This week we feature the struggle by the Palestinian people against the occupying Israeli settler colony and the struggle against mandatory detention of asylum seekers. We hear first from Palestinian, educator, activist and writer Noura Mansour on the Nakba, the escalating violence by Israel, including in Sheikh Jarrah, and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. Later in the program, we hear a speech from Tasnim Sammak, Palestinian organiser and PhD candidate in education, speaking at Camp...
May 16, 2021
This week on the program we look at proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, including “independent assessments,” which if implemented would require people with disabilities to see medical assessors they do not know for a one off, non-appealable appointment which would determine whether they are able to access the scheme and if so, what support they can receive.We hear from Ajar Sana from the Disability Justice Network on the work the network does and the intersections of ab...
May 09, 2021
On today's episode, we're joined by Dr Indigo Willing and Emily Kafoa to talk about how skateboarders are shifting the conversation on consent, anti-racism and inclusivity. Indigo and Emily take us through how women and gender diverse skaters have been working to transform the scene, covering topics including community accountability, creating safe spaces, and fostering representation and diversity in skateboarding.Dr Indigo Willing is a Vietnamese sociologist and skateboarder and co-founder of ...
May 02, 2021
On today’s show, we discuss the proposed changes to the National Insurance Disability Scheme as well as the broader political context surrounding the restructuring of the NDIS. Afterwards, we discuss the eugenic underpinnings of disability framing and 'governance' in the West - with a focus on imperial hygiene in colonial Australia.To discuss these issues we are joined by Dr Shakira Hussein who is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of From Victims to ...
Apr 25, 2021
In Melbourne on April 6th, Filipino, Trans, and Asian communities held a vigil and protest for Mhelody Polan Bruno, a 25 year old Filipina trans woman who was killed in Wagga Wagga in 2019, following the failures of the criminal legal system in the former RAAF man's sentencing. We hear from Anakbayan Melbourne MC Alexia, Gabriela Australia's Ness Gavanzo, Tita Marilou reading a poem by Dawn Iris Dangkomen, trans community worker Amao Leota Lu, Ro from Anti-Colonial Asian Alliance Kulin Nations, ...
Apr 11, 2021
This week on the program we hear an interview with Veronica Gorrie, a Gunai/Kurnai woman who lives and writes in Victoria. Veronica speaks about her debut book Black and Blue, a memoir of her childhood and the decade she spent in the police force, in conversation with 3CR Community Radio broadcaster Priya Kunjan. More information about Black and Blue can be found here: https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/black-and-blueWe’ll also hear from Kristin O’Connell, media spokesperson f...
Apr 04, 2021
In any given year, hundreds of kids languish behind bars. In Australia, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 10. In other words, a 4th grader can be arrested and brought before the court. Canberra is the only jurisdiction that has taken steps to raise the age.This week on Women on The Line, Raise The Age campaigner and solicitor, Sophie Trevitt, explains why locking up kids is not only “traumatic for the child” but exposes them to further harm.And in the second half of the show, Doin Ti...
Mar 14, 2021
On today's special International Women's Day show, we hear from Jay, a staunch victim-survivor of police-perpetrated domestic violence who is fighting for a safer world. Jay speaks to us about her personal journey, her attempts to hold her abuser accountable, and her public and political campaign to draw attention to the plight of the victims of police-family-violence offenders in Australia, lobby for systemic reform, and collect statistical evidence to support her initiative and provide to poli...
Mar 07, 2021
This week on the program we pay a visit to the South East Asia Queer Cultural Festival (SEACQF), running completely online from February 13 to March 13.SEACQF has been put together to bridge the gap between activism and art, and to assert local, anti-colonial LGBTIQ+ identities in the region at a time when many LGBTIQ+ communities in South East Asia are facing increased repression.We travel to the Philippines and Indonesia to speak with Festival Coordinator Ivanka Custodio, and Lini Zurlia, Advo...
Feb 28, 2021
This week we question the punitive nature of fines. We have fines under council laws for parking to public transport tickets to corporate toll road fines to now public health fines during the pandemic. Governments here in so called Australia and internationally are turning more and more to fines despite concerns they increase inequality. We hear from community lawyer at West Justice Shifrah Blustein who critically examines the fines regime in the state of Victoria. Article in Overland, Fines: de...
