How we prepare for, get through, and recover from disasters have sadly become increasingly pressing questions. But the impact of disasters, and people’s needs in these conditions can be very different according to their circumstances.To address some of these questions, recently DARU, that’s the Disability Advocacy Resource Unit, held an online forum on Disability and Disaster Resilience.This week on the program, we speak with Country Fire Authority project manager Angela Cook, who spoke at the f...
Sep 06, 2020
In this episode listen to Aakanksha Manjunath and Natasha Sharma from ‘It’s Not a Compliment’ about their inclusive campaigns addressing street harassment and measures they’re taking to respond to the unique challenges being presented during Covid19.You'll then hear from Professor Devleena Ghosh, from the Social and Political Sciences Program at the University of Technology Sydney, followed by Annette Herrera, The Acting Vice President, Professional staff, National Tertiary Education Union of Me...
Aug 30, 2020
This week, we are joined by Ayan Shirwa, producer of Diaspora Blues. Ayan talks to us about her show, the importance of cultural diversity in media, and how to tackle systemic barriers to increase such diversity.You can listen to Diaspora Blues at www.3cr.org.au/diasporablues.
Aug 23, 2020
In 2016, marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa made headlines during his Olympic run in Rio. As he passed the finish line he crossed his arms over his head. This gesture would send Feysia into exile for two years. Before this moment, the plight of the Oromo people barely made the news. His protest however brought the spotlight on Ethiopia's crackdown of Oromo Protesters. So who are the Oromo people and why are they persecuted by the Ethiopian government? What happened in 2015 to bring the community out ...
Aug 16, 2020
Hospital maternity departments are rapidly changing protocols and policies in an attempt to protect staff and patients from the Covid-19 virus. However, these changes leave birthing people concerned. As a result people are turning to homebirth in unprecedented numbers. We speak with Grace Sweeney, one of the coordinators of Homebirth Australia about this turn to homebirth and the campaign to support the sustainability of the homebirth care model.Photo credit: Jerusha Sutton
Aug 09, 2020
This week we turn to two different areas long neglected by governments in Australia, now facing more dire consequences during the coronavirus pandemic: decarceration and housing justice. We hear from Tabitha Lean (Twitter), an advocate for incarcerated people on pushes to free people inside prison at risk of death from virus outbreaks and politics towards prison abolition. This interview previously aired on 3CR Thursday Breakfast with Priya Kunjan. Second, we hear from Eirene Tsolidis Noyce on t...
Aug 02, 2020
June 21 marked 13 years of the failed Northern Territory Intervention.To mark this date, groups Concerned Australians, the Intervention Rollback Action Group and Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney held an online forum featuring five First Nations speakers speaking from on country across the NT via video link, moderated by First Nations Professor Larissa Behrendt AO. This week we bring you excerpts from the forum, featuring Aunty Pat Ansell Dodds of Grandmothers Against Removals Mbarntwe (Al...
Jul 26, 2020
In this episode we bring you some of the key stories and messages delivered by Hope Mathumbu and Sue Bolton during the Online Forum: Covid19 response: Healthcare and Justice not Racism, hosted by Socialist Alliance on Saturday July 13th.
Jul 19, 2020
On 30 June 2020, the Victorian government announced a lockdown of specific hotspot suburbs in an effort to control the spread of COVID19 cases. Less than a week later, on 5 July 2020, the Victorian premier Dan Andrews announced a 'hard lockdown' of 9 public housing estates. The residents in these housing estates in the suburbs of Flemington and North Melbourne, were effectively placed in detention in their own homes, without warning, for up to 24 days with a large armed police presence. In today...
Jul 12, 2020
In 2016 the Federal Government quietly rolled out the Online Compliance Intervention. It would later become known as Robodebt because of its automatic debt recovery process.Income data matching isn't new. The Department of Human Services has been comparing data submitted to the Australian Taxation Office, with earnings reported to Centrelink, as far back as 2004. But this time around it was different. The onus was no longer on a department official to cross-check for inaccuracies. Now it was on ...
