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WOTL is a weekly 30 minute program that is broadcast on the community radio satellite. These are the issues covered so far this year. They do not have MP3 links, so if you missed one of the programs, you can order it from 3CR.

Date 2007 Topic Producer
9 Feb
Human Rights in Colombia and Australia. Guests: Jodie Martire, Peace Brigades International; Helen Reynolds, New Matilda campaign for a Human Rights Act in Australia; Marlene Obeid, Bring David Home campaign. Elanor McInerney
16 Feb Reflections on Midwifery in Australia

Maja Graham
23 Feb Migrant & Refugee Women: Policies and Struggles: In January the Federal Department of Immigration and Multiculturalism (DIMIA) changed its name to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). This change demonstrates the Howard Government's approach - multiculturalism and diversity are out, citizenship and national unity is in. Guests: Melba Marginson, Victorian Immigrant Women's Coalition; Pamela Curr, Asylum Seekers Resource Centre.
 
2 Mar Australian Mine Dumping in Papua New Guinea: toxic dumping by Australian mining companies into the rivers and seas of poor nations in our region. Guests: Oxfam Australia’s Mining Ombudsman, Shanta Martin, with 3CR’s Nola Brooks; Matilda Coma from the Centre for Environmental Research and Development in Papua New Guinea, with Jan Bartlett. Elanor McInerney
9 Mar - 27 April On the Record: 20 Years of Women's Radio - an 8 part series. Go to Projects to download this series. Or order a CD ROM from 3CR. Elanor McInerney, Sarah L'Estrange, Alex Burt, Monique Sofo, Maja Graham
4 May 'Happy family' law dispute resolution? The Family Court in Australia. There is a quiet revolution occurring in the Family Court - it has been conducting what’s called a children’s case pilot which has resulted in parents coming out of court happier with the process and each other. I also look at the court’s assumption that parent’s should take shared responsibility for the children.Guests: Caroline Counsel, family lawyer; Dr Jennifer McIntosh from La Trobe University and Family Transitions. Alex Burth
11 May It's About Time - a report on work and family. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report on work and family. Guests: Alison Preston, Director of WISER (Women In Social and Economic Research), Curtin University in Western Australia; Katie Wood, the Human Rights and Security Campaign coordinator for Amnesty International Australia.
Maja Graham
18 May For Their People - Veronica Brodie and Malalai Joya: Ngarrindgeri elder Veronica Brodie, who passed away on the 3rd of May this year, was a political activist for over 40 years, with permission, Veronica's words are replayed; Malalai Joya is the youngest member of Afghanistan’s parliament she presents "Afghanistan Today: Women Striving for Human Rights in a 'New Democracy'. " Elanor McInerney
25 May Abortion Limited – AusAID and Pregnancy Counselling: Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle calls on the government to lift the ban on AusAID funding international family planning projects that include abortion services, training or other activities involving abortion drugs; Dr Leslie Cannold from Reproductive Choice Australia discusses concerns of bias about the Government’s new National Pregnancy Support Helpline, which launched on May 1st 2007. Elanor McInerney
1 June Mine or Ours - Indigenous women speak on mining and land rights in Australia: Bronwyn Coleman Sleep is a Kokotha Mula traditional elder, and relates the problems her people have had being heard through native title and other forms of protest. Eleanor Gilbert tells her story of mining in the land around Lake Cowal in NSW, Wirudjuri land, and her trip to Toronto with Neville 'Chappie' Williams to bring their concerns to the AGM of Barrick Gold. Damaris Baker
8 June The Entrepreneur’s Choice: Work Or Family? Erin Wood, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers
Australia (APESMA) discusses the recently released a Women in the Professions Survey; Amanda Gore, business journalist familiar, the case of Kevin Rudd's partner Therese Rein’s highlights the bind of entrepreneurial women with prominent husbands; and why does the proportion of women in federal parliament hoever around 28%? Senator Lyn Allison, the leader of the Australian Democrats.
Jaye Hardy
15 June Pine Gap / Relationship Recognition: Adele Goldy does a 'citizen’s' inspection of the Pine Gap facility and is now facing criminal law proceedings against her and three other Pine Gap activists; on lesbian rights -- the state of Victoria is setting up a relationship register to enable same sex relationships to be easily recognised by the government, Co-Convenor of the
Victorian Gay and Lesbian Lobby, Aly M responds; and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has enabled the owner of a male gay nightclub called The Peel in Melbourne to legally exclude lesbians and straight people from his bar.

