Thursday Breakfast

Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018Acknowledgement of CountryOmid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison was published in 2018. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English. The conversation touched on WIMCM  - Why Is My Curriculum White campaignCommemorating 30 years since the first Fairlea Wring Out demonstration with community activists, academics and prison abolitionists Amanda George and Emma Russell. The first Wring Out Fairlea demonstration was organised by the Coalition Against Women's Imprisonment and took place at the former Fairlea women's prison in Melbourne on 26 June 1988. The Wring Out action was repeated three more times over the next eight years, bringing thousands of people to encircle Fairlea prison in protest and in solidarity with the women inside.https://soundcloud.com/wringoutfairleaChristine Kngwarraye Palmer from GrandMothers Against Removals (GMAR) on the demands made to government during Reconciliation Week to stop the removal of aboriginal young people from their communities.(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)SONG : The Merindas  - We Sing Until SunriseSONG : Pigram Brothers  - Nothing Really MattersSONG: Nice Girls Don't Spit - Fairlea Prison BluesSONG: Baker Boy - Mr La Di Da DiSONG: Baker Boy (ft Yirrmal) - Marryuna

Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018Acknowledgement of CountryAlison Gibbins - Deputy National Director of Amnesty International Australia's on the shameful reality of children in detention, the over representation of aboriginal children in detention, theBanksia Hill Detention centre, and the findings of a recent report.Charandev Singh - Human rights advocate and member of the Abolitionist and Tranforming Justice Centre spoke about #PrisonStrike2018, prison abolition and the history of resistance.  In 2018 Activists targeted SERCO's Melbourne Headquarters at 535 Bourke Street to bring attention to its expanding colonisation and commodification of imprisoned Aboriginal women at their new private women's prison in Gatton, Queensland and their ongoing record of indefinite detention, torture and deaths in custody in all their on-shore and International refugee and other prisons.Melissa Lucashenko - Aboriginal writer of Goorie and European heritage joins us to talk about her latest book, Too Much Lip. High energy and profoundly funny - the book takes you on an intergenerational journey, set in the aboriginal underclass in country NSW.(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)SONG:  Lady Lash - Busy BeeSONG:  Mojo Juju - I just wanna know

Thursday 6 December 2018with Em and Katia7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.05am Thando - Happy7.10am Em and Katia cover RISE's media release #Savehakeem Urgent Action Call: Stop Deportation to Bahrain of Australian Refugee Hakeem Al Araibi in Thailand.7.20am Soli Temesa (ft. Cam Noble) - Boo'd Up x My Boo7.25am Em and Katia introduce the case of Informer 3838 and the role of Victoria Police.7.30am Katia speaks to Professor Adrian Evans, Monash University, about Informer 3838 and the lawyer's duty to the court and to their client. 7.50am Em talks about the bill put forward by Independent MP Kerryn Phelps for emergency medical transfers of asylum seekers from offshore detention8.00am Em speaks to Dr Christine Rufener, Clinical psychologist and Médecins Sans Frontières, Mental Health Activities Manager, about MSF's report on extreme mental health suffering on Nauru.8.20am Em speaks to Jennifer Nixon, Assistant Manager at First Nation Media, about Converge Conference - First Nations Media National Conference held in November, and Indigi Tube a new media platform for indigenous creators. 8.29am It's a wrap!

Thursday Breakfast 1 November 2018with Katia 7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.03am Song dedication to Em: Sophiegrophy - Purple $way 7.07am Alternative News - Birmingham vetos ARC grants, Tehan calls for a 'National Interest Test' as we watch our right to education, free speech and the pursuit of social knowledge go down the drain.7.13am Song dedication to Scheherazade: Jamilla Woods feat. Noname - VRY BLK 7.17am  Part one: The Wheeler Centre in conjunction with Deakin Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network hosted a lecture by Sara Ahmed, independent feminist scholar, writer and activist on her new research project - On complaint.  7.28am Part two: Sara Ahmed - on complaint.  7.40am Song dedication to Apeec: Janelle Monáe - Yoga7.44am The folk from Completada Bailable speak to Denise Frizzo, journalist, Doctor in Social Sciences and co-author of the 2018 book `Brazilians Abroad: Emigrant Voting and Political Engagement’, about the rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil.8.00am Katia speaks to Sophie Black, Head of Publishing at the Wheeler Centre about 'So You Think You Can Pod' competition.8.12am Song dedication to myself (Katia): Sampa the Great feat. Remi - Flowers8.18am Robbie Thorpe speaks to Lidia Thorpe, Greens Member for Northcote, at the 38 Nations rally. Elders came together to call for their voice and the voice of 27 nations left out of the treaty process to be heard.8.23am Song dedication to Summer and getting out that door: Lion Babe - The Wave  8.27am It's a wrap!

Thursday Breakfast 1 November 2018with Katia 7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.03am Song dedication to Em: Sophiegrophy - Purple $way 7.07am Alternative News - Birmingham vetos ARC grants, Tehan calls for a 'National Interest Test' as we watch our right to education, free speech and the pursuit of social knowledge go down the drain.7.13am Song dedication to Scheherazade: Jamilla Woods feat. Noname - VRY BLK 7.17am  Part one: The Wheeler Centre in conjunction with Deakin Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network hosted a lecture by Sara Ahmed, independent feminist scholar, writer and activist on her new research project - On complaint.  7.28am Part two: Sara Ahmed - on complaint.  7.40am Song dedication to Apeec: Janelle Monáe - Yoga7.44am The folk from Completada Bailable speak to Denise Frizzo, journalist, Doctor in Social Sciences and co-author of the 2018 book `Brazilians Abroad: Emigrant Voting and Political Engagement’, about the rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil.8.00am Katia speaks to Sophie Black, Head of Publishing at the Wheeler Centre about 'So You Think You Can Pod' competition.8.12am Song dedication to myself (Katia): Sampa the Great feat. Remi - Flowers8.18am Robbie Thorpe speaks to Lidia Thorpe, Greens Member for Northcote, at the 38 Nations rally. Elders came together to call for their voice and the voice of 27 nations left out of the treaty process to be heard.8.23am Song dedication to Summer and getting out that door: Lion Babe - The Wave  8.27am It's a wrap!

