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Radical Radio
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3CR has a number of special broadcasts each year to celebrate important community activist events. These broadcasts are staged at live events around Melbourne or in the studios of 3CR in Fitzroy.
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Eureka 2025: Eureka Australia Medal Presentations, Bakery Hill Ballarat
Dec 3Tap to summarizeTo find more audio from 3CR's Eureka Day 2025 Special Programming, head to www.3cr.org.au/eureka171Eureka Australia Medal Presentations, Bakery Hill Ballarat, 3 Dec 2025A recording of lifetime awards presented by Reclaim the Radical Spirit & Ballarat Regional Trades & Labour Council (BTRLC), and stories from the medalwinners. Introductory words from:Dr Anne Beggs-Sunter, Historian at Federation University BallaratDoug Stewart, longtime unionist BLF/CFMEU, liver transplant survivorAngela McCarthy, Secretary of BRTLCMedalwinners:Dick Ryan, Seamens' Union of Australia - later the MUA; 'Don't ask what Unions can do you you, but what you can do for the Union'Eve Scarfe member of international peace brigades in Central America, Medal was awarded in absentia - listen to her life story hereVasalia Govender, former HSR with Injured Workers Support Team, On IWST, currently supporting 572 injured workers across Australia,Nancy Atkin, lifelong activist With peoples' history: Vietnam War, 3CR Community Radio, Trade Union organising,Ian Fullerton, CFMEU, dedicated local community member & volunteer Battle to save Brown Hill Pool, the Soup Bus program, Trades Hall participation,Rev. Dr. Robert Stringer, retired Uniting Church Minister Activist histories, his own journey into radical politics in the Pacific and campaigns. Broadcast as part of Stick Together's summer programming '25-'26.
Transcribe →NDIS/Sex Work
Dec 3Tap to summarizePresenter James Harkness interviews two sex workers, Kai and Pixie, about the NDIS changes which occurred in October 2024, which now prevent people with disabilities from using their NDIS funds to pay for sex workers.Transcript Here
Transcribe →Bodily autonomy & sex work
Dec 3Tap to summarizeProduced by Amy Ciara (she/her) of Kill Your Lawn & Kick Your Fence. Guest Charlie Bear (they/them) interviews Melinah Viking (she/her) about autonomy and belonging as an ably diverse sex worker. Melinah is an award winning porn, cam and full service sex worker, and advocate. Charlie is a hands on sex worker who specialises in working with neurodivergent, disabled and queer clients.Transcript Here
Transcribe →Brainwaves - Disability Day 2025
Dec 3Tap to summarizeBestselling author Jennifer Scoullar joins Brainwaves host Flic Manning to talk about her new novel ‘Wild Horses’ — and the powerful role relationships with animals, with nature, and storytelling can play in supporting mental wellbeing.In the second half, Brainwaves host Mark Eastwood interviews lived experience embassador for Blue Knot Foundation, Sue. They discuss Sue's lived journey of living with complex trauma, the tools that have worked for her in navigating living and relating with the condition, and her advocacy work. Blue Knot advocates for and provides support to people who have experience of complex trauma, and those who support them.
Transcribe →Chronically Online Friendship
Dec 3Tap to summarizeKaitlyn Blythe explores the challenges and benefits of friendship while disabled. Social isolation is a common experience for chronically ill and disabled people, especially when we face ableism from our immediate family and non-disabled friends. Friendship between disabled folks becomes essential to our mental health. This one-hour program explores the importance of online communities to disabled people, and how disabled people use social media to make space for each other. Kaitlyn is the host of the Just A Spoonful podcast, where she hosts conversations with other disabled and chronically ill creatives. Find more of her work at patreon.com/blythebyname.Transcript Here
Transcribe →Self-advocacy: setting sail for a positive future
Dec 3Tap to summarizeVALID staff share real stories of hiring people with disability, and how they co-design programs that lead to better services and reform.Having a Say Conference is Australia's largest conference for people with disabilities, it is a platform to speak up, be heard and respected. The next Having a Say Conference is coming up early 2026.Transcript Here
Transcribe →BIPOC Arts
Dec 3Tap to summarizeBIPOC Creative Access Collective members Pearl Blackk (Artist & inclusive community facilitator) and Natasha Peiris (Bi-Cultural Disability Support worker, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, Decolonial Alchemist and Well-being Advocate and Educator). They talk to Pauline (Disability Day worker) about their arts practice, healing modalities, and cultural humility. Program also features music by BIPOC artists with chronic illness or disability.Transcript Here
Transcribe →RIGHT RELATIONS
Dec 3Tap to summarizeCare for Children, Care for Elders, Care for Country, care for Ancestors.Beginning with 5 minute feature 'Camp Sovereignty: Safety and Accessibility' by Uncle Robbie Thorpe (Bunjil's Fire), and featuring the voices of Renay Barker-Mulholland, Gi Brown, and Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine.Presented by Disability Day Worker Pauline Vetuna.Transcript Here
Transcribe →Hear Our Good Stories
Dec 2Tap to summarizeSouth Sudanese community carers and clients share stories of great NDIS care supporting people with disabilities.Transcript Here
Transcribe →Mapping Our Care Webs: Strategies for Imperfect Survival
Dec 2Tap to summarizePresented by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, part of the Disability Unbound Lecture Series (produced by Disability South and Disability South Rising). Care is a need and a right, for everyone but especially those of us who are disabled. However, care is also complicated- it's not always been safe or accessible for many of us to give, ask for and receive the care we need, and we often face conditions of scarcity. However, we know as disabled people we are creative and resourceful in figuring out how to get our needs met, even if it's in deeply imperfect conditions.Transcript Here
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