This week we're tackling the subject of racial capitalism: what is it, why should we care, and how does it threaten our existence? Helping us make sense of this concept is antiracist race critical scholar Alana Lentin.As promised here is a link to her lecture.ProducerAyan Shirwa
Tamil people are fleeing violence in their homeland in Sri Lanka and facing border violence from the Australian government. This week we shed light on the Tamil struggle for freedom and the struggle to free refugees in Australia locked up by Australia's regime of border violence. First, we hear from Renuga Inpakumar, a spokesperson with the Tamil Refugee Council. Second, we hear from speeches given at pro-refugee rallies centred around the refugee detention Park hotel prison in Melbourne: includ...
This week on the program we focus on Transfemme, a new online resource for preventing heterosexual or bi+ cis men’s violence against trans women.We speak about the project with Amao Leota Lu, community advocate, consultant and performance artist, whose work focuses on weaving the tapestry of intersectionality of race, culture and gender, and Starlady, social justice advocate and Program Manager at the Zoe Belle Gender Collective.
Today's episode features two timely conversations. First, we are joined by Fiona York, Executive Officer of Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG) and a broadcaster on 3CR with HAAG's program Raise the Roof. Fiona raises concerns about the government's crackdown on the charity sector via amendments to the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission (ACNC) regulations.NOTE: Since this episode was produced, the proposed amendment to the ACNC regulations that Fiona and I discussed was dis...
In light of what people, in particular Indigenous and First Nations peoples, have called a failure at COP26, we bring you two conversations on the effects of climate change.We first hear from the Pacific Climate Warriors Coordinator for Victoria, Folole Asueao Sagele Tupuola who first spoke with Thursday Breakfast. Daughter of the Moana, they are a storyteller and artist settled on Wathaurung Country and talk about the #Youth4Pacific Declaration on Climate Change that was delivered to Pacific Le...
This week we look at the Voter Integrity Bill 2021, and in the second half of the show, we discuss the practice of female genital cutting (FGC), its causes and the health risks.Helping us with the Voter Integrity Bill is the Deputy CEO of The Australian Council of Social Service, Edwina MacDonald, and tackling FGC are Medina Idriess and Rani Pramesti from the Multicultural Centre for Women's Health.NEFTA Leadership Program.Family & Reproductive Rights Education Program.
This week we focus on the movement for sex worker rights and liberation. The Victorian government currently has a bill to partially decriminalise sex work. We hear from Dylan from Victoria's peer sex worker organisation, Vixen Collective on the benefits decriminalisation brings to sex workers and why the present bill leaves some sex workers behind. Later in the program, we hear from Peaches about some broader questions, including on sex work and anti-capitalism
This week on the program we hear an interview by 3CR broadcaster Priya Kunjan about Homes Not Prisons, a campaign to stop the expansion of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison in Victoria. The campaign is fighting for money the State Government has allocated for this project to be used to build public housing instead.Priya speaks with Vickie Roach, Yuin woman, activist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison, Sara Stillanos, advocate with lived experience, and Gabi Franich, a camp...
In a piece for IndigenousX published 27 August 2020, Mineng Noongar social work academic Jacynta Krakouer stated that "Now is the time for critical race conversations in social work." Krakouer discussed the colonial origins of the field, and a need for changes in the way that it is taught and researched- particularly in terms of disrupting the overwhelming whiteness of those in positions of authority in academia.For this episode I am joined by Cin and Inez, both of whom are students currently en...
In this episode, we look at the impacts of the pandemic on sexual and domestic violence (SV/DV) in Aotearoa (New Zealand).Sexual and gender-based violence specialists, Hala Nasr and Miriam Gioia Sessa join us to discuss recently released research data and issues more broadly within the SV/DV sector. They also discuss navigating the siloing effects of neoliberalism, government policy, community power and returning to the radical roots of the sector.Hala Nasr is a sexual and gender-based violence ...
