Podcasts about australian unemployed workers union

Gippsland Forest GuardiansLisa Barrand is a founding member of the Gippsland Forest Guardians, a small team working with community to protect Gippsland's forests for future generations of animals, plants and people. Lisa speaks about the campaign to protect the critically endangered slender tree-fern and why increased pine plantations are contributing to the destruction of native forests. You can follow their work by heading to https://gippslandforestguardians.org.au/ or at @gippslandforestguardiansinc on Instagram. International Workers' Day rallyBrunhilda is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation, the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, and the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. Brun speaks about the upcoming International Workers Day rally on Thursday 1st May at 5:30pm outside the State Library. You can also tune into 3CR on Thursday 1st May and Sunday 4th May for coverage of workers' struggles, union work towards better wages and conditions, and the fight for democratic rights to organise and unionise. Doctors for Environment AustraliaKate Wylie is the CEO of Doctors for Environment Australia. DEA are medical doctors calling for climate action in recognition of the health harms caused by global heating and climate change. They work to protect biodiversity, knowing that the health of humans is inextricably linked with the health of the natural world and advocate for a sustainable healthcare system to reduce the health sectors carbon footprint. Kate speaks about the open letter that has been sent to all political candidates by members of DEA and Médecins Sans Frontières calling for candidates to take climate action this election. To find out more about the organisation, head to dea.org.au End the Raids! actionSanmati and Rory speak at the 'End the Raids' action that took place outside the Department of Home Affairs in Naarm on Thursday 17th April 2025. Sanmati is a migration lawyer from the Human Rights Law Centre and member of the United Workers Union. Sanmati speaks about the exploitative nature of the migrant system and how it impacts not only migrant sex workers, but all migrant and non-migrant workers. Rory is a peer support worker from Vixen, who speaks about the over-policing and surveillance of street-based sex workers and the need for full decriminalisation of sex work. Make sure to follow Vixen, peer organisation based in so-called Victoria, by going to www.vixen.org.au or on Instagram at @vixenworkers. Youth Homelessness in VictoriaDeborah Di Natale, CEO of the Council to Homeless Persons has a career-long commitment to social justice and advocacy for those who are experiencing disadvantage, who seeks to forge better social outcomes for people without a home, while supporting a strong and sustainable homelessness service sector in Victoria. Deborah speaks about the issue of youth homelessness in Victoria and the lack of updated policies to adddress it directly, as well as the landmark Victorian Youth Homelessness Assembly happening this week. To find out more about the work they do, visit chp.org.au SongsHere We Stand - Climate Choir MelbourneAlethea - Colony is a DragRokiah Wanda - Bulan Ditutup Awan

Dr Aryati Yashadhana is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity (CPHCE), and School of Population Health, and a Visiting Fellow, School of Social Sciences, UNSW. Her work focuses on socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of health, intersectional health equity (gender, race, class), and international development. Aryati speaks about the recent research into the critical role that cultural connection plays in improving health and wellbeing among Aboriginal people. The report, Redefining the gap in Aboriginal health: from deficit to cultural connection, has been published in The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. Nat Calleja is an educator, organiser and researcher, and is one of the organising members of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine Victoria, an organising member of the Elbit Out of Victoria campaign, and a member of the NTEU. Nat speaks about Israel's ongoing destruction of schools, universities and cultural institutions as well as the upcoming Vigil for Scholasticide in Palestine. The Vigil will be held on Thursday 28 November at 6:00pm at the Exhibition Fountain located in Carlton Gardens. For more information, head to @teachers4palestine_vic on Instagram or visit the group's Linktree. Danielle from 3CR's Breadline program speaks with Sarah, one of the Public Housing tenants who is pushing back against the Victorian Government's plan to demolish public housing towers. Inner Melbourne Community Legal ("IMCL") filed a class action on behalf of public housing residents in North Melbourne and Flemington against Homes Victoria over the decision. Breadline is a 3CR show by the unemployed for the unemployed. Australian Unemployed Workers Union members will cover the latest inequities of the "welfare" system and how we are organising to fight back! Listen Mondays 6:00-6:30pm. *Content warning*: Violence against women, violence against sex workers, death. Please take care when listening and call Lifeline (13 11 14) if you need to talk to someone.Bee is a migrant sex worker, outreach peer support worker for women of cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds for Vixen and AMSWAG (Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group) under the Scarlet Alliance. Bee is also a member of Justice for Our Sisters. Bee speaks about the importance of having independent collectives for Asian and Asian migrant women sex workers; the reporting on the murder of Hyun Sook Jeon and Yuqi Luo; and the levels of violence perpetrated against migrant sex workers. This is Part 1 of the conversation. Justice for Our Sisters has a petition that the broader community can sign to stand in solidarity with and demand justice for Hyun and Yuqi. You can find the statement by going to @justiceforoursisters on Instagram or by going to their website. Mililma May is a Danggalaba Kulumbirigin Tiwi woman, who is currently joining us every week at 8:15am to speak about ongoing issues related to climate justice and First Nations sovereignty in the Northern Territory. This week, Milima shares an update on the Middle Arm Roadshow and gives an overview of the changes that the new Country Liberal Party government have made since coming into power. The Middle Arm Roadshow continues in Naarm this weekend with an event this Saturday 23 November at the Coburg Town Hall called 'Voices from the frontline of the climate crisis: An urgent call to action from the NT". And then on Sunday 24 November there will be a Community Gathering at Federation Square. For more details you can go to www.ecnt.org.au/events Songs:Motormouth - Chitra [3:42]Cyclone - Ripple Effect Band [3:42]Tropical Lush Ice - Georgia Maq [3.35]

