Podcast appearances and mentions of vickie roach

 The Victorian Government is proposing to significantly expand the capacity of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre or DPFC, a women's prison on the western edge of Narrm, Melbourne. Drawing on the voices of women with lived experience of prison and evidence based practice, the Homes Not Prisons campaign is calling on the State Government to use the money allocated for expanding the prison to build public housing instead. This week on the program we bring you selections from Stop the Expansion of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a recent online event hosted by Victorian Women Lawyers addressing this issue.The discussion features Yuin woman Vickie Roach, Principal Legal Officer of the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women Jill Prior, Sara, member of the Homes Not Prisons Steering Committee, and Karen Fletcher, Executive Officer of feminist abolitionist advocacy and support service Flat Out.

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replay part of City Limits' show from Wednesday 15 December, where Zeb and Kevin caught up with Shane from Housing for the Aged Action Group for a final update on housing justice issues in Victoria and nationally for 2021. Catch City Limits on Wednesdays from 9-10AM on 3CR, and listen back to past episodes here.// Ronny Kareni, Canberra-based West Papuan activist, musician and youth worker, joins us to discuss the West Papuan fight for self-determination 60 years after the first raising of the Morning Star flag, and to speak about the grand opening online of the West Papua Solidarity Gallery on 20 December 2021. Ronny is a visiting fellow at the West Papua Project with the University of Wollongong and the Pacific Mission for United Liberation Movement for West Papua, as well as a host on 3CR's Voice of West Papua. Find tickets to the grand opening here, read the open letter ‘Stand with West Papua' here, and catch Voice of West Papua on 3CR on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30PM.// Kutcha Edwards is a proud Mutti Mutti man, a multi-award winning singer and songman, advocate, and co-host of the 20 Years on the Inside podcast on 3CR with Vickie Roach. Kutcha joins us to discuss his latest album Circling Time, which is filled with soulful melodies and stories - have a listen here. Tickets to Kutcha's show at the Brunswick Ballroom this Friday 17 December are still available through Moshtix. It will be a show you don't want to miss!// Dylan O'Hara from Vixen Collective, Victoria's peer only sex worker organisation, speaks with us about a rally organised for the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers this Friday 17 December. The rally will be held at 4PM outside the State Library of Victoria - find out more here.Vixen Collective have also developed a guide to support the ongoing push for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Victoria via the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill 2021 - find it here.// Songs// Less Talk - CLYPSO// Blak Matriarchy - Barkaa// The More Things Change - Kutcha Edwards//

This week on the program we hear an interview by 3CR broadcaster Priya Kunjan about Homes Not Prisons, a campaign to stop the expansion of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women's prison in Victoria. The campaign is fighting for money the State Government has allocated for this project to be used to build public housing instead.Priya speaks with Vickie Roach, Yuin woman, activist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison, Sara Stillanos, advocate with lived experience, and Gabi Franich, a campaign worker for Flat Out, a state-wide homelessness support and advocacy service for women who have had contact with the criminal justice or prison system in Victoria.Sign the letter calling to stop the prison expansion and use the funds to build public housing here. The track you hear at the end of this episode is "The sun cannot rise in prison" by Narrm-based artist Papaphilia.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Giles Fielke, sessional academic, unionist and member of Casualised, Unemployed and Precarious Uni Workers AU or CUPUW, joins us to speak about the ongoing exploitation of casual workers in Australian universities, failure to convert thousands of casual contracts to ongoing positions, and continued job cuts in the sector.//You can find CUPUW here on Twitter.// As part of our Disarmament Week (24-30 October) breakfast series, we speak with Andy Paine from Disrupt Land Forces about demilitarisation in the Australian context, organising against the military industrial complex, and touching on the recent report launched by the Medical Association for Prevention of War on the influence of weapons companies in Australian Schools.// You can also find more about campaigns against militarisation in Australia via Wage Peace.// Folole Asueao Sagele Tupuola is the Pacific Climate Warriors Coordinator for so-called Victoria, Australia. Daughter of the Moana, they are a storyteller and artist settled on Wathaurung Country. Folole joins us today to discuss the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and the #Youth4Pacific Declaration on Climate Change to be delivered to Pacific Leaders at COP26.// Homes Not Prisons is a campaign calling on the Victorian government to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost Centre and to re-allocate the budget for prison building to public housing. This morning, we are joined by Homes Not Prisons campaign members Vickie Roach, Yuin woman, activist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison, Sara Stilianos, advocate with lived experience, and Gabi Franich, Flat Out campaign worker, to talk about the campaign's key priorities in the context of the Victorian government inquiry into the state's criminal justice system.//Head to Homes Not Prisons' site to sign their open letter and find out more.//  Songs//Click That - The Merindas//

On today's episode, we are joined by Vickie Roach, a Yuin woman, abolitionist and advocate for Aboriginal women in prison. Vickie speaks about the new 20 Years On The Inside podcast, which she co-hosted with Kutcha Edwards. The 20 Years On the Inside podcast series reflects on 20 years of 3CR's Beyond the Bars prison radio broadcasts, giving voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victorian prisons. This episode includes several brief excerpts from 20 Years on the Inside, as well as the song Inside My Kitchen by Tiddas.