Feb 21, 2021
Designer and researcher Jo Szczepanska looks at what happens when marginalised communities seek legal help online. Later in the episode cohealth's community engagement coordinator, Jasmine Phillips discusses the lessons learned during the pandemic and how we can apply those lessons to the vaccine rollout.
Feb 14, 2021
This week we hear from Isabelle Oderberg, journalist, writer and non-profit communications specialist, about her upcoming book Hard To Bear, which is an investigation of how Australia manages early pregnancy loss. We also discuss the silence around miscarriage, the quality of education around pregnancy loss and its causes, and the links between climate change and pregnancy loss. You can read more about Isabelle's work at hardtobear.com and isabelleoderberg.me.
Feb 07, 2021
On this week's show, senior academic Kathomi Gatwiri looks at racial microaggressions at work.Her study Racial Microaggressions at Work: Reflections from Black African Professionals in Australia is the focus of our interview.We also hear Senator Lidia Thorpe's Invasion Day Rally Melbourne 2021 organised by Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance. Read the full report here or a summary here.Produced and presented by Ayan Shirwa
Jan 31, 2021
This week we hear from Arika Waulu, a Gunai, Gunditjmara and Djapwurrung sovereign, community activator, and member of the LGBTQ community. They talk about the politics of home in the pandemic, including the impacts of restrictions, and the politics of First Nation regeneration, with the Wuurn of Kanak landback initiative setting up a base for revival. They also speak about 'LANDBACK FEST: Cultivate, Activate, Regenerate' happening at the Atherton Gardens Fitzroy on 23rd of January.
Jan 17, 2021
As we welcome a new year, and Victoria settles into their new covid normal, one community still reeling from the lockdown are the residents of the nine towers. Most of you will remember that in July 2020, nine housing commission towers were forced into a hard lockdown. Residents could only leave their homes for supervised exercise, on compassionate grounds and for emergencies. These detention orders were unprecedented and as we’ll show had a devastating effect on residents.
Jan 03, 2021
On today’s show, we listen to excerpts from Invisible Voices 2020 Human Rights Day - a World Human Rights Day special broadcast on 3CR Community Radio. This special broadcast aired on 13 December 2020 during 3CR’s Queering the Air, and it was a live panel discussion about the issues impacting LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people in the Asia Pacific Region. This panel event was presented by Invisible Voices and Queering The Air, in collaboration with Democracy in Colour and Forcibly Displaced Peopl...
Dec 27, 2020
This week we bring you Part 2 of an MPavilion talk called Womxn’s Covid-19: Archive and Artwork in Conversation For almost a year now, artist and activist, Katie Sfetkidis has documented the stories of women and gender diverse people living in Victoria during COVID 19.Two participants from the archival project, Hope Mathumbu and Kate Sulan, sat down with Katie Sfetkidis to share their reflections on the tumultuous year that was 2020.Special thanks to Queen Victoria Women's Centre and MPavilion f...
Dec 20, 2020
This week we bring you an MPavilion talk called WOMXN’S COVID-19: ARCHIVE AND ARTWORK IN CONVERSATION.For almost a year now, artist and activist, Katie Sfetkidis has documented the stories of women and gender diverse people living in Victoria during COVID 19.Two participants from the archival project, Hope Mathumbu and Kate Sulan, sat down with Katie Sfetkidis to share their reflections on the tumultuous year that was 2020.Special thanks to Queen Victoria Women's Centre and MPavilion for giving ...
Dec 13, 2020
This week we hear from two protests against injustice in Melbourne. First, we hear from the Renters and Housing Union Victoria's snap action against evictions to homelessness, where the government is winding back its hotel housing program, including from member Adriana. Second, we hear speakers on systemic issues in solidarity with the national day of action 'Gamil Means No!' to stop Santos' gas field destroying Gamilaraay country.
Dec 06, 2020
This week on the program we focus on Blockade IMARC, an online conference and actions series focussed on resisting extractive industries, colonialism and capitalism.IMARC stands for the international mining and resources conference, and listeners may remember last year’s significant protests against the conference in Melbourne.We hear extracts from the panel “Extractivism 101 and Latin American Perspectives Part 1,” featuring speakers Dandara from MST, the landless worker’s movement in Brazil, a...
