Podcasts about antipoverty centre

7:15 AM// Kannagi speaks to Avika, a regenerative farmer in Chiang MaiOn a recent episode of 3CR's Women on the Line, Kannagi spoke to Avika, a regenerative farmer in Chiang Mai, Thailand who is passionate about regenerating soil and working with farmers across the country to make regenerative farming tools and techniques more accessible. This interview originally aired on Women on the Line on Monday 17 March 2025. To listen to the rest of the interview and to access all episodes of the show, head to www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline 7:30 AM// Kristin O'Connell from the AntiPoverty CentreKristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre speaks to us to break down the latest federal budget and how it is set to leave millions of people in poverty feeling worse off than they were when the Prime Minister first promised to “leave no one behind”. The Antipoverty Centre was established in 2021 and are a collective of activists, advocates and researchers with direct, contemporary experience of poverty and unemployment. Their mission is to shift how people speak about and respond to poverty and unemployment in this colony. You can follow and support the important work of the AC by going to https://antipovertycentre.org/  7:45 AM// National Day of Action for PalestineOn Wednesday, 26th of March, various university groups across the country rallied at their campuses as part of the National Day of Action for Palestine. At University of Melbourne, students and staff came together to demand the university cut academic ties with so-called Israel, and divest from research partnerships with weapon manufacturers that are complicit in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. We will now listen to two speakers from the rally at University of Melbourne. Sophie Rudolph is a research fellow from the Faculty of Education who spoke on behalf of the National Tertiary Education Union and staff members who are in opposition of the increasing repression against protests on campus, as well as the proposed anti-semitism definition by Universities Australia. After that, we will hear from Pipin, an international student from Indonesia, highlighting the global and interconnected struggle for liberation and democracy. For more information, see @studentsagainstwar_unimelb and @melbournebergerak on Instagram 8:00 AM// Avalon Airshow picketCommunity members rallied against the Avalon air-show last week, highlighting the event as a weapons expo. On Friday (28 Mar) Amy Aednat [pron: Eed-Nat] Ciara spoke to Jaimie Jeffrey from IPAN (Independent and Peaceful Australia Network) Geelong-Southwest and community member Cheryl about the many levels of government involvement in the arms trade, Australia's role in producing weapon components and how this contributes to genocide, how it contributes to the promotion of militarism. Jamie and Cheryl also discuss local community's thoughts and pushback on the day. This recording was made on the ground at the blockade.  8:15 AM// Anti-trans campaign by Australian Christian LobbyOn Sunday, for 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility 2025, Amy from Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence and Local Food Connections, interviewed non-binary sex worker Charlie Bear about their research into the Australian Christian Lobby's anti-trans and anti-sex worker campaigning. This is a timely conversation as Russell's Vought's and the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 brings a far-right Christian nationalism into law making in the USA. This interview was part of 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility programme on Sunday, and we highly recommend you check out the full show on https://www.3cr.org.au/transdayofaudibility2025SONGS "Lam Toey Chaweewan" by Chaweewan Dumern"Only Love" by Mia Wray

Acknowledgement of Country//News Headlines//Avery Howard, Vice President of the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (AUWU) and JobSeeker recipient, speaks with us on the 5th anniversary of the COVID-19 supplement about the drastic and immediate impact that it had to alleviate poverty for nearly a million people across so-called Australia. The Morrison Government's subsequent decision to end the supplement plunged welfare recipients back into poverty, sparking widespread condemnation by anti-poverty activists. The AUWU, Anti-Poverty Network South Australia, Antipoverty Centre, Anti-Poverty Network Queensland, and Nobody Deserves Poverty are commemorating the anniversary with a press conference today at Parliament House, as well as an online event on Monday the 24th of March reflecting on the impacts of the COVID-19 supplement and its significance for welfare recipients.//Last Saturday the 15th of March, a vigil was held outside the State Library of Victoria on the anniversary of the Christchurch mosque massacre in 2019, honouring the 51 lives lost in this tragedy. We hear singing and words of cross-community solidarity shared at the rally by Jasmine, Zari, and other members of the local Māori community, with speakers introduced by MC Sara Baarini.//We hear a speech by Nina, a member of Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne (FIGJAM), at the snap action for Poccum's Law held on Parliament steps this past Tuesday the 18th of March to condemn the Victorian Labor Government's new ‘tough on crime' bail bill. Nina was introduced by Maggie Munn, proud Gungarri advocate, who is the First Nations Justice advocate at Human Rights Law Centre. During the rally, attendees learned that the Bail Amendment (Tough Bail) Bill 2025 passed the Legislative Assembly with only three votes against. The bill inserts significant restrictions to bail access and has been widely condemned by Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, the community legal sector, family violence prevention organisations and youth support organisations for its regressive approach that will increase rates of incarceration for both children and adults in Victoria. Read the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Services' 'Bail Saves Lives: Poccum's Law is the Way Forward' statement here, and Flat Out's media statement on the bail laws here.//Dr James Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Bachelor of Criminology at Deakin University. He's a leading researcher in the field of black markets, cybercrime, and the dark web illicit drug trade, as well as a Tobacco Harm Reduction Advisor for Harm Reduction Australia. In this interview, Dr Martin breaks down where law enforcement clashes with proven harm reduction approaches, how the dark web functions, and lays out australia's approach to vaping. He also discusses what's going on with vaping regulations, enforcing this law, changing societal perceptions of nicotine, and moral panics.//

