Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country News headlines Dr Vikrant Kishore, a filmmaker and academic at Deakin University, joined us to speak about COVID-19 and caste discrimination in Australia and India. Dr Kishore's current work involves capturing stories of cultural flows and their impacts on the Indian diaspora in Australia, and his approach involves integrating traditional cultural practices with new media technologies.// Monica Karst, a mental health social worker and founder of Safe Haven Counselling, discussed the proposed extension to telehealth services under Medicare, how the introduction of telehealth services last year impacted service users, and what is needed going forward.// Felix Ralph is a criminal lawyer at Marshall Jovanovska Ralph Criminal Lawyers based in Melbourne’s Western suburbs and CBD, and appears regularly in specialist criminal courts like the Drug Court. He joined us to discuss recent plans for a Drug Court to be introduced into the Victorian County Court.// Guido Melo and Stephen Pham spoke with us about the new anthology, ‘Racism: Stories of Fear, Hate & Bigotry,’ published by Sweatshop Western Sydney Literacy Movement.  Stephen Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Cabramatta. He has been published in Meanjin, Griffith Review of Books, and Sydney Review of Books. Most recently he co-wrote Sex Drugs & Pork Rolls, which was produced by UTP and debuted at Sydney Festival 2021. Guido Melo is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx multilingual author and poet based in Naarm (Melbourne). His words can be found in Peril Magazine, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese, Cordite, Voz Limpia, Alma Preta Jornalismo and Guia Negro News.// Jasmine Pilbrow from Make West Papua Safe joins us to discuss an action on Monday, 10 May 2021 to call on the Australian Federal Police to stop training the Indonesian National Police Force.// Songs// On Our Way - CLYPSO// One - Tasman Keith & Kwame//

Acknowledgement of country News headlines In the lead up to May Day Ella, from 3CR's Wednesday Breakfast, spoke with Lizzie O’Shea on The nature of work and why the term "unskilled labour" doesn't really exist.  Bernardo Duarte, member of the Timorese community, and one of the organisers of the Melbourne Timorese Relief Fund joins us to discuss the situation in Timor-Leste following catastrophic floods at Easter and the impact of Covid-19. Donate here. Jenny Davidson, CEO of the Council of Single Mothers and their Children Victoria, speaks with us about the current Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into the ParentsNext program of welfare conditionality, as well as broader concerns about the program. Submissions are due by 4 May 2021, and more information is available here. Porobibi, West Papuan activist and community organiser, joins the show to give us an update on West Papua and speak about an upcoming event, Before the Genocide happening this 3pm Saturday May 1st at Collingwood Yards. Boe Spearim, Kooma, Muriwarri & Gamilaraay, joins us to speak about his podcast Frontier War Stories, each episode is dedicated to truth-telling about a side of Australia that has been left out of the history books. Frontier War Stories now has 21 episodes and is celebrating its first birthday! SongsTMO - Squidgenini

Acknowledgement of country News headlines Julia Bak is a queer, takatapui writer based in Narrm. Julia joins us to speak about the Disability Justice Network - a newly formed grassroots collective which has created a national mutual aid fund to provide support to marginalised disabled people.   El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. El joins us to discuss the delayed introduction of independent assessments to the NDIS, what  disability communities are actually calling for in the scheme and the Covid-19 vaccine roll out for disabled folks.   Sam Guerra is a queer, non-binary Primary School teacher. They join us to discuss the fight against NSW One Nation MP Mark Latham's anti-trans Education Legislation Amendment 2020 (Parental Freedoms) Bill, which is currently before NSW parliament. Sign the petition pushing back against the Bill here, and find out more about future actions here. Asher Wolf is a founder of CryptoParty and an Amnesty Australia 'Humanitarian Media Award' recipient. Asher spearheaded the campaign against Robodebt which began in 2016 due to the Federal Government's plan to prevent fraud and recover debt from welfare recipients. They join us to speak about vanishing Centrelink debts and Roboplanning logics of NDIS reforms.  SongsStranger - Dallas Woods ft. Kee’ahnRole Models - Kobie Dee

