Podcasts about Victorian Trades Hall Council

Welcome the Monday Breakfast show for Monday the 3rd of March 2025. On today's show:Headlines covering:No automatic license loss for Victorian medicinal cannabis users6 new gas drilling approved in the Otway Basin40 hectares of precious native grassland has been bulldozed in the west of Melbourne Then:- Rob spoke with Wil Stracke, Assistant Secretary at the Victorian Trades Hall Council about International Working Women's Day, the legacy of Zelda D'Aprano and Helen Robertson, and capitalism's watering down of the motives behind IWD. Stay tuned to 3CR this Saturday the 8th of March aka IWD for a 24-hour broadcast dedicated to International Women's Day. - Last Friday Hannah had a conversation with Heidi Everett who started the organisation Schizy Inc, an organisation that makes art spaces for people with diverse and complex mental health, and their upcoming events. World Schizophrenia Day is on the Saturday 24 May, support their Mojo Gala Event at the Fringe Common Rooms (Trades Hall), Carlton. To find out more about their upcoming events go to https://www.schizy.org/- We heard a speech from the rally against Islamophobia on Sunday the 23rd of February which took place outside Labor MP Andrew Giles' office in Thomastown. The protest was called following the rise in Islamophobic attacks, including the February 13 attack of two Muslim women at an Epping shopping centre. We heard Dr Nasser al Ziyadut from Muslim Votes Matter speak at the rally. Thank you to Marisa Sposaro from the Doin' Time show for recording the audio! Catch the Doin' Time Show on Mondays from 4 to 5pm or listen to previous shows at 3cr.org.au/dointime- The show ends with Hannah's conversation with Violet Coco about the importance of protecting native forests, defending the right to protest and upcoming rallys. There's a march in March for Forests on the 23rd at 10.30am outside Peter Khalil's office in naarm which will join the free palestine rally, the march in March for Forests is also happening state-wide, calling for the protection of our ecosystems. On the 19th of March at 5.30pm at State Parliament there will be a rally defending the right to protest.  Songs played:Bread and Roses - Judy CollinsSisters Are Doin' It For Themselves - Aretha Franklin and the EurythmicsIm Sane - Heidi Everett [https://heidie.bandcamp.com/track/im-sane]

The Melbourne office of Friends of the Earth organized a Collins St protest outside a building that was the venue for a Federal Government inquiry into the Liberal National Party's idea that Australia should build and commission seven nuclear power stations throughout the nation. More than 30 people joined the noisy but peaceful demonstration. While passers-by were left with no doubt the nuclear power stations were too expensive, too dangerous and too slow, those attending had the chance to listen to several exciting, articulate and far-seeing speakers, including two people from the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Associate Professor Tilman Ruff (pictured) and Dave Sweeney who is also with the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). Representatives of the Melbourne-based "Lighter Footprints" and the "Kooyong Climate Change Alliance" and a passionate Danae Bosley from the Victorian Trades Hall Council also spoke.

The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7 am, 7 days a week...With over 16 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and the Sunday 7 won a Gold Award as “Best Conversation Starter” in the International Signal Podcast Awards If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...Today's episode includes the following guests:Guests Kenneth Bowersox - Former astronaut and NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Operations Dana Weigel - NASA's International Space Station Programme Manager Dr Leroy Chiao - Former ISS Commander Will Guyatt - The Smart 7's Tech Guru Wil Strake - Assistant Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, Australia Joshua Suwa - Silicosis Patient Professor Jonathan Valabji - NHS EnglandDr Gary Deed - Diabetes Expert for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Melanie McGrice - Dietician Diane Asogba - Dermatologist in the City of Cotonou in Benin, West Africa Ma Myung-Sun - Banana Farmer, South Korea Doctor Azizi Seixas - Associate Director at the Centre for Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences at the University of Miami James Miller - CEO of Earth Rover Contact us over at X or visit www.thesmart7.comPresented by Ciara Revins, written by Liam Thompson and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is a battle going on for Australia's energy future. I caught up with Dr Colin Long the Just Transitions Organiser at Victorian Trades Hall Council to find out the state of play for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuel and nuclear after a recent announcement by the Federal Government of the third offshore wind zone near Warrnambool, Victoria.

Headlines// 7:15: Flic Manning, host of Brainwaves, chats with Stephanie Fornaiser from the 'Psychocinematic Podcast' about her lived experience of anxiety and depression and why we should care about ethical, authentic portrayals of mental illness and disabilities// 7.30: Annie McLoughlin from Solidarity Breakfast talks with Tania de Jong about Driftwood The Musical, a local, true account of remarkable people surviving through art upon arrival in Australia from war-torn Europe// 7.45: Annie McLoughlin from Solidarity Breakfast talks with Laura about the Save The Preston Market campaign [Art by Nicky Minus]// 8.00: Will Stracke, Assistant Secretary at the Victorian Trades Hall Council, on their campaign to end the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Sign the petition and register to join the online campaign on 10 May from 6.30-7.30pm via Zoom// 8.15: Brit from Harm Reduction Victoria on the vigil for Tangaraju and others murdered under the death penalty in Singapore. The vigil will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 10 May at 6pm in front of the State Library// SongsLonely Love Affair - YARACome Meh Way - Sudan Archives

