Podcast appearances and mentions of sydney road

Step into Bar Magnolia on Sydney Road and you're wrapped in it straight away: the low golden light, the easy murmur of good conversation, the quiet thrill of something thoughtful happening behind the bar. Co-owners chef Mia Coady-Plumb and winemaker Lawrence Scanlon have created a space where classic French technique flickers with wit, soul, and a little rebellion. Mia's food, which she calls "irreverent" French, honours tradition but never feels bound by it, each plate carrying a beautiful, unexpected spark. Before stepping into Melbourne's dining scene, Mia sharpened her skills in some of Sydney's most celebrated two- and three-hatted kitchens, later moving to Melbourne to help open much-loved Town Mouse before bringing her talents to Cutler and Co, Anchovy, Lune, and Smith and Daughters, amongst others. I pulled up a stool at the bar to talk with Mia about Magnolia, about instinct and flavour, and about why a little mischief might just be tradition's best friend. We also talked about the reality of chef life and running a small business. This was an incredible chat, and I loved every minute of it.

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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// On Tuesday September 17, the Nuclear Truth Project held their final 'In Conversation' session for 2024, meeting with intergenerational hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), Mitchie Takeuchi and Dr Kazuyo Yamane to remember Hiroshima. We heard the beginning of Dr Yamane's family's first hand account of the event, as well as some of their work in educating and remembering the atrocity. More discussion from this special presentation will be shared on 3CR's Radioactive Show in the coming weeks, and our thanks to speakers and the Nuclear Truth Project for continuing the conversation against nuclear warfare.// CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE, SELF HARM, DISCUSSION OF ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY. Roxy Moore, Noongar lawyer, community organiser, activist and campaigner, and Stephanie McGuire, Ballardong and Whadjuk Noongar community organiser and activist, spoke with us earlier this week about the campaign to close Unit 18, a child detention wing inside the maximum-security Casuarina Prison near Perth in Western Australia. The campaign escalated in the wake of the tragic death of Yamatji child Cleveland Dodd in 2023 after he self-harmed while incarcerated in the facility. Earlier this month, it was revealed that another child detained at the Banksia Hill Detention Centre, also near Perth, had died by suicide. Stay up to date with the fight to abolish youth prisons and watch the livestream of today's rally outside Parliament House in Boorloo at 12PM AWST/2PM AEST by following Justice for Cleveland (Instagram and Facebook) and Boorloo Justice (Instagram and Facebook).// Dr Sophie Rigney, Senior Lecturer in Law at RMIT University, joins us to unpack the series of Palestine-related decisions handed down by the International Court of Justice in 2024 and their pontetial implications for Australia, given its declared support for Israel and desire to maintain and strengthen bilateral trade relations. You can read Sophie's recent piece, 'Gaza at The Hague', on Inside Story for more detail. The article we referenced by Shahd Hammouri, 'The UK and Its Illusive Arms Embargo', was published by Al-Shabaka on September 15 2024. For a more in-depth discussion of the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel's Occupation of Palestinian Territory, check out this webinar organised by the Melbourne Law School's Institute for International Law and the Humanities from July this year featuring a line up of international law experts including Sophie and Shahd.// Fiza Zali, teacher educator at University of Melbourne, speaks with us about the experience of becoming politicised towards practising decolonial solidarity as a migrant settler based in Naarm. Her research explores the discomforts of becoming critically conscious, and the complexities of positionalities particularly as a settler of colour on stolen land who is Indigenous elsewhere.// Upcoming Events6:00PM, Friday 20 September: Latin American Solidarity Network, Chile Solidarity Campaign and Lucho Riquelme are co-hosting the ‘Lessons for Organising' event, sharing learnings from the 2019 Chile Popular Rebellion with a short film, photo exhibition and live music. The event will be held at Catalyst Social Centre, 146 Sydney Road, Coburg.12:00-2:00PM, Saturday 21 September: Renters and Housing Union are holding a Squatting Campaign Public Forum with Husk and Purplepingers at the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre, 251 Faraday St, Carlton. There will be an online attendance option.The next 3CR Station Worker and Subscriber Committee Meeting is coming up next Wednesday 25 September from 6-7PM.Meeting link: Join the meeting nowMeeting ID: 426 306 672 141Passcode: 7eRKRkDetails on how to RSVP are in your 3CR Program Updates!

Faith and Val are joined in the studio on yet another epically windy morning by Mathieu Cadet of Port Phillip Bicycle User Group. We all share our bike moments, before taking a quick look at some news including an update on the La Trobe Street bike lane which appears to have re-opened and the start of Women's Health Week. After the break discussion turns to Port Phillip BUG and why they have joined the Streets People Love campaign. Streets People Love is a statewide campaign supporting and promoting the efforts of local government to create safe and pleasant streets for people to live, work, play and move in.  Mathieu fills us in why it is so important that residents in Port Phillip think about the candidates they will vote for at upcoming Council elections and how he believed Streets People Love will help them to do this with respect to their support for the safe streets residnets often say they want. The recent state government report for the Port Phillip covid pop-up bike lanes showed overwhelming support for the lanes and not only an increase in ridership but a significant reduction in vehicle traffic, and yet these outcomes aren't finding support at the Council level. We finish up with a quick reminder about the next Critical Mass ride on September 26th, - heading up Sydney Road!

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Slater and Gordon Class Actions Principal Lawyer Gemma Leigh-Dodds speaks about a recently-filed action on behalf of remote Aboriginal Western Australia Housing Authority tenants who have been forced to endure shockingly substandard public housing conditions. Find out more about the case here, and read about the Northern Territory High Court's decision from last year regarding the substandard provision of public housing in remote Aboriginal communities here.// Tom Orsag joined us to talk about the federal government's decision to put the CFMEU into forced administration, and the concerns this raises for organised labour in so-called Australia. Tom worked in the construction industry from 2004-2023, and is a retired member. Join the community solidarity meeting tonight at 46 Ireland Street, Docklands, to get involved in the fight against Labor's anti-union laws.// We hear part 1 of a conversation with Dr Chris Gill, Professor of Chemistry at Vancouver Island University, who co-led the team that has created revolutionary drug checking technology through spray mass spectrometry used around the world. In this segment, Dr Gill speaks about the importance of small sample sizes in drug checking, the nuances of sensitivity, and what we here in Naarm/melbourne can learn from innovative drug checking technology and the management of opioid overdose crises. Tune in for part 2 next week where we speak about translating innovative tech into supportive drug checking practices for the community, and check out Substance Drug Checking Service. // Sanne from Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective tells us about the upcoming annual Art Auction at Catalyst Social Centre raising funds to support the Collective's vital anti-nuclear campaigning. The event will start at 5PM, with music from 7:30 by Uncle Winiata Puru, and the live auction commencing at 8PM. Find out more about the event, including about how to bid remotely here. Learn about the broader Don't Nuke the Climate campaign for a clean, anti-nuclear energy transition here, and follow on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.// Alexia from the A30 for West Papua Canberra crew joined us to speak about the globally coordinated wave of action in solidarity with West Papua scheduled for Friday August 30, and what it has been like to become politicised in support of West Papua as an Indonesian student in so-called Australia. Find out more about the campaign and associated actions by following A30 on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.// Upcoming EventsVigil for Mano Yogalingham, 12:30PM Thursday 29 August, 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.//Hands Off the CFMEU: Community Solidarity Meeting, 6PM Thursday 29 August, 46 Ireland Street, West Melbourne.//Denial in a time of genocide, 6PM Thursday 29 August, Building 80 Level 4 Room 11, RMIT University, 445 Swanston Street, Melbourne.//Talking About Trees: Film Screening Fundraiser for Sudan, 4:30PM Friday 30 August,  David P. Derham theatre (GM15), Law Building, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton.//Justice for Refugees: Permanent Visas Now, 5:30PM Friday 30 August, 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.//Friends of the Earth Nuclear-Free Art Auction: Make Art Not War, 5:00PM Saturday 31 August, Catalyst Social Centre, 146 Sydney Road, Coburg.// Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2023. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//

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: Chloe DS, Jacob Andrewartha, Rob ZocchiNewsreportsDiscussion from the presenters responding to the Albanese government's attacks on Pro-Palestine protests closing MPs' electorate offices.Report on the India election results and how the BJP fell way short of gaining a majority within the parliament.Discussion about ANU expelling a pro-Palestinian student.Interviews and DiscussionsBriar Stevens, disability rights activist and person of disability based in Merri-Bek joins the program to talk about the campaign for Accessible Tram Stops on Sydney Road in Brunswick. You can listen to the individual interview here.Yassin Firea from the Sudanese Australia Advocacy Network (SAAN) joins the program to discuss the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Sudan. You can listen to the individual interview here. 

Sue Bolton is almost peerless when it comes to having clear working memory and deep knowledge of Australian politics the last 40 years. She can tell you the details of so many leftist campaigns, what the issues were that were being caused by government and business, and key decisions that were made. Her knowledge is really quite astounding. We return to Sue this week for our second chat. We take up her story when she first came to Melbourne and was active with the Democratic Socialist Party and publication Green Left Weekly. This was in the early-90s during the school occupations to stop closures, nuclear testing in the Pacific, native forest logging, the election of the Howard government and the election of Pauline Hanson. This period began a certain era of refugee politics and policy in the country. Sue was a national trade union organiser for a few years beginning in 2003 and was the lead arrestee in the Max Brenner case. She was elected to Merri-Bek council in 2012 and bases all her work listening to her local community. Sue has been re-elected twice. Her current big campaign is getting accessible tram stops on Sydney Road. We love Sue and think she is a gem. She deserves an honour for all her efforts for working class communities over many, many years. Thank-you so much for joining us once again, Sue.https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/beat-facebook-ban-green-left

Rohen from Pride in Protest spoke about the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras's decision to bar politicians from attending Mardi Gras if they oppose the Equality Bill. This Equality Bill would expand rights of trans and gender diverse people in NSW. Instagram: @pride.in.protest As the 1-year anniversary of the rally to demand permanent accessible tram stops along Sydney Road approaches, Farida Iqbal joins us to give an update on the ongoing campaign and to tell us about the 1st year anniversary rally that will take place on 22 June. Farida is an activist with long Covid who struggles to use the tram network in Melbourne.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SATScampaignInstagram: @sats_campaign Excerpt from Narrm's Free Palestine Rally on 2 June – first, a song in Arabic by Aseel Tayah, Palestinian Artist and Activist, followed by a speech by Tami Gadir, Lecturer, NTEU member, and Anti-Zionist Jew. Nat, organiser for Disrupt Wars about the National Day of Action on Friday 31st of May, against the Labor Party's complicity in the Palestinian genocide.Instagram: @disruptwars An excerpt from this week's Women on the Line episode where Kannagi spoke with human rights and migration lawyer Peggy Kerdo about women experiencing family violence while on temporary partner visas.@women_on_the_line SongsLooking Out for an Angel - June JonesMaybe If I Wore Sunglasses Inside I Wouldn't Feel Tired - Jess RibeiroMy Feeling - Nice Girl 

Faith and Val are joined in the studio by Nick Tyrell of Revitalise Sydney Road. We take a look at the complex situation on Sydney Road, the many roles it plays and the ways in which those roles have changed over the years. Addressing those changes is critical to ensuring Sydney Road remains a vibrant local shopping strip and Nick discusses some of the research and data about how people actually use Sydney Road and some of the options available to mitigate the impacts of prioirtizing its role as an arterial over others. You can follow Revitalise Sydney Road on Facebook here. 

