Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Jay Coonan, the National Operations Co-coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, joins us to discuss the coalition government's abysmal raise to Jobseeker, tightening of Mutual Obligations and AUWU's #80aDay campaign. Jay is also the outgoing policy coordinator for the AUWU. Ben Redford is the Director of Strategic Power at the United Workers Union. Ben joins us to update listeners on the government's proposed Industiral Relations bill and to discuss the United Workers Union's campaigns around stolen wages.  Sean, a renter in Thornbury, member of the Renting and Housing Union's eviction defence team, and neighbour to Louise, joins us to speak about RAHU's Keep Louise Home campaign.Alexander Powers is a DJ, music producer, event organiser, contemporary dancer and choreographer living and working on Wurundjeri land. they join us to talk about the upcoming launch of Powertrip, a label showcasing local queer dance music.SongsHold On - Emma Donovan and the PutbacksChurch - Kuya NeilPlease U - Becca Hatch ft. Planet VegetaMedusa - Jesswar

Acknowledgement of country News Wiradyuri Traditional Owners, Yanhadarrambal Uncle Jade Flynn, Mallyan Uncle Brian Grant, Dinawan Uncle Bill Allen and Arlia Fleming from Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre  join Carly to discuss the scheduled destruction of a sacred Wiradyuri women’s site on Whaluu (Mount Panorama). To support Wiradyuri Traditional Owners, voice your concern about the go kart track by calling Paul Toole MP, State Member for Bathurst on (02) 6332 1300 and sign the petition Save Mount Panorama.  Jonathan Hempel is a researcher for American Friends Service Committee and the co-founder of the Database of Israeli Military and Security Export, DIMSE.info. He joined us to discuss Israeli arms and security intelligence companies exporting to Australia. On Tuesday 16th February a Victorian research centre, a partnership between Israeli owned company Elbit Systems and the Victorian government, was launched. Human rights organisations and research reports have criticised Elbit (among other Israeli arms and security companies) for their involvement in occupation of Palestine and profiting from war.  Dr David Kelly, Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT and an organiser at the Save Public Housing Collective, joins us to discuss the Victorian government's current consultation for the development of a 10-year strategy for social and affordable housing, and to explain the importance of maintaining and building public housing.

Acknowledgement of country //News //Liv Tualau joins the show to speak about Nursery for Community, a nursery adaptation project in Vanuatu. The project has been created as a response to climate change and natural disasters which have damaged the livelihoods of many across the island, impacting on food stock and food security. You can support the project here. //Liz Starry is a financial counsellor working at Women's Legal Service. She will join us to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted financially disadvantaged women experiencing family violence. Liz has worked in several community service organisations, and prior to the Legal Service, with people experiencing homelessness. As a Financial counsellor, Liz is a member of Financial Counselling Vic and convenes the Working Group on Centrelink issues. //Jack Bertolus, Research Coordinator at Market Forces joins us to speak about tax breaks afforded to the resource extraction industry and recent disclosures of fossil fuel company donations to major political parties. //Gala Vanting, National Programs Manager at Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, speaks about the federal government's Online Safety Bill, which poses a serious threat to sex worker livelihoods and digital freedom and privacy. //Ayebatonye Abrakasa, DJ and artist based on Gadigal Land, joins us to chat about the brand new podcast Four to the Floor: Exploring the Bla(c)k roots of contemporary music, a podcast about Bla(c)k music, history and culture in Australia and beyond. Four to the Floor is created and hosted by Ayebatonye and produced by Sarah Mashman as part of Melbourne Music Week, and you can catch the first episode with guest Paul Gorrie here. // Songs //Kick off by Khtek //

