Climate Change Performance Index, inaugural meeting of Assembly for Treaty, British election results, interim report from the Victorian Mental Health Royal Commission and Victoria State Library’s redevelopment

Monday, 16 December 2019 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Monday 16th December 2019

7:00am Acknowledgement of country

7:03 Alternative News 

7:17 Ella speaks with Jason Lyddieth, a climate change campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, about the latest edition of the annual Climate Change Performance Index in which Australia dropped one place to 56th and scored a zero out of 100 on climate policy.

7:30 Trevor Pearce is a Kamilaroi man and acting-CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Organisation. Paddy speaks with Trevor about the inaugural meeting of the First Peoples' Assembly who met to begin the process of treaty negotiations between the Victorian Government and Aboriginal nations.

7:46 We turn the tables on Monday Brekky host Alice Golds who phones in to discuss the British election results.

8:04 Dr John Serry is a psychiatrist with 34 years experience in public and private psychiatry and clinical teaching at Melbourne and Monash Universities. He has spent the past eleven years as a psychiatrist member on the Victorian Mental Health Tribunal and it’s predecessor. John joins us in the studio to discuss the findings of the interim report of the Victorian Mental Health Royal Commission which came out in November.

8:19 Ella speaks with Sarah Slade, Director of Experiences at Victoria State Library. The Library has recently undergone a 5 year redevelopment, Sarah tells us about the new spaces available to visitors and discuses the cultural and social importance of the institution.

 

Music

Fulton Street- In my business

Thelma Plum- Better in black

John Butler Trio- Thou shall not steal