Thursday Breakfast Emily, Inez, Leila, Priya

This week we celebrate a well-earnt win for the decades long Mirarr fight to end Uranium Mining at Jabiluka. We play recordings from Peter Garett and Corben Mudjandi as well as songs Organise by Asake and Why Did You Seperate Me from the Earth by Anohni. This episode was recorded on the sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We give our gratitude to Elders past and present and their enduring custodianship to lands, waters and skies. 

RADIOTHON IS ALMOST HERE! Please consider donating to the Breakfast Teams' crowdraiser, where we're doing our bit to contribute towards the station's goal of $275,000 to stay on air for another year. Don't forget to nominate your favourite brekky crew, i.e. Thursday ;) when you donate. Want to make a donation another way? Head to 3cr.org.au/donate for more options. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Sound on for solidarity with 3CR Breakfast, Monday to Saturday mornings on 855AM! Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//On Monday, the Victorian Government announced proposed updates to the state’s minimum rental standards to make homes healthier, more affordable and more energy efficient. While there are some promising changes such as mandatory cooling, weather seals and better insulation, there are also some major gaps. To help us better understand these amendments to rental standards, we were joined by Sophie Emder, Senior Community Campaigner with Sweltering Cities. Sweltering Cities is a health NGO that works directly with people in hot suburbs and homes to campaign for more liveable, equitable and sustainable cities. If you’d like to have your say on minimum rental standards in Victoria, add your voice to Sweltering Cities’ submission here or write your own via the Engage Victoria portal.// Kate Fitz Gibbon is an international research leader in the area of domestic and family violence, femicide, responses to all forms of violence against women and children, perpetrator interventions, and the impacts of policy and practice reform in Australia and internationally. Today, Kate joined us to discuss new research examining the merits and limits of domestic violence disclosure schemes (DVDS) in so-called Australia and Aotearoa.// MJ, working at Sisters Inside and a member of the National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, spoke with us about unequal access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for people in custody and on remand. While it can be extremely challenging for people who have not already been granted access to funding under the scheme to complete an application in custody, MJ explained the barriers that people inside face when it comes to accessing already approved NDIS-funded supports. MJ is a formerly incarcerated Aeta woman and is committed to ending the criminalisation of women and girls.// Māori and Irish political organiser Te Raukura O'Connell Rapira joined us on the show to break down the New Zealand government’s attempt to erode Māori representation in local government via an attack on the Māori ward system. Te Raukura is a lead claimant in the urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into this significant legislative move by the NZ government to undermine Māori political voice.// Songs//Party Tricks - Alice Skye//

RADIOTHON IS ALMOST HERE! Please consider donating to the Breakfast Teams' crowdraiser, where we're doing our bit to contribute towards the station's goal of $275,000 to stay on air for another year. Don't forget to nominate your favourite brekky crew, i.e. Thursday ;) when you donate. Want to make a donation another way? Head to 3cr.org.au/donate for more options. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Sound on for solidarity with 3CR Breakfast, Monday to Saturday mornings on 855AM! Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listen back to an interview from 3CR’s Doin’ Time show with Nina Storey, a formerly incarcerated woman and member of Flat Out and the FIGJAM collective (formerly incarcerated justice advocates based in Melbourne). In this segment, Nina talks about a joint submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into legal responses to sexual violence, prepared with Karen Fletcher (Flat Out), Sohini Mehta and Monique Hurley (Human Rights Law Centre), and including contributions from formerly incarcerated people and other members of the FIGJAM collective.// Bundjalung Githabal and Worimi Saltwater woman Phoebe McIlwraith, Communications Lead for First Nations Futures, spoke with us about the Redistribution Week initiative running across this week from May 27 to June 3. The Redistribution Week campaign amplifies First Nations experts advocating for the redistribution of wealth, land, power, labour and responsibility as the next step beyond Reconciliation, encouraging non-Indigenous people to both learn and engage in material redistribution of resources obtained through colonial violence.// Last week, the NSW Government revealed a secret deal with Origin Energy to extend operation of Eraring power station, one of Australia’s oldest coal-fired power plants, for an additional two years past its agreed-on closure date in 2025. Annika Reynolds from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) joined us to discuss the impacts of this extension. Annika is the ACF’s National Climate Policy Advisor, leading the organisation’s work on federal climate and energy law reform. Previously, Annika has worked at an international climate think-tank and within the environmental and energy legal sector.// Gamilaraay and Kooma organiser Boe Spearim spoke with us about the Treaty Before Sports campaign’s planned Aboriginal solidarity delegation to meet with the Kanak community in so-called New Caledonia as part of building a broader network of anti-colonial resistance. Boe also shared a critical reflection on Reconciliation Week. Donate to the delegation's fundraiser here, and listen to Boe’s podcast ‘Frontier War Stories’ here.// Community Announcements:NO Northern Incinerator Wollert! are calling for community members to register their interest in attending a public consultation meeting being held by the Environmental Protection Authority on Thursday 20 June to discuss Cleanaway’s proposed development of a waste to energy garbage incinerator in Wollert. The facility, which  would be located in close proximity to residential areas and within 1.2km of the Merri Creek, will be used to burn over 1,000 tonnes of garbage per day. RSVPs are required by 11:59PM on Sunday the 2nd of June - register here.//

