Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellyDavid Barnden, from Equity Generation Lawyers, is running the first case against a superannuation fund in Australia for not taking climate risk into account.Anne-Marie Te Whiu and David Stavanger, editors of the new anthology Solid Air: Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word, will host the Wheeler Centre’s third event in the Group Texts series. Featuring electrifying local performers and practitioners of spoken word.Paul Gorrie speaks to us about Young Mob Questioning Treaty a documentry film he worked on that is featuring at imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto.We speak to Jonathan Homsey & Pookie about performing in THRICE FOR THE THIRD CULTURE KID and at VIBE! at Emerge in Yarra 2019, a festival showcasing artistic & cultural diversity to the wider public.Andy Paine on proposed laws in Qld set to outlaw "lock-on" devices used in prominently, environmental protests , giving police extra search powers and making the use of devices an offence punishable by one year in prison.SongsSampa the Great - HeavenGenesis Owusu - Good TimesDRMNGNOW - Australia Does Note ExistPookie - YZ

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait KellySara El Sayed speaks with Carly about her short story, 'Areobics for Arabs' in the book Arab Australian Other.Fayrouz Yousfi speaks about the campaign she has launched to free Journalist Hajar Raissouni.Spencer Lai is an artist, writer and curator.They speak about Spring Poetry Night happening at Incendium Radical Library on Saturday 12th October.We speak to L-Fresh the Lion about music, politics and his upcoming gig at the Grace Darling Hotel on 12 OctoberSongsL-Fresh the Lion - AlchemyL-Fresh the Lion - Bron to StandNina Rose - SongbookKobie Dee - Jody

Acknowledgement of country News with Cait KellyJournalist Roza Germian lived through war for most of her childhood. In 1991 she was one of more than one million Kurds who fled Saddam Hussein's Iraq. She now works as the executive producer on SBS Radio Kurdish. The remarkable Germian will share her story at the Wheeler Centre on Thursday October 10th at Writing in Exile hosted by Sami Shah.Samia Khatun challenges the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to those of colonised peoples in her new book Australianama. A few weeks ago, Em met with Samia to discuss the importance of South Asian languages and stories as a source of transformation, creating new ways of understanding what gets called "Australian history".Monique is a lawyer from Human Rights Law Centre. She speaks with Grace about the Australian Government's new bill that is seeking to expand the use of cashless welfare cards.Kutcha Edwards has recently launched his Youtube Channel - Kutcha's Carpool Koorieoke and he has released the first episode featuring Archie Roach and Uncle Jack Charles. We speak with him about this new project.SongsKayla Truth - WaveP-UniQue, Krown, IAMMXO - Change

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlinesTecber Ahmed Saleh, an advocate for human rights, speaks about the continuing struggle for self determination in Western Sahara. Tecber lives in the Saharawi refugee camps in south-west Algeria.Georgia MacGuire and Bek Saltmarsh on their exhibition Ngardang Giri Kalat Mimini. Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini is the first large scale exhibition of the Victorian Indigenous women’s and trans diverse art collective of the same name at The Central Goldfields Gallery in Maryborough which runs from until the 13th of October.Cheryl Axeby, co-chair of NATSILS, speaking about the use of spithoods on kids in SA prisons.Conversation with Dinu Kumarasinghe and Zoe Kingsley editors of the Suburban Review.Scotty McDinny speaks about about Warburdar Bununu: Water Shield, a film that follows the story of heavy metal pollution from mining making the Borroloola community's water unfit to drink. Warburdar Bununu: Water Shield will be showing on NITV soon.SongsJess B - MoodKing Jag - Black ExcellenceSampa the Great - Diamond in the RuffJesswar, Tasha the Amazon - Heata

With Em and CarlyAcknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyAnne-lise Ah-fat on facilitating Men’s Behaviour Change Programs, the underlying drivers of family violence and the importance of centring survivors in all anti-violence workSantilla Chingaipe on the Wheeler Centre’s 'Not Racist, But' series and systemic racism in the criminal legal system and mainstream mediaDr Fiona Foley, internationally celebrated Badtjala artist, on her current retrospective exhibition in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 'Who are these strangers and where are they going?'Paddy Manning on his recently released book 'Inside the Greens' and the activist roots (and future) of the Greens partyWe hear from speakers at the rally outside the Melbourne Federal Court building on September 18, just before the opening of the appeal by Priya, Nades and their two Australian-born children against the government's plan to deport them to Sri Lanka.

