Tuesday Breakfast

Headlines//- North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency welcomed UN criticism of states and territories' "tough on crime" policies- Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast to become Chile’s 38th president- Pro-democracy activist and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai convicted - Landmark class action victory against Victoria Police use of capsicum spray 7.15 am// Carolyn Dunbar is the Women’s Team Leader at the Victorian Trades Hall Council. Caro was on the program last week to unpack “No more tick-box exercises”: Women calling for workplace safety; the third in a series of reports that explores the issues faced by women in male-dominated industries. We ran out of time last week to discuss updates regarding the campaign to end NDAs in the workplace so Caro is back in the studio this week to chat to us about this.Content warning: This segment references violence against women so please take care when listening and reach out to your support networks if needed. If you would like to talk to someone about any of the topics

Headlines// - New National Homelessness Plan reveals homelessness amongst Aboriginal Victorian's has increased at four times the rate of the state population.- Two Victorians file legal challenge with the federal court against Vic Police announcing six month declaration of Melbourne CBD as a designated area. - World Health Organisation says 114 people including 63 children were killed in senseless strikes against kindergarden and hospital in Kalogi, Sudan.- Lebanese Australian Associate Professor Jumana Bayeh and Tunisian-Muslim Dr Jyhene Kebsi get made redundant from Macquarie University conveying Islamophobic sentiment.  7:15AM// Rowena Gonnay speaks about the Terra Madre Asia & Pacific fair 2025 that was held in Bacolod City, Philippines in the last week of November. Rowena Gonnay shared the unoy rice, a traditional strain native to the Pasil municipality of the Philippines. The rice is a sustainably grown variety, has been planted for generations, and is a symbol of cultural identity yet, is facing the th

Headlines //- Donald Trump's governing party imposing sanctions against International Criminal Court organisations seeking accountaibility and justice for war crimes against Palestine.- Climate activists from 'Rising Tide' have halted coal ships entering Newcastle port during the people's blockade of the world's biggest coal port. - 700 'Put Australia First' anti-immigration protesters in CBD.- Mass flooding and landslides in parts of Asia; Sri-Lanka, Sumatra in Indonesia and Northern Thailand.  7:15 AM // Eileen Mairena Cunningham is an Indigenous activist, climate justice advocate, and global researcher. The 2025 UN Climate Change Conference known as COP30 is concluding in Belem, Brazil - a city often referred to as the gateway to the Amazon Rainforest. From November 10th- 21st 2025, this major global meeting has brought together government representatives from the 198 signatory countries, along with delegates from UN bodies, civil society, academia and the private sector. Significantly, COP30 features a re

Headlines // - Accusations of racial profiling by Victoria Police- Palestinian law student Baraa Khairi Ali Maali killed by Israeli forces on Sunday- Save Our Community Health campaigning to save co-health in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington- Snapchat verifying user ages in Australia 7:15 AM // For this week's episode of Women on the Line, Scheherazade spoke to Najla Mohamed-Lamin, a Sahrawi human rights activist, educator, and founder of the Almasar Library Centre in the refugee camps. Najla speaks about life under exile and why Sahrawi resistance endures despite displacement, resource plunder, and global indifference. In the following excerpt, Najla provides some background information regarding Western Sahara and the Sahrawi struggle.This conversation first aired on 3CR on Monday 17 November 2025. 7:30 AM // Lucinda Thorpe, Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch. Today marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence. Internationally, the UN Women 2025 theme for 16 Days of Act

7:15 AM // Jay Underwood is the music manager and community connector behind Liberate. A grassroots initiative uplifing indie and emerging creatives across the Naarm music community. They joined us on 3CR Breakfast  to discuss the upcoming fundraising event for Switchboard, a community based not for profit organisation that provides a peer driven, support service for LGBTIQA+ communities and their allies, friends, support workers and families. 7:30 AM // Juliet Lamont is a documentary filmmaker and a frontline activist for all of the intersectional struggles for justice and equality - Indigenous sovereignty, climate, human rights, native forests and Palestine. She was recently on the Global Sumud Flotilla to deliver aid in an attempt to break the illegal siege on Gaza. Juliet joined us on the program to discuss the IOF's use of F-35 jets and the parts of these weapons are being produced at Ferra Engineering in Brisbane.  7:45 AM // Sophie Ellis is the manager of the criminal law practice at YouthLaw and has b