Hello and welcome to the Monday Breakfast show for the 17th of March 2025. On today's show: - Last Tuesday the Allan Government announced that the public housing tower in Flemington, whose residents are currently part of an ongoing class action lawsuit, will be demolished and redeveloped without any new public housing. The decision involves what the Victorian government calls the 'Ground Lease Model' whereby the land is leased to a private company who will design, build, manage and maintain the sites for forty years. Rob spoke with Flora from the Renters and Housing Union to tell us more about this shameful move from the Allan government. The interview mentions this RAHU Fundraiser for the Union's eviction fund, taking place this Saturday at Mamma Chen's from 7pm. It also mentions a Noongar-led campaign to have Sister Kate's land returned to Noongar people. You can read more about the campaign here. - We hear an excerpt of Rob's conversation with Buzz from the Covid Naarm bloc, who work to supply COVID PPE via mutual aid and community support. This interview is particularly timely considering Long Covid Awareness Day was on March 15th. Read about Long Covid here, and follow the Covid Naarm bloc here.- Hannah spoke with Amelia Dunn and Tuia Suter about their show Lost Property, to support their show go to artists.australianculturalfund.org.au and search lost property a one-woman show, or go to their instagrams @ameliardunn @tuiasuter - more upcoming shows will be coming to naarm later in the year, keep your eye out!- CW: This segment features discussion of Indigenous peoples' deaths in custody as well as naming Indigenous people who have died in custody. On Wednesday last week the Victorian Government announced it would toughen bail laws to make them the toughest in so-called Australia. Within these laws, the Allan government plans to reintroduce the offence of committing an indictable crime while on bail -- which was scrapped in 2023 following the coronial inquest into the death of Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wiradjuri woman Veronica Nelson in custody. The coronial inquest found that Victoria's bail laws were a 'complete and unmitigated disaster' that disproportionately impacted First Nations people, women and children. Maggie Munn, First Nations Justice Director at the Human Rights Law Centre and proud Gunggari advocate from south-west Queensland joined us on the show to speak about these harmful bail laws. Maggie is deeply committed to ending the mass incarceration of their people, and has spent many years as an advocate and campaigning on First Nations children, raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility, and youth justice.Tomorrow at 4:30pm there will be a snap action for Poccum's Law outside Parliament Steps, organised by Flat Out.- The show ends with a conversation with Jay Coonan, spokesperson for the Antipoverty Centre and a jobseeker recipient. Rob spoke with them about the latest report released by the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee. The organisation is involved in this educational event providing tips on how to speak about poverty in the media ahead of the budget and the next Federal election. Read more about the event here. Songs played:- A Dream With A Baseball Player - Faye Webster- Nothing Ever Changes - Backhand [https://backhandshc.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-ever-changes]  

News headlines // 7:15AM // Moments from Monday 19 Jan action to Return Lee Point to the Larrakia People that took place outside the office of Defence Housing Australia in Port Melbourne. Lee Point is under threat of being destroyed by DHA to build 800 houses for the military and for overseas buyers. In this clip, two of the organisers, Laniyuk and Te Raukura, speak, as well as some short testimonies from people who have been to Lee Point and who stand in solidarity with the Larrakia people. To keep up with the fight to return Lee Point to the Larrakia People, you can head to www.returnleepoint.com 7:30AM // Sanne de Swart, coordinator of the Nuclear Free Campaign with Friends of the Earth Melbourne, on the ongoing campaign against nuclear in "Australia" and the upcoming event, Nukes-Free Gathering, 1-2 February 2025. For more information on Nukes-Free Gathering, head to @old.country.calling or @foenuclearfree on Instagram or register online at www.events.humanitix.com/nukes-free-gathering-2025 7:45AM // An excerpt from this week on Women on the Line, in which Kannagi speaks with Boorloo based writer, performer, theatre-maker, filmmaker, and producer Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa about her new book Fully Sikh and her evolving identity as a Sikh woman in Australia. To listen to the rest of the episode head to 3cr.org.au/womenontheline 8:00AM // Melissa, an artist and anti-poverty advocate living in Adelaide on Kaurna country, on the harm caused by mutual obligations and the current Workforce Australia IT system disruption. To read more about this you can follow the Antipoverty Centre on social media and by going to www.apcentre.substack.com. Jay Coonan from AP Centre also spoke to Annie on Solidarity Breakfast on Saturday, you can listen back to that interview by going to www.3cr.org.au/solidaritybreakfast 8:15AM // Fiza speaks with Rue, a trans multi-disciplinary artist from Malaysia who is an asylum seeker in Naarm, about a pop-up space Rue has recently launched in so-called Footscray for all things Malaysian and ceramics. You can visit them at 47 Paisley st, Footscray from 11am-5pm Thursday-Sunday.  Songs:Banatjarl - Ripple Effect BandThe Sea - Sierra FerrellMorning Sun - BumpyZhuli - Speed Dial

