Headlines

- the Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency - has welcomed the passage of amendments to the Children, Youth and Families Act by the Children, Youth and Families Amendment (Stability) Bill 2025 by Victoria's parliament.

- Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found evidence Israel used white phosphorus in residential areas of southern Lebanon earlier this month, in violation of international humanitarian law.

- Following the US and Israel's bombing of oil storage facilities in Iran, the people of Iran faced toxic black rainfall this Sunday morning.

- A new report calls to ban strip searches in Australian prisons by all state and territory governments.

7:15AM //

Inaz Janif (former Executive Member of the Islamic Council of Victoria), speaks at a recent public forum called 'Unite to Fight Racism'. This event was held at Trades Hall on Wednesday 25th Feb by the Refugee Action Collective, who brought together a panel of women to discuss their experiences, the racist scapegoating of migrant communities, and ways we can help welcome refugees and asylum seekers moving forward. To find more of their events - you can look up 'refugee action collective vic' on social media, or head to their website: rac-vic.org.

7:30AM // 

Rowiina Howard is an a multidisciplinary artist who creates in response to native bushland, particularly inspired by the surrounds of her home on Kanamaluka country, in northern Lutrwita/Tasmania. Her art invites us to pause, reflect and honour the slow stillness that nature brings. Rowiina explores this through both sculpture, photography, and stitching with natural second hand materials, and currently has an exhibition called gentle enchantment on at Monslavat artists' community. You can catch her art exhibition at the Monslavat artists community until the 29th of March, and can find out more about here current exhibition gentle enchantment here or see more of her art via her instagram. Rowiina will also be on sight at Monslavat in the final week of her exhibition. 

7:45AM // 

3CR program Raise the Roof is presented by the Housing Action Group, and focuses on housing issues every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. In this clip from the 28 of January show, presenters Fiona and Liz speak to Margareta Windisch, a researcher from RMIT who has conducted research into older women's experience of heatwaves in their homes. In this excerpt, we hear about some of the individual stories Maguerite has uncovered through her research and the effectiveness of public cool spaces.

8:00AM //

Bee leads the Rising Red Lantern project at Vixen. They do outreach and support work and advocate for sex workers. They are also one of the co-founders of Justice for Our Sisters, a collective of Asian and Asian Migrant sex workers in Naarm. Bee joins us today to discuss what's been happening at Vixen in 2026, and the upcoming Asian Migrant Sex Workers and Sex Worker Survivors of Violence Speak Out. It will take place in front of the State Library of Victoria. Bee is here to discuss the reason behind the speak out and to reflect on how March is a heavy time of year for the sex worker community. Listeners are advised that the following program includes descriptions of police raids and references to violence against sex workers. Find out more here.

8:15AM //

Dr Rachel Iampolski is an Urban Geographer and long-term contributing member of the 'Save Public Housing Collective', who has been pursuing a heritage listing of some of the 44 Public Housing Estates. Here is a part of her conversation with Danielle from 3CR's Breadline about some of the estates' unique history in the landscape of Melbourne. Next week on Tuesday Breakfast we will hear the second part of this discussion, where she tells us about the finer details of 'heritage listing' and how this might work for high-rise public housing estates.

Listeners can contact Rachel to put in an application and be supported as someone with a ‘vested interest’ in any of the Towers in Tranche 2 & 3 - racheliampolski@gmail.com

Songs:

Don't let the kids win - Julia Jacklin

Weaving - Tasha Zappala 

Tasha Zappala's song Weaving includes field recordings from Kanamaluka country, capturing the summer dusk, evening and dawn. The soundscape was completed as a part of the Gentle Enchantment Exhibition by Rowina Howard. 

She Oak- Alice Skye 

Alice is a Wergaia/Wemba Wemba woman and singer/ songwriter.