Anitra Nelson (pictured) has long been a key player in Australia's degrowth conversation, even talking about the issue before it had been formally described as such. She is also known throughout the world for her work on advancing the degrowth philosophy. The activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at the University of Melbourne, Australia, was one of three speakers who addressed about 40 people at what was, on Sunday, February 26, the formal launch of the Degrowth Network Australia. Also speaking at the launch was the Just Transition Officer from the Victorian Trades Hall Council, Colin Long, who is also a board member at Earthworker and a long-term environmental and union activist, and Melbourne-based author, sociologist and podcaster, Terry Leahy. The launch, officially a part of the National Sustainable Living Festival, was held at the Black Spark Cultural Centre in Melbourne's Doncaster. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Colin Long (pictured) was one of three speakers at the Sunday, February 26, launch of the Degrowth Network Australia (DNA) at Northcote's Black Spark Cultural Centre. The board member from Earthworker, environmental activist and Just Transitions Organizer from the Victorian Trades Hall Council was joined as a speaker by activist/scholar and an honourary principal fellow at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne, Anitra Nelson, and Melbourne sociologist and author, Terry Leahy, who publishes the podcast, "System Change Made Simple". About 40 people joined the launch/celebration, which was a part of Melbourne's National Sustainable Living Festival. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Acknowledgement of Country//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./Ella Shi// Ella is the Digital and Communications Organiser at the Migrant Workers Centre. She's previously worked as a community organiser, student union representative and is also a former ASU workplace delegate. She joins us to speak about importance of the Migrant Workers 2022 Survey, and how this impacts their work and policy recommendations.//Madeleine Thornton-Smith// Madeleine Thornton-Smith has a strong interest in labour issues, particularly in relation to the visual arts and ceramics industry. She has become passionate about the working rights of artists and artworkers since doing an internship with the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), participating in discussions with the Melbourne-based Artists' Union research group and after experiencing years of insecure and unsafe working conditions as a practising artist, technician and tutor alongside her artworker comrades. Madeleine joins us to discuss her work on art and labour, the renewed National Cultural Policy and unioinising in the creative sector.//Sam Wallman// Comics journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman joins us to speak about his powerhouse comic 'Our Members Be Unlimited', a beautifully illustrated narrative of workers and their unions that inspires hope, solidarity and radical action. 'Our Members Be Unlimited' is published by Scribe, and is now onto a second printing after selling out since its original publication in late May this year.//Matt Kunkel// Matt Kunkel is the CEO of the Migrant Worker's Centre and joins us today to discuss visa and migration pathways. We will discuss the Centre's recent Lives in Limbo report and the recent news that Australia will begin recognising degrees from India.//Emma Golledge// Emma Golledge is the Director of Kingsford Legal Centre at UNSW. She joins us today to speak about how leading Community Legal Centres (CLCs) have welcomed the passing of the Government's Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022. This Bill gives legislative effect to key Respect@Work recommendations, including the creation of a positive duty on employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate unlawful sex discrimination.Songs//Earth wind and Fire - Drum song/Say It To My Face - Tia Gostelo/Gold Energy - Electric Fields/We Sing - Kutcha Edwards/Closer - Ngairre/

Neil Mitchell was joined in studio by... Paul Guerra, CEO of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  Sally Curtin, CEO of Bendigo Kangan Institute. Luke Hilakari, Secretary at Victorian Trades Hall Council. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Acknowledgement of country// 7:05 - News Headlines// 7:15 - Doin Time//Has anything changed with election of the Albanese Government in terms of refugee rights? Marisa caught up with Refugee Action Collective member David Glanz on this weeks Doin' Time show. You can hear the conversation in full at https://www.3cr.org.au/dointime, and catch Doin' Time from 4-5PM on Mondays.// 7:30 - Maddie - RMIT Students for Palestine// Maddie Hah, an activist with Students for Palestine at RMIT University, joins us today to remind listeners about the planned speak out today demanding that RMIT cut ties with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Maddie has also engaged in anti-racist activism with Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, and is running as a candidate in Pascoe Vale for the Victorian Socialists in the upcoming state election. The speak out action will be held at 1PM today, Thursday the 11th of August at Bowen Street.// Song: Muzik - Jennifer Loveless//  7:50 - Madeleine Thornton-Smith//Madeleine Thornton-Smith has a strong interest in labour issues, particularly in relation to the visual arts and ceramics industry. She has become passionate about the working rights of artists and artworkers since doing an internship with the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), participating in discussions with the Melbourne-based Artists' Union research group and after experiencing years of insecure and unsafe working conditions as a practising artist, technician and tutor alongside her artworker comrades. Today, Madeleine joins us to discuss her work on art and labour, the renewed National Cultural Policy and unioinising in the creative sector.  8:15 - Chris Schuringa Victorian Forest Alliance//Chris Schuringa, campaigner with the Victorian Forest Alliance, joins us to discuss concerns about recently-passed Victorian legislation criminalising environmental protest by introducing sanctions of up to 12 month jail time or $21,000 in fines, and the impacts that this will have on environmental defenders fighting against native forest logging in the state. Songs: Backseat of My Mind - Thelma PlumHEAVEN WITH U - Tasman Keith ft. Jessica Mauboy END//

