Join 3CR as we mark a powerful global campaign that runs from November 25 — the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women — through to December 10, Human Rights Day. These 16 days are a call to action, a time to amplify the voices of those who refuse to remain silent.
On-air, we’ll be bringing you inspiring interviews and raw stories from grassroots feminist and gender activists on the front lines of the fight against gender-based violence. These changemakers are challenging not only violence but the systemic inequalities that fuel it.
Tune in to 3CR's Breakfast programs Monday - Saturday for programming on the theme and more details to come from our coverage across the grid!
N.B. Support service phone numbers at the bottom of the page, with associated content warnings alongside each audio clip.
Monday 25 November International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Monday Breakfast: Presented by Rob Harrison
7:15AM - Speeches by Bianca & Boyd Unwin, Madeleine Heather, and Sarah Hayden, at Naarm's National Rally Against Violence, July 2024.
At the the time, at least 56 women had been allegedly killed by men, a number that now stands at 86.
Content Warning: In-depth survivors' descriptions of family violence, (child) sexual abuse and femicides. ♪ LISTEN HERE
7:45AM - Responses to an audience question at the Middle Arm Roadshow panel discussion at Coburg Town Hall on Saturday 23rd November, where Mililma May, Danggalaba Kulumbirigin Tiwi Community Organiser & Miliwanga Wuurben, Rembarrnga Traditional owner, healer & artist, discuss the legacy of the Howard Government's 2007 NT Intervention.
Content Warning: In-depth discussion of death, and harmful effects of racist policy on Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Women on the Line, Economic abuse in family violence: Presented by Kannagi Bhatt
Dacia Abela, lawyer and program manager at Naarm-based Community Legal Centre WEstjustice, takes us through what economic abuse looks like in the context of family violence, the intersections of culture and gender, how CLCs are working to help victim-survivors and raise awareness, and what can be done better to support victim-survivors across the country.
Content Warning: Family violence and violence against women. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Tuesday 26 November
Tuesday Breakfast: presented by Phuong Tran, Ivka Taylor-Moss
7:45 - Interview with Ness Gavanzo from Gabriela Australia (Association of Filipino Women) & the Support Network for International Students (SNIS), on how domestic violence and other unique struggles affect migrant women, international students, and those on temporary visas.
Content Warning: Violence against women and children, death. ♪ LISTEN HERE
8:00 - Part Two of a conversation with Bee, migrant sex worker and outreach peer support worker from Vixen, AMSWAG (Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group) and Justice for Our Sisters, about both individual and also state-sanctioned violence perpetrated against migrant sex workers.
Content Warning: Sexual violence, femicide. ♪ LISTEN HERE (Full Interview)
Wednesday 27 November
7:30 - Deputy Leader of the Vic Greens Dr Sarah Mansfield, joins the show to discuss abortion rights, and the proposal to protect them in the Victoria Constitution.
Content Warning: Death, medicalisation of women's bodies. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Thursday 28 November
Thursday Breakfast: Presented by Priya Kunjan and Leila Baptist
8:10AM - Professor Marie Segrave, Dr Siru Tan, and Dr Chloe Keel discuss their research on sexual harrassment of migrant and refugee women in Australian workplaces in collaboration with ANROWS.
Content Warning: Themes of sexual harassment. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Saturday 30 November
Solidarity Breakfast: Presented by Annie McLoughlin & Tobia Severi
8:45AM - Emily Foley, NTEU delegate, talks to us about her successful push to have the NTEU National Committee's statement of support for the CFMEU and against administration of the Union passed. Emily discusses allegations of misogyny and corruption, weaponised to mask the attack on working people and undermining the work of CFMEU women.
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Emily references an event (hosted in Sept 2024 by the Migrant Workers Federation), broadcast at the time on Solidarity Breakfast. Listen back to the women positively affected by the CFMEU & combating the mainstream message of toxic masculinity ♪ HERE
Monday 2 December
Monday Breakfast: Presented by Hannah York & Rob Harrison
7:15AM - Revisiting an episode of 3CR's Raising Our Voices, excerpt from Ableism and Gender Based Violence earlier in the year with Lisa, Mel and Sarah talking about their experiences of ableism and gendered violence. In the lead up 3CR's Disability Day 2024, with special programming from 7am-7pm on Tuesday 3rd December. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Monday 9 December
Women on the Line, Justice for Asian Migrant Sex Workers: Presented by Xen Nhà
Na Mon, a member of Asian Migrant Sex Workers Advisory Group, chats with us about the South-East Asian transwoman who was detained at Villawood in October this year and how AMSWAG is supporting her case. We then hear from Bee, a member of Justice for our Sisters, a group of Asian and Asian migrant sex workers in Narrm. Bee speaks about Yuqi Luo and Hyun Sook Jeon, two Asian migrant sex workers who were murdered in 2022.
Content Warning: Transmisogyny, femicide. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Thursday 5 December
Thursday Breakfast: Presented by Priya Kunjan and Leila Baptist
7:15AM - Revisiting a piece from 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility 2024, 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.
Content Warning: Transphobia, sexual assault (r*pe), suicide. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Friday 6 December
Green Left Radio: Presented by the Green Left Radio Collective
7:25AM - Chloe, Mariota and Jordan discuss the national emergency of gendered violence, with an analysis of patriarchal capitalism as a key structural driver that hurts women in social, legal, and economic frameworks, and how best to support victim-survivors in the short and long term, ending with a historically significant musical track.
Content Warning: Femicide, graphic discussions of the methods in which it is perpetrated. ♪ LISTEN HERE
Tuesday 10 December International Human Rights Day
Tuesday Breakfast: Presented by Phuong Tran, Frances Egan
7:30AM - Frances speaks with Jéan-Louise Olivier, a PhD student and casual academic at the University of Newcastle, on work she does in collaboration with Afghan women at Zara’s House, a centre for women and children from migrant and refugee backgrounds, and the upcoming article on the project by Jéan-Louise, Hamidah, Najia and Kathy Mee in Asia Pacific Viewpoint Journal. They discuss Afghan and Iranian women campaigning for an end to gender apartheid.
SONG - Hard Thing by locally-based Palestinian artist YARA, written in the 2020 COVID lockdown during an emotionally abusive relationship
8:00AM - Phuong interviews Laura John, Associate Legal Director at the Human Rights Law Centre, on the new draconian and dehumanising migration laws the Albanese government has recently passed and the impact they will have on migrants and refugees in this country. She ends the interview with an analysis of how systemic violence at the hands of the Australian Government further exacerbates situations of interpersonal and family violence for migrant and refugee women.
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Support services:
1800 RESPECT, 1800 737 732;
Sexual Assault Crisis Line, 1800 806 292;
Lifeline, 13 11 14;
Suicide Callback Service,1300 659 467.
13YARN, 13 92 76;
Yarning Safe'n'Strong: 1800 959 563
