Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear part of the first episode of Frontier War Stories hosted by Boe Spearim. This podcast delves into the first 140 years of conflict and resistance on this continent. In the first episode, Boe speaks with Callum Clayton Dixon - Ambeyang researcher, author of Surviving New England and PhD student working on the Anaiwan dictionary. In this episode Callum speaks about his book Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through The First Forty Years of the Colonial Apocalypse".  We listen to the last segment of a three part podcast presented by Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco. In the series the students look into how Think Tanger works with different communities to carve out a creative space in a rapidly expanding city. In conversation with the creative minds behind Think Tanger co-founder Amina Mourid and communications manager Youssef el Idrissi, part 3 delves into community building and fostering stronger solidarity networks beyond class boundaries as the city changes. We hear part of a conversation with spoken word artist Dr. Denise Chapman who shared poems with us last week reflecting on BLM in the US/Turtle Island and the murder of George Floyd. Denise is a storyteller who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy and new media/technology at Monash University. She uses poetry, oral stories, children’s literature, film, call-and-response storying, and interactive digital content as windows and spaces for critical activism. Her creative art and research centre the experiences of marginalization and oppression to illuminate inequities and put forward social change.  Songs Sampa the Great (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi) - Energy Tkay Maidza - ShookJess B - Pon it

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear a number of speeches from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally that took place on Saturday 6th June. In this first segment of audio we hear from Meriki Onus from Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Sue-Anne Hunter, Mandy Nicholson, Ky-ya Nicholson-Ward and Warren Day supported on stage by two of Tanya Day’s first cousins. In the second segment of audio from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally we hear speeches by Dwayne, the brother of Veronica Nelson accompanied by Viv Malo, Uncle Ray Thomas, Uncle Ted Wilkes, Justin (supported on stage by Rachel Hocking) reading a statement from the family of Kumanjayi Walker with input by Samara Fernandez and Walpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves and Uncle Talgium Edwards.  We hear a number of poems by Dr. Denise Chapman, a storyteller, digital media-creator, and spoken word artist who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy and new media/technology at Monash University. She uses poetry, oral stories, children’s literature, film, call-and-response storying, and interactive digital content as windows and spaces for critical activism. Her creative art and research centre the experiences of marginalization and oppression to illuminate inequities and put forward social change. Denise will share a few of poems reflecting on racism and her experience as a Black woman from the US/turtle island in Australia. We hear a final speech from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally delivered by wāni Le Frère and written in collaboration with Pauline Vetuna and Hamile Ibrahim. wāni speaks about violence against Black peoples, colonies & continent, connecting Black struggle across so-called Australia, the Pacific, the African continent, the United States and more. Links to support families of First Nations people who have died in custody  SongsPhilly - Yil Lull

Acknowledgement of Country  News headlines with Cait Kelly  Carly mixes a music selection of local artists.  We listen to part 2 of a three part podcast presented by Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco. The idea is to understand how Think Tanger work with different comunities to carve out a creative space in a rapidly expanding city that with high infrastructure changes bring urban/social challenges. In conversation with the creative minds behind Think Tanger co-founder Amina Mourid and communications manager Youssef el Idrissi, part 2 looks at how artistic projects can form solidarity networks beyond class boundaries. We hear readings by Sam Petersen, Emily Johnson and Alison Whittaker recorded as part of the online launch of un Magazine 14.1 on Care. The launch took place earlier in May. We hear part of an interview from Marisa Sposaro from the Doin' Time show who speaks with Palm Island man Lex Wotton about Channel 9's racist reporting on the way Palm Island compensation recipients have spent their money. SongsKee'ahn - Better Things Alice Skye - Grand Ideas Miiesha - Broken Tounges The Merindas - I Feel It Kobie Dee - Still Standing feat. Liyah Knight Jimblah - Black Life Matters feat. Ellie May

