The world's military industries are coming to Geelong to do business between 26 - 30 March 2025. We speak with Jaimie Jeffries from IPAN Geelong about the Avalon Air Show and the work they are doing to cut through the event promotion as a family friendly fund day out that gets families to fund one of the largest military weapons trading events in the Southern hemisphere.

Picket the Avalon Airshow to stop death dealers arm trading:
5.30pm Monday 24 March:  Yarra Blvd, Crown Casino. Disrupt the Warmongers dinner get noisy and don't let them eat in peace.
7am Wednesday 26 March:  Meet at the Beach Road M1 off ramp.
3-6pm Friday 28 March: Marand Engineering the old Ford factory, Melbourne Road, North Geelong.
7am Saturday 29 display banners and placars and flyering at Park and Ride Sutcliffe Reserve Corio 
8am at the Lara Train Station.

For World Water Day (22 March) we listen to a recording by the late great land and water protector Uncle Kevin Buzzacott made by Old Country Calling in September 2023.
Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine has been taking huge amounts of precious water from the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) since they began operating in 1982.  Up to 42 million litres of water is drawn from Arabunna country each day without consent and has destroyed many of the incredible Mound Springs sacred sites, unique ecosystems that are fed by ancient waters the come to the surface due to pressure at the southern end of the GAB.

Under the 1982 Roxby Downs Indenture Act, the original Olympic Dam owner Western Mining and now present owner BHP are afforded special privileges that exempt them from the Aboriginal Heritage Protection Act, Water Act, Natural Resources Act, Environmental Protection and Bidoversity Act and the Freedom of Information Act.