Students strike!; Hush: Gathering of Kindness; Friends of the Earth- #Keep it in the Ground; Let them stay! Rally for Priya, Nades and their daughters; Martin Croft on bringing 'Come from Away' to Australia

Monday, 23 September 2019 - 7:00am to 8:30am

7:00   Acknowledgement of Country

7:07   Students Strike! 

7:15   Tony Gould tells us how the Hush Foundation creates music for children's hospitals and other stressful environments and about Gathering of Kindness, their new album.

7:30    Cam Walker, campaign's coordinator for Friends of the Earth  Melbourne calls in to tell us about their campaign  to extend Victoria's  moratorium on onshore conventional exploration and drilling and why we need to let Daniel Andrews know the community says no to the fossil fuel industry.

7:45   People gathered outside the Federal Court in Melbourne on Wednesday September 18th, to support Priya, Nades, and their daughters, Kopika and Tharunicaa, who are fighting government moves to deport them to danger in Sri Lanka. Listen to excerpts from speeches recorded at the rally and an interview with Kieran Magee fromthe  Refugee Action collective (Victoria) on the continuing campaign.

8:00  Welcome to the Rock! Martin Croft, Australian Associate Director of Come From Away  the story of how a small town, Gander, in Newfoundland, Canada, welcomed and looked after 7,000 people from over 100 countries whose planes were diverted there after 9/11.