NAIDOC Week, State of Refuge Report, Tinder Cabaret, Queerspace and Djirra

Tuesday, 3 July 2018 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Tuesday Breakfast July 3rd

7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country

7.05 am News headlines

7.10 am The team highlights two recent legal changes and one proposed change to the law that would vastly increase governments' powers to restrict protest and free speech, and introduce the military into domestic incidents on more occasions.

7.30 am Lauren speaks to Julia Wallace from Liberty Victoria's Rights Project Advocacy Project (RAP) about RAP's new report 'States of Refuge', and how state and territory governments can make simple legal and policy amendments to stop asylum seekers and refugees falling into homelessness and poverty.

7.45 am George speaks to Isobel Yates about her new show INSANITY, a new Australian work which will be presented as part of the 2018 Melbourne Cabaret Fringe Festival at The Butterfly Club starting next week.

8.00 am The team discuss the recent statistics about the over-incarceration of Indigenous kids in the NT juvenile detention centres and why and how we should be focusing on addressing the underlying issues that lead to criminality, including poverty, inter-generational trauma, systemic racism and family violence.

8.10 am George speaks to Kate Foord, general manager of Queerspace about their film It’s More Complex than ‘Yes’, and the impact of the postal survey on LGBTIQA+ communities six months on.

8.20 am Anya chats to Kelly Faldon, community engagement manager at Djirra about their various services, the importance of culturally appropriate services in the family violence space and their upcoming Sisters Day Out event.

Songs

artist: Deline Briscoe
song: Heartbeat

artist: Georgia Ann Muldrow
song: G reat Blacks

artist: Shakthisree Gopalan
song: Nenjukulle