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Emily, Inez, Leila, Priya, River, Alice

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Prison to Deportation Pipeline Report; Creative...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/11/20

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Sanmati Verma - Legal Director at Human Rights Law CentreSanmati Verma, Legal Director at Human Rights Law Centre, breaks down the violence of mandatory visa cancellation and the different experiences of non-citizens incarcerated in so-called Australia. Sanmati and Dr Claire Loughnan from the University of Melbourne explored these issues in a recent report on the Prison to Deportation Pipeline, which found that there has been a tenfold increase in visa

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Global Observatory on Short-Term Rentals, Australia’s...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/11/13

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Researcher and urbanist Guadalupe Granero Realini joined us to discuss the recent launch of the Global Observatory on Short-Term Rentals, an initiative led by a coalition of Latin American organisations working on housing and urban issues to track governance patterns, private sector pushes and activist action on short-term rentals and their impact on housing markets worldwide. Guadalupe works on territorial justice, and her research is currently focused on

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Bougainville Updates, State of the Climate 2024...

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2024/11/06

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Vikki John on Tuesday Hometime//Jan Bartlett from Tuesday Hometime, spoke with longtime activist Vikki John with updates from Bougainville. Including, the Class Action against Rio Tinto (and subsidiary: Bougainville Copper Ltd.), as well as the 'Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment' by Melbourne's Human Rights Law Centre. This November marks 5 years since Bougainvilleans cast their ballots in a non-binding referendum vote on independence. The referendum was a

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Uncle Robbie Thorpe at Palestine Rally, Michelle Fahy...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/10/30

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Language warning!We listen to Krautungalung Elder Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe's speech at last Sunday's Free Palestine Rally on the 27th of October. Uncle Robbie, introduced by Nour Salman, updated the crowd on his legal battles against those complicit in genocide, both in Palestine and here in Australia. Our thanks to 3CR volunteer Tom for recording!Uncle Robbie has two upcoming court hearings in the Federal and Melbourne Magistrate's Courts, where he's

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Pacific Climate Justice at CHOGM 2024, Ayotzinapa...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/10/23

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Samoan climate justice activist Suluafi Brianna Fruean speaks with us about centring Pacific climate priorities during this year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is being held this week in Apia, Samoa, the first time that the gathering has been hosted by a Pacific Island Nation. Brianna also talks about presenting The Coconet's documentary series 'The Forgotten Pacific', which travels across five Pacific Islands to discover how communities

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Ayotzinapa Part 1, Anti-Poverty Community Organising,...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/10/16

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Freelance journalist, writer and researcher Ann Louise Deslandes spoke with Priya earlier this week about the recent 10th anniversary of the Ayotzinapa student disappearances from the city of Iguala in Mexico's state of Guerrero. On the night of September 26, 2014, and into the next day, municipal, state, and federal police officers, alongside soldiers from the Mexican Army and members of the criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos attacked six buses in the city

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Evelyn Araluen at Vigil for Gaza, Disability Wage...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/10/09

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replayed the opening speech from this Monday's Vigil for Gaza, 7th Oct 2024, at the Marquis of Linlithgow Monument, by Evelyn Araluen. Evelyn is a Bundjalung Nation descendant born and raised on Dharug Country. She is a poet, researcher, co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. You'll hear Evelyn deliver an emotional speech from an Aboriginal perspective on the psychological toll of genocide and settler colonialism, followed by a poem called "The Power of

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Military Uses of AI Part 2, Jordana Silverstein on...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/10/02

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Branka Marijan, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares Canada, spoke with Priya earlier last week about the regulatory landscape covering military usage of artificial intelligence, reflecting on the second Responsible AI in the Military Domain or REAIM Summit held during September in Seoul, South Korea. On today's program, we'll hear part two of this conversation (you can listen back to part one here). Branka leads Project Ploughshares' research on the

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Vanuatu’s Fight for Climate Justice, Military Uses of...

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2024/09/25

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// The Honourable Ralph Regenvanu, Member of the Vanuatu Parliament for Port Vila and Special Climate Envoy, joined us to unpack various pushes by Vanuatu in the international regulatory and climate governance space to fight for Pacific climate justice, including a recent proposal to the International Criminal Court to include ecocide as a crime under the Rome Statute.// Branka Marijan, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares Canada, spoke with Priya earlier

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Intergenerational Hibakusha Reflections, Close Unit...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/09/18

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Tuesday September 17, the Nuclear Truth Project held their final 'In Conversation’ session for 2024, meeting with intergenerational hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), Mitchie Takeuchi and Dr Kazuyo Yamane to remember Hiroshima. We heard the beginning of Dr Yamane's family's first hand account of the event, as well as some of their work in educating and remembering the atrocity. More discussion from this special presentation will be shared on 3CR’s

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Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton FPM Rally, Poverty is a...

