Acknowledgement of Country 

News headlines with Cait Kelly 

We hear an excerpt from the Virtual Progress 2020 conference where Dr Jackie Huggins speaks on Bla(c)k Lives Matter and the incarceration of First Nations women. Jackie Huggins is a Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru woman and a celebrated author, historian, and former Co-Chair of National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples.

We hear a selection of interviews from Dame Phyllis Frost Prison and Loddon/Middleton Prison as part of the Beyond the Bars broadcast series which began in 2002, and cannot be delivered as per normal in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. 

We hear Part 2 of an interview with Reyvi from the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) who speaks with Thursday Breakfast about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Filipino students and other international students in so-called Australia and the importance of grassroots migrant community organising. 

We play an exercept from 3CR's Diaspora Blues where Ayan Shirwa interviews a resident in one of the lockdown public housing towers. 3CR Thursday Breakfast host Priya further discusses the Victorian Government's policy to heavily restrict the movement of residents in 9 public housing towers across Melbourne, as well as community-led initiatives supporting and caring for residents affected by these punitive restrictions. 

Songs 

MacRidge x Barkaa - 22 Clan 

Becca Hatch - 2560 

Sampa the Great - Leading us Home