Alex Burt
22 June What Women Want & What Teachers Want: a report on the widening salary gap between men and women in Australia. Guests: report author Marie Coleman from the National Foundation for Australian; and Pat Byrne, the federal president of the Australian Education Union, on performance pay for teachers. Maja Graham
29 June Cluster Bombs and Political Violence: the campaign to ban the use of cluster bombs. Guests: Dr Hadia Mukhtar and Dr Sue Wareham from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, part of a humanitarian delegation to Lebanon on the consequences of cluster bombs in the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah; And a recent public meeting to defend Freedom of Political Association, organised by Civil Rights Defence in the wake of the arrests on May 1st of two Tamil men, with Vicki Sentas from the Federation of Community Legal Centres.
Elanor McInerney
6 July Behind the eight ball - the impact of the Welfare to Work policy on women. Guests: Rivkah Nissim, Policy Analyst for the Victorian Council of Social Cervices, Samantha Jenkinson, CEO of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations, and Professor Barbara Pocock of the University of South Australia. Damaris Baker
13 July

Ageing Australia and changes to Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Guests: Susannah Jefferys, ANU College of Law and Medical School, involved in the senate inquiry into the PBS Reform Bill; Ann Peut from the Australian Institution of Health and Welfare discusses the recently released Residential Aged Care in Australia 05-06 report; Professor Megan Johnstone, Professor of Nursing and Director of Research at RMIT University, on debunking myths about the aged.

Jaye Hardy
20 July A new political party and an old forest conflict: in focus is a newly formed political party called "What Women Want" and "The Forest Wars", a recently published book detailing Australia's long-unresolved forest conflict. Guests: Justine Caines, NSW representative and founder of What Women Want; Judith Ajani, formerly Judy Clark author of "The Forest Wars", with Elanor McInerney. Maja Graham
27 July Catharine MacKinnon – “Women’s Status, Men’s States”, Melbourne University Dean’s Lecture on women’s status in an international human rights framework. Elanor McInerney
3 Aug Made in China, Made in Australia: Liz Thompson, Fairwear Melbourne, on defending the rights of outworkers in Australia and the impact of 457 visas on working conditions and wages; Monima Wong, Labour Action China, about broader trends in workers’ rights struggles in China.

Damaris Baker
10 Aug Youth Empowerment Against HIV. Guests: Alischa Ross, the founder of Youth Empowerment Against HIV/Aids; Dawn Wilcock, the Director of Positive Women, a support and advocacy group for women living with HIV/AIDS. Women’s Health Coalition - Women and HIV fact sheet
Positive Women Victoria
Youth Empowerment Against Aids
Jaye Hardy
17 Aug Faking it and faking food. Guests: Melinda Tankard Reiston a new magazine for women called "Faking It", with Helen Labato; and Lousie Sales critiques a recently leaked federal government report on GM farming in Australia. For more information on this campaign, check out: www.truefood.org.au Maja Graham
24 Aug Young Women’s Magazines: Girlfriend or Foe? We hear speakers at the launch of a new report, Faking It: The Female Image in Young Women’s Magazines, at Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday August 18 2007: Emma Rush of the Australia Institute, which in October 2006 released the report, ‘Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia’,and Julie Gale, Kids Free 2B Kids; Caroline Overington, journalist; and Melinda Tankard Reist, director of Women’s Forum Australia. Elanor McInerney
31 Aug All Work, No Pay: Stolen Wages of Australian Indigenous People throughout the 20th century: Sharon Burrows, ACTU president, Professor Marcia Langton, Co-author of Settling with Indigenous Peoples, Dr Rosalind Kidd, Freelance historian consultant and author of 'Hard Labor, Stolen Wages" and Auntie Dot Peters, an Indigenous woman from Healesville in Victoria.
Damaris Baker
7 Sep What does non-Indigenous Australia know about Aboriginal Australia?
Excerpt from Veronica Brodie, an elder of the Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri peoples of South Australia, who passed away in May of this year; Dr Ros Kid on her report ‘Hard Labour and Stolen Wages’; Michelle Lee, of Youth Challenge Australia, on volunteering in Aboriginal communities; Melanie Hogan, Director and co producer of ‘Kanyini’ – Australian documentary on Aboriginal activist Bob Randall that tells the tale of Indigenous wisdom clashing against materialist notions of progress: Women For Wik
Jaye Hardy
14 Sep Victim? Artist? or Liar? Norma Khouri's story
Sydney film maker Anna Broinowski has made a documentary film about Norma Khouri. Norma Khouri is a best-selling author of "Forbidden Love" about an honour killing in Jordan that she claimed was a true story. But in 2004 Sydney journalist Malcolm Knox exposed Norma's book as a work of fiction. Bree McKilligan from 3CR's Film Show spoke with director Anna Broinowski.
Official film link
Maja Graham
21 Sept Rape & War, A History: Joanna Bourke is a Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her most recent book is called Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present. Professor Joanna Bourke was recently in Melbourne, and on the program we hear a talk she gave at Melbourne University, “Sexual Atrocity in War: Reflections on Twentieth-Century violence”. Elanor McInerney
28 Sept Trade & Freedom in the Asia-Pacific: We get a report card on the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement from Anne O’Rourke, who lectures in employment law at Monash University; Alison Tate, the ACTU International Officer on the Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights Violations ; 3CR’s Lizzie Jakobs speaks to Dr Helen Hill from Victoria University about the differences emerging in East Timor around its two main political parties, Fretilin and the CNRT, and the role played by identity politics in its June elections. Elanor McInerney
5 Oct Get Up and Voice Your Vote: Emerging forms of activism combine new technology, politics and humour. Taren Stienebirckner from GetUp an online activist group which seeks to build a socially progressive Australia; and Claire Akhbari, the Campaigns and Research Officer from the RMIT Student Union, about the election and the changes she has seen in political activism on campus since the introduction of Voluntary Student Unionism last year. Jaye Hardy
12 Oct Over our heads: housing affordability in Australia: Deb Tsorbaris, CEO of the Council to Homeless Persons, discusses homelessness and the recommendations in their recently released blueprint to reduce and eliminate homelessness. And, what are renters experiencing with the current rental market crisis? Rebecca Harrison, policy and research worker at the Tenants Union of Victoria, discusses the current state of the rental market in Australia.
Council to Homeless Persons blueprint
Dispelling homelessness myths animation
Maja Graham
19 Oct Speaking Out Against the Northern Territory Intervention; speaking tour around Australia supported by Women For Wik: Olga Havnen from the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory; Rachel Willika, who lives in Eva Valley, a remote community in the Katherine region; and Eileen Cummings, who for 30 years was a policy advisor on Aboriginal and Women's Affairs to all Northern Territory Chief Ministers. Women For Wik, ANTaR Elanor McInerney
26 Oct