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listened to part one of a talk given by Palestinian scholar and theorist Abdaljawad Omar during the early October 2024 teach-in 'The Left's Problem with Palestine', co-convened by CUNY for Palestine and Grad Center for Palestine. In this talk, held in the lead up to the first anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood operation of October 7th 2023, Omar critically analyses the Western left's reflexive condemnation of Palestinian resistance both on that date and more broadly, and the implications of this hasty disavowal for a genuine engagement with anticolonial struggle. We'll play part two next week, but you can watch the full talk and subsequent extended discussion between Omar and Jodi Dean here.// Content warning: this conversation touches on themes of transphobia, sexual assault (r*pe), and suicide. If you require support, you can call QLife( (national) - 1800 184 527 (3PM - midnight), Rainbow Door(Victoria) - 1800 729 367 (10AM-5PM), Lifeline (national, 24/7) 13 11 14, and the Suicide Callback Service (national, 24/7) 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13YARN on 13 92 76 or Yarning SafeNStrong on 1800 959 563. As part of our '16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence' we revisit a piece from 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility 2024 special programming, where Priya caught up with Katie and Stacey, two trans women with lived experience of incarceration in the Victorian Prison system. Katie and Stacey speak about their experiences of transphobic violence while being incarcerated in men's prisons, their fight to access gender-affirming care, self-advocacy, and how the state tries to quash rehabilitation and second chances in the community. Listen back to the full set of conversations for our Trans Day of Audibility 2024 broadcast here.// Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O'Connell joined us to talk about the catastrophic impacts of energy poverty on low-income folks in so-called Australia. On Monday this week, Antipoverty Centre, Parents for Climate and Sweltering Cities launched their Stop The Bill Shock Campaign by delivering a $173 million energy bill to Origin Energy headquarters, with the figure representing the estimated cost to the company to wipe the slate of energy debt owed by the 98,000 Origin customers currently on a hardship program. The campaign is demanding an end to price gouging by Australian energy retailers and immediate debt forgiveness for consumers experiencing financial hardship in the face of over a decade of increasing energy poverty in the country. As Kristin mentioned during our chat, Antipoverty Centre are encouraging people to share their stories about energy poverty and difficulties with energy retailers here.//Ibi spoke with us about a fundraiser event running this Friday the 6th of December at Catalyst Social Centre raising money for Sisters Inside and mutual aid initiatives for people in Sudan and Palestine. Head to Catalyst at 144/146 Sydney Road, Coburg, tomorrow from 6:30PM to enter an art raffle, enjoy food and drinks by We Eatin' Good, listen to music and poetry by incredible BIPOC artists, and grab some second-hand clothes for a good cause. Organisers are sharing updates on the fundraiser via Black Peoples Union's Instagram, and you can also donate directly to Sisters Inside here, Bakri's (@bakri2) fundraiser for Sudan here, and Ibrahim's (@ibrahim_palestine20) fundraiser for Gaza here.//

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - Free Palestine Melbourne Rally 8th SeptemberWe listened to Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton, Kooma Murri Activist visiting from Magan-djin, speaking at this Sunday's Free Palestine Rally, outside State Library, 8th September. Later that day, also Uncle Coco spoke at the official launch event for Disrupt Land Forces held at Camp Sovereignty - Lest We Forget: The Frontier Wars. 3CR will be including audio from the event and other Disrupt actions in our special coverage across the week so stay tuned and listen back at 3cr.org.au/dlf2024 // Antipoverty Centre - National Suicide Prevention StrategyKristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre joins us to discuss the relationship between poverty and suicide in the wake of World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10, when the Albanese government handed down its draft National Suicide Prevention Strategy.// Farhana Sultana - 'Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines'We heard a clip of Farhana Sultana, Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, speaking during the webinar 'Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines' organised by the Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium. This virtual event was held on 29 August 2024, bringing together scholars in New York and activists in Bangladesh to share personal nuance and academic analysis to headlines from the beginning of the student-led quota reform movement on June 6th to the creation of an interim government upon the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5th. Our thanks to the South Asia Program at Cornell for sharing this audio with us - you can watch the full webinar here and keep up to date with the South Asia Program on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @SAPCornell.// Live Broadcast to Disrupt Land Forces - 12th SeptemberWe crossed live to 3CR reporters on the ground at this morning's actions for Disrupt Land Forces. Land Forces event is the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2024 it will be held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and a coalition of community groups working for a world free of war is organising a festival of resistance running from 8-14 September. Check out the Disrupt Calendar of Events, and watch the 3CR coverage here at https://www.3cr.org.au/dlf2024 - in the lead up and during the week! Be sure to check out Melbourne Activist Legal before attending events, be prepared, attend with a buddy and/or affinity group, and look out for each other in the next coming days with check-ins, meals, support of all kinds.// Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah - Anti-Palestinian racism in australian mainstream mediaDr Randa Abdel-Fattah spoke with us about anti-Palestinian racism in Australian mainstream media and concerns about media oversight by the Australian Press Council in the wake of a decision on her complaints to the APC regarding inaccuracies and misinformation shared in an article by The Age's Chief Reporter Chip Le Grand earlier this year. Dr Abdel-Fattah is a Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also a lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books for children and young adults. Read her piece about the APC's decision on Le Grand's article here on Pearls and Irritations.//Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2024. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//