Luke Hilakari is Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council and told Tom Elliott he was routinely asked to provide salary and personal information about staff, which he says is unnecessary and invasive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Historian Clare Land, based at the Moondani Balluk Academic Unit at Victoria University, spoke with Robbie Thorpe on the June 8th episode of Bunjil's Fire on 3CR about the history of the struggle for Northland Secondary College in the 90s. The Melbourne Museum is currently holding a special exhibition - Fight for Survival - featuring students' artworks, community responses and the rousing speech from Gary Foley that united a community. Catch Fight for Survival at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, and the exhibition now closes on Sunday July 24th. Catch Bunjil's Fire on 3CR 855AM every Wednesday from 11AM to 2PM.// The following interview includes discussion of racism and domestic and family violence. If you need support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or 1800RESPECT.//Dr Amanda Porter joins us to discuss the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence and to discuss concerns around dominant approaches to police reform. Amanda is a prison abolitionist and policing researcher of Brinja-Yuin, Greek and English descent based in Naarm. You can read the submission made by Amanda and co-author Connor Hannan to the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service Responses to Domestic and Family Violence here.// You can also read the submission made by Amanda and co-author Dr Marlene Longbottom to the Queensland Government's Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce: Discussion Paper 1 – Options for legislating against coercive control and the creation of a standalone domestic violence offence here.// We replay a segment of Beyond the Bars 2022 on 3CR featuring Tie, a community member who is at Loddon Prison near Castlemaine, talking about art and doing time during lockdown. Art plays a big role in many peoples' journeys on the inside. You'll also hear the voices of Dale, Shiralee and Willy. Beyond the Bars was established 20 years ago to connect people and families separated by prison during NAIDOC Week, giving voice to issues faced inside and out. You can tune into Beyond the Bars on 3CR 855AM or 3cr.org.au/streaming all this week from 11AM.// Judy Kuo is an Asian-Australian unionist and artist in Naarm. She currently works at Victorian Trades Hall Council and her union and activist work feature strongly in her art practice. She joins us today to speak about her art practice and how this intersects with organising, unionism, anti-racism, and disability justice solidarity. Judy has designed some beautiful art for the Disability Justice Network - you can donate to their mutual aid fund here.// Daniel Storer is the Research Coordinator for the Flux Study, conducted by the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, and joins us today to talk about the study's investigation into the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental and sexual health among gay and bisexual men. Daniel completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is currently completing his doctoral research at the Kirby Institute investigating the impacts of COVID on Australian gay and bisexual men's health and wellbeing.// During the show, we mentioned some organisations and Indigenous community movements you might wish to donate to during NAIDOC Week:Blak Pearl Studio//The Dhadjowa Foundation//Sisters Inside//Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans and Gender Diverse Decarceration Project//Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community Fund//

Headlines- Girls freed from Nigerian 'baby factory' - FINA decision on transgender swimmers - Maybelle Blair comes out at 95- Rally today against Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones) Bill 2022 Phuong speaks with Joanna Bosse, curator at the Bayside Gallery in Brighton about the Ellen Jose Art Award. Ellen Jose was a pioneer in Australia's urban Indigenous art movement and a radical activist and social justice campaigner. The award aims to support a female visual artist aged 18-35 years working in any medium  Kannagi speaks with Shivanjani Lal is a twice-removed Fijian-Indian-Australian artist and curator, about her recently curated exhibition at Footscray Community Arts called A bell rings out across the valley. It showcases five artists from across South Asia and its Diaspora exploring complex experiences of identity, heritage and change. Kannagi speaks with Dr Emma Russel from LaTrobe University about the recently released Gendered Injustice Report. You an read the full report at fls.org.au  Jasmine speaks with Wil Stracke, Acting Secretary at the Victorian Trades Hall Council, about the Vic Gov's $9 billion early childhood education package that will be rolled out over the next 10 years.  Genevieve speaks with Manal Shehab Muslim Australian community leader and faith based counsellor, about the 'Preventing and Responding to Family Violence: A Faith Leader's Practice Guide and Toolkit' webinar happening at 3pm today. You can register for the eventbrite page via the link  SongsMust be love - Tseba ft. Electric Fields Yenko - Kinder

Luke Hilakari, Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council tells us the full story behind the fight to save the John Curtin Hotel. A green ban has been announced in the effort to protect the socially and culturally significant John Curtin Hotel in Carlton. Union workers will now refuse to work on any redevelopment or demolition of the Curtin Hotel, after it was sold to an international buyer. Broadcast on 3 May 2022.

Luke Hilakari, Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council tells us the full story behind the fight to save the John Curtin Hotel. A green ban has just been announced in the effort to protect the socially and culturally significant John Curtin Hotel in Carlton. Union workers will now refuse to work on any redevelopment or demolition of the Curtin Hotel, after it was sold to an international buyer.

Nic Maclellan, Pacific affairs correspondent for Inside Story, talks about Australia's foreign policy, including its relationships with Pacific island nations, China, the U.S. and France. Nic also explains the positions and recent policies of the major and minor parties. This is the second instalment of Uncommon Sense's federal election policy series. Journalist and author Louisa Lim discusses her new book, Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong. Among many things, Louisa explores the 2019 protest movement in Hong Kong and the rising number of speech crime convictions under the national security law. She also discusses key historical moments and seeks to insert Hong Kongers back into their social and political history. Luke Hilakari, Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council tells us the full story behind the fight to save the John Curtin Hotel. A green ban has been announced in the effort to protect the socially and culturally significant John Curtin Hotel in Carlton. Union workers will now refuse to work on any redevelopment or demolition of the Curtin Hotel, after it was sold to an international buyer.

Tilly Glascodine and Chi Tran speak with Phuong about about Incendium Radical Library and their upcoming poetry reading event at the NGV this Friday, 18th March from 11am-1pm. To find out more about the library and the event, visit incendiumradicallibrary.com Daye Gang is a barrister and PhD student. Kannagi spoke with her about her research, which  focuses on restorative justice programs and the experience of anti-rape advocates active during the Women's Liberation Movement in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s. Daye also has an international practice in North Korean human rights and law and was the first Korean and first Australian to ever win the prestigious International Bar Association's Outstanding Young Lawyer for 2020.Dr Clare Wright is the Professor of History at La Trobe University and co-convenor of A Monument of One's Own.  Last week, the Victorian government announced the artists and projects that will share in its $1 million Victorian Women's Public Art Program. Of 590 statues across Melbourne, only nine currently depict real women, with the program designed to address the underrepresentation of women in public art. A Monument of One's Own, a campaign in conjunction with the Victorian Trades Hall Council, received funding from Women's Public Art Program to honour Zelda D'Aprano, the legendary equal pay campaigner, and Dr Wright spoke to Evie both about the campaign as well as Zelda D'Aprano. Dr Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. She founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general. On the 26th of February, Annie from Solidarity Breakfast interviewed Dr Helen Caldicott on her views on Ukraine, and we played a segment of this interview.SONGSMazzy Star - Blue LightPANIA - Proof