News Headlines:Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung peoples' Native Title claim in VictoriaFemale MPs received death threats after condemning Neo-Nazi rally in NSWHome renovations leading cause of asbestos-related cancer Documentary 'Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War' reveals breakdown in norms and legal constraints Bonnie Dukakis is a Gunditjmara woman and is also CEO of Koorie Youth Council, the representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in Victoria. Guided by an Executive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, KYC values the diversity and strength of young people as decision-makers. The council advocates to government and community to advance the rights and representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. Bonnie joins us on the program this morning to discuss the Victorian Government recent announcement that it will reopen the Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre in April 2026. Lucinda Thorpe, Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch, joins us on the sho

News Headlines:War crimes in SudanFootscray Community Response opposes private security guardsIsrael's continued breach of ceasefireMedical professionals criticise NT's prison and justice systems Karen Fletcher from FlatOut and Louisa Bassini from Inner Melbourne Community Legal speak at the Standing Together for Public Housing meeting on 23 October 2025. Karen speaks about imprisonment numbers of women in Victoria, the privatisation and commercialisation of public housing, and the lack of support for community organisations like FlatOut who are doing on the ground work to keep women out of prison. Louisa Bassini from Inner Melbourne Community Legal discusses the haste with which the demolition was proposed, and the work that her organisation is doing to represent residents of the towers.// Dr Lissa Schindler, a marine ecologist working with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, speaks about protecting the Great Barrier Reef from damaging deforestation. Lisa also discusses the impact of the 700k+ vegeta

7:15AM // Aysha Zaharin is a PhD researcher, award-winning trans rights advocate, and member of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Trans and Gender Diverse Expert Advisory Committee. Her work focuses on cultural relativism and decoloniality, bridging rigorous academic research with grassroots advocacy to highlight marginalized voices in the quest for transformative justice and equity. A survivor of conversion practices, she also serves as a Migration Policy Analyst with Scarlet Alliance, centering on intersectional advocacy that addresses the complex interplay of migration status, racial discrimination, and gender-based violence within sex work communities. Aysha joined us to talk about today's rally in Sydney to protest the Australian Border Force raids targeting migrant and Asian sex workers. Organised by Scarlet Alliance, the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group, and SWOP NSW, the action responds to what organisers describe as an “ongoing campaign of intimidation and racialised policing” against A

 7:15AM // Lisa Barrand is a founding member of the Gippsland Forest Guardians, an organisation focused on protecting the Gippsland forest and the animals that inhabit it. Phuong spoke with Lisa about a positive update regarding the Fella coupe and protecting the future existence of the Strzelecki Forests which have been subject to logging in the past. To keep up with their campaigns click here. 7:30AM // Lucinda Thorpe is the Privacy Campaigner at the Digital Rights Watch, an organisation focusing on advocating the digital rights of Australian citizens. Phuong interviewed Lucinda about the City of Melbourne council's proposal to expand the CCTV network and staff's access to this footage, and how this might infringe upon privacy rights. You can find out more at here for more information about the organisation.  7:45AM // Soren Tae Smith is a teacher and author who has recently released a memoir titled "Honey from the Ground". The book explores the experience of child bereavement, exploring her personal experi

Headlines //  - Seven Australians have been abducted from the Global Sumud Flotilla by the Israeli government- New housing index released by the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) has revealed that the housing crisis in Victoria is deepening- New polling has found that the majority of Australians oppose the genocide in Gaza and want action from the Australian government- Last Wednesday 1 October, long overdue pay rises were announced for aged care workers 7:15AM // 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 5 October, Scheherazade spoke at the Free Palestine rally in Naarm about solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, and about resistance movements and protests happening in Morocco.  7:30AM // Rita is an organiser with Greeks for Palestine and Menzies for Palestine, and spoke at the Free Palestine rally in Naarm over the weekend. Rita works in higher education and has been mobilising