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Welcome back to another edition of Monday Breakfast with Grace Tan, James Tait and Rob Harrison. Grace speaks with Prof Catherine Crock AM, a long-time doctor at the Royal Children Hospital Melbourne since 1994, discussing World Kindness Day, and the Gathering of Kindness, a series of online events happening throughout the week, about building, nurturing and instilling culture of kindness in the healthcare system. The Gathering of Kindness 2023 is being held in two parts this year - in person on Sunday 29 October and a week of online events from Monday 13 – Friday 17 November 2023.She also interviewed Dr Erin Smith, CEO of DART Centre Asia Pacific, discussing today's 'Managing Trauma Exposure' event, what it means to report on trauma as a journalist and the impacts we face. Bookmark at Walkey Foundation Youtube channel to watch on demand later. Then both Rob and James dived into inaccessible trams across both Sydney Road and Melbourne as a whole with Alicia Lilley - a campaigner with the Sydney Road Accessible Tram Stops Now campaign who has a lived experience of disability. The campaign is presenting its petition to Tim Reid MP on Wednesday the 15th November at 12:30pm on the steps of the State Parliament. Passers-by will be encouraged to play 'The Tram Stop is Right' to get an idea of just how inaccessible the state's tram network is. Finally, we heard the final two parts of Rob's exclusive interview with Louise - a Forgotten Australian and victim and survivor of institutional abuse. In this part she's joined by JR Hewitt, the media and communications officer for the Renters and Housing Union. The three of them went into detail about Louise's forced eviction, the damage to her property, and the specific conditions which have created the housing crisis this so-called Australia finds itself in. You can find a petition to help Louise get her home back here. Songs played:  Treat People With Kindness - Harry StylesThe More things Change - Kutcha Edwards

As part of Amplify: Story, Resistance, Radio, David Nichols of This Must Be The Place podcast interviews Sabina Andron - a cities scholar specializing in creative and transgressive public cultures, with a specific interest in the semiotics of urban walls and surfaces. Sabina is the author of “Urban Surfaces, Graffiti and the Right to the City”, to be published in 2024. Although graffiti (or “stuff on walls”) is shorthand to describe Sabina's research, it's not really a fair description – Sabina's interest is in documenting and understanding how urban culture articulates itself onto the visible surfaces of cities. In trying to understand cities by reading walls and surfaces, Sabina spends a lot of time walking around noticing the urban forms of relatively humble streets and walls, but more broadly studies both endorsed and illegal forms of markings as well as how surfaces are managed, regulated, maintained and cleaned. Sabina started in photographic documentary methods, but is also trying to pay attention in different ways of seeing urban surfaces, such as written note taking. She has recently filled a notebook with all the names mentioned in the Brunswick stretch of Sydney Road. Many of these are ubiquitous but unnoticed corporate and security signs – text that is permitted or sometimes required in urban space. People notice tags, but “there is so much of everything as well, we just don't question them – we should challenge that because it is about who has a right to be visible”. As well as international examples and context, Sabina offers observations on Melbourne – for example, its rich outdoor poster culture, it's laneways both touristed and otherwise, its pride in certain forms of street art but also its policies focused on order – Melbourne's Mayor, for example, holding a pressure cleaning to reassure people “how important it is to keep the city clean”. The discussion covers graffiti as cultural and artistic discourse, the relatively recent criminalisation of graffiti, David's short career in train vandalism at age 15, the material ecologies of things like posters (side notes – small birds seem to eat the paste, right? Or is it just Liz that thinks that?), murals versus graffiti, City Square's “graffiti wall” which was basically a whiteboard, photographic books of graffiti (including the popular 1970s Australian volumes of ‘witty' examples), the visual and cultural language of graffiti and how train tags came to be seen as an unsettling signal of decay, graffiti removal companies, coatings, designs that actively prevent damage from spray paints, and how Melbourne discourse, as in many places, tends to hate graffiti but love street art. Music venue The Tote in Collingwood has sound restrictions based on vibrations that might damage the paint on the Keith Haring mural next to it – a 1984 mural preserved at substantial cost, as a community symbol. Although Serena asks - why are some things symbols and for whom? “We should perhaps start valuing the collective meaning and force of our capacity to write on walls”. Also discussed is a recent Fitzroy residents' meeting about graffiti – how the vehement dislike of tagging uses the language of viral invasion, and of threat and disorder. David wonders whether Fitzroy residents still fear the sanctioned “white anting” of the Housing Commission and Freeway construction days of the mid 20th century. Sabina argues graffiti often is read as an invasive threat, as the sign of a disordered environment, but that there are other kinds of threats – to civic rights and access to space - from a clean and ordered environment. The discussion is about specific places and surfaces – but “I think we are a bit naïve if we think that the form is the most important aspect of this conversation. It's more about our right to occupy space”.

This week Rob, James and Grace gathered around the microphones to talk about Sydney Road's inaccessible tram network, Australia's athletes in poverty, decolonising gender, and the perils of a local art collective trying to simultaneously provide a space for art while managing landlords and short-term leases. Rob spoke to Jen Hargrave from the Sydney Road Accessible Tram Stops campaign about their upcoming rally in support of making the network accessible for everyone. The rally will be held at 1pm on the 17th of September on the corner of Wilson Avenue and Sydney Road. See more information here.James interviewed Patrick Walker, CEO of the Australian Sports Foundation, about just how much of Australia's athletes are in poverty.Nina and Qwiny from Richmond's Bad Art Collective made an appearance to speak of their experiences trying to create a communal art space while dealing with uncertain studio tenancies. We also played Alana Mountain's interview with Jaime-lee Willoughby, a queer somatic sex educator queer ceremonialist with a passion on how to decolonise gender. You can catch Alana every Tuesday from 9:30 to 10AM on Dirt Radio.Lastly, Grace spoke to Pilar Aguilera, 3CR Chairperson & long time Chilean activist about the 50th anniversary of Chile's 1973 coup and its impact both here and in Chile. A commemoration of the coup's anniversary is being hosted at Solidarity Hall, Trades Hall in Carlton on Monday the 11th of September at 6pm. You can find more info about the event here. 3CR will also be hosting a special show about the coup on Thursday from 6pm onwards. 

Cosy wooden booths, wipe-down laminex tables and drip coffee brewed using a vintage Coffee Queen machine, Walrus is a new American-style diner on Sydney Road in Brunswick. Stop by for pancake stacks with whipped butter, crisp US-style bacon and pecan pie by the slice. There's also Texas French toast and New York bodega-style breakfast sandwiches. Plus, slow-fermented breads, hazelnut babka and loaded focaccias take centre stage at To Be Frank's new Elsternwick store.  Featured on today's episode:  Walrus  To Be Frank New episodes of Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town drop Monday, Wednesday, Friday each week. Subscribe on the LiSTNR app to make sure you don't miss an episode. And keep up-to-date on everything Broadsheet has to offer at www.Broadsheet.com.au, or at @Broadsheet_melb.  Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town is hosted by Katya Wachtel and produced by Nicola Sitch. Deirdre Fogarty is the Executive Producer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Good Days started selling banh mi during lockdown, they were so popular they'd often sell out via online orders before the doors even opened. Now they're a permanent menu fixture at Good Days Hot Bread, a dedicated banh mi shop that opened this month, further up Sydney Road. While staying true to the core tenets of the French-Vietnamese rolls – pate, mayo, coriander, pickled carrot, cucumber and a protein in a crusty baguette – these interpretations are next-level. Owner Nam Nguyen joins Around Town to discuss the new opening.  Featured on today's episode:  Good Days Hot Bread New episodes of Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town drop Monday, Wednesday, Friday each week. Subscribe on the LiSTNR app to make sure you don't miss an episode. And keep up-to-date on everything Broadsheet has to offer at www.Broadsheet.com.au, or at @Broadsheet_melb. Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town is hosted by Katya Wachtel and produced by Nicola Sitch. Deirdre Fogarty is the Executive Producer.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sydney road, una delle arterie principali di Melbourne che attraversa i quartieri di Brunswick e Coburg, è al centro di una protesta comunitaria legata all'accessibilità del trasporto pubblico.

Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist is joined by refugee rights activist Chloe as they go through the latest news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here. Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats. Ecosocialism 2023 | A World Beyond Capitalism | Featuring Kohei Saito   Green Left articles featured in this episode: Australia ‘Wall of gay' formed to defend drag story time Disability activists blockade Sydney Road, call for accessible tram stops CPSU campaigns to restore the Commonwealth Employment Service Voice to Parliament referendum confirmed to be held in next six months Blockade Australia takes action in three ports Environment coalition protests NT Labor's plans for more gas Lead concerns prompt NSW central west to demand toxic gold and silver mines are closed Rally hears from public housing tenants fighting to stay in their homes International Shipwreck in Greece: Why were half those onboard Pakistanis? Myanmar's spring revolution and the Rohingya genocide Ruling elite regroups while Sri Lankans drown in debt and austerity   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 also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, Itunes and PodcastAddict.    