Acknowledgement of country News headlines Meriki Onus, host of The Black Block, speaks to Wurundjeri woman, Sue-Anne Hunter, about the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission - a truth-telling process expected to begin in July 2021. This episode on The Black Block was aired on 12 April 2021 and you can find the whole episode online. The Black Block is an Indigenous current affairs program that is broadcast on 3CR every Monday from 11am-1pm.  June Riemer, Deputy CEO of the First Peoples Disability Network, joins us to speak about proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. We discuss mandatory independent assessments, the experiences of First Nations Peoples when accessing NDIS and the slow rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine to the disability community.  Amanda, an activist scholar of Aboriginal (Brinja-Yuin) and settler (Greek, English) descent, provides some reflections on the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.  Apryl Day, Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Barapa Barapa woman and daughter of Tanya Day – a proud Yorta Yorta grandmother who died in the custody of Victoria Police in 2017, reads the demands of families whose loved ones have died in custody at the Naarm rally for the National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody on Saturday April 10th. Steph Tzanetis, Harm Reduction Victoria’s DanceWize Program Director and board member of Harm Reduction Australia, which runs Pill Testing Australia, discusses the state of support availability for people who use drugs and/or alcohol and how this has changed over COVID. She speaks about findings from the recent coronial inquest into the deaths of five young men between July 2016 and January 2017 after ingesting what they believed to be MDMA and/or magic mushrooms. Today, 15th April, marks 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Some events we encourage listeners to tune into: 1pm 15th April - Stop Black Deaths in Custody Webinar organised by NATSILS3pm 15th April 30 Years: Still No Justice organised by FISTT, WAR and Gamilaraay Next Generation6pm Monday 19th April - Stop Black Deaths in Custody Webinar organised by NATSILS SongsPookie - Mad

Acknowledgement of Country// Micaela Sahhar joined us earlier in the week to discuss her essay ‘COVID Among the Palestinians,’ which was published in Arena Quarterly no. 5. Micaela is a Melbourne-based writer, poet and researcher.// Chris Schuringa from the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) provided us with an update about Camp Errinundra - a blockade halting forest logging in East Gippsland. For more information about Camp Errinundra, visit GECO's website. Key politicians to call and email with your concerns about the forest logging are: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Minister for Energy Environment & Climate Change Lily D'Ambrosio, and Minister for Regional Development & Minister for Agriculture - Mary-Anne Thomas, who is the Minister in charge of VicForests.// Bianca Hennessy, a unionist working with Casualised, Unemployed and Precarious University Workers in so-called Australia, or CUPUW for short, joined us to discuss CUPUW's work and upcoming summit on April 9-10. Bianca is a casual academic and PhD candidate at the Australian National University.// Eirene Tsolidis Noyce, Secretary of the Renters and Housing Union, spoke about recent extensions to the transitional measures for Victorian renters affected by COVID 19, as well as changes to rental property standards.// CONTENT WARNING: TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE, DEATH. On Tuesday 6 April, Anakbayan Melbourne, Gabriela and Migrante held a rally and vigil calling for justice for Mhelody Polan Bruno, a 25 year old Filipina trans woman who died in 2019 in Wagga Wagga, NSW, at the hands of a member of the royal Australian air force. Lawrence, a member of Anakbayan Melbourne, read out a statement from Bahaghari, an anti-imperialist Filipino LGBTQ+ organisation, calling for justice for Mhelody.// Songs// Faithfool - Man Made Mountain ft. Silentjay and LUCFR Circle;Line - Squidgenini Fly - Birdz ft. Ngaiire

Acknowledgement of Country// Thea Deakin-Greenwood, a solicitor from the Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre, discussed calls and support for restorative justice models as another way to address sexual assault matters. Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre's support for alternative models to the criminal legal system follows in light of the NSW Law Reform Commission's recent recommendations to expand criminal legal reforms for sexual consent.// Tasnim Sammak, a PhD candidate at Monash University researching the emergence of youth political subjectivities and imaginaries, joined us to speak about Palestinian Land Day. On Saturday, hundreds gathered at the state library in Narrm/Melbourne to honour Palestinian Land Day, which falls on March 30, commemorating the murder of six Palestianian protestors in 1976 as they were calling attention to Israel’s expropriation of thousands of hectares of land. Tasnim has been involved in Palestinian and Muslim organising since the 2008 Israeli onslaught on Gaza.// Apryl Day, a proud Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Barapa Barapa woman, talks about the Dhadjowa Foundation, which is being established to provide strategic, coordinated and culturally appropriate support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families whose loved ones have died in custody. Apryl is the daughter of Tanya Day, a proud Yorta Yorta grandmother who died in the custody of Victoria Police in 2017.// Ronnie Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai woman who lives and writes in Victoria. She spoke with us about her debut book, Black and Blue, a memoir of her childhood and the decade she spent in the Queensland police force.// Songs// I Can’t Breathe - DOBBY and Barkaa//

Acknowledgement of Country Jack, a delegate from the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), spoke with us to provide an update about the eviction moratorium, which prevents landlords in Victoria evicting tenants for rental arrears. Kristin O'Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, joins us to discuss the Jobmaker hiring credit and the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy and COVID-19 JobSeeker supplement in light of the current Senate inquiry into job security. Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, founding editor of the institutional critique platform Decolonial Hacker and curatorial assistant at the Julia Stoschek Collection, discusses Decolonial Hacker. Eugene is a writer based in Berlin, whose work has appeared in Art+Australia, Griffith Review, The Saturday Paper, Running Dog, and PW-MAGAZINE, among others.  Evelyn Araluen joins us 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.  SongsHeatsink - imbi and Slim SetBones - TelenovaTwo Lovers - Tia GostelowCruisin’ - Emily Wurramurra

