3CR Breakfast Thursday 2 August 2018

with Em, Katia and Apeec

7:00am  Acknowledgement of Country

7:05am Song - Searching for Gold, Honeymoon Bridge.  Honeymoon Bridge launches their debut album this Friday 3 August at Northcote Uniting Church. Find them at honeymoonbridge.com

7:09am Headlines and Alternative News

7:26am Song - Indigenous Land, DRMNGNOW . They played an amazing gig to launch this new track at the Gaso last Wednesday

7:30am Jules Kim, CEO of Scarlett Alliance talking about the problems with the My Health Record system (centralised online summary of your key health information), including how the current opt-out system will affect sex workers

7:45am Nikki Madgwick, a proud Worimi-Biripi woman from mid-north coast NSW who has lived and worked on Wurundjeri land most her life. Nikki writes and performs amazing poetry and works at HICSA, a not-for-profit Indigenous organisation based in Healesville as the Community Engagement Worker.This Saturday 4th August is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day - and this year marks 30 years since this important day was first established.

7:56am Song - Sing Until Sunrise, The Merindas

8:00am Omid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is being launched tonight in Sydney. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English.

8:25am LIVE CROSS to Katia (Abolitionist and Transformative Justice Centre) speaking from outside the Prisons 2018 Conference where the ATJC has called a snap action to demand an end to Youth Incarceration.