Current affairs, media analysis, alternative media.
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3CR 855AM Community Radio Podcasts
Explores LGBTIQA+ issues with interviews, music and commentary.
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News and views regarding the Palestinian situation. Bringing listeners the untold side of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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Current news and information on nuclear, peace and energy issues.
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Current affairs, media analysis, alternative media.
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Best of the Left commentary and chat.
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Presents an anarchist analysis on local, national and international news and events. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
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Local and national building issues presented by the CFMEU Building Union Division.
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Urban environment issues, analysing government services, both federal and state and local campaigns.
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Talkback gardening show covering all aspects of horticulture and emphasizing environmentally friendly ideas.
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Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
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Talk on substance misuse, alcoholism and other addictions. Information on support groups is given.
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Listen in as host Joe Toscano yarns with a different guest each week about their experience in movements and campaigns for progressive social change.
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An open forum, presenting information and discussion around issues faced by prisoners in the criminal justice system and migration detention centres.
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Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
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Food for Thought, lets get radical for philosophy!
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Housing for the Aged Action Group presents a show exploring a range of housing issues.
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A program dedicated to the eclectic world of poetry and performance. Guests are contemporary poets who read and discuss their works.
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Produced and presented by people with disabilities covering issues such as housing, discrimination, difficulties with public transport, self-advocacy and other related issues.
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The Plumbers Union weekly radio show. Presented by The Plumbing Trades Employment Union (PTEU). Alternates every second Thursday with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).
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Covering pansexual issues, pansexual meaning "knowing no boundaries of sex or gender", including transgender, bisexual and polyamorous issues.
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Local, national and international interviews with activists on human rights, civil liberties and animal welfare issues. The show has been on air since the late 1980s.
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The Australian Council for the Defence of Government Schools (DOGS) looks at public education and separation of church and state.
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Animal advocacy on the airwaves, hosted by a team of local animal advocates.
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Rank and File Worker and Trade Union Show, covering current affairs, progressive issues and news and events from the labour movement. Includes "This Is The Week" with Kevin Healy.
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Australian and international authors talk about their books and how they got published or how they self-published. Listeners, writers and readers will also hear about what's going on in our local writing community.
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A program by and about women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
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Entertaining news and discussion about research that has impact on society and providing a wide range of science and technology news. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
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Your half hour of local film news, conversations with film makers and explorations into how they bring their ideas to life on screen. Showreel promises an exciting package of film information that will set your ears buzzing.
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A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).
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Yarra Bicycle Users Group promotes urban cycling. Providing support to campaigns to improve cycling conditions and awareness; demystifies cycling technology and helps to reveal the diversity of cyclists, from children to commuters to lobbyists.
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Current legal issues presented by the Federation of Community Legal Centres, giving an alternative view of proposed legislation changes.
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Information about marine and coastal environments. News and interviews with marine scientists, campaigners and conservation workers. Presented by volunteer broadcasters who are passionate about marine environments, both local and across the world.
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Examining, through an anti-fascist lens, ethno-nationalism, white supremacy and neo-fascism in so-called Australia, Aotearoa & around the world. Andy Fleming & Cam Smith talk to writers and fighters about angry blighters.
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A weekly source of alternative information which aims to inspire action and organisation to put people and the environment first. Covering international political issues and struggles against the exploitation of the people and exposing the bias in mainstream media that preferences the power brokers and denies access to information.
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News and views of Spanish speaking women with a Feminist perspective.
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To reforming economics as an interpretation of reality, rather than a diversion play for monopolists.
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News about peace, disarmament and nuclear issues.
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A show that provides a platform for people interested in ideas about home, community, and belonging.
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A show that facilitates discussion and explores topics about chronic illness, disability and mental health.
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Comment and analysis on the political questions of the day, with talkback.
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Climate change - what's hot and what's not. Find out what is happening in community campaigns around the country, as well as the latest science and the solutions that are available now.
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A Friday Rave looks at the ever-increasing influence of the military industrial complex in Australian society and attempts to document the who's who that's swindling you!
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Community news, news from Eritrea, community activities, interviews, Eritrean music and culture.
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Friends of the Earth campaigners and activists dig down into the dirt on important environmental and social justice issues.
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Community news, news from Chinland, community activities, interviews, Chin music and culture.
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Harm reduction and drug law reform activism, a counter voice to current drug narratives. Breathing reality into the myths, fabrications and distortions that exist around drugs. News, academia, and culture.
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This show casts a critical eye on the myriad ways in which we communicate with each other in our increasingly interconnected, multi-media platform world. Each week we mix down the who, the what, the where, and the how of particular communication events, messages, trends and technologies, and then consider: what impacts and what consequences?
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Can you imagine what it would be like to have to flee terror in your own country, spend days or weeks in a leaky boat on dangerous, rolling seas ready to swallow you at any moment, and then arrive in a new country, where you are terrorised even more?
