Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country Alternative News We speak with Sharner Bremner the founder and director of End Rape on Campus Australia. EROC provides assistance and support to higher education students who have been sexually assaulted or harassed. We discuss the systemic issues behind the recent award of an Order of Australian to men’s rights activist Bettina Arndt, the widespread nature of victim blaming and the crucial importance of believing survivors.  Following Invasion Day 2020 and renewed calls for all settlers to Pay the Rent, we listen to part of an interview with Aunty Hazel Collins, one of the founders of Grandmother's Against Removals. GMAR is one of the organisations that Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance have suggested settlers make monthly rent payments to.  The interview was conducted in 2018 by Teaghan Hughes for the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association  We speak with writer and performer Laniyuk about the launch of the First Nations Issue of Archer magazine on Saturday at Testing Grounds. Laniyuk discusses her article on queer kinship and the power of being featured on the cover of the magazine.  We speak with Sasja Sydek and Rebeckah Loveday from Trans Sisters United, a Melbourne based community group that creates projects that benefit the transgender community through advocacy, awareness and community collaboration. The group is traveling to the Tiwi Islands next week and they join us on the show to tell us more about this project. You can support this trip through a GoFundMe here.House of Dévine, Melbourne’s first vogue house, joins us in the studio to discuss vouging/ballroom, claiming public space and creating queer and trans family. House of Dévine is a queer collective and family based in Naarm founded by Mother Kiki Dévine. The House currently consists of ten queer and trans POC artists that participate and thrive within the Australian ballroom scene. They perform tomorrow night at the Immigration Museum.SongsMake $ense, Mack RidgeDon’t Let a Good Girl Down, Thelma PlumSurvive, DRMNGNOWQuay Dash - Queen of this Shit (Kuya Neil & Various Asses Remix), Kuya Neil and Various Asses

Acknowledgement of CountryMay Kotsakis - co-chairperson of PASA (Philippines Australia Solidarity Association). PASA is a cause oriented organisation of Filipinos and non-Filipinos. We often hear about the so called 'war on drugs' in the Philippines. May joins us to talk about the real impacts on peoples lives, how the rhetoric is used to justify state violence and the impacts on activists and human rights advocates in standing up to state oppressionThe Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference Melbourne 2019 - a convergence of ideas, art and transnational solidarity contesting settler nationalisms which took place at Melbourne Uni from the 6th-8th November 2019. Featuring 2 Professor John Maynard,The Other Fellow: Aboriginal and Palestinian Political Resistance.  Community Accountability. Carly speaks with Michelle Dang  – part of a new series speaking with Councillors and community based facilitators about the creative possibilities that people use in communities to address interpersonal violence. What are the tools and vision we can use to keep communities safe.Amao Leota Lu  - Narrm-based Samoan fa'afafine / trans advocate of colour activist, speaker, performer and storyteller on her journey with her extended Rainbow family through the highs and lows, tears and laughter – embracing the notion "You’re welcome at our table."  On tonight as part of Midsumma 2020 SONGSKrown - Catch a VibeBaker Boy and JessB - MeditjinAlice Skye - I Feel Better But I Don't Feel Good The Merindas - Before Daylight

Acknowledgment of country Carly speaks with Phina Hartson - the first Pacific trans Fa'afafine person to be admitted as a lawyer in so-called Australia. Alethea Beetson, Mervyn Trescott, Loki Liddle and Kane Brunjies talk about their experiences of being a part of Digi Youth Arts and the incredible sound installation and clapstick performances curated for the festival. Carly converses with Jessie Lloyd from the Mission Songs Project. Jessie speaks deeply about her love for reviving intergenerational song traditions. Kamahi Djordon King, aka Constantina Bush, speaks with Carly about living under the Northern Territory intervention and the uplifting power of humour.  Monica from 4EB and Carly converse with Jeremy Dutcher, classically trained operatic tenor and composer who takes every opportunity to blend his Wolastoq First Nations roots into his music. Jeremy speaks about his process of incorporating 1900s wax cylinder field recordings into his music, the turbulent nature of the pop industry and this period of Indigenous renaissance.  Songs Better in Blak - Thelma Plum Mission Songs Project at the Melbourne Recital CentreMehcinut - Jeremy Dutcher