Tamil people are fleeing violence in their homeland in Sri Lanka and facing border violence from the Australian government. This week we shed light on the Tamil struggle for freedom and the struggle to free refugees in Australia locked up by Australia's regime of border violence. First, we hear from Renuga Inpakumar, a spokesperson with the Tamil Refugee Council. Second, we hear from speeches given at pro-refugee rallies centred around the refugee detention Park hotel prison in Melbourne: including a speech by Lavanya Thavaraja, also a member of the Tamil Refugee Council;  Amanda Threlfall, Assistant Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council and Federal Senator for the Greens, Lidia Thorpe.

Jennifer and Jacques talk about the Religous Discrimination Bill being presented to Federal Parliament. This Bill would expand the powers of religious insititutions to discriminate - not just on the basis of faith affiliation, but on aspects of identity and lifestyle deemed by the institution to be incompatible with their particular brand of faith. Jacques and Jennifer look at the particular instance of schools and their power to hire and fire on the basis of things like gender, and sexuality. They place this in the context of the inequitable funding arrangments for education in Australia, wherein private religious schools take the lions share of funding from the public purse, to the detriment of public schools. This makes the push by these private schools to be able to discriminate even more outrageous, pointing to a certain sense of elite entitlement. Refs:Stop all government funding for private schools. (Why and how we could do it), by David Zyngierhttps://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=5056OECD lays bare Australia's public education investment inequity, by Australian Education Unionhttp://www.aeufederal.org.au/news-media/media-releases/2020/september/090920The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools: Different regulatory models with concurrent equity implications Adrián Zancajo, Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila (June 17, 2021) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14749041211023339   NO AUKUS,  NO Nuclear Submarines, NO War  - National Days of Actions around the country9 - 11 December  Melbourne Rally Saturday 11 December 1.00pm on the steps of State Library Speakers at Saturday 11th December rally include, Jenny Ground (Medical Association for Prevention of War), Scott Ludlum (former Greens Senator), Colin Long (Just Transition Organiser, representing Victorian Trades Hall Council), and other peace and community organisations' representatives.  

Luke Hilakari has been the Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council since 2014. He's been a Labor member since he turned 18 and has played a key role in electing (and re-electing) the Andrew Labor government and fighting for marriage equality and workers' rights.  In light of all the BATSHIT anti-vax protesting that's been going on in Melbourne of late, I wanted to ask Luke about the presence of anti-vax organising within the labour movement, why some workers might be attracted to this ideology and what can be done about it.  We also discuss the class war that the pandemic has shone a light on, solidarity, why strikes are beautiful, spanking the Labor Party and how the union movement will be approaching the upcoming election.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I'm recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December @lhilakari weareunion.org.au ARTICLE: We need a royal commission into the organised far-right in Australia by Luke Hilakari ARTICLE: Has solidarity succumbed to the rise of rage? by Waleed Aly Labor's policy's on workers' rights for the upcoming election Trades Hall's Sticking Together book Cause of the Week: Australians For A Murdoch Royal Commission (murdochroyalcommission.org.au)  

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.The 26th Conference of the Parties, or COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland will happen in early November. It is a major opportunity to stop further climate change. But what are the possibilities? We talk to Colin Long, the Just Transition Officer for the Victorian Trades Hall Council and Chairperson of AAWL about the possible outcomes and issues for workersAsia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

The new law has come into effect in Victoria making it a crime for an employer to deliberately underpay employees. The wage theft laws ensure crimes are punishable with 10 years jail for individuals and steep fines of nearly $200,000 for individuals, or close to $1 million for companies. Victorian Trades Hall Council hopes other states and territories will soon follow.

August 28th was Equal Pay Day or rather the day that brings into focus that there is still a 14% gap between women’s pay for comparative work of men’s and that there is a systemic bias in favour of men that leaves women carrying the weigh of social cohesion but in poverty in old age. Today’s program follows part of the panel discussion hosted by Victorian Trades Hall Council and will be facilitated by the co-Leads of the Women's Team, Jodi Peskett and Pia Cerveri. We hear from panel members Tanja KovacCEO Genvic, Melbourne, Victoria  Andrea CarsonPolitical scientist and an Associate Professor in journalism in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria  Nareen YoungIndustry Professor, Indigenous Policy (Indigenous Workforce Diversity) at Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research at University of Technology, Sydney, NSW. 

Caspar speaks with 29 year old Young Workers Centre Director Felicity Sowerbutts about the successful campaign to make Wage Theft a crime. After growing up in the UK and moving to Australia as a young politics graduate, Felicity worked retail jobs, internships and slugged away until finding herself working with the Victorian Trades Hall Council just as they created a dedicated legal service and hotline for youth workers - The Young Workers Centre. After initial surveys found rampant underpayments and seeing that there was no proper punishment for willfully underpaying or denying minimum entitlements to workers, the Young Workers Centre renamed underpayment "Wage Theft" and successfully campaigned for it to become a crime in the state of Victoria. Aside from discussing this remarkable campaign, Caspar and Felicity discussed the plight of young workers in the covid-era, the ways young workers can address issues in their workplace and the importance in empowering people to transform their lives.Recorded safely over zoom and featuring music by Big Gigantic, this episode was brought to you by PRISM Coffee. Prism are young coffee roasters who love our show as much as you do. Receive 10% off their entire range by using the code "BingeThinkCoffee". Orders over $50 receive free delivery Australia-wide. Grab a coffee and get organized & unionized!