We replay a conversation with Dr Susie Allanson and Lizzie O'Shea from 12 July 2022 about the fight for reproductive rights in Australia. Dr Susie Allanson was a clinical psychologist for more than 35 years. Twenty-six of those years were at the Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne. Susie led the clinic’s campaign for safe access to abortion. Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer and writer. Lizzie represented the Fertility Control Clinic in the Supreme Court case to stop the harassment of staff and patients by anti-abortion fanatics. Together they wrote the book, 'Empowering Women: From Murder & Misogyny to High Court Victory'. In this conversation Dr Susie Allanson begins by speaking about their book and then Lizzie O'Shea speaks about the overturning of Roe v Wade and provides more insight into the Australian context. Please note that since the airing of this conversation, WA has decriminalised abortion as of 27 March 2024. Dr Sophie Rudolph, Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at the University of Mel

Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman, Professor Chelsea Watego speaks about her new book, Black Thoughts Matter: Essays on Black Love, Black Power, and Black Joy. In the following excerpt from this week’s episode of Women on the Line, Chelsea speaks about Aboriginal women's voices and perspectives that are often missing from public discourse; the censorship and control of white women editors; and the power, the joy, and the importance of embracing rage. This conversation first aired on 3CR's Women on the Line on Monday 22 September 2025.// Tasnim Sammak, a Palestinian activist, academic, and organiser with Free Palestine Coalition Naarm, spoke at the Free Palestine rally on 21 September about nearing two years of the beginning of the genocidal assault on Gaza in the face of an imperialist colonialist advance that is going full speed ahead, with negotiations reaching no solution. On Sunday the 21st of September, various Palestine liberation groups rallied together for the 101st protest against Israel and Au

Emma Valente, from THE RABBLE, spoke to Kannagi for this week's Women on the Line about their new show UNWOMAN (the protest), a durational artwork celebrating the multitude of experiences around birth, fertility and pregnancy. THE RABBLE was formed in 2006 by Kate Davis and Emma Valente from a desire to make work that wasn’t being produced in Australia: visually ambitious, political, feminist and formally experimental theatre. The Rabble is looking for participants. If you're interested in sharing any experience at all around pregnancy, birth, never wanting a baby, making a queer family, IVF, and everything in between, get in touch. You can contact them at @rabbletheatre on Instagram or going to therabble.com.au  and click on UNWOMAN.// Maize Wallin of the Game Workers Union spoke to Tilde and Jordan from 3CR's Slacker Radio. They spoke about the union, its formation, and a local cooperative of gameworkers and other digital creatives getting active in the space. Update: they did achieve 100 members by the 16t

Headlines// 7:15AM// Jessica has been a member of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union since it was founded but has been an activist since the 70s. In 2014, Jessica helped form a local AUWU branch in Wonthaggi, where they picketed job centres to support their members. Now she is on age pension and says she can't believe that we are still fighting Howard-era payments under the poverty line and the Morrison era of punitive penalty systems. Jess joined us on the show to talk about the upcoming picket organised by AUWU to protest the National Employment Services Association's annual conference.  If you need support after listening to this interview: 13 YARN (13 92 76), Lifeline 13 11 14, Suicide Callback Service 1300 659 467, QLife 1800 184 527 (3pm - midnight). Links:'Stop Profiteering from Poverty' event AUWU websiteBreadline (AUWU's radio show) 7:30AM// Zelda from Disrupt Wars. Last Tuesday at 12:30pm there was a snap action held outside the Indonesian embassy to demand an end to the persecution of West Pap

7:15am // A speech from Dr Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychologist and author of the newly released 'Radiance in Pain and Resilience'. Her book includes insight into the experience of trauma that occurs as a result of the genocidal war faced by Palestinians, and the necessity of psychological aid within war torn countries. Dr Jabr is a trainer and supervisor with a special focus on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mhGAP, and the Istanbul Protocol for the documentation of torture.  7:30am // Conversation with Kristin O’Connell, an anti-poverty activist who founded The Antipoverty Centre. Kristin speaks to Phuong on how miscalcuated debts from Centrelink have disproportinatiely affected women, first nations people and those facing family violence. Listeners can reach out to the Antipoverty Centre if they may have been impacted by Centrelink’s miscalculated debts. 7:45am // Out of the Blue presenter Mimi speaks with Dr Prue Francis, a senior lecturer at Deakin university in Marine Science who specialises in o

