Our show today consisted of:

7.15am 2026 marks 25 years of Beyond the Bars prison broadcasts. This year during NAIDOC Week our First Nations broadcasters shared the mic with inmates across six Victorian prisons. Beyond the Bars receives financial support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the Koori Justice Unit and Corrections Victoria at the Department of Justice and Community Safety, and Yarra City Council.
We listen back to highlights from the 2026 live broadcast at Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre, on 6 July. Played over two parts.

7.50am Christine El-Khoury, Director of Communications & Projects at the new Democracy Foundation joins us to talk about the newly published second edition of the UN Handbook 'Democracy Beyond Elections'. You can download it at www.newdemocracy.comm.au

8.10am Tim Briedis from The People's History of Australia Podcast about the history of the Maritime Union of Australia's 1998 dispute and the team's exciting upcoming festival here in Naarm. To book tickets visit THIS LINK.

Listen to the podcast or contact Tim here at peopleshistory.com.au

Songs

Waste Deep in the Muddy - Pete Seeger

Yurala - Spinifex Gum

A Silent History - Trudy & Phil Edgeley