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Tanya Talaga, Anishinaabe journalist and author, about her recent book All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism. We will hear a number of poems by Darlene Silva Soberano. Darlene is a poet whose work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, Peril Magazine, Going Down Swinging, and elsewhere. Darlene currently serves as a poetry editor for Voiceworks Magazine, and is a recipient of a Hot Desk Fellowship from The Wheeler Centre in 2020. Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco present part one of a three part podcast. In a series of interviews with the creative minds behind Think Tanger co-founder Amina Mourid and communications manager Youssef el Idrissi, the topics covered include urbanisation in Tanger and the region, creative spaces and art as a tool to build stronger solidarity between communities through artistic mediums and research.Priya speaks with Jordy Silverstein, a historian and casual academic working at Macquarie University in Sydney, and Deakin, Monash, Latrobe Universities in Melbourne, about the impacts of COVID-19 on higher education in so-called Australia, and the way that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing issues in the sector. We discuss the actions of universities, the National Tertiary Education Union or NTEU's Jobs Protection Framework, and resistance from casual university workers.

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 8 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Simon Clough. Simon is currently the culture and practice manager of Brook RED a peer led mental health service. Simon is a passionate advocate for lived-experience practice, learning to live with his own mental health concerns and using them to assist others.  Timmah Ball reads her recent piece ‘Imaginary Conversations about the Past and the Future’.Timmah is an emerging nonfiction writer of Ballardong Noongar heritage whose writing is influenced by studying and working in urban planning. In 2016 she won the Westerly magazine Patricia Hackett Prize, and her writing has appeared in a range of anthologies and literary journals. Max speaks with Dr Patricia Ranald, convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network and a research fellow at University of Sydney, about how mining companies, Big Pharma and other global corporations use trade agreements to pressure and sue governments. They discuss how this has occurred recently in relation to essential COVID-19 public health measures. We hear soundscapes of Tanger, Morocco produced – as part of a workshop run by Chloé Despax in collaboration with Think Tanger – by two participants, Bill and Amina. Think Tanger is an organisation that looks into the social impacts of urbanisation in the northern city.  Max speaks with Paul Kidd from Fitzroy legal service about their new Covid policing service - a free information and advice phone service for people who have been stopped, questioned, fined, and/or charged for breaching the new COVID-19 restrictions.

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 7 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Anna Carlson about how surveillance operates in so-called Australia and how it's operating amidst COVID-19.Anna Carlson is a cofounder and organiser of the Brisbane Free University, co-host of 4zzz's Radio Reversal and a freelance radio producer, illustrator, writer and community (dis)organiser. She is mid way through her PhD, supervised by Dr. Alissa Macoun, Associate Professor Chelsea Bond, Dr. Liz Strakosh, and Dr. David Singh. Her research examines the relationship between surveillance and colonial governance in (so-called) Brisbane, focusing on how surveillance functions to produce and maintain settler colonial regimes of possession, ownership and belonging. Victoria’s only free legal service for the LGBTIQ community will host the first ever virtual Change Your ID Day this Monday 18 May. Sam Elkin speaks with Max about the upcoming live online session, which will provide practical information on how trans and gender diverse people can change their name and preferred sex descriptors on legal identification documents. (note more tix to be released soon)  Neika Lehman, a writer and artist living and working on Kulin Country, reads a number of poems. Neika grew up in Tasmania | lutruwita and descends from the Trawlwoolway peoples of north east Tasmania. Their ancestral and contemporary stories inform Neika’s written and visual practice.  We hear the second part of Scheherazde’s conversation with Dr Shakira Hussein is a writer and academic in multiculturalism and Muslim studies at the National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne. Last week Shakira spoke about the intersection of race, islamophobia and COVID19, this week she discusses the dynamics of race, class and the far-right within the settler colony. Priya Speaks with Raj Patel, a former university cleaner stood down during COVID-19 and member of the United Workers' Union, about the Australian Universities Support Your Cleaners petition. This interview follows on from Priya's chat with Nick Ferguson about the same petition a few weeks ago. Songs Sophiegrophy - Boii