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Fortnightly update from the Plumbers (PPTEU). Joint delegates meeting on today hosted by ETU & the Plumbers.Industry reports:- North West report - data centres, airport build, Moonee Valley stadium pull down for an apartment building.- NextGen report - lot of new faces going well.- Capitol job in Preston build to rent job.- Benefits of being a dele…
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Priya from Thursday Breakfast speaks to Fiona about Housing for the Aged Action Group's new research report on the impacts of housing on elder abuse.
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*The carnage continues – the world watches on*Irony piled on irony – U.S.A. – Germany*The productivity round table sideshow*14 million dollars wouldn’t cover the cost of a sea side mansion*Disconnected from reality*No no Nanette – No negligence here – good case – no responsibility*Eureka Australia medals – nominations open*John Englart memorial*Pub…
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Speaker Panos Theodoropoulos will discuss major themes in his research, drawing from his immersive ethnographic research inside the UK’s warehouses, factories and kitchens. He explores how precarity shapes migrant lives — and how resistance to neoliberal systems still emerges from the ground up. Theodoropoulos will reflect on the intersections of m…
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Veterans for Peace, 40-day fast for Palestine | Unpacking Macron's New Caledonia agreement | Latest push for Deep Sea Mining, conference reports, and the recent media spotlight | Israel Lobby in AU Politics ...
His Week That Was – Kevin Healy, Former National Director of Veterans For Peace in the US, Mike Ferner talking about his activist life culmination in the recent 40 day fast for Palestine, Nic Maclellan, journalist with Islands Business pulls apart Macron’s so-called historic agreement regarding New Caledonia, James Hita, Communications and Advocacy…
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Senator Lidia Thorpe on the Yoorrook Commission's findings, truth-telling, treaty | Human Rights Law Centre
*This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody.Welcome to the Doin' Time show for Monday the 21st of July 2025. On today's show we are joined by Senator Lidia Thorpe on the Yoorrook Commission's findings and truth-telling, genocide and treaty. Foll…
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Faith and Val are joined in the studio by Andrea Bunting, Secretary of Climate Action Merri-bek. We share our bike moments and take a look at some local news including the death of Brian Dixon, co-founder of Bicycle Network, and the recent suggestion that e-bikes should be registered as motorbikes. We remember our friend John Englart who passed awa…
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Converge on Canberra | Picket against North Melbourne Public Housing Towers demolition | Radical History of Telephone Operators | Gender in Academia and Archives |
Hello and welcome to the Monday Breakfast show. On today's episode: Headlines - 55 people arrested at Palestine Action group protest in London- Victoria's first Native Title claim passed in state for Millewa Mallee- Blak Up! Rest Reconnect and Organise for change. Read more about the program here. The show begins with a segment from the Women On Th…
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Nick speaks with Sheena Chhabra, a campaigner with the Plant Based Treaty. We discuss the Treaty, the importance of structural change and the place of individual veganism in the movement. Links: You can find out more about the Plant Based Treaty and endorse it on their website: https://plantbasedtreaty.org/ To send an email to your city councillors…
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Rodney Croome re historic reforms for plasma and blood donation.CN: mention of hate crimes in second half of programBy Sally Goldner with Rodney Croome
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In Cyprus, water has been shaped by partition and postcolonial state-building, turning it into something divided. But through collective imagination, water can also be seen as a shared commons.In his research Decommonisation of Water in Divided Cyprus and arts practice Printed Geographies, Nicolas Mouros explores how water moves across military bas…
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Australia’s most prolific killer isn’t a mining company or a bulldozer — it’s the common cat. Feral and domestic cats are responsible for over 2 billion native animal deaths every year, pushing species to extinction and decimating ecosystems across the continent. In this hard-hitting episode, Keiran Stewart-Assheton exposes the scale of the cat cri…
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Weekly update from the CFMEU Construction & General (Vic/ Tas). Lots of site news this week amongst the freckless banter. Scallywags & sooks keep on giving.By Gorilla, Campo, Three Trees, Golden Sparrow, Brucie