3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.// ​News headlines// ​We hear some speeches from the ​​Accessible Tram Stops for ALL rally held on 17th June to launch the campaign to win accessible tramstops on Sydney Road, before proposed rail upgrades remove 8 level crossings in Brunswick. First up, we'll hear Monica Harte (Merri-Bek Councillor), who spoke about the history of transport campaigns in so-called Melbourne from 1980 (including Upfield line closures) and honoured disability activists no longer with us today. We will also hear Elyse Cunningham from the FOE Sustainable Cities Campaign, who shared campaign information and the importance of putting pressure on government since “only 15% of tram network is accessible to wheelchair users.” Crossing removal is planned to for around 2 years time, resulting in closures to the Upfield line and adjoining bike path for around 18 months, leaving older people, people with disability, and many other community members with no access to the city of Merri-Bek, likely to lose work, and become further isolated from society. Currently there are no accessible tram stops between Park Street (Brunswick) and Bakers Road (North Coburg, end-of-the-line) on the Route 19 tram. Approx 200-300 people attended the rally, including music from the the Riffraff Radical Marching Band, stopping traffic and trams at the corner of Brunswick Town Hall.​//​ Angelica Ojinnaka is a youth development advocate, researcher, and speaker. She served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, as well being involved in a number of projects and organisations. You can typically find her speaking, facilitating, or shaping change on social inequalities experienced by children and young people, mental health, youth civic and economic participation, and cultural rights on national and global forums. She joins us today to chat about the importance of investing in authentic youth voices, youth participation in mental health sectors, and advocacy.// Then we are joined by ​​Ruth Nyaruot Ruach and Idil Ali. Ruth is the Future Reset Project Producer at Footscray Community Arts & creative producer at Next in Colour. She's multidisciplinary artist, cultural curator and community arts worker. Nyaruot uses art to understand herself, explore elements of her surroundings, heal, liberate herself and validate her blackness. And Idil is a proud Somali woman raised by the East African community in the Carlton flats. A settler on unceded Wurundjeri land, Idil embeds her belief in freedom, sovereignty and resistance into her work as a creative, youth practitioner and community organiser. You can find out more about the event this Sat 24th of June 1pm - 3pm at NGV Ian Potter Centre Free Entry - https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/ancestral-words/​// ​​Professors Judith Bessant and Rob Watts, both based at RMIT University's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, join us to discuss the youth-led Make It 16 campaign to lower the voting age in Australia, which launched on the 13th of June at Parliament House in Canberra. Drawing on their research into young peoples' political participation, Judith and Rob will unpack why expanding voting eligibility is not just important but increasingly in line with young peoples' appetites for political engagement. Judith Bessant writes in the fields of sociology, politics, youth studies, policy, media-technology studies and history. She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for 'Significant service to education as a social scientist, advocate and academic specialising in youth studies research'. She also provides advise to government and non- government organizations. Rob Watts teaches policy studies, politics, the history of ideas, and applied human rights at RMIT University. He is a founding member of the Greens Party in Victoria, a founding editor of the journal Just Policy (1994-2006) and established the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University in 2008.​//​ ​Event: This Friday June 23, ​​Oral History Victoria is hosting a symposium themed “Oral History Across and within Communities”. The event coincides with Refugee Week and is open to all members of the community interested in hearing about the way life stories are collected, preserved and experienced.​//​  The guest speakers are: Dr Andre Dao, from the ground-breaking Behind the Wire oral history project which recorded the first-hand experiences of people detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia. These human stories became an award-winning podcast, The Messenger. He'll be joined by Dr Jordana Silverstein, co-author of the recently released impact report, Getting My Dignity Back. She'll be talking about -just how meaningful and validating it can be, to share one's story and create an oral history. Our fellow Breakfast presenter - Claudia Craig - will also be making an appearance at the Symposium! Claudia will be talking about the role of community radio in creating and sharing the oral histories of diverse communities.​//​The Symposium is on this Friday 23rd June, 9.45am-2pm, at Museo Italiano, 199 Faraday Street Carlton. It's a hybrid event so you can join online if you can't make it in person.​//​ To register head to: humantix  OR go to the events page on the Oral History Victoria website – www.oralhistoryvictoria.org.au​. ​Bookings close TODAY at 5pm so get in quick!​//​​​ Songs ​Leaving the Light - Genesis​ Owusu​Ocean Friends - Ellatronix ​ 

On this weeks show Chris chats with Marie and Tim from Project Flock, a Melbourne bike light startup that focuses on biomotion, centring human motion as the lights function with goal of being seen as human not an object. We discuss product development and testing, safety envelope theory, riding in a urban environment and plans for the light to be available in 2024.Local news includes Accessible Transport for All Rally in Sydney Road, Merri-bek BUGs campaign for appropriate council budget allocation, Sara Stace's observations on addressing causes not symptoms and Yarra Council: Testing improvements to Yarra's cycling networkJune 2023 is Radiothon time at 3CR and Yarra Bicycle Users Group Radio needs your support!Celebrate everything you love about riding your bike and supporting active transport by making a donation by 30 June 2023.Any amount makes a big difference, and all donations over $2 are tax deductibleProgram music Cycling Is Fun - Shonen KnifeCycling - Sonia KillmannBicycle - filous feat. klei

On this week program, falling on World Environment Day, Chris chats to Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth about celebrating 50 years, their continuing work in environmental, urban and social justice campaigns, including getting lead in petrol banned, intergenerational anti F19 protests in Alexandra Parade and 1990s Transport Collective which included Streets For People, Reclaim the Streets, establishing Critical Mass Melbourne and Sustainable Cities ongoing advocacy in Melbourne's west.Local news includes upcoming issues with Brunswick level crossing removal project with previous guest Paula Hanasz interviewed as part of 'Melbourne residents divided as the future of bustling Sydney Road strip hangs in the balance', despite years of research and data dispelling parking concerns. Update on previous program about Kerferd Road: Engage Victoria dropped plans to include walking and cycling. So come along to Critical Mass - Shrine to Sea on Friday 30 June 2023 show Port Phillip Council and the Victorian Government that we need safe mobility lanes along Kerferd Road as part of the Shrine to Sea project.Another reminder: June 2023 is Radiothon time at 3CR and Yarra Bicycle Users Group Radio needs your support!Celebrate everything you love about riding your bike and supporting active transport by making a donation by 30 June 2023. Any amount makes a big difference, and all donations over $2 are tax deductible Program music Cycling Is Fun - Shonen KnifeCycling - Sonia KillmannBicycle - filous feat. klei

To make things worse, it was his dad's car!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Featuring a focus on the impacts of the State Government's project to remove level crossings in Brunswick on the Upfield Line and the impacts on accessibility.  Christian Astourian from the Disability Access Resource Unit speaks about the campaign to make all tram stops on Sydney Road accessible before the works commence.  There will be an Accessible Stops rally on Saturday 17th June at 11am at the Brunswick Town Hall.  To connect with the campaign email: satsnow0@gmail.com.Kevin also speaks with regular guest John McPherson about some of the public transport related issues currently facing Melbourne.

 Antonia Poet practices poetry, philosophy and yoga. She is also Associate Professor Writing, Literature & Culture Group, at Deakin University. Her debut poetry collection, You Will Not Know In Advance What You'll Feel (2019), is published by Rabbit Journal in its Rabbit Poets Series. She is also the author of A Philosophy of Practising with Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (2021) through Edinburgh University Press. In 2009, she founded Vijnana Yoga Australia.Her debut poetry collection, You Will Not Know In Advance What You'll Feel, is available online through Rabbit Journal: https://rabbitpoetry.com/.../pont-you-will-not-know-in...You can also purchase or order her poetry collection from Brunswick Bound bookshop, 361 Sydney Road, Brunswick: http://www.brunswickbound.com.au/ Picture: Yaro Bril Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos

For thirty years A1 Bakery has been slinging piping hot shanklish pies and plates of crisp falafel on Sydney Road. Now, the family owned favourite is expanding. Broadsheet's Nick Connellan joins us with the wrap of A1's new Fitzroy location. Plus: Abbotsford's cartographic wine bar and the Spanish pastelería shaking up Prahran Market. Featured in today's episode: A1 Bakery Cardwell Cellars La Colmena New episodes of Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town drop on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week. Subscribe on the LiSTNR app to make sure you don't miss an episode. Keep up-to-date on everything Broadsheet at www.Broadsheet.com.au or at @Broadsheet_melb. Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town is hosted by Katya Wachtel and produced by Nicola Sitch. Deirdre Fogarty is the Executive Producer.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you dream about opening up your own coffee shop? Jason has opened several. In this mini series Jason talks about the new shop on Queen Street and Sydney Road and shares his thoughts on how to approach opening a coffee shop.In part 3 we talk about the menu, merchandise, marketing, and customer service as well as hiring staff for a new café.Please email your coffee shop related questions or feedback to training@marketlane.com.au

All city-bound lanes on the Hume Freeway (Craigieburn Bypass) will soon close at Sydney Road following a two-truck collision which has left one truck "seriously bogged" and sparked a diesel leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleur Taylor is Vice President of Victoria University's National Tertiary Education branch and joins us on the show to talk about Victoria University going through another restructure. It has been reported that changes will be made to the university's colleges, strategic direction, and more. This comes after 2020 saw university wide staff redundancies, job cuts and changes to working conditions. Fleur talks to us about what the latest changes mean for staff and working conditions. // Verity Archer is a humanities and social sciences lecturer at Federation University, as well as the Vice President (Academic) of the National Tertiary Education Union's Fed Uni branch. Last week, staff at Federation University's four campuses went on strike to protest slow negotiations and working conditions at the regional Victorian university. Verity talks to us this morning to talk about the strike, working conditions and the impact on staff and students. // Homes Not Prisons is a campaign established in March 2021 to stop the expansion of the maximum-security women's prison in Melbourne's western suburbs, the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, and divert the funding in public housing and Aboriginal community controlled housing. We play snippets from the HNP Rally that took place on the steps of Parliament House in Naarm/Melbourne on Friday 21 October 2022. You can listen to the 3CR Homes Not Prisons radio series via the 3CR webstite https://www.3cr.org.au/actingup/episode/homes-not-prisons-campaign // Emma (they/she) is a member of Incendium Radical Library and Collective as well as a member of the band Spores. Tig (they/them) is an Armenian diasporan, anarchist and musician who makes Armenian-folk-industrial-noise music under the name Blood of a Pomegranate. They both join us on the show this morning to talk about IRL's Zine Fair happening this Saturday (26 November) at Catalyst Social Centre. Following the Zine Fair there will be a gig to raise funds for Needle n'Bitch, anarcha feminist collective based in Indonesia. The artists performing at the gig are: Blood of a Pomegranate, Super Tart, and Spores. Please see details of each event below: // Incendium Radical Library and Collective - Zine FairDate: Saturday 26 November 2022Time: 2-5pmAddress: Catalyst Social Centre, 144-146 Sydney Road, Coburg // Fundraiser for Needle n'Bitch Date: Saturday 26 November 2022Time: 7pm onwardsTickets: $15 (no one turned away for lack of $)Address: Catalyst Social Centre, 144-146 Sydney Road, Coburg // We hear excerpts of interviews recorded by Indigenous Rights Radio from the Indigenous Peoples Caucus at COP27. Cultural Survival conducted an interview with Kera Sherwood - O'Regan (Kāi Tahu), who spoke about the need to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples are upheld and mainstreamed, including the non-economic losses that communities face. // Songs: //Leave It All Behind - Bumpy //Little Bit - Danielle Ponder & Karate Boogaloo //Maxine's Garden - Super Tart //Ur Es Mayr Im (ուր ես մայր իմ) - Blood of a Pomegranate //