 This housing week, Karina reads some news prepared by our regular Public Housing commentator Jack Verdins, then plays an interview recorded during national homelessness week with Jeremy Poxon, welfare rights advocate and officer with the Australian Unemployed Workers Union - check out the AUWU's new 3CR program, Breadline. Later we listen to a talk by Darebin Vic Socialists candidate Steph Price entitled A Socialist Response to the Housing Crisis, Originally broadcast on this week's edition of Solidarity Breakfast - thanks to Annie for the audio! Song: Happy Home by Siouxie and the Banshees To access all previous podcasts and any extra links in our podcast descriptions, visit 3cr.org.au/citylimits

Hello and welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show with Rob and Eric. This episode features: An interview from Yeah Nah Pasaran on Thursday 8th August in which Cam and Andy speak with Aurelien Mondon (lecturer in politics at University of Bath, and co-convener of Reactionary Politics Research Network) about racist rioting in the UK and Belfast in the wake of the murders in Southport. You can catch Yeah Nah Pasaran, 4:30pm Thursdays on 3CR, and listen back the the full interview with Aurelien by heading to their program page. On Saturday the 16th of August between an estimated 150 people attended a counterprotest on the steps of the Victorian Parliament to disrupt an event held by TERF and founder of the Women's Action Group Michelle Uriaru. A heavy police presence asserted their dominance by preventing the counterprotesters, a group of trans people, allies, and anti-fascists, from getting too close to the crowd of transphobes. However, the counterprotesters were able to disrupt the event by not only outnumbering the terfs but also playing music which the counterprotesters would dance to. To help capture the moments of Queer and Trans Joy in the crowd at that counterprotest, Rob spoke to a few of its attendees. The first was recorded while the counterprotest was happening outside state parliament; the second was recorded at Fitzroy Park, where the TERFs were supposed to mobilize following their 'rally' but didn't for reasons unknown.On Monday 5th August, Karina sat down with Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, in Coburg Mall.They discuss the day's intended activities (leafletting Coburg's welfare recipients attending some of the area's worst-rated Job Service Providers), plus a look at the Govt Inquiry into Workforce Aus, so-called 'mutual' obligations, the AUWU's campaigns and initiatives around welfare rights, and more. The AUWU National Advocacy Hotline is open Monday to Friday 10 AM - 2 PM AEDT,Ph: (03) 9811 7064 or (freecall) 1800 289 848. To hear the full interview, catch Wednesday's City Limits show from 9 - 10AM. From the 8th to the 14th of September the biggest weapons expo in so-called Australia will take place at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre. Its existence hasn't attracted much attention in the mainstream media, despite the fact that companies supporting genocides will be there. However, the planned disruption, as listeners will have undoubtedly heard about through announcements on 3CR, has. To speak more about the event and coverage of the planned disruption, Rob spoke with Nat Farah, an organiser for Disrupt Wars.Last week researched released by the Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy provided insight into exactly how Airbnb is compounding housing shortages and pushing rental prices beyond the reach of people both across the globe and here in 'Australia'. To find out how the global conglomerate does so, Rob talked with Karl Fitzgerald, Managing Director of Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy and former 3CR broadcaster. Songs played: 'Black Magic' - Baker Boy ft. Dallas Woods'Rebel Girl'  - Bikini Kill

