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Martin Hodgson is a Senior Advocate at the Foreign Prisoners' Support Service and co-hosts Curtain the Podcast along with South Sea Islander and Darumbal writer and academic Amy McQuire. Martin spoke with Priya about the shameful crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Australia and the work he has been doing with Amy and the families of these women to fight for justice and draw attention to systemic discrimination. 

Please be aware that this interview contains distressing content - if you need to speak with someone about this, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Pan is from the La Trobe University Casuals Network. A group of casualised workers at La Trobe who are dedicated to improving working conditions. They join us today to speak on the widespread, systemic wage theft of casual staff and the Network's recent submission to the Senate Select Committee on Job Security.

Jay Coonan from the Antipoverty Centre joins Thursday Breakfast to discuss why Services Australia are spying on people receiving welfare payments and to talk about the Anti Poverty Centre's ongoing campaign to Abolish Work For the Dole.

Fetle is an Ethiopian-Australian woman based in Naarm, interested in dissecting ideas at the intersection of race, spirituality and communion. She’s an emerging artist, writing and producing music, spoken word and sound art. Fetle joins us to speak about her new piece as part of the SIGNAL sound walk. 

Omar Sakr is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections These Wild Houses and The Lost Arabs, which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Omar joins us today to talk about his new novel Son of Sin which is out now with Affirm Press.