Thursday Breakfast 25 October 2018with Em, Katia and Scheherazade7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.03am VRY BLK, Jamila Woods ft. Noname7.07am Blk Girl Soldier, Jamila Woods7.09am Alternative news - new NSW drug laws ignore harm reduction measures and adversely affect party goers at festivals7.19am Doing me, RAY BLK7.24am Sowia, Porier ft. Samito 7.33am News headlines - Corporatisation of health care for young people in Victoria's prisons; new court hurdle by Coalition government to transfer ill children from offshore detention to Australia; Indigenous deaths in custody still not implemented; report on sexual assault at music events released. 7.39am Em speaks to Andre Dao, writer, lawyer, editor and co founder of Behind the Wire, about the Manus Recording Project Collective and the work 'How are you today?' on now at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. 8.00am  Em speaks to Dr Beth O'Connor, psychiatrist with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), about the health of asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and about MSF's  condemnation of Nauru’s decision to cease mental health care.    8.13am  Scheherazade speaks to Tamar Hopkins, PHD candidate at UNSW and founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project, about the Police Stop Survey.8.28am Wrap up 

Thursday Breakfast 25 October 2018with Em, Katia and Scheherazade7.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.03am VRY BLK, Jamila Woods ft. Noname7.07am Blk Girl Soldier, Jamila Woods7.09am Alternative news - new NSW drug laws ignore harm reduction measures and adversely affect party goers at festivals7.19am Doing me, RAY BLK7.24am Sowia, Porier ft. Samito 7.33am News headlines - Corporatisation of health care for young people in Victoria's prisons; new court hurdle by Coalition government to transfer ill children from offshore detention to Australia; Indigenous deaths in custody still not implemented; report on sexual assault at music events released. 7.39am Em speaks to Andre Dao, writer, lawyer, editor and co founder of Behind the Wire, about the Manus Recording Project Collective and the work 'How are you today?' on now at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. 8.00am  Em speaks to Dr Beth O'Connor, psychiatrist with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), about the health of asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and about MSF's  condemnation of Nauru’s decision to cease mental health care.    8.13am  Scheherazade speaks to Tamar Hopkins, PHD candidate at UNSW and founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project, about the Police Stop Survey.8.28am Wrap up

Thursday Breakfast - 18 October 20187.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.02am Oetha - Sista Girl7.07am Stick Together's Matt Kunkel talks Union News.7.15am In Ya Face's James speaks with long-time LGBTIQ rights campaigner Janet Jukes, about the leaked Ruddock Report.7.30am Janelle Monáe - Yoga7.35am Alternative News - job seekers and disadvantage7.41am Kaiit - OV Luv Kush 7.45am Katia speaks to Elena Jefferys, state coordinator from Respect Inc., about the legislative frameworks affecting sex workers in Queensland. 8.00am Katia follows up with Louise Sales from Friends of the Earth's Emerging Technology Project about last week's Legislative and Governance Forum on Gene Technologythe potential move to deregulate GM technologies for use on animals and the associated risks. 8.15am Saatsuma - Stay8.20am Abortion legalised in QLD!

Thursday Breakfast - 18 October 20187.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.02am Oetha - Sista Girl7.07am Stick Together's Matt Kunkel talks Union News.7.15am In Ya Face's James speaks with long-time LGBTIQ rights campaigner Janet Jukes, about the leaked Ruddock Report.7.30am Janelle Monáe - Yoga7.35am Alternative News - job seekers and disadvantage7.41am Kaiit - OV Luv Kush 7.45am Katia speaks to Elena Jefferys, state coordinator from Respect Inc., about the legislative frameworks affecting sex workers in Queensland. 8.00am Katia follows up with Louise Sales from Friends of the Earth's Emerging Technology Project about last week's Legislative and Governance Forum on Gene Technologythe potential move to deregulate GM technologies for use on animals and the associated risks. 8.15am Saatsuma - Stay8.20am Abortion legalised in QLD!

Thursday Breakfast - 4 October 20187.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.05am Ravyn Lenae – Sticky7.12am Speech by Martha Ojulo, mother of Liep Gony whose memorial was held on 26 September 20187.26am Alice Skye – Friends with feelings7.30am Em speaks to Alice Skye, proud Wergaia and Wamba Wamba woman, about her debut album and upcoming show. 7.50am Katia speaks to Teishan Ahearne about the launch of the People’s History of Brunswick Tours next week at Brunswick Library.7.55am Willow Beats – Merewif 8.00am Em speaks to Kalyani Mumtaz, proud Pyemairrenner woman, about her new band and upcoming show.8.12am Kalyani & Isha – That’s all I come for8.15am Upcoming events – 3CR Breakfast Fundraiser, Done By Law Fundraiser, Defend Public Housing, Prisoner Letter Writing Workshop, Apeec’s birthday!8.20am Alternative news – USA’s refusal of g4 visa’s for same-sex partners of diplomats and foreign nationals.