Daryl McDonald is a man who will live to 100, at least, but he grew up dodging magpies in Geelong. Now he is the co-presenter of Breadline, a program of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, broadcasting on Mondays at 6pm, here on 3CR. Daryl works on the advice line at the AUWU, letting people know about their rights as Social Security beneficiaries and generally working against the government. He says it is rewarding work. Daryl has had many different jobs in his life, from welding, truck driving, to the meatworks in Donald. Along the way he learnt to drum and eventually played percussion in orchestras and theatre companies when the band wasn't practising in his bedsit in Ascot Vale, a great location to watch the fireworks over the Melbourne Show. Listen in to the great work of the Breadline team here on 3CR and let people know about the AUWU. Thanks for joining us, Darly, and keep up the great work!Breadline - Mondays - 6pm to 6:30pm - 3CR - 3cr.org.au/breadline

Jeremy Haywood, Vice President of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union

Members First Campaign is contesting the leadership of the Manufacturing Division of the CFMMEU in contested election - the first in over thirty years.#TheirBudget, Our Lives - the Australian Unemployed Workers Union and the Anti-Poverty Network Budget reply.

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.  

This week on the program we hear an interview with Veronica Gorrie, a Gunai/Kurnai woman who lives and writes in Victoria. Veronica speaks about her debut book Black and Blue, a memoir of her childhood and the decade she spent in the police force, in conversation with 3CR Community Radio broadcaster Priya Kunjan. More information about Black and Blue can be found here: https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/black-and-blueWe’ll also hear from Kristin O’Connell, media spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, about the impact of the discontinuation of JobKeeper in an interview with 3CR Broadcaster Genevieve Siggins.The Australian Unemployed Workers Union website can be found here: https://unemployedworkersunion.com/

 Newsheadlines: Jobkeeper and rental moratorium end, Andrew Laming, Myanmar update and public housing lockdown class action case (lawyer under investigation).Alternative news: Senagal, once one of the most stable African countries, has been undergoing severe politcal unrest and protests, in relation to the arrest of popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. The protests have also been fuelled by economic inequalities and concerns over young people's standard of living.Interview: Kannagi speaks with Kate Robinson, the 2020 Feminist in Residence at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre, about her exhibition Make a Fuss, women not wanting to stay silent anymore and exploring biracial identity. Interview: Genevieve speaks with Ria (she/they), a youth worker based in Naarm, who has been a passionate advocate for social justice for many years. As the daughter of migrant parents, she feels very personally about global immigration rights. She has been fighting in the refugee movement with grassroots activist group ‘Fight Together for Justice’, and maintains close friendships with many refugees in detention and in the community. She believes in the right to safety and freedom for all human beings.Interview: Genevieve speaks with  Kristin O’Connell, media spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, about the implementation of the cashless debit card, and the impact of the discontinuation of JobKeeper and Rental Moratoriums will have on under and unemployed AustraliansSongs: too dang good - PRICIE Murnong Farm - AllaraHold up - Rissa 

Jack Mundey Remembered II 3cr's Vivien Langford reports from the Sydney memorial for the late, great Unionist, Environmentalist and Communist Jack Mundey.International Women's Day Marked II Two of the grea speeches from the Melbourne IWD rally.Over the the Wall II Peter Davis talks to Kathryine Wilkes from the Say No Cashless Welfare Card  Australia about the insideous Indue Card that fills the pockets of the rich private corporations running it and disenfranchises and improverishes the Australian citizens on social security. This is the Week that was II Kevin sums up the week.Australian Unemployed Workers Union II As we move to the cut to the Jobseeker rate we talk to members of the AUWU about their work for a just system for people on social security.McCormick's Dispute II fantastic job by Jordan reporting from the McCormick's picket line. 

Kristin O'Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, talks to Alex Whisson about the Morrison government's phasing out of the coronavirus supplement to the JobSeeker payment, and the need for a substantial increase to the allowance.

 Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Jay Coonan, the National Operations Co-coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, joins us to discuss the coalition government's abysmal raise to Jobseeker, tightening of Mutual Obligations and AUWU's #80aDay campaign. Jay is also the outgoing policy coordinator for the AUWU. Ben Redford is the Director of Strategic Power at the United Workers Union. Ben joins us to update listeners on the government's proposed Industiral Relations bill and to discuss the United Workers Union's campaigns around stolen wages.  Sean, a renter in Thornbury, member of the Renting and Housing Union's eviction defence team, and neighbour to Louise, joins us to speak about RAHU's Keep Louise Home campaign.Alexander Powers is a DJ, music producer, event organiser, contemporary dancer and choreographer living and working on Wurundjeri land. they join us to talk about the upcoming launch of Powertrip, a label showcasing local queer dance music.SongsHold On - Emma Donovan and the PutbacksChurch - Kuya NeilPlease U - Becca Hatch ft. Planet VegetaMedusa - Jesswar

