In this second part of our conversation on critical minerals with researcher and activist Mercedes Zanker (Renegade Activists), we examine the global supply chains that shape how these resources are controlled, processed, and distributed. As Australia and the rest of the Anglosphere amp up their focus on usurping China's monopoly over the critical minerals supply chain, we explore the logic of national security and how that shrouds tracing critical minerals to the industry of war.Mercedes has extensively written and researched military supply chains as part of Renegade Activists, who also host a show on 3CR, A Friday Night Rave.We hear music from Double Dole Stringband: www.instagram.com/double_dole_stringbandPart 1 of the conversation: https://www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline/episode/critical-minerals-militarisation-x-mining-boom-20

Maya Linstrum-Newman, Programme Lead for Human Trafficking and Forced Labour at the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), on a recent alliance between radical feminists and religious groups to restrict reproductive freedoms and its impact on sex work, surrogacy, gender ideology and bodily autonomy.

This week on the program we are looking at energy democracy in action - specially Cooperative Power, a not-for-profit cooperative which is member owned and member run.Recently, CoPower’s energy partner Energy Locals was bought out by major retailer Origin Energy.We speak with Claire Harvey, Cooperative Power Board member, about what CoPower does, why their model is different, and what CoPower’s response has been to the dismaying news of the purchase of their energy partner by Origin.To take the pledge to be part of CoPower 2.0, visit https://www.cooperativepower.org.au/

In this special live-recorded episode of Women on the Line, we broadcast from the streets of Naarm/Melbourne during the mass protest against the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog. This episode captures the voices of protesters, organisers, and community members who situate Herzog’s visit within the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Australia’s complicity through diplomatic, military, economic and political alignment. We hear speeches from Nour Salman, Tasnim Sammak and an interview with Students for Palestine organiser Renee.

On this episode of Women on the Line, we first hear from Gemma Cafarella, barrister and president of Liberty Victoria, about new research exposing the discriminatory and ineffective use of Victoria Police’s ‘designated area’ powers - a regime that allows police to stop and search people without reasonable grounds or a warrant.We then hear an excerpt from 3CR Thursday Breakfast’s Priya speaking with Tarneen Onus Browne, Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta, Bindal and Meriam person and community organiser, about the ongoing federal court challenge against Victoria Police's designated areas powers in the context of First Nations resistance movements.

On this week's episode we speak to Titaua Porcher, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Pacific literatures at the University of French Polynesia, about how writers, poets and playwrights in Te Ao Maohi/French Polynesia have grappled with the impacts of France's nuclear weapons testing in the region through literature. As a playwright herself, Titaua also discusses the important role of literature in providing different perspectives on history and people, countering stereotypes such as the ‘post card’ view of French Polynesia.

In this episode, we sit with researcher Mercedes Zanker to discuss the military supply chain of critical minerals, from the colonisation and expropriation of sovereign Aboriginal lands to raining bombs on people implicated in US terror wars. Mercedes has extensively written and researched military supply chains as part of her work for Renegade Activists and her show on 3CR, A Friday Night Rave.

On this episode of Women on the Line we listen to snippets from a panel discussion about the new research released by the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project. We hear from:Dr Tamar Hopkins, a Researcher on Racial ProfilingSabrina Adem, a Community organiserLauren Caufield, Advocacy coordinator at Beyond Survival, Flat OutBee Charika, Rising Red Lantern and VixenDr Tasnim Sammak, Palestinian activist and organiserThe panel was moderated by Idil Ali, a community organiser.The panel was held on Monday 1 December at the Institute for Postcolonial Studies in Narrm.

On this episode of Women on the Line, we’re honoring the late disabled writer and activist, Alice Wong, who passed away on the 14 November 2025 at the age of 51. We’re listening to her presentation titled ‘The Last Disabled Oracle’ from 2020, where she speaks from the future of 2029. The presentation was delivered as part of Alex Kelly’s Assembly for the Future. You can listen to the full presentation on 3CR here. You can learn more about Alice's work via The Disability Visibility Project.

On this episode of Women on the Line we speak with Sharvari, a theatre historian from India currently teaching at University of Chicago, about her first book project, Performances of Posterity: Theater, Archives and Cultural Regulation in Modern India. Sharvari talks to us about her research, the historical erasure of caste and gender in theatre, the impermanence of researching performance, the linguistic complexities of Indian theatre, and the changing nature of resistance and oppression through art.