The Feminist on Cellblock Y, Banan and Tasnim at the Egyptian Consulate in Naarm, Students from Palestine strike Feb 29, 8.5 million in faulty claims by job agencies, Senator Lidia Thorpe. Headlines// ​Annelise from Irlinfoshop (Incendium Radical Library and Collective) joins us to talk about the upcoming screening on The Feminist on Cellblock Y, a documentary about a group of men inside a prison who form a reading group based on ways men are recruited into dominant culture. The group explores collective struggles towards different ways of building relationships, lives, and in movement building. You can join the screening event on Sat 24th of Feb from 2:30-4:30pm at Catalyst Social Centre.// ​We hear a recording of Egyptian activist Banan and Palestinian activist and member of Free Palestine Melbourne Tasnim speaking at Monday's rally for Palestine outside the ​Egyptian Consulate in Naarm. This rally was called to draw attention to the Egyptian state's active undermining of efforts to provide aid or safe passage out through the Rafah Crossing for Palestinians being subjected to genocidal bombardment in Gaza by 'israel'.// ​Then we are joined by Renee from Students for Palestine to talk about the upcoming strike on Thursday Feb 29. Students For Palestine has denounced Israel's ground assault on the border town Rafah, and announced plans for a nationwide school and university strike on February 29. Rafah is now sheltering more than half of all Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip. Most of them have had to flee to Rafah from their homes which have been reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes. All eyes are on Rafah.// ​Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins us this morning to discuss why job agencies have been forced to return 8.5 million in taxpayer dollars, after a record high in faulty claims were lodged through the Workforce Australia employment services scheme during the 2022-23 financial year.// ​Senator Lidia Thorpe joins us to discuss the genocide bill introduced into federal Parliament last week, the abysmal lack of progress on Closing the Gap targets and the Productivity Commission's scathing review of overall progress on implementing core principles of the Council of Australian Governments' National Agreement on Closing the Gap, the ongoing fight to stop Blak deaths in custody, and to provide an update about scrutinising government expenditure in this week's round of Senate Estimates hearings.​// Songs// ​UNTIL WE"RE ALL FREE  - BVT, Jafar, Zeadala, Kid Pharaoh, ChillCheney, L-FRESH The LION, DOBBY, Sereen, Big Rigs & J Lute (Dem Mob)​, Maissa, MC Trey, Sara Sale7 & Zeadala​, Moe Omran, Najah Haidar, Ali Samman, Dema & Wejdan Shamala​, Chandler Connell, Feras Shaheen, Gabriela Quinsacara, Zain El-Roubaei & Rafiko (darbouka)//

Homeless people are dying more than 30 years earlier than the general population, a new Guardian Australia report revealed. It found homeless people are dying at an average age of 44, compared to 77-years-old for the general population.  The Guardian reported that many of these deaths were “directly connected to the trauma and desperation of homelessness, and compounded by the vast waits for emergency and public housing”.  Meanwhile, the waiting lists for public and social housing continue to grow, with almost 60,000 people on the waiting list in New South Wales alone in October last year.  Successive state governments have greenlit plans to demolish public housing sites. The Victorian Labor government is pushing ahead with its plan to demolish 44-high rise public housing estates, despite a big pushback from tenants and housing experts. Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O'Connell spoke to Green Left's Isaac Nellist about the desperate need for investment in public housing and other solutions to counter worsening poverty.  We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present. If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenleft Green Left online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLeftOnline/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenleftonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/greenleftonline TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greenleftonline Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenleftonline/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@greenleftonline Podbean: https://greenleftonline.podbean.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/greenleftonline Podcast available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Antennapod, Itunes and PodcastAddict.

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Sue-Anne Hunter, proud Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung woman and Deputy Chair and Commissioner of the Yoorrook Justice Commission, joined us to discuss the recent commencement of the Commission's inquiry into land, sky and waters. This phase in the process of truth-telling aims to explore the issue of land injustice in Victoria, with the Commission's findings to inform law, policy and education reform as well as the drafting of future treaties between First Peoples and the Victorian Government. You can find out more about the work of the Commission, including about making submissions to the present inquiry, by heading to yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au// We heard the second instalment of a three part interview with climate activist "James" from Blockade Australia. Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to the destruction of the ecosystems that support all human and non human life. The network is working to build a political movement that can physically resist Australia's planet destroying operations with disruptive and targeted action that shuts down the everyday functioning of this machine. In today's segment, Spike asked James about how important direct action is to achieving an environmentally and socially just world, and what the main obstacles are to achieving this. They also discussed the general public's apparent suspicion of scientific data, the public information battle and whether the corporate world has succeeded in convincing the community that individual consumption is responsible for environmental degradation.// AJ from Melbourne Activist Legal Support joined us to talk about the recent points of concern legal observers and attendees witnessed at the Free Palestine Rally in Naarm on the 15th of October 2023. They described some of the observations MALS recorded at the event regarding heightened police surveillance, and shared advice about how to keep safe at upcoming events.// Anti-poverty advocate Robert joined us to discuss his personal experiences and analysis of social security ineligibility and poverty in Australia as part of a discussion focused on Antipoverty Week, which is running from the 15th to the 27th of October. Robert is disabled and works a casual job that is not sufficient to cover his basic expenses, but is currently ineligible for social security income because of his partner's income. Last year, he authored the blog 'Poverty 101: A Beginner's Course'. Robert will be sharing more of his story and his analysis of what needs to change in an upcoming piece for the Power to Persuade blog's special Antipoverty Week series moderated by Antipoverty Centre.// Songs// Nada - Clarissa Bitar//

Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre talks about the research report he co-authored, Punishment for profit. The report highlights how billions of government dollars are paid to corporate entities, supposedly to help unemployed people into work. Instead they punish and bully people they are meant to support, and force them into meaningless activities under the threat of losing Centrelink payments. In general, the 'Mutual Obligations' scheme (as it is known) impedes people from finding their way into paid work, traps them in poverty, and worsens their health and future life prospects.The report offers a range of recommendations, including the government taking back responsibility for supporting people who are unemployed, rather than outsourcing the job to profiteers. Links: https://antipovertycentre.org/https://punishmentforprofit.org/  