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On Sunday 20 July, Chloe Foster - Horticulture educator and author, was joined by AB Bishop - Horticultural Editor, Gardening Australia magazine; Stephen Ryan - Dicksonia Rare Plants; and Tim Uebergang - Curator of Cycads & Acting Manager of Horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Text your gardening questions to 0488 809 855, or call 9419 01…
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Yousef continues discussing Palestinian symbols, and in this episode he talks about Handala - the fictional cartoon character created by the late cartoonist Naji Al-Ali that became a symbol of Palestinian dispossession, defiance, and hope. Handala first appeared in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al‑Seyassah on July 13, 1969.Yousef also explains the signific…
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Have you been thinking about AI aka Artificial intelligence, or AGI aka Artificial General Intelligence recently? It’s moving so fast and I think it’s vital that we engage critically with it. Today I’ll bring you audio thanks to Democracy Now, an interview with Karen Hao, the author of a recent book ‘Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares and Sam Altm…
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Voices 4 Palestine II Stop Woodside Monash II Bonegilla: The Migrants Journey II This is the Week II Menaha Kandaswamy
Voices 4 Palestine II hereThe first speaker is from the Australian Jewish Council. He says“We are not afraid of the Jewish lobby and it is failing. Zionism lives off fear" He criticises the new report on Anti Semitism by Gillian Segal. This is followed by David Rovics and Kamala Emmanuel singing and Amal Nasser reading an eye witness account from s…
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Charlie Lane joins us for a chat about her album I'm Okay Now But I Wasn't. Charlie LaneBy Charlie Lane with James McKenzie
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Reality theatre as performer Krishna Istha meets potential sperm donors in Melbourne Fringe production First Trimester at Arts House, North Melbourne, October 16 to 18. Melbourne Fringe Creative Director Simon Abrahams joins us. Krishna Istha - First Trimester | Melbourne FringeBy Simon Abrahams with James McKenzie
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Music Director Mark Bradley chats about Green Room Award winning show Songs For A New World at Chapel Off Chapel, August 5 to 10. Songs for a New World | Chapel Off ChapelBy Mark Bradley with James McKenzie
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Music of Melbourne, Marget Roadknight and her career of over six decadesBy Susanna Duffy
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Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics.Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DS.NewsreportsPresenters discuss the points raised in Labor must abandon AUKUS now published on Green Left and comment on Albanese's …
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You have to be smart to be in academia and so is this romance fiction by Jodi McAlister. 'An Academic Affair' has characters and situations which are humorous and not so predictable.In Lucy Nelson's debut short story collection 'Wait Here' the theme is women who will never be mothers: who can't, who don't or won't have children.Both authors also ta…
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We talk to two filmmakers Tim Whybrow here & Peter C. Downey here featured in this years Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) at the Nova.Tim Whybrow's passion project "Hot Water: Investigating Australia's Marine Ecosystem", explores Australia's marine wonders and the efforts of eco-heroes to combat rising ocean acidity.Peter C. Downey's film…
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Claire talks to Dr. Jess Marsh abotu eyeless invertebrates under the Nullarbor, and Chris looks into the dark sky for a new interstellar visitor to our solar systemBy Claire Farugia, Chris Lassig, Stu Burns guests: Dr. Jess Marsh
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Joe Toscano interviews Hank FergusonBy Presenter Joe Toscano and guest Hank Ferguson
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*Torre Strait at the forefront of Climate Emergency struggle*Capture the Party – Destroy the Movement*Tell them their Dreaming – Piss off U.S.A*Health insurance funds – managed health care initiatives*Ho Hum – Another 100 Palestinians (mainly women & children) murdered by the Israeli Defence Forces today*Medicare isn’t there to guarantee corporate …
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Two Union Worker victories and the beginning of what is shaping up to be a Union wide stoush over the sacking of an HSR at an Aldi store for doing her job. The two victories are the win by the NTEU National Tertiary Education Union in the Federal Court for Monash University to pay back pay to it's teaching staff and the historic win of the CPSU Mem…
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Role of US + Israel in recent Middle East conflicts | Paris meeting on future of New Caledonia | Ocean of Peace for the Pacific proposal | 40 years since French bombing first Rainbow Warrior in Auckland ...