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

Luke Hilakari, Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, says there should not be a wage freeze in the public sector due to COVID-19.

What is it like working from home for women and people with caring responsibilities? How can we expect women and carers to do two jobs at once?May the 1st is May Day, an important day for workers, and this week on the program we look at work under COVID-19 through a feminist lens.We'll hear a personal account of someone working from home with two children undertaking remote learning, and speak with Wil Stracke, one of the assistant secretaries at the Victorian Trades Hall Council.

The team reveals what they know about bodysurfing; Daniel's mother-in-law plays a heartfelt 'the last post' for ANZAC day; Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith talks about her online lessons for young stargazers; Is Pierce Brosnan the best 007 - discuss!; Helen Bidou chats about her online fashion show ‘Bidou Zooms'; and Luke Hilakari from Victorian Trades Hall Council talks JobKeeper. With presenters Sarah Smith, Daniel Burt, and Geraldine Hickey, and Sam Cummins.

LOOSE TRANSCRIPTGood morning and welcome to another episode of Alternative News on 3CR, 855AM, 3CR Digital and streaming at 3CR.org.auThis show is produced by the Campaign for International Development and Disarmament on the stolden lands of the Wurundjeri people. Today we're going to look at Job Keeper by the numbers, some ideas for redirecting military spending to social spending and a quick look at sanctions on Syria.----Coronavirus at home----States are beginning to roll out the legislature to enforce the eviction moratorium which was proposed by the nation cabinet earlier this month.Victoria has put aside 500 million dollars to assist landlords during the pandemic. Renters in dire straits can apply to have $2000 given straight to their landlord as long as the renter has less than $5000 in savings and rent makes up at least 30% of their income.This is another example of the poor and marginalised not being allowed to have savings. This is something which disability activists have been bringing to our attention for a long time. It is now that "ordinary Australians" - apologies for the loaded and exclusionary term - are seeing the truth of the situation.Anecdotal reports of an increase in experienced racism from ethnically Asian people - check in on your mates, let them know you're paying attention.Trades Hall has launched wearerenters.org.au and the IWW-organised Rent Strike struggles along. wearerenters.org.au is collecting stories about renting during the time of COVID-19. These stories will be used to inform the approaches to the government from the union sector. So far the Victorian Trades Hall Council has sent a letter to Marlene Kairouz, the Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs calling for immediate action to protect residential renters in Victoria. "We simply cannot expect all tenants to be able to negotiate a fair solution" in reducing their rent burden, VTHC Secretary Luke Hilakari writes, "Instead, agents should be brokering the waiving or reduction of rent where workers have lost income as a result of the current pandemic, advising tenants and landlords of the no eviction policy and assisting landlords to access mortgage relief."and members of our community.Îigrant workers, temporary visa holders and casuals who do not meet the current requirements for the Job Keeper payment are at the highest amount of risk in this time. "Having a home is a key to staying safe. It's time to make renters safe in their homes." Education Minister Dan Tehan told international students, “you are our friends, our classmates, our colleagues and members of our community.” Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said "We have a responsibility as a ciountry to look after our fellow Australian regardlerss of their age, regardless of their income, regardless of their background." This he says while a million casual workers are left out of Job Keeper and migrant workers are left out of Job Keeper AND Job Seeker. The "Australian" part of the quote is the important part. Frydenberg doesn't think that Australians have any obligation to people who work and pay tax here but don't enjoy the status of Australian citizen.Let's take Job Keeper: $1,500 / fornight BEFORE tax. $3k per month, roughly. The projected costs are $133bn. This works out to $18k per eligible recipient over the 6 month term. this is about 7.4 million workers. Currently there are 2.2mil workers missing out on JK. To provide JK for them, assuming none of them can access Job Seeker, which is not correct, but for the sake of the exercise we will calculate a higher figure than in reality, would cost a futher $40bil. For a estimated projected cost of $173bil we could provide JK to just under 10 million workers. Yes, this would mean the economy takes more of 'a hit' or whatever - but this money is social spending: the great majority of this money goes back into the economy in the form of subsistence spending - food, clothing, shelter etc. The people, as a whole, bear the brunt of this spending into the future and this increased cost is managed by whatever government is in power. The alternative is we have increased poverty, deprivation and division between the Australian "haves" and the migrant "have nots" in society.This division is imposed in economics by an uncaring ruling class. If we want some extra money let's scrap the expansion to the $1.1bil expansion to the Tindal Royal Australian Airforce base in the Northern Territory. This expansion only exists to appease the United States of America. We're paying for the US to house their strategic bombers in our country. Let's nix the $80bil submarine project. It is already subject to delays and the first submarines aren't projected to be delivered until 2035. Fifteen years of waiting for some war toys for the boys? War toys which are largely constructed and maintained in France by the French Naval Group? No, I think not. Let's have less poverty, less homelessness, less precarity in our communities RIGHT NOW. If we want a better Australia then the people inside Australia's borders must be accounted and provided for.When the depression hits, when our lives are shit for ten years because the ruling class couldn't push the desires of the market below the capacity for the state to accomodate its populace we won't be able to eat submarines or use them to bolster our economy. A $40b provision to provide JK to 2.2mil workers is a drop in the bucket of the response to coronavirus. This drop in the bucket feeds, waters and homes 2.2 million people, rather than , in the case of the submarines, representing 50% of the cost of the design and construction of 12 submarines by the French. The penny pinching must stop. Military expenditure must be shifted to social expenditure.I don't believe the cost of our national debt is greater than the cost of the impoverishment of our nation's working class. 