Jun 28, 2020
We hear from two historians, Mary Sheehan and Liz Crash, talking on the experience of the Influenza pandemic that peaked in 1919 through the lens of today's pandemic. They cover a broad area, with Mary touching on experiences of nurses in Melbourne including Valda Kelly, community support, comparisons to today; and Liz exploring history repeating, technological changes, gender, unemployment and resistance. Support 3CR's Station appeal here. You can find Mary's writing at Living Histories. Here's...
Jun 21, 2020
In this episode of Women on the Line you’ll be hearing from several women and gender non conforming people about their experiences of connection and disconnection during this current COVID19 pandemic crisis. Many of these were personal submissions made from voice memos apps on phones or computers. We explore what it’s like to live in social isolation in this time, connection with and histories of mutual aid, the barriers to connection, the embodiment of both despair and hope, and reflections on ...
Jun 07, 2020
This week, we are joined by Madison Griffiths, producer of Tender, a Broadwave Productions podcast about what happens when women leave abusive relationships. Madison is a writer, producer and poet whose words can be found in the Guardian, VICE, Overland, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and more. We speak about the need to center survivors in their stories and why it is important to talk about what happens after their departure from violent relationships.
May 31, 2020
It’s been almost a month since eligible Australian’s started receiving their Coronavirus Supplement. This extra $550 a fortnight payment was the government’s financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This week we're joined by Kristin O'Connell from the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union to help us make sense of the supplement, and why our government insists on punishing the poor. Produced and Presented by Ayan Shirwa
May 24, 2020
This week we look at two different areas, but both relating back to this current pandemic.Many disabled and chronically ill people have been navigating living at home long before the pandemic and have been supporting each other through it. In the first half of the show we hear from writer and facilitator Julia Rose Bak on care work in disabled communities, and bittersweet reflections on how non-disabled people are engaging in more community support in this moment. See their piece, Coronavirus Sh...
May 10, 2020
What is it like working from home for women and people with caring responsibilities? How can we expect women and carers to do two jobs at once?May the 1st is May Day, an important day for workers, and this week on the program we look at work under COVID-19 through a feminist lens.We'll hear a personal account of someone working from home with two children undertaking remote learning, and speak with Wil Stracke, one of the assistant secretaries at the Victorian Trades Hall Council.
May 03, 2020
This week on Women on the Line, we explore how the COVID19 pandemic is affecting people in immigration detention both in the US and here in Australia. First, we listen to a conversation between Max Castle from 3CR Community Radio's Thursday Breakfast, and Maru Mora-Villalpando, a community organiser working in Seattle/Tacoma, Washington, about the threat of coronavirus outbreaks in US immigration detention centres. After that, we listen to Sumarlinah, a writer, editor, dancer, and community orga...
Apr 19, 2020
It’s a strange time at the moment, a time to stick together, while doing our best to physically stay apart. This week on the program we speak with epidemiologist Dr Meru Sheel based at the Australian National University about the public health implications of COVID-19 and the best things we can be doing to work towards solidarity in community and global health at this time. We also hear from Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, on the impact of the pandemic on casu...
Mar 22, 2020
This week on Women on the Line, we hear a speech by social theorist and activist Professor Patricia Hill Collins on why intersectionality matters. This talk was recorded at the Activism at the Margins conference organised by RMIT University. Professor Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Collins ha...
Mar 15, 2020
This week on Women on the Line, we hear some highlights from the Activism @ the Margins conference. In the first half of the show, Kashifa Aslam, an RMIT researcher, looks at the women behind the viral hashtag #illridewithyou. Kashifa also explores whether their activism was real, or symbolic.Later in the program, RMIT lecturer, Pauline Anastasiou discusses the silent activism of the Big Umbrella Foundation.Produced and Presented by Ayan Shirwa
Mar 08, 2020
This week on the program we look at flood plain harvesting in NSW and the impact of bushfires in East Gippsland. We'll hear excerpts from a recent interview by 3CR Community Radio Tuesday Hometime presenter Jan Bartlett, who spoke with Fiona York for news from East Gippsland after the devastating fires. First though we speak with Bev Smiles, President of the Inland Rivers Network, about the recent decision by the NSW government to put in place a three day exemption to an embargo on floodplain ha...
