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Rights, Rorts and Rants Blue Mountains Unions & Community
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Selected content from Rights, Rorts and Rants broadcast weekly on Friday from 4pm to 6pm on community Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM or live streamed from rbm.org.au/. Hosted by Blue Mountains Unions & Community (Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc). Views expressed on our show and in our podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by BMUC.
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Mr Dutton's nuclear energy solution: update
In this interview selected from our Rights, Rorts and Rants show on 23rd May Mike Holland provides an update on the feasibility of the Liberal National Coalition's nuclear energy option following the release of CSIRO's GenCost report. Nick Franklin highlights the political realities of plans to build a nuclear power plant in your electorate.
The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 24 May 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Debra Smith. Podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan.
If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.
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Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.
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Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.
Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.
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War in Palestine: Part 3 Australia's stance and local divisions
In this part of the interview on Rights Rorts and Rants on 31 May Fran Dyson discusses with Alana Lentin her views on local reactions to the War in Palestine in Sydney and nationally. Alana raises the decision announced in May 2024 by the Australian Human Rights Commission to lead an anti-racism study into universities with an emphasis on anti-semitism. Listeners are urged to be vigilant about what this research throws up.
The need to protect university students of Arabic background in Western Sydney from the ramifications of the genocide on them and recognise the destruction of schools and education in Gaza are also raised in the interview's conclusion.
For follow-up reading Alana quotes American scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 31 May 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Fran Dyson. Podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan
If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.
Apply to be a guest on our radio show, Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Fridays from 4pm to 6pm or livestreamed via rbm.org.au.
Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.
Join BMUC.
Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.
Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.
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War in Palestine: Part 2 Zionism
In this part of Fran Dyson's interview with Alana Lentin, Alana explains the ideology and place of Zionism from its origins to the present.
The interview was first broadcast on the Rights, Rorts and Rants show on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 31 May 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Fran Dyson. Podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan
If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.
Apply to be a guest on our radio show, Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Fridays from 4pm to 6pm or livestreamed via rbm.org.au.
Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.
Join BMUC.
Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.
Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.
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War in Palestine: Part 1 Introduction.
In this interview played on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on Rights, Rorts and Rants, BMUC's Fran Dyson presents an extended interview with Alana Lentin on her analysis of the War in Palestine.
Alana Lentin is a scholar of race from Western Sydney University.
In this part of the interview Alana Lentin refers to a periodical article by Max Ajl. For listeners who'd like to read the article it was published in Ebb, Issue 1, For Palestine, on 1 Jan 2024.
The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 31 May 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Fran Dyson. Podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan
If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.
Apply to be a guest on our radio show, Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Fridays from 4pm to 6pm or livestreamed via rbm.org.au.
Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.
Join BMUC.
Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.
Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.
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Vincent Namatjira Exhibition: Australia in colour
Advisory: This podcast mentions aboriginal people who have died.
In this segment of a Rights, Rorts and Rants show BMUC's Mike Holland explains his visit to the National Gallery of Australia to view Vincent Namatjira's latest exhibition Australia in Colour which charts the career of the artist (& includes a portrait of mining owner Gina Rhinehart as "a very small part of the exhibition").
Mike discusses the extensive exhibition which touches on the influence of Vincent's great great grandfather renowned artist Albert Namatjira.
[Claification: The artist did not agree to have his Rhinehart portrait shown in Times Square and it did not occur].
The show was first broadcast live on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 24 May 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Debra Smith.
Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.
If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.
Apply to be a guest on our radio show, Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Fridays from 4pm to 6pm or livestreamed via rbm.org.au.
Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.
Join BMUC.
Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.
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Student Campus Protests : is there something in the air?
Presenter Merran Maclaren hits the streets and speaks to a Sydney protestor and activist Colin Charlton about university campus protests commencing in 1970. Merran follows up with an interview with an organiser from the weekly Palestinian Action Group Sydney Gaza support rallies, Josh Lees.
The interviews highlight comparisons, differences and the impact of student campus protests from the 60's and 70's to the present campus protests.
The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 17 May 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community (BMUC) presented by Merran Mclaren.
If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts.
Apply to be a guest on our radio show, Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Fridays from 4pm to 6pm or livestreamed via rbm.org.au.
Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online.
Join BMUC.
Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.
Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.
Disclaimer: Rights, Rorts and Rants explores a range of issues from different perspectives. The views expressed on the show and podcast are not necessarily endorsed by Blue Mountains & Community.
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