Acknowledgement of CountryNews headlines with Cait KellyCarly spoke with Carol Que from the Anticolonial Asian Alliance about the importance of solidarity work. Ian Okoka, 3CR presenter with the Voice of West Papua, speaks about the political oppression in West Papua and the solidarity rally in Narrm on Saturday on 14 September 2019.Investigative journalist Jess Hill speaks about her research into men's violence towards women recently published book 'See What You Made me Do'.Kate ten Buuren joins Em and Carly in the studio to discuss an exhibition she is co-curating, 'They Shield Us' at the Koorie Heritage TrustSongs:Tasman Keith - Prey So.Crates - Bounce Rebecca Hatch - Brown Girl Chronicles Pataphysics - Today

7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country 7:05 am News headlines with Cait Kelly 7.15 am Birdz joins us in the studio to chat about hip hop in so-called Australia 7.30 am. Conversation between Carly and Paul & June from the First People's Disability Network of Australia about NuunaRon's art exhibition at the UN, Geneva7.45 am Aran Mylvaganam from the Tamil Refugee Council on the government's cruelty towards Tamil family Nadesalingam and Priya and their two children and the ongoing fight to prevent their deportation  8.00 am Nish Morris lets us know about the Djab Wurrung Embassy Solidarity Rally taking place at Parliament House next Tuesday 10 Sept from 8:30am 8.15 am Co-curators Moorina Bonini (Yorta Yorta/Woiwurrung), and Tyson Campbell (Ngati Maniapoto/Te Rarewa) join us in the studio to discuss their upcoming exhibition Code Switch at Blak Dot gallery 8.30 End Songs Black Lives Matter – BirdzBlack Child – BirdzSunset Dreaming: Djapana Remix – BirdzFreedom – Sampa the Great

Acknowledgement of CountryCait with news headlines     Carly travelled to Meanjin to speak with counsellor, narrative therapist and workshop facilitator Michelle Dang from Healing and Justice about strategies and sneaky tactics for people to use who work in social services and non-governmental organisations that don't reflect individual worker's values, beliefs and politics.James Trezise is a policy analyst with the Australian Conservation Foundation and the co-author of a recently released report that found the Great Dividing Range will become climatically unsuitable for 26 native species within 60 years if the current global high emissions trajectory continues.Mark from Earthworker joins us in the studio to talk about workers cooperatives as a way to give power back to communities and combat capitalist/neoliberal forces as well as climate change.Hella Ibrahim and Tresa LeClerc join us in the studio to talk about whether diversity is adequately supported within the Australian Publishing Industry and the lack of statistical research to address this. They are part of a team that set up the FNPOC Count seeking to count the number of books by First Nations and POC writers published in 2018. They also set up a Facebook page.

Acknowledgement of CountryCait Kelly with news headlinesNiviaq Korneliussen, young queer Greenlandic rising star, on her first book Crimson, her decision to only write about Indigenous women characters and the importance of talking up about high rates of suicide in her community in the context of colonisation.  Niviaq was a recent guest at the Sydney Writers FestivalSiyavash Doostkhah from Youth Advocacy Network Queensland, on young people being locked up in Queensland police watch houses and the Queensland government's pitch to build a new 32 bed youth prison in BrisbaneBobuq Sayed and Hugh Childers, co-editors of un magazine, on the launch of issue 13.1 tomorrow night, reclaiming terrorist discourses around 9/11 and the normality of police brutality and surveillance in a colonial carceral state Creatrix Tiara, writer, performance artist, producer, activist, on IDAHOBIT, citizenship privilege and how LGBTIQ movements are never single issueSongsSophiegrophy, Rolls RoyceMitch Tambo, DhinawanThe Merindas, We Sing Until SunriseDRMNG NOW ft. Kee'ahn, Ancestors

Acknowledgement of CountryJenni Smith from Council to Homeless Persons joins us to discuss Youth Homelessness Day 2019Andy Farrell lets us know about the new (Australia-first!) Queer Indigenous studies units at Macquarie UniversityYorta Yorta musician, composer and climate justice activist Allara Briggs-Pattison joins us in the studio to discuss her soon-to-be-released documentary 'Beautiful Sunshine'We talk with Farhad Bandesh, Kurdish artist amd refugee who has been cruelly and unjustly imprisoned on Manus Island by the Australian Government for nearly six years, about the upcoming launch of his music video 'The Big Exhale' at Black Dot Gallery, with collaborator Jenell Quinsee Report back from the vigil marking the 28th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the urgent need to repeal the 'offence' of public drunkennessSongsAllara - Wala is LifeFarhad Bandesh - Flee from War (Our Rights) Kaylah Truth - Wave Sophiegrophy - Baby Let$ Fly