HEADLINES// 

7:15 AM// Kate Colvin is the CEO of Homelessness Australia. Previously, Kate was the spokesperson for national housing and homelessness campaign Everybody's Home and served as the deputy CEO for Victoria's peak body for homelessness, the Council to Homeless Persons. Last week, the Australian Government's National Housing Supply and Affordability council released its State of the Housing system 2025 report. Kate joined us to discuss key findings of the report, including new drivers of homelessness in Australia, the direct impact of the housing crisis on wellbeing, and what is required to bring an end to this crisis.

7:30 AM// Aawa is from Kinglake Friends of the Forest (KFF), a volunteer community group committed to protecting native forests and relishing the joy of their unique biodiversity. The group started in opposition to local logging operations in Kinglake in 2018. Before long they were running court cases against logging agency VicForests that ended up halting native forest logging across the entire state from November 2022, over a year before the official end of the industry in 2024. Since the end of VicForests, KFF have turned their attention to the industrial burning of forests the occurs under the guise of bushfire management.

7:45 AM// Camille Comtat is the manager of Biodiversity and Habitats at Minderoo Foundation, a philanthropic organisation focused on climate change, gender equality, and First Nations issues. Camille is here on 3CR to chat about Minderoo's ongoing "Big Blue Ideas" conversation series in collaboration with the Australian National Maritime Museum, protecting our oceans, and the importance of marine protected areas. 

8:00 AM// Vicky Ellmore is an organiser from the Act on Climate iniatitive within Friends of the Earth Melbourne. Vicky joined us to chat about the need for climate adaptations, the latest state budget, and findings from recent research undertaken by Friends of the Earth.

8:15 AM// Scheherezade is a researcher and campaigner with Elbit Out of Victoria, a member of the Free Palestine Naarm Coalition, and is a fellow presenter here on 3CR. On Sunday, Scheherezade spoke at the Free Palestine Naarm Rally outside the headquarters of Hanwha, the South-Korean arms company with ties to Elbit Systems. In her speech, she discussed the work of activists and organisers to heed the BDS call to boycott, divest from, and sanction Elbit Systems, Israel's largest arms company that designs and manufactures weapons and technology, as well as the government's complicity in enabling genocide. 

Songs: 

Angie McMahon - Saturn Returning