Greens MP for Brunswick, Dr Tim Read, speaks to Neil Mitchell on the protest set to occur this afternoon on Sydney Road in Brunswick. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this weeks program Chris chats to Rachel Niekrasz, Community Manager at Lug+Carrie in Fitzroy about how she got started with ecargobikes, families looking at ecargo bikes for the school run and more, Tern GSD ('Get stuff done') and Tern HSD models, Luggie+Carries weekly subscription model, building community amongst ecargobike users, workshops, ongoing support, build your own bike and more.Bicycle-themed news includes what's happening (or not) at COP27 for active transport, Partnership for Active Travel and Health COP27 letter to governments and cities (also signed by Streets Alive Yarra & YarraBUG), Greenpeace Netherlands protest at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, University of Oxford: Obsessing over electric cars is impeding the race to net zero: More active travel is essential, Critical Mass Naarm Melbourne heading to Sydney Road on Friday 18 November and work on St Kilda Road bike lanes connecting with dedicated lanes on Princes Bridge.Program music Cycling Is Fun - Shonen KnifeAlright - TychoOur Streets - Dan Abrahams 

I first started talking to Mark as i was coming out of the Sauna at my local Gym, we talked for 30 minutes and found him to be a great story teller. He's done many things in his life from living on the streets at 11, to working as a shearer, child protection to almost seriously injuring Flea from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as he crossed a Sydney Road. lifeline 13 11 14 

On this weeks program Chris chats to Phil Latz from the Micromobility Report about the upcoming Micromobility Conference and Micromobility Expo on 25 - 26 November 2022 at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney. Phil discusses Expo events and Conference speakers, including previous Yarra BUG Radio guests Tom Flood, Megan Sharkey, Lena Huda, Penelope Bennett, Sara Stace and Stephen Hodge. Conferences themes are Day One: Making it Right, Day One: Making it There, Day Two: Making it Happen and Day Two: Making it Pay.You won't find this info anywhere else - listen carefully as Phil provides a secret discount code for voluntary cycling advocates wanting to attend the conference!Local news includes another Critical Mass ride planned for 18 November heading to Sydney Road, Brunswick, Merri-bek BUGs Lisa O'Halloran speech at the conclusion of Critical Mass 30 September 2022 calling for Victorian state and local governments to seriously lift their game with cycling infrastructure and watch the weather forecast for Thursday 13 - Friday 14 October 2022.Program music Cycling Is Fun - Shonen KnifeCloud Generator - TychoOur Streets - Dan Abrahams 

Police have entered the fourth day of their search inside the Gnangara shed where an underworld assassination was carried out on Thursday. As reported by The West Australian, detectives and forensic officers were seen scouring the Sydney Road property Joseph Versace — known to be employed as “muscle” by bikie gangs in Perth — was gunned down in on Sunday morning. Versace is believed to have been brutally shot in the stomach and chest about 4pm on Thursday. His killer, or killers, is still on the run from police.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rebels bikie associate Joshua Colin Duperouzel has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a gangland “enforcer” in a Gnangara workshop last week. Mr Duperouzel is scheduled to appear in Perth Magistrates Court today charged with murdering Joseph Versace in a Sydney Road shed on Thursday. The 25-year-old was arrested in Belmont on Monday following an urgent plea for information about his whereabouts. The West Australian revealed Mr Duperouzel was arrested less than two hours after his name and image was broadcast at a riverside park on Tanunda Drive in Belmont after walking up to woman and asking her for a sandwich. He told the woman he was “wanted” by police and that he wanted to “hand himself in”. The woman called police while Mr Duperouzel sat down nearby and ate her lunch.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WA Police are investigating a “targeted” suspected gangland shooting after a man was found dead in a rural north-east Perth suburb. Officers were called to a workshop on Sydney Road in Gnangara about 4pm Thursday, where they found a 34-year-old man who had been shot dead. 9 News Perth reporter Lucy McLeod told 6PR Breakfast stand-in hosts Oly Peterson and Jenna Clarke that people who visited the scene overnight had links to the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang. "But exactly who has done this and who this man[victim] is, is not clear," she said.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Locals are concerned about thousands of near-misses on a major road in Sydney's southwest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On last week's Friday Breakfast show Chloe and Jacob spoke with Joey, who is detained at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation or MITA, about Section 501 of the Migration Act. This Act allows the government visa cancellation powers, and Joey discusses how the present government has been using these provisions. You can read about last month's rally to free those detained at MITA, many of whom are held under 501 provisions, here.// Elise Almond is a lawyer at Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service, a state-wide service that represents disabled people, including via providing assistance with NDIS appeals at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Elise joins us today to speak about the large spike in NDIS participants who have had their funding slashed, often without warning, in the recent months, with many taking their cases to the AAT.//You can find out more about the issue here, here and here, and about the Melbourne march and rally against NDIS cuts and appeals being organised by Every Australian Counts for Thursday the 19th of May here.// On Wednesday the 4th of May, members of the Australian Services Union and Municipal and Utilities Workers Union employed at Moreland Council downed tools to rally for decent wages and conditions. Like many workplaces across Australia, Moreland Council workers have been given an offer below the inflation level in their latest EBA negotiation. Solidarity Breakfast's Annie McLoughlin joined them outside the Brunswick Townhall on Sydney Road.// Alec Ferguson joins us to discuss the recent BDS resolution passed by the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) - ‘UMSU Stands with Palestine – BDS and Solidarity Policy' - and Students For Palestine's on-campus rally, which will be held today from 1PM on South Lawn. Alec is a Lebanese-Australian socialist activist at Melbourne University, and is involved in Students for Palestine and Free Palestine Melbourne. You can find the academic solidarity statement Alec refers to here.//Free Palestine Melbourne's 2022 Nakba Day Vigil will be held on Sunday the 15th of May from 12PM outside the State Library of Victoria. More information is available here.// Songs// Return Home - Bumpy// Don't Sleep - Alice Ivy, imbi, BOI//

Hazmat crews in protective clothing are working to contain a chemical spill after three drums of hydrochloric acid fell off the back of a truck in Sydney's west. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Domenica 20 marzo su Sydney Road si celebra il ritorno alla normalità cantando e ballando i brani della tradizione italiana.

Laura Turner chats with Sarah Sheridan and Laura Thompson from Clothing the Gaps. Sarah and Laura have both been working tirelessly for many years to elevate the voices of Aboriginal people and share their stories. Their shared passion for creating real change in the community saw them come together to form the Victorian Aboriginal owned and led social enterprise ‘Clothing the Gaps' which now works to unite people through fashion and causes, one of which is to help close the gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non- indigenous Australians.For more info and to purchase from the Clothing the Gaps range head to their website www.clothingthegaps.com.au or visit the store at 774 Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne.Great Australian Lives is proudly brought to you by Tobin Brothers Funerals - to see videos of our guests like their Facebook page HERE.Great Australian Lives is produced, engineered and edited by Jane Nield.

Comedian Richard McKenzie returns to get a bit gothic as he, Liz and Ben head to Überwald to discuss The Fifth Elephant in the room...by which we mean the twenty-fourth Discworld novel, published in 1999. As Ankh-Morpork and its neighbours embrace modern semaphore technology, trouble is brewing among the dwarfs. A new Low King is soon to be crowned in Überwald - and not everyone is happy with the choice. The Patrician selects just the right "diplomat" for the job: the Duke of Ankh, Sir Samuel Vimes. He reluctantly agrees to face vampires, werewolves, Igors and dwarf politics in a place where his Watch badge holds no sway. He's not going alone - though Sergeant Detritus (a troll) and Corporal Cheery Littlebottom (the first openly female dwarf) are not likely to be popular with the traditional dwarfs of Überwald. Luckily he also has diplomatic attaché Inigo Skimmer, and his strongest ally: his wife, the Lady Sybil Ramkin... After exploring one vampire family from Überwald in Carpe Jugulum, Pratchett takes Sam Vimes out of his comfort zone and into the lands of the fabled fifth elephant, while making far fewer references to the Luc Besson film than you'd expect. With Carrot and Angua off on a B-plot, and Colon, Nobby and the rest of the Watch left behind in the C-plot, it's also a chance for background characters Detritus, Cheery and Lady Sybil to shine. The novel also expands on the culture of vampires, werewolves, Igors and especially dwarfs, building the foundations for many future novels. It's a great read for a Discworld fan - but would The Fifth Elephant make a confusing introduction to the series? Was this Sybil's finest hour, or were you left wanting more of her? Does a beloved character do a murder? If so, is it okay? And did Carrot really need to be there, or was he just a Gaspode enabling device? Tell us by using the hashtag #Pratchat40 on social media to join the conversation! Returning guest Richard McKenzie is hopefully back to hosting trivia twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays, at the Cornish Arms on Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne. He and Ben devised the Dungeons & Dragons themed impro comedy show Dungeon Crawl, which now usually appears at Melbourne games expo PAX Aus. He also appears in the lineup of ensemble comedy shows The Anarchist Guild Social Committee and Secondhand Cinema Club. A a quick reminder that you can order Collisions, the short story anthology from Liminal Magazine, from your local bookshop! It includes Liz's story "The Voyeur" and fifteen others. The link also has some online sources if you need 'em. Next time we're reading something very different: Pratchett's standalone, non-Discworld young adult novel from 2008, Nation! We'll be joined by educator Charlotte Pezaro. Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat41, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

