You're listening to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming Series on 3CR Community Radio. Happy New Year!

Today's show features a selection of interviews we've done with artists, writers, video game designers, and filmakers. We hear about the importance of disabled oracles, 'Blaktasia' the First ever Aboriginal mobile game, the Famili music collective's EP 'Bloodfire', Tony Birch's 'Pictures of You' collection, and the short film 'Sister Mine' & fighting against casteism.

Acknowledgement of Country//

Pauline Vetuna - 3CR Disability Day (20 Nov 25) //

Writer, artist, and 3CR's Disability Day coordinator Pauline Vetuna shares some reflections on the work of disabled oracles in transforming the world in the wake of the recent passing of revolutionary disability activist Alice Wong. Pauline also reflects on the importance of critically attending to how we practice solidarity and community with disability justice at the core, disabled ancestorhood, and this year's upcoming Disability Day special broadcast on the 3rd of December.//

Blaktasia (14 Aug 25) //

Elijah McDonald (Noongar, Pitta Pitta, Yamatji) Tech Artist, Junior Programmer and Rosie Kalina (Wemba Wemba, Gundjitmara) Art and Culture Producer from Blaktasia, this continent's first ever Aboriginal mobile game, joined us in the studio to discuss the making of the game, art, inspiration, and the everyday work it takes make a game by Mob for Mob, where you restore the bush & defeat the corrupting force of The Murk. Set in a Blak world inspired by Country, you don't want to miss this! //

Poro - FAMILI (27 Nov 25) //

Poro, a member of FAMILI, a collective born at the intersection of Pasifika, Blak, queer, and trans experiences joins us to discuss their EP BLOODFIRE released yesterday, as well as their Short Film. Their work connects past, present, and future into a space that refuses easy categorisation, a space where ancestral traditions met futuristic sounds. We spoke about their show on Thursday 27th Nov 7pm at the Northcote Theatre featuring an hour-long set of new, unreleased music – years in development. Support their work on Bandcamp and follow them on Instagram. //

Tony Birch - Pictures of You (23 Sep 25) //

Multi-award winning author Tony Birch joined us in the studio to discuss the upcoming launch of Pictures of You, a selection of the best of his short fiction works over the past two decades. The collection brings together some of Birch's most poignant stories, taking readers through the humour, heartbreak, and rich complexity of everyday human experience. Pictures of You is published by the University of Queensland Press and hits bookstores on the 30th of September - pre-order your copy here. Tony Birch is an activist, historian and essayist, and is currently the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.//

Akshay Gouri - Sister Mine (09 Oct 25) //

CW: Gendered violence, femicide, casteism
Akshay Gouri, maker of the short film 'Sister Mine' - When Amarjeet is sent to Melbourne with a tragic mission — to protect family "honor" by taking his sister’s life, who has had an inter-caste marriage — he instead finds love, warmth, and conflict in the home of the woman he was meant to destroy. Sister Mine is a powerful story of cultural pressure, sibling love, and humanity winning over hate. Akshay Gouri is a Screenwriter and Director who has made 8 short films, both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to Political issues, Socio-economic realities and their consequences on people. Watch their incredible short films collection via Youtube.