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7:15AM // Content warning: This segments contains references to violence, and suicide. For support contact 13YARN, that's 13 92 76 or Lifeline at 13 11 14. Jodie Bell, descendant of the Butchella and Jagera people of Southeast Queensland and board member of the Kimberley Aboriginal Women’s Council, spoke to Phuong this week on Women on the Line. They speak about the organisation’s comprehensive 2025-2027 strategic plan which was launched earlier this month at Federal Parliament House in Canberra. You can listen to the full conversation at 3cr.org.au/womenontheline
7:30AM // Deb Tsorbaris, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare. Last Friday, 21 February was World Care Day, a day dedicated to amplifying the voices of children and young people currently in foster care or who have had foster care experience. Deb joins us to discuss healthcare needs for young people in out-of-home care.
7:45AM // This Saturday Annie from 3CR's Solidarity Breakfast spoke with Kerrie Byrne from Save Public Housing Collective. In this conversation, we get an update on SPHC's campaign against the Victorian Labor Government's plan to demolish 44 public housing towers, and some of the recent events in the Class Action against Homes Victoria, being spearheaded by Inner Melbourne Community Legal. You can listen back to Solidarity Breakfast at 3cr.org.au/solidaritybreakfast
8:00AM // Senator Lidia Thorpe, Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung mother, grandmother, and advocate for First Peoples, and Professor Chelsea Watego, Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman, speaking at Free Palestine Rally Naarm on 16 Feb. We take the opportunity to talk about Watego’s book Another Day in the Colony (2021), and how knowledge is produced and censored.
8:15AM // Katharine Nikolic, a councillor for Delahey Ward in the City of Brimbank. Katharine was elected in 2024, and is Deputy Chair of Leadwest, an advocacy alliance comprising the western metropolitan municipalities of Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melton and Wyndham, and Co-chair of the Brimbank Youth Council. Katharine talks about a joint campaign amongst Brimbank's councillors to advocate for rail to Melbourne Airport before the construction of a third runway, which was announced last year. You can find more information here railbeforerunway.com.au
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