Acknowledgement of country News headline Chris Schuringa from GECO spoke to us in April 2020 about the 10-year logging exemptions that had been rolled over at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions while the area was recovering from this season's devastating bushfires. These logging exemptions means that native forests will continue to be destroyed. We cross live to Isaac Carné who is currently occupying a tree in an area of the lands of the Gunaikurnai, Bidewell and Monero people, also known as East Gippsland, which is earmarked for logging by VicForrests despite government recommendations released in October last year. We are joined by Carly Findlay and C.B. Mako joins us to discuss Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Carly Findlay OAM is a writer, speaker and appearance activist. She is the author of memoir 'Say Hello' and the editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia C.B. Mako is a non-fiction, fiction, and fanfiction writer, member of Disabled QBIPOC Collective and a contributor to Growing Up Disabled in Australia.  Tameeka Tighe, Gomeroi, Dunghutti and Biripi woman and member of Gamilaraay Next Generation and Fighting in Solidarity Towards Treaties (FISTT), joins us to talk about tomorrow's day of action organised by Gamilaraay next Generation to protest Santos' Narrabri Gas Project and the Santos Festival of Rugby. Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. She joins us to discuss the digital launch of Voiceworks issue 121, Root where you will find knitted boyfriends, flooded apartments and regret-filled werewolves. Voiceworks is a national literary journal that features exciting new writing and art by young Australians. Their purpose is to create a space for people under twenty-five to develop their creative and editorial skills and to publish, and be paid for, their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and comics. Songs No Further Than you - Izy

Acknowledgement of country News headline We hear Yorta Yorta Bundjalung man John Patten speaking about the history of the Day of Mourning at the Invasion Day Dawn Service 2021.  We hear an excerpt of speeches from the Invasion Day Rally 2021 in Naarm. We hear from speakers Uncle Bill Nicholson, Stan Dryden, Sue-Anne Hunter and Mandy Nicholson.  Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union, joins us to discuss the impending second cut to the jobseeker payment and the need for vision and compassion in Australian social security policy. Priya and Carly fundraisers and petition that listeners can support, including:NATSILS - Petition calling on the Prime Minister to meet with families whose loved ones have died in custody for 30th anniversary of Royal CommissionLandBack Festival - Fundraiser for Wuurn of Kanak Refugee Voices Fundraiser for the men released from hotel detention  Songs Solid Gold - Sycco White Noise - Dancingwater Groovy - Barkaa About These Demons - Jimblah Australia Does Not Exist (ft. Kee'ahn) - DRMNGNOW

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Mozhgan Moarefizadeh and Nicole Curby, co-hosts of The Wait, join us to introduce listeners to the podcast. The Wait is a new five-part narrative podcast series, telling the story of the refugees stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s border crackdown. The Wait will be airing each week on Thursday Breakfast during our summer programming.  Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union, gives us a rundown of the big changes in social security policy in 2020. Shakira Hussein  joins us to discuss two of her recent articles: The Christchurch Massacre:an Australian Crime and the other on ecofacism and disability published on the other film festival. Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of From Victims to Suspects:Muslim Women from 9/11.  Joshua Badge, a queer writer and philosopher living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, joins us to discuss and contextualise the most recent spate of queer and transphobic articles in Australian media. Joshua's writing has been featured in places like Meanjin, Overland, The Guardian, & Junkee. They previously lectured at Deakin University and currently volunteer with Thorne Harbour Health and the Renters and Housing Union. Priya reads No Flowers, a poem by Bridget Flack, as a tribute to her memory. Vale Bridget Flack. SongsJerome Farah - Vibrate

Acknowledgement of country News We hear an excerpt from a conversation between Carol Que and Joel Spring, part of the Digital Launch of Hyphenated Biennial 2020/2021. Carol and Joel speak about Anticolonial Asian Alliance, Radio Skid Row and translation work.  George Newhouse, Principal Solicitor and Director of the National Justice Project joins us to speak about the High Court of Australia's recent decision ruling that the Federal Court has the power to hear the claims of over 50 refugees and asylum seekers. Claimants now have the opportunity to take action for breaches of duty of care whilst held in the custody of the Australian government. Liz Crash is a local historian of Melbourne and prison abolitionist, as well as a co-creator of the Underfoot project, a series of virtual tours uncovering the secret histories of Footscray. Liz joins us to speak out about and historically contextualise the recently launched redevelopment of Pentridge Prison in Coburg into a retail and hospitality precinct. Keith Quayle joins us to discuss the push to remove police and corrective services officers from the Mardi Gras parade and plans for Pride in Protest’s Mardi Gras Oxford Street Takeover next March. Keith Quayle is a Malyangapa/Barkindji gay man raised on Dharug country. He is a member of Pride in Protest, SWOP and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Members Committee. Aminata is a true aquarian vegan weirdo and they'll be a guest artist on Channel QTIPOC hosted by InVisible, a community led queer program that connects PoC, Friday December 11th at 4pm.  SongsBosh - DjombBarkaa - 22 clanMiiesha - Neon Moon