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 6 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Lauren Caulfield. Lauren works at the intersection of interpersonal and state-sanctioned gender violence, and is involved in training, organising work and community-based interventions to violence. She also coordinates the “Policing Family Violence: Changing the Story” project, which is a collaborative, integrated community legal and survivor support project that responds to harm and criminalisation of people through family violence policing. Max speaks with Apryl Watson, daughter of Aunty Tanya Day, on the open letter and petition from families of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody calling on the Australian Governments to urgently release people from prison to prevent COVID-19 deaths. Scheherazade speaks with Dr Shakira Hussein, a writer and academic in multiculturalism and Muslim studies at the National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, about the intersection of race, islamophobia and COVID-19.Priya speaks with Chelsea Bond, a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman and long-term Aboriginal Health Worker and researcher. Chelsea is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland’s Poche Health Centre for Indigenous Health, and a co-host of the show Wild Black Women on 98.9FM in Meanjin. They discuss the public discussion around the 250th anniversary of Cook’s invasion.To intro this segment we hear a poem by Neika Lehman titled ‘Cook 250’. Neika Lehman is a writer and artist living and working on Kulin Country. Neika grew up in Tasmania | lutruwita and descends from the Trawlwoolway peoples of north east Tasmania. Their ancestral and contemporary stories inform Neika’s written and visual practice.

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly In episode 5 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Nawa Nightshade, herbalist, somatic coach, death doula and community organiser. Their healing practice is centred on anti-oppressive praxis that works to address systemic harm, informed by decolonial activism on the front lines.  Jeremey Kings speaks to Max about the IBAC findings into the police raid on the Hares and Hyenas bookshop and covidpolicing.org.au, a website launched to track policing during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Priya speaks with Nick Ferguson, a spokesperson for the United Workers Union, about the campaign to get Australian universities to support their cleaning staff– many of whom are international students – during COVID-19. UWU are asking you to1. Sign the petition created by University Cleaners calling on Universities to support them   2. View Niroshan’s story and share it on your social media to help him and other university cleaners build community support.  3. Go to the social media of your favourite University to call on them to support their cleaners so they can’t hide their responsibilities. Priya talks to Shan Windscript and Jimmy Yang, graduate researchers and casual workers at the University of Melbourne, about the lack of support provided to grad students during the pandemic and their open letter to demand universal extensions and paid COVID leave for all domestic and international students.Songs CLYPSO - Down to the WireIzy - MoonSophiegrophy - Evol

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Sam Elkin speaks with Max about the LGBTI+ legal needs survey, which closes soon, as well as the Change Your ID day coming up in May. Chi Tran reading a selection of their poetry. Chi Tran is an emerging artist and writer, based in Naarm. Chi has written and exhibited in Cordite Poetry Review, Firstdraft, ACCA, Liquid Architecture, and many more. They also have forthcoming work in un. magazine and Minority Report.  Scheherazade speaks withChris Schuringa from the Googerah Environment Centre (GECO). Chris talks about the 10-year logging exemptions that have just been rolled over in late March in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic while the area is recovering from this season's devasting bushfires.  Danush, a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee currently detained at Mantra Bell City, talks to Priya about the harms of immigration detention, the need to release refugees into the community, and the potential impacts that coronavirus will have on detainees. Jane speaks with Max about challenges facing the drug using community in these uncertain times and shares some tips and tricks from Harm Reduction Victoria's awesome resources on drug use, planning and pharmacotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic.  SongsBecca Hatch - Girl Like MeArno Faraji - Bass Jumpin

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Roxanne Moore, Executive Officer of NATSILS, about the urgent need to immediately release people in prison to stop the spread of COVID-19 and prevent COVID-19 Black deaths in custody. As part of a new regular segment we hear a number of new poems read by writer Elena Gomez.  Scheherazade speaks to Basil Byrne about making music, politics and the release of her new track Listenin’ Out  Priya speaks with Tabitha Lean about the problems with comparing incarceration and home detention to self isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman living on Kaurna Country. She is also a formerly incarcerated person. Tabitha is a vocal advocate for incarcerated people. Sanmati Verma from Undocumented Migrant Solidarity joins Carly to speak about the Undocumented Migrants COVID-19 Fund & petition calling on State and Federal governments to commit to the following demands: Medicare for All, Information Firewall with Immigration, Universal Basic Income for Undocumented Workers, No Detention or Deportation, Amnesty for Undocumented Workers. SongsBecca Hatch - 2560Baker Boy - MoveBasil Byrne - Listenin’ Out