 Acknowledgement of country News headline We hear Yorta Yorta Bundjalung man John Patten speaking about the history of the Day of Mourning at the Invasion Day Dawn Service 2021.  We hear an excerpt of speeches from the Invasion Day Rally 2021 in Naarm. We hear from speakers Uncle Bill Nicholson, Stan Dryden, Sue-Anne Hunter and Mandy Nicholson.  Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union, joins us to discuss the impending second cut to the jobseeker payment and the need for vision and compassion in Australian social security policy. Priya and Carly fundraisers and petition that listeners can support, including:NATSILS - Petition calling on the Prime Minister to meet with families whose loved ones have died in custody for 30th anniversary of Royal CommissionLandBack Festival - Fundraiser for Wuurn of Kanak Refugee Voices Fundraiser for the men released from hotel detention  Songs Solid Gold - Sycco White Noise - Dancingwater Groovy - Barkaa About These Demons - Jimblah Australia Does Not Exist (ft. Kee'ahn) - DRMNGNOW 

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Mozhgan Moarefizadeh and Nicole Curby, co-hosts of The Wait, join us to introduce listeners to the podcast. The Wait is a new five-part narrative podcast series, telling the story of the refugees stranded in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s border crackdown. The Wait will be airing each week on Thursday Breakfast during our summer programming.  Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union, gives us a rundown of the big changes in social security policy in 2020. Shakira Hussein  joins us to discuss two of her recent articles: The Christchurch Massacre:an Australian Crime and the other on ecofacism and disability published on the other film festival. Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of From Victims to Suspects:Muslim Women from 9/11.  Joshua Badge, a queer writer and philosopher living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, joins us to discuss and contextualise the most recent spate of queer and transphobic articles in Australian media. Joshua's writing has been featured in places like Meanjin, Overland, The Guardian, & Junkee. They previously lectured at Deakin University and currently volunteer with Thorne Harbour Health and the Renters and Housing Union. Priya reads No Flowers, a poem by Bridget Flack, as a tribute to her memory. Vale Bridget Flack. SongsJerome Farah - Vibrate

Acknowledgement of Country  News May Kotsakis joins Rosie to talk about the Phillipines Australia Solidarity Network's upcoming event Legitimising Repression - a discussion that looks at the's Phillipines Anti-Terrorism Act and the proposed ASIO Ammendment Bill 2020. May is the co-chairperson of PASA (Phillipines Australia Solidarity Association). Kristin O’Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union speaks with Priya to demystify the government’s proposal for a JobMaker Hiring Credit and discuss some of its shortcomings. Jim Malo, journalist at Junkee, former property journalist at Domain, joins us to talk about housing in the pandemic. We discuss the Victorian Government's COVID-19 response to homlessness, the challenges of renting throughout the pandemic and the current property market in Victoria Michael-Shawn Fletcher, a Wiradjuri man and Associate Professor of Geography and Director of Research at Indigenous Knowledges Institute at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss the recently-released Bushfire Royal Commission report and the importance of Indigenous land management practices. 

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Kristin O'Connell is the Acting Communications Coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. With more than a million Australians unemployed in this time of recession (and depression maybe?), the AUWU has been coordinating a Mutual Obligations Strike and campaigning against the cruel reduction in the JobSeeker payment. Kristin shares her story with me and explains why unemployed workers are workers (and why the AUWU is definitely a union) and just how fucked up and privatised Australia's unemployment "industry" is. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Strike for Climate this Friday! Yeah!  @kristin8X ARTICLE: Australian Unemployed Workers Union calls for strike against ‘pointless and punitive’ job agencies ARTICLE: Australia's jobless to face mutual obligation rule despite few job vacancies ARTICLE: ‘It's a heartless decision’: Morrison government reintroduces welfare mutual obligations ARTICLE: New Disability Support Pension recipients down by almost 60,000 due to Gillard-led crackdown My episode with the AUWU's Jeremy Poxon Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com) 

