Berry Street Teaching Family Model, Malaysia decriminalises drug use, Drug testing welfare recipients, 'It ain't easy being wheezy', Directing Broken River at La Mama

Monday, 16 September 2019 - 7:00am to 8:30am

7:00        Acknowledgement of Country

7:15         Tom Bowerman, Director of Innovation at Berry Street tells Dean about the Teaching Family Model and why it's been such a success.

 7:30       Greg Denham, Australian Editor of the LEAP newsletter, drops into the studio to discuss developments in drug policy in Australia and overseas. 

7:45         The Australian government moves to drug test Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients. Prof Nicole Lee tells us why this is                      such a bad idea. 

8:00        Jenny Curran and Michelle Macklem come into the studio to discuss the Braided Podcast series produced at the Artful  Dodgers Studios, a program of Jesuit Social Services. Jenny tells us about her life with severe asthma and the making of  It ain't easy being Wheezy

 8:15       Alice chats with Richard Murphet, Director of the play Broken River, a 'fictional expose of the dark heart of evil lying beneath the            surface of crime and it's policing', showing at La Mamma Theatre.

Music

Artist                    Song

 DRMNGNOW        Indigenous Land

Crystal Mercy       Organic Domes