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Amelia Leavesley, University of Melbourne

Amelia Leavesley is a Research Fellow in Urban Sustainability at the Melbourne Centre for Cities. Her research focuses on urban climate policy and governance, sustainability transitions and local implementation of global sustainability frameworks. She's here to talk about her last article which unpacked how understanding ‘tobacco tactics’ can help fight the global plastic waste crisis, because the reality is plastic production is growing faster than we can recycle it.//

Ariel Slamet Ries,  Alison Evans, and Jinghua Qian 

We play a speech from this past Sunday's Free Palestine Rally,  from outside the State Library Vic. Ariel Slamet Ries (Illustrator and Author), Alison Evans (Author), and Jinghua Qian (Writer and Critic), three writers who, along with Omar Sakr, had their Teen Bootcamp writing workshops terminated earlier this year by SLV. They speak about the hypocrisy of 'cultural safety', precarious employment and political censorship of artists and writers, and taking back our public institutions and our voices!//

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition - Part 2

We will hear Part 2 of an interview Priya did last month with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane. This week's excerpt includes a dicussion of the group's abolitionist ethos and structural analysis of violence, as well as the importance of demystifying predictive and data-driven policing techniques. Listen back to the first part of our conversation and all our past shows at 3cr.org.au/thursday-breakfast. //

Abdullah Al Zubaer Evan

Abdullah Al Zubaer Evan joins us to talk the recent student-led mass protests in Bangladesh, which while met with violent state repression have led to the overthrow of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The situation continues to develop with tensions over the establishment of a genuinely democratic successor government. Evan is a PhD student at RMIT University investigating the implication of citizenship rights for ethnic minority Biharis in Bangladesh. //

LIVE - RAHU's 2024 Homelessness Week protest Housing Crisis Survival Expo, coordinated by the Renters and Housing Union's North branch and established on the nature strip in the middle of St Georges Road in Preston early this week.//