10% of military spending should redirected to social spending. This is a demand which applies outside of crisis. During the current crisis we need more social spending, not more bombing platforms.If there is a "war" on coronavirus - if the essential workers are "heroes" then we need to stop imagining that we're also at a war with certain countries in West Asia - notably Iran. Obviously, we wouldn't be messing around sending our ships and aircraft to Gulfs in the middle east if we weren't obsessed with playing deputy sherrif for the United States of America. If Australia is a sovereign nation then we should be able to tell the US 'no'. A brief look at our history shows the ruling class of our country to be incapable of this.The idea of national security extends beyond the military interests of the state. National security should start with the interests of the people of a nation. The interests of the people of Australia are not the interests of the ruling class of Australia. Our interests do not lie in the purchase of F-35 Joint Strike fighter jets or murdering civilians in Afghanistan. Our interests lie in knowing that we have a stable roof over our heads during the pandemic. There cannot be a secure state if there are not secure people who reside under the state. If the people are insecure then why would they support the goals of the state?Please reflect on this in your own time.Refugee Action Collective Car Convoy fines and charges:CICD calls for the 26 $1652 fines for breaking stage 3 restrictions to be waived and the charges levelled against protest organiser Chris Breen to be dropped. The stage 3 restrictions imposed by the state are being enforced arbitrarily to shut down political activity by the people.Sinophobia and coronavirus:----Comments sections of social media - the people are enamoured with USA media,claims of "Wuhan" "CCP" and "China" virus. CICD members, as dedicated anti-imperialists, should push back against these claims. Anti-Chinese sentiment has no place in our analysis of our govts response to the virus. The speculation around the idea that the virus was manufactured and intentionally or unintentionally released are distractions.To conclude this segment I am proud to announce CICD's 'Clown of the week' The Committee for the Present Danger: ChinaThis cold-war era body has been resurrected by alt-right darling Steve Bannonand neo-con Frank Gaffney. This is one of the sources of the anti-Chinatalking points we're hearing from our governments."There is no hope of coexistence with China as long as the Communist Party governs the country. We seek China’s peaceful evolution into a nation that respects the rule of law and individual human rights, instead of threatening its own people, as well as others." (guiding principles) [clown noises throughout] China is a signatory to the covenant of economic human rights, whereas the USA, UK and Australia and the rest of the West are signatories to the covenant of civil and political human rights. The civil and political human rights covenant is good in that anyone can come on 3CR and insult the government over its lack of provision of afforable housing which has produced a homelessness crisis in the "lucky country". The economic covenant is good in that it provides homes. From the above quote we can see that this "independent and non-partisan" think tank which purports to take "no idological point of view" in fact will only rest when the CPC has been removed from power in the PRC. In short, this organisation is a regime-change proponent. War----In this time of global crisis the need for the end to war continues. On the 23rd of March the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a global ceasefire.Continuing war will hinder the health response to the coronavirus and the economic recovery to the same. On the topic of war we turn toSanctions in the time of COVID-19----It is the CICD's position that sanctions are designed to promote the full extent of US foreign policy and on that basis all sanctions should be lifted, forever. During the time of COVID-19 this demand increases in necessity. The death-toll in Iran was 5,391 at the time of writing while the US blocks medical devices and equipment from getting to Iran. US Sanctions have exacerbated the impact of coronavirus on Iran.Sanctions of Venezuela are smashing the state's capacity to respond to coronavirus as oil prices plunge thanks to the US's fracking industry refusing to reduce production - another example of toxic US execptionalism.For the past 9 years the US, EU and a raft of other countries including Australia have imposed and increased the serveity of sanctions on Syria, ostensibly to force Bashar Al-Assad's hand and somehow have him dissolve the government of Syria. The sanctions are aimed at forcing regime change - as they are wherever they are applied. What sanctions actually do is impede aid and harm the populace of Syria. This immiserates the people and causes great social harm. Some of the generated unrest is levelled against the incumbent government, sure, we can see this in the membership of the Free Syrian Army as well as Al Nusra Front and ISIS. We must remember: the enemy of my enemy is not my friend and this applies to everyone. So, Al-Assad's enemies in Syria are not our friends here in Australia or the friends of the United States- they are, in many cases, terrorists who despise the West as well as the Syrian government.For clarity I want to add that Assad is no enemy to the people of Australia. The line that alleged rights violations can be addressed with sanctions is a political lie designed to deceive the naive. Embarrassingly the lie seems to be effective. CICD condemns the sanctions levelled against Syria.---[Presenter signs off]

The issue of jobs and climate change is the topic of a new report released jointly by the AMWU the ETU the Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, the MUA and the Victorian Trades Hall Council. The report is called Putting the ‘Justice’ in ‘Just Transition’. We were there.

