NSW's harmful new drug laws; Manus Recording Project Collective; end of Mental Health Care provision on Nauru; Police Stop Survey

Thursday, 25 October 2018 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Thursday Breakfast 25 October 2018

with Em, Katia and Scheherazade

7.00am Acknowledgement of Country

7.03am VRY BLK, Jamila Woods ft. Noname

7.07am Blk Girl Soldier, Jamila Woods

7.09am Alternative news - new NSW drug laws ignore harm reduction measures and adversely affect party goers at festivals

7.19am Doing me, RAY BLK

7.24am Sowia, Porier ft. Samito 

7.33am News headlines - Corporatisation of health care for young people in Victoria's prisons; new court hurdle by Coalition government to transfer ill children from offshore detention to Australia; Indigenous deaths in custody still not implemented; report on sexual assault at music events released. 

7.39am Em speaks to Andre Dao, writer, lawyer, editor and co founder of Behind the Wire, about the Manus Recording Project Collective and the work 'How are you today?' on now at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. 

8.00am  Em speaks to Dr Beth O'Connor, psychiatrist with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), about the health of asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and about MSF's  condemnation of Nauru’s decision to cease mental health care.    

8.13am  Scheherazade speaks to Tamar Hopkins, PHD candidate at UNSW and founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project, about the Police Stop Survey.

8.28am Wrap up