From Burma to Australia: Mu Ning Thein came to Australia from Burma seven years ago and plans to go and work on the Thai-Burma border; Jenny Davidson from the International Women's Development Agency speaks about the Karen Young Women's Leadership school project on the Thai-Burma border; Mary O'Kane teaches about Burma at the Australian National University and is part of the Australia-Burma Network.
Australia Burmese Network
IWDA

Damaris Baker
2 Nov Fairness & Violence Against Women: Erin Brown and Kristine Jover from the Melbourne University Women’s Collective spoke to 3CR's Nola Brooks about Reclaim The Night. In the lead up to White Ribbon Day on 25th November we hear from Lyn Walker, the Director of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Unit at Vic Health, speaking about violence against women and community perceptions about it. We hear from Lyn Allison, the leader of the Australian Democrats, who spoke at the ‘Advance Australia Fair’ political forum about the policies the democrats would implement to make Australia a fairer place. Jaye Hardy
9th Nov Police power & nuclear power – do we know enough?  Marni Cordell, associate editor of the online news and analysis website the New Matilda, discusses with 3CR's Damaris Baker the changing role of the Australian Federal Police and the concerns that this relatively unquestioned and unknown expansion raises. Angela Wilson, from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War talks to 3CR's Elanor McInerney about recent concerns and campaigns surrounding nuclear power in Australia.
For articles written by Marni Cordell on the AFP and its recent developments:
www.newmatilda.com. To assess the stance of your political party on nuclear issues go to: www.votenuclearfree.net
Maja Graham
16 Nov The Pornification Of Culture: On today’s program, we hear critical responses to the 'pornification' of culture. Sheila Jeffreys is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Meagan Tyler, currently completing her PhD at Melbourne University on the sexological and pornographic constructions of women’s sexuality, presents a critical assessment of sex advice literature. Both women were speakers at a recent conference in Melbourne, “The Pornification of Culture: A Feminist Response”. Elanor McInerney
30 Nov Sex Discrimination In The Workplace: Dr Sara Charlesworth is one of the authors of the ‘Hard Labour? Pregnancy, Discrimination and Workplace Rights’ report, released last month for the Workplace Rights Advocate. She spoke to WOTL about some of the limits and possibilities of Sex Discrimination in the Workplace. Hard Labour Report Jaye Hardy
7 Dec Abortion in Victoria and New Zealand: women's health and policy professionals gathered in Melbourne on November 30 for a conference, Abortion in Victoria: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? organised by Women's Health Victoria, The Royal Women's Hospital, Family Planning Victoria, the Key Centre for Women'sHealth in Society, and the University of Melbourne. We hear from Annarella Hardiman, Manager of the Pregnancy Advisory Service at the Royal Women's Hospital. Democrats leader, Senator Lyn Allison. Instrumental abortion reform campaigner, Dr Jo Wainer.
Feminist legal theorist, Professor Jenny Morgan. We also hear from Dr Margaret Sparrow, president of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand.
Elanor McInerney
 

Summer programming 2007-08
28.12.07 - Feminists Making Waves (On The Record) - program produced by Elanor McInerney
4.01.08 - Survival: Aboriginal Women Speak Out (On The Record) - Maja Graham
11.01.08 - UN Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy - "Children and Armed Conflict" - Elanor McInerney
18.01.08 - Women in Music - a look at Melbourne's music scene - Damaris Baker
25.12.08 - Women's Experience Of Abortion - a new research project at the Royal Women's Hospital - Elanor McInerney
1.02.08 - A Question Of Choice: Reproduction Politics (On The Record) - Maja Graham

 

Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) also holds some of WOTL's archives. Visit WINGS' archives.



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