Tuesday Breakfast 3 September 2019  7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country7:05 am Zoya and Anya on the latest in news 7.20 am Speeches from Meriki Onus (Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance) and Edie Sheppard (VTHC) outside Victorian Trades Hall Council as part of the Djab Wurrung Embassy convoy7.30 am Gemma Carfarella on the Save Footscray Park Campaign 7.45 am Rendah Haj on her latest film project, Hayat.8.00 am Ruby Hamad talking about her book White Tears/Brown Scars  8.10 am Felicity Marlowe from queerspace on the Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2019 8.30am End

STRIKING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE: Episode 2/ Trade UnionsPresenter: Vivien Langford Producer: Andy Britt Trade Unions are responding to the global call for action on September 20th. Will you join them?This will be 3 days before the UN Emergency Climate Summit in N.Y. Greta Thunberg will arrive by sailboat bringing with her the hopes of many children unable to vote.Naomi Klein starts the show with a question "What are climate jobs?".Dr Colin Long answers. He is the Just Transition Officer for the Victorian Trades Hall Council. STRIKING in Australia involves harsher penalties than in any other OECD country. But workers from many unions are up for the task of a transition whose scale and cost is unprecedented. They want jobs they can be proud of but do not want to be abandoned as in previous restructuring.  Dr Janet Roden takes us to the coal and gas communities she visits for the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association. You will be horrified to learn of the impact on babies even born 200km away from the climate changing pollution. She finds community members confused because there is no clear transition plan. "It's just steam" they say. This is highlighted in her research report for the NSWNMA, "Muswellbrook: between eight coal mines and two power stations". We cannot see the climate impact of the emissions from coal stations and gas wells  but the effect on babies and children is witnessed by midwives and nurses every day. She explains why the NSW NMA wants to stand with the children on September 20th. Erima Dall was inspired by the Green Bans and AYCC when she was at university. Now a member of the MUA she drives a crane and is well aware of the tragedies caused by our emissions overseas. She is an eloquent speaker and tells us why  MUA members will join the strike on September 20th. Chris Breen is a teacher and member of the AEU. His article "Lessons we can learn from the last Climate Movement" takes us beyond the vague slogans of " Climate action" and "Just transitions". He wants the climate movement to be on the front foot as BZE is, to find where jobs can be created by a nimble government  e.g. building the first solar thermal plant at Port Augusta or kickstarting the export of renewable energy from the Northern Territory. Thanks to the MUA who hosted the meeting about the September 20th strike, where I met or heard about today's guests. Thanks to Stephen Langford for liaising. 

In 1994, close to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus lost their lives in the Rwandan Genocide.  We commemorate the 25th anniversary by bringing you stories of hope and resilience. In the second half of the program, you'll hear a snippet of the event Fighting for Black Issues in a White Democracy , organised by First Nations Workers Alliance and Victorian Trades Hall Council .   

Edie Shepherd, activist and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Organiser at the Victorian Trades Hall Council, talks to me about growing up as an Aboriginal kid in a predominantly white school system, racism, gender, sexuality and queerness, dating as a queer Indigenous millennial, politics, and using social media to connect young Indigenous people with their cultures. Phew! It’s a PACKED episode! Edie is also chairing at panel for NAIDOC week 2019, at Victorian Trades Hall, called FIGHTING FOR BLACK ISSUES IN A WHITE DEMOCRACY. Find out about her event at http://www.weareunion.org.au/black_issues_white_democracy. Follow Edie on Twitter @ediesheps.

Tuesday Breakfast 15 Jan 2019 Summer Skool ep 2: Race and Identity  7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country7.10 am  We talk to Abbey Mag - Abbey is a social media influencer, event curator and social advocate of South Sudanese origin. Abbey joins us to discuss structural racism, misogynoir, the importance of representation, and why she does the work she does.   7.35 am (Parts 1 and 2 with a short break in between) We chat to Alana Lentin - Alana Lentin is an Associate Professor of Cultural & Social Analysis at the University of Western Sydney, President of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association (2017-19), and Member of the Institute for Culture and Society. She joins us to explain what we mean when we talk about racism, whiteness, institutional and structural racism, and much more.8.15 am We talk to Edie Shepherd - Edie is a proud Wiradjuri and Ballardong woman, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Organiser for the Victorian Trades Hall Council. Edie talks to us about how structural racism affects First Nations people, and how unions and union campaigns can contribute meaningfully to anti-racist work and movements for First Nations people.8.30 am End 

This week on Women on the Line we bring you the second part of the 2018 NAIDOC week panel discussion of Feminism in the Pub, “Because of Her, We Can!” presented by the Victorian Trades Hall Council.Listen back to the first part of the discussion here.  The panel discussion took place on Wednesday July 4 at Trades Hall and featured speakers Celeste Liddle, Marayne Muller and Robyn Oxley in conversation with panel chair Edie Shepherd.

This week on Women on the Line we bring you excerpts from a special NAIDOC week edition of Feminism in the Pub, “Because of Her, We Can!” presented by the Victorian Trades Hall Council. The panel discussion took place on Wednesday, July 4 at Trades Hall and featured speakers Celeste Liddle, Marayne Muller and Robyn Oxley in conversation with panel chair Edie Shepherd.

Australia is in the midst of a Marriage Equality postal survey – asking the whole of Australia their opinion about whether people of the same sex are allowed to love each other. The Left and other civil rights activists are mobilising our forces to pull out a Yes vote, so the campaign is on!As would be expected, the campaign has been attacked by the right, but there are also some criticisms of the yes campaign that come from the left. Questions about the lack of intersectionality, whether this fight is just about white queer people’s rights, and the possibility that other important social justice issues have been sidelined in this campaign.Despite the problems with the yes campaign, we are still calling for people to vote and to vote yes. But it’s important to air the left-wing criticisms of the yes campaign. So today’s program does this with guests Fatima Mawas, a young muslim film maker from Western Sydney and now based in Melbourne, Australia. And Wil Stracke the campaigns industrial officer at Victorian Trades Hall Council, who has been spearheading much of the yes campaign in this state.

The recent Fair Work Commission decision to cut penalty rates for workers in the retail and hospitality sectors raises serious questions about the future of work and our priorities around protecting the wages some of our lowest income earners. This week on Women on the Line we discuss the penalty rates decision and its impact on women who will be affected. First we’ll speak with Lisa Heap, Women’s Lead Organiser at the Victorian Trades Hall Council, and then we’ll hear from Sara Charlesworth, Professor in the School of Management at RMIT University and who gave expert evidence in the penalty rates case that went before the Fair Work Commission. 