Acknowledgement of country We hear Doin Time's Marisa Sposaro speak with Tabitha Lean last week on International Womens' Day  - a day generally not inclusive of Indigenous women. Tabitha spells out the dangers of carceral responses to harm and what criminalising coercive control could mean for Indigenous women experiencing family violence.  Doin Time airs Monday from 4-5pm on 3CR.  Scott Jordan, Tarkine campaigner joins us on the show to speak about the blockade at Venture Minerals' Riley Creek mine site. Yesterday activists blocked the mine site in an effort to prevent works on the controversial and environment destroying project. You can find out more on Facebook and at the Bob Brown Foundation. NO COMMENT is an investigation by Bridget Chappell into the science of phase cancellation — the phenomenon when audio waves work against each other eliminating inverse frequencies — and the theory of ungovernable space. Chappell imagines an anti-carceral speculative future of sound technologies, and tactical defence to ‘phase cancel the cops’ in material, political and psychic terms.  The exhibition is located at Blindside level 7, Room 14 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Naarm/Melbourne.  Dr Ruth de Souza, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at RMIT University, joins us to talk about recent research on older migrant Australians' experiences of isolation during COVID-19. Ruth is a nurse, academic and community engaged researcher in gender, race, health and digital technologies. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow role at The Centre for Digital Transformation of Health at The University of Melbourne and has her own consulting practice. Tilde Joy, from 3CR's Stick Together show, comes on to chat about the special 3CR Binary Busting Broadcast, which airs this Sunday the 21st of March from 12-7PM. SongsIzy - FranticBarkaa - 22clan

Acknowledgement of Country// Adam Thompson, a pakana writer from Launceston, Tasmania, speaks about his debut book of short stories, ‘Born Into This’. Adam has won several local writing awards and has been published by the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Kill Your Darlings and Griffith Review.// Tony Briggs, Artistic Director of the Birrarangga Film Festival, joins us to talk about the festival, which runs from March 11-14 at ACMI. Tony Briggs is a Yorta Yorta/Wurundjeri Stage and Screen Creative - he is an actor, writer, director and producer and he was the creator of the hit feature film The Sapphires. The Birrarangga Film Festival is a celebration of Indigenous films from across the globe that explore themes of 'strength, resilience and the environment'.// Andrew Giles, spokesperson for the United Workers Union, joins us to discuss the ongoing strike by workers at food manufacturer McCormick, over wage freezes and threats to conditions. Support striking McCormick workers here.// Mali Hermans, a Wiradjuri organiser, writer, community worker and project officer at Women with Disabilities Australia living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land, joins us to discuss the government's plan to introduce independent assessments to the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act, and why this proposed change is so concerning. As a disabled woman, Mali is deeply invested in disability justice work, committed to challenging ableism and its intersections with colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy and class, and is studying a Master of Social Work.// Songs//Ek Parivar - L-Fresh the Lion and Akaali Inc// Frantic - Izy// Get Me Out - King Stingray// Don’t Give Up On Me - Emma Donovan and the Putbacks//

Acknowledgement of country News headlines Jill Gallagher, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation speaks to Carly about the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. The final report, released on Tuesday, highlights the catastrophic failures of the mental health system in Victoria. Jill speaks about VACCHO's hopes post-Royal Commission to establish two co-designed healing centres, as well as hopes to create more culturally appropriate and family-oriented health services. Amelia Bright, University of Melbourne Student Union Queer Office Bearer, speaks about the recent escalation of transphobia at the University of Melbourne and how students and staff are fighting back against it to create a campus where everyone feels safe. Chris Schuringa from the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) joins us to give an update about Camp Errinundra - a blockade halting forest logging in East Gippsland.  Larissa Baldwin is a Widjabul woman from the Bundjalung Nations and GetUp’s First Nations Justice Campaign Director. Larissa joins us to discuss Get Up's petition calling for an 'Urgent Moratorium to protect sacred sites' in response to mining giant BHP's irreparable damage to a Banjima sacred site in the Pilbara in so-called Western Australia. Hella Ibrahim, founder and editorial director of Djed Press, joins us to talk about Djed's editorial mentorship and featured writers programs, which will open for application soon,  as well as their Bla(C)K speculative fiction anthology. Songs YUWANI - Mambali ft. Emily WurramaraA Long Way From My Country - Kobie Dee