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DSNewsreportsReport-back of the Rising Tide speaking tour in Naarm/Melbourne that took place on Wednesday 30 August which was building support for a mobilisation of The People's Blockade of the World's Largest Coal Port from November 24 to November 27.Discussion of the upcoming Voice to Parliament referendum on October 14 this year and highlighting of some of the coverage that Green Left has covered on the voice prioritising First Nation's voices on sovereignty and justice.Interviews and DiscussionsCallum Simpson, worker at University of Melbourne and branch committee member from National Tertiary Education Union joins the program to discuss the week-long strike being lead by the NTEU Melbuni branch against management and their demands for 80% permanent staff, fairer workloads, and for a pay rise above inflation. You can listen to the individual interview here.Green Left interview with Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre about the housing crisis, what Labor is doing and common sense solutions. You can view the interview here.Rebecca Lhouvum, a member of the Kuki-Zo community from Manipur in India, currently living in Melbourne joins the program to discuss the situation in Manipur where members of the Kuki-Zo community have being subjected to extreme ethnic violence at the hands of hindu extremist organisations. You can listen to the individual interview here.Songs playedGrowth by Nataanii MeansIgam hilou ham by Various Artists 

House prices and rents are rising at unprecedented rates and the Anthony Albanese Labor government has claimed a recent deal negotiated at the National Cabinet meeting is the “most significant housing reform in a generation”; but Labor is not investing in public housing and there are questions about whether these reforms will have any impact. Green Left spoke to Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre about the housing crisis, what Labor is doing and common sense solutions. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present. If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenleft Green Left online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLeftOnline/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenleftonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/greenleftonline TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greenleftonline Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenleftonline/ Podbean: https://greenleftonline.podbean.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/greenleftonline Podcast available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Antennapod, Itunes and PodcastAddict.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Members of the Pacific Climate Warriors Mary Maselina Harm and Guy Ritani joined us to reflect on their campaigning for Pacific climate justice and a fossil fuel free future within and outside of last week's Labor national conference, which was held in Meanjin/Brisbane. Mary is a proud Samoan/Chinese-Fijian born in Canada and raised on Turrbal country, Brisbane, Australia. Passionate about the power of storytelling in creating social change, Mary enjoys working in multidisciplinary spaces, in particular with young people, to co-design initiatives and projects that are of value to them and their communities. Mary serves as the Pacific Climate Warriors' Queensland coordinator. Guy (ia/they/them) is a proud takatāpui Māori artist, climate justice and food systems sovereignty advocate. Guy is passionate about our relationship to country/whenua and the role creativity and storytelling plays in overcoming our climate crisis. You can find out more about the Pacific-led initiative for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty here.// Naomi Hodgson, a founding member of the Rising Tide movement of civil resistance for climate defence, joined us to discuss Rising Tide's campaign - DISRUPTION TO END THE CLIMATE DESTRUCTION. Naomi will talk to us about and promote Rising Tide's climate justice forum to be held next week at Vic Trades Hall, 6pm Wednesday August 30. Naomi will also tell us how the 16 day Rising Tide speaking tour of South Eastern Australia is going and the planned action for early November. You can check out Rising Tide's events calendar here.// Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre and anti-poverty advocate Alex joined us in studio to unpack the Centre's recently-released report 'Punishment for Profit: How private providers became the only winners in Australia's cruel employment services system', which was published with support from GetUp! last week. The report, co-authored by Jay and Kristin O'Connell and incorporating the lived expertise of contributors including Alex, presents a critical analysis of the use of "mutual obligations" in Australia's social security system. Jay and Alex will be speaking about the rationale behind, impacts of and expenditure on employment services providers, as well as the structural changes required to centre the dignity, agency and wellbeing of people living below the poverty line. Head to the Punishment for Profit site to find out more and take the mutual obligations survey.//Australian Services Union member and Brotherhood of St Laurence employee Alex Kakafikas talked to 3CR about the 24-hour industrial action taken by workers against the not-for-profit on Thursday the 14th of August. BSL workers are campaigning to improve their enterprise agreement (workers are unhappy with current pay and reproductive leave entitlements), this is the first time in 93 years that workers at the not-for-profit have taken strike action. BSL  have not been" charitable" with their employees who are 2 or 3 paychecks away from poverty. Support BSL workers' action today at 67 Brunswick Street from 12PM.//

Public housing tenants and activists discuss the housing crisis and ecosocialist solutions at the #Ecosocialism2023 conference. Speakers include Margaret Kelly from Save Barak Beacon, public housing activist Kerry Bryne, Waterloo Housing Action Group activist Karyn Brown, Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre and Rachel Evans from Action for Public Housing. The session was chaired by Angela Carr from Socialist Alliance. More online at greenleft.org.au/tags/ecosocialism-2023   Join upcoming housing forums organised by Green Left in Naarm/Melbourne and Gadi/Sydney. We acknowledge that this video was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.   If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenleft   Green Left online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLeftOnl... Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenleftonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/greenleftonline TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greenleftonline Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlefton... Podbean: https://greenleftonline.podbean.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/greenleftonline

This week we discuss self-disclosure, a behaviour that on the surface sounds harmless but when done excessively can be overwhelming for the listener and pretty awkward for the sharer. Clinical psychologist and Professor Kim Felmingham helps us understand this common albeit embarrassing habit.And later in the program, Kristin O'Connell and Priya Kunjan discuss Australia's rising cost of living and its impact on people living in poverty. Kristin O'Connell is the research and policy expert at the Antipoverty Centre and Priya Kunjan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Priya also presents Thursday Breakfast and Women on the Line. 