RADIOTHON IS ALMOST HERE! Please consider donating to the Breakfast Teams' crowdraiser, where we're doing our bit to contribute towards the station's goal of $275,000 to stay on air for another year. Don't forget to nominate your favourite brekky crew, i.e. Thursday ;) when you donate. Want to make a donation another way? Head to 3cr.org.au/donate for more options. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Sound on for solidarity with 3CR Breakfast, Monday to Saturday mornings on 855AM!  Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Maia, founding director of Yung Prodigy Org, came on the show to talk about the importance of authentic spaces centring care, truth and breaking cycles of targeted systemic dependency for young people with experiences of parental incarceration. Maia works in social justice spaces more broadly through anti-racism, advocacy and assisting community organising efforts. She has lived experience of parental incarceration for over 10 years and other forms of contact with the justice system, driving her work to curate a better aligned social ecosystem through Yung Prodigy. Everybody's Home spokesperson Maiy Azize took us through the launch of public hearings into the People's Commission into the Housing Crisis, which began today in Sydney. The People's Commission, convened by Everybody's Home, a national cross-sectoral campaign aiming to fix Australia's housing crisis, will hear from community members and frontline workers about lived experiences of housing insecurity.// Son of a Palestinian refugee, co-founder of Australians For Palestine, president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and broadcaster on 3CR’s Palestine Remembered show Nasser Mashni spoke with us about the university student encampments around so-called Australia calling for disclosure of and divestment from all institutions and companies supporting and/or profiting from the genocide of Palestinians. The conversation also touched on the newly-launched Anti-Palestine Racism in Schools Register.// Liz Downes, campaigner with Melbourne Rainforest Action Group (MRAG), joined us to discuss MRAG’s recently-released report documenting Australian mining company Hancock Prospecting's concerning activities in Ecuador since 2017. The report compiles seven years worth of front-line reporting on Hancock's 100%-owned subsidiary Hanrine, which has attracted scrutiny for alleged civil rights violations and judicial system interference during its explorations for copper and gold in eleven mining concessions in northwestern Ecuador.//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// This morning we are joined by Marcelle Mogg, CEO of Mental Health Victoria, the states peak body for mental health…specialising in policy, advocacy, training and research. Today Marcelle will expand on concerns, shared across the sector, regarding the Victorian Government's failure to allocate funding to key supports recommended by Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System in 2021.// James of 3CR's Out Of The Blue, speaks with US writer and journalist Sabrina Imbler about their new book that that fuses science and memoir to compare the lives of sea creatures to their own. In this excerpt, James uncovers how queer the oceans really are. Sabrina's book is How Far The Light Reaches, published in Australia as My Life In Sea Creatures. James begins the conversation by asking Sabrina about her connection to the ocean.//  Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, takes us through VALS' response to this year's federal budget. While the budget included funding for a suite of family violence-related reforms, the wellbeing of Aboriginal women and children were shamefully neglected despite a dire need for culturally safe legal support and representation. Nerita also provides insight into the relationship between a lack of consideration for Aboriginal women and families at the federal and state level and the ongoing coronial inquest into the death in custody of proud and much loved Yamatji, Noongar, Wongi and Pitjantjatjara woman Heather Calgaret.// Kate aka Perno is a queer, disabled activist who joins us today to speak about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) during ME/CFS Awareness Week (12 -19 May). We will discuss international and evidence based guidelines and how australia has lagged in this area, how to reconnect with who you are while living with ME/CFS, and how we can learn more. Kate has also worked as a former nurse, a peer worker in drug harm reduction, been a fierce advocate for dancefloor safety through Cool Room and Safety Mates.// Deanna Grant-Smith, Professor of Management in the School of Busines & Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, speaks with us about the federal Labor government's budget allocation for Commonwealth Prac Payments, intended to support students with mandatory placement requirements across the fields of teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work. Though this addition to the budget will provide some relief for students expected to undertake otherwise unpaid placements, advocates and professional bodies have raised concerns that the payments fall short of a liveable income and fail to assist students across a broad range of degrees with placement requirements.//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// First up today we will hear an excerpt from a conversation between Tina McPhee, Philip Jacka and Phillip Jenkins for the series Our Voices Unlocked. Our Voices Unlocked features guests with lived experience of incarceration and a rotating series of hosts from the Justice Reform Initiative. The following conversation unpacks mutual aid, how this might look for formerly incarcerated people who collectivise, and how meeting our own survival needs can transform people's lives. If you'd like to hear more about the work that Justice Reform Initiative do, you can head to www.justicereforminitiative.org.au.// Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh is Palestinian environmental scientist and author. He is the founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History(PMNH), as well as the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS), founded in partnership with his wife Jessie Chang in 2014. Professor Qumsiyeh has written several books including Popular Resistance in Palestine, and today he joins us to speak about ecocide, resistance and links between Palestine and so-called Australia. You can attend Proffessor Qumsiyeh's talk "From Nakba to Genocide, A History of Human & Environmental Injustice" on Monday 13 May, 6pm at Costa Hall 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong VIC 3220. This event is presented by Free Palestine Geelong, NTEU4P Naarm/Contingent Group and the Deakin NTEU Palestine Solidarity Group. Register here.//  Friends of the Earth Australia's Offshore Fossil Gas Campaigner Jeff Waters joins us to discuss serious concerns about plans by fossil fuel industry heavyweight Esso's plans to construct a multi-storey toxic waste dump in the middle of a uniquely biodiverse wetlands area at Corner Inlet on Victoria's Gippsland Coast. Esso intends to dump multiple decommissioned "topsides" from oil and gas platforms at the site, which will release a multitude of hazardous materials at the site.// Nick Chesterfield, human rights, civil resistance and environmental justice journalist and member of MEAA for Palestine, joins us to provide updates and critical analysis of domestic and international mainstream media's coverage of israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. This conversation happens in the wake of the zionist entity's decision to shut down Al Jazeera offices in occupied Palestine prior to its lethal escalation of aerial bombardment in preparation for a military ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. It also follows this week's galling announcement of the New York Times as the Pulitzer prize winner for international reporting in 2024 "for its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas’ lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military’s sweeping, deadly response in Gaza.//