Acknowledgement of country

News headlines with Cait Kelly

In episode 8 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Simon Clough. Simon is currently the culture and practice manager of Brook RED a peer led mental health service. Simon is a passionate advocate for lived-experience practice, learning to live with his own mental health concerns and using them to assist others. 

Timmah Ball reads her recent piece ‘Imaginary Conversations about the Past and the Future’.Timmah is an emerging nonfiction writer of Ballardong Noongar heritage whose writing is influenced by studying and working in urban planning. In 2016 she won the Westerly magazine Patricia Hackett Prize, and her writing has appeared in a range of anthologies and literary journals.

Max speaks with Dr Patricia Ranald, convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network and a research fellow at University of Sydney, about how mining companies, Big Pharma and other global corporations use trade agreements to pressure and sue governments. They discuss how this has occurred recently in relation to essential COVID-19 public health measures.

We hear soundscapes of Tanger, Morocco produced – as part of a workshop run by Chloé Despax in collaboration with Think Tanger – by two participants, Bill and Amina. Think Tanger is an organisation that looks into the social impacts of urbanisation in the northern city.

Max speaks with Paul Kidd from Fitzroy legal service about their new Covid policing service - a free information and advice phone service for people who have been stopped, questioned, fined, and/or charged for breaching the new COVID-19 restrictions.