissions to the government's public consultation process- due Friday 27 August. You can find the information kit here.//Scarlet Alliance has been running an emergency support fund for sex workers in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic- donate here.// Hoang is a parent and co-founding member of ViệtSpeak. Hoang discusses the work ViệtSpeak does around bilingual education and their open letter to the Maribyrnong City Council calling for support and funding for a Vietnamese-English bilingual early childhood education program in Melbourne's West.// Babs is a founding member of Loud Jew Collective - a new group formed in Naarm, which is a space for bringing people together and for pushing the boundaries of what it means to be Jewish. Babs joins us to chat about their launch event 'What is the future you dream of?', which will be held online on Thursday 2 September.// Asami discusses the impacts of lockdown on mental health, as well the online platform Shapes and Sounds, which she established to talk about Asian Australian mental health and wellbeing. Asami is a first generation migrant who moved to Melbourne from Japan when she was 4 years old. She started Shapes and Sounds in 2019 after spending 5 years in the community and youth mental health sector, where she witnessed that young Asian Australians were not being given the same care and treatment as their white peers.//

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Petition calling on the release of pro-independence  and antiracism activist Victor Yeimo This is the first part of a two-part interview with JN Joniad, where he speaks about his own experience of seeking asylum and becoming stranded in Indonesia, and the Australian government's complicity in this process. Joniad is a Rohingya journalist and journalism editor at the archipelago magazine. He is a student of political science and human rights activist. He was formerly an Engineering and Physics student in Myanmar, before being forced to flee to Indonesia. Joniad contributes to film and publishing accounts of refugees searching for a safe and durable solution.  CONTENT WARNING: this segment includes some discussion of traumatic experiences endured while seeking asylum which may be distressing to listeners who are refugees or from refugee backgrounds. If you need to speak to someone about this, you can call Lifeline 24/7 Australia wide on 13 11 14.  The Freedom Street documentary covers the story of Joniad and other refugees trapped in Indonesia due to Australia's border regime- donate to their fundraiser We speak with Mariam, a clinical scientist and Afghan clothing and jewellery boutique owner, about her fundraising campaign to raise emergency funds for displaced families in Kabul, during the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Mariam moved to Australia in 2001 on a humanitarian visa from Pakistan with her mother.  Senator Lidia Thorpe is a DjabWurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman and The Greens Senator for Victoria. In 2017, she became the first Aboriginal woman in Victorian parliament. In 2020, she became the first Indigenous person to represent Victoria in federal parliament. This morning, she’s joining us on 3CR to talk about Treaty in light of incarceration rates and climate change, and to discuss the Truth Telling and Treaty Circle which is on this evening at 7pm.  Eirene, Secretary of the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), joins us to discuss a recent VCAT decision that ruled it lawful for renters to be evicted from their homes for unpaid rental debt accrued during the victorian eviction moratorium that ended in March this year. We will also discuss the ongoing rental stress and housing precarity of casualised workers and those on low incomes amid current lockdowns. Sara El Sayed joins us to speak about her first book, Muddy People. Her work features in the anthologies Growing Up African in Australia and Arab, Australian, Other. She is a recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2020 Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award.  SongsKing Stingray - Milkumana

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Nicky Stott from 3CR's Earth Matters show spoke with Chris Schuringa from GECO about proposed changes to the Victorian state logging code. Catch Earth Matters every Sunday from 11-11:30AM on 3CR.// Paul Healey, State Secretary of the Health and Community Services Union or HACSU, joins us to discuss Victorian mental health workers' fight for fair remuneration and working conditions as part of their new multi-year enterprise bargaining agreement.// Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Witt Gorrie about the newly launched fundraiser for Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans Gender Diverse Decarceration Project. 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.// Hensen Jeong, Research and Policy Officer at the Migrant Workers Centre, discusses the MWC’s new campaign around the future of the Visa System in Australia. They also speak about the MWC’s current survey asking migrant workers about their experiences in Australia and the impact of the visa system.// Dr Natalie Osborne, one of the hosts of Radio Reversal on 4zzz community radio 102.1FM in Meanjin/Brisbane, chats with us about the 4zzz Radiothon fundraiser and the ways community radio can support transformative political projects.// Songs Always Was - Flewnt ft. Dylan Voller and Tani Walker Theory - Teether and Kuya Neil Molotov - Kira Puru