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2024/09/11

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - Free Palestine Melbourne Rally 8th SeptemberWe listened to Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton, Kooma Murri Activist visiting from Magan-djin, speaking at this Sunday's Free Palestine Rally, outside State Library, 8th September. Later that day, also Uncle Coco spoke at the official launch event for Disrupt Land Forces held at Camp Sovereignty - Lest We Forget: The Frontier Wars. 3CR will be including audio from the event and other Disrupt

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Pacific Islands Climate & Liberation Struggle, Save...

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2024/09/04

Acknowledgement//Headlines// Dr Marco de Jong - Pacific Historian & Lecturer at Auckland University Pacific Historian Dr Marco de Jong joins us to unpack last week's 53rd Pacific Islands Forum summit. We will be discussing climate change mitigation/adaptation concerns for Pacific Island nations, the imposition of western military strategic interests on regional priorities, and how this relates to the ongoing liberation struggle unfolding in Kanaky. Dr de Jong is a lecturer at the Auckland

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WA Aboriginal Public Housing Class Action, Attack on...

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2024/08/28

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Slater and Gordon Class Actions Principal Lawyer Gemma Leigh-Dodds speaks about a recently-filed action on behalf of remote Aboriginal Western Australia Housing Authority tenants who have been forced to endure shockingly substandard public housing conditions. Find out more about the case here, and read about the Northern Territory High Court’s decision from last year regarding the substandard provision of public housing in remote Aboriginal

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Refugee Visa Encampment Rally, Mutual Aid for the...

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2024/08/21

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listened back to sounds and speeches from the "Unite to Support the Refugee encampment" rally, a solidarity event held by the Refugee Action Coalition last Friday 16th August in support of refugees camping out in front of the Home Affairs office on Bourke Street in Docklands. The collective of refugees who initiated the encampment are demanding permanent protection from the government and have vowed to stay put until their permanent visas are granted,

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Australia’s Global Fossil Fuel Carbon Footprint, Stop...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/08/14

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Cindy Baxter, Senior Communications Advisor with Climate Analytics, joined us to discuss the organisation's recently released 'Australia's global fossil fuel carbon footprint' report, which reveals the massive scale of Australia's domestic and international carbon impact via both local consumption and export-associated emissions. Cindy has been with Climate Analytics for 12 years, and has been working on global climate change issues for the past 33 years

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Global Plastic Deflecting Tactics, State Library...

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2024/08/07

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Amelia Leavesley, University of MelbourneAmelia Leavesley is a Research Fellow in Urban Sustainability at the Melbourne Centre for Cities. Her research focuses on urban climate policy and governance, sustainability transitions and local implementation of global sustainability frameworks. She's here to talk about her last article which unpacked how understanding ‘tobacco tactics’ can help fight the global plastic waste crisis, because the reality is plastic

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Kanaky Libre Solidarity Rally, Challenging Colonial...

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2024/07/31

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We played a recording of two speakers at the small but powerful Kanaky Libre Solidarity Rally, which was held on Parliament steps on the night of Friday 26th July, discussing the history of Kanaky (so-called 'New Caledonia'). This excerpt also includes a discussion about boycotting the Olympic games in Paris, as the opening ceremony was held on the same day.// We listened back to an excerpt from Brisbane Free University and Radio Reversal's 'Challenging

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Electromold Factory Community Picket, Trauma Therapy...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/07/24

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Lloyd Riman - Electromold Community PicketYesterday, there was another community picket to stop work at the Electromold factory in Thomastown led by Whittlesea for Palestine. Electromold is owned by Lovitt Technologies and provides specialised surface coatings, platings, and finishings for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets. Electromold is the only NADCAP, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin approved processing facility of its kind in ''australia''

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Disability & Sexual Health Access, Mililma May for...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/07/17

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Melanie HawkesLast week NDIS minister Bill Shorten announced that users of the scheme would be denied access to sex workers and sexual services under planned reforms. The NDIS Amendment Bill has been met with criticism across the board for its heavy focus on budget cuts and a failure to centre the experiences of people living with a disability. Today we will hear from Melanie Hawkes - a member of the management committee of Touching Base and NDIS participant

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Youth 'Justice' Bill 2024, Victorian Minimum Rental...

Thursday Breakfast ·

2024/07/10

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Andrew Yue - Jesuit Social Services Marisa on Doin Time interviewed Andrew Yue who has worked at Jesuit Social Services for over 10+ years, regarding raising the age of criminal responsibility. They spoke about the Youth Justice Bill 2024 that seeks to raise the age all the way to 14, and most importantly for young people who carry out certain behaviour, we have to address what's driving the behaviour and address trauma, and renegagement with community,

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