We hear stories from women inside prison. People in prisons are already experiencing state violence, now during a pandemic where contagion can spread like wildfire in crowded indoor spaces. We hear from Vickie Roach, Yuin writer and activist, about her lived experience inside prison to politics of abolition. Second, we hear from LGBTIQ and disability justice advocate Ashleigh Chapman on her experiences, including being inside during the pandemic.Vickie's interview originally aired with Marisa Sposora on the Doin' Time show. Ashleigh's experiences were heard at the Abolitionist and Transformative Justice Centre's Stories from Inside Prison webinair.  Also mentioned: National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls.

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear an interview with Messiah Rhodes filmmaker and host of the documentary series Against All Odds. Messiah was interviewed by Amy Goodman on US current affairs program Democracy Now on 14 August. His new documentary series, available online at ajcontrast.com/againstallodds, explores the challenges faced by people released from prison, especially women, through telling his mother's story. Rhodes describes his work as a response to calls to defund police and calls for investment in housing, education, family reunification and mental health support. Soundscapes of the lockdown, produced by Thursday Breakfast’s Scheherazade. A few weeks back we heard sounds from Morocco, and we’ll try to recreate it here. Now, what is a soundscape? Well it's like a landscape but sonic, creating a sense of place through audio. The sounds that we’ll gather each week will represent stage 4 lockdown on unceded lands. This week we’ll hear a few soundscapes that our team made. To contribute sounds please contact us via Instagram @3crthursdaybreakfast We hear part of a conversation between Marisa Sposaro from the Doin Time show and Vickie Roach, Aboriginal writer and activist. Vickie speaks about her lived experience of prison, violations of human rights of the healthcare of women in prison, the overincarceration of Aboriginal women, and prisons within the context of the Pandemic. This episode aired on the 10th August. Doin Time airs 4-5pm every Monday and podcasts of the show can be found at the 3CR website 3CR.org.au/dointime Tina Grandinetti joins us to discuss the movement to cancel RIMPAC, or rim of the Pacific exercises, the world's largest maritime war games. Tina is a PhD candidate at RMIT, a lecturer at the University of Hawai'i, and a coorganiser of the cancel RIMPAC coalition.SongsTkay Maizda - 24kTasmin Keith - 64 BarsDuckwrth ft. Kian - QuickJK-47 - I Am Here (Trust Me) 

The country's top legal officers are today discussing whether the age of criminal responsibility should be lifted from 10 to 14.

Vickie's met with trouble all through her life, starting with a police record at the age of two. She went on to challenge a Federal law on the rights of prisoners (R)

Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on earth. They make up 2 percent of the general population, but a staggering 34 percent of the female prison population. Studies have explained this startling statistic through the experience of violence: the majority of Indigenous female prisoners are survivors of family and other violence.In this episode of Violent Times we meet Vickie Roach, a Yuin woman, academic, and prison abolitionist. She explores the relationship between the systemic inequality and domestic violence that has led to the soaring incarceration rate. It's a subject she understands deeply having spent the last three decades in and out of prison. During her last stretch she acquired a Masters degree, and successfully mounted a High Court challenge against the government's ban on all prisoners voting in elections. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Wednesday 31 July 2018Guests: Thea Baker, Natalie Ironfield, Vickie Roach  Hosts: George Maxwell, Anya Saravanan, Lauren Bull 7:00 Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Show7.05 News headlines 7:15 Thea Baker, wellness coach for women and phone support worker at WIRE, joins us in studio to talk frankly about women's health and wellbeing; about the psychological and physical realities of child birth; and how silence about women's health issues does harm.7:40  Community announcements7:45 Natalie Ironfield, proud Dharug woman, educator and researcher at the University of Melbourne, joins us to talk about whether or not institutions such as universities and prisons can be decolonised or reformed, what that could look like, and why abolition?8:05 Vickie Roach, writer, public speaker, and public advocate for prison reform, joins us to talk about prison abolition and how 'criminality' is caused by society.8:28   End Programme Songs: Jojo Abot: 'Pi Lo Lo' Ama Lou: 'Tried Up' Ego Ella May: 'Table for One'  Mojo Juju: 'Native Tongue'

Anthony Kelly, from Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre, talks about  Victoria Police's announcement to introduce confronting new riot gear.  Victoria Police are introducing a series of new weapons. These are crowd control guns and other apparatus that could seriously criminalise protestors and minority groups. We will also be speaking about the standing down of Assistant Commissioner, Brett Guerin in relation to his racist, sexist and homophobic online posts. Assistant Commissioner Brett Guerin was a career police officer, with 40 years of service, who headed Professional Standards Command.  After that, we'll speak with Vickie Roach, respected  Aboriginal writer and activist about Stolen Generation and her own experiences and views in regards to this.

Youth Justice Advocate Dylan Voller and Wiradjuri woman and prison abolishionist Vickie Roach discuss prisons, youth detention and how to work towards real justice.

Aboriginal advocate for incarcerated women, former prisoner and pioneer Vickie Roach speaks of her experiences with the prison system and how institutionalisation is imposed on Aboriginal women at a young age. We also hear from Emma Russell from Flat Out. Emma explains how the process of strip searching women in prison is seen as counter-productive and triggering for many incarcerated women with history of sexual violence. We also look at what prison abolition would look like in an Australian context.www.flatout.org.au