News headlines //
7:15AM // (replay) There are 24-hour protests that are currently taking place outside the office of Clare O'Neil, the Minister for Home Affairs. These protests have been organised by Refugee Women Action for Visa Equality and they are demanding permanent visas for refugees currently on temporary visas. We revisited a conversation Kannagi had with Rati and Lavanya, two members of Refugee WAVE in September 2023, when they marched from Melbourne to Canberra to fight for visa equality and raise awareness about those who have been impacted by the Australian government's refusal to grant permanent protection visas. This interview originally aired on 26 September 2023.
7:30AM // Last week, the Guardian Australia and SBS The Feed published a documentary showing harrowing footage of young people being locked up in isolation cells, in police watch houses. The documentary included shocking scenes of police officers brutally forcing children into cells and in the back of police wagons and using shackles to restrain their limbs. To speak about the horrors of this system and the ongoing violence perpetrated against children, we were joined by Debbie Kilroy, CEO of Sisters Inside and founder of The National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls.
7:45AM // Queen Victoria Women’s Centre is opening its doors as part of Open House on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 of July with a program of free activities.
The Feminist Historian in Residence Barbara Wheeler joins Tuesday Breakfast. Barbara’s role is to revisit this history of the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre from a feminist perspective, ensuring it is inclusive and accessible, generating new opportunities for the wider community to discover and access the QVWC.
8:00AM // Electromold Thomastown is the only currently known Chemical processing facility in Australia allowed to work with Lockheed Martin and Boeing in producing finished components for weaponry.
Tomorrow, Wednesday 24th of July there will be a third open community picket at Electromold in Thomastown. As well as surface finishing parts for F35s, Electromold does surface finishing on Ferra’s JDAM kits, allowing Ferra to produce domestically completed products for Boeing.
Mercedes joins the show this morning – an organiser and researcher with Renegade Activists and part of the Renegade Solidarity Audio Force crew – as well as fellow 3CR producer and host of UPRISE Radio, on air Wednesdays at 530pm.
8:15AM // (replay) An excerpt from the event, "BDS and Building Solidarity with Palestine" that took place on Wednesday 17th July and was organised by Demilitarise RMIT and Free Palestine Melbourne. Sara gives a history of the 2022 Sydney Festival over its acceptance of Israeli sponsorship which was supported by more than 100 artists and companies – the biggest BDS action in this country to date. Sara Saleh is a writer, human rights lawyer, organiser and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon, and took part in organising this collective artist boycott.
Songs:
Feminine Urge - The Last Dinner Party
Ivka, Frances, Kannagi, Phuong
