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Women on the Line

Cleis Hart, Kannagi Bhatt, Phuong Tran, Xen Nhà & Scheherazade Bloul.

A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).

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COVID-19 Vaccine Access and Inequality

Women on the Line ·

2021/09/26

This week on the program we look at COVID-19 vaccine access and inequality.We begin with an interview with Nadia Mattiazzo, acting CEO of Women with Disabilities Victoria, about how the COVID-19 vaccine roll out is going for people with disabilities and what is stopping women with disabilities from accessing the vaccine.Then we speak with Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, about global vaccine inequality, and the push to waive intellectual property rights

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20 Years on the Inside with Vickie Roach

Women on the Line ·

2021/09/19

On today's episode, we are joined by Vickie Roach, a Yuin woman, abolitionist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison. Vickie speaks about the new 20 Years On The Inside podcast, which she co-hosted with Kutcha Edwards. The 20 Years On the Inside podcast series reflects on 20 years of 3CR's Beyond the Bars prison radio broadcasts, giving voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victorian prisons. This episode includes several brief excerpts from 20 Years on the Inside, as well as

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Life under Australia's border policies

Women on the Line ·

2021/09/12

In this episode, we hear two conversations about the impacts of Australia’s border policy regime. Firstly, Renuga Inpakumar, a spokesperson for the Tamil Refugee Council, speaks about the current threat of deportation thousands of Tamil refugees face in Australia and the impacts of the pandemic on the community.Then, we hear from Nur Azizah who speaks to us about her lived experience as a Rohingya refugee living in limbo in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s operational border policies. Azizah

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Elder abuse and A Fluorescent Feeling

Women on the Line ·

2021/09/05

This week on Women on the Line, we’re joined by Melanie Joosten from Seniors Rights Victoria, to help us understand all about elder abuse. And later in the show, Georgia Mill, the host of the podcast A Fluorescent Feeling, explains how we can have better conversations about chronic pain.

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Justice for Fella & Ban Spit Hoods

Women on the Line ·

2021/08/29

Latoya is an Aboriginal & Maori, Takatāpui researcher, undertaking their PhD at UTS on Gadigal Land. Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man, Wayne Fella Morrison, their brother, was a father, fisherman and artist. Wayne Fella Morrison died nearly 5 years ago in hospital after being restrained by prison guards on remand in Yatala prison, Kaurna country in South Australia. They speak on the circumstances of Wayne's death, the Justice for Fella campaign, including the call to legislate a ban on spit

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The pandemic and struggle: insights from Cuba and India

Women on the Line ·

2021/08/22

In today’s episode, we’ll be hearing about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic outside of Australia.Firstly, we hear from Mumbai-based labour movement activist Sujata who speaks about the effects the pandemic is having on the working class in India. The interview is conducted by Jiselle Hanna and appeared on 3CR’s Asia Pacific Currents program.Then, we turn to Cuba where University of Sydney sociology professor, Dr Sujatha Fernandes speaks about Cuba's large-scale protests in July and the

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Supporting First Nations mental health

Women on the Line ·

2021/08/15

In this episode, we're joined by Dr Tracy Westerman, a proud Nyamal woman from the Pilbara region of Western Australia and an internationally recognised expert in Aboriginal mental health, cultural competence and suicide prevention. Dr Westerman is the founder of the Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, which has a focus on improving access to clinically and culturally appropriate mental health services including intervention and suicide prevention programs for Indigenous young

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Hirak al-Rif: Indigenous protest at Africa-Europe Border

Women on the Line ·

2021/08/08

In this week's episode, we are joined by Salua El Omari an activist and psychologist originally from the Rif in northern Morocco, working and living in Andalucia, Spain.She joins us to discuss the socio-/geo- political situation in the Rif region particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic and the largest social movement the Hirak Rif. Further, Salua tells us about the importance of matriarchal lineages and oral traditions in forging and maintaining identity and strength in resistance. Bordering the

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Holding state institutions accountable

Women on the Line ·

2021/08/01

This week we hear from two women holding state institutions accountable and using their platforms to bring issues such as structural racism and state violence to the forefront.Alison Whittaker looks at coronial inquests and whether they can be sites of justice, and Abiola Ajetomobi discusses her migration story, support networks and how to be a better ally.GuestsAbiola Ajetomobi is the director of Innovation Hub at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet and law

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Homes not Prisons

Women on the Line ·

2021/07/25

This week we hear from two activists involved in the Homes not Prisons campaign, Amy and Karen, interviewed by Carly Baque on Thursday Breakfast. The campaign initiated by the advocacy service for criminalised women in Victoria, Flat Out, aims to stop the $188.9 million expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost women's prison in Melbourne's west and invest in public housing. We hear Amy tell her story of the devastating impact of punitive bail laws contributing to her being incarcerated. A note for

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Lyndall Ryan on the Frontier Wars and digital...