 Headlines// 7.15: Beyond the Bars broadcast from Monday 3 July - First Nations inmates at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (Deer Park) talk about what NAIDOC Week means to them and connection with family// 7.30: NAIDOC Week events & news// 7.45: Kristin O'Connell, research and policy expert at the Antipoverty Centre, speaks with Priya on Thursday Breakfast about the convergence between Australia's cost of living and rental crises for people living below the poverty line. This conversation first aired on Thursday Breakfast on 29 July 2023// 8.00: Renee Dixson, co-founder of the Forcibly Displaced People Network (FDPN), on resettling LGBTQI+ refugees and upcoming info sessions on sponsoring LGBTQI+ refugees. Follow @fdpn.lgbtqi on Instagram for more info. 8.15: Yamatji-Noongar elder and Stolen Generations survivor Aunty Rhonda Collard-Spratt on her art practice, connection to generations past and future, and her book, 'Bobtail's Friend'. This conversation first aired on Tuesday Breakfast on 5 July 2022. SongsFight For Me - Barkaa, Electric Fields (language warning)Take No More - Kee'han and Emma DonovanBlack Smoke - Emily WurramaraDamaged - Miiesha

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear a conversation between team members of the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch initiative discussing the recently-released 2022 Tree Cover Loss data, and how last year's data set fits into concerning global trends in forest loss. Global Forest Watch Communications Manager Kaitlyn Thayer kindly interviewed director Mikaela Weisse and senior GIS research manager Elizabeth Goldman on my behalf, discussing how the data is obtained by the University of Maryland and analysed by experts at Global Forest Watch, and how it relates to issues of global and national governance and climate change.// Spike Chiappalone speaks about the Need To Know zine and website, a regularly updated and peer developed resource for people experiencing homelessness or doing it tough in Melbourne's CBD. Spike was a peer outreach worker Melbourne homeless health service, is a co-founder of the Homeless Persons' Union, and until very recently facilitated the collective of folks with current or past lived experience of homelessness who put together Need To Know at Kathleen Syme library in Carlton.// Kristin O'Connell, research and policy expert at the Antipoverty Centre, discusses the convergence between Australia's cost of living and rental crises for people living below the poverty line. Kristin is in town this week for the Ecosocialism 2023 conference at Trades Hall, where she'll be speaking on the Housing as a Human Right panel on Saturday the 1st of July at 4PM. Check out the rest of the conference program and register here.//

Cashless Debit Card Morphs here II We talk with Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre, about how the Cashless Debit Card or it's nasty little brother the Basics Card has morphed into the Enhanced Income Management Card. Whatever it is called, it is still non-voluntary quarantining of social security payments. The legislation passed on June 22 entrenches income control into Australia's social security system.We Need to Talk About Modi here II Peter Job from Declassified Australia, talks about how our PM's lauding of the Indian Prime Minister Modi's during the recent visit will work against people in India experiencing human rights abuses.This is the Week here II Kevin Healy dices through the week with satire.MelbUni Student Support Striking Teachers here II NTEU members at Melbourne University took strike action in May and with no movement from management on pay, job insecurity, better parental leave, work from home rights, paid gender affirmation leave & First Nations employment targets.there is more actions in the wings. MelbUni Students are supporting their teachers with a Gofundme Campaign. We speak with Oly about the issues and why students are standing with their teachers.Blockade Australia stops traffic here II In a coordinated action across 4 major cities in Australia Blockade Australia targeted Container Terminals at the Ports to highlight the system that supports the destruction of our environment. Vivian Langford from 3cr Climate Action Show talks with Niamh O'Connor about the reasons behind her suspension over Footscray Rd that stopped traffic into the Container Terminal at Port Melbourne last week.(Blockade Australia facebook/ Instagram)

KRISTIN O'CONNELL AND her colleagues at the Antipoverty Centre are on a mission to break ‘the poverty machine'. O'Connell talks to No Fibs about pre-budget kite flying, raising the rate and explains what the poverty machine is. I wish I could say something optimistic on that front. I'm a very cynical person and I feel […]Author informationWayne JanssonChief reporter & photographer at No FibsWayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi during the 2013 federal election which saw Independent Cathy McGowan unseat Liberal Sophie Mirabella. His interests are politics and social justice. | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ |

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DSNewsreportsPresenters discuss headline newstories, responding to the cancellation of drag storytime event by the monash city council and divisions in the Liberal party over the push to expel transphobe MP Moira DeemingNews from Green LeftPresenters discuss the following articles from Green Left‘501s' demand Labor keep its promise to end indefinite detentionEcosocialism 2023 to discuss costs of new arms raceInterviews and DiscussionKristin O'Connell, spokesperson from The Antipoverty Centre discusses the necessity of raising the rate of Jobseeker to a livable wage for all alongside the need for activists to keep putting the pressure on the Albanese government to increase the rate for all, not just for over-55s. You can listen to the individual interview here.Mathew Abbott, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch president of Federation University discusses the ongoing campaign being led by the union for better working conditions and wages following a state-wide stop work action by Victorian university workers on May 3 . You can listen to the individual interview here.Andrew Copolov, PhD student & teaching associate who undertakes research on the social value of infrastructure discusses a project for gig economy workers where from Monday May 8 until Sunday May 14, Testing Ground at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market will become a staffroom for delivery riders and rideshare drivers. You can listen to the individual interview here. More information on the project here.Songs played2 Black, 2 Strong by A.B OriginalWorld Turning by Yothu Yindi  

Jay Coonan works for the Antipoverty Centre and hails from Perth. He used to pull beers and once worked as a journalist in Myanmar. It was fun hearing about Jay's life journey thus far! Keep up the great work, Jay, and thanks so much for joining us this week.antipovertycentre.org I @antipovertycent