7:15 AM// Xen spoke with 44 Flats United (44FU), a group of residents, former residents and supporters of public housing, on this week’s episode of Women on the Line. 44FU is organising against the Victorian State Government's decision to demolish the 44 high-rise commission flats and a growing number of walkups across Narrm (Melbourne). Xen interviewed R-Coo Tran, leader of 44 FU and Thi, a Vietnamese woman living in a housing estate in Richmond. In this interview they talked about the major problems with the estate demolition plan, what impact this is having on residents and how 44FU is organising on this campaign. Here is an excerpt from the episode that aired yesterday, 25 August 2025.  7:30 AM// Alexia Fuentes– Secretary General of Bayan Australia- a multi-sectoral alliance of progressive Filipino mass organisations campaigning for peaceful independence, speaking at the Pacific Peace Conference. Speaking on the panel 'Regional War Preparations: Talisman Sabre AUKUS and the Force Posture Agreements', Alex

 HEADLINES Further displacement, violence and famine in Gaza Passing of Aboriginal dancer, author, actor, choreographer, director and gay rights activist Bolivia's presidential Elections Saturday anti-trans rally police repression  7:15AM // Cher Tan is an essayist and critic whose written work has been published widely. In this interview, Cher delves into the dark side of Spotify; its ties to the military-industrial complex, its role in stripping artists of their rights and dignity, as well as the way it has homogenised art and culture. Listen to the whole conversation on 3CR's Women on the Line, 18 August 2025.  7:30AM // Mel Barker, CEO of Western Port Biosphere,  on creating a sustainable future for Western Port bay in Southern Victoria. On 31 July, Federal Environment Minister has approved for a proposed Renewable Energy Terminal to proceed to an environmental assessment stage. Mel joined us to chat about the unique biodiversity of Western Port Bay and what is needed to ensure environmental protections a

7:15 AM//  Lucinda Thorpe, Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch. Lucinda joined us this morning to chat about the latest Productivity Commission report on AI, how big tech companies will benefit from lack of regulation and how this will impact regular people. To learn more about privacy rights online, head to https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/  7:30 AM// Nina, the Family Violence Justice Project Coordinator at Flat Out. Flat Out is community-based organisation focused on keeping women and gender diverse people to get out and stay out of prison. Nina is here to chat about Flat Out's work, how they engage survivors who have experienced incarceration, and Flat Out's recent presentation in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) about economic reintegration. Find out more at @flatout.inc on Instagram. 7:45 AM// Cath from the No Northern Incinerator campaign. Cath previously joined us back in March to tell us about the threat posed by the proposed incinerator in Wollert and is back to give us some updates on the campaign.

7:15 AM// The Convergence on Canberra from 20th-22nd July saw Palestine allies from across the nation come together to call upon the Australian government to impose sanctions on Israel in response to the state’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We hear from Remah Naji who spoke on July 22, the opening of Parliament. Remah was the Greens candidate for the Federal seat of Moreton. An education workers, community organiser and an activist, Remah moved to Australia 12 years ago after her parents were forcibly displaced twice from Palestine. In her powerful speech, Remah calls out the violence of settler colonial projects including so-called Australia, and the silence, complicity and lack of action from Australian politicians. Content warning: Listeners are advised that the following speech contains references to sexual violence.  7:30 AM// Margaret Beavis is a former GP who teaches medicine at Melbourne University. She is also Vice President of the Medical Association for the Prevent of War. Margaret joins us on

7.15 am// The Struggle for Peace in the Pacific || hereAnnette Brownlie is founding member of the Brisbane based community peace organisation, Just Peace Queensland, and the current (and inaugural) chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Ausralia Network (IPAN). She has served in this position for over a decade. Annette is on the show this morning to tell us more about Talisman Sabre war exercises designed by Australia and the US, now in its 11th iteration. We will also be speaking about the upcoming Pacific Peace Conference, taking place in Brisbane at the end of the week. Click here to register for the conference online. 7.30 am// Save Public Housing Collective || hereWe’re joined by Clare Hanson on Save Public Housing Collective who is here to give us an update on the situation concerning the demolition and destruction of public housing towers across Melbourne, the recent parliamentary inquiry, and the upcoming mass rally to save public housing on Saturday 2nd August. You can follow them on Instagram a