| DATE |
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
Burt |
| 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 |
Indigenous Women Speak
Out Against the Northern Territory Intervention. 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. 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 |
