Boycott Eurovision 2026, Grok and Image-based Abuse, Revisiting 2025 Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Commemoration, Bushfire Suppression Targets, 'I am a feminist, lesbian, woman of color'

Tuesday, 20 January 2026 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Cath Strong is a researcher of popular music. She spoke to Marion for Tuesday Hometime in December about calls to boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. In this excerpt we hear how the State of Israel uses this international cultural event to project soft power and clean its image by pinkwashing. 

Lucinda Thorpe is Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch. In 2025, she was regularly on the program to give us the latest news regarding technology and how it is impacting our privacy online. This morning she joined us on the show to discuss Grok, the AI tool developed by Elon Musk's xAI, which is being used as a mechanism for image based abuse to degrade and humiliate women and children as well as responses needed to tackle this kind of technology. 

Aunty Janet Galpin is a Pakana/Trawlwoolway (Tasmanian) Irish & English woman. She spoke at the 2025 Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner commemoration. 3CR will broadcast live from the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Memorial on the corner of Victoria St & Franklin St, Melbourne - the site where these two Aboriginal freedom fighters were executed 184 years ago. Since 2006, the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Commemoration Committee (TMCC) has held a public ceremony every year to pay respect to the tens of thousands of First Nations men, women, and children who were slaughtered during the colonisation process - a process whose impacts continue to profoundly affect First Nations people today. In 2016, Melbourne City Council erected the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner monument at the site where these two Indigenous freedom fighters were executed on January 20 in 1842 - the first two people hanged in Victoria for resisting British colonisation.

Rosemary Storey is from Kinglake Friends of the Forest. Rosemary is a life-long environmentalist with a particular interest in forests and climate. She is a passionate defender of the forests of the Central Highlands. She joins us to talk about the Victorian Government target for containing bushfires at first attack and/or within five hectares set at 80% and the lack of investment in research, new technology, personnel and equipment.

Wenmiao Xin is a photographer and visual artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Drawing from her experiences as a lesbian, feminist, and woman of color, she explores themes of gender, identity, and sexuality through her distinctive visual language. Her work challenges societal norms and celebrates diversity, offering thought-provoking perspectives through the lens of her camera. Wenmiao spoke to Hằng from 3CR's Women on the Line about her upcoming art show, "I am a feminist, lesbian, woman of color" opening on Wednesday 21 January. 

 

Songs:

Pool Party - Julia Jacklin