Acknowledgement of country// Introduction// Genevieve talks to Julie Feniwck, a writer based in Naarm/Melbourne, about her new project WhtWeSee. WhtWeSee comes in the form of a blog/website, and was designed to amplify voices, responses and experiences of BIPOC people in light of the Black Lives Matter protests and George Floyds murder. The website has a series of contributors and allows the stories of those that may otherwise be drowned out by the media tornado, to be heard. You can access the website at the link here https://www.whtwesee.com/ // Lauren interviews Kristin O’Connell, media spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, about mutual obligations and JobSeeker during the COVID-19 pandemic// Genevieve interviews Homelessness Australia's CEO, Jenny Smith, for Homelessness week this week. We discuss new data gathered, regarding the large gap between the number of homeless and the social housing needed to end homelessness, where this is an issue apparent across the state, not just metropolitan Melbourne. For this year's homelessness week, a series of interactive heat maps are being released that show both the problem of homelessness, and the solution of social housing. You can find them here: https://everybodyshome.com.au/heat-maps/// In light of the Government's announcement of new targets for 'Closing the Gap', failing to reach any desired targets for indigenous Ausyralians in the near future, we have incorporated some snippets from 'Beyond the Bars' 2020. A collection of four phone calls made to the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre// SONGS// Chicago Boy - Ari LennoxHold Strong - Miiesha

First up the Australian Unemployed Workers Union pushes back as the Federal Liberal National Government tries to Govern using Gossip by saying employers can't get workers because the jobseeker/jobkeeper payments are too high - people are too comfortable and aren't interested in taking jobs.  We follow this with a report about the alleged bashing of CFMEU officials on a construction site in the salubrious suburb of Hawthorn Melbourne last week. Seven men, a length of wood, and an unprovoked attack. Just a note the Victorian Trades Hall Council is working with Australian Refugee Council to provide food to residents of the nine public housing towers that have been put into extreme lockdown with 500 police deployed to keep them in their flats because over 100 cases of covid has been found in the towers which house 3000 residents. Money is being raised to support these families by the VHTC. go to https://supportpublichousingresidents.raisely.com/

It’s been almost a month since eligible Australian’s started receiving their Coronavirus Supplement. This extra $550 a fortnight payment was the government’s financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This week we're joined by Kristin O'Connell from the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union to help us make sense of the supplement, and why our government insists on punishing the poor. Produced and Presented by Ayan Shirwa

Max, Sian and Freg talk to Alex North, National Coordinator of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. We chat about the woeful level of newstart rates pre-coronavirus, the long history of unemployed workers movements in Australia and prospects for fighting back in this radically transformed situation.

In an Easter Sunday conversation Sam and Sean talk about the most rubbish church that has ever existed, civilisations that suck from the get go, terrible movies based on dangerous myths about dumb heroes, the apocalyptic dreams of billionaires and the Australian Unemployed Workers Union.       

This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Dharug, the Gadigal of Eora nation, the Dharawal, and the Jagera. We pay our respects to elders past and present and acknowledge the elders of tomorrow. This land was stolen and sovereignty was never ceded, Australia owes a debt that can never be repaid and must come to terms with the historic and ongoing genocide of the First Nations. There is no revolution without Treaties.G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for episode four in this godawful year 2020. We are 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.Today, our plus guest is spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, Jeremy Poxon.Australian Unemployed Workers UnionOn the Phenomenon of Bullshit JobsFind us on Twitter: @3whiteguyspodFull show notes available at shutupandreadthis.com

Solidarity Breakfast 28-03-2020- The crisis at Centrelink we speak with Ollie from Australian Unemployed Workers Union on why MyGov was always going to crash as unemployment is tipped at 15% as a result of mass sackings with Covid-19.- Explosive new information about the helium bonanaza in the Timor Sea that is feeding the pockets of Multi Nationals. Another part of the fraught negoiations saga between Australia and Timor Leste in the exploitation of the petroluem resources on the continental shelf. Bernard Collaery talks about his new book Oil Under Troubled Water.- Kevin Healy wraps up and exposes the week.- Federal Government report card in the first week of Covid-19 lock down from a Communist lens. We speak to Don Sutherland.

Sean Kenny from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union joins James and Jackson to discuss the continuing obstinance of the federal government with regards to Newstart recipients. With Covid 19 forcing everyone to stay home, Job Seekers are still being asked to risk their lives to attend 'Mutual Job Obligations'. Meanwhile, surveillance of the unemployed continues online...  