We're thrilled to bring you this special podcast episode celebrating the publication of our second print anthology, New Australian Fiction 2020. New Australian Fiction 2020 collects a number of brilliant short stories from authors from around the country, and in this episode you'll hear excerpts from some of them. Tune in to hear Madeleine Watts, Mykaela Saunders, Jack Vening, Maame Blue and Jessie Tu read from their work, and don't forget to pick up a copy of the anthology to read these brilliant stories in their entirety. You can purchase a copy from our online shop. Want to be a part of New Australian Fiction 2021? Story submissions for the anthology will open in January next year. Our theme song is Broke for Free's ‘Something Elated'. Stream or subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Soundcloud / Google Podcasts / Spotify / Other (RSS) Let us know what you think by rating and reviewing in your app of choice! TRANSCRIPT Alice Cottrell: Hello dear listeners, I'm KYD publisher Alice Cottrell, and I'm very excited to bring you this special edition of the KYD podcast on the publication day of New Australian Fiction 2020, our second print collection of short fiction. This anthology features some of Australia's best-loved writers alongside exciting new voices. And you're going to hear some of those voices today! This episode you'll hear Madeleline Watts, Mykaela Saunders, Jack Vening, Maame Blue and Jessie Tu reading from their brilliant short stories. Enjoy! Madeleine Watts: My name is Madeleine Watts, and this is an excerpt from my short story Floodwaters. We drive a long, straight road beneath slate-grey skies beside the flooded river. The floodwaters surge around trunks of oak and ash, a fast-moving membrane the colour of milk tea. The road is still dry, and safe enough for now. Traffic carries on. The levee isn't expected to break. But the water will soon get into the soil and rot the root systems, says the man driving me in his empty shuttle bus along the highway. The shuttle, which is really a panel van, collected me half an hour ago from the low-security airport bound by corn on all sides. I am its only patron. The interstate takes us past lonely motels looming over carparks. We pass a Kmart, Trader Joe's, Applebee's, McDonald's and then the town. It is, at first glance, like something out of a Golden Age film, a freeze-frame of small town America thatI'd absorbed as a child on the other side of the world in suburban Sydney lounge rooms. But as the shuttle slows down and the town resolves itself through the windows, I can see that it's going quietly to seed. Empty storefronts, flaking paint.The trees are turning red from the top down, and the flooded river bleeds into the land. Nobody is alarmed yet. The river floods often. The driver asks how long I'm staying. A week. And why am I here? To see a friend. He detects an accent. He can't quite place me. Where am I from? How did I end up here? August has lived in the town for two years. He has lived in big cities before, and that is where I think of him still—in a leather jacket, thumbing the screen of his phone, hunched over the bar in Greenpoint where we first met. But now he lives in this plus-size, windy pocket of the Midwest, and he is having the worst year of his life. Three times he has been hospitalised since January, in Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. A week before I landed at the cornfield airport, he messaged to tell me he thought he might be hallucinating. He was sitting in his living room on a Tuesday night and he could hear murmuring. Hissing. Sounds issued by voices that originated from no human throat. Are you all right? I asked when I saw the messages on my phone the next morning. Yes, I'm fine, he said. It happens sometimes. It's not a big deal. The sunset is paling, settling into the colour of skin sapped of blood. I'm wearing a long dress and clogs. Back in the spring they were brand new shoes, but now the clogs are stained, the wood chipped, the suede watermarked from thunderstorms in the city. My toes are red with cold. The driver turns the heater on and the warm air comes upon me in a sudden gust, over the bare skin of my feet and up my dress.I haven't seen August in over a year, since he got this job teaching at the small liberal arts college in a red state full of cornfields and Protestant churches, and it occurs to me as we slow down in front of a house that matches the address he's given me that nothing is going to be how it used to be. August lives on the top floor of a two-storey wooden building that backs onto an alley. The front door is always open, he told me. There are bicycles on the porch, some rusty chairs, an empty bottle of sparkling wine filled to the brim with cigarette butts. I open the door, climb the flight of stairs to his apartment and knock. Why do you have such a big bag? he asks. I put it down in the hallway and look at him. His hair is unruly but he has shaved and he's wearing his boots. It seems to bode well that he's put on shoes for my arrival. He doesn't look like somebody who, a few days ago, heard murmuring and hissing that wasn't there. It's the only bag I have, I say. He stands there, watching me wander through the rooms of his apartment piled high with books and strewn with orange vials of pills and half-drunk bottles of Gatorade. He doesn't touch me for a full hour, and when at last he comes up behind me, he gently punches the small of my back, holds onto my waist, turns me, pushes me up against the doorframe and coaxes my underwear down my legs. So that's how it is. The wind picks up, and the rain begins to sound on the windowpanes and in every part of the dark cornscape that stretches away from the town. We get dinner at a bar, although he warns me that there aren't many vegetarian options. It's a perennial problem in this town, he says. We first bonded, five years ago, picking pieces of bacon out of soup during that evening in Greenpoint that at the time was not described by either of us as a date, but was. Now the waitress wants to see some ID. I hand over my green card and it takes her a moment to process what she reads. Then she smiles. Welcome to America, she shouts. I nod. I have lived in this country for five years. I order a black bean burger and whiskey. He orders grilled cheese. Do you want it deluxe? the waitress asks. Sure. The sandwich arrives with a blue cheese dipping sauce and many fatty, pink pieces of bacon. I feel rude sending it back, he says. You could take off the bacon? It's a waste. Waste is immoral. A sin. I'll just eat it. His sensitivity to sin is new to me. The very word ‘sin' sounds strange in his mouth. Once a loud representative of America's young socialists, lately August has been talking about becoming a priest. He'll need to lie on the application forms (though by his thinking that should only count as a minor sin) because one isn't supposed to enter the priesthood when diagnosed with a medical condition, especially one that might lead you to believe that the government has installed a computer chip in your brain, or that aliens are keeping tabs on you from their perch in the sky, or that one is a vessel for the voice of the Holy Ghost moving one along a river of divine purpose. To be fair, he hasn't believed in any of those things for some time. In the last year, the problem has been his quicksilver moods, the cycles of mania and wild depression, the sudden bursts of weeping. In those very bad months last winter,I would check our message thread on Instagram to see how many minutes it had been since he had last logged in. If he was still checking Instagram, I reasoned, then he was still alive. The doctors have increased his medication since those hospital visits, and he adheres to a routine of sufficient sleep, regular exercise and therapy. He's stable, he says. Mykaela Saunders: My name's Mykaela Saunders, and this is an excerpt from my short story Long Road, Becoming. Your alarm goes off, and before the old you can hit snooze the new you has sat up and hit the stop button hard to chase any soft thoughts away. If you sleep in, if you don't go for a run now, you'll set yourself back and you won't be any good all day. Do this first good thing now and the rest will be easy. Baby steps can run a marathon. You flick the lamp on, lace your running shoes up and make your single bed, tucking everything in tight. Soft beds breed soft men. The bed's out from the wall—must have been those dreams making you toss and turn again. You knee the bed flush into the corner and sniff your pillow. You strip the sweaty cover off and chuck it in the laundry on your way out. The streetlights pop off as you jog down the street. Ahead of you, a thin slice of horizon brightens, and the black sky around it silvers, bruises, then bursts into orange flames. Closer to town, you pass the big flash houses emerging in the dawning light. You wonder for the fifteenth time what nice things they've got locked up inside. And for the fifteenth time you punch the thought down, leaving it for dead on the of the road. This is easier to do each time. You pick up the pace, light-footed. Nobody's at the park except for a few fishermen on the jetty. You do your circuit, focusing on your arms today: push-ups, pull-ups, burpees. Your muscles are growing powerful and hard; soon you'll be able to lift your own weight. When you're finished your heart is pelting and every pulse point vibrates, and you feel so good that no bad thoughts can get anywhere near you. This is the time you feel safest outside, so you sit and enjoy it while it lasts. The river's skin glimmers in the early sun. The shedding bark on the eucalypts reveals satin-smooth wood glowing opal in the light. One of the fishermen catches a bream. He scales it quickly, divesting it of its armour. Hopefully they're still biting later when you comeback down with Dad. You'd like to stay here for longer but Terry's coming at nine. You run back home with tunnel vision, ignoring the flash houses, burgeoning light brightening behind you, chasing the shadow shortening in front of you. As you approach your house, a bit of the old shame claws around inside you. The dirty paint is peeling, long flakes clinging to the cheap wood. But, look, at least the place is tidy these days without all the shit in the yard for everyone to see.Everything's packed up under the house now being eaten by mould and mice. Maybe you can see if someone's got some spare paint lying around for you to spruce it up a bit for the old man. He'd like that. When you feel stronger you should put the feelers out.You know from last time that things can go wrong if you start getting big ideas too soon. Wait and see how you go for a few more weeks. Inside the house the mustiness hits you in the face. It's an old person smell, which doesn't make any sense because your dad is only forty-four. But, then again, that's nearly old age fora blackfella. Or maybe it isn't anything to do with age—maybe it's the closeness to death, the mustiness of dying. Might be the smell of cancer eating through your old man's lungs and excreting the waste, or maybe it's the residue from radiation burning through the cancer. You go check on him. He's still asleep, wheezing in and panting out. He looks so different. So fragile. You open up some windows to clear his burnt-out breath atomising through the house. Under the hot shower you scrub your fingers through your scalp and run sudsy hands over ink-stained skin. There's no cohesion to your canvas as none of this work was planned or designed. The whole thing was ad hoc—expanded on visit by visit, stint by stint, changed in small increments to what it is now. Most of them are blackwork—amateur renderings of hard-arse imagery—except for the oldest one, which is just shy of twelve years old: a bright-red heart tattooed over your chest withRIP MUM inked inside. The heart's black outline has grown fuzzy. Ink bleeds across the lines. You should ring your sister and see if she'll bring the kids up soon. You'd like to see them more, but you're not allowed over at her house these days. You know she does love you, but that didn't stop you hocking her shit the last time you were out. You missed them all inside—missed her warm hand on your shoulder, supportive, as the jarjums gurgled away in your lap, or played with your hair and traced your tatts, crawling all over you as though you were a statue. Well, you are in a way. You gotta be. Gotta be hard and still, otherwise everyone will think you're up to no good. You wipe the steam off the mirror and check yourself out from every angle. Not bad at all. You don't look like a walking skeleton anymore but you're still as hard as you were inside. Best to stay this way so as not to become soft. You've got a good day ahead of you today. You like to have your days planned out. If you control the input, you can predict the output. Makes it easier to stay on track. Jack Vening: Hi, my name is Jack Vening and this is an excerpt from my story After the Stampede. I'm alone watching cartoons when the animals come down from the mountain. There must be hundreds of them. A stampede. They churn up our flower beds and shit over the traffic islands. They void the warranty on our tyres. They break the tiny penises off the pissing cherub statuettes in our gardens. Goats stick their long tongues through the letter slots in our front doors and frighten the children inside. Chimps do unspeakable things to one another outside the corner store, all of which is captured on security camera. They seem to want to take everything we have. It is Saturday. Always disappointing when trouble arrives on a Saturday, a day reserved for selfish virtues, and it being early everyone is standing at their windows, dumbfounded and afraid. Waterbirds break against our roofs like hail. My parents have taken my little brother Kenneth to his specialist and will be gone for hours. I'm forbidden to leave the house unless in their presence. I never feel more sleepy, I have learned, than in the first few minutes of an emergency.As a little boy, I stood before the burning orchestra building, the heat like a hand closing around my face. Some horses kick my side gate off its hinge and get into the backyard to drink from my brother's wading pool. The water in the pool hasn't been changed in about two months, so I can't say if drinking it will be good for them. I take some photos through the flyscreen in case I need proof to show my parents. They don't often believe the thingsI say, even my most realistic stories, nor do they defend me when the folks from the neighbourhood take a swipe or treat me like a thing washed up in a storm. They are popular themselves. All summer they make love loudly with the windows open. They call each other disgusting names. The whole street listens to the ritual. Kenneth, too, is considered a gift despite his conditions.His body resembles a jigsaw puzzle. He is sweet-eyed and warming to speak to. Visitors beam as they watch him quietly read Bible stories to himself. Due to his illnesses—his laughable immune system, his bones which grew as if in conflict with one another—my parents allow him the pleasure of scattering his toys around the yard and leaving them thereto decompose over many thousands of years. I'm not alone in here, I call to the horses. Do you hear me? I have powerful friends and tools at my disposal. I have nothing to interest the likes of you. You can just do your business and leave, thank you. The morning is bright. I am confident the horses can't see me through the flyscreen. All the same, one of them raises its head and charges right through the nice new patio door. Outside, folks are counting the dead. They gather at the fountain, which is rank and murky with the bodies of rodents. Everyone looks wounded and sorry for themselves. A heavy man with a head gash spits on the ground as I ride past on my bike, a bloody tooth dribbling slowly down his chin. Most of what's left has been trampled—the corpse of a wolf, some woodland things. A few household pets evidently inspired by the wild violence of the stampede. A dog wearing one of those anxiety vests. Something that seems to be a mule or skinny horse and about half a dozen long-legged, mud-coloured wading birds that couldn't keep up. You'd think they'd all been run over by a tank. The street stinks like a nest. A group has formed around my neighbour Jennifer, surveying the dismal scene. Her husband Lloyd is there with their baby Margaret. Are you okay? Jennifer asks me. What are you doing outside? Where are your parents? There were some horses, I say. They kicked the shit out of my patio. I was lucky to get out. A big bobcat got into the kitchen and scratched Lloyd on the hand, says Jennifer. We scared it off with a bar stool. Lloyd's hand is hastily triaged with a towel. There doesn't seem to be any blood, and he can hold Margaret just fine.They're a fine young family. Many think they're wise because they don't own a television. When they first told me Margaret's name, I thought they were making a joke. This is it, Lloyd says gravely. This is our reckoning. We must think carefully about what we do next. Are you sure it was a bobcat? I ask. What did it look like? You don't think I'd know what a bobcat looks like? When it's right in my face, trying to kill me? You're dumber than I thought possible. I gesture for Lloyd to pass me Margaret, but he moves her further away. Where are your parents? Jennifer asks again. There are sirens somewhere off in the direction where the animals ran. Everywhere we step there are pieces of tile or splintered letterbox posts. Neighbours collect the larger debris and fortify the soft points in their hedgerows. They start fires to burn the dead animals. A team of children push together on the belly of a camel until its eyes bulge out. If not for the violence, you could mistake it for a street party. I'm on my way to meet them now, I say, wheeling my bike around. They're enjoying lunch nearby. You're going out there? I am, I have some chores to do.Nobody tells me that it's too dangerous for a child; nobody thinks of stopping me, though Jennifer does look concerned. Once, I called their home and left a message—Leave him, I said. Leave Lloyd. There's so much we both have yet to experience. Bust me out of here; it's time to start our journey—but as far as I know she never listened to it. Take it easy when you see Kenneth, she says. This might be too much for his little body. I leave the folks to comfort their families. The younger, unsupervised kids chase after me, holding the bones of something small above their heads. Everyone I pass is hugging or whispering or weeping, talking with their heads close together, looking at the dirt or at the clouds like they're waiting for rain. They stare into each other's eyes, doing the things strangers do when they're alone, things I'm usually forbidden from seeing. Maame Blue: My name is Maame Blue, and this is an excerpt from my short story Howl. You're waiting again. This time under a blue-tinted light, plants hanging about your head from the ceiling, the walls. You're inside and outside at the same time, somehow.The decor is rainforest cafe meets mimosa brunch, withConverse trainers and vaping allowed. Almost required. You look around at the other patrons, all relaxed with a soft buzz from summer beers, a contrast to you anxiously nursing an orange juice, trying not to stand out. Fat chance. Black girl, curvy, sporting a short afro that prompted an Aussie friend from work to label you Afrocentric.You've been called vibrant before, but tonight you feel invisible, lost in this woolshed bar conversion dropped in the middle of an open parking lot in Brunswick. You think about your arrival, how you rushed out the house frantically and skipped past Anstey station in a sweat, the street art along the train tracks turning into the blur of a rainbow in your haste. You were worried. I can't be late. Still, you wanted to have a moment to take it all in—this new life, the frankness of Melbourne. You pushed down how much you missed the London accent, the muddy green of Hyde Park, the chewing gum-stained streets of CamdenTown, street food and punks and yummy mummies and bad gyals. What were you really without all those things? A visitor, belonging nowhere and looking to reinvent yourself, like everyone else. You sip through your straw and look back at the bartender. Bearded in a Hawaiian shirt. They're always bearded, with soft eyes and soft accents, trying to guess your order before you've said it. Like how he knew you wanted something with zest, reached for it before you had finished speaking. You weren't looking for the hard stuff tonight.Perhaps through the layers of makeup and a dewy glow of sweat he could see you were hungover. Or maybe he just saw the words first date taking shape in your mouth, your anxiety and bubble of excitement the only true markers. You were grateful for it, for the drink and the time to catch your breath. You let in relief when you entered the bar and saw that your date hadn't arrived yet. Others were there, though—silhouettes just like his. Tall bodies with a slight heft, carrying themselves like surfboards.Something in them spoke to being outside on the weekend, enjoying the fresh air before the rapid deterioration of everything natural was complete. They climbed mountains, kayaked down rivers, hiked through forests. You often wondered what feats you could achieve if you only stepped out further than the day before. You were too used to being trapped in comfort and routine back home, until you came here. Your first act of daring was getting on that plane, dreaming about being surrounded by trees. There's a kindness to communing with nature, letting its peaceful warmth be the thing you tried to absorb. But once you arrived, you grasped desperately for the familiar again, sinking into the slow simmer of it. Now you think about the heat of your date. A friend of a friend. You had discarded the introduction apps months ago; the last time was a precursor to nothing.When you met the one black guy you had so far found online, he was only a familiar face on a stranger. He carried your shopping home after one coffee and you fucked him on the sofa where your flatmate had strummed his way through‘Yellow Submarine' the night before, the twang of the guitar keeping you awake as you lay in bed in the next room. Afterwards the man didn't want to stay, and you didn't want to be friends. It left you with a meaningless gape. You sauntered down to Sydney Road and bought a Lebanese pizza and too much baklava and ate your weekend away. What was it about being both invisible and under a spotlight at the same time? You had never wanted to hide your black skin until you came here. Where boys, the whiter ones, wanted to prove how open-minded they were by engaging you. Blond-haired bachelors pumping closed fists against their chests in a crowded bar, two times, as a greeting just for you. Brunette-moustachioed whiskey lovers sending explicit messages on Tinder that reference your dark exotic hue as reason and rhyme for seduction purposes. And the redhead sending up-to-the-minute texts, until you bumped into him with his mother on Flinders Street and watched him turn her around so she wouldn't witness your shared eye contact, or witness you. Jessie Tu: Hi, this is Jessie Tu. I'm going to be reading from the beginning of my short story called Three Iterations of Love. My brother comes to visit on a Saturday night. The weather had been hot all day, lingered around and stayed until late. The man I'm living with has an apartment on the ninth floor of an old hotel in the shady part of the city. I don't mind it. It's convenient, and a whole suburb away from my ex, so there's no possibility of awkward run-ins. I'm grateful for the distance those few kilometres provide. The man I live with is ten years older. I'm fond of him, but I'm also very lonely. Not because I don't have close and loving friends and family but because my needs are excessive. Nothing is ever good enough. I always want more. I thought it would go away someday, this relentless appetite. But no. What never went away was my constant self-judgement, while my brother never failed to impress. I'd spent the afternoon trying to work on my paper, but the light from the window was distracting, and I ended up going out onto the balcony and clipping my toenails instead.The pieces fell onto the floor and I swept them up and tossed them over the balcony. I didn't care that they'd land on the balcony of the apartment below. It was probably full of pieces of human. Dead pieces. I like to imagine that area filled with parts of us that mix in with parts of strangers we've never met. We walk the streets, my brother and me. It's cold. ‘Bitter winter,' I say. He picks dumplings. The dumpling house is a hole in the wall. The tables are street level, the kitchen is downstairs. The man and I have eaten here a handful of times. We were always given a table outside. Tonight, my brother and I sit inside because it is draughty and because all the outside tables are occupied. We are seated opposite each other on a tiny table against the wall.People have to squeeze past us down the aisle to get to the cashier to pay. My brother's phone rings. A cousin from Taipei. Our uncle is trying to reach Mother. What possibly for? we ponder aloud. Is he dying? Writing her into his will? No. He has more important people to give away his money to; he has grandchildren now. I did not know this. We order a plate of greens. Pan-fried dumplings. Steamed dumplings. My brother calls Mother. Mother says she's not been sleeping well.Experiencing dizziness. Sore muscles. Dry throat. ‘Jet-lagged?' my brother offers. ‘Maybe go out for a walk. Getsome fresh air.' The food comes, very late. We eat and talk about euthanasia and cycling and carceral feminism and Jackie Chan.I tell him how funny it is that when you do an internet search of the word ‘euthanasia' the pictures that show up are of one hand holding onto another hand. He tells me about his lover and I tell him about mine. We are both with the wrong people. If we'd not been siblings, I'd have wanted to marry him. But I'd be the kind of wife who would withhold sex when I wanted something, only relenting when I really, truly had to. Otherwise it would be a sexless marriage and he'd have to be okay with that. Because my brother is the most perfect human being who has ever existed. I have no doubt. We are both going to marry the wrong people. Next to us, a young, white couple have just finished their meals. They are waiting on dessert. The woman is blonde, pretty and round. She is wearing a leather jacket with silver studs and black jeans. She and her boyfriend are sitting side by side. She has one arm slung around his neck. His elbows are propped on the edge of the long table, fingers weaved together. She wants love. He wants space. While my brother is texting back to our cousin, I study the boyfriend's face. He is very handsome. A young Tom Cruise.He could be on the cover of GQ. He's also got the deferential gaze of someone who has been used to a life of being wanted.She wants love and he wants space. Every time I look over, the woman has rearranged her arm around his neck—a new contortion of limbs. It looks awkward, contrived. Like they are teenage drama students in a dress rehearsal for a play, faking it real bad. I pity her. Her high-pitched voice and all that effort. Their dessert arrives. Mango sago pudding. The man and woman are sweet and polite, thanking the Asian busboy (he is not a boy but a man, roughly my father's age). He clears their table and places the bowl between them. She gets out her phone and shows her boyfriend something. He gets out his phone. She looks at pictures. ‘Which one is me?' she asks him sweetly. ‘The sexy one,' he says, barely smiling. As though a smile costs him something he needs to keep in reserve. AC: Thanks for listening in! If you're keen to read more after hearing those excellent snippets, you can buy a copy of New Australian Fiction 2020 at our website killyourdarlings.com.au, or at your local independent bookshop, or you can request a copy at your local library.

