Apsara Sabaratnam, Queerspace, Candy Bowers, Democracy in Colour and Free Our Future Community Event

Tuesday, 7 May 2019 - 7:00am to 8:30am

George, Anya and Zoya with guests, Roxanne Moore and Jessica Peters

Tuesday Breakfast 7 May 2019

7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country

7.05 am Chris Woods with news headlines

7.15 am Apsara Sabaratnam, Greens candidate for the Senate, joins us to discuss the policies and reform she is passionate about, and about making the Australian parliament a more accessible space for women, particularly women of colour

7.30 am Lan Dugdale from Queerspace joins us in the studio. Lan chats to us about two new mentorship programs that Queerspace has started - A Place At the Table and the Polaris Mentoring Project, and why mentorship programs such as these are important for the LGBTIQA+ community

7.45 am Candy Bowers joins us in the studio for a discussion about her show Australian Booty, disrupting the patriarchy, not accepting the institutions as they are and refusing to letting them define her, and her activism through her work.

8.00 am We play a pre-record of an interview with Aliya Ahmad about Democracy in Colour, the work they do to tackle structural racism, and their fundraiser.

8.10 am Roxanne Moore from Change the Record, Jessica Peters from the Federation of CLCs and Apryl Watson, daughter of Aunty Tanya Day, join us to talk about the Free Our Future event happening tomorrow, the Free Our Sisters Free Our Kids campaign, and the petition to decriminalise the offence of public drunkenness.

song: Deeper

artist: Saint Cava

song: Miss Shiney

artist: Kaiit

song: Good As Hell

artist: Lizzo