Acknowledgement of country News Last week, Tecber Ahmed Salah, Head of African Union Department, Ministry of Public Health in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Oxfam Algeria Country Director, Haissam Minkara spoke with the Australian Western Sahara Association about the precarity and effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the Saharawi residents of Tindouf camps in Algeria.  Bobuq Sayed is a fiction writer, essayist, editor, and multidisciplinary artist. Their research interests include the War on Terror, fugitivity, queer and trans* studies, theories of place, and faggotry. On November 23rd they published A New Generation of Australian War Criminals in Meanjin online in response to the mainstream media coverage of the Brereton Report and war crimes perpetrated by the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan.  Candy Bowers joins us to speak about her podcast Multi-Hypho. Candy Bowers is a radical mischief-maker and award-winning cross-disciplinary artist born of South African political refugees. She has a long list of original works to her name, including Inna Thigh: The Sista She Story, The Naked MC, Hyper Fragility #why-are-white-men-so-defensive-lol, MC Platypus & Queen Koala's Hip Hop Jamboree, Who's That Chik?, Australian Booty, One The Bear and Hot Brown Honey Burlesque.  June Riemer, Deputy CEO of First Peoples' Disability Network, joins us to discuss the Disability Royal Commission from a First Nations perspective, focusing on the intersection between disability and child removal. SongsAziza Brahim Baraka

Acknowledgement of country News Karen Wyld joins us to talk about her newly published book, Where the Fruit Falls. Karen Wyld is a freelance writer and author currently based in South Australia but her grandmother's county, Martu is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.   Human rights defender and activist Adolf Mora joins us today to speak more about the situation in West Papua and the Make West Papua Safe campaign. Adolf came by boat in 2006 and has been detained in Christmas Island for a bit then granted temporary protection via and came to Narrm since then to continue the campaign for his people’s struggle under Indonisian colonialism.  Professor Libby Porter joins us to discuss the Andrews Government’s recent announcement of investment in social housing and what it really means. Libby Porter is a research fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University and convenor for Darebin Community Friends of Public Housing which is a member of Save Public Housing Collective.  Dr. Fiona Foley joins us on the show to speak about her new book Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. Fiona Foley is from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala nation. Foley completed her fourth film titled Out of the Sea Like Cloud in 2019.  Her recent exhibitions include a 25-year photographic retrospective titled Who Are These Strangers and Where Are They Going? Dr Fiona Foley is currently a Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.  Kamal Fadel, the representative for the Polisario Front in Australia and New Zealand joins us to discuss the Western Sahara independence movement and the end of a 29-year-old ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario Front, the Western Sahara independence movement, after the Moroccan military opened fire on a blockade halting civic and commercial flux on the only road connecting West Africa to Western Sahara, Morocco and Europe. You can find out more and how to support the Saharawi community in so-called Australia here. SongsEmma Donovan and The Putbacks - Leftovers

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Mother and daughter Savanna and Kim Kruger, members of the Warrior Woman Lane project working group, cousins of Lisa Bellear and part of her Melbourne Aboriginal community, speak to Priya about honouring Lisa Bellear's life and legacy.  Arika Waulu (dey/dem), discusses their sovereign-led land-back initiative Wuurn of Kanak. Find out more and support the fundraiser here. Fan Yang (she/her)  joins us to speak about QR codes, COVID and surveillance. Fan is a PhD candidate at school of communication and creative arts, Deakin University. She researches and publishes on Chinese technologies overseas and the effect of large-scale international social media platforms in terms of cross-jurisdictional tensions and expectations, and their cross-border effects on political activity and identity, surveillance and information privacy. Viv Malo joins us to discuss the 2020 Beyond the Bars CD launch, on air today from 2-3.30pm. This broadcast event will feature highlights from the July broadcasts and officially launch the 2020 CD. BTB is a 3CR community project designed to give Indigenous prisoners a voice. Encompassing music and spoken word workshops facilitated by Indigenous presenters from 3CR, the project then culminates in six radio shows broadcast live from regional Victorian prisons during NAIDOC Week July 8-12.  Viv Malo presentsThe Black Block every Monday from 11am here on 3CR. Featuring local indigenous voices with unadulterated grass roots perspectives. Viv is part of the Beyond The bars production team.Songs Bumpy - FallingDRMNGNOW (ft. Emily Wurramara) - Get Back To The LandBayang - Sugar Cane