His Week That Was – Kevin Healy, Author Dr Tim Anderson speaking about the recent history of conflicts in the Middle East and the role of the US and Israel in these conflicts. Nic Maclellan, journalist with Islands Business focusing of the meeting in Paris and the future of French colony New Caledonia. Also Sitiveni Rabuka’s proposal for an Ocean o…
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Dissecting Vic Govt's 'Anti-Hate' Taskforce | Yoorrook Justice Commission Report Findings | Encouraging Community Care Against Capitalism |
Hello and welcome to the Monday Breakfast show for Monday the 14th of July 2025. On today's show: Headlines: French parliament recognises 'New Caledonia' as its own state despite Indigenous Kanak resistance. NDIA admits to removing participant from scheme following participant's alleged criticism of scheme on social media Last Monday members of the…
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Our guest on today's show is Nathan Poirier and we discuss veganarchism. Nathan Poirier is an independent scholar-activist who has edited or authored books that span topics like critical animal studies, veganarchism, non/human coexistence, and a forthcoming two-volume A6 set on black anarchism. Nathan is an ambassador for the Office of Empowerment …
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Melbourne Fringe Creative director re Krishna Istha's fringe show First Trimester and how you can be involved (talking that is) in the production.CN: homophobic and other hate crimes.Joining the spice party late...TBCBy Sally Goldner with Simon Abrahams
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Since January 2025, a marine heatwave has triggered a devastating algal bloom in South Australia, and there's no relief in sight for marine life. Thousands of dead animals have washed ashore on beaches over the past six months. Scientists are racing to understand this event. Ecologist Faith Coleman joins us to explain the latest news, and what we c…
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Climate change is upon us. We are the first responders. How will we keep each other safe? How will we meet our needs? Who gets to have a say? These questions, and many others, are being tackled by everyday people in the movement for climate adaptation. In their stories is a wealth of inspiration, as well as crucial knowledge for an increasingly pre…
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Yousef discusses the symbolism, history, and significance of the Palestinian flag, from when it was adopted in 1916 during the Arab Revolt to when it was made the official flag of the proclaimed State of Palestine in exile in 1988.He then explores the significance of the key as a symbol of the right of return for Palestinians, and shares his own mo…
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On Sunday 13 July, Virginia Heywood - Guide, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, will be joined by Craig Castree - Horticulturist, author, RegenEdible Gardening advocate; Ben Brooker - Treasured Perennials nursery; and Emma Herd - Little Green Landscapes.Text your gardening questions to 0488 809 855, or call 9419 0155 while we're on the air.Tune in 7:…
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For this year's NAIDOC theme 'The Next Generation: Strength, Legacy & Vision' we hear two generations of Googatha (Kokatha) people discussing caring for country. Aunty Sue Haseldine is a Googatha elder that has been leading 6 monthly Rockhole Recovery trips to care for sacred waterholes, part of the Seven Sisters songline. She outlines the importan…
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Headlines II here - NTEU Wins Wage Theft Case: Federal court rules Monash University underpaid casual academics for consultation work. Monash University Admits Underpayment: Over 9,000 staff owed more than $17.6 million. - Merri-Bek Council Reinstates Library Social Worker: Full-time position restored after community outcry. - Hannah Thomas Injured…
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Samuel Gaskin joins us for a chat, following the release of their new single The Gift. Samuel Gaskin (@samuelgaskinmusic) • Instagram photos and videosBy Samuel Gaskin with James McKenzie
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Mr VicBears 2025 Billy Mather and James Anfruns from the VicBears Committee join us in the studio to chat about Melbourne's Bear Community. VicBears - HomeBy Billy Mather and James Anfruns with James McKenzie
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Childcare Worker response to the Crisis in Childcare || Building the Palestine Solidarity movement || Grill'd workers fight back
Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics.Presenters: Jordan AK, Jacob Andrewartha, Stephaine Mierisch,NewsreportsHeadline news discussion from the presenters responding to the the government's proposed sweeping …
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This week to celebrate International Year of Quantum, Claire gets all her most basic quantum questions answered by Chris - what is Quantum, why should we be celebrating, and when will quantum technology teleport pizza to my door? Also on the show we head back into the archives and a story from Claire on new research using gut bacteria to switch blo…
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Today’s show is about some changes that are happening with the NDISWe have a special guest Nia to talk about it. We also send out a big thank you to everyone who donated money for the 2025 Radiothon because if it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be on air. Thankyou!You can still donate to the station HERE: https://www.3cr.org.au/donateHelp 3CR get to $27…
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We're talking to Tegan Haslam from Housing Older Women's Support Service.
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Joe Toscano interviews the inspiring Brad Homewood and Violet Co Co. https://www.instagram.com/bradhomewoodhttps://www.instagram.com/violet_coco_canaryBy Presenter Joe Toscano with guests Brad Homewood & Violet Co Co
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*Wouldn’t it be nice*Playing into Israel’s hands*War Criminal nominates buffoon for Nobel Peace Prize – The Musical*New deal – Old deal U.S.A!! U.S.A!! U.S.A!!*Toxic Algae – Harbinger of things to come?*The Destruction of the Australian Trade Union movement opens the gate for total capitalist economic domination*National Aboriginal and Islander Day…
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Two stories this week the first looks at the CFMEU Administration & it's decisions in relation to CFMEU Women.Our second story goes to the proposed new Worker's Memorial to be built beside the historic eight hour monument across from Victoria Trades Hall. We speak to Jill Anholt, sculpture artist, whose concept has been chosen for the site.…
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Anti-austerity Protests in Kenya, Indigenous Liberation News in the Oceania region, Sara Duterte's visit to Melbourne
//Discussion on Kenyan protests with Nita // Interview with Roscoe Lee Brown of Radio Rata on Indigenous liberation struggles in the Asia-Pacifichttps://www.instagram.com/resisdance_radio/// Interview with Berlin Guerrero regarding Vice President of the Phillipines and daughter of Rodrigo Duterte Sara Duterte's visit to Melbourne last weekFind out …
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