Monday Breakfast Rundown 18-11-2019
7:00 Acknowledgement of Country
7:08 We speak with Professor Michael Clarke, Zoologist and Fire Ecologist about the impact of fire on plants and wildlife in Australia and Victoria’s preparedness for the fire season.
7: 18 Norwegian company Equinor’s plans to explore for oil in the Great Australian Bight have been knocked back for the second time. We speak with Jeff Hansen, managing Director of Sea Shepherd, about what this means for the Bight and the steps the Great Australian Bight Alliance will be taking to bring community attention to this issue.
Below the link to Jeedara, a film about the Bight produced by the Alliance.
7:27 Lin Fritschi from Curtin University talks with us about the increase in silicosis in young tradies and the need to ban work on engineered stone bench tops.
7:37 Paddy speaks with Damian Paterson from Council to Homeless Persons about residential tenancies legislation
7:45 Maria Strong joins us in the studio to catch us up on her recent accomplishment at the para athletics championships in Dubai and her plans for the upcoming Disability Sport and Recreation Festival.
8:00 Eddie Synot is an Indigenous academic lawyer and researcher who manages the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of New South Wales. He speaks with us about why the Federal government’s proposed ‘voice to government’ marks a failure to hear Indigenous voices and undermines the Uluru statement from the Heart.
8:15 Fiona Patton, leader of the Reason Party, joins us to talk about the bill co-sponsored by the Reason Party and the Greens to introduce a two-year pill testing pilot in Victoria
Rob Harrison and Eric Della Bosca