Tuesday 25 February 2020//  Acknowledgement of country//  News headlines//  Campaigner Lavanya Theravaja from the Migrant Workers Centre discusses the challenges faced by migrant workers in Australia//  We play a segment from the Take it Blak podcast about Black History Month//  Madison and the team discuss the systemic nature of violence against women//  An interview with Jeremy Poxon, media officer at the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, joins us to talk about the robodebt class action lawsuit//  Scheherazade Bloul, PhD candidate at Deakin University, discusses the Harak al-Rif movement in Morocco//  SONGSBrittany Howard - Stay High//  Kelsey Lu - Blood// Madison McFerrin - TRY// 

Tuesday 14 January 2020Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines.//Extract from 'Let's Talk' on 98.9FM - Boe Spearim talking with Oliver Costello, CEO of the Firesticks Alliance about fire practitioners and the recent bushfires in NSW and Victoria //A short documentary by Teen Vogue on youth climate activist Xiye Bastida. //Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union on the Cashless Debit Card and the impact of the bushfires on unemployed workers. //Dr Deb Parkinson and Liam Leonard from the Monash University Disaster Relief and Initiative and the Gender & Disaster Pod talking about their research into the impacts of natural disasters on women and the queer community. //SONGS//Lizzo - Jerome//Ruby Jones - Make it Out//

We look at Government policy when it comes to the unemployed: the cashless welfare card and drug testing of New start recipients under the age of 35. We ask Simone Casey from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union for an insight. We follow t his with a look at inequality and some of the structural inequalities that affect workers internationally and locally.

The whole crew is reunited to take a look at the Australian Media's recurring obsession with demonising welfare recipients and their tendency to believe any boss who claims he can't give away jobs that pay a million dollars a year. As always, check out our friends at the Australian Unemployed Workers Union online (http://unemployedworkersunion.com) and on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ausunemployment) *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Merchandise available at: boontavista.com/merchandise *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista iTunes: tinyurl.com/y8d5aenm Spotify: spoti.fi/2DBCXGA Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=144888&refid=stpr Pocket Casts: pca.st/SPZB RSS: tinyurl.com/kq84ddb

G'DAY GOVNA* ** *bye all government officials who would DARE oppose anna and tash's proposal ** yes i know this is british.... OKAY WOW yes we have the BEST guests on from the FARTHEST place we've ever had!! TASH AND ANNA FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND AHHHHH!! Learn all about the green new deal from down under and get ready to fall in love with two smart and incredible women who just want to smash capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and climate change all at once. WOW WOW WOW is all we can say!!!!!! Here's their proposal! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d7sqRH38AO1_XxW2X3ZzAvFBhy5OPyvRXU5H9ECHC44/edit?usp=sharing Australian Unemployed Workers Union: http://unemployedworkersunion.com/ SEED’s short film about Origin’s plans for fracking in the Northern Territory: https://nt.seedmob.org.au/film Anna and Tash’s draft GND discussion paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gVZsKW6LjA9a5Iba_2PKnNx5jlj15lHtne1HlRv4_UQ/edit?usp=sharing Climate Justice Collective: https://climatejusticeaustralia.org/ Sam Wallman Just Transition poster: https://www.samwallman.com/store/just-transition-large-format-poster-print follow @greennewdealau on twitter for more updates!! Theme music as always by Brandon Payton-Carrillo

Jeremy Poxon is a social security activist and the media officer for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. His spicy twitter account regularly draws attention to the plight of unemployed and underemployed people in Australia, from those living on Newstart to people on Work for the Dole to folks just trying to survive in the gig economy.  Here Jeremy explains exactly how organising unemployed workers in a union works, why capitalism is antithetical to the idea of (actual) full employment, why Labor's centrism SUCKS BUTT, what's involved in a jobs guarantee and what an Australian Green New Deal might look like.   Be the change you want to be in the world and support this show by becoming a Patron please ENOUGH is on in Collingwood in Melbourne this Friday & Saturday night ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September @jeremypoxon unemployedworkersunion.com progress2019.org.au jobguarantee.org ARTICLE: Australia Needs A Green New Deal, Not More Centrism by Jeremy Poxon, Jon Piccini and Tash Neenan ARTICLE: What Good Are Billions of Surplus Dollars When People Are Starving? by Jeremy Poxon   ARTICLE: The demerit system is ruthless social policy, designed to keep the poor powerless by Jeremy Poxon ARTICLE: Living on Newstart: 'I don't eat every day. That saves some money I guess' by Gay Alcorn Cause of the Week: The Unemployed Workers Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)

Thursday Breakfast 4 April 2019Acknowledgement of CountryNick Carson gives us a report back on the Transgender Day of Visibility Rally that took place on Sunday 31st March 2019.Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union on the Dignity Not Dole: Rally to raise Newstart today. Hannah Morphy-Walsh, Associate Producer at FCAC, joins me in the studio to discuss the Wominjeka Festival (6 April 2019).  Adolfo Aranjuez, editor-in-chief of Archer magazine, on the need to be 'More than Queer' (Wheeler Centre, 9 April 2019) Eric on the RISE Queer Project Launch, Dinner and Fundraiser (13 April 2019) and the intersections of border imperialism, racism, homophobia and transphobia. The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: Kalyani & Isha, That's All I Came ForAllara, Wala is LifePhilly, Yil Lull(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions) 

We chat with Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union about work, welfare, and building the power of the poor.

