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As a follow-on from our AI Breakfast Special last week, we listen to the second half of Part 1 of a six-part project being developed by two of our very own 3CR hosts based upon Radical Literature's 'A Booklet about Artificial Intelligence', written by the AI Safety Symposium. Last week the first half of Part 1 took a deep dive into the question, 'What is AI?' This week’s segment explores how humans train AI, and, in some instances, how they don't.//
On Tuesday 18 August, Voice of West Papua host Joe Wally spoke to Indonesian independent journalist and PhD researcher Grace Tan-Johannes about a range of topics including her doctoral research into narratives of multi-species mourning in Indonesian journalism on the deforestation wrought by the PSM Merauke food estate in South Papua, and mainstream media coverage of West Papua. In this segment, Grace responded to a question from Joe about challenging monocultural and myopic media engagement with West Papua, speaking about the Australian mainstream media’s lack of attention to mass deforestation in Merauke, media monopolies and interests, and the role of investigative journalism conducted with integrity in delving into issues of ecological and colonial injustice.
Listen back to the full interview here, and don't forget to tune in to 3CR every Tuesday at 6.30PM to hear news and music from West Papua.//
This week, Inez caught up with VALID CEO Fionn Skiotis and self advocates Greg and Taj to discuss the impacts of the NDIS Bill on people with intellectual disability and their families. Their conversations also touched on the work VALID is doing, the importance of looking out for each other, and why the NDIS has been such a lifeline for people with intellectual disability.
VALID is running a webinar online today from 12-1PM on 'Building Inclusive Boards and Committees’. It's free to attend and you can register here.
VALID's next 'Having a Say Conference' will be held from the 15th to the 17th of February 2027 at Deakin University Waterfront, Geelong. Expressions of interest to present close on the 12th September 2026. VALID can support people to participate, and welcome sponsorship proposals to help more people attend.
You can contact VALID by phone at (03) 9416 4003, via email at info@valid.org.au, or by visiting Level 1, 144 Langridge Street, Collingwood 3066.//
Leila caught up this week with Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and active member of Stop AUKUS WA Sam Wainwright to discuss Protest Land Forces 2026. The widely criticised weapons convention celebrates the military industrial complexes fueling genocide, and acts to secure Australia's economic collusion in the abuse of human rights globally. Successful anti-war protests in Meanjin-Brisbane and Naarm-Melbourne rejecting the convention have driven the Australian Government to again move the event across states in an attempt to avoid backlash, landing this biennial iteration of Land Forces in Boorloo-Perth, Western Australia. For listeners based in Boorloo-Perth, show your solidarity with Sudan, Palestine, Iran and all of us affected by war industries by joining Sam Wainwright and the rest of the community at Yagan Square on Tuesday October 6th, 5pm to protest Land Forces.//
André Vartan-Boghossian is an architect and emerging political economist whose work sits at the intersection of institutional design, governance, and political economy. He is currently completing a Master of Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, and his forthcoming peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) called 'The Privileged Position of Qantas', investigates the political and institutional networks surrounding Qantas’s Chairman’s Lounge. Today, André spoke with us about his piece, and why he believes Qantas is ‘a reckless nepo-baby gouging its customers and crushing its workers,' and the trajectory of its relationship with the Labor government. André’s work can be found on his Substack ‘Captured’.//
Emily, Inez, Leila, Priya, River, Candy