Women on the Line ·

2021/07/18

This week on the program we hear an interview with Professor Lyndall Ryan, a leading historian of the Australian colonial frontier.Lyndall spoke with Marisa Sposaro, presenter and producer of 3CR Community Radio’s Doin Time show, about the Frontier Wars, the process of uncovering evidence of massacres of Aboriginal people, and a digital Colonial Frontier Massacres map covering the period from 1780 to 1930.Listeners should be aware that this episode contains historical description of massacres and

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Surviving and Resisting Institutional Racism

Women on the Line ·

2021/07/11

This week's episode of Women on the Line features two important discussions about the everyday operation and effects of racism on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.First, we hear from Kerry Klimm, a Kuku Yalanji and Koko Lama Lama woman living in Meanjin, who speaks about being subject to - and fighting - institutional racism while working in the not-for-profit sector, and the lasting toll this has taken on her health and wellbeing.We are then joined by Associate Professor Chelsea Watego,

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Decolonial solidarity: Black 'Australia' to Palestine

Women on the Line ·

2021/07/04

This week Eugenia Flynn and Tasnim Sammak join us to explore the shared reality of erasure and history of struggle against settler-colonialism, genocide and oppression between Blak Australia and Palestine. Within that struggle emerges a shared decolonial solidarity between Palestinian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples where Tasnim and Eugenia talk about a need to move beyond 'reciprocal solidarity'. These issues are discussed in their recent article Blak Australia to Palestine:

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Disrupting war & Dreaming Disability Justice

Women on the Line ·

2021/06/27

We hear an interview with Wage Peace anti-war protestor Margaret Pestorius, who attempted a citizen's arrest on former defense minister, Christopher Pyne, as part of the Disrupt Land Forces protests in Brisbane at the start of June. Afterwards, we hear excerpts from Dreaming Disability Justice, an online event hosted by the Disability Justice Network and the Emerging Writers Festival, featuring Vanmali Hermans, Julia Rose Bak and Margot Beavon-Collin.

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Sex work in Space and No pride in police

Women on the Line ·

2021/06/20

We feature two different discussions around spaces at the margins. First, we hear from Gala Vanting speaking on the Emerging Writers' Festival and The Intro Room's event, Sex work in Space, who speaks about her practices, sex worker advocacy and community. Please support and share Scarlet Alliance's emergency support fundraiser for sex workers needing material support, especially in light of a recent lockdown in Victoria. Second, we hear about police and conservative and mainstream spaces at Naarm

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Radiothon 2021!

Women on the Line ·

2021/06/13

We need your support to keep Women on the Line on radical 3CR community radio going for another year! Donate via our crowdraiser, or via the 3CR Donate page and mention us. We hear excerpts and discussions around previous shows: Disrupt arms deals | BDS, solidarity with Palestine, Skateboarding, Consent and Inclusivity, Justice for Mhelody Polan Bruno, and from a special former presenter, Hope!

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Sardine Baby and State Injustice

Women on the Line ·

2021/06/06

2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and 26 May was the 24th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report, yet state violence against First Nations people in so-called Australia continues unabated. This show links together specific concerns about draconian bail laws in Victoria with broader impacts of state actions on Aboriginal women and families. We are first joined by Gamilaraay, Kooma and Muruwari singer, songwriter and actor Maurial

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Disrupt arms deals | BDS, solidarity with Palestine

Women on the Line ·

2021/05/30

In the midst of human-caused atrocities by arms manufacturers, we air discussions of resistance and solidarity with lands being exploited and warred upon for profit from so-called Australia to West Papua, Palestine, and beyond.In this show, we are joined by two human and earth rights defenders. We first hear from Zelda Grimshaw who works with Make West Papua Safe and is a co-organiser of Disrupt Land Forces.Later, we are joined by Jeanine Hourani who is a Palestinian activist, campaigner, and

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Free Palestine & end mandatory detention

Women on the Line ·

2021/05/16

This week we feature the struggle by the Palestinian people against the occupying Israeli settler colony and the struggle against mandatory detention of asylum seekers. We hear first from Palestinian, educator, activist and writer Noura Mansour on the Nakba, the escalating violence by Israel, including in Sheikh Jarrah, and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. Later in the program, we hear a speech from Tasnim Sammak, Palestinian organiser and PhD candidate in education, speaking at Campaign

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Against NDIS Independent Assessments!

Women on the Line ·

2021/05/09

This week on the program we look at proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, including “independent assessments,” which if implemented would require people with disabilities to see medical assessors they do not know for a one off, non-appealable appointment which would determine whether they are able to access the scheme and if so, what support they can receive.We hear from Ajar Sana from the Disability Justice Network on the work the network does and the intersections of

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