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On today's Radioactive Show we travel to Meanjin, Brisbane, to hear direct from the nuclear free movement at the Australian Labor Party National Conference. We hear from Gem Romuld, national director for ICAN Australia, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Gem takes us through ICAN's position coming into the ALP national conference, and assesses whether the ALP are standing up to their commitment to sign onto the Treaty to Ban the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Later in the show we hear from activist Jaimie Jeffries, she organises with the No Aukus coalition Victoria. Jaimie takes us to the scene of the rally outside the ALP National Conference and the coalition of strong voices speaking up for an alternative future. Find out more about ICAN at: https://icanw.org.au/Find out more about the Anti-Aukus Coalition: https://antiaukuscoalition.org/

Many superannuation funds exclude so-called ‘controversial weapons' from their investments, but consumers don't know that nuclear weapons are not defined as controversial.New research from the Australia Institute and Quit Nukes reveals most major Australian superannuation funds have holdings in nuclear weapons companies, such as Airbus, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.Recorded live on 7 December 2021 and things may have changed since recording.The Australia Institute // @theausinstituteHost: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, Australia Institute // @ebony_bennettGuests:Bill Browne, senior researcher, Democracy & Accountablity program // @Browne90Liam Carter, Anne Kantor Fellow // @liamcarter_auMargaret Beavis, co-chair ICAN Australia, Quit Nukes VP // @margaretbeavisProducer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermaceyAdditional editing Elisa KloserTheme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

In this episode Jonathan chats with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tilman Ruff on his lifelong pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons.Tilman Ruff AO is an infectious diseases and public health physician, with particular focus on the urgent planetary health imperative to eradicate nuclear weapons. His work also addresses the broader public health dimensions of nuclear technology.He is Associate Professor in the Nossal Institute for Global Health in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Dr Ruff has since 2012 been a co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, Nobel Peace Laureate 1985), and has previously served as Asia-Pacific Vice-President, Boston-based Consultant on Policy and Programs, and Board member. He is a co-founder and was founding international and Australian chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and serves on the Committee of ICAN Australia. ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize “... for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". ICAN is the first Australian-born Nobel Peace Laureate.Dr Ruff has been active in the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) since 1982 and is a past national president. He was one of two civil society advisors to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the first civil society representative on Australian nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty delegations, and a civil society delegate to the landmark intergovernmental Conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Norway, Mexico and Austria (2013-14). In 2017, he led the IPPNW delegation in New York through the negotiation of the historic United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.Dr Ruff has clinical interests in immunisation and travel medicine, and was the inaugural head of travel medicine at Fairfield Hospital and then Royal Melbourne Hospital. He served as Australian Red Cross international medical advisor from 1996 to 2019. Dr Ruff worked on hepatitis B control and maternal and child health in Indonesia and Pacific island countries with the Australian and NZ government aid programs, Burnet Institute, UNICEF and WHO. He spent five years as regional medical director for an international vaccine manufacturer.In June 2012, Dr Ruff was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the promotion of peace as an advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and to public health through the promotion of immunisation programs in the South-East Asia - Pacific region". In 2019, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) “For distinguished service to the global community as an advocate for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and to medicine.”

On Sunday 10 November 2019, CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. There were number of brilliant speakers.In today’s program you will hear Zachary Doney CICD media committee member and Dr Margaret Beavis vice president of MAPW and co-chair of ICAN (Australia) speaking about peace, CICD, ICAN campaigns for peace and Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

On the show with Eiddwen, Judith and Will || PUSH! Organising and Educating to Build A United Front Against Fascism is a new anti-fascist organisation that has come out strongly against the Home Affairs Department's lack of decision on whether or not to approve Chelsea Manning's visa. Debbie Brennan from PUSH! comes on the show to tell us more || September 5th is unofficially nominated as International Indigenous Women's Day. To mark this, we hear from Indigenous Rights Radio, who tell us about the execution of Bartolina Sisa (an 18th century Indigenous freedom fighter) and ask why Indigenous women's contributions are so poorly recognised || Cultural Historian Dr Tim Jones comes into 3CR to give us a brief history of Pentecostal Christianity. Scott Morrison is Australia's first Pentecostal Prime Minister: what might this mean || Nobel Peace Ride: We hear from the launch of the ride by Anti-Nuclear activists ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), bringing their Nobel Peace Prize medal from Melbourne to Canberra. ICAN wants to encourage PM Scott Morrison to sign and ratify the Nuclear Ban Treaty. Lavanya Pant from ICAN Australia calls in to tell us about the ride ||

Karun Cowper speaks with anti-nuclear activists Jessica Lawson and Jemila Rushton about the generations of anti-nuclear activists, military whistleblowers, founders of ICAN Australia, the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, and staunch traditional owners whom are all presently participating in the Radioactive Exposure Tour in South Australia.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Australian -founded International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Norway on International Human Rights Day on December 10th. Australian campaigners and supporters gathered in Melbourne Town Hall to celebrate and watch the ceremony. In this week’s show, we’ll first hear from The Nobel Prize chairperson Berit Reiss-Andersen. 3CR’s Judith Peppard then speaks to ICAN Australia’s Outreach Coordinator, Gem Rumold, outside Melbourne Town Hall. We’ll also hear from Indigenous anti-nuclear activist Karina Lester from South Australia, and Fijian campaigner Vanessa Griffen, before returning to the ceremony to give the closing words of the show to Setsuko Thurlow, a Japanese–Canadian nuclear disarmament campaigner who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.  Music is by Kate Vigo and Do the Robot

Wednesday Breakfast 13th of DecemberPresenters, Nick Wallis and Patty Beggs.Early childhood: Dr Avis Ridgway speaks about the pleather of ways cultures and the importance of instilling a pedagogy of play. ICAN and Can do attitude wins a Nobel Peace prize: A number of Australians who were instrumental in setting up ICAN…travelled to Oslo for the ceremony. Other ICAN members and supporters watched it at Melbourne Town Hall and Gem Rumold was one of them. Gem is the Outreach Coordinator for ICAN Australia spoke with Judith.News Of the Day: Blockchain???: Dr Jason Potts imagines this new technology to have the ability to revolutionise the value system to which ew work from. Conversation "Bitcoin may be reaching new heights, but the ASX shows the blockchain is reinventing business". Live broadcast: Nick Wallis takes us through the Ethnogenesis symposium 2017 retrospectively while offering a small recap of the Enpsychedelia live broadcast that took place amongst many other talks and discussion.