Acknowledgment of CountryNews with Cait Kelly We play a segment from Power from the Margins titled, 'Ableism in the Settler Colony'. We hear from Latoya Rule, Indigenous prison abolitionist, on the criminalisation of people living at the intersection of both race and disability. Dominic Golding also discusses Australia's immigration system and the control of borders which has historically been both racist and ableist. Philip Marrii from SEED Mob joins us to speak about the Don't Frack the NT Campaign encouraging Origin customers to pledge to leave Origin and change energy providers. This campaign has already seen over 4000 people take the pledge! Carly interviews Roxanne Moore, the Executive Officer of NATSILS about the defunding of the national secretariat of the Family Violence Protection Legal Services. Clara Sione, local jazz and soul musician, speaks about the upcoming fundraiser, 'Songs for Samoa' happening at 7:30pm on 20 December 2019 at the Footscray Community Art Centre to raise money for the Samoan community affected by the measles epidemic.  SongsPosted by T-Breezy IDC IF U BE DED - Tkay Maidza Down Swing (far from home) by Project NRTMeghalaya by Tiana Khasi

Acknowledgment of country News with Cait Kelly Carly interviews Carol Que about the History of Boycotting in so-called Australia Max speaks with Gala Vanting, Acting President of Scarlet Alliance about decriminalisation of sex work in the NT, becoming the third jurisdiction in the world to decriminalise sex work. Vikki John, Peace activist and general secretary of the Bougainville Freedom Movement Australia speaks about the historic referendum for independence from Papua New Guinea.Carly interviews Dwayne Coulthard, Adnyamathanha man, and Original Power Community Organiser about the Adnyamathanha Traditional Owners campaign against the controversial Underground Coal Gasification project at Leigh Creek in South Australia.  Songs Billy Bad Again by Tasman Keith Time Out by Jess BBlackfellas by Nooky Numb by NookyBetter in Blak by Thelma Plum Book Covers by Deejai Good Times by Mojo Juju Meditjin by Baker Boy & Jess B Before Daylight by the Merindas

On the show with MaxAcknowledgement of countryNews Headlines with Cait KellyOverdose Lifesavers: Australia’s first dedicated website presenting personal stories of opioid overdose and the use of take-home naloxone to save lives. The new website overdoselifesavers.com explores the different ways people who consume drugs manage overdose, including through the use of take home naloxone. We hear some of these real life stories documented on the website.Dr Adrian Farrugia - Research Fellow at the (Australian Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University), then joins us to talk about the gaps in public discussion of overdose, the need to counter stigmatising misconceptions, and how to create a more effective community response. May Kotsakis - co-chairperson of PASA (Philippines Australia Solidarity Association). PASA is a cause oriented organisation of Filipinos and non-Filipinos. We often hear about the so called 'war on drugs' in the Philippines. May joins us to talk about the real impacts on peoples lives, how the rhetoric is used to justify state violence and the impacts on activists and human rights advocates in standing up to state oppression.The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference Melbourne 2019 - a convergence of ideas, art and transnational solidarity contesting settler nationalisms which took place at Melbourne Uni from the 6th-8th November. Featuring 2 of the speakers from the conference : Professor John Maynard,The Other Fellow: Aboriginal and Palestinian Political Resistance and. Samah Sabawi - Palestinian playwright, author and poet.  SONGSAlice Skye - I Feel Better But I Don't Feel GoodThe Merindas - Before DaylightBaker Boy and JessB - MeditjinKrown - Catch a VibeREMI, Sensible J REMI ft. Lori,  Brain