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Thank you to Fiona Chandler for a fabulous chat about her art practise and running the Northern Beach's Sydney Road Gallery.You can see Fiona's work on her website with links to Sydney Road Gallery http://sydneyroadgallery.com https://fionakate.com.auLinks for topics mentioned in this weeks episode The artist residency we talked about can be seen at https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-cultureFiona tells us about the surface of her paintings - she talked of a surface called Clayboard - you can find it at https://www.thesydneyartstore.com.au/product-group/831-ampersand-clay-boards/category/248-boards-panels?gclid=CjwKCAjwp-X0BRAFEiwAheRui4BnIaw03xBh45aoOhzKV3ztJ1a7eLfdSVoxtOc_5AoS1aIFaOpCwRoC3y4QAvD_BwEWe talked about the Artist Nick Hall his work can be seen at Wagner Contemporary http://www.wagnercontemporary.com.au/artists/nick-hallLearn all about the gallery Sydney Road that started in 2017 at their website and have a look at their online gallery with the Black and White show that is currently on display.  Check out each of the artists on their website and then follow the instagram accounts.http://sydneyroadgallery.com Fiona is involved into with the Creative Women's Circle that she works with Saffron Craig you can find out about this at https://www.facebook.com/SaffronCraig/https://www.creativewomenscircle.com.auhttps://www.creativewomenscircle.com.au/events-list/creative-women-in-conversation-cw3m8Fiona's advise for getting PR is to write articles and pitch ideas and to give it a go you can see the press that she has on her website. So jump onto instagram to snaffle a Fiona Chandler artwork at 9am every Thursday but be quick as they sell fast. Fiona answered our new questions via email on Favourite art tool and why ? A big fluffy non branded brush I have lived with forever. I had to buy tweezers just so I could pull the hair off the painting that it leaves behind. Throw it out. Never. Live or dead artist you would love to have a tour of their studio? How to choose? I am thinking all things close to home at the moment. I would love to see Julian Meagher's space and process. If you could go anywhere in the world right now where would it be and why?Katherine Gorge - I have always wanted to paint and camp out there. The landscape looks incredible. A long car ride there is very appealing also.  We finished the episode with a Whats occurring? This segment discusses what we have been watching listening to and keeping us amused whilst in Covid -19 lockdown. Check out the production on offer at National Theatre in UK.  http://nationaltheatre.org.ukJulie's recommendation is to check out Manly library on line https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=manly+library&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8Damien Hurst on his instagram is being interviewed check it out http://instagram.com/damienhirstHave a look at