Jacob speaks with climate activist Gideon Polya on COP 27, and the Global Carbon Debt.Claudia welcomes independent writer and audio producer Kirby Fenwick to talk  about sports media diversity and areas of inequality in women's sport ahead of the AFLW Grand Final this Sunday. Kirby is the co-founder of Siren women's sport media collective and the producer of First Day in February, an audio documentary about the first AFLW game, which won the Victorian oral history award in 2018. You can listen to First Day in February via the following link https://www.kirbyfenwick.com/the-first-friday-in-februaryTo follow Kirby's work at Siren - https://sirensport.com.au Jacob speaks with Indegenous Community Consultant Antonia Burke, on the court case to stop the Australian oil and gas company Santos drilling in the Tiwi Islands. Although the court case against Santos was initially won by the traditional owners of the Tiwi Islands, Santos has appealed the Federal Court ruling.Jay Coonan from the AntiPoverty Centre joins Claudia to discuss the Victorian State Election taking place this Saturday. Jay is the co-coordinator and policy researcher with the Antipoverty Centre.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Shannon Kilmartin-Lynch, is a Vice-Chancellors Indigenous Pre-Doctoral research fellow. He joins us today to speak on how engineers at RMIT developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste.// Melissa Fisher is an anti poverty advocate on income support payments, who joins us to discuss the Albanese government's inaction on poverty and what needs to change to improve the lives of people on social security in Australia. Melissa and Priya are members of the Antipoverty Centre - follow them here on Twitter to keep up to date about the national day of action on poverty to be held on October 17th, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.// We listen back to Marisa from 3CR's Doin' Time show interviewing Kieran Pender, Senior Lawyer at Human Rights Law Centre, who gives listeners a breakdown of the anti-protest bill that passed Tasmania's Upper House on 25 August, 2022. Kieran highlights the nationwide trend, following the passing of similar bills in VIC and NSW in recent months, that erodes democracy through attacks on protest rights. Catch Doin' Time on 3CR on Mondays from 4-5PM.// Content warning: drug use, Aboriginal deaths in custody// We hear a compilation of voxpops from the International Overdose Awareness Day (August 31) 2022 event organised by Harm Reduction Victoria, which was held on the steps of Parliament House. We also hear a selection of sounds and speeches from a side demonstration by peers at the Australian Federal Police Headquarters in Naarm's CBD demanding the safe release of confiscated heroin to be incorporated and used in safe supply programs. Our thanks to Kelly Whitworth for these recordings.// Harm Reduction Victoria provide free online Overdose Response and Naloxone Training on the 1st of every month with a free Naloxone Kit provided to each participant. Find more information here.// Zara Page is a Phd candidate at the University of New South Wales. After graduating with First Class Honours and a major in Neuroscience, she is currently conducting research exploring the fairness of cognitive assessments for culturally and linguistically diverse Australians. Adults from CALD backgrounds make up about 30% of the Australian population aged 65 years and above, yet remain underrepresented in dementia research. Today Zara joins us to speak about her recent work with the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and the CogSCAN analysis that aims to improve the diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and dementia in CALD individuals. You can participate as a volunteer in the study here.//

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay a segment of Tuesday's episode of Dirt Radio featuring Tim from Blockade Australia and Isabelle from Friends of The Earth discuss resisting Australia's climate destruction with organised disruption and the authoritarian response by NSW police. Catch Dirt Radio on Tuesdays at 9:30AM on 3CR.// On this week's Doin' Time show, Marisa interviewed Felicity, proud Ngarrindjeri woman with lived experience of incarceration, about her participation in The Torch program. Felicity speaks about how she began learning more about her mob, culture and art while participating inside, and her ongoing connection with the program from the other side of the prison walls - as an in-community participant. You can listen to Doin' Time on Mondays from 4-5PM on 3CR.// Kelly Rowe, co-host of Footy, Actually on Play on Radio joins us to talk about AFLW season 7, which kicks off today, and the push for greater inclusivity in community sports. Kelly is a graphic designer with a background in creative communications and has combined this experience with her love of footy to inform her 5-9 as a local footy journalist, photographer and podcaster.// El Gibbs, an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, speaks with us about the systemic issues with Disability Employment Services and breaks down current government approaches to disability employment in the lead up to the September Jobs and Skills Summit. You can follow El on Twitter and support their writing on Patreon. During the interview, El also recommended the work of the Antipoverty Centre on issues at the intersection of disability justice and social security reform.// Songs// FELL IN LOVE - Jesswar// Opportunity - Caution ft. P. Nona// No Peace - Citizen Kay// Of Another Kind - Winston Surfshirt ft. Milan Ring & Jerome Farah//

 Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Martin Hodgson is a Senior Advocate at the Foreign Prisoners' Support Service and co-hosts Curtain the Podcast along with South Sea Islander and Darumbal writer and academic Amy McQuire. Martin spoke with Priya about the shameful crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Australia and the work he has been doing with Amy and the families of these women to fight for justice and draw attention to systemic discrimination. Please be aware that this interview contains distressing content - if you need to speak with someone about this, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.  Pan is from the La Trobe University Casuals Network. A group of casualised workers at La Trobe who are dedicated to improving working conditions. They join us today to speak on the widespread, systemic wage theft of casual staff and the Network's recent submission to the Senate Select Committee on Job Security. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins Thursday Breakfast to discuss why Services Australia are spying on people receiving welfare payments and to talk about the Anti Poverty Centre's ongoing campaign to Abolish Work For the Dole. Fetle is an Ethiopian-Australian woman based in Naarm, interested in dissecting ideas at the intersection of race, spirituality and communion. She's an emerging artist, writing and producing music, spoken word and sound art. Fetle joins us to speak about her new piece as part of the SIGNAL sound walk.  Omar Sakr is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections These Wild Houses and The Lost Arabs, which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Omar joins us today to talk about his new novel Son of Sin which is out now with Affirm Press.