Feb 23, 2020
This week we hear speeches from protests tackling racism in the settler colony. First, we hear from the Invasion Day 2020 rally in Melbourne, organised by the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, with Sasha Edwards speaking on Justice for Jesse Edwards, and from Apryl Watson-Day on Justice for Tanya Day. Second, we hear from the protest, No to racism, lift the travel ban rally by Stand Together Against Racism, with Yanni from Anti-colonial Asian Alliance (Kulin Nation / Melbourne) and their st...
Feb 16, 2020
Since October 2019, Chile has been crippled by rolling strikes across multiple sectors of the economy, and generalised political rebellion in the streets. The cause of these uprisings at one point, was the raising in prices of fares on the Santiago subway, but has since channelled people’s general anger and frustration at political corruption and enduring poverty in that country. Juliana Rivas, is a Latin American Feminist, she studied sociology in Chile. Worked in different public institutions ...
Feb 09, 2020
On this show, you will hear from Donna Lyon, academic, filmmaker and boxer discussing her project ‘Left/ Write// Hook’ - designed to help women who have experienced sexual abuse and trauma find a connection to their body, mind and spirit through weekly transformative writing and boxing workshops. You will also hear from Mischa Merz, boxer, writer and owner of Mischa’s Boxing Central Gym discussing her career as a boxer and a writer.
Feb 02, 2020
Today on Women on the Line, the campaign to abolish Australia Day. January 26 marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, the invasion of Australia and the start of genocide against the original owners of this land. For the last 3 years, the campaign to abolish Australia Day – not just to change the date – has garnered a lot of public support. We hear from Aunty Jenny Monroe, Dtarneen Onus Williams and Meriki Kalinya.
Jan 26, 2020
This week we hear about the broader issues of oppression around the struggle for Justice for Filipina trans woman Mhelody Polan Bruno, who was killed on holiday in Australia last year. We hear from Lina Cabaero, from Migrante Australia, who also talks about Phillipines solidarity. We then hear excerpts from a vigil last year in Melbourne, organised by Members of Filipinx, Trans, Asian Diaspora communities, calling for justice for Mhelody Polan Bruno, in 2019. We hear from chair Laura McClean, Al...
Jan 19, 2020
India’s Hindu-supremacist BJP government has stepped up its state repression by ramming through areactionary Citizenship Amendment Act in early December 2019. The law grants Indian citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan but denies that right to Muslims from any country in South Asia. Immigrants from other countries in the region, including Tamils from Sri Lanka and Rohingya from Myanmar, are also excluded.Workers, students and other parts of civil society ...
Jan 12, 2020
The fourth and final part in a series of recordings from LaTrobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society’s one-day symposium looking critically at the intersection points of HIV and people’s lives, especially people and communities affected by HIV who have not been at the centre of the Australian HIV response. Hear from Dr Jennifer Power, Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society and Kirsty Machon, CEO of Positive Women Victoria conti...
Dec 29, 2019
Part three of a four part series of recordings from LaTrobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society’s one-day symposium looking critically at the intersection points of HIV and people’s lives, especially people and communities affected by HIV who have not been at the centre of the Australian HIV response. Hear from Dr Jennifer Power, Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society and Kirsty Machon, CEO of Positive Women Victoria discussing...
Dec 22, 2019
Part two of a four part series of recordings from LaTrobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society’s one-day symposium looking critically at the intersection points of HIV and people’s lives, especially people and communities affected by HIV who have not been at the centre of the Australian HIV response. Hope Mathumbu, secretary of the Victorian African Health Action Network and Chiedza Malunga, an African Australian Healthcare Professional discuss concepts such as invi...
Dec 15, 2019
