Acknowledgement of Country//
Headlines:
- Yarra City Council votes against North Richmond housing estate demolition
- Labor promises incomplete regulation for AI facilities and data centres
- Protest against Stockland's 2 billion dollar data centre in Brooklyn
- Inquiry urges Albanese government to establish mandatory minimum standards for youth justice
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sustain, Nick Rose, and Campaign Organiser of the Not Lovin' It campaign, Andy Miller, joined us to discuss the Northcote community's fight against the development of a McDonald's store along High Street, the public health risks of allowing fast food chains ongoing influence over food environments, the launch of Sustain’s #VoteForFood in the lead up to state elections, and the most recent efforts to strengthen local council and community control over food spaces and public health initiatives, including a petition within Victoria’s parliament.
Sustain will be hosting a Fast Food Fight Webinar on 7th October, and if you're interested in signing the e-petition calling for strengthening local council planning powers, follow this link.//
Digital justice advocate, writer and researcher Samantha Floreani spoke with us about how the interface between privacy and rental regulations continues to fail tenants around the country, leaving us vulnerable to rampant data harvesting in the process of finding somewhere to live. She also breaks down insights from a recent report by the Consumer Policy Research Centre (to which she contributed) titled 'Key to your data - behind the rent tech interface', which highlights some alarming inconsistencies in protections across Australian jurisdictions. Samantha's PhD research project, The Machine-Readable Renter, examines the role of digital technologies in Australia’s private rental sector, and its impact on renters and housing justice. She is based at Monash University's ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.//
Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O'Connell joined us to unpack the continued imposition of compulsory income management programs in Australia, despite two decades of widespread opposition since it was first introduced as part of the Northern Territory Intervention. The Community Affairs References Committee is currently undertaking a review into the Social Security (Administration) Legislation Amendment (Income Management and Enhanced Income Management) Instrument 2026, a legislative instrument introduced by Minister for Social Services Tanya Plibersek in June this year, which removes legislative deadlines for income management programs disproportionately targeting First Nations Peoples. Read Antipoverty Centre's submission to the inquiry here, follow the work of the Accountable Income Management Network here, and read a brief overview of income management in Australia by Dr Elise Klein and Dr Francis Markham here.//
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