17th June #fracking #refugeerights #assange #occupygezi

Posted on June 17, 2013 by

Another show not be missed tonight where we’ll be speaking to Dayne Pratzky, President of Stop CSG Tara, on the efforts to keep coal seam gas fracking out of the western Darling Downs region of southeast Queensland.

Regular guest Ian Rintoul of the Refugee Action Coalition on the manufactured terror scare around Egyptian asylum Sayed Ahmed Abdellatif.

Freelance journalist Austin Mackell, currently in Equador on the one year anniversary of Julian Assange holed up in the Equador embassy in London and also on the uprising in Turkey.

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10th June #whistleblowers #tppa #naziparty #internetfreedom #forestprotection

Posted on June 10, 2013 by

David Cake from Electronic Frontiers Australia on recent, shocking intelligence leaks in the USA exposing the Obama administration’s (via the NSA) intelligence gathering activities of an unsuspecting public and what similar activities are planned (and maybe already happening) here in Australian. We’ll also be speaking with him about the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) particularly in regards to how this may effect internet freedom.

And a conversation with a spokesperson from the anti-Golden Dawn Greek community in Melbourne, a city with a Greek descendant population of some 300,000, and a key target of the Nazi party’s plans for international growth.

Also Jess Beckerling from the WA Forest Alliance on the more than 35 eminent scientists from around Australia and the world that have signed on to a highly regarded statement for the protection of WA’s south-west forests.

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3rd June #refugeerights #occupy

Posted on June 3, 2013 by

We’re  joined by Marcus Hampson of the Refugee Rights Action Network on the Monty Pythonesque excision of Australia from its own migration zone, the disturbing revelations of Mark Davis’ Dateline report on Manus Island, and other developments on the ever-worsening refugee policy front.

Also we talk to Joshua Stephens from New York’s Institute of Anarchist Studies on the connections between Occupy Wall Street and the popular explosion of anti-neoliberal rage in Istanbul, as well as the big picture of where we currently are in the third year of this decade of revolt.

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27th May #homelessness #indigenousrights

Posted on May 27, 2013 by

Chantal Roberts, Executive Officer of Shelter WA, on the ever-worsening housing crisis in this State at a time when the economy is booming…for some of us.

Nyoongah cultural educator and community leader Dennis Simmons on Reconciliation Week, the Adam Goodes “affair” and the recent crisis summit on Aboriginal suicide.

Plus news from Democracy Now and editorial comments on the recent murder of a member of the British armed forces in London.

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20th May #GMO #monsanto #studentactivism #indigenousrights

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

On the show anti-GMO campaigner Janet Grogan on this Saturday’s March Against Monsanto, and academic & union activist Claire Parfitt on last week’s strike at Sydney University.

Also a chat with law student, Aboriginal rights activist and tent embassy organiser Marianne Mackay about the possible looming showdown at Matagarup (Herrison Island) in the wake of Perth City Council’s approval of so-called redevelopment plans for the island.

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13th May #fracking #ndis #disabilityequity #400ppm #climatechange

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

Anti-gas fracking campaigner and concerned citizen Anjilene Phoenix on the truly frightening implications of gas fracking for environmental and human health.

Suresh Rajan of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance on the NDIS and the needs of disabled people from a non-English speaking background.

And 350 Australia’s Blair Palese about the recent ‘milestone of doom’ recorded at the Mauna Loa volcana atmospheric measuring station in Hawaii, a reading of 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide.

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6th May #suicide #indigenous #iraqwar

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

A discussion about the tragic rates of suicide in the Aboriginal community with the Directors of Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation Robert and Selina Eggington and Maar Koodjal cultural educator and community leader Dennis Simmons.

Sami Ramadani, senior lecturer in sociology at London Metropolitan University and a political refugee from Iraq on the 10 years of the Iraq war and the threat of another full scale Iraqi civil war.

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