Nov 29, 2020
In this episode with poet, Darlene Silva Soberano, we speak about the possibilities of poetry and social justice. How bewilderment, found through poetry and daily living, can keep us connected to our humanity, connected to land and community, giving us purpose for the struggle for justice. Darlene and I discuss bewilderment, pleasure, pandemic lockdown and wellbeing. Listen in to hear Darlene’s poetic take on life and justice.
Nov 22, 2020
In September 2020, a private member’s bill aiming to criminalise coercive control was introduced in the NSW parliament. Penalties under the bill includes jail terms of up to 10 years. Coercive control is broadly defined as a pattern of behaviours used to intimidate, humiliate, surveil, and control another person. A number of high-profile family and domestic violence advocates and campaigners have thrown their support behind the bill and behind the idea of criminalising coercive control in austra...
Nov 15, 2020
Survival Guide isn’t just another radio show. It is a fight for community, land, and for the right to exist unapologetically.In 2018, Lorna Munro and Joel Sherwood Spring got together to create a show that would chronicle the gentrification of Redfern and Waterloo. But Survival Guide isn't your typical gentrification saga. It is the story of the ongoing displacement of Aboriginal people, greed, and ultimately, complicity. This week we hear from Lorna Munro, one half of Survival Guide and learn a...
Nov 08, 2020
The Federal government is currently pushing to expand its trialled cashless debit card scheme provided by Indue that quarantines 80% of recipient's payments. We hear from Amanda from the advocacy group The Say No Seven on the fight against the cashless debit card, the danger and harm the card causes particulary for women, and how campaigns against the card have been received in feminist movements.
Oct 25, 2020
This week on the program we look at changes to both the structure and culture of policing during COVID-19.We speak with Tiffany Overall from Youthlaw about the implications of a new bill which will significantly expand the reach of Protective Service Officers in Victoria.Moving to NSW, we speak with Charlie Murphy from Pride in Protest about the police response to an October 10 protest against new State legislation proposed by Mark Latham which aims to eliminate support for trans and gender dive...
Oct 18, 2020
On this episode of Women on The Line you’ll hear from Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, the Professor of Psychiatry, at The Alfred and Monash University.Today we hear from Jayashri about the link between mental health and reproductive hormones. In particular, the impact of hormonal contraception, on mental health. We also discuss the problematic diagnosis of borderline personality disorder amongst women and Premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Oct 11, 2020
This week on Women On The Line, we hear from Franco Stevens, founder of the magazine Curve, one of the largest lesbian magazines in the world, and Jen Rainin, director and co-producer of the documentary Ahead of The Curve. This film chronicles Franco's personal journey, lesbian visibility, and the power of community. Ahead Of The Curve was recently screened at the Queer Film fest 2020 in Sydney. Please be warned that this week's show contains content that may not be suitable for children.
Oct 04, 2020
In 2006, the minister for Melbourne Bronwyn Pike told the Carlton Residents Association that the Carlton Redevelopment project would “break down the social housing ghetto”. The ghetto Bronwyn refers to is the Carlton Public housing estate. An estate that prior to the redevelopment project was home to a rich and vibrant community. Everyone knew each other. They babysat each other's kids, borrowed sugar when it ran out, and for many of them, spoke the same language. Some families worked, others di...
Sep 27, 2020
In this episode listen to Shoshanna Dreyfus speak about her research project to co-design potentially the worlds’ first all abilities and ages inclusive playground in the City of Wollongong. You’ll also hear from Katherine Horsfall about her research project, in partnership with the City of Melbourne, to develop Melbourne’s first Indigenous wildlife meadow at Royal Park in Melbourne.
Sep 20, 2020
We hear stories from women inside prison. People in prisons are already experiencing state violence, now during a pandemic where contagion can spread like wildfire in crowded indoor spaces. We hear from Vickie Roach, Yuin writer and activist, about her lived experience inside prison to politics of abolition. Second, we hear from LGBTIQ and disability justice advocate Ashleigh Chapman on her experiences, including being inside during the pandemic.Vickie's interview originally aired with Marisa Sp...
Sep 13, 2020