Tuesday Breakfast October 9thwith Ayan, Lauren and Anya (we miss you George!) 7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country7.05 am  News headlines  7.10 am   A pre-recorded interview by Hope Mathumbu, former 3CR Tuesday breakfast presenter and member of (VAHAN). Hope speaks with Dr Chris Lemoh, an infectious disease physician at Monash Health and president of the Victorian African Health Action Network (VAHAN). They discuss the history and evolution of the HIV response in Australia, as well as an upcoming free event for World AIDS Day which aims to amplify African Australian-led community voices and experiences.  7.30 am  Dr Kate Foord, general manager of Queerspace, joins us over the phone to talk about their iHeal program, a service for survivors of family violence, and the importance of embodying lived experiences in service delivery.    7.45 am  Alternative news - The team discusses the details of a new policy that the ALP have released which would permanently grant universal access to preschool or kinder for 3 and 4 year olds for 600 hours a year - around 15 hours a week. The team also discusses the need and importance of kinder and early childcare education funding, especially given that Scott Morrison has not made any commitment to securing funding for the arrangement as it stands (where the federal govt funds 1/3 of early education for 4 year olds and the states the other 2/3) beyond 2019.  8.00 am  Jeremy Poxon, media officer at theAustralian Unemployed Workers Union, joins us to provide an update on the cashless welfare card, the AUWU's recent trip to South Australia, and what else is happening for jobseekers in Australia.8.20 am  Dr Jordana Silverstein, historian and Jewish woman, joins us to talk about the intersections of her faith and her feminism as well as the impact of recent history on gender roles in Jewish diaspora culture.Songsartist: Janelle Monae, Jidenna song:Yogaartist: The Last Kinection song:Black & Deadly artist: Solange  song:Cranes in the Sky

Shane talks to HAAG members Maryanne and Jane about their experiences of private rental, homelessness and homelessness services, and what needs to change for older renters. Plus news about older people's housing issues. As mentioned during the show, if you're dealing with Centrelink and want some support or advice you can contact the Australian Unemployed Workers Union or Social Security Rights Victoria.

Abdul & Jose: We hear from Luigi Acquisto co-director of Abdul & Jose, a film about children taken to Indonesia from Timor Leste during the occupation.Raising the Pension Age: We hear from Todd Morris, Melbourne University Phd student, who has investigated the effects of raising the pension age for women.Australian Unemployed Workers Union Campaign Day: the AUWU members came together to discuss the campaign against the attacks on Social Security by the LNP Federal Government. We hear from two speakers Lisa Newman (CPSU) & Father Bob "a tribal Catholic".

South Korea is in the global spotlight opening the Winter Olympic games, but behind the celebrations there is another story to hear. One about the ongoing imprisonment of two Korean confederation of Trade union (KCTU) leaders Lee Young-joo and Han Sang-gyun. Later in the Show we speak to the Australian Unemployed Workers Union's Jeremy Poxon about the Welfare Reform Bill 2017 and why fighting back on these changes currently before the Senate is a battle for all Unionist.

Karun Cowper speaks with Johnny Windus, national advocacy coordinator of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union which is starting to get moving in Perth.

On this weeks show we hear from Zoe Angus at the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) to talk about the Union’s latest campaign which sees performers, producers, writer, directors and crew join forces to fight for the future of Australia’s screen industry. We also hear from Owen Bennett, president of The Australian Unemployed Workers Union which is currently collecting stories from unemployed people about their experiences with job agencies.  Links from this weeks showAustralian Unemployed Workers Union, Tell Your Story: www.unemployedworkersunion.com/tell-your-storyMEAA’s Make It Australian Campaign: www.makeitaustralian.com/home

August 1917 saw one of the biggest industrial actions in Australian history. It began at the  tram and rail workshops in Sydney and spread across Australia as more and more sections of the community went out in support. It was all about the introduction of Talyorism or time and motion structures into the railway work shops. Colin Hesse talks to Pat Cranney about the theatre piece he and Christina Mimmocchi have developed to commerorate this important event in Australian Working history.The Australian Unemployed Workers Union has recently been denounced by Michealia Cash the Federal Minister for Employment proving the union’s effectiveness. The AUWU has responsed with the Call Out Cash Campaign. We talk to Owen Bennett from AUWU about this development.