The universal need for connection and belonging is profound but is best illustrated in Catherine de Saint Phalle's novel, 'The Sea and Us' which is set in a simple fish and chip shop in Sydney Road, Brunswick.Caleb Zelic has a new motto in life - stay out of trouble, but murders seem to surround him.  He will have to work with double-crossing partner again to solve the crimes in "Darkness for Light' by Emma Viskic.

When I was doing some reading about Elliott before going to chat to him, I discovered that, not only is he from Christchurch, but he went to school in the same part of town as me, albeit years after me…! I mention age, only because Elliott might be young in years, but he has had quite the trajectory, starting off his career cooking in one of New Zealand’s best restaurants, Pescatore, in the George Hotel overlooking Hagley Park in Christchurch. He moved to Sydney after the earthquakes and worked at Flying Fish Restaurant, and then Sepia, before moving to Melbourne to the head chef role at Doot Doot Doot at Jackalope on the Mornington Peninsula. From a park view, to a view over the water and then of vineyards, at his latest venture, Rascal, the Sydney Road view might not be quite the same, but Elliott and his team look set to change the Brunswick dining landscape all the same.

On this weeks program Chris talks to Liam Delany from the newly created Birrarung Cycling Club, based in the Yarra area, about getting the club started, weekly Yarra Boulevard rides, Road Ride Ready sessions at Collingwood Athletics track and an emphasis on getting more women riding bikes.Local news includes Free Bicycle Maintenance for Kids, Monday 30 September at South Kingsville Community Centre, Lizzie Blandthorn, State MP for Pascoe Vale steps into the Sydney Road Improvement Project issues in Moreland, show your support for the Safe Cycling Corridor by filling in the Keeping Glen Eira Moving survey and attending a Safe Cycling Corridor Drop In session on Thursday 19 September at Caulfield Cup Room at Glen Eira Town Hall, Moreland Bike ride to Global Climate Strike on Friday 20 September, Moreart x Projector Bike 2019 Bike Tours, Intergalactic Surly Day Party at Commuter Cycles on Saturday 21 September and Velo Cycles Garage Sale on Saturday 12 October. Show your support by subscribing or donating to 3CR and help keep community radio on air!

On this weeks program Chris chats to Megan Bridger-Darling about improving cycling access in Melbourne's western suburbs, how BikeWest got started, local history, their upcoming projects including Giant BikeWest Fest on Saturday, 12 October 2019, Bike Tracks for Kids being a successful Pick My Project submission and ongoing BikeWest monthly meetings.Bicycle-themed news includes a recap from previous 3CR program about Moreland Extinction Rebellion event on Saturday 17 August 2019, Moreland Council voting on a six month bicycle lane trial for Sydney Road between Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Road, The Big Push for Road Safety Ride on 1 September 2019 by Space for Cycling Brisbane and Brisbane Bicycle Explorers Club, Inner West Community Bike Hub Grand Opening on 31 August 2019 at 38-40 Moreland St, Footscray and Yarra Council requesting feedback for Carlton North LATM and the Brunswick Street Masterplan, remember to use those handy comment fields aka text boxes to make your options known about Yarra cycling infrastructure!

Val kicks off todays show with an excerpt from Susan Vreeland's Clara and Mr Tiffany as we warm up in the studio this morning. We are joined by studio guest Col Bell of Fields of Joy CX and Sunbury Cycling Club and all share our bicycle moments from the last week. We take a look at some news including Fiona Kolbinger's epic Transcontinental Race win and an upcoming meeting at Moreland Council where councillors will vote on whether to support a planned separated bike lane for Sydney Road. For information on how to contact Moreland Councillors and let them know they have your support check here or attend the meeting on Wednesday 14th at 7pm in the Council Chamber, Moreland Civic Centre, 90 Bell Street, Coburg.Talk turns to cyclocross and the upcoming Melbourne Grand Prix of Cyclocross at Broadford on August 17 and 18th. Only the second cyclocross event at the Broadford venue Col tells us what the organisers learnt from the first event and what riders can expect from the course and venue. Registrations for Rounds 8 and 9 at Broadford close Wednesday August 14th at midnight. With the possibility of camping, heaps of elevation and venue facilities like toilets, showers and canteen the Melbourne GPCX looks to be an awesome weekend of  cx racing. As usual there will be support races for kids and an Open category so that everyone can enjoy racing, and features of the course will include a staircase, being built on Tuesday! 