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines
Audio recorded by Beyond Zero Emissions at a snap rally outside the NSW parliament where an amendment to the environment and planning laws, to remove climate change as a consideration in decision making, was to be debated. We hear from speakers who have been living through the unprecedented catastrophic bush fires in NSW.
We speak with journalist Paddy Manning about Medevac legislation and conditions inside the Australian-government funded Bomana prison where people seeking asylum are currently being held in Port Moresby after the closure of Manus immigration prison. 
Audio recorded at Wajampa kurlu - Rally in memory of Kumanjayi Walker. The speakers read statements from senior Warlpiri elders concerning the events of last Saturday and the community demands in response to the killing of Kumanjayi Walker. To contribute to the Go Fund Me campaign in support of the Yuendumu community click here We speak with Sarah Bond broadcaster from Beyond the Bars, 3CR's annual live prison broadcast that gives voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates during NAIDOC Week. The Beyond the Bars CD will launch tonight 6:30 pm at MAYSAR, Fitzroy. SongsDRMNGNOW  - Australia Does Note ExistDRMNGNOW  - Indigenous LandContraband - The Message (Beyond the Bars CD release)Sophiegrophy - American Honey

Acknowledgement of country A selection of audio from the first day of The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019.Part 1: First up is Sara Saleh, introducing the session titled Identity, Race and Solidarity.Part 2: Alexis Wright speaks about the work of Mahmoud Darwish and reads a number of his poems. Part 3: Tony Birch speaks about climate change as colonial violence. Shannon from from Victorian National Parks Association speaks with Thursday Breakfast about the Nature for Life rally which is happening on the 28th of November calling for the Victorian Government to take urgent action to protect Victoria's biodiversity.Sara Saleh joins on the line from The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference 2019 to talk about the conference and what is coming up over the next two days. Sara also shares upcoming events from the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network Alec Reade from the New Wayfinders, Jack Mitchell from Black White and Bluespace and artist Marita Dyson from The Orbweavers join us to talk about their project Resistance Transmission for Due West 2019.Resistance Transmission weaves together a series of deep listening experiences that explore our changing relationship to water, and waters changing relationship to us. Exploring indigenous and settler histories, contemporary migrations and our ongoing social and economic interactions with the water bodies that sustain life on this planet, Resistance Transmission asks you to engage and to listen deeply so we can better prepare for the challenges of our water futures together. Squidgenini joins us in the studio to talk about her new track Trigger Me and her upcoming show at Colour tomorrow night. Songs Mackridge - EverydayMiiesha - DrowningMojo Juju - They Come & They GoP-Unique, Krown, IAMMXO - ChangeThelma Plum - Better in BlakTasman Keith - EveningsSquidgenini - Trigger Me

Acknowledgement of countryMax, and poet Vincent Silk, interview author Jordy Rosenberg at the Sydney Writers Festival 2019. They speak about Jordy's recent novel Confessions of the Fox, trans visibility in literature and historical and speculative fiction.Scout, the creative director of Tilde The Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival and Tommy Hart, director of 'Kids on Fire,' join us to discuss the Tilde program launch happening tonight 31 October at Hares and Hyena's.    Lisa Fuller, a Wuilli Wuilli woman, joins us to discuss her new novel Ghost Bird, a YA novel about two sisters from her hometown. Porobibi, West Papuan Student activist and 3CR broadcaster, spoke with Michaela Stubbs on Day 1 of the IMARC blockade about the blockade's links to mining, genocide and resistance in West Papua.Speaking live from the IMARC blockade, Marisol, 3CR broadcaster and Lasnet activist, shares community views on mining, multinationals and First Nations rights.    Monique Hurley, lawyer from the Human Rights Law Centre, discussing the age of criminal responsibility and the calls to raise the age. A bill has recently been tabled in federal parliament calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised to 14.SongsOetha - Cruisin'Okenyo - Buckle Up

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyCarly speaks with Carol Que about the history of boycott.Part 1 of 'Once The Freest, Now The Poorest' a special 3 part series focusing on the island nation of Haiti. The series is produced by the Latin American Update program.Nadia Nadez is the editor of The Australian Multilingual Writing Project, a free online journal that publishes local multilingual creative writing. Their aim is to challenge the idea of a monolingual Australia by giving voice to the many languages that live here.At Generations The Australian Multilingual Writing Project are presenting a live performance of multilingual works. Generations is on Saturday 26th October 11am - 5pm at the Immigration Museum. We speak with Porobibi Bibiporo about the ongoing demonstrations for justice in West Papua. Hundreds of buildings have been torched and more that 12,000 people have fled Jayapura since August this year.SongsNooky - NumbRAIZA BIZA - S&D (feat. Bwise)Squidgenini - Trigger Me