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We replay part of an episode of 3CR's The Black Block from Friday 28th July, where Viv Malo caught up with Palawa artist Thelma Beeton about the power of art and sisterhood in an exhibition currently showing at the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick. Banj Banj/nawnta, meaning sister in the First Nations languages of Taungurung/Palawa kani respectively, represents the unique friendship between artists Thelma and Taungurong and Boon Wurrung woman Stacey, both of whom are participants in The Torch’s Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program.// Cam Walker, Campaigns Coordinator at Friends of the Earth Melbourne, speaks with us about FoE Melbourne's report released this week titled 'An Icon at Risk, Current and Emerging threats to the Victorian High Country', which details environmental risks to the Victorian Alps including the potential loss of Snow Gum forests. You can sign FoE Melbourne’s petition to the Victorian Government here.// Professor Sandy O'Sullivan, a Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary researcher in Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, takes us through some of the problems with the 2021 Australian census with respect to gender and sexuality. Sandy is a 2020-2024 ARC Future Fellow, with a project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists which explores the unique contribution and influence of queer artists to understand how modelling complex identities contributes to the wellbeing of all First Nations' peoples.// Maree Clarke, a Yorta Yorta / Wamba Wamba / Mutti Mutti / Boonwurrung woman joins us to discuss the exhibition Wrapped in Culture, opening tomorrow Friday 6th August at Footscray Community Art Centre. She is a well-respected figure of the south-eastern Australian Aboriginal community for her work supporting Aboriginal artists and for her own successful career as a visual artist in the mainstream arts scene. In her practice she works to revive elements of Aboriginal culture that were lost in the period of colonisation and uses art as a tool to heal.// Songs Black and Yellow - Wiz Khalifa Tranquilize - Telenova Stay in Bed - Alice Skye

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// On the May 3rd episode of 3CR's Women on the Line program, Priya caught up with Dr Indigo Willing and Emily Kafoa to talk about how skateboarders are shifting the conversation on consent, anti-racism and inclusivity. Dr Indigo Willing is a Vietnamese sociologist and skateboarder and co-founder of both We Skate Queensland and Consent is Rad, based in Meanjin on Jagera and Turrbal land. Emily Kafoa is a Bundjalung skater, a Minjungbul girl from Tweed Heads, and is the founder of Girls Skate Gold Coast as well as a new ambassador for the First Nations skate team Songline Skateboarding. Catch Women on the Line on 3CR on Mondays from 8:30-9AM, and listen back to the full episode here.// Melbourne-based stand up comedian Anna Piper-Scott joins us to discuss the slow reopening of the arts in Melbourne, and the impact this has had on performers and other arts workers. A trans woman for remarkable wit and social insight, Anna is a skilled writer and bold performer. Her comedy is incisive, relatable, well-crafted and flat out funny. You can find her website here.// Dr David Kelly, Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT and an organiser at the Save Public Housing Collective, joins us to talk about Save Public Housing Collective's newly launched map, which plots public housing decline in Victoria. You can find the map and more information about the Collective here.// 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 joins us 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 Missing You - Budjerah Everything Is Great - Alice Skye

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline We play a short excerpt of episode 4 of Black Gold, a series produced in the studios of 3CR Community Radio on Wurundjeri land in Fitzroy, by Kerri-Lee Harding and assistant producer Corey Green. The episode is presented by Viv Malo and celebrates the life of broadcaster Lisa Bellear.  We would also like to advise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners that the program contains the voices of people who have passed away. Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual abuse.  Lloyd Williams, National Secretary of the Health Services Union joins us to talk about the Change Aged Care Campaign to increase the pay of aged care workers by 25%. El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. El joins us to talk about the Senate inquiry into the Disability Support Pension and Department of Social Services consultation on the DSP impairment tables We speak to Cait Kelly, a journalist currently working at The New Daily. Cait joins us to discuss the pay and conditions of fruit pickers, And the application by the Australian Workers Union to the Fair Work Commission for a rise in the award wage for farm workers.    Songs  Baarka - King Brown Miiesha - Made for Silence  Squidgenini - All Made Up Miss Blanks - Fly High