On this weeks program Chris talks to Tim Read MP about Bikes For Brunswick and the current VicRoads Sydney Road Improvements Survey.It's Tour De France season again, so welcome to three weeks of sleep deprivation, drama and fantastic scenery. On the topic of female participation in procycling, including La Course and the Giro Rosa, Isabel Best writes "Remembering the golden era of the women's Tour de France" about the opposition, politics and what's happened in the last three decades.Local news includes Brompton City Strollers ride this Saturday 13 July 2019 and paying homage to Triple R Melbourne community radio legend, Stephen "The Ghost Who Talks" Walker with the TISM classic, The Mordialloc Road Duplicator, complete with south east Melbourne road references and lawnmowers ;)

In this episode, I talk to Clint Weaver from Pocket Beagles. The episode was recorded at Beermash in Sydney Road, Collingwood.This episode has the images of each beer design attached so look out on your device for them! Keep up with all the developments at Pocket Beagles here: https://www.pocketbeagles.co and Fizz and Hop here: https://www.facebook.com/fizzandhop/The Chosen Brew is a podcast for people, passionate about beer, to talk us through the six beers that changed them. Their chosen brews. Expect choices to be full of nostalgia, emotional wanderings and plain old loyalty as the guests tell their story through the beers that they treasure.Follow The Chosen Brew on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.Log on to the website at: www.thechosenbrewau.comThe Wheel of Sport my other podcast of the greatest sports stories ever told. Listen here: https://omny.fm/shows/wheel-of-sport/Guests are given the following guidelines:- Each beer choice has to have been commercially available at some point.- Although this is essentially a quality beer podcast, choices can be any beer, however mainstream. ​- Guests can only take one bottle of each choice although choices can be longnecks (if they are really thirsty!) ​- Guests will choose their favourite drinking vessel from which all their beers will be consumed.- Also, guests will choose their ultimate beer snack to go alongside their choices. ​- Talking about the beers that didn't quite make the six is encouraged. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jill Meagher was a 29 year old Irish woman living in Melbourne with her husband, Tom. She was a bright, funny, loving young woman, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. On the 21st of September 2012, Jill went to a bar on Sydney Road in Brunswick with some colleagues. She left around 1:30am, to walk the few blocks back to her home and her husband.She never made it home. When her husband awoke to find her missing, he immediately contacted the police.What followed was a fast and efficient investigation, helped along by the discovery of CCTV footage featuring Jill and a man in a blue sweatshirt on Sydney Road. The man in the blue sweatshirt was quickly identified as Adrian Ernest Bayley, a man who was on parole after serving time for a series of rapes.In this episode, we discuss Adrian Ernest Bayley’s shocking criminal history, the impact that Jill’s death has had on the Australian public, and also, Ellen cries. A lot.Jill Meagher was a young woman with her whole life ahead of her. The impact her violent and brutal murder had on her family and her husband Tom cannot be overstated. This case is one of the most well-known in Australia, and it inspired a wave of grief and anger in the Australian public. Thousands of people took to the streets to Reclaim the Night after Jill's murder. Jill's death demonstrated once again to Australian women that even if you do everything right, even if you're only a few blocks away from your house, even if you're talking to someone on the phone, you aren't safe. The community was enraged that someone with such a disturbing and violent criminal past could be released from prison, especially considering the miniscule sentence Bayley was served with for his past crimes.Jill’s husband Tom continues to speak out about violence against women and toxic masculinity. You can read his amazing article, The Danger of the Monster Myth, on the White Ribbon Ireland’s blog here https://whiteribbonblog.com/2014/04/17/the-danger-of-the-monster-myth/Youcan watch the documentary Conviction: The Jill Meagher Story on Netflix here https://www.netflix.com/title/80193756Read Tom Meagher’s letter to Jill here https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/i-carry-the-scars-of-jills-death-because-thats-how-i-remember-to-carry-her-light-inside-me/news-story/1dd1d132143a65a33a7387cbae153256The victim impact statements from the trial can be found here if you’re keen for a weep https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/jill-meagher-murder-the-victim-impact-statements-20130612-2o3ih.htmlTo read more about Adrian Ernest Bayley, go here https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/timeline-the-dark-past-of-adrian-bayley-20150320-1m3sda.htmlIf you like what we do please consider supporting us on PATREONSubscribe to the podcast on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM or EMAIL us on murderinthelandofoz@gmail.comwww.thatsnotcanonproductions.com

Faith and Val are joined in the studio by endurance cyclist Lewis Ciddor. We swap bicycle moments before taking a look at local and overseas cycling news, particularly that affecting your transport options. Moreland Council have released their Draft Integrated Transport and Parking Strategy for feedback, but hurry, consultaion closes August 17th. Partially separated bike paths form part of the latest proposal for Sydney Road and the Walmer Street Bridge campaign is promised $200,000.00 towards a scoping study. Discussion turns to the 2018 Tour Divide mtb race and Lewis's inaugral effort, winning the 4400km race in fifteen days, two hours and eight minutes from a field of aproximately 160 participants. Lewis talks about his preparation for the ride, the bike he rode, the incredible route from Banff, Canada to the US-Mexican border, the 50,000m of climbing through some of the US's most stunning scenery and the fauna and flora as well as his recovery. You can check out Lewis's website at overlandarchive.com

In episode five, comedian Richard McKenzie joins us to discuss that rare beast, a Discworld tale that stars no wizards, witches, watches or Death, and isn't part of any of the ongoing storylines: Pyramids! The seventh Discworld novel, published in 1989, it's chock-full of jokes, footnotes, gods and characters - but we'll see almost none of them ever again... Pteppicymon XXVIII - Teppic for short - is heir to the throne of the ancient river kingdom of Djelibeybi. But the kingdom is broke, having spent its money on pyramids, and in order to give him a profession, Teppic is sent to the best school on the Disc: the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork. Seven years later he's just taken his final exam when his father dies. Teppic is now King (and God) of Djelibeybi earlier than planned - and after so long away, he finds the ancient traditions of his homeland stifling. Can even the King challenge the authority of the kingdom's high priest, Dios? Though it features none of his most beloved characters, Pyramids is nonetheless a favourite among Discworld fans - not least because the first quarter of the book takes us into the classrooms of Ankh-Morpork's most famous guild. What do you think of this tale of tradition, family and mathematics gone wrong? Let us know! Use the hashtag #Pratchat5 on social media. Richard hosts trivia twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays, at the Cornish Arms on Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne. Make sure to use a Pratchett pun in your team name if you go! You can read the full show notes and errata for this episode on our web site. Our next book, for our April 8th episode, takes us outside the Discworld - and indeed the fantasy genre - for 2012's tale of Victorian London: Dodger! Joining us to talk about toshers, geezers and peelers is a man who's no stranger to fancy words, and better known by his initials: crypto-cruciverbalist and former Letters & Numbers dictionary master, David Astle! We'll be recording on March 24th, so get your questions in before then if you'd like us to answer them on the podcast. You can use the hashtag #Pratchat6 to ask them via social media. (And check out the Episodes page if you want to see a bit further into our future schedule!)

Episode #9 of Tom's Tips: On a salty Melbourne afternoon at the end of Rd 22, Tom and Giles are joined by OP, one half of the duo currently holding forth at Melbourne's latest, The Honeymoon Suite. Sydney Road, you're onto a winner. Oscar Perry and Benjamin Sexton - Bound For Glory 3 Aug - 26 Aug The Honeymoon Suite, Lvl 1/60 Sydney Rd

Ez interviews Jehnet Kaya, founder of Ms Millie's Pop-Up Poetry Cafe in Brunswick, just off Sydney Road. Her dimly lit space draws the audience close with Persian rugs lining the floor, warm tea lights and lamps glowing around the room and delicious homebaked sweets served during intermission. Jay Jay provides a space once a month for both amateurs and seasoned poets to get up and recite or perform their own original works. Tom and Sharifa are regulars at this spot, performing comedy prose and poetry.  1. TED Talk Topics 2. Origins of Ms Millie's 3. GAME: Two Truths and a Lie (Bus Enthusiast?!) 4. Original Work from Jay Jay, Tom and Sharifa, including "How to Escape From Hell and Move Back to Your Beloved Footscray", "How to Make a Risotto that Erases the Past Six Months of Your Life", "Pulpal Involvement", and "Thursday Night". 5. Advice to budding poets/writers  Check out Tom's site for more quirky poetry and check out Sharifa's spokenword Griffinspeak. 

Hosts Christian and Emma chatted to SHANE GRANT (Milk Bars), MATT ADEY (Spectre of Death) & LAUREN SIMMONDS (Unseen) about the upcoming season of live art at Metanoia Live Works. Metanoia Live Works Season: 25 June – 6 August, Mechanics Institute Brunswick, 270 Sydney Road, Melbourne Image: Unseen by Lauren SimmondsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Christian and Emma chatted to SHANE GRANT (Milk Bars), MATT ADEY (Spectre of Death) & LAUREN SIMMONDS (Unseen) about the upcoming season of live art at Metanoia Live Works.  Metanoia Live Works Season: 25 June – 6 August, Mechanics Institute Brunswick, 270 Sydney Road, Melbourne Image: Unseen by Lauren Simmonds

Its a stunning autumnal Melbourne morning as Val and Faith are joined in the studio by Tina Thorburn of Melburn Hurt. We kick off the programme sharing our bike moments before taking a look at local news including; Melburn Hurt's first Alley Cat on the weekend, the Rushall Reserve - Build the Path submissions, interesting one-metre passing law submissions and recent news on Sydney Road accidents. Tina fills us in on Melburn Hurt and the community they have built around getting women onto track bikes and velodromes around Melbourne over the past six months including their plans for events in the near future and we finish up with some events coming up over the coming weekend and into the winter including a Projector Bike Ride and Pushy Women Training in Richmond. 

This week Murphy is joined by mates guys Xander Allen, James Masters, and Jess Perkins, to drink Vale Brothers' Brew Kolsch and chat about fighting, underage drinking, blackouts, Resch's Refreshes, boobs, port, muttonchops, cheating, depth, watered down whisky, piss stains, cheese dip, lizard brain, eye colour, shots, and more! Big thanks to Little Mess (400 Sydney Road, Melbourne) and Micah Higbed for supplying the beer and recording space for this episode!

Rodney and Shane ride around the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. Topics include PT Brunswick Express, Caroline of Brunswick, Dim Sims, Dimmies, Yum Cha, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Road, Shit brick fences of Melbourne, France, Wales, Topiary, Clifton Park, irrelevant jobs, Video cassette recorders, burglars, Shane loves little bridges, The Odd Couple, Brunswick footy team, the internet, angry dog, Essendon, little dum dum club, Gollum and Hotdogs, vegan paddle pops

We spoke with Nellie Wong, a Chinese-American, feminist poet and socialist activist. She is the editor of the book "Talking Back, Voices of Colour", published by Red Letter Press. Talking back is an anthology featuring voices of youth, political prisoners, immigrants and history-makers. In Melbourne, the book was launched on Saturday May 2 at Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick. Here is the link to the event.