Carly Baque, Scheherazade Bloul, Cait Kelly, Priya Kunjan and Rosie Isaac
Acknowledgement of country
News headlines with Cait Kelly
Mozhgan Moarefizadeh and Nicole Curby, co-hosts of The Wait(link is external), join us to introduce listeners to the podcast. The Wait is a new five-part narrative podcast series, telling the story of the refugees stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s border crackdown. The Wait will be airing each week on Thursday Breakfast during our summer programming.
Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union(link is external), gives us a rundown of the big changes in social security policy in 2020.
Shakira Hussein joins us to discuss two of her recent articles: The Christchurch Massacre:an Australian Crime(link is external) and the other on ecofacism and disability published on the other film festival. Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of From Victims to Suspects:Muslim Women from 9/11.
Joshua Badge, a queer writer and philosopher living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, joins us to discuss and contextualise the most recent spate of queer and transphobic articles in Australian media. Joshua's writing has been featured in places like Meanjin, Overland, The Guardian, & Junkee. They previously lectured at Deakin University and currently volunteer with Thorne Harbour Health and the Renters and Housing Union.
Priya reads No Flowers(link is external), a poem by Bridget Flack, as a tribute to her memory. Vale Bridget Flack.
Songs
Jerome Farah - Vibrate
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Our lineup for this year's Invasion Day broadcast is taking shape with live coverage of local and interstate events, rallies and concerts from 7am - 4pm on Tuesday 26 January 2021. We will be re-broadcasting the Dawn Service and have interviews, music and more across the day. For the latest details head to our Invasion Day broadcast page. For those of you who can't attend in person we will cross LIVE to the Invasion Day Rally from 10:30am and broadcast as much of the speeches and chanting as we can so you can feel part of it. We encourage those who are able to, to get down to the rally and participate in a COVID safe way. Check out the rally event page for details, as well as other events such as the Mourning Dawn Service https://fb.me/e/1QOYLkqZd and the Share the Spirit Festival https://fb.me/e/3Dyzo3m9x.
Who doesn’t love a summer bargain! Buy a 3CR Radical Radio t-shirt in any style and get our Radical Radio – Celebrating 40 years of 3CR book for half price at just $10. Available on our online shop 3cr.org.au/shop Just enter the discount code 3CRSUMMER on checkout.
This Thursday is Human Rights Day and we'll be placing the spotlight on Armenia, First Nations rights in Australia, the relationship between the far-Right, misogyny and gendered violence, sex worker discrimination and much more. Catch specials throughout the day - more details here.