This week we speak to Dr Maria Hach about the Sexual and Reproductive Health Data Report 2021.Dr Maria is the author of the report and the acting Research Advocacy and Policy Manager at Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH). Due to the length of the report, we've had to narrow our focus to a few key areas. These areas include contraception use, family violence and reproductive coercion.In August, the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) launched its data report online. It feat...
Mid-Late September has seen extraordinary reactionary mayhem in Melbourne. Anti-vaccination to anti-lockdown to far-right forces smashed the CFMEU office, took to city streets and were repressed by riot police. To make sense of these events, we hear from long time anti-fascist, unionist, writer, Arrernte woman and Greens candidate, Celeste Liddle. We also hear more broadly about the left, the need to be critical of policing, failures of the state's responses to the pandemic, community responses ...
This week on the program we look at COVID-19 vaccine access and inequality.We begin with an interview with Nadia Mattiazzo, acting CEO of Women with Disabilities Victoria, about how the COVID-19 vaccine roll out is going for people with disabilities and what is stopping women with disabilities from accessing the vaccine.Then we speak with Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, about global vaccine inequality, and the push to waive intellectual property righ...
On today's episode, we are joined by Vickie Roach, a Yuin woman, abolitionist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison. Vickie speaks about the new 20 Years On The Inside podcast, which she co-hosted with Kutcha Edwards. The 20 Years On the Inside podcast series reflects on 20 years of 3CR's Beyond the Bars prison radio broadcasts, giving voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victorian prisons. This episode includes several brief excerpts from 20 Years on the Inside, as wel...
In this episode, we hear two conversations about the impacts of Australia’s border policy regime. Firstly, Renuga Inpakumar, a spokesperson for the Tamil Refugee Council, speaks about the current threat of deportation thousands of Tamil refugees face in Australia and the impacts of the pandemic on the community.Then, we hear from Nur Azizah who speaks to us about her lived experience as a Rohingya refugee living in limbo in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s operational border policies. Azizah...
This week on Women on the Line, we’re joined by Melanie Joosten from Seniors Rights Victoria, to help us understand all about elder abuse. And later in the show, Georgia Mill, the host of the podcast A Fluorescent Feeling, explains how we can have better conversations about chronic pain.
Latoya is an Aboriginal & Maori, Takatāpui researcher, undertaking their PhD at UTS on Gadigal Land. Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man, Wayne Fella Morrison, their brother, was a father, fisherman and artist. Wayne Fella Morrison died nearly 5 years ago in hospital after being restrained by prison guards on remand in Yatala prison, Kaurna country in South Australia. They speak on the circumstances of Wayne's death, the Justice for Fella campaign, including the call to legislate a ban on spi...
In today’s episode, we’ll be hearing about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic outside of Australia.Firstly, we hear from Mumbai-based labour movement activist Sujata who speaks about the effects the pandemic is having on the working class in India. The interview is conducted by Jiselle Hanna and appeared on 3CR’s Asia Pacific Currents program.Then, we turn to Cuba where University of Sydney sociology professor, Dr Sujatha Fernandes speaks about Cuba's large-scale protests in July and the socio...
In this episode, we're joined by Dr Tracy Westerman, a proud Nyamal woman from the Pilbara region of Western Australia and an internationally recognised expert in Aboriginal mental health, cultural competence and suicide prevention. Dr Westerman is the founder of the Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, which has a focus on improving access to clinically and culturally appropriate mental health services including intervention and suicide prevention programs for Indigenous youn...
In this week's episode, we are joined by Salua El Omari an activist and psychologist originally from the Rif in northern Morocco, working and living in Andalucia, Spain.She joins us to discuss the socio-/geo- political situation in the Rif region particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic and the largest social movement the Hirak Rif. Further, Salua tells us about the importance of matriarchal lineages and oral traditions in forging and maintaining identity and strength in resistance. Bordering th...