Acknowledgement of Country News headlines 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, No Police at Pride, Housing and Homlessness crisis, Dr Jackie Huggins on the reissue of ‘Sister Girl: Reflections of Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation'  We hear a speech from Guwama woman Cheryl Buchanan, one of the early campaigners at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972, at the 50th anniversary of the Embassy. This audio was broadcast live yesterday during 3CR's Invasion Day 2022 programming. Frank Gafa is a Wailwan and Wiradjuri queer man, trade unionist, education and community activist and one of the organisers of the No Police at Pride Open Letter. He joins us to discuss the open letter and it's call for Victoria Police to cease participation in the Pride march. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins us to discuss the Centre's recent statement on Australia's housing and homeless crisis as highlighted in the Productivity Commission's 2022 report on government services. Jay will also update us on the proposed sale of public land by Moreland council and the importance of prioritising public housing over private profit.  Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Dr Jackie Huggins to discuss the recently published updated edition of her classic collection 'Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation', which is out now with the University of Queensland Press. Dr Huggins is a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples, and is currently leading the work towards Treaty/Treaties in Queensland. Catch the rest next Monday 31st January from 8:30-9AM on 3CR's Women on the Line. Links to organisations to Pay The Rent: Pay the RentDhadjowa FoundationAnaiwan LandBack Wuurn of KanakVALSThe Blak Pearl Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Studio SongsTiddas - AnthemAncestress - One By One

Acknowledgement of country News headlines Priya caught up with El to discuss how the federal and state governments have failed disabled people during the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, including through the covert de-prioritisation of vulnerable community members who were meant to be covered in phases 1a and 1b of vaccination, as revealed in a recently released Disability Royal Commission draft report. El Gibbs is a disabled person, writer, and disability rights advocate. Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre speaks with us about the proposed sale of public land by Moreland Council to build a privately owned health and community services precinct in Coburg, and the importance of prioritising public housing over private profit. Find out more by looking up Coburg Health Precinct at conversations.moreland.vic.gov.au. This morning we hear from Dimity Hawkins, one of the speakers at tonight's Raucus Anti-Aukus Caucus webinar organised by Renegade Activists. She joins us to talk more about the implications of the Aukus pact with a specific focus on the announcement of nuclear subs that accompanied the announcement of the alliance.  Dimity is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University. She has over two decades of experience in the civil society sector working as an advocate on issues of nuclear disarmament and broader social, environmental and human rights activism and was a co-founder of the  International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. CONTENT WARNING: discussions around disordered eating and body image. Listeners can contact Butterfly Foundation: 1800 33 4673 Laura joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about the impacts of Covid-19 on eating disorders and services. Laura is a clinical psychologist from Melbourne. They've specialised in eating disorders for over seven years, through research, outreach work, support groups, and as a therapist, and currently work in public and private practice supporting individuals affected by eating disorders.  CONTENT WARNING: discussions around family and domestic violence. 1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732Anu Krishnan joins us to speak about the situation for culturally and linguistically diverse communities currently experiencing or accessing support for family violence in Victoria. Anu is a specialist family violence practitioner with over 25 years experience in direct services, prevention and training. She works within mental health and family violence settings, to bring greater cultural understanding and awareness to their work.  SongsEmma Donovan and the Putbacks - Out the DoorPookie - Halloween King Stingray - Milkumana

Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines James, Jackson and Mercedes from Uprise Radio caught up with Friends of the Earth campaign coordinator Cam Walker to discuss the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report. Cam talks about the report's strengths and weaknesses and campaigning opportunities in the lead up to the looming federal election. This conversation is part of a 2 part special  - the full discussion can be found here. Thursday Breakfast speaks with a Victorian high school art and woodwork teacher, who has taught in regional and metro areas as well as overseas in London. They are currently teaching at an inner city public school, and join us to talk about the challenges of teaching through the recurring lockdowns in Naarm.  Heela Arsala, an Afghan Australian who moved to Australia 30 years ago with her family, joins us to talk about the current situation in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal. As well as how the non-Afghan community can stand in solidarity over the coming months. Heela is a practicing commercial lawyer and she spends a considerable amount of time giving back to the community by advising not-for-profits as well as being the director of Edmund Rice Camps Vic.  Brendan Kennedy is a Tati Tati Elder from Victoria's north-west. He is the Director of Tati Tati Kaiejin, an artist, teacher and linguist. Brendan joins Thursday Breakfast to talk about water rights and returning Cultural Flows to Margooya Lagoon, a permanent wetland on the Murray river in northern Victoria. A new report, produced by Environmental Justice Australia, lays out a plan for how this important action can proceed. You can support calls for Cultural Flows by sending a letter to government here.Kristin O'Connell, who does research and policy at the Antipoverty Centre, joins us to speak about the ongoing need to raise the rate and #PayPeopleToStayHome, provide updates on the mutual obligations bill, and discuss the Antipoverty Centre and People with Disability Australia's joint submission to the inquiry into the Disability Support Pension. SongsSimona Castricum - Grateful for the Heartache

Kristin O'Connell joined Naomi and Marijo to discuss the campaign work of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union and the Antipoverty Centre.  Kristin talks about her own experience in accessing the disability support pension, how it informed her campaign work, what is wrong with Employment Services, the ways in which the current welfare system causes harm and what we need to do to create change! To find out how to support the Australian Unemployment Workers Union, you can find their website at:  http://auwu.org.au/.  You can also follow them on twitter @AusUnemployment.To find out how to support The Antipoverty Centre, you can find their website at: https://antipovertycentre.org.  You can also follow them on twitter @antipovertycent.Follow Kristin on twitter @kristin8X.