We remember lost comrades - tributes to Trevor Grant, and Ellen Jose and John Clarke tells a joke.Big issues: Australian Unemployed Workers Union and Fair Go for Pensioners bring the social security scandal to our attention.  Sally McManus (ACTU) and the call for worker action.We hear some of the speeches that made our year Sawah Samahi at the No Netenayhu rally and Troy Gray (ETU) at Enough is Enough Rally

Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell speaks to Valerie Farfalla from the AUWU regarding federal government plans to trial the mandatory drug testing of welfare recipients.

Zane discusses of personal experience of being sent a Centrelink Robo-debtZane discusses article by Ken Canning “January 26 is invasion day”. Ken is a poet and playwright from the Kunja clan of the Bidjara nation in Queensland and currenly lives in Sydney and is helping organise the invasion day protest there. "I have always been of the belief that once you can overturn the colonial mentality consuming our governments— resulting in the continued denial of justice of First Nations peoples and the oppression we all live under — you will, in effect, overturn the same mentality that is keeping 90% of our population prey to the whims of big business-run governments. On January 26, come and join us, walk with us and learn from us. For far too long, knowledge in this country has been confined to the world of academia. We, the First Nations peoples, carry a knowledge as old as time itself. Yes, we are protesting but we are all more than willing to share with those who walk with us." - KCZane discusses article by Fremantle councillor Sam Wainwright “Australia day: Change the date”. Sam discusses Fremantle council's decision to cancel the Jan 26 fireworks and why this caused such an outcry amongst right wing media and politicians. "Our purpose in dropping January 26 should be to focus on the changes we need to make if want a morejust and inclusive society for all." -SWZane interviews Petrina Harley, Lisen here. campaigner with the Save Beeliar Wetlands campaign in Western Australia and Socialist Alliance candidate in the upcoming WA elections. Petrina talks about how the local community have mobilised to try and halt the destruction that the Roe 8 highway extension would unleash. The wetland is a site of cultural significance to the Nyoongar people with artefacts there older than the pyramids, and is an ecologically special place. For more info visit savebeeliarwetlands.com Zane interviews Zeb Parkes, producer of the short film “For my Friends in detention”, which has been shown at several international short film festivals as well as picking up a gong at the Sydney Indie film fest. Zeb discusses the process of making the film and how rather than seeking to again highlight the vast and egregious abuses happening in Australia’s detention gulags, it instead looks at the human face of people in these prisons and those who organise to get them out. Listen here.Zane interviews Ewen Kloas, secretary of the Australian Unemployed Workers union, about the upcoming ‘Dignity not debt’ rally happening on Tuesday Jan 31. Ewen discusses the punitive and unjust nature of the robo-debt system and how it has caused immense distress to welfare recipients, several of whom have contacted the Unemployed Workers Union in a suicidal state. The AUWU is campaigning to have the robo-debt system abolished and a bunch of organisations have endorsed the Jan 31 rally. Listen here.­

Introduction to the program, discussion about the latest headlines in the news; The Greens proposal for the sugar tax, Peter Dutton's comments about Lebanese Australians. Interview with Anthony Kelly executive officer from the Flemington/Kensington Legal Service discussing the racialised nature on the reporting from the Herald Sun about the supposed crime youth wave and some commentary on the transfer of 40 teenagers into an adult jail along with promotion of an upcoming forum in December hosted by Flemington/Kensington Legal Service. Listen here. International news from Green Left Weekly a discussion about the pro-democracy rallies in Malaysia that happened last weekend and a report on the protest against the burial of a dictator in the Philippines.Interview with Josh Cullinan secretary of the new Retail and Fast Workers union discussing the formation of the new union. Listen here.Activist calendarInterview with Owen Bennett president from the unemployment union discussing the job agency crisis and the punitive practices of job network agencies. Listen here.

The campaign for the rights of cleaners has been gaining momentum, with the recent 24-hour strike of the workers in Federal Parliament, and a rally and march organised by the United Voice in Melbourne. Meanwhile, the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union has been gearing for the campaign against further unemployment and welfare cuts. In Ireland, the ongoing dispute between the retail workers at Dunnes and Mandate Trade Union highlights the workers’ struggle for collective bargaining in the country. Interviews with Owen Bennet (Australian Unemployed Union), Dave Gibney (Mandate Trade Union, Ireland)