Acknowledgement of Country//

News Headlines//

• NDIS bill delayed, inquiry extended 
• Third confirmed case of H5 bird flu detected in South Australia
• Eight-week extension granted to the Senate inquiry examining controversial NDIS changes
• Victorian educators reject government pay offer 
• Senate inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Gillham vs MSO case//

As part of 3CR's 50th anniversary celebrations, we dove into the archives to take you back 26 years to a pivotal protest against the World Economic Forum, 11-13 September 2000, at the Crown Casino Complex in Melbourne, which brought disparate organising groups together into a broad coalition against globalisation & multinational domination. 3CR covered the massive public opposition and compiled highlights of the broadcasts on a 12-part CD - Globalisation Unplugged.//

Honouring 3CR’s 50 year anniversary, we heard an 1998 interview with 3CR station manager Jan McCarther on Wednesday Hometime. In this excerpt, Jan discusses the legitimacy of the 1997 Victorian Police secret police infiltration that saw undercover officers pose as 3CR programmers and even undertake the community-funded 3CR training program. 3CR was one of multiple community organisations surveilled and monitored by Victoria Secret Police during a four year national security intelligence project that resulted in an Ombudsman investigation due to questionable legality and ethical conduct by police.//

Trans activist Hazel joined us for a conversation about the rise of electoral fascism and failure of liberal politics in so-called australia, and shared information about an upcoming counter protest for trans liberation on Saturday the 4th of July on the steps of Parliament House. For more information about the action, follow @transqueersoli2026 and @trans.action.network on Instagram.//

We heard from Zelda to understand how policing and legislative tactics like ‘hate crime’ law, the Security Investigation Unit (SIU) and the Federal Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) are leveraged to further criminalise liberatory justice movements and silence political speech. Zelda has been active in earth and human rights struggles on this continent and the Pacific region for decades and was a core organiser of Disrupt Land Forces. Currently, Zelda is preparing to head to Pine Gap for next month’s Sacred Land Back Convergence.//

Lucinda Thorpe from Digital Rights Watch joined us to discuss concerns that WA Police's expansion of facial surveillance acts as a disproportionate and terrifying over-reach of police infrastructure that could result in innocent Australians being surveilled and criminalised.// 

We heard from Chadley Camp, owner of Little Homey Cafe, on why the space is so special for community, their screenings of World Cup games, and upcoming events at the cafe. The cafe has a screening of the Ghana vs. Croatia game coming up, as well as a community games night.

Anitra Nelson is an activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at University of Melbourne, who investigates post-capitalism and non-monetary economies and has previously worked as a programmer with 3CR on Chile Lucha. Anitra has been investigating the phenomenon of Degrowth. As our Breakfast Shows have looked back on the 2000 S11 protests held by a broad coalition against globalisation, Anitra talked us through what degrowth is, why we need it, where it stands in relation to globalisation, and how the shifting global balance of power may work to help or hinder Degrowth For anyone wanting to find out more information on Degrowth visit The Commons Social Change Library or read through the open access Routledge Handbook on Degrowth.//