This week we hear from two women holding state institutions accountable and using their platforms to bring issues such as structural racism and state violence to the forefront.Alison Whittaker looks at coronial inquests and whether they can be sites of justice, and Abiola Ajetomobi discusses her migration story, support networks and how to be a better ally.GuestsAbiola Ajetomobi is the director of Innovation Hub at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet and law ...
This week we hear from two activists involved in the Homes not Prisons campaign, Amy and Karen, interviewed by Carly Baque on Thursday Breakfast. The campaign initiated by the advocacy service for criminalised women in Victoria, Flat Out, aims to stop the $188.9 million expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost women's prison in Melbourne's west and invest in public housing. We hear Amy tell her story of the devastating impact of punitive bail laws contributing to her being incarcerated. A note for listen...
This week on the program we hear an interview with Professor Lyndall Ryan, a leading historian of the Australian colonial frontier.Lyndall spoke with Marisa Sposaro, presenter and producer of 3CR Community Radio’s Doin Time show, about the Frontier Wars, the process of uncovering evidence of massacres of Aboriginal people, and a digital Colonial Frontier Massacres map covering the period from 1780 to 1930.Listeners should be aware that this episode contains historical description of massacres an...
This week's episode of Women on the Line features two important discussions about the everyday operation and effects of racism on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.First, we hear from Kerry Klimm, a Kuku Yalanji and Koko Lama Lama woman living in Meanjin, who speaks about being subject to - and fighting - institutional racism while working in the not-for-profit sector, and the lasting toll this has taken on her health and wellbeing.We are then joined by Associate Professor Chelsea Wat...
This week Eugenia Flynn and Tasnim Sammak join us to explore the shared reality of erasure and history of struggle against settler-colonialism, genocide and oppression between Blak Australia and Palestine. Within that struggle emerges a shared decolonial solidarity between Palestinian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples where Tasnim and Eugenia talk about a need to move beyond 'reciprocal solidarity'. These issues are discussed in their recent article Blak Australia to Palestine: s...
We hear an interview with Wage Peace anti-war protestor Margaret Pestorius, who attempted a citizen's arrest on former defense minister, Christopher Pyne, as part of the Disrupt Land Forces protests in Brisbane at the start of June. Afterwards, we hear excerpts from Dreaming Disability Justice, an online event hosted by the Disability Justice Network and the Emerging Writers Festival, featuring Vanmali Hermans, Julia Rose Bak and Margot Beavon-Collin.
We feature two different discussions around spaces at the margins. First, we hear from Gala Vanting speaking on the Emerging Writers' Festival and The Intro Room's event, Sex work in Space, who speaks about her practices, sex worker advocacy and community. Please support and share Scarlet Alliance's emergency support fundraiser for sex workers needing material support, especially in light of a recent lockdown in Victoria. Second, we hear about police and conservative and mainstream spaces at Naa...
We need your support to keep Women on the Line on radical 3CR community radio going for another year! Donate via our crowdraiser, or via the 3CR Donate page and mention us. We hear excerpts and discussions around previous shows: Disrupt arms deals | BDS, solidarity with Palestine, Skateboarding, Consent and Inclusivity, Justice for Mhelody Polan Bruno, and from a special former presenter, Hope!
2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and 26 May was the 24th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report, yet state violence against First Nations people in so-called Australia continues unabated. This show links together specific concerns about draconian bail laws in Victoria with broader impacts of state actions on Aboriginal women and families. We are first joined by Gamilaraay, Kooma and Muruwari singer, songwriter and actor Maurial Spea...
In the midst of human-caused atrocities by arms manufacturers, we air discussions of resistance and solidarity with lands being exploited and warred upon for profit from so-called Australia to West Papua, Palestine, and beyond.In this show, we are joined by two human and earth rights defenders. We first hear from Zelda Grimshaw who works with Make West Papua Safe and is a co-organiser of Disrupt Land Forces.Later, we are joined by Jeanine Hourani who is a Palestinian activist, campaigner, and st...