It seems that our rights at work are being eroded from every direction and it's enough to cause a bit of anxiety. We talk to Harriet Leadbetter from the Victorian Trades Hall Council about why work shit employers and bad work makes young people anxious and how organisations like the Young Workers Centre are empowering youth to fight back.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Matt Kunkel, Project organiser with the Victorian Trades Hall Council, on the union organised rally and Global Street Party in Melbourne, Australia, and why workers need to come out and show opposition to racism and for multiculturalism.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links. 

In the 90s and 2000s, we fought against Pauline Hanson and One Nation and won! The  unions have always been at the vanguard of the struggle against fascism and racism -  from workers' militias in Spain during the 1930s, to mobilising against the likes of Hanson  and Reclaim Australia here today. We talk with Michael Clifford from Queensland Council of Trade Unions on the strategies of organizing a fightback against Hanson today. We touch base with Luke Hilakari from the Victorian Trades Hall Council about the aftermath of the Federal Election and the effectiveness of the We Are Union campaign. We finish off with a tribute to the National Union of Workers and their victory at the Parmalat dispute in Longwarry. 

In the last few weeks, stories of worker exploitation in fast-food and retail workers have been widespread. McDonalds and 7/11 workers are faced with wage-theft and rotten EBAs.  Josh Cullian, who recently helped to uncover the extent of wage unfairness among the McDonalds' workers joins us. We also speak with Luke Hilakari, the secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, about the plans for physical restoration of the history building and the recent updates of the campaigns.

The Victorian Inquiry into the Hire Industry & Insecure Work is the first in the country. The Victorian Trades Hall Council celebrated the beiginning of public hearings by bringing together Labour Party representatives, union officials and workers to mark the start of public recognition of the scourge of insecure work on Australian society.

Employers fail to pass on wage increases won by the Australian Services Union in the Equal Pay campaign; inteview with Mitchell Coe, ASU. Victorian unions mobilise to urge Victorian voters to reject the anti-worker agenda of the Napthine Liberal government; interview with Luke Hilikari, secretary Victorian Trades Hall Council.http://www.3cr.org.au/node/483796/edit?destination=node/1560

To many the name Kevin Bracken is a new one in regards 9/11 Truth. The reality is that Kevin has been a champion of the 9/11 Truth cause since 2006 by disseminating information throughout the Victorian Union Movement and the Maritime Workers Union of Australia. He has distributed DVD's, shown films and shared information regularly with his associates and the people of Melbourne and he achieved motions calling for a new investigation from both the Victorian Trades Hall Council where he is the President and the Victorian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia of which he heads as Secretary. Kevin has also attended numerous conferences on 9/11 and has been the facilitator of such in Melbourne, Australia. Over the years Kevin and I have developed a close working relationship, both striving for the truth 9/11 to come out to bring end to the wars and to get our rights back that have been eroded since 9/11!This is the motion passed on the 28th of March of 2008 at the VTHC;"That this meeting of VTHC Executive Council calls for a thorough, independent enquiry into the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11.The events of that day have been used to start pre-emptive wars "that will not end in our lifetime". They have been used to attack civil liberties and legal principles that have been the cornerstone of civilized communities. There is an urgent need to reassess the way we view the world after September 11 and we call for proper investigation into the events around that day.On the 20th of October 2010 Kevin was asked to ring into ABC 774 Mornings with John Faine although Faine disputes this. This was following an email that was sent to Faine by Kevin questioning 9/11 in the context of Australia's ongoing support of the Afghanistan occupation. After the recent Australian Election it was demanded by the Australian Greens in a "balance of power" deal that the Australian involvement in the Afghan War be debated in parliament in it's first sitting. This debate had been going on this week and it was the first time any such debate had happened since 9/11, which is simply outrageous.This interview by Faine was possibly the most biased ever heard in Australia on radio broadcast by the tax payer funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This attack by Faine of Bracken's questioning the 9/11 events included a torrent of ad hominem slurs and an absolute refusal to discuss any evidence that the events were anything but what we have been told by our governments. A reasonable explanation of what happened and also with attached audio can be found here.  This story titled "Trades Hall president Kevin Bracken Stands by his 9/11 Conspiracy" has been reported all around the world and included a poll which started off running at around 50/50 asking if Kevin's questions about 9/11 were "reasonable" but has continued to move in his favour ending up at the time of writing these notes at 75% in favour of Bracken.Kevin has received literally thousands of thank you's from around the world for his brave stance for 9/11 Truth! Standing his ground even after being directly verbally bashed by the Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard saying he was "stupid and wrong" and having his own leadership comrades buckle at the knees if the face of unfounded ridicule. Rather than running for cover Kevin with his chin in the air has reiterated his position defying any to debate him on the issue! As usual all media presstitutes have refused, as there is obviously "no debate to have".  It seems that the vast majority of the public disagree and would like to see such a debate but none of the so called "journalists" dare to tread such a path.  Interesting to note that John Faine is now complaining that the ABC has been swamped by 9/11 activists and it may take the ABC many weeks to deal with the massive amount of complaints and comments they have received. Many of these I know to be formal as I have received many courtesy copies of the complaints to the ABC accusing them of breeching their charter and broadcast policy.The battle for 9/11 Truth is far from over and as long as the fools in power maintain their policy of occupation of Afghanistan they will remain exposed and at risk of criminal prosecution due to the lies of 9/11. Lets hope it comes soon or they realize and stop the bloodshed.